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Re:NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @10:13PM (#6644825)
> Hold them responsible. Responsibility is why the job even exists

Just so we're clear - how exactly does the average citizen "hold them responsible", other than our legal right to simply not vote for them next time?

It's so easy to say we should "hold them responsible" - but so incredibly vague to do.

Re:How I'm Predicting Baseball Outcomes on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @10:17PM (#5709783)
See also: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Lahman/index.html

Baseball stats pre-molded into a nicely workable form, available from your handy R interpreter.

Re:Sorry state of dynamic libraries on Linux on Monday September 17, 2012 @10:57AM (#4532836)
> No, I don’t have any measurements

Measure or GTFO.

Re:Google's "Bacon number" search on Thursday September 13, 2012 @12:36PM (#4517097)
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/mathematician/-/people/profe...

http://www.freebase.com/view/en/computer_scientist/-/people/...

The more important piece thats missing is the one that Journals need to contribute - papers and author lists. ;)

Re:Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @05:21PM (#4419652)
"His server sends a notification to every server following him or mentioned in the post with permission to see the post."

The protocol seems to have some fundamental limitations.

For my money I'd rather go with FETHR (see http://dsandler.org/brdfdr/ and this paper: http://dsandler.org/brdfdr/doc/iptps-fethr/) and its implementation - which has code available right now (https://bitbucket.org/dsandler/brdfdr/).