ACLU Blog: Because Freedom Can’t Blog Itself: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » Repeat After Us: America Is Not a Christian Nation (3)
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Last September, the First Amendment Center released a poll with a truly scary finding: they found that 55 percent of Americans believe that the Founding Fathers established the United States as a Christian nation, and that Christianity is somehow established in the Constitution. Noooooo! It is absolutely nowhere in the Constitution that Christianity, or indeed any religion, is the official religion of the United States. In fact, the sole mention of "religion" in the Constitution ...
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"Last September, the First Amendment Center released a poll with a truly scary finding: they found that 55 percent of Americans believe that the Founding Fathers established the United States as a Christian nation, and that Christianity is somehow established in the Constitution. Noooooo! It is absolutely nowhere in the Constitution that Christianity, or indeed any religion, is the official religion of the United States. In fact, the sole mention of "religion" in the Constitution is in the First Amendment..."
International Space Station has a keylogger (3)
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Filed under: News items, Account Security NASA has confirmed that the International Space Station has been infected by a keylogger. It was carried onto the station by an astronaut's laptop back in July. The keylogger in question is the W32.Gammima.AG -- which is specifically a gaming keylogger. In other words, the ISS has the exact kind of keylogger that plagues so many of us in WoW. NASA describes the keylogger as merely a "nuisance," but ...
Is Opentape Muxtape's passive-aggressive, open-source jab at the RIAA? [Copyfight] (8)
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Opentape.fm, where you can download code to easily create your own Muxtape-like online mix of MP3 files. And if the creators of Muxtape aren't directly responsible, they probably fed Opentape's developers everything they would need. The first clue is that the site is powered by the favored online publishing platform of millenial hipsters, Tumblr. Another clue is that the domain registration information points to 152 W. 57th Street in Manhattan, which just happens to be ...
How Google's cafes turned into hell's kitchens [Food Fight] (8)
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Live by the fork, die by the fork. Now that Google is cutting back on its free food, where will its flacks woo journalists? Morale in Google's kitchens is rock-bottom, as leaderless workers try to keep understaffed cafes running, even as Google management insists they open new eateries. The last place Google's PR staff should want to entertain a reporter is in their cafes. The tragedy of it all: As we learn more about how ...
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Forrest said:
"Do no evil"
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Brett L. said:
A long time in coming. Sad. The food is still mostly good, which is a testament to the employees who have been unfairly subjected to poor management.
Tenerife Skunkworks: Optimizing Erlang: A death match of arrays and tuples (2)
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This is the first in my series of posts on optimizing Erlang. I plan to tackle optimizing Mnesia, profiling and scalability. You need to use arrays of up to 10,000 elements. Erlang offers you tuples as well as fixed-size and extensible pseudo-arrays. What is the fastest option? Let us start the death match by pitting arrays against tuples in a death match. Trees were an option before the array module became available, so lets throw ...
Do you know any programmers that exhibit these personality traits…? (13)
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I’ve been observing an unusual programmer friend of mine for some time now. (Yeah… a “friend”, that’s it….) He has such a strange combination of potential and incompetence that its hard to tell if he is just lazy or if he has a “light” form of autism or some other disorder. I try to avoid “easy” pop-psychology terms when discussing him, but try to be as specific as possible when listing his qualities: * Inability ...
Blizzard C&Ds iPhone Armory app (3)
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Filed under: Blizzard, News items Blizzard has been hiring mobile developers for a little while now, and we might finally be getting a hint as to why. Theoria, the developer of Armory Browser, recently received a cease and desist letter from Blizzard legal, and will therefore be suspending development on the program, and pulling its distribution on Monday the 25th. Armory Browser is a $0.99 app for viewing Armory profiles on the iPhone/iPod Touch. The ...
Is the Music Industry Digging Its Own Online Grave? (25)
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As Twitter and Techmeme lit up with the news that Pandora might be going under and Muxtape was shuttered, the immediate reaction seemed to be a deep and abiding hatred of the music industry as well as a collective wish that the record labels and governing bodies be sent to any type of available grave. The ironic part is the the recording industry doesn’t need anyone’s help; it’s going to kill itself sooner or later ...
Mechanical Zoo's Aardvark to make Lazyweb as hard as possible [Startups] (1)
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I hope VCs are realistic about any search startup's chances against Google at this stage. Cuil's traffic withered shortly after launch. Another gang of Google graduates at The Mechanical Zoo have revealed scant details of their plans with the announcement of Aardvark. The short version: Rather than asking a search engine questions, you ask your friends instead. Other than that, the social-search-or-something product remains a cryptid. Sounds more like a rival to Yahoo Answers than ...
