A very interesting piece on the outsourcing of software development to India. Tells the tale from the pov of someone charged with finding programmers in India.
Posted on October 31st, 2005 by pwyll
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Found an amazing article via Boing Boing. It seems that Sony Music is installing nasty hidden spyware on Windows boxes as part of a digital rights management scheme, without any disclosure of such. If you or I secretly put a rootkit on someone else’s machine, we could go to jail. If Sony installs a rootkit [...]
Posted on October 31st, 2005 by pwyll
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Here’s the beginning of Grim Milestone Approaches In Unending War, by Rand Simberg.
October 28th, 1944
WASHINGTON (Routers) As this bloody and futile war enters its fourth year, the casualties continue to rise, and while it’s hard to know how many American soldiers have been lost, due to a secretive Roosevelt administration, many analysts think that the [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2005 by pwyll
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I wander through each chartered street
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every man,
In every infant’s cry of fear
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear
London, William Blake
Paco Malo sent me a link to a WSJ article by Shelby [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2005 by pwyll
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CALEA is a 1994 law designed to turn the phone system into a surveillance system on the consumer’s dime. The FBI wanted this, the Clinton administration pushed it hard, and Congress approved it overwhelmingly. It was truly a bi-partisan POS. Recently the FCC has approved expanding CALEA to turn the internet, even the [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2005 by pwyll
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I’ve started reading Universal Salvation?, edited by Parry and Partridge. I hope to post a brief review in a week or two.
I’ve also started learning to program in Common Lisp. One on the reasons I began this blog was to learn a bit about the technology that enables blogging. I have gotten a bunch of [...]
Posted on October 26th, 2005 by pwyll
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