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The Source Control Shingle
via The Daily WTF by Alex Papadimoulis on June 17, 2008
The year was 1999 and the dot-com boom was going full-throttle. Companies everywhere were focused on building revolutionary applications using nothing but top-shelf hardware and state-of-the-art software tools. Developers everywhere were trying to figure out if they should play more foosball, more air hockey, or sit back down on their Aeron and write more code. Everywhere, that is, except Boise,...
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Fantasy
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 27, 2008
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Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST
via Slashdot by timothy on June 17, 2008
boustrophedon writes "Starting at midnight in their local timezones, downloaders have been asking when Firefox 3 will be ready for Firefox Download Day, June 17, 2008. Mary announced on the Spread Firefox Forum that downloads will commence at 10 AM PST." That means 1 p.m. East Coast time, and, in Justin Mason's view, some pretty annoying times of day for many parts of the world. Reader...
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Survey: young people happy to pay for music—on their terms
via Ars Technica by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson) on June 17, 2008
A major new music survey from the UK finds that young people are willing to pay for music, but only on their terms. Those terms? Unlimited downloads, no DRM, and total control.Read More...
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Wiretapping Law Sparks Rage In Sweden
via Slashdot by kdawson on June 17, 2008
castrox writes "This Wednesday at 9am the Swedish Parliament is voting on a new wiretapping law which would enable the civil agency (FRA — Defense Radio Agency) to snoop on all traffic crossing the Swedish border. E-mail, fax, telephone, web, SMS, etc. 24/7 without any requirement to obtain a court order. Furthermore, by law, the sitting Government will be able to instruct the wiretapping...
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Hacks and Heartaches - Water + PCB = Dead PCB.
via FreeAllegiance Forums Community Blog List by (author unknown) on June 16, 2008
CODE6/15/2008 7:25:40 PM F: hey 6/15/2008 7:25:46 PM M: Yo ho ho. 6/15/2008 7:26:13 PM F: my x800gto spoil 6/15/2008 7:26:20 PM M: huh? 6/15/2008 7:26:22 PM M: how? 6/15/2008 7:27:00 PM F: doesn't read 6/15/2008 7:27:08 PM M: Read what? 6/15/2008 7:27:18 PM M: Hardware doesn't die just by sitting there....
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Best of the Sidebar: The Quake Server
via The Daily WTF by Jake Vinson on June 16, 2008
Originally posted by "Da' Man"...It was in the good ol' days of the dot.com era. I worked as a web programmer for this really sleek web and design agency — that is, not much pay, but lots of great parties. Cool chicks, too... well, not too bad altogether, at least in my memory.One day there, we got our very own web server. Well, we needed one to test drive these pages, so I think this...
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Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector
via Slashdot by timothy on June 14, 2008
bigwophh writes "Google has been very vocal on its stance for net neutrality. Now, Richard Whitt — Senior Policy Director for Google — announces that Google will take an even more active role in the debate by arming consumers with the tools to determine first-hand if their broadband connections are being monkeyed with by their ISPs."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Comic for June 15, 2008
via Dilbert Daily Strip by (author unknown) on June 15, 2008
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Google Earth Beaten By Autorendering From Photos
via Slashdot by timothy on June 07, 2008
Flu writes "Sweden's major engineer newspaper NyTeknik writes about a new technology which is used to automatically convert 60.000 aerial photographs of Stockholm, Sweden, into a 3d-world, similar to Google Earth's rendering of major buildings in some US cities. But unlike Google's laser-measured rendering, this technique took less than 8 days (including the photography) to...
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