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Crimes and Misdemeanors - By Emily Bazelon, Kara Hadge, Dahlia Lithwick, and Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:14:04 -0700

Go Alberto Gonzales, go!

[from amaah] Money Laundering And Foreign Corruption: Case Study Involving Riggs Bank (pdf)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:51:10 -0700

The Senate report on Riggs bank and its dealings with Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea's strongman, and Pinochet, Chile's erstwhile dictator. It takes two to do the corruption tango.

Where Credit Is Due: A Timeline of the Mortgage Crisis

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:47:48 -0700

Linux :: MythTV Forum :: FIXED: Please Help, been trying for 2 weeks to fix MythTV

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:56:21 -0700

PC World - Business Center: Microsoft to Limit Capabilities of Cheap Laptops

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:14:52 -0700

*sigh* I just can't see the logic Microsoft has in limiting users to allow use of an operating system far inferior than a free one just floating around on the internet. Guess this is a sign to give up, especially after Vista. Ugh.

Mr. Lessig Goes to Washington

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:04:29 -0700

Mr. Lessig Goes to Washington

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:44:07 -0700

[from amaah] Siemens boss admits setting up slush funds

Wed, 28 May 2008 07:22:05 -0700

A former senior manager at Siemens yesterday admitted building up an elaborate system of slush funds and shell firms at the request of his superiors to help Europe's biggest technology group win overseas contracts through bribes.

[from amaah] Route of Evil

Sun, 25 May 2008 13:19:03 -0700

Hyperbole for sure but founded on the rise of Guinea-Bissau as a major staging point for the drug trade from Columbia and Venezuela to Europe. The effects are what one can expect: a hollowed state, narco-corruption, addicts

PC World - Business Center: Microsoft to Limit Capabilities of Cheap Laptops

Sun, 11 May 2008 02:12:45 -0700

RE: bdb corruption

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:39:17 -0800

Joe Peterson: Linux needs ZFS - and badly!

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:45:35 -0800

" How To Quickly Fix Common JRun / ColdFusion Startup Problems : devnulled: A stream for software developers and engineers

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:40:58 -0800

Repair Logger Data Corruption - Zimbra :: Wiki

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:40:44 -0800

[from amaah] Timepieces

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:21:03 -0800

The dictator and the watch; remembrance of rogues past

Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation Network

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:31:58 -0800

MPAA University 'Toolkit' Raises Privacy Concerns - Security Fix

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:29:44 -0800

inuseprograms is marked as crashed | G-Ding.TV

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:06:51 -0800

How MySQL replication got out of sync

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:12:46 -0800

I created MySQL Table Checksum because I was certain replication slaves were slowly drifting out of sync with their masters, and there was no way to prove it. Once I could prove it, I was able to show that replication gets out of sync for lots of people, lots of times. (If you really want to hear war stories, you should probably talk to one of the MySQL support staff or consulting team members; I'm sure they see this a lot more than I do).

I finally figured out what was causing one of my most persistent and annoying out-of-sync scenarios. It turns out to be nothing earth-shaking; it's just an easy-to-overlook limitation of statement-based replication. You could call it a bug, but as far as I can see, there's no way to fix it with statement-based replication. (I'd love to be proven wrong). Read on for the details.

SSRN-Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency by Jerry Brito

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:00:33 -0700

interesting new paper on making government data more transparent with the help of crowdsourcing and mash-ups

access (application/pdf Object)

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:10:28 -0700

Corruption Lecture - alpha version (Lessig Blog)

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:04:31 -0700

Lessig moves from networks to politics. Gee.

[from amaah] Criminal Politics: Violence, "Godfathers" and Corruption in Nigeria

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:16:55 -0700

hardball is almost inevitable in a land that values Big Men... The stakes being so much higher also raise the ruthlessness of the methods employed. Still Nigeria is now undoubtedly a democracy- a few more years of institutionalizing it are needed that's a

" How Microsoft puts your data at risk | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:57:14 -0700

Data Corruption at CERN

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:05:58 -0700

Interesting research paper on data corruption seen at CERN. I'd love to have seen the results if they whipped out all the H/W controllers and implemented ZFS and let it do all the work.

Microsoft one vote short of fast-track OOXML ISO standardization

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:59:52 -0700

" Why Microsoft deserved to lose the OOXML standards vote | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:59:50 -0700

NoOOXML: Results of the OOXML Ballot of 2nd September

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:36:58 -0700

Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format | EFFI.org

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:36:44 -0700

NoOOXML: OOXML scrapes through, final vote Feb 08

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:33:22 -0700