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The internet may well be the root cause of today's problems… but not in the way you think

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Internet to blame in 1970s and 1980s bombing campaigns?

Interesting article, thanks. I just keep wondering why nobody blamed the Internet for the Provisional Irish Republican Army bombings in the 70's, 80's and 90's. After all in those days we started to see things like token ring, X.25, HDLC, uucp, Ethernet, bulletin boards, analogue mobile phones and even TCP/IP. I'll get my coat .... feeling old now ;-).

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Will Microsoft's nerd goggles soar like an Eagle, or flop like a turkey?

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Not sure what to think, Behringer's Deepmind12 has a nice go at it

To me as an amateur musician this looks very promising:

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2016/10/05/behringer-deepmind-12-brings-augmented-reality-to-synthesizers/

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Voyager 2's closest Saturn swoop was 35 years ago today

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Nice reference ;-)

What an achievement and thanks for providing the reference to the very original Star Trek film. That made me chuckle.

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Reskilling to become a devops dude could net you $105k+

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Not like that in the Netherlands

Interesting article but sounds out of touch with reality ..... Here in the Netherlands you are lucky to get a job of 45K Euros as developer/devops/etc. Unless you're 175 yours old with 300 years of Cobol and Perl experience. But then you're probably claiming benefits as there are more than 7000 IT professionals unemployed here with half of them older than 50....

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SwiftStack CPO: 'If you take a filesystem and bolt on an object API'... it's upside down

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Re: Snake oil

Swift doesn't care much about reliability of the underlying hardware / filesystems. One of the design criteria is that Swift "spreads" out the underlying files representing the objects and metadata over multiple drives / clusters by keeping multiple copies. Drive failure / file system failure / node failure is not relevant anymore, except of course for the poor operators managing the cluster ;-).

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Need to build apps for the cloud?

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IBM is rather pushing for developers to get into Bluemix. I am not sure if they will be successful. Large corporations might be interested but Indie developers..... I am not sure. Bluemix it is not cheap: to run two 128MByte NodeJS instances 24/7 costs me about 70 Euro's per month. Just to show the stats generated by our (Dutch) smart electricity meter using a RaspberryPi, IoT Bluemix app and two NodeJS instances.

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Spaniard sues eBay over right to sell the Sun

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Re: Oh god

Actually it is more than 100,000 years, according to the 'drunkards walk' theory ;-), see also: http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/venus/a11354.html

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Recommendations for private cloud software...

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Swift/Swiftstack perhaps

You could setup your own object store based on OpenStack Swift. Scalable, can use your own hardware and if you use SwiftStack they assist with management. Possibly bit over the top, but great fun ;-)

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