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When "computers" were the people who sat at "calculators"
THIS is the kind of thing I find interesting:
For an interesting wikipedia article on the history of computers/hardware, the link below will lead you to as many links as you may want to follow.
I remember my dad talking about punching cards to Program the huge computer at Queens university. In high school, I was filling in the cards with a pencil.
My young (at the time) brother-in-law won a vic-20 and was typing his commands.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
My first personal computer was an Acorn Atom... I could only dream of the 64k that Bill Gates said was enough for anyone. I could never get the cassette tape to record my carefully typed and debugged programs.
Trump's superior management style
You have to admire a person who knows just how many 3am tweets that they need to spew in order to barely get elected president of this great country.
For crying out loud
Can we agree now that maybe subjecting 4-8 years of your future to the results of a popularity contest is a stupid idea?
Don't blame me; I voted to leave the office vacant. If you voted, you have no right to complain. You agreed to live by the results. Why is everybody so upset? I thought this was the greatest system ever!
Strange people in ballot booths handing out swords is no basis for a system of government.
Some BBC Election Stories
Bailed out banks still getting bailed out!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/07/taxpayers-are-still-bailing-out-wall-street-eight-years-later/
Banks still getting paid to bail out homeownders are not bailing out some homeowners?!?!?!
Velly intelesting!
Use this as a post if you want.
Oculus VR vs ZeniMax
Oculus VR made "factually inaccurate" statements in ZeniMax lawsuit, forensic analyst says
A recently-granted motion in the lawsuit between ZeniMax Media and Oculus VR suggests that the case could be about to get very interesting, and not in a way that's good for Oculus. The motion to "permit disclosure of any 'demonstrably inaccurate' representations made to court," as reported by Polygon, indicates that an independent expert investigating the case found sworn statements that are "factually incorrect," and that "critical log files" on one of John Carmack's hard drives were deleted prior to its collection as evidence.
I'm too lazy to give this one the research needed to produce a coherent submission, since I haven't been following the case.
Sasha Disses Barack on Snapchat
I'm taking away your Air Force One privileges.
President Obama ridiculed on Snapchat by daughter Sasha
The president also mentioned that his own iPhone was limited to receiving emails and browsing the internet, and would not take photos, play music or make calls. "My rule has been throughout my presidency, that I assume that someday, some time, somebody will read this email," he said. "So, I don't send any email that at some point won't be on the front page of the newspapers."
US election 2016: Indians' verdict on Donald Trump's Hindi
An uncanny mixture: God, alcohol and even cannabis
A Stray: Finding and filming the real Somali immigrant experience
In pictures: Living off-grid
John Oliver Pinpoints Fake Opioid Crisis Statistic
John Oliver Pinpoints A Fake Statistic That Fueled The Opioid Crisis
In John Oliver’s latest segment on opioids during Last Week Tonight, he pulled up one of the key statistics pharmaceutical salespeople used to market prescription opioids to doctors in the 1990s: Less than 1 percent of patients taking opioids become addicted to painkillers. That figure is completely inaccurate, of course, and as Oliver points out, it has a disturbing origin story.
Facebook Employees Argued for Censorship of Mr. Trump
Somebody got triggered.
Facebook Employees Pushed to Remove Trump’s Posts as Hate Speech
Some of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s posts on Facebook have set off an intense debate inside the social media company over the past year, with some employees arguing certain posts about banning Muslims from entering the U.S. should be removed for violating the site’s rules on hate speech, according to people familiar with the matter.
The decision to allow Mr. Trump’s posts went all the way to Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, who ruled in December that it would be inappropriate to censor the candidate, according to the people familiar with the matter. That decision has prompted employees across the company to complain on Facebook’s internal messaging service and in person to Mr. Zuckerberg and other managers that it was bending the site’s rules for Mr. Trump, and some employees who work in a group charged with reviewing content on Facebook threatened to quit, the people said.
Facebook employees argued Trump's posts should be banned as hate speech
