Archive: October 21, 2004
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The Command Post - Full Text Of My Speech To AP Managing Editors. I finally got around to reading this. It's a good look at what makes the new media so powerful.
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What the hell... I was exhausted and falling asleep all day, and now it's 7 in the morning and I still haven't been able to get to sleep... and I'm pretty well awake too.
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The Gweilo Diaries: It's a Family Affair. Just read it.
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Plain Text Vulnerability Found In Linux; Microsoft Celebrates, via RootPrompt. You may need a hex tool to help figure out what the article's talking about.
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Matt Wretchard has a fantastic short post up: We Are the World:
[Kerry's statement] will be cause for joy among those who feel that on principle, America should subsume its national interest to a wider set of imperatives. 'America joins the world', 'No longer alone' is the ticket. The argument is based on a rejection of American "exceptionalism", and indeed the exceptionalism of any individual country or culture. If all cultures are equally valid then the US Constitution is nothing special; simply one arrangement among many and in fact perforce subordinate to a Universal Charter, in the way that a subset is necessarily contained in the superset. Any distaste is written off as sentimental attachment; a false ethnocentrism that will eventually join anthrocentrism and geocentrism in the wastebasket of old ideas. To necessity is added the force of inevitability. Iraq becomes a modern day Scopes Trial, the last hurrah of an insupportable conceit.
In fact, that point was pretty much exactly the one Rush made today, that Kerry's statement entails a full denial of American exceptionalism. Kudos to Matt, who gets it exactly right. Read his whole post.
Incidentally... what makes me most incredulous is that people put so much faith in an organization so impotent, incompetent, corrupt, and almost completely unaccountable. The fact that people know all of this but don't care shows how blinded they are by Lennon's vision. The U.N. is the only thing that comes close to being their post-national messiah, so the U.N. it is, while they shut their eyes and admit that it's merely "flawed", not rotten to its core.
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Power Line: Jimmy Carter, Unleashed. Power Line responds to Jimmy Carter's recent idiocy.
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Cox & Forkum: The Kerry Draft. "John Kerry's use of a trumped-up draft scare is sleazy enough as it is. Turns out it's hypocritical, too."
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Google Labs Publications: MapReduce:
MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets... Programs written in this functional style are automatically parallelized and executed on a large cluster of commodity machines. The run-time system takes care of the details of partitioning the input data, scheduling the program's execution across a set of machines, handling machine failures, and managing the required inter-machine communication. This allows programmers without any experience with parallel and distributed systems to easily utilize the resources of a large distributed system.
Via Adam and Ned.
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The Infinity Machine (to read) "is an extended speculation. Based on an idea I got from a book I read once, and refined over many years of idle moments, it tries to imagine what the field of computing would be like if computers were able to run infinitely fast." Via Adam.
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Nobelist Prescott lauds Bush policies. More from Prescott. Some choice quotes:
"When you cut tax rates, employment always goes up," he said in a phone interview Monday with The Arizona Republic.
Prescott, speaking from Minnesota, where he advises the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, described Kerry's plan to roll back tax cuts for top wage-earners as counterproductive.
"The idea that you can increase taxes and stimulate the economy is pretty damn stupid," he said.
Bush's campaign on Monday released a letter signed by Prescott and five other Nobel laureates critical of Kerry's proposal to roll back tax reductions for families earning $200,000 or more.
Prescott also gave Bush the nod on another controversial campaign issue, dismissing Kerry's claims that outsourcing of jobs is damaging the economy.
"All the rich countries are economically integrated," he said, citing a jump in productivity and wealth in Western Europe after Germany, France and neighboring nations formed the Common Market after World War II.
By contrast, Prescott cited high tariffs imposed by the United States as a "disaster" that exacerbated the Great Depression.
"All economists are for free trade," he said.
Prescott also backed the idea, espoused by Bush, to reform Social Security by allowing some workers to place a portion of their payroll taxes into private savings accounts.
Such an arrangement would give people greater incentive to work, thus leading eventually to higher tax revenue, Prescott said.
(emphasis mine)
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