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See also the link to "This might be the coolest visualization of evolution ever" and comments re: "Wolf359" and "Microcosmic God" by Theodore Sturgeon at... https://news.ycombinato…

Talk about your fluff pieces! Sorkin's article ignores Ballmer's billion-dollar tax dodge... er, break... for buying a basketball team.* Ballmer should revise his boast from "paid …

Talk about your fluff pieces! Sorkin's article ignores Ballmer's billion-dollar tax dodge... er, break... for buying a basketball team.* Ballmer should revise his boast from "paid …

Wow! 42 comments on an article titled, "Why the internet ONLY JUST works" (emphasis added), and the word "security" occurs once, and the words "malware", "privacy", "malicious", "r…

Some questions re: iPhone 7 AirPod's Bluetooth implementation: 1. Can anyone point to any specs or articles as to whether is vulnerable to eavesdropping? * 2. Can multiple AirPods …

Some questions re: iPhone 7 AirPod's Bluetooth implementation: 1. Can anyone point to any specs or articles as to whether is vulnerable to eavesdropping? * 2. Can multiple AirPods …

Thanks for that tip and link, CarolineW ! I'll add this to my reading list. The wikipedia summary for Microcosmic God is chilling... Outsourcing with a vengeance!

Experimental acceleration of evolution was the plot of the 1964 teleplay, "Wolf 359", which was one of the very best Outer Limits episodes. A scaled-down version of a distant life-…

A classic DrDobbs blog. Here's a link to Walter Bright's preceding part 1 blog: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/safe-systems-...

This decision implies that a website owner can, on a landing page, and/or via postal or email message, notify Google, and other search engines, social media and data brokers that t…

I hate to speak ill of the departed. but none of the comments explore this point: This guy sounds like a bit of an overly-solicitous Tesla fanboy and/or sycophant, who, possibly, h…

I hate to speak ill of the departed. but none of the comments at the original story explore this point: This guy sounds like a bit of an overly-solicitous Tesla fanboy and/or sycop…

I hate to speak ill of the departed. but none of the comments at the original story explore this point: This guy sounds like a bit of an overly-solicitous Tesla fanboy and/or sycop…

I hate to speak ill of the departed. but none of the comments at the original story explore this point: This guy sounds like a bit of an overly-solicitous Tesla fanboy and/or sycop…

"The database is being sold for 750BTC..." Once again Bitcoin is the "getaway car" of choice for hackers and ransomware extortionists around the world.* Where are all the Bitcoin f…

Does anyone know if any large-scale landlord is also receiving user data as well as cash from its ISPs? EULAs are broad enough to let any ISP, website or app provider to do anythin…

So... these internet-founding Einsteins actually think that Bitcoin should be a part of "our" future Utopian web? Well what do they (and all the other blockchain fan-kiddies) think…

(Various edits) Facebook's justifications for its delay (i.e., waiting to confirm that the site was hijacked, and disregarding the obvious violation of community standards) are pur…

DAO's claim of being "jurisdictionless" -- and thus not subject to any state or federal laws governing the rights and duties of business organizations, fiduciaries and beneficiarie…

Interestingly, but not surprisingly: 1) The mainstream media coverage of the Johns-Hopkins study (or at least the reports that I have seen) omits the study's admission that it unde…

CORRECTION: "Medical error homicide" refers to a medical error (i.e., an avoidable iatrogenic event, such as mis-calculating a dosage by making a math error, as in the famous case …

Why are cars and motorcycles that can travel at 160 mph street-legal anywhere? Such vehicles should be legal on ly on private, properly-engineered high-speed tracks. Audi and all o…

The "broken" items listed in Scott's 2012 blog are primarily personal productivity- and convenience-killing annoyances. Of far greater are the rather-more important things (like ho…

Interestingly, but not surprisingly: 1) Like the hundreds of comments attached to this post (or at least the ones that I have read) today's mainstream media coverage of the Johns-H…