Dwayne Phillips ' Day Book

Items I happen to view each day. Science, Techonology, Management, Culture, and of course Writing

This is my day book for this week. I have modeled this after science fiction and computer writer Jerry Pournelle's view, or as he calls it, his Day Book. I encourage you to see Jerry Pournelle's site and subscribe to his services.

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This week: June 13-19, 2016

Summary of this week:

Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

Monday June 13, 2016

The government of China has about 500million social media posts a year to create public opinion. Nice government job if you can get it.

Is Google's auto-complete algorithm biased politically?

Odd one from Facebook: download Moments app or else lose all your photos.

Some companies offer great benefits. Good job if you can get it.

North Korea hacks into South Korea.

Apple's WWDC begins today.

Uber is banned in France and Germany.

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Tuesday June 14, 2016

Apple had a big event yesterday at WWDC. Here is one summary of all the announcements.

Apple releases watchOS 3. Faster everything.

Not so publicized, but significant: coming next year a new Apple File System APFS.

Parallels celebreates ten years of running Windows inside a Mac.

Samsung may drop Android and run its own Tizen.

What's in a name? Out with OS X, in with macOS.

Donald Trump revokes the press credentials of the Washington Post.

I guess I am one of the generations of Americans who has never seen the Milky Way.

Swift Playground for the iPad—teach kids to code in Swift and give their parents a reason to keep an iPad.

Someone has a good payday as Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $25billion (with a B). "Microsoft is basically buying the company org chart for the whole world..."

Call the anti-trust lawyers as DraftKings and FanDuel may merge into a too-big-to-fail whatever.

A software tester automated all the tests and then did nothing for 5 years. Management? His supervisor should have been fired.

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Wednesday June 15, 2016

The Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee, stay a year, and copy everything.

"The database crashed and there is no data" Can't make it up as it is government and ten years' of data is gone.

Microsoft, Apple, and Google are all in the marketplace to teach kids to sort-of write computer programs.

Intel says it isn't that worried about the declining PC market.

"Earth just experienced its hottest May ever recorded" At this rate, earth will melt before Christmas.

Our progressive President finally stops using a Blackberry. Regardless of all the big talk, Mr. Obama cannot and did not move the Federal bureaucracy.

A Federal judge rules in favor of the Federal government (regulators) on "net neutrality."

Do we really need an electric toothbrush with a 10MegaPixel camera?

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Thursday June 16, 2016

Bricklaying robots. Jobs?

The teleoperated, unmanned ground vehicle is here for offensive warfare. These have been used for bomb disposal and such, but are now ready to attack people remotely.

Here is a complete course in GPU programming from CalTech. Read, practice, learn.

It seems that the Irish governments aren't sure about letting Apple build a datacenter there. They let Amazon do it.

Samsung buys Joyent and moves into competition with Amazon Web Services.

On Facebook, text is declining while video is rising—rapidly.

WalMart experiments with a robotic shopping cart. Store convenience, but the real application is helping the disabled.

SpaceX launches two satellites, but the booster failed to land on a barge intact.

Our FBI has collected 400million facial images of innocent persons without legal oversight. Why do some US citizens feel they have the authority to abuse other US citizens?

YouTube Director: more free video editing tools.

IBM+TheWeatherChannel+DeepLearning = maybe pretty good weather forecasts. At least they are trying the obvious.

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Friday June 17, 2016

Four dozen of our State Department officials strongly disagree with our President about Syria.

VerticalScope is hacked. So? 45million user accounts have been stolen.

Microsoft and other big tech companies are quickly offering services to those in the legal marijuana business.

Olli: a self-driving, short-route, shuttle car on the street now. Limited applications are the near-term future.

Facebook location services: our location data will be sold to brick-and-mortar stores.

Interesting concept of drug testing those who claim $150K in tax deductions, test-the-rich.

Space Data Corporation claims that Google stole its technology for the balloon Project Loon.

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Saturday June 18, 2016

Google opens a Machine Learning research group in Zurich.

The powerful desktop computer is not dead yet as Lenovo updates their line with mult-core processors.

Dell updates its XPS 13 Developer Edition Linux already installed laptop.

New York legislature moves to outlaw Airbnb; government strikes back against the new economy.

Tips on how to eat on $2 a day. It can be done.

White Hat hacekers find over 100 security holes in our DoD's web sites. That is just the web sites, not all the systems.

A look at Snapchat's "secret" camera-in-sunglasses product.

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Sunday June 19, 2016

The use of telepresence to allow separated students to be together for education. A big benefit to the disabled.

The continuing woes, none any longer necessary, of publishing results of scientific research.

A review of Apple's WWDC from a high level.

Fundamentals of supervising people. It isn't that complicated.

The corporation as nation and political party: Apple walks away from the Republican convention. Individual persons voted for Donald Trump. The Apple Board of Directors seems to disapprove of that concept.

The concept of the one-sentence premise and how to create and use it.

An explanation of style guides. Get one. I recommend the online Chicago Manual of Style. I didn't know that I knew so little.

Sometimes writers just want to quit. How about stop for now or pause?

A good infographic here summarizes writing and such.

With brick and mortar bookstores gone, go to the library.

Tips on reading in a way that will help us write.

The method of writing a book in three drafts.

Thoughts on preparing to write, planning, and using a pencil and a big yellow legal pad.

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