How do you know those comments were made by Mexican doctors? Just about anybody can send an e-mail to the BBC.
Quoting their own guy, Steven Gibbs:
"Of the 1,364 people who were suspected of carrying the virus on Saturday, 929 had been discharged in good health. Hospitals in Mexico City have been besieged by people with flu-like symptoms, convinced that they are suffering from swine flu."
Edsger Dijkstra, the greatest computer scientist to never own a computer
Dijkstra did own a computer. He bought a Macintosh:
"Even after he succumbed to his UT colleagues' encouragement and acquired a
Macintosh computer, he used it only for e-mail and for browsing the World Wide Web".
This attack was first outlined by Ken Thompson in his famous paper Reflections on Trusting Trust."
No it wasn't. It was first outlined by Karger and Schell in Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis (ESD-TR-74-193, Vol II, June 1974, p 52.) as Thompson clearly acknowledges it at the end of the paper.
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What alternative extensions would you guys recommend? I'm not sure it has decent substitutes.
Quoting their own guy, Steven Gibbs:
The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama's trip to Mexico City on April 16.
Not really. The trend was noticed on March 18 according to The Globe and Mail and El Universal (in Spanish). "Mid-March" according to the BBC
Edsger Dijkstra, the greatest computer scientist to never own a computer
Dijkstra did own a computer. He bought a Macintosh:
"Even after he succumbed to his UT colleagues' encouragement and acquired a Macintosh computer, he used it only for e-mail and for browsing the World Wide Web".
Source: U. Texas CS Department (In Memoriam): http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/MemRes(USLtr).pdf
Anyone noticed former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and his wife Sheila (left & center) as one of those "Caltech physicists" in that Onion article mentioned in TFA?
What a wonderful message to send to all our recent high school grads.
It gets better. According to the review, in Chapter 6 "He suggests that internet forums like Slashdot are more informative than a college classroom".
Well, they could be trying to secure a job after graduation because, for better or worse, Philosophy grads are not exactly in high demand these days.
What about NetBSD? As far as I know this used to be its strongest feature.
This attack was first outlined by Ken Thompson in his famous paper Reflections on Trusting Trust."
No it wasn't. It was first outlined by Karger and Schell in Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis (ESD-TR-74-193, Vol II, June 1974, p 52.) as Thompson clearly acknowledges it at the end of the paper.
... but not taking advantage of free VoIP phone calls from one of the world's worst privacy offenders is something we can manage to do just fine.