Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
This story, unlike the last one, is crap. Just my opinion, of course, but it’s too far beyond our current technology to have more than a very slim chance of making any progress without lots more basic research first. It smells like an attempt at the lucrative government defense pork barrel to me.
Friday evening, I gave in to geek temptation (and a sale at Costco) and bought a Roomba. (That’s a robotic vacuum cleaner, for those who’ve been hiding under a rock for the last few years.) I set it up to charge last night, and let it loose in our living room this afternoon. I don’t …
History is written by the winners –George Orwell (maybe)
Internet users rejoice: one of the world’s top spammers has been indicted! Only another ten billion to go. No, there aren’t ten billion spammers at present, despite the evidence of your in-box. From what I’ve heard, there are only about 200 large spam operations at any one time. But that makes little difference when, like …
Continue reading ‘“Man described as a top spammer arrested”’ »
A long time ago, I bought a license for the ZoneAlarm Pro software firewall. I don’t use it anymore (no reflection on ZoneAlarm, which was excellent the last time I used it, I just don’t see sufficient need for it any longer to justify installing it), but I still sometimes get e-mails from Zone Labs, …
Continue reading ‘“Network Magic: Printer and File Sharing Made Easy!”’ »
Always have a backup plan. —Mila Kunis
This story caught my eye because using DNA for data storage — plant DNA, in that case — was part of one science fiction book I read (I believe it was I, Jedi, by Michael A. Stackpole, published in 1999). The concept is undeniably neat, and it made perfect sense in the context of the …
…Two OSes diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
In which our brave hero valiantly battles the forces of corrupted hard drives.
The Vista fever finally breaks after applying a cool Linux compress.