Posts by energystar

Your pointy-haired boss 'bought a cloud' with his credit card. Now what?

Congratulate him

And hire a chaperon to baby diaper it. With his credit card, of course.

Canada's CHIME telescope taps AMD for GPU-based super

This project is of maximum relevance.

Hoping AMD engineering put blood and tears into modularizing and cleaning those drivers.

Microsoft lures top Linux exec from Oracle to Redmond

Strenght in diversity.

99% Linux today. But acknowledge most of family and friends are Windows. A few are Apple. Mother couldn't handle anything but [thanks God is here -gentrified versions are needed, by the way-] Google. My bank and the tax system of my Country couldn't make it without Oracle.

Not to forget...

JAVA is the Cloud language now. Survival of its Core Tech is going to depend on a careful rethinking of its licensing terms.

Clouds are relevant to Big Actors. Individuals' fights are at the other end of the thread.

Microsoft smells Musk, splashes on 'Mune' space program

That...

Would be a sitting duck, on space.

US government updates secure email guide for first time in a decade

NIST is also in the right track.

Congratulations :)

Google tried to be funny, cocked it up, everyone thought it was a bug

Diskette?

Disquette? One of those %$&# floppy things! Who cares, anyway.

Iron 'Maden'?

Hillary Servers?

What a useful day.

Has this one become. Eagerly awaiting for the next.

Lost in the obits: Intel's Andy Grove's great warning to Silicon Valley

Yeah!

Andy was JUST talking of the miserable declining of USA engineering. And of USA economic future. That future is Now. Intel Corp is OK, thanks.

"we broke the chain of experience that is so important in technological evolution..."

Wise man. Not everything measures in term of profits. Most important things are not even measurable. Hope God give him a pass to Paradise. But sure He has some additional work for Andy.

SEC chair blasts Silicon Valley for its hokey valuations

Like the way SEC is looking at the horizon [and keeping sharp eye on inmidiacy]...

Hopeful That Team has the necessary backup for their wording.

Critics hit out at 'black box' UN internet body

Forums, Comittees...

Maybe 'Task Forces'?

The United Nations IS multistakeholder.

Warsaw Pact [successor], NATO, Transnational Corporations, EU, NAFTA, etc. If Actors were contained within frontiers, then you could be right.

Nations come to vote in the End. But for that voting to be successful -and RELEVANT as an ultimate Goal- the multistakeholder reality of the World has to be accounted for.

IT freely, a true tale: One night a project saved my life

Asking for the OS...

Of the executed PC is not necessary.

'No regrets' says chap who felled JavaScript's Jenga tower – as devs ask: Have we forgotten how to code?

Laziness, it is indeed.

Finding one liners repeated by millions on Github is mere randomness. Finding 11th liners is proof.

Even abusing the 'batteries included'. Go make your own. Work on it whenever you have the time [We deserve having the time and resources].

Libraries could be optimal, and optimally tested to their developers' needs and fields. Those are not optimized for your problem at the screen.

To all realistic ends...

"The problem is that such litigation is almost always a game of who has deeper pockets before it ever gets to court."

To all realistic ends Code Property is a Corporative thing. Individuals are not in the power, to fight back ownership -if contested-, as about many other things. Being small is being detached of ownership. If really wanting to protect your work from falling in exploitative hands, should go full GPL v3.

Basically...

Basically like this bombastic advice :)

A lot of business logic on NPM kin.

"Yes, mine are nnn COPYRIGHTED packages, with some downloads at the 6th magnitude!"

wow [proxy ignorance always pays].

How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript

"The wording we used here was not perfect..."

Where's the new one? Sure this is not pure PR.

WWW never was intended as an execution environment...

Not even as a documentation env., but just a humble indexing and hyper-linking one.

Quite historically precise,

Your assertion.

On a correlated tragedy:

Have you noted how dismal is the 'Open' licensing landscape?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_programming_languages

Going back to bash/gawk...

No additional comments.

"JavaScript is a trademark of Oracle Corporation."

Okay IT pros, change happens. But here's your Reg guide to staying in control

Digital World full of 'sandy' Burj Khalifas, Dave.

" started out with the intention of building a sandcastle and ended up with the Burj Khalifa"

'Profession' has a meaning, and a price for each of us to pay.

Paying that price, and then being fully open toward our Guild Union in first term, and toward Society later, is one of the paths forward, in this -very sad- present situation.

Shared responsibility. Is how England came out from Middle Age.

This advice is extreme PRO-SECURITY

And should be a REQUISITE when coding DEVELOPER TOOLS. 5 of 5 Stars :)

Apple tells iPhone court 'the Founders would be appalled' by Feds

In some others' not.

Apple has to probe that the more specific legislations fit and cover to Court satisfaction ALL of the case's relevancies, as to demand dismissal of the General Frame.

Snowden in the end,

updated Corporations about their 'situation rooms' not being the only ones. Now Governments' suspicions are the same.

His personal and lost war was about the individual. He yelled Attention! at Us, not at Gobernment or Corporations.

As consumers, our help at advancing the conversation has been until now, mostly mourning.

Election year, everybody knows.

Each day more convinced that timing was dominated by Apple [both knew this was coming]. "This legislation does not ask [companies] to decrypt..." No, they were not asking for the full Mc-Koy. Bussiness as usual, if not for the new 'booby mines' under the encrypted data. So much for it. Please, nobody turn on that fan!

Re: Founders where at war!

Do we want an omni sentient environment? Just for our 'perfect' commodity? And leave private corporations and public and military agencies fight for command chairs at the control and 'situation' rooms?

Forgot the British way,

Rules acknowledged.

Founders where at war!

Last thing they would ask to Ben is to sit and write a New Law for every New action into the unknown!

They were outlaws to the Crown!

Once the first documents where sketched, exact meaning or intention of a misplaced comma was the last thing they could worry about. They knew what they wanted!

Since when a recipe is speech?

Lost ever more: KFC 'secret recipe' is free speech?

So appalled,

that They would send at full gallop the Brave Paul Revere with a Cease and desist letter.