[ t e c h n o \ c u l t u r e ]Karlin Lillington's weblog on whatever comes to mind...(Untitled)- July 24, 2003 Security Experts: Electronic Voting Machines Threaten Democracy. Dan Gillmor's eJournalhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/24.html#a2546 (Untitled)- July 24, 2003 US to show corpse photos. Guardian Unlimited... Hmmmm. The US government considers it fine to show what it describes as "horrific" pictures of corpses to the Iraqi people as long as they are of Saddam Hussein's sons, but pushed hard to block the media showing pictures of the corpses of war dead in the US, and even abroad.http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/24.html#a2545 (Untitled)- July 24, 2003 MIT Technology Review: Don't Break E-Mail To Save It. Vipul Ved Prakash, founder and chief scientist for Cloudmark: "My perspective on design of spam filtration solutions is centered around exploitation of the various constraints of the spammer. One thing we don't talk about enough is the fact that spammers have rather serious constraints." Tomalak's Realmhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/24.html#a2544 (Untitled)- July 23, 2003 My dad just emailed me to let me know that his co-researcher at Rand Corporation in the 1960s, Dr Ginsberg, has confirmed I did indeed play 'hangman' with the Johnniac, as noted in the reminiscence below. I'm sure he won't mind if I post his comments, which add a bit more background on this machine: The Johnniac may have been &147;decommissioned&148; at some point but I remember clearly that we were using it for time sharing using Teletype terminals well into the late 60&146;s if not into.http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/23.html#a2543 (Untitled)- July 23, 2003 Boston Globe: Blogs shake the political discourse. Scripting Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/23.html#a2542 |