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Comment Re:Where did the buck stop? (Score 3, Interesting) 25

by peppy on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:38AM (#60996100) Attached to: Facebook's Secret Settlement On Cambridge Analytica Gags UK Data Watchdog

As the article states: "The breach was first highlighted in November in a report by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), assessing political parties’ compliance with data protection laws. It reported that the Conservatives had purchased so-called estimated onomastic data – which attempts to identify individuals’ ethnic origin, religion, country of birth and other characteristics, based on their first and last names – and appended it to the records of 10 million people." Stop being an apologist

Comment Re:Its a blessing (Score 1) 209

by peppy on Sunday May 27, 2012 @12:12PM (#40128763) Attached to: Pollution From Asia Affects US Climate

Duh! How long have you been polluting the planet for with all your gas guzzling

Submission + - Chinese Stealth Fighter Jet May Use US Technology

Submitted by

Ponca City

on Monday January 24, 2011 @05:17AM

Ponca City writes: "In 1999 a US F-117 Nighthawk was downed by a Serbian anti-aircraft missile during a bombing raid. It was the first time one of the fighters had been hit, and the Pentagon blamed clever tactics and sheer luck. The pilot ejected and was rescued. Now the Guardian reports that pieces of the wrecked US F-117 stealth fighter ended up in the hands of foreign military attaches. "At the time, our intelligence reports told of Chinese agents crisscrossing the region where the F-117 disintegrated, buying up parts of the plane from local farmers," says Admiral Davor Domazet-Loso, Croatia's military chief of staff during the Kosovo war. "We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies ... and to reverse-engineer them." Zoran Kusovac says the Serbian regime routinely shared captured western equipment with its Chinese and Russian allies. "The destroyed F-117 topped that wish-list for both the Russians and Chinese," says Kusovac."

Submission + - Volume 4A of Knuth's TAOCP Finally In Print (informit.com) 1

Submitted by

jantangring

on Monday January 24, 2011 @04:39AM

jantangring writes: "It's been 28 years since Volume 3 of Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming was published. The book series is a classic work of computer science in spite of the fact that still more than half of the seven volume series is still to be finalized. In 1992 Donald Knuth retired to medieval monkness in order to finish his work. After many long years in draft volume 4A now in print and you can get it in a boxed set if you don't mind admitting that you don't already own the first thee volumes. They won't be checking if you read it."

Comment The Master Switch (Score 2) 385

by peppy on Sunday December 05, 2010 @02:05PM (#34451874) Attached to: WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets

Timely review of Tim Wu's book "The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires" . Especially the quote from the mid-century CBS news president Fred Friendly about the power of media empires, which was the inspiration for the books title: "At stake is not the First Amendment or the right of free speech, but exclusive custody of the master switch."

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