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It's All Decked Out. Give It Somewhere to Go.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071102394.html, posted 2008 by peter in msm opinion science space
The ISS, you see, is already an interplanetary spacecraft -- at least potentially. [...] In principle, we could fly it almost anywhere within the inner solar system -- to any place where it could still receive enough solar power to keep all its systems ru
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It's not the Gates, it's the bars
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm, posted 2008 by peter in business copyright opinion politics
Gates may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he helped create remain, for now.
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HejFRA.se
hejfra.se/, posted 2008 by peter in fascism inswedish opinion politics privacy terrorism
Tvinga FRA att läsa alla dina vanliga mail genom att lägga till signaturen med trigger-ord på "farliga" språk.
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Contra Durusau, Part 1
www.robweir.com/blog/2008/03/contra-durusau-part-1.html, posted 2008 by peter in business opinion standard
Of course, Microsoft will not be so careful to distinguish Patrick's personal opinions from his professional affiliations.
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ODF Editor: ODF Loses if OOXML Does
www.cio.com/article/203600/ODF_Editor_ODF_Loses_if_OOXML_Does, posted 2008 by peter in business opinion standard
The editor of the Open Document Format (ODF) standard has written a letter that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) file format as a standard, arguing that if it fails, ODF will suffer.
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PC game developer has radical message: ignore the pirates
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080320-pc-game-developer-has-radical-message-ignore-the-pirates.html, posted 2008 by peter in business copyright opinion
The pirates weren't customers, they might never be customers, so spending money to try to stop them serves no purpose.
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The top five reasons why “The customer is always right†is wrong
positivesharing.com/2008/03/top-5-reasons-why-the-customer-is-always-right-is-wrong/, posted 2008 by peter in business management opinion people
Of course there are plenty of examples of bad employees giving lousy customer service. But trying to solve this by declaring the customer “always right” is counter-productive.
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Bush Screws America, Again: Economy Slips to #2
www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/bush-screws-america-agai_b_91760.html, posted 2008 by peter in business eu finance news opinion politics usa
For the first time since World War II the United States is not the world's #1 economy. We have slipped behind the European Union. (This, according to Erin Burnett on CNBC, Friday, March 14th.)
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Opera CTO: How to fix Microsoft's browser issues
www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/19/hakon_ms_reform_plan/, posted 2008 by peter in business opinion politics standard webdesign
Microsoft's failure to respond to its customers' outcry shows that it is time to call on established antitrust laws that allow governments to impose sanctions on a vendor that has a dominant position in a market.
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Fixing HTML, by Douglas Crockford
www.crockford.com/html/, posted 2007 by peter in css design html opinion standard webdesign
This is my proposal for a kinder, gentler HTML 5. The new language I am proposing is not totally compatible with HTML 4. But HTML 4 was not totally compatible with HTML 3, and XHTML would not have been totally compatible anyway, so that's ok.
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