It’s the first domain name ever registered (Symbolics.com) and which turned 28 yesterday. It was registered in 1985
’1985—the same year Bill Watterson published his first Calvin and Hobbes strip, Mike Tyson debuted as a pro boxer, and Mark Zuckerberg was born to pair of lonely Cray-2 supercomputers. In Internet years, Symbolics is ancient, a veritable methuselah…’
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RSS Creator Doesn’t Miss Google Reader
‘…that should probably be seen as good news, not bad.’
What worries Dave Winer is the potential for Google to control the news flow
‘Winer, who created the first version of RSS in 1997, continued, “Never used the damn thing. Didn’t trust the idea of a big company like Google’s interests being so aligned with mine that I could trust them to get all my news.”
‘While Winer may not miss it, at least one petition asking Google to keep Google Reader alive has now topped 100,000 subscribers. Winer’s heard from some people who don’t want Google Reader to go. His reaction generated “a lot of traffic and a fair amount of hate from people who love Google Reader and probably don’t like to hear from someone who uses RSS who won’t miss it (i.e. me).”…’
There are lots of great G Reader alternatives anyway
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Create Special Online Tests Easily
Here’s the one I created
Biometric Scanning Hacked
Is there anything still secure?
‘According to a report by Agency France-Presse, doctors in Brazil are using fake fingers to fool biometric scanners designed to track their comings and goings. At least five docs at Hospital Ferraz de Vasconcelos in Sao Paulo have been suspended after they were discovered using bogus silicon silicone digits, imprinted with their fingerprints, to clock their colleagues in and out of work…’
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