http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49312 <pre>https://github.com/divegeek/uscode _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Jeff Bone 2012-05-25T20:56:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49297 <pre>Blodgett's story is serious business. I've never seen something like it before outside of the banking scandals of the last few years. But a dot-com is not going to be protected from itself like the big banks are. Or am I overreacting? How big a hit will FB take? _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Lucas Gonze 2012-05-22T23:30:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49278 <pre>The Open Source efforts are rapidly lapping the Amazon/Google/Rackspace offerings... http://owncloud.org/ </pre> Adam L Beberg 2012-05-22T16:26:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49277 <pre>Wheee! sdw _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Stephen Williams 2012-05-22T08:17:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49269 <pre>It occurs to me that "artificial gravity" can be trivially created by simply following one of two methods: A) Always be accelerating or decelerating perpendicular to the desired plane of gravity. B) Put out a tether to a chunk of your mass and spin. In this design, the "saucer section" has a gravity wheel, which is also good. Let the "turbo lifts" work out moving between modes. Gimbal all of the living spaces perhaps. http://www.gizmag.com/engineer-proposes-uss-enterprise/22532/ sdw _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Stephen Williams 2012-05-21T06:41:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49265 <pre>Is it Zevon's "French Inhaler"? "But tell me: how are you going to make your way in the world, woman, when you weren't cut out for working? And you just can't concentrate? And you always show up late?" Or Liz Phair's "Divorce Song"? "And the license said you had to stick around, until I was dead. But if you're tired of looking at my face, I guess I already am" Or Dylan? "And now I understand, after waking enough times to think I see The Holy Kiss that's supposed to last eternity Blow up in smoke, its destiny Falls on strangers, travels free Yes, I know now, traps are only set by me And I do not really need to be assured That love is just a four-letter word" _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Joseph S. Barrera III 2012-05-21T03:14:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49263 <pre>Well ? http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m40raknCnt1qz78pio1_1280.jpg </pre> Noon Silk 2012-05-20T08:27:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49253 <pre>Snakes can't swim, right? ... please tell me they can't. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-03/pythons-swallow-whole-deer-in-florida-6-million-tab.html?cmpid=otbrn.sustain.story "Last October, a snake in the Everglades was found to have swallowed a 76-pound (34-kilo) deer. Another specimen was discovered with an adult alligator bursting from its insides -- a tooth-and-claw encounter neither animal survived." "In January, the proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences &lt;http://www.nationalacademies.org/&gt;published a study showing "dramatic declines" of mammal populations in southern Florida -- raccoon, opossum, bobcat, deer and rabbit -- all believed to have become snake food." P.S. http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/florida.shtml the worst part is that global warming won't even drown snakeland first, it seems. NEVER MIND _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Joseph S. Barrera III 2012-05-18T22:10:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49242 <pre>I don't comprehend this [stock market silliness]. It doesn't matter what Greece does; they're screwed anyway. If they refuse the bailout and continue deficit spending they're screwed and will default. If they accept the bailouts and try to implement the brutal austerity measures that are the condition for the bailouts they're screwed and will default. The only question is which course will force them into default quicker. Can someone tell me why the stock markets are in such a tizzy about this at this point? It should have been obvious months ago what the outcome will be and should already be priced into anything that might be affected by a Greek default. ..... Shouldn't it?? ...ken... _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Ken Ganshirt < at > Yahoo 2012-05-16T23:23:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49231 <pre>60 Minutes just did a segment on Harmony schools, a large number of public charter schools in the US. They are are based on an organization founded by a Turkish Islamic imam (who's sick and has been living in the Poconos for several years). An imam that mainly has been preaching that teaching and learning science, and working to achieve financial success, is the way to please God. The schools, while they import a lot of Turkish teachers, teach no religion whatsoever. Why can't other religious foundations act in such a constructive and selfless way? Bill Gates is in there some where also. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/education/07charter.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all http://www.harmonyparent.com/charterschools/see-how-informed-the-people-attacking-harmony-are/ Stephen _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Stephen D. Williams 2012-05-14T03:43:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49223 <pre>Fig 1. on the 3rd page of "Do Values Grow on Trees?"[0] shows relatively different editing behaviors for (a tiny selection of) students who went on to receive, respectively good, fair, and poor grades in a programming class. The interesting thing is that (consistent with industry practice) the good student spent a much larger fraction of time with intermediate programs that, whether or not they had the desired functionality, at least compiled. My speculation is that programmers may be like riders, in that a classical goal of riding is to be in such an equilibrium that an outside observer does not notice the dialog between horse and rider (software is like sausage: the people who consume it often have little to no interest in how it is produced), and the great distinction between good and poor riders is that when a horse requires correction, a strong rider quickly restores the invariant that the horse is at least doing *something* in good form (even if it remains to patiently, in</pre> Dave Long 2012-05-10T11:18:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49204 <pre>http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2012/05/the-viral-video-stars-of-roflcon/256889/ 'The "ROFL" in "ROFLCon" is an outdated web acronym -- Rolling on the Floor Laughing -- basically an old-timey way of saying "LOL." ROFLCon uses it ironically.' So like, shit. Am I so old that an AOL endless-september neologism "ROFL" is now quaint??? "old-timey"??? How can ANYTHING about the internet be "old-timey"??? Does this mean I can no longer wear my ROFLcopter shirt in public without people calling me "grandpa"? - Joe P.S. Well shit, if MCA is already dead from cancer, I guess I know the answers to the rest of my questions. Shit. And shit shit shit. RIP Adam. _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Joseph S. Barrera III 2012-05-08T21:15:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49203 <pre>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/the-difference-between-the-us-and-europe-in-1-graph/256857/ Michael Cembalest, the JP Morgan analyst and author of themy favorite new chart about monetary unions &lt;http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/the-funniest-graph-ive-ever-seen-about-why-the-euro-is-totally-doomed/256793/&gt;-- it's not a crowded field, admittedly -- passes along another clever graph which shows fiscal transfers (don't worry, that's just another word for money) between the rich California-Connecticut-Illinois-New Jersey-New York quintuple and poorer states like Tennessee. If similar, seamless transfers existed in the EU, the rich north would have to send to Portugal and Greece at least an additional 30 cents for every dollar they paid in taxes, year after year after year. _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Joseph S. Barrera III 2012-05-08T20:46:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49182 <pre>----- Forwarded message from Dmytri Kleiner &lt;dk&lt; at &gt;telekommunisten.net&gt; ----- From: Dmytri Kleiner &lt;dk&lt; at &gt;telekommunisten.net&gt; Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 09:21:40 +0200 To: nettime-l&lt; at &gt;kein.org Subject: &lt;nettime&gt; Privacy, Moglen, &lt; at &gt;ioerror, #rp12 Organization: Telekommunisten User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.6 Privacy, Moglen, &lt; at &gt;ioerror, #rp12 I gave a talk with Jacob Applebaum at last week's Re:publica conference in Berlin. It seems it had fallen to us to break a little bad news. Here it is. - We are not progressing from a primitive era of centralized social media to an emerging era of decentralized social media, the reverse is happening. - Surveillance and control of users is not some sort of unintended consequence of social media platforms, it is the reason they exist. - Privacy is not simply a consumer choice, it is a matter of power and privilege. Earlier at Re:publica, Eben Moglen, the brilliant and tireless legal council of the Free Software Foundation and founder of the FreedomBox Foundation, </pre> Eugen Leitl 2012-05-08T12:35:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49178 <pre>OK, so in the past two days I've been forced to watch not just "Snatch" but then also much of "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels". I kept thinking (and loudly saying) "Bad Tarantino". Am I being unfair? Or should I be entertained when 5 billion characters are paraded in front of the camera with NO character development and NO dialog worth listening to? - Joe (cranky) _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Joseph S. Barrera III 2012-05-08T10:27:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49157 <pre>----- Forwarded message from Michael Hrenka &lt;metahorse&lt; at &gt;googlemail.com&gt; ----- From: Michael Hrenka &lt;metahorse&lt; at &gt;googlemail.com&gt; Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 02:50:52 -0700 (PDT) To: Doctrine Zero &lt;DoctrineZero&lt; at &gt;googlegroups.com&gt; Subject: [ZS] Prestige Bitcoin User-Agent: G2/1.0 Reply-To: doctrinezero&lt; at &gt;googlegroups.com At the AGM we discussed combining my reputation system with the official Bitcoin currency. I wanted to give you an update on my thoughts on that topic: First of all, it's a good idea to focus our economics projects in that way, because we can put everything into an integrated system. When I tried to develop a reputation based economy I finally realized that it's a bad idea not to integrate some kind of money currency into the system. Money is very useful, after all. My first idea how to combine both concepts (reputation and money) was to make some kind of "pot" which is then paid out to all users of that system - in proportion to their Prestige index. But to make that system a reality you really need s</pre> Eugen Leitl 2012-05-07T13:49:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49152 <pre>Sounds like something fun to hack soonish. Yea, right. How long will any such restriction last in the face of "curious" hackers? Just another in a long line of steps that will make current restrictions on things look silly soon. We need to concentrate on ethics and peer pressure, along with occasionally just adjusting to a new reality, to manage these kinds of advances. In the not too distant future, with a little work individuals will be able to concoct nearly any molecule, nano shape, biological component, computer, sensor, robot, or nanobot, not to mention their own AI / AGI to automate it. http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&amp;ACCT=0000100&amp;ISSUE=1204&amp;RELTYPE=IN&amp;PRODCODE=000000&amp;PRODLETT=DZ.html?et_cid=2605275&amp;et_rid=60834710&amp;linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wirelessdesignmag.com%2fShowPR~PUBCODE~055~ACCT~0000100~ISSUE~1204~RELTYPE~IN~PRODCODE~000000~PRODLETT~DZ&amp;CommonCount=0 **New Research Could Mean Cellphones That Can See Through Walls* * /Team Finds New Possibilities in Untapped T</pre> Stephen Williams 2012-05-07T03:55:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49146 <pre>Lol... http://programming-motherfucker.com/ Nice resource list: http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html sdw _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Stephen D. Williams 2012-05-07T01:45:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49145 <pre>Lol... http://programming-motherfucker.com/ Nice resource list: http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html sdw _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Stephen Williams 2012-05-07T01:43:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49144 <pre>Lol... http://programming-motherfucker.com/ Nice resource list: http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html sdw _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork </pre> Stephen Williams 2012-05-07T01:44:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare/49143 <pre> Apropos of some recent maker / hacker threads... I'm one of the evaluators for this event, which is turning out to be a lot of fun: http://kalamazoo.startupweekend.org/ Finally, I get to judge other people and they THANK me for it!! lolz Hip space, cool folks, GREAT energy! Kalamazoo's mayor attended all of Friday evening's events -- after spending the day at the grand opening of TechShop Detroit. So... he gets it, and wants more. When one of the group told him there'd been no Startup Zoo coverage on local news, he pulled out his phone and started texting reporters. Big turnout for a town this size: http://twitpic.com/9hllhc Some crazy pitches last night -- but also a few with real potential. The international parent group has solid sponsors, including Kauffman: http://startupweekend.org/ It might be worth checking to see whether they're active in your area. I stumbled onto it by meeting one of the local organizers over Thanksgiving dinner... and I'm glad I did. GS -------------------</pre> Gary Stock 2012-05-05T14:14:38 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare