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Coils, by Zelazny & Saberhagen? It was first published in 1982.

It aligns with what we know about the history of the Celtic languages. The ancestor to the remaining Celtic languages first appeared in Central Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

And the word "piracy" has been applied to unauthorized copying of books since at least 1735. I own an old copy of the London Magazine that contains the usage.

For the uninitiated, "spam spam spam humbug" brought up a cheat menu in Ultima VI.

So the biometric information used to identify an individual can't be stolen? How is that possible? I can change a password, and I can replace a hardware token.

That's not a cheetah. That's an electric sheep.

There are quite a few variations in regional pizza styles. http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2008/01/a-list-of-regi...

I've had the same experience running my own pair of iRedMail servers in FreeBSD jails. It was easy to set up, and not hard to secure. I haven't had trouble with spam so far, and it…

It's a P25W with 16 GB RAM and 3T SSD (I dual boot with a Steam-only Windows install). I don't care about the nvidia card in OpenBSD-- the Intel card works fine with xfce. I haven'…

Another anecdote: I had the same experience with my new Gigabyte laptop. OpenBSD 5.6 supported the hardware better than FreeBSD or Linux (Qubes-OS, which is based on Fedora). I end…

Cory Doctorow also put together a well-written account of his views in the recently published "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age." He covers DRM, copyr…

It's about time they did this. Harvard's was about the only major library that didn't allow Z39.50 access to their full MARC21 records. As a private individual with a large rare an…