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Over his life, Jobs has had a greater impact. But at the time Apple was formed, Wozniak singlehandedly designed and engineered a machine that was simply peerless. The Apple ][ made…

It's remarkable that this comment would have been seen as trolling a month ago and today it is perfectly realistic.

nytimes.com with javascript off to avoid the wall

I hope that the NSA revelations will be the biggest spur ever for use of effective crypto. It's the only effective response we have. The Administration and the Congress aren't goin…

the reason your house is insecure is because we can't protect it with math Exactly! If physical security were like crypto, we could all afford to have the security of a head of sta…

Autocar.uk is an enthusiast news and review site. They are careful about their reviews and it means a lot that Sutcliffe is so excited after driving the Model S. He was a professio…

I think Musk is in need of some good advice on PR strategy. He started public battles with Top Gear and the NY Times over inaccuracies. I think it's more than likely he was right i…

Let me correct myself. I came across Jim Grey's 1999 paper "Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering" where he states that this heuristic is from Gene Amdahl in about 1965: a balanced sy…

White rum is the name for clear rum. I suppose in a beverage context white just means colorless.

I also converted. Plus, much better for me than the amazon ecosystem, there is calibre with all its automatic creation of news source documents and format conversions that usually …

Seymour Cray followed this balance of processor-memory-bandwidth to memory-bandwidth to storage in his designs.

This document is a mess. The title "The History of Programming Languages" does not correspond at all to the content. No mention of machine language or assembly; no mention of funct…

I see what you did there.

"Encoding used to be an art form." It's gone downhill but there are still people keeping a high standard. YIFY is known for releasing high quality 720p h.264 Blu Ray movie rips tha…

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/36/cdu.html "You'd have to be a real idiot to skate to where the puck used to be"

No, he is not anything like this letter in real life. He is happy to have wide ranging conversations without reference to his own history or accomplishments. I suppose that in the …

"You have fewer rights with ebooks than you do with real books." You may have fewer legal rights but you have more options and control, as long as the ebooks are pirated! Pirated b…

Not if they are using Adblock Plus with Easylist.

Wow, that is sad. My knowledge of literature and poetry is spotty at best but I certainly picked up on the reference without a moment's thought. The ability to make literary refere…

Another approach is to use Privoxy http://www.privoxy.org/ and add these lines to user.action: { +hide-referrer{http://news.google.com/news/} } .wsj.com

When I realized that a Kindle weighs less, is thinner and has identical readability to a book or newspaper, I switched. I can blow up the type size and read in less light than I ne…

The breakthrough portable audio player, iPod, does lead users toward DRM content. But it is also perfectly compatible with copied content, user authored content, downloaded content…

Of course you are right that it will be a leaky wall due to the nature of the Internet. But it will increase the cost and hassle and reduce bandwidth. And that is good enough to pr…

I'm pretty much in your corner--I think copyrights and patents have been extended and abused and need major reform. But let me play devil's advocate for a moment. It sounds like yo…

I find it odd that you would think piracy was popularized 10 years ago. First off, commercially pirated publication has been popular ever since publication was invented. Pirate edi…