Some time ago, they screwed up, failed to take their money, and then yelled at us for not paying them. They apologized eventually.
Eric Brewer, a professor of computer science at Berkeley and founder of Inktomi, gave a keynote speech at WWW2005, in which he highlighted his project on Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions. Brewer described a number of ongoing projects in this area (at Berkeley and elsewhere) that have really made a difference, such a
IEEE-USA has a newsletter with a distressing story about the end of employer-paid healthcare in the USA. It documents the trend of benefits costs outstripping inflation, combined with tax breaks possibly shifting from employers to employees. The real question is, will salaries go up to offset an explicit shift, or do the employees lose out even more t
"You don't go out and kick a mad dog. If you have a mad dog with rabies, you take a gun and shoot him." -- Pat Robertson, TV Evangelist, about Muammar Kadhafy