Comment Zimbabwe and Democracy? (Score 1) 669
Yea, without Wikileaks Mugabe would never have moved against the opposition ..
"On 11 March 2007 a day after his 55th birthday, Tsvangirai was arrested .. His wife .. reported that he had been heavily tortured by police, resulting in deep gashes on his head and a badly swollen eye" link
"ZANU-PF has implemented a strategy of reciprocity in the negotiations, using Western sanctions as a cudgel against MDC. He would like to see some quiet moves, provided there are acceptable benchmarks, to 'give' some modest reward for modest progress .. He also acknowledged that his public statements calling for easing of sanctions versus his private conversations saying they must be kept in place have caused problems" link
"He [Tsvangirai] is the indispensable element for opposition success, but possibly an albatross around their necks once in power. In short, he is a kind of Lech Walesa character: Zimbabwe needs him, but should not rely on his executive abilities to lead the country's recovery" link
"Grace Mugabe sues Zimbabwe newspaper over Wikileaks diamond story" link
"On 11 March 2007 a day after his 55th birthday, Tsvangirai was arrested
"ZANU-PF has implemented a strategy of reciprocity in the negotiations, using Western sanctions as a cudgel against MDC. He would like to see some quiet moves, provided there are acceptable benchmarks, to 'give' some modest reward for modest progress
"He [Tsvangirai] is the indispensable element for opposition success, but possibly an albatross around their necks once in power. In short, he is a kind of Lech Walesa character: Zimbabwe needs him, but should not rely on his executive abilities to lead the country's recovery" link
"Grace Mugabe sues Zimbabwe newspaper over Wikileaks diamond story" link
Comment Re:Cross-Licensing (Score 1) 88
"This isn't about open v. closed source" ..
It's about patenting algorithms, as in Amazon attempting to patent one-click buying, something a sane patent system should never allow. link
It's about patenting algorithms, as in Amazon attempting to patent one-click buying, something a sane patent system should never allow. link
Comment I don't think so (Score 1) 222
"there is a significant amount of information that puts individuals at risk exposed in the Wikileaks"
Tell that to the thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians killed in the 'liberation' ..
Tell that to the thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians killed in the 'liberation'
Comment You're kidding ? (Score 1) 129
Airplane, 'Empire Strikes Back', 'Pink Panther', "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB", "The Exorcist", "McCabe and Mrs. Miller", "Saturday Night Fever"
Comment Paul Allen patents the Internet (Score 2) 129
Corrected headline .. :)
Submission + - Linux and the history of Viruses (neowin.net)
dontgetshocked writes: To be forewarned is to be forearmed.Some day it will come and I for one hope to be protected more from the developers than the scanner itself.
Submission + - Microsoft's potential meltdown in Office licensing (infoworld.com)
GMGruman writes: As InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard reports, a key source of Microsoft's income — volume licenses for Office — is starting to come up for renewal, and there are signs that CIOs won't re-up, depriving Microsoft of its usual cash flow. Instead, they're looking to simplify and save money by using alternatives such as Google Docs for most employees.
Submission + - Comcast DNS servers crashed (cnet.com)
BingmanO writes: Comcast subscribers from Boston to Washington, D.C., found themselves without Internet access Sunday night after a major outage affected parts of the East Coast. Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas told CNET through e-mail that last night Comcast engineers identified a server issue that affected Internet service for customers primarily in the Boston and D.C./Beltway areas. Though the outage focused on Boston and Washington, D.C., a Comcast customer service technician reportedly told NBC News that there were "significant Internet outages" in Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, and New Hampshire.
Submission + - Who will win control of the web? (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: Control of the web is up for grabs. Each of the big three computing companies – Microsoft, Apple and Google – has its own radically different vision to promote, as does the world’s biggest creative software company, Adobe. And HTML itself is changing, too. PC Pro examines the case for each of the contenders in the war of the web and, with the help of industry experts, assess which – if any – is most likely to emerge as victor.
Submission + - Google, Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? (benstrong.com) 1
kdawson writes: Software developer and blogger Ben Strong did a little exploring to find out how Google achieves its admirably fast load times. What he discovered is that Google, and to a much greater extent Microsoft, are cheating on the 'slow-start' requirement of RFC-3390. His research indicates that discussion of this practice on the Net is at an early, and somewhat theoretical, stage.Strong concludes with this question: 'What should I do in my app (and what should you do in yours)? Join the arms race or sit on the sidelines and let Google have all the page-load glory?'
Submission + - BP ignored safety modeling software to save time (computerworlduk.com)
DMandPenfold writes: BP ignored the advice of safety critical software in an attempt to save time before the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a presentation slide prepared by US investigators.
The slide in question briefly appeared on the Oil Spill Commission’s website in error, but was quickly retracted.
Advanced cement modelling software, provided by BP’s cement contractor Halliburton, had highlighted serious stability concerns with the well...
The slide in question briefly appeared on the Oil Spill Commission’s website in error, but was quickly retracted.
Advanced cement modelling software, provided by BP’s cement contractor Halliburton, had highlighted serious stability concerns with the well...
Submission + - 60 years of Hamming codes (cio.com.au)
swandives writes: In 1950 Bell Labs researcher Richard W. Hamming made a discovery that would lay an important foundation for the modern computing and communications industries — coming up with a method for performing computing operations on a large scale without errors. Hamming wrote about how self-checking circuits help eliminate errors in telephone central offices. He speculated the “special codes” he proposed — which became known as Hamming codes — would only need to be applied to systems requiring unattended operation for long periods or “extremely large and tightly integrated” systems where a single failure would incapacitate the entire installation.
Hamming code was the first discovery in an immense field called coding theory. This article looks back on the history of Hamming codes, their applications, and includes interviews with Todd Moon, Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Utah State University and David MacKay, Professor of natural philosophy in the department of Physics at the University of Cambridge and chief scientific adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. An interesting read, about a little-known but fundamental element of information theory.
Hamming code was the first discovery in an immense field called coding theory. This article looks back on the history of Hamming codes, their applications, and includes interviews with Todd Moon, Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Utah State University and David MacKay, Professor of natural philosophy in the department of Physics at the University of Cambridge and chief scientific adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. An interesting read, about a little-known but fundamental element of information theory.
Comment human barcodes prior art (Score 1) 69
"Max is a genetically engineered human, created by Manticore .. All the kids in Manticore had a number inserted into there genetic patterns that shows up as a barcode on the back of the neck" link
Submission + - Attack of the Backup (linux.com)
jennifercloer writes: Disaster recovery and backups are the "eat your vegetables" of the IT world. Most folks just don't get excited about backups, or do it often enough. Buck the trend with Clonezilla, a Linux distribution that makes it dead easy to clone and restore systems.
