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EFF founder must be cheered for founding EFF – EFF Founder
He made it. Now it made him If you think that backslapping awards and honorific titles are a feudal relic – an archaic and degenerate indulgence of the old world’s imperial plutocracies, think again. They’re alive and well in the New World – and flourishing in the even Newer World of Cyberspace! Which, we can’t…
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Hoax paper fools cybernetic boffins
An MIT student has had a paper consisting of computer-generated gibberish accepted by technology conference WMSCI. The pretentious gathering bills itself as “an international forum where researchers and practitioners examine Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics key issues” Comp sci undergraduate Jeremy Stribling told us that he didn’t single out WMSCI because of its subject matter, although…
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Linus Torvalds in bizarre attack on open source
Do as I say, not do as I do Normally we expect an attack on free software to come from one of the usual suspects: payola analysts, right wing “think tanks”, or Steve Ballmer. So it’s an odd day when Linus Torvalds himself weighs in against the principles of the movement. Torvalds launched a blast…
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Never Hurd of the new HP boss?
There’s a theory that British Prime Ministers, and England football managers, alternate between being bishops and bookmakers. A risk-taking rascal is succeeded by a dull, safe pair of hands, until the public clamor for the rascal once again. By replacing the high-profile Carly Fiorina with the low-impact Mark Hurd from NCR, Hewlett Packard would appear…