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Linux Developers and Linus Torvalds Find Themselves Called Out for Abusive Language
On what seems the heels of talking about how developers “speak” in comments attached to repository submissions (taken from a sampling of GitHub commits that contain taboo language) comes another controversy from a different open source cultural facet: the Linux Kernel Mailing List. A post written by kernel developer Sarah Sharp, an Intel Linux developer, ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 17: Kipochi–Bitcoin and Africa
This week, the Africa has been bright in the news about Bitcoin and how a decentralized cryptocurrency could go a long way to hooking into the cashless society burgeoning there. As mobile technology takes hold and mobile payments become more prevalent–where a large portion of the population don’t have bank accounts, but an equally large ...
Developers Swearing Over at GitHub
Sometimes even developers get frustrated. To understand the depth of that frustration, I give you @GItLost–a Twitter feed of developers swearing in their GitHub repository commit comments. The tweets displayed on this stream rush from the casually profane to the hilariously vulgar. but in the end it’s a sea awash with the unfiltered thoughts of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 10: Flattr Adds Bitcoin Donations, First DEA Seizure of BTC, Bitcoin Machine ATMs Coming this Summer
It’s been a weird week for Bitcoin value, while it seemed to be holding fairly level at $90 last Bitcoin Weekly, the value fell to near $65 but is now hovering around $77. It’s not uncommon for the price of bitcoins to show volatility and this is a common complaint about its adoption by the ...
Club Nintendo Suffers Hacking Attempt that Compromises 24,000 Accounts
Last week 24,000 user accounts associated with the Japanese Club Nintendo website have been compromised after a month-long campaign by hackers to break in. According to the Japan Times, Nintendo gave warning via a press release last Friday that the accessed data included names, home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of Club Nintendo members. ...
Windows that Talk to Sleepy Passengers Coming to Sky-Deutschland Trains
Here’s a direction I didn’t quite expect bone-conduction audio to go—that is, a technology that enables audio devices to use human bones as resonators to play sounds (this technology would be good for hearing aids, and low-noise audio devices that are not “in ear.”) But, being able to put your head to a glass pane ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 3: Winklevoss Twins Plan Bitcoin Trust, Bitcoin Foundation Tells California to Talk to the Hand, China Gets into the Bitcoin Game
Instead of a lot of financial drama or even regulation, this week Bitcoin has seen its share of good news. A Bitcoin Trust being planned by none other than the Winklevoss twins might inject some new value into the market—or cause turmoil, it’s hard to say. The Bitcoin Foundation has responded to California about the ...
Winklevoss Twins File Plans for $20m Bitcoin Trust IPO with the SEC
The Winklevoss twins—famous for suing Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook—have unveiled plans to fund a Bitcoin-related trust. The application, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1st, 2013 outlines a trust that will initially sell approximately $20m worth of shares to investors. The trust is sponsored by one Math-Based Asset Services, a Delaware-based ...
Minecraft 1.6: Horses—Need I Say More?
The much-anticipated latest-and-greater version of Minecraft developed by Marcus “Notch” Persson and published by Mojang hit the Internet today with v1.6 and it adds horses. It adds a lot of other things, like bug fixes, better performance, a new launcher, and a lot of other stuff—but for many players, this update is all about the horses. ...
When Culture Shock Meets Social Media: League of Legends Player in Jail Over Facebook Comments
A Texas teen could face up to eight years in prison over a comment left on Facebook that took place as part of an exchange about the online game League of Legends. Justin Carter was 18 years old back in Feburary of this year when a series of comments between him and a friend about ...