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The Magpie Developer
Jeff Atwood is one of the best programmer/writers around. I love reading his stuff, some I agree wholeheartedly with, other stuff we disagree, but this post is about a dead-on as they come. This idea has been floating in my head for a long time, but it is hard for me to conceptualize it in words, Atwood does a brilliant job at it. Must read for any developer. |
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Andy Olmsted's Last Blog Entry.
(Warning: Pretty rough) No matter how you feel politically about the war, this reminds you that each number people throw around as statistics is a human life. This is extremely well written, and pretty rough on your soul towards the end, but something everyone should read. Its a shitty situation all around, but there is always a human face behind the statistics and I want to make sure I never forget that. |
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Drinking stories that put yours to shame
Via Keith
To preserve his body during the voyage home, the second-in-command stored Nelson's body in the ship's vat of rum and halted all liquor rations to the crew. Not a bad idea, but when the ship reached port, officials went to retrieve Nelson's body and found the vat dry.
Disregarding good taste (in every sense), the crew had been secretly drinking from it the entire way home. After that, naval rum was referred to as Nelson's Blood. |
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making vodka pills in 24 hours
Recently, Chef Fabian was experimenting further with the Adria/Torreblanca technique of making 'vodka pills.' I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavored alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms. |
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Strategy Letter VI - joelonsoftware.com
As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.
Entire Article is Dead On. A must read for anyone in the software biz. |
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(Thursday, June 16)
Watchdog?
The U.S. Department of Justice is quietly shopping around the explosive idea of requiring Internet service providers to retain records of their customers' online activities.
Data retention rules could permit police to obtain records of e-mail chatter, Web browsing or chat-room activity months after Internet providers ordinarily would have deleted the logs--that is, if logs were ever kept in the first place. No U.S. law currently mandates that such logs be kept.
In theory, at least, data retention could permit successful criminal and terrorism prosecutions that otherwise would have failed because of insufficient evidence. But privacy worries and questions about the practicality of assembling massive databases of customer behavior have caused a similar proposal to stall in Europe and could engender stiff opposition domestically."
I really, really, really, really do not like this. If this starts to come to fruition I will seriously try to fight it tooth and nail. I do not want a government directive that has the ability to watch over every move I make on the internet. Internet watch regulation is a scary road that if the United States of America starts to head down, will end up in a very '1984' place. The day when ISP's start to roll over to government, is the day that we lose all privacy on the internet. The Gateway keepers currently are on our side, if the government tries to cram regulations down their throats until they start to keep track of it themselves, it will not be a good day for the internet.
There are a couple of things to think about from this article though:
a.) How on earth could an ISP afford/enact the ability to log all this info? The cost would be insane to them in storage costs alone.
b.) How on earth could the Gov't try to data mine this info? The best search algo/SE in the world currently sits at 8,058,044,651 pages indexed.. The government missed/did not have the resources to mine all the information that could have prevented 9/11. How do they expect to be able to sift through what is most certainly exponentially larger than what they previously could not do?
c.) I would be willing to say that 20 - 45% of the foreign data is transmitted through the U.S. at some point each day. Does the Gov't think they can honestly snif/log all this?
I will make a prediction today. If this type of regulation begins to take foot, the then the divergence between the internet and the darknet will continue to grow at a phenomenal pace. If the gov't tries to regulate and stifle invention on one, the other will grow faster. With all this new inet regulation, I feel like a blogger in China. Are we not supposed to be the free country?
Read Article Here:
Your ISP as Net watchdog | CNET News.com
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
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