User: virtualone

what to worry about

On: IT Outsourcing Need Not Threaten Our Future

i worry about.. being replaced with a shell script

rfid

On: RFID Implants for Spanish Revelers

they have to get me very drunk to let them implant me a rfid thingie

its time

On: DOOM III This Summer

i think its time to revise our definition of "summer".. so as long as doom III isn't out i'll be wearing shorts and t-shirts.

Re:Post the list?

On: Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum of America

Howard Aiken # Designer of the Harvard Mark 1, also known as the IBM ASCC - Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
Paul Allen# Co-founder of Microsoft
Marc Andreesson # Co-developed first graphical Web browser (NCSA Mosaic)# Co-founder of Netscape
John Perry Barlow # Co-founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation
Andy Bechtolsheim# Co-founder of Sun Microsystems
John Blankenbaker# Developed the KenBak-I computer in 1973, one of the earliest PCs
Len Bosack# Co-founder of Cisco Systems, a leading manufacturer of Internet switching equipment
# Developed IGSP, Inter-Gateway Switching Protocol for the Internet
Stewart Brand# Co-founder (with Larry Brilliant) of The WELL online service (1985)
Dan Bricklin# Co-developer of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program
Larry Brilliant# Co-founder (with Stewart Brand) of The WELL online service (1985)
Steve Case# Founder of America Online
Vint Cerf# Co-developer (with Bob Kahn) of TCP/IP standard (1974)
James Clark# Founder of Silicon Graphics Inc.
# Co-founder (with Marc Andreesson) of Netscape Communications
Larry Ellison# Founder of Oracle, a database company
John Presper Eckert# Co-designer and builder (with Mauchley, et.al.) of ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Philo T. Farnsworth# Inventor of modern television
Jay W. Forrester# Refined magnetic core memory; creator of systems dynamics
Bob Frankston# Co-developer of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program
William Gibson# Coined the phrase "cyberspace" in the novel "Neuromancer" (1984)
Mike Godwin# Early theorist about online legal issues
# Longtime counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Andy Grove# Co-founder and former president of Intel

Johan Helsingius# Started first anonymous e-mail service
William Hewlett# Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
Reynold B. Johnson# IBM engineer; invented RAMAC disk drives, VCR tape storage and the microphonograph
Bill Joy# Co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Alan Kay# PARC scientist, created Smalltalk software, early contributor to GUI and Object Oriented Programming concepts, laptop computers
Bob Kahn# Co-developer (with Vint Cerf) of TCP/IP standard (1974)
Mitch Kapor# Founder of Lotus Software
# Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Charles F. Kettering# Developed the first electro-mechanical cash register (1906)
Vinod Khosla# Co-founder of Sun Microsystems
John Kilcullen# Founder, publisher of IDG Books
Len Kleinrock# Developed early theory of packet networking in 1961 at MIT, which later led to the Internet
Sandy Lerner# Co-founder of Cisco Systems
Joseph Licklider# First head of computer research at the Defense Department's ARPA research program, which later developed the Internet
# Wrote the influential "Man-Computer Symbiosis" in 1960
John Mauchley # Co-Designer of ENIAC, the first fully operational modern electronic computer (ran from 1945-1955)
Scott McNealy# Co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Bob Metcalfe# Co-inventor of Ethernet
# Founder of 3Com, leading manufacturer of networking equipment
Halsey Minor# Founder of C|NET, online news resource about technology
Gordon Moore# Postulated Moore's Rule (1964), which holds that computing power will double every 18 months with no increase in price
# Co-founder of Intel
Ted Nelson# Coined the word "hypertext" (1965)
Robert Noyce# Co-inventor of the integrated circuit, or computer chip
# Co-founder of Intel
Kenneth Olson # Founder of Digital Electronics Corp. (DEC)
Adam Osborne # Founder of Osborne Computers, maker of the first portable computer
# Prolific and influential writer about computers
William Oughtred # Inventor of the slide rule
David Packard # Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
John H. Patterson # Founder of National Cash Register, early innovator and manufacturer of adding devices
Alexai Pazhitnov # Wrote "Tetris" in the Soviet Union during Cold War, smuggled it to the outside world where it became a best-seller
George Philbrick # Invento

yes but thats not all

On: OpenOffice.org, MS Office 2003 Compared, Evaluated

but then.. compare that mascot to clippy and evaluate again..

so we have found the cache

On: Brain's Cache Memory Found

so we have found the cache.. but where is the cpu??

it wont be adopted now

On: Quantum Cryptography Leaving the Lab

as long as the current internet infrastructure works like this it won't be widely adopted. why? simply because it is a quite expensive way of communicating between n different spots if you have to install n! fiber cables.

just like robin hood

On: Microsoft Authorized Refurbishers

take from the poor give to the .. uuhmm.no. thats another story..

what use have elliptic curves

On: Probable Solution Found for ECC2-109 Challenge

are they something like md5 hashes, or a kind of asymetric encryption?