What a great, non-corrupt, non-scheming fellow we just elected. According to Technology Review, the Democratic National Committee acquired some 223 million pieces of data on potential voters in the final two months before the election. The Obama administration could use its massive trove of information for other, more nefarious purposes. “It turns out that the [...]
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The best anti-Macintosh rant ever
1984 – The Mac is friendly, it’s the future, lalalala. Reality: 128k machine with 4 pieces of known software. 1987 – The Mac is more efficient than IBM PCs, it’s the future. Reality: It’s four times as expensive and people quickly learn Windows. 1995 – The Mac is a better operating system than Windows, it’s [...]
In China, forums are preferable to blogs
In China however, blogging might be really dead. In the west, blogs ousted bulletin boards and forums from the market. This never happened in China, where the BBS still flourish. Better yet, the discussions platforms keep growing. According to author Andrew Lih, there are two main reasons for this phenomenon. BBS are anonymous. Well, actually, [...]
Open Source software limits creativity
Open wisdom-of-crowds software movements have become influential, but they haven.t promoted the kind of radical creativity I love most in computer science. If anything, they’ve been hindrances. Some of the youngest, brightest minds have been trapped in a 1970s intellectual framework because they are hypnotized into accepting old software designs as if they were facts [...]
