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Category: Computers

Why There is a Crisis of Fake News

By Phil Mayes Posted on April 23, 2018 Posted in Computers, Media, Musings, Politics, Society No Comments Tagged with Internet

Call it the law of unintended consequences. The internet is a disruptive technology comparable to the Gutenberg press. Initially it was seen as a global encyclopedia, making all human knowledge available to everyone. Then social media arose, and I saw …

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Encode your IP as a haiku

By Phil Mayes Posted on March 10, 2015 Posted in Humor, Poetry, Programming No Comments Tagged with Haiku, IP address

How eccentric and cool: http://gabrielmartin.net/projects/hipku/ There’s also a Python port: http://pyhipku.lord63.com/

Grammar

By Phil Mayes Posted on April 10, 2014 Posted in Computers, Humor, Programming No Comments Tagged with language

I just ran into this sentence in Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding You’re probably used to type systems in languages like C and Java and marveled at its ambiguity. “Used” and “type” have several different …

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Chicken

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 2, 2014 Posted in Humor, Programming No Comments

Q. Why did the multiprocessing chicken cross the road? A. to To other side. get the — Jason Whittington

SOPA and the power of the Internet

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 20, 2012 Posted in Computers, Intellectual Property, Politics, Society No Comments

Firstly, there is an excellent explanation of SOPA’s potential impact here. Check out the video in the first link. What is so striking about this, apart from the breath-taking over-reach of the bills, is the about-face in Congress as a …

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NPR critiques patents

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 29, 2011 Posted in Computers, Intellectual Property, Uncategorized No Comments

An excellent NPR story on patents has been getting attention, and Forbes uses it to argue in favor of invalidating software patents.

The equivalence of patents and source code

By Phil Mayes Posted on October 4, 2009 Posted in Intellectual Property, Law, Programming No Comments

The Software Freedom Law Center has filed a Supreme Court brief re Bilski, and I loved this idea within it: “The source code of a program which performs the steps described in a software patent is distinguishable from the literal …

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Windows is Stupid

By Phil Mayes Posted on May 8, 2009 Posted in Computers, Programming No Comments

I have an application with a main window.  It opens a find dialog that can remain open, i.e. it is not modal.  I mark it as STAY_ON_TOP so it does not disappear behind the application window. The application pops up …

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Skype Users are Revolting

By Phil Mayes Posted on February 13, 2009 Posted in Computers No Comments Tagged with Skype, user interface

On Feb 3, 2009, Skype announced the release of Skype 4.0 after extensive beta testing.  But on the community forums, users are complaining that New interface is very BAD. Old was perfect, SKYPE ME MODE no longer available in version …

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Lawyers Shut Down Internet

By Phil Mayes Posted on February 13, 2009 Posted in Computers, Intellectual Property, Law No Comments Tagged with html linking

I exaggerate, but check out this Slate post about a law firm that successfully objected to someone linking to their website.

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