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Useful Notes - Television Tropes & Idioms
Everybody knows TVTropes is the best and most time-killing-est way to learn about the clichés and archetypes that permeate modern media. But dear reader, there is so much more. Enter Useful Notes. Originally created as a place for tropers to pool factual information as a writing aid, the subsite has quietly grown into a small wiki of its own -- a compendium of crowdsourced wisdom on a staggering array of topics, all written in the site's signature brand of lighthearted snark. Though it reads like an irreverent and informal Wikipedia, its articles act as genuinely useful primers to complex and obscure topics alike, all in service of the project's five goals: "To debunk common media stereotypes; to help you understand some media better; to educate, inform and sometimes entertain; to promote peace and understanding (maybe); and... to facilitate world domination." Sounds about right. Click inside for bountiful highlights... if you dare. [more inside]posted by Rhaomi at 11:00 AM - 30 comments
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Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| The Wrong Way To Weaponize Social Media| from the you-like-this-and-so-does-everyone-else dept.| posted by timothy on Saturday December 25, @18:01 (Censorship)| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/12/25/2224218/The-Wrong-Way-To-Weaponize-Social-Media?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BorgiaPope writes "NYU's Clay Shirky, in the new issue of ForeignAffairs, calls the U.S. government's approach to social media 'dangerous'and 'almost certainly wrong,' as in its favoring Haystack over Freegate.[0]The Political Power of Social Media claims that the freedom of onlineassembly — via texting, photo sharing, Facebook, Twitter, humble email —is more important even than access to information via an uncensoredInternet. Countering [1]Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker, Shirky looksat recent uprisings in the Philippines, Moldova, and Spain to make hispoint that, instead of emphasizing anti-censorship tools, the US shouldbe fighting Egypt's recent mandatory licensing of group-orientedtext-messaging services." Only part of Shirky's piece is available fornon-subscribers, but Gladwell's New Yorker piece is all online.
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Links: 0. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67038/clay-shirky/the-political-power-of-social-media 1. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell -
UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication - Slashdot
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication| from the here-are-some-rugs-for-your-eyes dept.| posted by timothy on Saturday December 25, @10:55 (Censorship)| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/25/142234/UK-Banks-Attempt-To-Censor-Academic-Publication?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An anonymous reader writes "Representatives of the UK banking industryhave sent a [0]take-down notice (PDF link) to Cambridge University,demanding that they censor a [1]student's webpage as well as [2]hismasters thesis (PDF) . The banks' objection is that the informationcontained in the report might be used to exploit a vulnerability in theChip and PIN system, used throughout Europe and Canada for credit anddebit card payments. The system was [3] revealed to be fundamentallyflawed earlier this year, as it allowed criminals to use a stolen cardwith any PIN. Cambridge University has resisted the demands and has[4]sent a response to the bankers explaining why they will keep the pageonline."
Discuss this story at: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/25/142234/UK-Banks-Attempt-To-Censor-Academic-Publication?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links: 0. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/20101221110342233.pdf 1. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~osc22/scd/ 2. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~osc22/docs/mphil_acs_osc22.pdf 3. http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/02/11/chip-and-pin-is-broken/ 4. http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/12/25/a-merry-christmas-to-all-bankers/
Friday, December 24, 2010
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Bruce Sterling on the world of post-Wikileaks diplomacy. posted by Artw at 5:12 PM - 132 comments
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Apple Explains Why It Deleted The WikiLeaks App
Apple: Wikileaks app deleted because "it violated developer guidelines. An app must comply with all local laws. It may not put an individual or target group in harms way." Apple declined to comment on what that actually means. (businessinsider.com)submitted 21 hours ago by hiredgoon366 commentssharesavehidereport
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Music Blogs Caught Up in Labels’ Online Piracy Fight - NYTimes.com
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| DHS Seized Domains Based On Bad Evidence| from the legal-systems-and-intertubes-don't-mesh dept.| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 20, @17:02 (Censorship)| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/20/2139201/DHS-Seized-Domains-Based-On-Bad-Evidence?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An anonymous reader writes "Back over Thanksgiving, the Department ofHomeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit (ICE) made alot of news by [0]seizing over 80 domain names. While many of theseinvolved sites that sold counterfeit products, five of the domainsinvolved copyright issues. Four of them [1]involved hiphop-related blogs— including ones that hiphop stars like Kanye West and others used topromote their own works, and the last one was a meta search engine thatsimply aggregated other search engines. Weeks went by without the ownersof those sites even [2]being told why their domains were seized, but theaffidavit for the seizure of those five sites has recently come out, and[3]it's full of all sorts of problems. Not only was it put together by arecent college graduate, who claimed that merely linking to news and blogposts about file sharing constituted evidence of copyright infringement,it listed as evidence of infringement [4]songs that labels specificallysent these blogs to promote. Also, what becomes clear is that the MPAAwas instrumental in 'guiding' ICE's rookie agent in going after thesesites, as that appeared to be the only outside expertise relied on indetermining if these sites should be seized."
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Links: 0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/27/1910232/DHS-Seizes-75-Domain-Names 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/business/media/14music.html 2. http://rapfix.m -
FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers | Threat Level | Wired.com
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| FBI Defend Raids On Texas Datacenter| from the we're-from-the-govt-and-we're-here-to-help dept.| posted by timothy on Monday December 20, @00:50 (Crime)| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/20/015259/FBI-Defend-Raids-On-Texas-Datacenter?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aryden writes "Wired Reports: 'The FBI on Tuesday [0]defended its raidson at least two data centers in Texas, in which agents carted outequipment and disrupted service to hundreds of businesses. The raids werepart of an investigation prompted by complaints from AT&T and Verizonabout unpaid bills allegedly owed by some data center customers,according to court records. One data center owner charges that thetelecoms are using the FBI to collect debts that should be resolved incivil court. But on Tuesday, an FBI spokesman disputed that charge.'"
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Links: 0. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/data-centers-ra/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+wired%252Findex+%2528Wired%253A+Index+3+%2528Top+Stories+2%2529%2529&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
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Right Wing astroturfing A non-scientific analysis of the patterns in forum board discussions on a variety of topics. The gist: discussions of issues in which there's money at stake (like climate change, public health and corporate tax avoidance) are often characterised by amazing levels of abuse and disruption by rightwing libertarians who are pro-corporate, anti-tax, anti-regulation. Discussions of issues in which there's little money at stake tend to be a lot more civilised than debates about issues where companies stand to lose or gain billions. posted by novenator at 12:14 AM - 40 comments
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The ‘Midnight-Message’ of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - NYTimes.com
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12 Seriously Stressful Jobs | Work/Life Balance | Career | Mainstreet
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The Humble Indie Bundle #2 (pay what you want for five awesome indie games)
Dayofswords writes "The [0]first Humble Bundle was [1]a monster success,with over 100,000 people donating over $1 million in total to support theElectronic Frontier Foundation, Child's Play, and of course thedevelopers behind the games. The [2]second bundle is now live ([3]bundlesite), containing five great games: Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium,Osmos, and Revenge of the Titans. Each game is DRM-free, the games workon Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and you pay what you want and decidewhere your money goes."
Discuss this story at: https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/0130257/Humble-Bundle-2-Is-Live?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links: 0. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/05/04/1942206/The-Humble-Indie-Bundle 1. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/guides/2010/05/with-1-million-raised-humble-bundle-games-go-open-source.ars 2. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/12/humble-bundle-2-is-live-5-great-games-no-drm-pay-what-you-want.ars 3. http://www.humblebundle.com/ -
'Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC' - MARC
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| FBI Alleged To Have Backdoored OpenBSD's IPSEC Stack| from the all-your-vpn dept.| posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 14, @19:36 (Encryption)| https://bsd.slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/004235/FBI-Alleged-To-Have-Backdoored-OpenBSDs-IPSEC-Stack?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aggrajag and Mortimer.CA, among others, wrote to inform us that Theo deRaadt has made public an email sent to him by Gregory Perry, who workedon the OpenBSD crypto framework a decade ago. The claim is that the[0]FBI paid contractors to insert backdoors into OpenBSD's IPSEC stack.Mr. Perry is coming forward now that his NDA with the FBI has expired.The code was originally added ten years ago, and over that time haschanged quite a bit, "so it is unclear what the true impact of theseallegations are" says Mr. de Raadt. He added: "Since we had the firstIPSEC stack available for free, large parts of the code are now found inmany other projects/products." (Freeswan and Openswan are [1]not based onthis code.)
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Queens Kitchen Is Base for Cooks Starting Businesses - NYTimes.com
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EXCLUSIVE - Qantas QF32 flight from the cockpit | Aerospace Insight | The Royal Aeronautical Society
Two hours just to sort through the error messages. What happened to that Airbus A380 (Qantas flight QF32) whose engine caught fire in mid-air between Singapore and Sydney in November 2010? One of the five crewmembers on the flight deck recounts the story, which centres on airplane computer systems as much as on keeping tons of metal in the air. [more inside]posted by joeclark at 11:23 AM - 34 comments
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Motorhome Diaries Crew Recover Deleted Video of Police Encounter | The Agitator
Cops arrest man for "disorderly conduct" for not turning off videocamera, then somehow the footage is erased while in police custody,deleted footage is then recovered with software showing that the cop lies on the stand & in reports as to what actually happened. (video inside) (theagitator.com)submitted 15 hours ago by dirtymoney57 commentssharesavehidereport
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How WikiLeaks altered the way we see the world in just a week | Media | The Guardian
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Christopher Hitchens: When the best that the children of a revolution can do for the defense of their inalienable protection against unwarranted search and seizure is to issue the pathetic moan, "Don't touch my junk," a low point of humiliation has been reached (slate.com)submitted 5 hours ago by shutyourgob133 commentssharesavehidereport
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WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy - NYTimes.com
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WikiLeaks files may put ideas in heads of Chinese hackers: analysis - Telegraph
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Vast Leak of Cables by WikiLeaks Discloses Diplomatic Secrets - WSJ.com
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No evidence that WikiLeaks releases have hurt anyone - World AP - MiamiHerald.com
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WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy - NYTimes.com
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U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More | TorrentFreak
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names| from the going-for-the-gusto dept.| posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 27, @14:43 (Government)| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/27/1910232/DHS-Seizes-75-Domain-Names?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Many readers have sent in an update to [0]yesterday's story about theDepartment of Homeland Security's seizure of torrent-finder.com, a domainthey believe to be involved in online piracy. As it turns out, this was[1]just one of dozens of websites that were [2]targeted by Immigrationand Customs Enforcement. "In announcing that operation, John T. Morton,the assistant secretary of ICE, and representatives of the Motion PictureAssociation of America called it a long-term effort against onlinepiracy, and said that suspected criminals would be pursued anywhere inthe world. 'American business is under assault from counterfeiters andpirates every day, seven days a week,' Mr. Morton said. 'Criminals arestealing American ideas and products and distributing them over theInternet.'" The TorrentFreak article we discussed yesterday has beenupdated with [3]a list of the blocked sites.
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Links: 0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/26/1450257/US-Government-Seizes-Torrent-Search-Engine-Domain 1. http://www.osnews.com/story/24074/US_Government_Censors_70_Websites 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html 3. http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/ -
Who will win the battle for control of the web? | Analysis | Features | PC Pro
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Who Will Win Control of the Web?| from the probably-some-fourteen-year-old dept.| posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 27, @11:17 (Google)| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/27/1417228/Who-Will-Win-Control-of-the-Web?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barence writes "Control of the web is up for grabs. Each of the big threecomputing companies – Microsoft, Apple and Google – has its own radicallydifferent vision to promote, as does the world's biggest creativesoftware company, Adobe. And HTML itself is changing, too. This article[0]examines the case for each of the contenders in the war of the weband, with the help of industry experts, assesses which – if any – is mostlikely to emerge as victor."
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For DecorMyEyes, Bad Publicity Is a Good Thing - NYTimes.com
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Homeland Security Seizes 70+ Websites for Copyright Violations
Homeland Security Seizes 70+ Websites for Copyright and Trademark Violations
The Business InsiderThe US government's crackdown on file sharing and counterfeiting has taken a new and disturbing turn. Yesterday, we reported that the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office had seized Torrent-Finder.com, ...Mashable View related stories » -
Take a sensible approach to air security - CNN.com
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| The Sensible Body Scan Alternative| from the take-the-bus dept.| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 26, @14:34 (Transportation)| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/26/1914218/The-Sensible-Body-Scan-Alternative?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An anonymous reader sends in a CNN article that looks at airport securityfrom more reasonable point of view, suggesting that [0]looking for everylast micro-gram of potentially explosive material is a waste of time,since very small quantities of explosives are unlikely to significantlydamage a plane. The author also recommends incorporating parts of [1]theIsraeli method of securing airplanes — look for the bomber, not thetools. Quoting: "Clearly everything should be done to prevent explosivesgetting on board an aircraft in quantities sufficient to cause structuralfailure and bring the plane down. But is it worth chasing lesserquantities that would result in zero or minimal damage? The enhancedpat-down that some find so offensive is designed to search for thesesmall amounts. It often ends with a swab being taken to test forexplosive residues. Technology does have a role to play, but imaging isnot the solution. Operator fatigue sets in after short periods of timestaring at computer images. That's why there are reports that contrabanditems have been smuggled through X-ray units used to scan carry-on bags.The aim should be to detect high explosive in quantities that aresufficient to cause significant damage. We don't need a machine thattakes pictures of the human body. It makes more sense to develop adetector that clearly discriminates between high explosives and humantissue or water."
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Ben Strong's Blog: Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Google, Microsoft Cheat On Slow-Start — Should You?| from the reply-hazy-ask-again dept.| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 26, @13:47 (The Internet)| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/11/26/1729218/Google-Microsoft-Cheat-On-Slow-Start-mdash-Should-You?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kdawson writes "Software developer and blogger Ben Strong did a littleexploring to find out how Google achieves its admirably fast load times.What he discovered is that Google, and to a much greater extentMicrosoft, are [0]cheating on the 'slow-start' requirement of [1]RFC-3390.His research indicates that discussion of this practice on the Net is atan early, and somewhat theoretical, stage. Strong concludes with thisquestion: '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 thepage-load glory?'"
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Links: 0. http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/google-and-microsoft-cheat-on-slow.html 1. http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3390.txt
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
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Coder Accuses IBM of Patenting His Work - Slashdot
Coder Accuses IBM of Patenting His Work (slashdot.org)submitted 16 hours ago by InsidiousLurker18 commentssharesavehidereport
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Diary Of An x264 Developer » Patent skullduggery: Tandberg rips off x264 algorithm
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What $200,000 in Student Debt Looks Like
Kelli went to Northeastern University and got loans to pay for her sociology degree. Her repayment schedule is featured in the article and it is not pretty. [more inside]posted by reenum at 1:04 PM - 148 comments
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Monday, November 22, 2010
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Slashdot Comments | Best IT-infrastructure For a Small Company?
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Whitehat hacker's laptop, cellphones seized and searched
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized| from the why-do-you-hate-america dept.| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @01:06 (Privacy)| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/0332243/Whitehat-Hacker-Moxie-Marlinspikes-Laptop-Cellphones-Seized?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Orome1 writes "The well-known whitehat hacker and security researcher whogoes by the handle [0]Moxie Marlinspike has recently experiencedfirsthand the electronic device search that travelers are sometimessubmitted to by border agents when entering the country. He was returningfrom the Dominican Republic by plane, and when he landed at JFK airport,he was greeted by two US Customs officials and taken to a detention roomwhere they kept him for almost five hours, took his laptop and two cellphones and asked for the passwords needed to access the encryptedmaterial on them."
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Schneier on Security: TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA| from the sees-right-through-them dept.| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @18:08 (Transportation)| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/2126204/Bruce-Schneier-vs-the-TSA?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An anonymous reader writes "Bruce Schneier has [0]posted a huge recap ofthe controversy over TSA body scanners, including more information about[1]the lawsuit he joined to ban them. There's too much news to summarize,but it covers everything from [2]Penn Jillette's and [3]Dave Barry'sgrope stories, to [4]Israeli experts who say this isn't needed and hasn'tever stopped a bomb, to the [5]three-year-old girl who was traumatized bybeing groped and much, much more." Another reader passed along a relatedarticle, which says, "Congressman Ron Paul lashed out at the TSAyesterday and [6]introduced a bill aimed at stopping federal abuse ofpassengers. Paul’s proposed legislation would pave the way for TSAemployees to be sued for feeling up Americans and putting them throughunsafe naked body scanners."
Discuss this story at: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/2126204&from=newsletter
Links: 0. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/tsa_backscatter.html?nc=96 1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/11/05/158250/EPIC-Files-Lawsuit-To-Suspend-Airport-Body-Scanner-Use 2. http://www.pennandteller.com/03/coolstuff/penniphile/roadpennfederalvip.html 3. http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2010/11/groin-update.html 4. http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=2941610&sponsor= 5. http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/11/17/1620203/TSA-Pats-Down-3-Year-Old 6. http://www.tgdaily.com/event-coverage-brief/52602-new-bill-aims-to-eliminate-tsa-scanning-groping -
IT hiring stays woefully slow, except network and virtual specialists
jfruhlinger writes "There was a predicted uptick in IT hiring for latethis year, but it's mid-November and it hasn't happened yet. KevinFogarty does see growth in one area, though: [0]cloud and virtualizationexperts are being fought over, lured away from in-house jobs to cloudconsultancies popping up everywhere."
Discuss this story at: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/18/032251&from=newsletter
Links: 0. http://www.itworld.com/career/127908/it-hiring-stays-woefully-slow-except-network-and-virtual-specialists
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My roommates threw a party last weekend. This is a tale of tragedy and despair in chart form. (img230.imageshack.us)
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Prologue
We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. “The wildlings are dead.”“Do the dead frighten you?” Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile.Gared did not rise to the bait. He was an old man, past fifty, and he had seen the lordlings come and go. “Dead is dead,” he said. “We have no business with the dead.”“Are they dead?” Royce asked softly. “What proof have we?”“Will saw them,” Gared said. “If he says they are dead, that’s proof enough for me.”Will had known they would drag him into the quarrel sooner or later. He wished it had been later rather than sooner. “My mother told me that dead men sing no songs,” he put in.“My wet nurse said the same thing, Will,” Royce replied. “Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit. There are things to be learned even from the dead.” His voice echoed, too loud in the twilit forest.“We have a long ride before us,” Gared pointed out. “Eight days, maybe nine. And night is falling.”Ser Waymar Royce glanced at the sky with disinterest. “It does that every day about this time. Are you unmanned by the dark, Gared?”Will could see the tightness around Gared’s mouth, the barely suppressed anger in his eyes under the thick black hood of his cloak. Gared had spent forty years in the Night’s Watch, man and boy, and he was not accustomed to being made light of. Yet it was more than that. Under the wounded pride, Will could sense something else in the older man. You could taste it; a nervous tension that came perilous close to fear.Will shared his unease. He had been four years on the Wall. The first time he had been sent beyond, all the old stories had come rushing back, and his bowels had turned to water. He had laughed about it afterward. He was a veteran of a hundred rangings by now, and the endless dark wilderness that the southron called the haunted forest had no more terrors for him.Until tonight. Something was different tonight. There was an edge to this darkness that made his hackles rise. Nine days they had been riding, nor -
Technical Revenue: A Google Interviewing Story
interviewing: practice, practice...
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Chinese Sticky Rice (Nuomi Fan) | Sunday Nite Dinner
Never had it?--get someone to make it for you, or go for the gold (make it yourself)...
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Can you read the world’s smallest legible fonts ? | Tech Hammers
hasanabbas1987 writes "From the article: 'Well 'technically' they aren'tthe smallest fonts in the world as if they were you wouldn't be able toread even a single letter, but, you should be able to read the entireparagraph in the picture given above... we did. A Computer scienceprofessor called Ken Perlin designed these tiny fonts and you can fit 500reasonable words in a resolution of 320 x 240 space. There are at themoment the [0]smallest legible fonts in the world.'"
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Cracking Passwords In The Cloud: Amazon’s New EC2 GPU Instances
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America: The Grim Truth: Information Clearing House - ICH
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Kevin Mitnick's Business Card (i.imgur.com)submitted 4 hours ago by fullouterjoin24 commentssharesavehidereport
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YouTube - US-Sino Currency Rap Battle
Complex China-U.S. currency issue explained in bizarre news animation. "Need a primer on the issues? Check out our US-Sino Currency Rap Battle, featuring Chinese president Hu Jintao and American president Barack Obama. China has mad stacks of US Treasury debt and fears America will inflate its way out the hole by weakening the greenback further. The US, on the other hand, says China is keeping its currency artificially undervalued to protect its exports. It's a battle for the ages. And everything you need to know about US-Sino trade relations can be learned right here." posted by Fizz at 5:05 PM - 18 comments
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Frisk the Old Lady in the Wheelchair! « LewRockwell.com Blog
TSA Thugs Force Elderly Mother in Wheelchair to Tears. She's forced to stand-up, spread eagle, and have a rubber-gloved hand thrust up her crotch. TSA threatens to arrest her if she doesn't stop crying. (lewrockwell.com)submitted 8 hours ago by Rhiannon272 commentssharesavehidereport
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Washington Post’s Kaplan Faces Growing Scrutiny - NYTimes.com
Scrutiny Takes Toll on For-Profit College Company
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Chefs’ Tale of the Thanksgiving Turkey - NYTimes.com
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Hacker News | We're moving. Goodbye Rackspace.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Rackspace vs. Amazon — the Cloud Wars| from the i-hear-the-music dept.| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday November 09, @11:10 (IT)| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/11/09/1420259/Rackspace-vs-Amazon-mdash-the-Cloud-Wars?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
fdicostanzo writes "The folks at Mixpanel are leaving Rackspace's servercloud for Amazon and have left [0]a little note about their reasons.There's been some talk that [1]Rackspace's offering has not been up tosnuff once you scale. Analysis suggests that [2]Rackspace's offeringstill has some advantages however."
Discuss this story at: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/09/1420259&from=newsletter
Links: 0. http://code.mixpanel.com/amazon-vs-rackspace/ 1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1884685 2. http://www.thebitsource.com/featured-posts/rackspace-cloud-servers-versus-amazon-ec2-performance-analysis/
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In Canton, Kindness of a Stranger Still Resonates - NYTimes.com
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For Exercise in New York Futility, Push Button - New York Times
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs| from the your-actions-are-futile dept.| posted by samzenpus on Monday November 08, @14:01 (Idle)| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/11/08/1521226/The-Placebo-Effect-Not-Just-On-Drugs?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dvdme writes "It seems [0]the placebo effect isn't just valid on drugs.It's also a fact on elevators, offices and traffic lights. An article byGreg Ross says: 'In most elevators installed since the early 1990s, the'close door' button has no effect. Otis Elevator engineers confirmed thefact to the Wall Street Journal in 2003. Similarly, many officethermostats are dummies, designed to give workers the illusion ofcontrol. "You just get tired of dealing with them and you screw in acheap thermostat," said Illinois HVAC specialist Richard Dawson. "Guesswhat? [1]They quit calling you." In 2004 the New York Times reported thatmore than 2,500 of the 3,250 "walk" buttons in New York intersections donothing. "The city [2]deactivated most of the pedestrian buttons long agowith the emergence of computer-controlled traffic signals, even as anunwitting public continued to push on."'"
Discuss this story at: http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/08/1521226&from=newsletter
Links: 0. http://www.futilitycloset.com/2010/11/04/placebo-buttons/ 1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1042577628591401304.html 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/27/nyregion/27BUTT.html
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American Airlines Pilots in Revolt Against the TSA - Jeffrey Goldberg - National - The Atlantic
American Airlines Pilots in Revolt Against the TSA (theatlantic.com)submitted 1 hour ago by j-rubbish7 commentssharesavehidereport
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Your time is up, publishers. Book piracy is about to arrive on a massive scale – Telegraph Blogs
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Wearable Cameras Move Beyond Sports to the Mainstream - NYTimes.com
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Early Lessons in Tolerance Prompt Fights Over ‘Hidden Homosexual Agenda’ - NYTimes.com
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Why I bill hourly : orestis.gr
Why I bill hourly (orestis.gr)submitted 4 hours ago by luntain29 commentssharesavehidereport
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Cryoburn, the latest installment in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series, is out in hardcover. Hard copies of the book also contain a CD with the text of the book... and most of the rest of the books in the series, along with a number of speeches, interviews, and essays. In keeping with Baen Books' approach to DRM and publishing (previously), the entire thing is available for free online. posted by asterix at 4:34 PM - 25 comments
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Books: The Opaque Market, by Eric Flint | Columns | Jim Baen's Universe
Don't bother robbing me, twit. I will cheerfully put up the stuff for free myself.July 29, 2007 8:24 AM Subscribe
Books: The Opaque Market. Eric Flint (the author who set up the Baen Free Library) argues against using DRM in publishing and in favor of pirating yourself. (via Jay Lake)posted by joannemerriam (32 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite -
For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance - Jeffrey Goldberg - National - The Atlantic
For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance posted by bwg at 4:55 PM - 106 comments
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