load01 10/31/2010

• The Cryoburn Index Page

  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

  tags: science fiction technology

• 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

  tags: culture

• 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

  tags: humor

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load01 10/30/2010

• Judging the cyber war terrorist threat : The New Yorker

  tags: technology

• The Next Two Years - NYTimes.com

  tags: politics-USA

• Kethinov - How I would have saved Caprica from the dinosaur cable TV model

  tags: technology

• Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted | ZDNet

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load01 10/29/2010

• A Hacker's Story: Let me tell you just how easily I can steal your personal data - Techvibes.com

  tags: technology security

• Firesheep, a day later - codebutler

  tags: technology security

• James T. Kloppenberg Discusses His ‘Reading Obama’ - NYTimes.com

  tags: politics-USA

• End the War on Pot - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

• Divided We Fail - NYTimes.com

  tags: politics-USA

• The Age of Alzheimer’s - NYTimes.com

  tags: wellness

• What do people find difficult about C pointers? - Stack Overflow

  tags: programming

• How to protect against Firesheep attacks - Computerworld

  tags: technology

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load01 10/28/2010

• CHM files: The page cannot be displayed error

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  tags: technology

• Can’t Keep a Bad Idea Down - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

• When a Pirate Is the Voice of Chivalry - NYTimes.com

  “I’ve been saved by chicks more times than by guys,” he writes. “Sometimes just that little hug and kiss and nothing else happens. Just keep me warm for the night, just hold on to each other when times are hard, times are rough.”

  tags: culture

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load01 10/27/2010

• The Awl

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load01 10/26/2010

• Open Letter to Interim Dean Brown | EagleiOnline

  tags: culture economics

• With Java's increasing complexity, JCP's slow responsiveness, Oracle's lawsuit against Google, Apple's decision to unbundle it from OS X, Swing's non-native look, etc... is Java a good choice to develop new applications? Or is it dead-walking as a languag

  tags: programming

• GarlicSim blog - Thinking of your software as a butler is difficult but important

  tags: programming

• How To Protect Your Login Information From Firesheep

  tags: technology

• makin' it work: musings of the math gladiator: 30 lessons learned in computing over the last ten years

  tags: programming

• A Manager’s Biggest Burden, and 5 Ways to Deal with It — MakingITclear®

  tags: misc

• SVG-edit

  SVG-edit: Vector drawing in your browser (svg-edit.googlecode.com)submitted 1 day ago by rexxar122 commentssharesavehidereport

  tags: technology

• Bees' tiny brains beat computers, study finds | Environment | The Guardian

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load01 10/25/2010

• Chatbot Suzette, Bruce Wilcox | Virtual Assistant Suzette | Virtual agent Suzette | Chat bot Suzette | Conversational agent Suzette | (4514)

  skwilcox writes "From Wikipedia: '[0]The Loebner Prize is an annualcompetition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to thechatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The formatof the competition is that of a standard Turing test. A human judge posestext questions to a computer program and a human being via computer.Based upon the answers, the judge must decide which is which.' Mychatbot, [1]Suzette, won this year's Loebner and even confused a judgeinto voting for her over a human (or should I say he confused himself).Here is the blow-by-blow of this weird event." Read on below for therest; this sounds like it would have been a fun competition to watch.
  This story continues at:       https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/24/1754216/Chatbot-Suzette-Wins-20th-Annual-Loebner-Prize-Fools-One-Judge?from=newsletter
  Discuss this story at:   http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/24/1754216&from=newsletter
  Links:   0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebner_Prize   1. http://www.chatbots.org/chatbot/suzette/

  tags: technology

• What Happened to Change We Can Believe In? - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics politics-USA

• In Rancorous Times, Can Wikipedia Show Us How to All Get Along? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

  tags: technology culture

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