I think Eatons houses were usually delivered by rail, not by post. My grandfather bought one and I'm pretty sure he picked it up at the rail station (with his wagon).

The C128 had a GREAT keyboard! Much better than the keyboard on the C64 and any of the IBM clones that I used around then.

No idea if it was as good as or better than a "real" IBM keyboard, though, since I never had the opportunity to use one of those.

After reading the article I still don't quite get how this technique works.

From the article: âoewhen the color is the same, the mirror edge disappears."

Come again? One of the accompanying photos shows Mr. Jenison with a mirror near his eye and a paintbrush in his hand.

But I still don't understand what's happening here.

It's being "made available" but it "may not be reproduced."

How does that work, again?

There's nothing wrong with C++. However, I do my programing in C (without the ++), and would love have something like this available that I could link to my C programs.

GTK+ works fine in its way, but it moves way too fast for my taste. Function x is deprecated, use function y instead. Function y is deprecated, use function z along with function z(1) now. Ok, it's great that you're improving that thing, but not so great for a guy like me who wants to write an application today and use it for the next ten or twenty years without having to re-invent the wheel over and over again.

Since I have no particular desire to learn C++, I now do most of my programming using ncurses to handle the screen, keyboard and (occasionally) mouse. Ncurses is a Text-UI rather than a GUI, but just like the C language itself, it works very well,it hasn't changed in many years, and it suits me fine.

A slow-moving GUI like wxwidgets would be a wonderful thing to add to my toolbox, if it was a C library. *sigh*

Yep, a whole $44,400 fine. That's got to sting a multi-billion dollar company. Bet they won't dare try that again.

I wonder if Google's April Fool joke will count as prior art for invalidating the inevitable patents that MS will try to surround this technology with.

Not to mention the gesture interface operated by Tom Cruise in the Minority Report movie...

There's no point in pussy-footing around this. It's obvious that RSA was either forced or "rewarded" into using an insecure method. And that they knew it at the time (because they are cryptographers and because they don't live in the bottom of a well.)

Therefore, RSA has proven themselves untrustworthy at best, corrupt at worst, and quite likely both.

The question is what to do next? Rip out everything RSA in all infrastructure and replace it with something that works appears to be the best approach, but how should that be done and what should it be replaced with? And, most importantly, how can we verify that replacement?

TFA sez "The official IP allocation records maintained by the American Registry for Internet Numbers show the two Magneto-related IP addresses were part of a ghost block of eight addresses that have no organization listed. Those addresses trace no further than the Verizon Business data center in Ashburn, Virginia, 20 miles northwest of the Capital Beltway."
 
So it's not clear if those addresses belong to the FBI, the CIA, NSA, or anyone else.
 
Is this even "legal" on the Internet? Perhaps those IP addresses should be reclaimed and reassigned by ARIN since "nobody" is using them and IPV4 addresses are now in short (nonexistent) supply.

large areas currently under cultivation in the United States cease to arable, or at least cheaply arable. At the same time, Canada gains large amounts of arable land much farther north.
 
There are factors other than mere temperature that go into whether land can be used for growing crops. Much of the soil north of where Canadian farmers currently grow their crops is either very poor or next-to-nonexistent. The Canadian Shield consists largely of volcanic rock. You can't grow a crop in that even if the temperature appears to allow it.

If this guy's minimum price is ten million dollars, won't he be on the hook for several hundred thousand in fees to ebay if it doesn't sell?

When I read a book I read it at varying speeds. Some stuff I read very quickly, but clever phrasing or a complex description causes me to slow down. Sometimes I re-read the same paragraph or sentence several times either to figure out what the author is saying or simply to continue the amusement.

Auto-scrolling might be ok for some things, but not for book reading.

Several years ago, my brother gave his little girl, who was about 3 years old at the time, an old Apple II computer that she could bang on so she wouldn't touch his machines.

My mother was there one day when the little girl was banging on that old computer. She said, "What are you doing?" and the little girl replied, "I'm hacking code, just like daddy!"