Two articles from Slashdot on patent reform. Microsoft seems to be one of the guud guys here, ironically enough. First, there's an article about their
general counsel lecturing about patent reform, suggesting steps to make it easier to comment on patent submissions and more difficult to obtain win about a patent infringement in court. An
InfoWorld story goes on about similar things.
Next, a story about
women leaving IT. Apparently, women have been leaving the sector quite rapidly. The story points to quite a few potential reasons. Though they all would have seemed to be equally valid 5 years ago, and don't really explain why things are worse now.
Here's a
Guardian article looking back on the tech bubble burst. 5 years ago today marked the highpoint on the Nasdaq.
GHC 6.4 (Haskell compiler) was released yesterday. WOOHOO! More details in
my post on The Haskell Sequence.
Finally, two Asterisk-related articles from O'Reilly:
part 1 and
part 2.
The headline of this BBC story is:
Experts to repair 'faeces fossil' and it just gets better from there.
Apparently it is a 1000-year-old bit of fossilized Viking excrement. And a University of Bradford student gets to restore it "to its former glory". She says that she has "never done anything quite like this before", but added that "it doesn't smell and it' certainly not squishy."
Apparently it's somewhat of a highlight for schoolchildren. "We've even had thank you letters saying 'thank you for showing us the poo'."
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