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Comment Unfortunately IBM did (Score 1) 209

by cybersquid (#57386320) Attached to: CBS Shuts Down Stage 9, a Fan-Made Recreation of the USS Enterprise

Did IBM throw a hissy-fit over it? Not really, and because of that the PC took off like a rocket.

I'm afraid they did. IBM sued several early PC clone makers claiming they had copied their BIOS.
It wasn't until Phoenix made a clean-room BIOS implementations that clone makers could flourish.

Submission + - Google is now causing the Mandela Effect to feed itself (alternatememories.com)

Submitted by phonewebcam
phonewebcam writes: Coined back in 2012, the Mandela Effect is so called because a bunch of folk swear they remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the '80's. Rather than accept they remember wrong, they instead say he actually did but they then shifted to a parallel universe where he in fact went on to become the President of South Africa before dying in 2013. There are many other examples. It's had an X-Files episode devoted to it and even Jim Carrey mentioned it as being a thing on Bill Maher's show recently.

However, there's a big fuss on Reddit caused by one of these "ME's" throwing up the incorrect image for a legitimate Google search. It's for the Fruit of the Loom, the clothing brand, which even the company says never had a cornucopia on their logo, yet Googling for it shows a thumbnail of one with its results. That "incorrect" image came from a Mandela Effect website, and the article there is just discussing the "did it/didn't it" aspect, with the accompanying image having a cornucopia. The problem, for those that can keep up, is the ME crowd are now saying Google knows how the old image looked because "it's right there in the search results, exactly as I remember it."

Submission + - NSA Collected 500 Million US Call Records In 2017, Says Report (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. National Security Agency collected more than 500 million phone call records of Americans last year, more than triple gathered in 2016, a U.S. intelligence agency report released on Friday said. The sharp increase to 534 million call records from 151 million occurred during the second full year of a new surveillance system established at the spy agency after U.S. lawmakers passed a law in 2015 that sought to limit its ability to collect such records in bulk. The reason for the spike was not immediately clear. The metadata records collected by the NSA include the numbers and time of a call, but not its content.

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