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A brief look at Nvidia's GK110 graphics chip - The Tech Report - Page 1
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CPU DB - Looking At 40 Years of Processor Improvements | A complete database of processors for researchers and hobbyists alike.
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7 weeks ago by Seumas

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Obama’s high-tech labor lies - Salon.com

A few days after the New York Times’ (embarrassingly belated and deeply flawed) article on Apple’s Chinese production facilities reignited a national discussion about offshore outsourcing, President Obama was confronted during a Google+ “hang out” about why during a brutal unemployment crisis his administration continues to support expanding the H-1B visa program that allows tech companies to annually import thousands of low-wage engineers from abroad. In his stunning answer, the president first expresses bewilderment that any American high-tech engineer could be out of work, because he says that “what industry tells me is that they don’t have enough (domestic) highly skilled engineers” and that “the word that we’re getting is that somebody (a domestic engineer) in a high-tech field should be able to find something right away.” He then goes on to insist that the H-1B program is “reserved only for those companies who say they cannot find somebody in (a) particular field” and that it shouldn’t apply to industries where “there are a lot of highly skilled American workers” looking for a job because he says his administration is focused on “encourag(ing) more American engineers to be placed” in open positions.

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february 2012 by Seumas

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My Keyboard
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january 2012 by Seumas

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A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com
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january 2012 by Seumas

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Two SOPA Writers Become Entertainment Lobbyists - Slashdot

"According to Politico, 'A pair of senior Hill aides at the center of a brewing battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley are packing their bags for K Street, where they’ll work for two of the entertainment lobby shops trying to influence their former colleagues in Congress on the very same issue. Allison Halataei, former deputy chief of staff and parliamentarian to House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and Lauren Pastarnack, a Republican who has served as a senior aide on the Senate Judiciary Committee, worked on online piracy bills that would push Internet companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook to shut down websites that offer illegal copies of blockbuster films and chart-topping songs.' Techdirt adds, 'Pastarnack went to the MPAA where she'll be "director of government relations" and Halataei to the NMPA (music publishers and songwriters) where she'll be "chief liaison to Capitol Hill." The Politico article linked above notes that this kind of "revolving door" is all too common. It may not be directly corrupt, but to the public it sure feels corrupt.'"

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december 2011 by Seumas

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Security vendors help covert agencies spy on their own citizens: WikiLeaks | ITworld

Yesterday WikiLeaks released 287 documents in what it calls The Spy Files, which describes as descriptions of the relationship between national intelligence agencies and the commercial software, security and surveillance companies they hired to provide technology that allows them to secretly listen in on cell phone conversations, text messages, email and other Internet traffic and location data.

Some even use voice-recognition technology to help identify the voices in conversations on which they eavesdrop, sometimes while looking for the opportunity to end some conversations by firing a missile to kill one of the participants.

Nearly all governments spy on their own citizens and on foreigners using surreptitious spyware on computers, cell phones, GPS devices and other modern electronic devices according to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said during a panel on espionage and digital security at a conference yesterday in London.

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december 2011 by Seumas

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Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph
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november 2011 by Seumas

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Problems plague Apple iCloud, iOS launch | Reuters
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october 2011 by Seumas

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BBC News - Tony Sale, Colossus computer conservationist, dies

The mammoth project to recreate the code-cracking Colossus capped a career built around electronics and computers.

Most recently, Mr Sale drove the campaign to save Bletchley Park, where Colossus aided Allied code-cracking efforts during World War II.

At Bletchley he also founded the National Museum of Computing to help preserve the UK's ageing computers.

Born in 1931, Mr Sale displayed his talent for engineering at an early age by building a robot, called George I, out of Meccano. One of the later versions of George was built from the remains of a Wellington bomber.

Instead of going to university, Mr Sale joined the RAF, which nurtured his engineering talent, and by the age of 20 he was lecturing pilots and aircrew about advances in radar.

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october 2011 by Seumas

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How to Build a Gaming Computer - YouTube

This is a very thorough and patient video worth passing out to people interested in building a computer, but uncertain what is involved. This is a great link for every engineer to have on hand for the next time someone asks "can you tell me how I can build my first rig?".

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september 2011 by Seumas

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IndustryGamers
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september 2011 by Seumas

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The evolution of the web
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september 2011 by Seumas

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Shrine Of Apple - Awesome photos and video of every Apple product, ever.
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september 2011 by Seumas

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AI vs. AI: Two chatbots talking to each other | Cornell Creative Machines Lab
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august 2011 by Seumas

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GRC's | Password Haystacks: How Well Hidden is Your Needle?

This interactive brute force search space calculator allows you to experiment with password length and composition to develop an accurate and quantified sense for the safety of using passwords that can only be found through exhaustive search. Please see the discussion below for additional information.

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august 2011 by Seumas

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X Window Managers Part 2

In part 1 of the series we looked at the early X window managers that ran on X display protocol based systems. The scale and range of them was from the very beginning where a user was presented with a menu and windows and little else (perhaps a clock or loadmeter) up to what could be considered the first window manager that went beyond providing the basics to providing more of an environment and extensibility through modules that allowed other hackers to "join in the fun". In this part 2 of the series two more distinct groups of window managers will be peeked at; first a look at the evolution of that first "more of an environment than just window managing" software; many of which cropped up right around the same time (within a few years of eachother). Second the kickback against large scale environments with an examination of a breed of window managers designed to be ultra light/fast while still preserving good looks.

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july 2011 by Seumas

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X Window Managers Part 1

The X11 suite of graphical display capabilities sets policy but does not define application; this is to say it provides a vehicle to transport graphics using a protocol. There are advantages and disadvantages to such a method beyond the scope of this material excepting one particular advantage: the implementation of the X suite allows for the creation of a wide variety of graphical window managers. Although there is a great website that documents the wide array of window managers both large and small called xwinman lets take a look at window managers roughly in order of appearance.

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july 2011 by Seumas

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The Origin of the word Daemon
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june 2011 by Seumas

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How To Safely Store A Password | codahale.com

Use bcrypt

Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt.

Why Not {MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, SHA-3, etc}?

These are all general purpose hash functions, designed to calculate a digest of huge amounts of data in as short a time as possible. This means that they are fantastic for ensuring the integrity of data and utterly rubbish for storing passwords.

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june 2011 by Seumas

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E3 2011: John Carmack talks Wii U, PlayStation Vita, and next-gen Rage - News

LOS ANGELES--As the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo was winding down, John Carmack was getting ready to leave. Having been flown in for a day on a private jet from Texas--courtesy of his bosses at ZeniMax Media--the chief of id Software's technology department was holding court Wednesday at the extravagant booth of its corporate sibling, Bethesda Softworks.

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june 2011 by Seumas

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Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories
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june 2011 by Seumas

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Amazon Server Said to Be Used in Sony Attack - Bloomberg

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)’s Web Services cloud- computing unit was used by hackers in last month’s attack against Sony Corp. (6758)’s online entertainment systems, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Hackers using an alias signed up to rent a server through Amazon’s EC2 service and launched the attack from there, said the person, who requested anonymity because the information is confidential. The account has been shut down, the person said.

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may 2011 by Seumas

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“Forever Alone” 4chan Prank Brings Out the Best and Worst of the Internet | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.

A 4chan-engendered prank perpetrated at male users of online dating sites such as OKCupid and PlentyOfFish.com brought out the best and the worst of the internet tonight when the e-forces of good and evil clashed by a set of payphones at 46th and Broadway in Times Square. The elaborate gag, planned more than a month ago and circulated on 4chan and other forums, was for mischevious netizens to create fake dating profiles for women and set up dates with single “forever alone” men online. The dates were all supposed to meet on Friday night at the payphones on Broadway, which happen to be under a live streaming webcam, so the OKCupid/PlentyOfFish single guys could then be stood up en masse and snarked at by the much cooler 4chan/Reddit single guys sitting on their computers at home.

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may 2011 by Seumas

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Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges | Threat Level | Wired.com

Dropbox, the wildly popular online storage system, deceived users about the security and encryption of its services, putting it at a competitive advantage, according to an FTC complaint filed Thursday by a prominent security researcher.

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may 2011 by Seumas

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Regulator to join Comcast after OK of NBC deal - The Washington Post

A top telecommunications regulator who voted to approve Comcast’s takeover of NBC Universal in January is leaving to join the company as a lobbyist.

Meredith Attwell Baker, one of two Republicans on the five-member Federal Communications Commission, will become senior vice president of government affairs for NBC Universal.

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may 2011 by Seumas

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Domestic surveillance court approved 100% of 2010 warrant requests

The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected “agents” of a foreign power or terrorists on US soil last year, according to a Justice Department report released via the Freedom of Information Act.

The two-page report, which shows about a 13 percent increase in the number of applications for electronic surveillance between 2009 and 2010, was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists and published Friday.

“The FISC did not deny any applications in whole, or in part,” according to the April 19 report to Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, (D-NV.)

The 11-member court denied two of 1,329 applications for domestic-intelligence surveillance in 2009. The FBI is the primary agency making those requests.

Whether the FISA court, whose business is conducted behind closed doors, is rubber stamping the requests is a matter of debate.

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may 2011 by Seumas

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LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things

LastPass acted exactly like we wish most companies would act: responsibly. And the press’ response? Declaring LastPass “hacked” and “vulnerable”, and placing them in the same category as Sony—who stored passwords and complete credit card information in plain text, and were actually hacked—with sensationalist headlines like:

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may 2011 by Seumas

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Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement | Electronic Frontier Foundation

If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they're getting harder to find.

Stories like the one over the weekend about a bunch of police breaking down an innocent man's door because he happened to leave his network open, as well as general fears about slow networks and online privacy, are convincing many people to password-lock their WiFi routers.

The gradual disappearance of open wireless networks is a tragedy of the commons, with a confusing twist of privacy and security debate. This essay explains why the progressive locking of wireless networks is harmful — for convenience, for privacy and for efficient use of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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may 2011 by Seumas

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After botched child porn raid, judge sees the light on IP addresses

Several recent government raids on computer users suspected of sharing child porn online hit the wrong targets. Instead of getting the perpetrators, some of the raids nabbed a neighbor with an open WiFi network instead. One obvious takeaway: letting total strangers use your Internet connection for any purpose comes with some risk. But there's another lesson: IP addresses simply don't identify the people behind the computers.

One federal judge in Illinois has already taken the lesson to heart and applied it to the P2P file-sharing case before him. John Steele, the main lawyer in Illinois who has brought such cases, recently came up before judge Harold Baker and tried his standard tactic: requesting expedited discovery so that he could turn his list of allegedly infringing IP addresses into names. (Steele has also attempted to lodge the case as a "reverse class action" in which unknown copyright infringers of a pornographic film are named as a "class" to avoid problems of jurisdiction.)

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may 2011 by Seumas

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Sony gives more PSN attack details, details "Welcome Back" packages

Sony's Kaz Hirai spoke at a press conference in Tokyo this morning, offering more details about the PlayStation Network outage, the attacks that caused it, and what the company will do to help keep customers happy. "This criminal act against our network had a significant impact not only on our consumers, but our entire industry," Hirai said in an official statement. "These illegal attacks obviously highlight the widespread problem with cybersecurity. We take the security of our consumers' information very seriously and are committed to helping our consumers protect their personal data."

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may 2011 by Seumas

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Appeals Court: No Hacking Required to Be Prosecuted as a Hacker | Threat Level | Wired.com

Employees may be prosecuted under a federal antihacking statute for taking computer files that they were authorized to access and using them in a manner prohibited by the company, a federal appeals court has ruled.

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april 2011 by Seumas

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DOJ: FBI digital counterintelligence weakened by focus on child porn | ITworld

Despite its growing digital surveillance capabilities and increasing responsibility for investigating and countering cyber attacks on the U.S., the FBI's core cyber security division turns out to be basically incompetent, according to a critical report from the Dept. of Justice. [PDF]

Part of the reason is that the 14 agencies that share some responsibility for online counter-espionage don't share information well. Another contributor is the lack of effective pressure from top managers to get agents trained in national-security intrusion topics and tactics.

Most of the reason is that the FBI spends twice as much effort investigating child porn as it does attempts by foreign governments to attack U.S. facilities or steal information that would damage U.S. national security, the report found.

To put that in perspective, the number of foreign attacks on the U.S. increased 40 percent between 2007 and 2008, according to the report, whose data are pretty old for such a sensitive topic.

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april 2011 by Seumas

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AppleInsider | Epic game developer calls iPad 2 graphics leap "astonishing," doubts Android can compete

The blistering pace of graphics performance improvements on Apple's iPad 2 will enable a new class of handheld gaming titles, but Android devices aren't likely to get the same kind of attention due to platform fragmentation, says Epic Games's Tim Sweeney.

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april 2011 by Seumas

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The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike

Rob Pike explains how Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 in one evening and how they together built the first system-wide implementation in less than a week.

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april 2011 by Seumas

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LXer: A Brief History of Microsoft FUD

This time it's patents that will ensure the downfall of GNU/Linux and with it, the entire world of open source. But before hanging up your certified geek propeller-hat and retraining as a dental hygienist, you might want to consider the following brief history of Microsoft's use of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) as a weapon against GNU/Linux.

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april 2011 by Seumas

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RIAA lobbyist becomes federal judge, rules on file-sharing cases

Last week, Washington, DC federal judge Beryl Howell ruled on three mass file-sharing lawsuits. Judges in Texas, West Virginia, and Illinois had all ruled recently that such lawsuits were defective in various ways, but Howell gave her cases the green light; attorneys could use the federal courts to sue thousands of people at once and then issue mass subpoenas to Internet providers. Yes, issues of "joinder" and "jurisdiction" would no doubt arise later, but the initial mass unmasking of alleged file-swappers was legitimate.

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march 2011 by Seumas

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EVE Online | EVE Insider | Dev Blog

CCP has always chosen the more challenging path in how we design games; one world-wide single shard server proves that. As we've grown and the number of logins has risen we've gone through iteration in fighting lag. The War on Lag is never ending, because EVE Online is always growing. But we have some interesting things to show you this week. This is the second in a series of three blogs that will show you how we fight lag through hardware upgrades, software fixes, and even wrestling the internet itself...

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march 2011 by Seumas

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Hacker News
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march 2011 by Seumas

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David Rumelhart Dies at 68 - Created Computer Simulations of Perception - NYTimes.com

David E. Rumelhart, whose computer simulations of perception gave scientists some of the first testable models of neural processing and proved helpful in the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence, died Sunday in Chelsea, Mich. He was 68.

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march 2011 by Seumas

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David Rumelhart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

David Everett Rumelhart (1942 - 2011) has made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artificial intelligence, and parallel distributed processing. He also admired formal linguistic approaches to cognition and explored the possibility of formulating a formal grammar to capture the structure of stories.

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march 2011 by Seumas

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SeaCableHi.jpg (JPEG Image, 1703x1037 pixels) - Scaled (75%)
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march 2011 by Seumas

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Kevin Rose - blogg - Apple's Role in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake

Wow, this email is from a friend of mine that works for Apple in Japan... makes me happy Apple went the extra mile here, check out his story below:

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march 2011 by Seumas

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Carmack: Direct3D is now better than OpenGL | bit-gamer.net

First person shooter godfather John Carmack has revealed that he now prefers DirectX to OpenGL, saying that 'inertia' is the main reason why id Software has stuck by the cross-platform 3D graphics API for years.

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march 2011 by Seumas

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Jobs @ Google
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march 2011 by Seumas

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Slashdot Developers Story | Oracle Shells Out $1B To Buy ATG
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november 2010 by Seumas

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Slashdot Developers Story | Oracle Claims Google 'Directly Copied' Our Java Code
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october 2010 by Seumas

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Slashdot Developers Story | Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave

"In an unprecedented move with respect to other forks, Oracle asked the founders of the Document Foundation and LibreOffice to leave the OpenOffice.org Community Council. Apparently there is a conflict of interest, which concerns the Oracle employees."