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I love encryption. As a kid, the occasional “secret decoder ring” I’d get out of a box of cereal or Cracker Jacks was a treasure worthy of King Tut himself. In my high-school years I studied how to make (and break) ciphers on paper, and I went on to study computer encryption as well — …
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As featured in British author Peter F. Hamilton’s A Quantum Murder and the movie Paycheck, the technology for wiping specific memories is on it’s way to reality. This could be a very good thing, in some cases.
Oh he’s got… hi-igh hopes, he’s got… hi-igh hopes…
‘Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes. — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra When last we left our intrepid Linux explorer, he had just tamed the Beast with the Blue Tooth to win through, at long last, the dread Jungle of Double Vision. Tired but satisfied, basking in the twitters …
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“Once upon a time, children, there was a whole industry built on nothing but distributing music.” “Grampa, what’s disturba… distrab…?” “Distributing? It means that a person takes music that other people make and sells it to people who want it.” “Why couldn’t people buy it from the people who made it, like we do?” “Because …
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… a giant farm skyscraper? I expect we’ll see these within the next couple decades. It just makes too much economic sense, not to mention environmental. And the higher fuel prices go, the more sense it will make.
I’m betting that these guys are going to go far. Anybody foolish enough to bet against me?
During a chess competition a chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk. — Alexander Alekhine I’m well known for being stubborn. Very stubborn. When I run into a problem, I pound my head against it until either my head breaks or the problem does. So far, it has almost …
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Microsoft has really been spinning it’s wheels for the last six or seven years. With the exception of improving security, nearly everything it has done since Windows 2000 has been focused on sizzle rather than steak. The same operating system with prettier pictures. You can see it in the whole user interface, and you can …
If the claims of this particular company are true, the last technical hurdle to the true electric vehicle may be on it’s way out. I don’t know whether this is a good thing or not, since we’re having problems generating cost-effective electricity already. But it might at least help further with the smog problems in …
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