Comment also Boris Strugatsky, last year (Score 1) 83
Another recently disappeared non-English speaking sci-fi classic authors. His brother Arkady had passed away in 1991.
Comment not on dialup, so must be in space? (Score 1) 558
280 ms. From Central Africa.
Rybka Solves the King's Gambit Chess Opening 206
New submitter smarq2 writes "Chessbase reports that chess programmer IM Vasik Rajlich has solved the King's Gambit chess opening with technical means. 3000 processor cores, running for over four months, exhaustively analyzed all lines that follow after 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 and came to some extraordinary conclusions."
Update: 04/02 22:11 GMT by U L : Skuto points out that this is the same person who was found guilty of plagiarizing GNU Chess and Crafty.
xkcd, Devotion To Duty 167
xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.
Comment Re:Oldest (Score 5, Informative) 392
There is a record of an African slave in Hispaniola as early as 1502, brought by the Sevillian trader Juan de Córdoba.
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