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Category Archives: Blog/website/news comments
CIO’s list of companies and products that didn’t deserve to die
I was pleasantly surprised to see DEC made the #1 spot on CIO’s Dearly Departed, a list of computer companies and products that didn’t deserve to die. DEC is gone, but not forgotten.
Posted in Blog/website/news comments, Computing
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Your world, delivered… to the NSA, MPAA, and RIAA
AT&T now claims that they will deploy some kind of filtering to keep copyrighted content off their network, effectively spying for the MPAA and RIAA. No one has developed a reliable way to even identify copyrighted content, but even if … Continue reading
Posted in Blog/website/news comments, Copyright, Privacy
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GOTO considered harmful
Apparently Dijkstra was right!
Posted in Blog/website/news comments, Humor
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Moon landing hoax: the real story
There was a conspiracy, but the landing wasn’t faked on a sound stage. The real story has finally been revealed by TDAH #20.
Posted in Blog/website/news comments, Humor
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Harry Potter surprise twist
I certainly was shocked when it turned out that Voldemort is Hermione’s father!
Interesting numbers
In 100 reasons why lists are stupid, Tom Harrison explains that the smallest interesting number is 4. I presume he is only considering natural numbers. But even there, I think he’s wrong. 1 is interesting since it is the smallest … Continue reading
Posted in Blog/website/news comments, Mathematics
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Inconceivable!
The Princess Bride, 20 years later When it first hit the theaters, I didn’t even want to see it. Fortunately for me, my friends forced me to go. It’s in my top ten list.
Posted in Blog/website/news comments, Film
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Employees no longer need to fill out I-9 forms!
The DHS I-9 form, used by employers to report verification of employment elgibility, has expired as of 31 March 2007, and the DHS not issued a replacement. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., the government cannot … Continue reading
Should we stay or should we go?
A friend pointed out Natan Sharansky’s article “Leave Iraq and Brace for a Bigger Bloodbath” in the Washington Post. I don’t disagree with any of Mr. Sharansky’s facts or general reasoning, but yet clearly favor a different course of action … Continue reading
Posted in Blog/website/news comments, War
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Accident kills three Scaled Composites workers, injures three
The Los Angeles Times reports that an explosion at the Mojave airport killed three workers and injured three others, during a test of the propellant flow system for SpaceShipTwo. In 2004, SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded manned spacecraft, and … Continue reading →