“Hanna-Leena Hemmingin ja Jyrki Kasvin mielestä julkishallinnon tietojärjestelmissä on pyrittävä avoimiin, standardoituihin tiedon esitysmuotoihin, jotka eivät sido viranomaisia yhden ohjelmistovalmistajan asiakkaiksi.”
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Eduskunnan on aloitettava valmistelu Linuxiin siirtymiseksi
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Hollywood taipuu suomalaisen virkamiehen edessä
“Tämä käsikirjoitus on kopiosuojattu 50 a §:ssä tarkoitetulla tehokkaalla teknisellä toimenpiteellä, joka on tehokas, koska oikeudenhaltija on tarkoittanut sen tehokkaaksi, vaikka se ei tehokas olekaan.”
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Jobs Says Pirates Will "Burn in Hell"
“But Apple’s leader isn’t pulling punches when it comes to his battle with the pirates. “Theft is bad”, he said, warning: “You don’t want to burn in Hell.””
The guy is so full of shit.
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Finluxin konkurssi aiheuttaa takuu- ja päivitysongelmia
“Kuluttajavirasto selvittelee maanantaina konkurssiin haetun Finluxin TV-tehtaan valmistamien televisioiden ja digiboksien vastuukysymyksia.
– […] Suomessa ei ole aiemmin ollut vastaavanlaista tilannetta, sanoo kauppias Sakari Vihanto Vihanto Oy:stä. […]
Varsinkaan Finluxien digiboksien päivityksien järjestämisestä tulevaisuudessa ei vielä ole varmaa tietoa.”
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Read About It: Yahoo Is Crap
“Yahoo! Inc. has been taking a beating in the blogosphere lately. On Sept. 6 came the revelation that it provided information that helped Beijing jail a journalist. Days earlier, a report said Yahoo was actively supporting the companies that spawn pop-up ads. Around the same time, bloggers started griping about new Yahoo software downloads that change the preferences on users’ PCs.”
Businessweek via /.
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Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins
“Using satellite images from Google Maps and Google Earth, an Italian computer programmer has stumbled upon the remains of an ancient villa.”
news@nature.com via Waxy.org
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Count to 31 on One Hand
“Forget your abacus? Lose your calculator? Every geek should know how to use binary to count to 31 on one hand. It won’t replace your slide rule, but it’s an attention-getter. If you’re familiar with binary you’ll pick it up quickly.”
I categorized this as being a ‘hack’, considering this is an innovative application of using fingers as an aid to counting.
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Hacking's a snap in Legoland
“When Lego executives recently discovered that adult fans of the iconic plastic bricks had hacked one of the company’s new development tools for digital designers, they did a surprising thing: They cheered. […]
All it took was being open-minded enough to see that their biggest fans weren’t trying to rip them off; they were trying to improve Lego’s products in a way that, just maybe, the company’s own designers hadn’t thought of.”
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My brush with the FBI
“Perhaps, [colleagues and friends] suggested, the AHA was monitoring internet traffic at the conference, or maybe the FBI was keeping a watchful eye on Arabic cardiologists. One colleague even suggested that the FBI had mistaken “PLoS” for the PLO. “But in any case,” said one colleague, “when did it ever become a crime to look at a Palestinian website?””
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Google Earth threatens "democracy"
“The recent news that South Korea is to take the US to task over Google Earth images which expose its military installations to close Commie scrutiny has provoked a mini stampede of other peace-loving nations eager to protect their assets from prying eyes. Enter stage right Thailand, which says it may ask Google to “block images of important state buildings vulnerable to attack”.”