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40 Years of Multics, 1969-2009
gribll writes "October 2009 marked an important milestone in the history of computing. It was exactly 40 years since the first Multics computer system was used at MIT. The interview is with Multics co-developer, MIT Professor and Turing Award winner Fernando J. Corbato. Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) is regarded as the foundation of modern time-sharing systems. Multics was the catalyst for the development of Unix and has been used as a model of operating system design since its release four decades ago. There is also a picture gallery of Multics history."
But can it run Vista?
The media "scandal" is because Kanye West is
(A) a dumb black guy (and the talking heads love to hate on dumb black guys)
(B) a cheap excuse for a story on a slow news day, and ..
(C) once criticized George W. Bush, saying he didn't care about black people. Of course he didn't, but not for any specific racist reason -- he just didn't care about anybody but himself.
((C) was important because many of the aforementioned talking heads had HUUUUUUGE mancrushes on GWB, often involving lovingly detailed descriptions of flightsuit crotch bulges. Said criticism caused these corners of the media landscape to squawk in fury, and they immediately had it in for Kanye, and they began watching him obsessively so that they could ridicule him just as soon as he said something stupid. Which was bound to happen, see (A) again.)
The willingness of the media to obsessively stalk certain "celebrities" to launch a "scandal" at first opportunity, while ignoring similar faults in others, is a good way to spot the actual bias in the media. Notice who gets a pass for saying or doing stupid things, and who gets a four-day frenzy of outrage and ridicule.
Some of this is political bias, but most of it is a social-class bias.