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Tony Perkins from AlwaysOn Network reveals the ways to influence world’s top technology executives.

Michael Dell showed up and marveled at all the lighted Google pens that had been distributed around the party by our new co-hosts. Google executive communications director Raymond Nasr had come early and borrowed a clear plastic case that normally protects valuable sculptures. He architected a Google pen display so masterful that many of our guests thought it was part of the museum’s exhibit. While obviously flattered, Mr. Nasr assured everyone that it was fine to take a pen home, which in particular relieved the admiring Mr. Dell who asked if he could have one for each of his four children. So Mr. Nasr helped Mr. Dell fill his pockets with multi-colored flashing Google pens.

Pentagon is making steps towards becoming a more open and transparent government agency by publishing its budget online. Ooops. Make it “by accidentally exposing confidential budget documents on the World Wide Web”. To quote Miami Herald:

Among the proposals it revealed - and quickly removed from its site - was data on weapons procurement, research and development, military construction, and operations and maintenance.

Fine folks at NetCraft, whose surveys are always quoted at Slashdot as a base statistical resource on whether technology X is dying or kicking alive, contemplate what SCO can do with its newly acquired weapon of mass destruction - the huge amount of traffic that MyDoom generates for www.sco.com.

The suggestion list so far tops at redirecting traffic at someone they don’t like, promoting some Linux distros with MyDoom, which would self-install, download KDE, OO and Evolution and convert a suddenly happy user to the Penguin league, pointing the sco.com to 127.0.0.1 or just take it off the DNS.

Eric Gunnerson from the C# team explains why C# doesn’t have the inline keyword.

For C#, inlining happens at the JIT level, and the JIT generally makes a decent decision. Rather than provide the ability to override that, I think the real long-term solution is to use profile-guided feedback so that the JIT can be smarter about what it inlines and what it doesn’t.