The only link on the NSA's site that mentions it was this one:

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/crypto_almanac_50th/NSA_Before_Super_Computers.pdf

But it's not the actual pdf... And no trace of the pdf on torrent sites. Can anyone seed it and post a link?

Let's get real here... Would you actually hire someone who isn't maintaining some kind of presence on StackOverflow, Github, or some open source pet project(s)? (Fwiw, Google head-hunts engineers based on the latter.)

"Never believe anything until it's officially denied."

http://www.jonathanlynn.com/tv/yes_minister_series/yes_minister_episode_quotes.htm

[citation needed].

The stuff on it is crazy expensive, though. At least in the area I currently live in... The deals are much better over at justlanded.com or couchsurfing.com.

Not to mention, adding to the funny aspect of the claim, the group deems itself as Nazis and got reported by Fox News.

Conspiracy 101: people who believe in conspiracy theories are usually very, very, very, very, very thick people.

Methinks you can count on Europe to eventually get this right.

Twitter getting sued and losing to France's Jew student union over obnoxious hashtags is just the high profile round two of the same joust they had with Yahoo over nazi artifacts getting auctioned over a decade ago. They won last time; they'll win this time. And US companies will comply to French law on this matter just like last time. I suspect that the pitiful €1k/day fine is going to quickly balloon to obscene amounts of money until the courts get a reaction from Twitter.

In Germany, users are suing Facebook over the right to get deleted, and while they were the first, in typical German grassroots achievements, they no longer are the only ones. This is simply going to win, and they're just getting started. Sure enough, the Irish subsidiary is dragging its feet to comply. Presumably to Zuck's despair -- here's a continent with over 600M people willing not only in fighting for the right to be deleted but also in actually enforcing it. In the end, sane views will prevail, and the US laws will get kicked back across the Atlantic where they belong -- for US citizens to debate further, hopefully with new, more enlightened insights.

The same could arguably be told of countries like China, Egypt or Iran: ironically, US firms are made to comply with local law over there, plain and simple, much faster then they are to EU laws. But the EU is hopefully similar enough to the US that the latters' citizens will not shrug that the former are merely uneducated barbarians when their laws are sent back for review.

+1 interesting. I spent the last hour watching the first video. He's an excellent storyteller.

M.U.L.E., for all its descendants in the simulation genre, chief among them Civilization. Not that M.U.L.E. was the very very first, since Burten had written an economic simulation game prior to that, but it certainly popularized the genre.

Ultima III also comes to mind, for CRPGs. Best I'm aware, it was the first with a modern, graphical interface.

Hasn't Samsung learned its lesson when it copied Apple and got fined a billion dollars for doing so?

Apple has been clear from the start on this: "Don't like the App store's policies? Make an html5 app!" In fact, it was the only way to build apps for the original iPhone -- with Apple's blessing, at that. (And it still is how unwelcome vendors, e.g. porn operators, build iOS apps.)

Excuse me for asking, but... How is "products that pass certain internal milestones" (aka Steve Job's early scrutiny) in any way related or comparable to "9 products out of 10, even if a product was about to ship"?

May I ask how many of those cards you actually use in practice? Think hard: how often have you built a deck that used that white 1/1 banding creature card (I forgot its name...)? It's not limited to uninteresting common cards, either. When I looked into selling my shoebox full of cards, I got told that players seldom fielded Serra Angels or Thunder Spirits anymore because there were better white creatures -- whereas back when I played, you'd find a few of either or both in nearly every white deck.

Back when I played, there were (give or take) a half dozen cards per extension that players (bar beginners) cared to use in practice. You'd be looking into perhaps two or three hundred cards when building your decks. Even less (though admittedly from a slightly different set) when building a highly themed deck -- those were the only reason you'd keep cards like Goblin Bombs in your shoebox. With a few hundred cards, you've more than enough to build a deck around pretty much every theme you want.

Go dancing, really... As a bonus, you'll socialize and get to hang out with cute chicks, for potentially more interesting physical activity.

And walk there, if possible.