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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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URGENT: Has Your MEP Signed The ACTA Written Declaration?
Here is a list of MEPs for UK constituencies. As of now, none of these MEPs has signed the Written Declaration on ACTA.It’s entirely possible one of them is representing...
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links for 2010-09-06
The VC-free startup The trend for VC-free startups is strong, and Dale's article makes for interesting reading. ForgeRock is another example of a VC-free startup...
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links for 2010-09-05
Ultra All Stars: The 2010 Sampler for Amazon This free sampler album (only downloadable by people with US Amazon.Com accounts) has some great electronic/dance tracks...
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links for 2010-09-03
Does the Fate of OpenSolaris Tell Us Where Unix Is Headed? No, I don't think so. But it does liberate Illumos. I coined a new law yesterday – "For every epic fail...
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? Gosling Webcast
Next week JavaZone, the conference that brought you Lady Java and Java Forever will be held in Norway. To celebrate the opening of the new ForgeRock Norway office...
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H.264 Is Not The Sort Of Free That Matters
At the end of last week, the MPEG-LA consortium announced they were extending the arrangement whereby they allow ‘web uses’ of the patents reading on the H.264...
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links for 2010-09-01
The End of OpenSolaris Patrick Finch with an informed view of what happened in the past and informed conjecture about the present and future. (tags: OpenSolaris...
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On
Contributor agreements that aggregate the copyrights of open source code in favour of a single corporate sponsor are a sure sign of a community where one member...
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Causality Essay Published
In response to several comments, I’ve just extracted my discussion of direct and indirect causality from my recent article on why “which licence” is now the wrong...
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? Thinking of OOoCon
Hungarian Parliament, originally uploaded by webmink. My best wishes to all my friends attending the OpenOffice.org conference in Budapest this week. With all of...
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? Holiday Gift
Vanguard Records Sounds of Summer MP3 Sampler Not 100% to my taste, but some of the tracks are very good (I like Robert Cray and Stacy Clark) but the whole thing...
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GNU/Linux
Some ancient source code given away freely by Sun in 1984 turned out to have a non-Free-software licence all these years, upsetting the licensing purity of glibc...
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History In Action
Google Code Blog: An update on JavaOne Google pulls all their people out of JavaOne. That’s going to be a big hole in the agenda since they employ all the good...
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links for 2010-08-27
The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the guily and the irresponsible. One of the long-running projects I had at Sun was to get the...
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links for 2010-08-26
Jabber Support at WordPress.com This is outstanding; I can now have WordPress ping me when someone comments on my blog (as well as subscribing to other blogs to...
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? The Aggregator Is On
Just a reminder that, in addition to this blog, I still maintain an aggregator over at webmink.net which collects all the posts I make from various places. If you...
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