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Comment Including science?? (Score 1) 124

by Z-MaxX (#64912091) Attached to: Australian Mathematicians Debunk 'Infinite Monkey Theorem'
If you're going to take this thought experiment, a theoretical problem, and bring various other scientific beliefs to bear on it, like to limit the duration to a finite period due to scientists estimate of the end of the universe, then shouldn't you also include other scientific processes that are widely held?

For instance, if you believe that humans evolved from lower life forms, then wouldn't it be likely that monkeys would evolve into more intelligent beings over the millions of years as they are typing away?

Comment Re:Clownstrike is not a legitimate parody. (Score 1) 96

by Z-MaxX (#64688362) Attached to: Parody Site ClownStrike Refused To Bow To CrowdStrike's Bogus DMCA Takedown

He's publicly documenting Crowdstrike's proprietary internal management policies and techniques. Take him down - hard!

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any proprietary information on the Clownstrike.lol site.

What did he specifically publish that you think is illegal or immoral?
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What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? 217

Posted by samzenpus from the keeping-them-closer dept.
Nerval's Lobster writes Back in the day, Microsoft viewed open source and Linux as a threat and did its best to retaliate with FUD and patent threats. And then a funny thing happened: Whether in the name of pragmatism or simply marketing, Microsoft began a very public transition from a company of open-source haters (at least in top management) to one that's embraced some aspects of open-source computing. Last month, the company blogged that .NET Core will become open-source, adding to its previously open-sourced ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages (Razor). There's no doubt that, at least in some respects, Microsoft wants to make a big show of being more open and supportive of interoperability. The company's even gotten involved with the .NET Foundation, an independent organization designed to assist developers with the growing collection of open-source technologies for .NET. But there's only so far Microsoft will go into the realm of open source—whereas once upon a time, the company tried to wreck the movement, now it faces the very real danger of its whole revenue model being undermined by free software. But what's Microsoft's end-goal with open source? What can the company possibly hope to accomplish, given a widespread perception that such a move on its part is the product of either fear, cynicism, or both?

Comment List of links to "forgotten" pages? (Score 1) 81

I see the linked "Notices received from search engines" page has several low quality screen shot images showing the Google "notice of removal from Google Search". The links can barely be made out from these images. How about actually copying and pasting the list of URLs as text? Let's crank the Streisand effect up to 11!
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Wikipedia Reports 50 Links From Google 'Forgotten', Issues Transparency Report 81

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the down-the-memory-hole dept.
netbuzz (955038) writes The Wikimedia Foundation this morning reports that 50 links to Wikipedia from Google have been removed under Europe's "right to be forgotten" regulations, including a page about a notorious Irish bank robber and another about an Italian criminal gang. "We only know about these removals because the involved search engine company chose to send notices to the Wikimedia Foundation. Search engines have no legal obligation to send such notices. Indeed, their ability to continue to do so may be in jeopardy. Since search engines are not required to provide affected sites with notice, other search engines may have removed additional links from their results without our knowledge. This lack of transparent policies and procedures is only one of the many flaws in the European decision." Wikimedia now has a page listing all notifications that search listing were removed. itwbennett also wrote in with Wikimedia news this morning: the Wikimedia foundation published its first ever transparency report, detailing requests to remove or alter content (zero granted, ever) and content removed for copyright violations.

Comment Upverter is a dead end for your project? (Score 4, Informative) 38

by Z-MaxX (#44964173) Attached to: Sparkfun's Entire Open Hardware Catalog Made Available On Upverter
It looks to me like the Upverter web site stores your design in the cloud, using their own proprietary web based tool, and you can't save or edit it on your own machine. So it Upverter's site goes down, or if they decide to make you pay for it, or they go out of business, or whatever, your design is lost! I would much prefer to use a truly open solution like gEDA or KiCAD. At least with proprietary and limited Eagle, you can save stuff locally and use it forever.
Open Source

Video The MinnowBoard is a Low-Cost, Open Hardware Single-Board Computer (Video) 84

Posted by Roblimo from the open-source-software-is-followed-by-open-source-hardware-like-summer-follows-spring dept.
Out in the Northeast Texas town of Ft. Worth, a company called CircuitCo started making something they called the BeagleBoard -- an open source hardware single-board computer for educators and experimenters. Now, with help and support from Intel, they're making and supporting the Atom-based MinnowBoard, which is also open source, and comes with Angstrom Linux to help experimenters get started with it. David Anders is the Senior Embedded Systems Engineer at CircuitCo. Slashdot's Timothy Lord met David at LinuxCon North America 2013 in New Orleans and made this video of him talking about the recently-released MinnowBoard and the more mature BeagleBoard.

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