{"id":186016,"date":"2014-06-13T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/13\/linkage-308\/"},"modified":"2014-06-13T04:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T09:53:00","slug":"linkage-308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/13\/linkage-308\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2014\/06\/the-scottish-political-singula.html\">Schroedinger&#8217;s Kingdom: the Scottish Political Singularity Explained<\/a> (<i>Charlie&#8217;s Diary<\/i>) A summary of Scottish grievances, which, rather unsurprisingly, have a lot to do with the Tory&#8217;s, &#8220;F%$# them, they don&#8217;t vote for us anyway,&#8221; attitude.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.berkeley.edu\/2014\/06\/10\/fair-use-victory-in-hathitrust-litigation\/\">Fair Use Victory in HathiTrust Litigation<\/a>(<i>The Berkeley Blog<\/i>) Libraries win a court judgement against publishers who wanted to keep them from helping the blind.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/24232-why-do-coal-mining-jobs-matter-so-much-more-than-jobs-lost-to-trade\">Why Do Coal Mining Jobs Matter So Much More Than Jobs Lost to Trade?<\/a> (<i>Truthout<\/i>) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/06\/09\/torvalds_no_mandatory_coding_education\/\">Linus Torvalds says that the suggestion that everyone should know how to code is bullsh%$<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>)  I agree.  I program (mostly shell script and MS Office macros these days), but when non-coders are forced to take programming courses, they are more likely to become computer phobic, and less likely to use them as tools.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/bethany-mclean\/2014\/05\/28\/how-corporate-jets-fly-under-shareholder-radar\/\">How corporate jets fly under shareholder radar<\/a> (<i>Reuters<\/i>) Once more, our larcenous managerial class.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/jun\/06\/vapourware-software-54-years-xanadu-ted-nelson-chapman\">World&#8217;s most delayed software released after 54 years of development<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) 54 Years, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2014\/06\/65-65-things-we-know-about-nsa-surveillance-we-didnt-know-year-ago\">On 6\/5, 65 Things We Know About NSA Surveillance That We Didn\u2019t Know a Year Ago<\/a> (<i>EFF<\/i>) Read this.  It&#8217;s short.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2014\/jun\/06\/us-stock-exchanges-face-lawsuit-over-high-frequency-trading\">US stock exchanges face lawsuit over high-frequency trading<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Short version is that exchanges have an obligation to provide accurate data, and HFT is a violation of that obligation.  I hope that the plaintiffs prevail, but I don&#8217;t expect them to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Time to stare into the face of God.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a nova, it&#8217;s the light from some sort of stellar upheaval reflected off of interstellar gas.<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U1fvMSs9cps\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><br \/>H\/t DC at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schroedinger&#8217;s Kingdom: the Scottish Political Singularity Explained (Charlie&#8217;s Diary) A summary of Scottish grievances, which, rather unsurprisingly, have a lot to do with the Tory&#8217;s, &#8220;F%$# them, they don&#8217;t vote for us anyway,&#8221; attitude. Fair Use Victory in HathiTrust Litigation(The Berkeley Blog) Libraries win a court judgement against publishers who wanted to keep them from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}