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Probably should be "Rebuilt the CERN Browser" The Silversmith browser went into service in 1986. It worked with SCI documents under security controls. The user could only access th…

It's all in the language. What is a ring? It is clearly a 2D geometry as there are just heads and tails, and no fan-in or fan-out. Adding thise mechanisms would lead to neurons whi…

This architecture appears to overlap with the, then, Bell Labs LambdaXtreme telephone switch. It was sold to Alcatel as it appears to be an optimum design for a swich that covers t…

The scope of a domain is defined by its bounds. Expressed mathematically the bounds can be expressed using any variable type that can enclose an area or a field of elements or sets…

Norway has done work in this area that uses computers. Their system recognizes fish and parasites. As the fish pass through the systdm a laser zaps the parasites and antibiotics ar…

Does the State Dept get involved in these cases? Surely China has responsibility over this ISP.

Some Latin countries practice burning of certain home contents once a year. This "Noche de Diablos" (Night of the Devil) where straw and fabrics are burned help rid the community o…

Mushrooms are very forgiving of spores from other mushrooms and easily include them into their structures. So much so that they are considered promiscuous. No book will help you wi…

The discussions among team members was that once the U.S. had reliable predictions of crop yields then the State Dept could respond in the grain markets. Thee were grain reserves t…

His work also spanned large regions of CS. We owe most operating system architectures for his work on T.H.E. Computer designs including the basic ISO stack.

Yes, I worked on it in 1972 for Earth Resiurces Technology Satellite, ERTS, developing an image orocessing library to correct for satellite angles, Sun position and cloud cover. I …

When do we declare DEFCON 1? We need to be on a war footing now!

I just got an invoice from Norton (alledgedly) and I don't use it. And it included a telephone numvber for a Debt Recovery company. We need to have wire and mail fraud extended to …

Then Prolog should be somewhere on your list also.

I also collect these constructs. It's an obscure science; one with a founder; C. Wright Mills. I'll honor his work by using his term: "Intellectual Craftsmanship". This is covered …

This was featured in an issue of Harvard Negotiation Law Review a while back. It states that (paraphrasing) that "If a party is concerned that they will suffer due to arbitration, …

Years ago people started 3DPrinting with hot glue guns on a square-cube frame. Don wrote it up as a "Santa Claus Machine" because it could deliver whatever you asked for. That caug…

No, Massachusetts does not have a right to repair law. If you read the details the law divides "repair" between repair by businesses and repair by consumers. Along with the divide …

What does your budget recomment. I've seen the XPS 13 for as much as $1400. And there are a number of new no-name laptops for just under $300 on aliexpress.

There were, and I kid you not, two simular languages; "SLUSHBOL" and "SPITBOL". But they are lost for the ages. Edit: I see that SPITBOL has been observed. No word on SLUSHBOL.

1986 Totalizer display system betweem Kentucky Utilities and Tenn. Valley Auth. ran for 15 years with no failures or reboots on an Imsai Intel 8080. Not complex but included an err…

That should be: "...some detergents", that is, those detergents that have "brightners" added to them.

"...and mathematics their" ?

'Course, we've known, "Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever" --Lenin

Not really. The Duamond Age" is referenced as a template, but it is not required reading.The main components of the course are 1) writing a Ractive, 2) designing a Paper Theater fo…