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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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? Eric Whitacre Concert
Eric Whitacre Concert, originally uploaded by webmink. Busy day Tuesday, which included the great pleasure of going to hear Eric Whitacre conduct his superb choir...
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? Donating Money To Open Source
My short article about the best ways to support an open source project financially is now available from the Essays page.
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? Communities and Control
What community? If you’re interested in the Tizen project, take a look at Dave Neary’s well-founded scepticism. The whole project has the sound of a force-fit that...
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma
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? LibreOffice Is One
I seem to have been using it for ever, but LibreOffice is actually just one year old. I’ve written a sketch of its story and a first-year evaluation over on ComputerWorldUK...
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? Birthday Treats
On its first birthday, LibreOffice has reason to celebrate After a year of work, the extensive global LibreOffice community is now showing signs of the strength...
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? Extension of Power
Alert To Activists: Customs Enforcement of IPR “This is a very worrying development. Borders are places with arbitrary rules, over-empowered and unaccountable officers...
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Think Before You Give!
Should You Donate To Open Source Projects? Donating money to your favourite open source project may not be the first thing you should do. Support the sources of...
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Open Core MySQL? Contributor Agreements!
Oracle has finally done what the business management at MySQL had been asymptotically approaching for years. It’s taking MySQL open core. It’s interesting to read...
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? Tricks
The special trick that helps identify dodgy stats I’d heard of Benford’s Law before, but it was a timely reminder. There are quite a few banks of data that it would...
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links for 2011-09-17
Sony asks gamers to sign new terms or face PSN ban Sony demonstrates it still has no respect for its customers. This is the same company that installed an exploitable...
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? Government In Action
Facebook and Cisco back IT skills drive for kids RIM has started up BlackBerry Hands-On Workshops, in which students will take apart BlackBerry smartphones to see...
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links for 2011-09-16
Facebook and Cisco back IT skills drive for kids "RIM has started up BlackBerry Hands-On Workshops, in which students will take apart BlackBerry smartphones to...
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links for 2011-09-15
UK business and government dangerously out of tune with cyber threats, says Chatham House – 9/15/2011 – Computer Weekly Interesting how the government is keen to...
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links for 2011-09-14
The Great Copyright Conspiracy Laid Bare It will come as no surprise to anyone reading here regularly, but there may be some that still don't realise their political...
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? Whitacre Concert
If you were blissed-out by the amazingly beautiful choral music I linked to on Bank Holiday Monday, and if you happen to live within reach of London, you will definitely...
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? Writer
Over the weekend I realised how much pleasure I get from listening to Garrison Keillor each day with his small but perfectly formed “Writer’s Almanac” podcast.I’m...
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