Fernando Corbató Dies at 93
Fernando Corbató, whose work on computer time-sharing in the 1960s helped pave the way for the personal computer, as well as the computer password, died on Friday at a nursing home in Newburyport, Mass. He was 93.
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COSO VOLCANIC FIELD VOLCANO
600+ Earthquakes recorded in the 24 hours ending 07/06/19 at 14:00 PDT CALIFORNIA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY INFORMATION STATEMENT U.S. Geological Survey Saturday, July 6, 2019, 10:42 AM PDT (Saturday, July 6, 2019, 17:42 UTC) COSO VOLCANIC FIELD VOLCANO (VNUM #323180) 36°1’48” N 117°49’12” W, Summit Elevation 7874 ft (2400 m) Current Volcano Alert Level: NORMAL Current … [Read more…]
Kim Stanley Robinson Built a Moon Base in His Mind
To write his new novel, Red Moon, the sci-fi author became an expert on lunar colony tech IEEE Spectrum – By Sally Adee But for Red Moon, which is set so close to the current moment, the underlying “really” is the same thing as the explicit plot—it’s about China taking over the moon. China and … [Read more…]
Arctic permafrost thawing
Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted Ice blocks frozen solid for thousands of years destabilized ‘The climate is now warmer than at any time in last 5,000 years’ Reuters Tue 18 Jun 2019 12.02 EDT Last modified on Tue 18 Jun 2019 12.58 EDT A cemetery sitting on melting permafrost … [Read more…]
Rural Cooperatives Deliver High-Speed Internet for Less
24 May 2019 – IEEE Spectrum TELCOM By Lucas Laursen “Rural Cooperatives Deliver High-Speed Internet for Less,” tired of waiting, some rural residents are funding their own Wi-Fi networks to bring broadband to their homes.
A Brain Computer Interface for Tackling ADHD in Children
24 May 2019 A IEEE Spectrum article by Anouk Wipprecht “I Built a Brain Computer Interface for Tackling ADHD in Children,” or A playful headpiece called Agent Unicorn incorporates an EEG that detects P300, the neural signature of attention.
What could go wrong? The U.S. put nuclear waste under a dome on a Pacific island.
The Washington Post published an engaging essay about a nuclear waste depository on the Marshall Islands. Some good background and discussion of the meeting of two critical issues, climate change and nuclear waste. Beyond the comments from a shill or two from the pro-nuclear camp, the concerns of us common folk is quite clear in … [Read more…]
We froze the salaries of 20 executives – and it improved the lives of 500 employees
From the Guardian: Executive pay is skyrocketing in the US. But I froze the salaries of my top team to benefit other workers – and it worked. What seems like a real world example of how smart leadership can help fix wage disparity.
Cost Prohibitive — The last reactor at Three Mile Island is shutting down
Plant owner Exelon said the reactor would shut down by September 30. from Ars Technica by Megan Geuss, 05/09/2019.
The Moron’s Dozen
By Dirty Matt Leonardo Traded for a small donation with Mr. Leonardo in Petaluma CA in 2018, a copy of an original 4 x 6 inches in ball point pen