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My thoughts put burden on my mind. From reporting of the prosecution of Rutger's Chinese Ph.D for 'trespassing' at Newark airport that produced a HUGE security breach scare, to my disliking of James Lewis argument that Internet can not remain entirely as a self-organizing entity'
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"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Chuck Moore now has a weblog and his own company Green Arrays Inc near Lake Tahoe from incline village.
cheers!
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Google and others have just proposed that DNS be extended. If DNS is going to be changed in such a minor way, why not do something much more useful and interesting, which has a fully-functioning implementation already in prevalent use for over fifteen years on millions of free software systems? Why not make the DNS protocol a true server-independent peer-to-peer Naming Service? In combination with the modern DNSSEC extensions, many of the complaints associated with the current peer-to-peer free software implementation would vanish.
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In applying for jobs and contract opportunities, the first hurdle is the request for a CV in a proprietary document format. ASCII text, the utmost basic of file formats, defeats many stupid employers and recruitment agencies. Whilst this is useful to help weed out working for companies with stupid people in them, it doesn't help in actually getting work.
The approach which has actually had far greater success, however, in getting companies to change their policy of using proprietary document formats is to explain clearly that the "online application form" contravenes "Equal Opportunities" legislation. This article describes the approaches taken and the success stories, one at a time, by which the proprietary document format practices have been successfully changed.
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"Individual Rights and the Political Process: A Proposed Framework for Democracy Defining Cases" by Walter M. Frank
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Google China closes its door after talks with Chinese government officials failed. - News report from Boxun.
Employees are given 6 months pay and are encouraged to apply for opening positions in other branches of Google operations in Asian & in US.
Those cyber-hackers in China, are they wearing black, white or yellow hat ?
That's what I want to know.
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Happy new decade of this new millennium to galaxy hikers everywhere!
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It is now possible to get some feedback about data just by moving the mouse over the chart to an appropriate point.
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So louie, I'm sure you know the case of INSLAW .
What become of PROMIS (prosecutor management information system) after IBM rescued it from the bankruptcy court?
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