The Bangus Ultimatum

These are my links for June 3rd from 10:44 to 15:41:

• Lifehacker – Prey Phones Home to Help You Recover Your Stolen Laptop – Security – "Your laptop is missing. You're completely out of luck, right? Not if your laptop can phone home. Prey is a cross-platform security application that sends home pictures and location data when your laptop goes missing."
• Lifehacker – Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads – Lifehacker Pack 2009 – "Today, however, we're bundling all the best free downloads for new computer owners, re-installers, would-be geeks, or anyone who wants to save time installing the best stuff out there."
• Slashdot Ask Slashdot Story | What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use? – I've been working with computers for a long time, and every once and a while someone close to me has a drive go belly up on them.
• Goodbye, GM – Page 1 – The Daily Beast – At the deathbed of General Motors, I find myself filled with—dare I say it—joy. Here are my nine suggestions for transforming the company
• Cory Doctorow: Search is too important to leave to one company – even Google | Technology | guardian.co.uk – Search is the beginning and the end of the internet. Before search, there was the idea of an organised, hierarchical internet, set up along the lines of the Dewey Decimal system.

These are my links for June 2nd through June 3rd:

• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Space rock ‘on collision course’ – A preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth and could strike the planet on 1 February, 2019 – although the uncertainties are large.
• Agile Scrum – Reporting and Metrics – While Agile has different "flavors", Scrum is one process for implementing Agile.
• Software design: a parable – written decades ago, but still rings true for programming professionals. hauntingly applicable to practice of law in the Philippines
• Guest View: Reality check on cloud portability – SD Times On The Web – Simply put, cloud portability (especially through open standards, which is the preferred kind) is a huge endeavor, one that dwarfs any previous portability achievement.
• Derren Brown Blog » Blog Archive » Homeopathy urgently condemned for serious diseases – In a letter to the World Health Organisation today, early career medics and researchers are calling for the body to issue a clear international communication about the inappropriate use of homeopathy for five serious diseases.

• @MarkGatela it’s 3 a.m. do you know where your congressman is? in reply to MarkGatela #
• from @mlq – House of Representatives set to do an all-nighter to go ahead with Cha Cha. It’s 3 A.M. Do you know where your congressman is? #

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