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So Judge Alsup – the Oracle/Google Java/Android Judge – is a coder?
Judge: We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn’t have told you the first thing about Java before this problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I’ve written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-16
: The day that my Father gatecrashed the Pope: 5 June 1944 http://t.co/nDXIjoJI #
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The day that my Father gatecrashed the Pope: 5 June 1944
My childhood was filled with stories and the excellent thing about that was that they were all utterly bonkers and quite true: My father’s losing his lower lip to a swinging tank-barrel and having it reconstructed with a graft from his bottom, so he was always talking out of his arse. The man-eating lioness which…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-15
: Welcome to Life « Tom Scott # HT: @tomscott – 165 seconds of excellent copyright dystopia scifi http://t.co/r291fixg # @xa329 @rossjanderson Yes, Agreed. Side effect of the WordPress blog tool I use. I try to manually patch them up, but sometime ICBA. # ORGLondon Pub Meetup: May 21st 7pm: "CCDP, Interception and Evidence" –…
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Upcoming Kickstarter for Geek Porn Anthology
Geek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity
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TIL: UK censored/blocked websites include ShelfAppeal: blog featuring items that can be placed on a shelf
Shelfappeal.com was reported blocked on 15th February 2012 on Orange. This is a blog that features items that can be placed on a shelf. via Mobile Internet censorship: what’s happening and what to do | Open Rights Group.
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Unsolicited plug: Toresano, St John’s Wood, London – Great #tapas, best #churros in London.
Welcome To Toresano – Spanish Tapas Bar. Lovely people, too…
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London #Olympic / IOC Committee was tracked via #GPS & #CCTV to smooth them through traffic lights # Keeping London Moving
Vanity Fair; long article, worth reading Near the end of the application process, an I.O.C. evaluation committee was permitted to visit London. Bid-committee officials knew that London’s transportation system was a weak spot on the city’s application. “Our nightmare was it would take forever to get to the venues,” Mills recalled. A bid-committee team planned…
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HPCwire: Open Source Compiler Adds Support for Nvidia GPUs #LLVM
HPCwire: Open Source Compiler Adds Support for Nvidia GPUs. Maybe I should finally get one of these vector-processors GPU things? Is it like a bit-blitter? 😛
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Welcome to Life « Tom Scott # HT: @tomscott – 165 seconds of excellent copyright dystopia scifi
A science fiction story about what you see when you die. Or: the Singularity, ruined by lawyers. Welcome to Life « Tom Scott.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-14
: A few years ago the Dell 2407WFP was a must-have geek monitor; what's its modern equivalent? http://t.co/gZ9KWUeM # : Has someone yet doxed the #part3 "completely considered you when i saw this" Twitter worm/bug/hole? http://t.co/y1HEPGLM # : Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » I’m from the Government and I’m here to help #security…
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Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » I’m from the Government and I’m here to help #security #openstandards
Ross Anderson writes: (caution: links exist in original) Two years ago, Hyoungshick Kim, Jun Ho Huh and I wrote a paper On the Security of Internet banking in South Korea in which we discussed an IT security policy that had gone horribly wrong. The Government of Korea had tried in 1998 to secure electronic commerce…