Comment: Re:Great (Score 1) 115
Thank god Corpsicles never took off!
Comment: Re:I cut my teeth on that CPU (Score 0) 297
16 bit... tchka!... you had it easy.
The PDP 8/e was da bomb for:
printing "Hello World"
playing Tic-Tac-Toe
paper tape races
Comment: Mixed Feelings (Score 4, Interesting) 30
If it wasn't for FGU I wouldn't have bought V&V. On the other hand, the FGU http://www.fantasygamesunlimited.net/ webmaster should be shot.
Comment: Good Story (Score 3, Funny) 333
I liked it so much I liked it.
Comment: Re:If you want groundbreaking early Mac software (Score 2) 704
I was deep into Pascal and assembly but it wasn't until HC that I learned the UI was where the battle was won or lost.
Also, Talking Moose!
Comment: A Modest Question (Score 4, Informative) 656
How many MIT student pranks ended with felony charges?
I highly recommend reading Alex Stamos' thoughts on Aaron Swartz:
The Truth about Aaron Swartz's "Crime"
http://unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-truth-about-aaron-swartzs-crime/
+ - World of Warcraft Character Becomes Campaign Issue
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Dr. Gamera writes "Maine state senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz plays World of Warcraft. The opposing party in Maine has issued a press release attacking her for her Level 85 Orc Assassination Rogue. Her incumbent opponent, however, rejects the attack as 'mudslinging politics'."
+ - FTC Releases Google Privacy Audit, Blacks Out The Details->
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chicksdaddy writes "Google could tell you about its privacy practices except, well....they're private. That's the conclusion privacy advocates are drawing after the Federal Trade Commission took a black marker to an independent audit of the company's privacy practices before releasing it to the group EPIC in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Security Ledger is reporting that the FTC released a copy of a Price Waterhouse Coopers audit of Google that was mandated as part of a settlement with the FTC over complaints following a 2010 complaint by EPIC over privacy violations in Google Buzz, a now-defunct social networking experiment. However, the agency acceded to Google requests to redact descriptions of the search giant’s internal procedures and the design of its privacy program."
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Security Ledger is reporting that the FTC released a copy of a Price Waterhouse Coopers audit of Google that was mandated as part of a settlement with the FTC over complaints following a 2010 complaint by EPIC over privacy violations in Google Buzz, a now-defunct social networking experiment. However, the agency acceded to Google requests to redact descriptions of the search giant’s internal procedures and the design of its privacy program."
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+ - The CIA and Jeff Bezos bet $30 million on quantum computing company->
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An anonymous reader writes "The CIA's investment fund, In-Q-Tel, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have invested $30 million in a Canadian company that claims to build quantum computers, reports Technology Review in a detailed story on why that startup, D-Wave, appears to be attracting serious interest after years of skepticism from experts. A spokesman for In-Q-Tel says that intelligence agencies "have many complex problems that tax classical computing architecture", a feeling apparently strong enough to justify a bet on a radically different, and largely unproven, approach to computing."
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Comment: Re:John Brunner (Score 1) 1365
ditto ditto ditto
muckers... Corp liability settlements as a profit center
thank God none of his predictions came true
Comment: Re:I (honestly) do not have a Facebook account (Score 1) 550
Epicly stupid.
Grandparents love to keep up with grandchildren, for one.
Comment: Re:Pfft. (Score 1) 841
Thomas Alva Edison & I hear you loud and clear.
Comment: Re:He's going to be chief youth jargonist (Score 1) 232
I predict his first WaPo post will be a dupe!
j/k good luck, and don't fuck with Pogue if you know what's good for you!
Comment: No Access for Amateur Coders (Score 1) 469
Amateur programmers couldn't run and test their own code on it.
If nascent code monkeys weren't interested, then you lose the wow factor pretty quickly.
GEnie, Compuserve, Applelink, and AOL had some success because they were 1/2 BBS-like and 1/2 virtual desktop publishing.
One look at Mosaic + HTML, though, and it was painfully obvious that not only could you publish your random crap without AOL, but you could spend an eternity tinkering and extending it.
Comment: hey eeplox (Score 2) 730
submit this to boing boing and the agitator. They'd probably love this.