See GoDaddy Silences Police Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com . As of 3/12/08, GoDaddy won't comment.

So far, they didn't produce a takedown notice, or even notify the owner. So I guess this means GoDaddy is not a good choice for hosting or Domain Name registration. The good news is …

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Sigh. The Pakistan story is only “insecurity” in the broadest, vaguest sense of “secure”. It …

The Alex Handy story Study Predicts Upswing in Dynamic Language Use is old news, but when it's in a print publication like SD Times, then it starts to gain some traction. And it's one of those journalistic things: you can't repeat the obvious without some kind of "angle". And the …

In PC World, May 1st, there's one article, "Shrink-Wrapped Software's Days Numbered " by Robert Mullins. This has quotes and numbers. Very nice, and it specifically identifies open source and SaaS as beating out shrink-wrap.

In MSDN, however, see "Building Distributed Applications: Architecture Strategies for Catching the Long Tail ". This makes …

The Web Mart design pattern identifies three aspects to a piece of web content:

• The Core Concept - the "fact" that we will present.
• The Access Dimensions - objects that identify a concept or support navigation to the concept.
• The Details - objects that provide details in support of a concept.

There are …

Since most of these new-fangled dynamic languages are open-source, we have a a strange artificial barrier to considering the right solution for our problems. This barrier is "No Open Source" policy, usually framed as We'll Use Open Source Over My Dead Body™. It has to be examined carefully from several …

Holub discards the currently popular dynamic languages with a scathing comment:

"And not scripting systems (I’m reluctant to call them languages) like PHP and Ruby, which are too Wild West to be trustworthy. No language that moves compile-time bugs into runtime is worth your time if you consider reliability …

"But Apple, stubbornly hanging on to its need to control the user experience, creates meshed hardware and software systems that deprive businesses of the flexibility to find the best balance of hardware, operating system and applications for the job at hand."

Good point, but only half the story.

Apple needs …

This year's Turing award for human-like Chat Bot announced on the BBC. [article ]

Boing Boing has already noted the Wired article pokerbots on bot's in on-line poker rooms.

I tried posing as a bot in an experiment and failed miserably. I hesitated too long on dumb postings and responded right …