Google-Plus

Why can’t we just ban patents? Links Patents that kill Shared with: Public +1’d by: Caskey Dickson

Is crisis price gouging actually good for you? Links Toledo can’t drink its water. There’s an economics lesson there. Shared with: Public

We have another chance to validate the GPL in court. While the author reiterates and dismisses the analogy of the GPL to a virus, I want to build on it. Imagine for a minute that the current case succeeds in confirming the gist of the GPL in that you must release your code if you build on top of GPL technologies. That’s a step up from the settlement in FSF vs. Cisco. This solid legal ground inspires an intrepid geek in the Dakotas to reverse engineer Microsoft C++ libraries to discover serious GPL violations. This leads to every major software vendor being sued and forced to release their source code under the GPL. ...

This is a great presentation of the available instance types for Amazon Web Services. (Why didn’t Amazon make it?) Links Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison Shared with: Public +1’d by: Scott Francis

So, linked-in is using cfengine and svn this year, right now, in 2014. Consider that git has been release quality for nine years this December. If they replaced svn with git, which is a no brainer, then maybe they could appreciate how painful cfengine is. Links Virtual Panel: Configuration Management Tools in the Real World Shared with: Public

SpaceX’s new Dragon capsule is the sexiest spaceship yet! Links SpaceX unveils human capsule Shared with: Public +1’d by: Caskey Dickson

gorgeous! Video Watch Video Shared with: Public +1’d by: Chase Van Huisen, Paul Fernandez

You should not be shocked at how much copyrights are abused by now. Most people have forgotten that not long ago copyrights were 0 years long. Newton did not write because of copyright. Fair use is not fairly defended. We need a political party to take this up for the people instead of corps. Free Mickey Mouse from corporate tyrany! Links Op-Ed: Bad copyright rules killed Hadfield’s Space Oddity Shared with: Public

Asylum Street Spankers: If You Want Me To Love You: http://youtu.be/8fqZDivnfrM Video Watch Video Links http://youtu.be/8fqZDivnfrM Shared with: Public +1’d by: Tony Edwards

Clouds in Oakland, oh my! Images Shared with: Public +1’d by: Paul Fernandez