Year end comments on Dirty dancing, Net Neutrality, censorship, criminal activities, GoDaddy.com, Google’s voice and video, Google CR-48 with Chrome OS, uranium, more.
When time began
hen I was helping to develop MIS curriculum at Bethel College in Mishawaka 20 years ago, I came across a device called the Antikythera machine. It provides a bit more insight into the business technology path that eventually lead from mechanical clocks which allowed gears to turn only so far each cycle to electronic clock circuits which allow buffers and flip flops to store and retrieve data. Someone has now built a working model of the machine out of lego gears.
Links
Links to read later
Tit for tat
A month or so ago, Microsoft decided that instead of fixing its own product to realistically compete with market leading phone platform Android and #2 phone iPhone, that instead they would try to scare Motorola away from manufacturing the Droid by suing them for supposed patent infringement. Motorola has now turned the tables on Microsoft and is instead suing them for patent infringement.
Fool Born Every Minute
This seemingly helpful warning sent via Skype messaging is designed to scare you into clicking the link, and thus downloading viruses into your computer.