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"Social Media” jobs really aren’t. They are just ppl that now have tools to do sales,..."

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:41:22 -0400

““Social Media” jobs really aren’t. They are just ppl that now have tools to do sales, outreach, pr,marketing and support. And WANT to.”

- Twitter / Rob La Gesse: “Social Media” jobs really …

"I agree that it’s driven by selfish reasons, but that’s how all open source code gets..."

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:44:09 -0400

“I agree that it’s driven by selfish reasons, but that’s how all open source code gets written! We all “scratch our own itches”. It’s why I started Linux, it’s why I started git, and it’s why I am still involved. It’s the reason for everybody to end up in open source, to some degree. So complaining about the fact that Microsoft picked a selfish area to work on is just silly. Of course they picked an area that helps them. That’s the point of open source - the ability to make the code better for your particular needs, whoever the ‘your’ in question happens to be. Does anybody complain when hardware companies write drivers for the hardware they produce? No. That would be crazy. Does anybody complain when IBM funds all the POWER development, and works on enterprise features because they sell into the enterprise? No. That would be insane. So the people who complain about Microsoft writing drivers for their own virtualization model should take a long look in the mirror and ask themselves why they are being so hypocritical.”

- Linus Torvald: Microsoft Hatred is a Disease

"When the code drop was announced Monday, nor Microsoft, nor Kroah-Hartman spoke of the violation. To..."

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:53:50 -0400

“When the code drop was announced Monday, nor Microsoft, nor Kroah-Hartman spoke of the violation. To confirm the story, About-Microsoft blogger Mary-Jo Foley contacted Kroah-Hartman, and he confirmed that Hemminger is indeed correct: the code drop seems to have been brought on by a GPL violation. A “break from the ordinary” and a “significant milestone”? None of that - just a silently handled case, with an overdose of marketing spin, to prevent a major embarrassment for Microsoft.”

- Microsoft’s Linux Kernel Code Drop Result of GPL Violation

xkcd - A Webcomic - Sandwich

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:09:33 -0400

xkcd - A Webcomic - Sandwich

"Palermo non mi piaceva, per questo ho imparato ad amarla. Perché il vero amore consiste nell’amare..."

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:02:18 -0400

““Palermo non mi piaceva, per questo ho imparato ad amarla. Perché il vero amore consiste nell’amare ciò che non ci piace per poterlo cambiare.” — Paolo Borsellino”

- “Palermo non mi piaceva, per questo ho imparato… - Dario Salvelli - FriendFeed

"Recently several Visa card holders were, um, overcharged for certain purchases, to the tune of..."

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:40:15 -0400

““Recently several Visa card holders were, um, overcharged for certain purchases, to the tune of $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 on a single charge. The company says it was due to a programming error, and that the problem has been corrected. What is interesting is that the amount charged actually reveals the type of programming error that caused the problem. 23,148,855,308,184,500.00 * 100 (I’m guessing this is how the number is actually stored) is 2314885530818450000. Convert 2314885530818450000 to hexadecimal, and you end up with 20 20 20 20 20 20 12 50. Most C/C++ programmers see the error now … hex 20 is a space. So spaces were stuffed into a field where binary zero should have been.””

- Slashdot IT Story | Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges

"This is the point where the chain of trust broke down, as the attacker discovered that the account..."

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:48:54 -0400

“This is the point where the chain of trust broke down, as the attacker discovered that the account specified as a secondary for Gmail, and hosted at Hotmail was no longer active. This is due to a policy at Hotmail where old and dormant accounts are removed and recycled. He registered the account, re-requested the password recovery feature at Gmail and within a few moments had access to the personal Gmail account of a Twitter employee. The first domino had fallen.”

- The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack

"Imagine a team of reporters – together with witnesses on the scene – able to contribute photos and..."

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:28:31 -0400

“Imagine a team of reporters – together with witnesses on the scene – able to contribute photos and news to the same Wave (formerly known as a story or a page). One can write up what is known; a witness can add facts from the scene and photos; an editor or reader can ask questions. And it is all contained under a single address – a permalink for the story – that is constantly updated from a collaborative team. [..] Wave takes this to the next level. It combines the notions of a process as people add and subtract and update; it has the benefit of a wiki – a snapshot of current knowledge; it can be live; it can feed a blog page with the latest; it can feed Twitter with updates; it is itself the collaborative tool that lets participants question each other.”

- Google Wave and news « BuzzMachine

lickystickypickyme: For Boggs.

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:07:27 -0400

lickystickypickyme:

For Boggs.

"la vita prima del feed reader era diversa, questa sera ci sto pensando… com’è cambiata, la tua?"

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:17:50 -0400

“la vita prima del feed reader era diversa, questa sera ci sto pensando… com’è cambiata, la tua?”

- nikink - la vita prima del feed reader

"Il problema è che è difficile vivere senza qualcuno che ti apprezzi, è una cosa naturale, qualcuno..."

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:16:35 -0400

“Il problema è che è difficile vivere senza qualcuno che ti apprezzi, è una cosa naturale, qualcuno che ogni tanto ti dica che Einstein e Mozart ti fanno una pippa, che sei il vertice dell’evoluzione della specie, cose così.
Bertrand Russel diceva che si vive meglio quando ci si rassegna all’idea di essere delle schiappe, che è indispensabile per essere felici e via dicendo. Facile dirlo quando sei Bertrand Russel, per tutti gli altri c’è l’autocelebrazione.”

- cloridrato di sviluppina » Blog Archive » Lusingato e abbandonato

"As the NT architect, Lucovsky was clearly pretty vital to Microsoft, so when he went in for a..."

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:57:24 -0400

“As the NT architect, Lucovsky was clearly pretty vital to Microsoft, so when he went in for a meeting with Ballmer in 2004 to let him know he was leaving, you can be sure the CEO was a bit on edge. “Just tell me it’s not Google,” Ballmer reportedly said according to court documents (for a case surrounding another Google ex-Microsoft hire). When Lucovsky said it was Google, Ballmer allegedly picked up a chair and threw it across the room. What he apparently said next, will live on forever in Internet history. “Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google.” Schmidt, is of course, Google’s CEO. When Lucovsky still wasn’t convinced, Ballmer alledgedly went on to say, “Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.” A house of cards that still stands. And one that will presumably keep standing after Lucovsky’s departure.”

- Google Loses Engineering Director Who Once Caused Steve Ballmer To Melt Down

"Qual è il futuro dei media tra carta e online? «Inevitabilità: è inutile spaventarsi per qualcosa..."

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:32:42 -0400

“Qual è il futuro dei media tra carta e online?
«Inevitabilità: è inutile spaventarsi per qualcosa che accade malgrado noi. Le nuove generazioni si informano in maniera diversa e in edicola non ci vanno. La variabile che possiamo sfruttare è il tempo. Se corriamo ai ripari una parte del sistema può ancora salvarsi. Il buono sta nel valore enorme che hanno i contenuti. Ci stiamo dimenticando che l’autorevolezza è data dalla qualità e dal valore dei contenuti che offriamo. Ci saranno morti e feriti, ma chi fa bene il suo lavoro alla fine non potrà che essere premiato».”

- «Troppo tardi per le news a pagamento» - Corriere della Sera

"LOCKE: Ludovico Buonarrati, Michelangelo’s father. He was a wealthy man. He had no..."

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:09:56 -0400

“LOCKE: Ludovico Buonarrati, Michelangelo’s father. He was a wealthy man. He had no understanding of the divinity in his son, so he beat him. No child of his was going to use his hands for a living. So, Michelangelo learned not to use his hands. Years later a visiting prince came into Michelangelo’s studio and found the master staring at a single 18 foot block of marble. Then he knew that the rumors were true — that Michelangelo had come in everyday for the last four months, stared at the marble, and gone home for his supper. So the prince asked the obvious — what are you doing? And Michelangelo turned around and looked at him, and whispered, sto lavorando, I’m working. Three years later that block of marble was the statue of David.”

- Hearts and Minds transcript - Lostpedia - The Lost Encyclopedia