Watch Steve Jobs Assure Americans in 1981 That Computers Wouldn’t Be a Privacy Nightmare
By 1981 there was already a steady flow of serious money from government agencies into academic research labs trying to crack the problem of computer understanding of natural language, with automated wiretapping being one obvious long-term goal. This was well-known in the community (I was an RA for a computational linguistics professor in a CS department at around that time).
Attack of the GIANT CHINESE PIGS!**
** Future Chinese sci-fi movie.
HPE’s Eng Lim Goh on spaceborne computers, NASA medals and AI at the final frontier
I don’t know what voltage they’re using on the ISS, but there are certainly off-the-shelf 48VDC power supplies available for servers. They’re mainly intended for use in telecom buildings, where such power is very readily available.
Kurt Cobain’s Seattle Home 4 Sale $7,500,00.00
So the house he shot himself in? It went for $7.5 million?
He shot himself inside a garden shed / green house. It’s been torn down.
It’s a beautiful house with great views. Prob well worth $7.5 in Seattle.
Jeez that place is huge.
Weeeeeeee!
Euro ISP club: Sure, weaken encryption. It’ll only undermine security for everyone, morons
Full Beaver Moon
Remember the FBI’s promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US citizens? Well, guess what…
Any FBI agent was allowed to search the database, it revealed under questioning, any FBI agent was allowed to de-anonymize the data and the FBI claimed it did not have a system to measure the number of search requests its agents carried out.
