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jueves, 9 de agosto de 2012

Development by Davis: “In Hacker Highschool, students learn to redesign the future” plus 1 more

In Hacker Highschool, students learn to redesign the future

Posted: 09 Aug 2012 03:00 AM PDT

Knowledge is power: A hacker's curriculum

It might sound strange, but every industry and profession could benefit from an employee as creative, resourceful, and motivated as a hacker. Hackers can teach themselves how things work and how groups of things work together. Hackers know how to modify things—to adjust, personalize, and even improve them. And it is the hacker whose skillset is diverse, unique, and powerful enough to be dangerous in the hands of the wrong person. Enter ISECOM—a non-profit, open source research group focused on next-generation security and professional security development and accreditation—and its popular project, Hacker Highschool.

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See what it's like to be a flight controller for Curiosity

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 11:50 AM PDT

One of the first images of the Martian surface from Curiosity

Been wondering what it's like to be a flight controller in charge of exploring Mars? You can satisfy your Curiosity curiosity by downloading NASA's next-generation mission operations software, Mission Control Technologies. NASA Ames Research Center released the MCT software under an Apache 2.0 license.

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sábado, 9 de junio de 2012

Development by Davis

The future must be decentralized

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:20 PM PDT

Deb Nicholson is worried about the future of our data.
They're being stockpiled by organizations whose ability to protect them is diminishing, but whose ability to keep users from accessing or transporting them is increasing. Bit by bit, these data are being centralized--gathered in large repositories outside users' control and sequestered there when competing products or services can't access or read them.

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viernes, 17 de febrero de 2012

Development by Davis: “Why the patent system doesn't play well with software: If Eolas went the other way” plus 2 more

Why the patent system doesn't play well with software: If Eolas went the other way

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

Everyone take a deep breath: it seems we've had a moment of sanity in the patent wars. Last week, a jury invalidated the dangerous Eolas patents, which their owner claimed covered, well, essentially the whole Internet. The patents were originally granted for an invention that helped doctors to view images of embryos over the early web. A few years later, smelling quick cash, their owner insisted that it had a veto right on any mechanism used to embed an object in a web document. Really? The patents are obvious—both now in 2012 and back in 1994, when the first one was filed. Thankfully, a jury realized that and did what should have happened years ago: it invalidated these dangerous patents.

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AMD Appoints John Byrne as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Accounts

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that industry veteran John Byrne has been appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Accounts. In this newly created position, Byrne will be responsible for ensuring AMD's worldwide sales organization effectively addresses customer needs by exceeding the expecta...

SGI® ICE™ Supercomputer Speeds to Benchmark Record

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, announced today that its SGI® ICE™ 8400 high performance compute (HPC) system with AMD Opteron™ 6200 processors achieved the top performance number for 64-, 32-, 16-, 8-, and 4-socket configurations for the SPECMPIL2007 benchmark. The SPECMPIL benchmark is SPEC's "benchmark suite...

jueves, 16 de febrero de 2012

Development by Davis: “Does open design hardware have a place in manufacturing?” plus 1 more

Does open design hardware have a place in manufacturing?

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:59 AM PST

Do you remember HeathKit? The company that sold circuit board and resistor kits you could assemble to make your own electronics?
Building a HeathKit was no great feat of engineering—it came with a fixed list of parts and the schematic—but it helped you understand how electronics work by letting you assemble your own electronic products. And back in the day, a well-built HeathKit radio was every bit as good as the store-bought ones.

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OpenForum Europe finds trademark references in IT procurements widespread, break rules

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST

OpenForum Europe finds increase in IT procurement trademarks references

Report: 'Contracting authorities must take exit costs into account'

Public administrations that are procuring IT services and software must add to the budget plan the exit costs needed to move to alternative IT solutions after the end of the contract period. That is one of the recommendations by Open Forum Europe, an organisation advocating the use of open standards in ICT, in a report on procurement published this Monday.

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