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Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:48 PM<br>Subject: Code Today: Are You Neutral on the Net?, Dremel Drill Data, Eyes on Leuser, and Other Stories<br>To: <a href="mailto:ben.hengst@gmail.com">ben.hengst@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
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Greetings Developers,</h2>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0"><img width="151" align="right" alt="Mr. Monopoly" style="float:right;border-right-width:0;border-top-width:0;border-bottom-width:0;border-left-width:0;padding:0 0 5px 5px" height="112">Net Neutrality remains a hot issue. In the U.S., the two presidential candidates have very different opinions on the matter, with presumptive nominee Mitt Romney a <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1ztqbitnp1496td27nr07u15c9b2iubtbrbsljfng" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;color:#00e" target="_blank">firm opponent</a> of government regulation, and President Obama a <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z29aunh4ke041n13rftc2sdeoh53krrisnf1p508" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;color:#00e" target="_blank">strong supporter</a>.</p>
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Open Dialog</h2>
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<img width="150" align="right" alt="A Very Large Drill Indeed" style="float:right;border-right-width:0;border-top-width:0;border-bottom-width:0;border-left-width:0;padding:0 0 5px 5px" height="112">You won't need to be a dentist to appreciate the <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zfg3aurctd4mr76cfah7edf831hlvjfhm8ros3fo" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;color:#00e" target="_blank">Drill</a> that the folks over at <strong>MapR</strong> are proposing. They are starting up a massive project to duplicate Google's über-efficient Dremel data analysis tool.</p>
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The NSA has spun off some of their database technologies into a new startup called <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zdv5hlqoqo48tq97es6480dp420jlnp0l6uj9p6g" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;color:#00e" target="_blank">Sqrrl</a>. The vowel-deficient company will offer a commercial version of the secure, massively capable database known as <span><strong>Accumulo</strong> (Note: not a Marvel or DC universe villain), which is itself</span> based on some familiar tech, Google's BigTable.</p>
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A recent episode of the Disney kid's show <em>Shake It Up</em> helped the audience learn the important lesson of where viruses come from. From <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1ze0gbjk6j23ui1kk66i4hg0evlrrkjhk1k7ki8gg" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;color:#00e" target="_blank">downloading open source software</a>, of course! Stay tuned, kids, for the exciting next episode, when failure to pay full price for MP3 files causes house fires!</p>
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It's evidently old news, just now reported, but worth a read. Apparently, when it came time for Iceland to revamp their constitution, <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zcf5e10q0uue327vn5ruqr9vm858s7j76kmhmg7o" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;color:#00e" target="_blank">they simply crowdsourced it</a>. Could the U.S. have avoided the whole Civil War by just branching the constitution?</p>
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<img width="148" align="right" alt="DIY Airplane" style="float:right;border-right-width:0;border-top-width:0;border-bottom-width:0;border-left-width:0;padding:0 0 5px 5px" height="81">Sure, it's a bummer when an open source software crashes, but imagine the damage that an open source plane might cause. Heck, don't imagine it. Do it. You can now download plans to <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zto7kqueqo2kcicm26l1t9216b3n3bueq9er1sq8" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;color:#00e" target="_blank">3D print your own aircraft</a>. Might want to print a parachute or two while you're at it.</p>
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But welcome: The <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z1tk89mc63bkba6cg8aedjrpo4e6i78vcls6pns8" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;color:#00e" target="_blank">announcement</a> by Microsoft that upcoming versions of Office will support all the common open documents has been oft-promised, and this time it seems it's for real.</p>
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Pop! The Weekly Quiz</h2>
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<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0"><strong><img width="150" align="right" alt="Cartoon" style="float:right;border-right-width:0;border-top-width:0;border-bottom-width:0;border-left-width:0;padding:0 0 5px 5px" height="106">LAST WEEK</strong>, the question concerned why some astrobiologists were less than pleased with an aspect of Curiosity's trip to Mars.</p>
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<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0">Simon's "worthless knowledge" this time is that because the wheels of Curiosity touched down onto the surface directly, scientists worry that they may not have had time to be properly sterilized by the harsh Martian sun.</p>
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<img width="150" align="right" alt="Cliff-Hanging Computing" style="float:right;border-right-width:0;border-top-width:0;border-bottom-width:0;border-left-width:0;padding:0 0 5px 5px" height="98">Last week, we confessed to experiencing a bit of trepidation when forced to unplug long enough to vacation, a phenomenon known as Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO). We wondered: Are we alone?</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0">Emphatically not, as legions of you wrote in to confirm or deny the experience. </p>
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<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0">New Mexico programmer <strong>Bar Shirtcliff</strong> admits she doesn't spend much time anywhere that's not "short of breathtakingly beautiful," so no—she's never bored.</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0">Neither, she suggests, are her fellow hikers. "Certainly nobody on that narrow ridge between Wheeler Peak and the next peak over, buffeted by 70+ mph winds, has time to reflect on their Twitter stream," Bar says.</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0"><strong>Hobson Lane</strong> once sailed around the world in a boat. He's had enough alone time, thank you. "Loneliness is in our DNA," he writes. "And it's not just about missing out on the news. It's about life passing us by—missing out on the chance to contribute to the collective consciousness."</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0">"Yes, I do suffer from FOMO," confesses <strong>Herb Lainchbury</strong>. "I first noticed it and its cousin Fear Of Picking Irrelevant Technology (FOPIT) early on in my career."</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0"><strong>Jeff Ireland</strong> thinks we all look like someting out of <em>The Matrix</em>. "Everyone I see out and about has a slightly tilted head, looking at a text, an app, an e-mail, Angry Birds, twitter, GPS," he writes. "Everyone's <em>connected,</em> but it's connection via pixels and 140 characters, not solid interaction. So, I definitely don't have FOMO." </p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0">Recently while on vacation, <strong>Sumana Harihareswara</strong> merely concentrated on "questions like 'how do I<br>
cross this stream via these slippery rocks?' Recommended." </p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0">Waxing far less rhapsodically, <strong>John</strong> cuts to a point we all know: "I don't have a fear of missing out so much as I have anxiety about having to wade through what piled up," he says. We hear that!</p>
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The O'Reilly Animals</h2>
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</span><img width="150" align="right" alt="Elephant!" style="float:right;border-right-width:0;border-top-width:0;border-bottom-width:0;border-left-width:0;padding:0 0 5px 5px" height="198">We have to admit to taking a certain delight in watching elephants batter a camera placed in the lush Sumatran rain forest. "Go, elephants," we might even be heard to mutter. </p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0">But that camera is important.</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0">As shown in the <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zumlt28i2einr6poa3skk1htad8cvbdoq8poa20g" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;color:#00e" target="_blank">Eyes on Leuser</a> video project, placing a camera out in the wilds to catch the habits of the forest denizens is important. It's also awful tough on a camera. </p>
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tail -f /dev/newsletter</h2>
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