Prologue Boys from Missouri Joseph Carl Robert Licklider made a strong impression on people. Even in his early years, before he got involved with computers, he had a way of making anything clear to people. “Lick was perhaps the most intuitive genius I have ever known,” William McGill later declared in an interview that was […]
They call me the King. If you use the labels you are used to, then I am a consultant. More precisely, the owner of a new type of consulting company. I came up with a scheme in which my company is guaranteed to earn very decent money, while, oddly enough, benefiting the client. What do you think is the essence of my business scheme? You'll never guess. I sell factories their own programmers, and […]
A vulnerability CVE-2019-11707 was discovered in the Firefox browser, which, according to some reports, allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code using JavaScript. Mozilla says the vulnerability is already being exploited by attackers. The problem lies in the implementation of the Array.pop method. Details have not yet been revealed. The vulnerability is fixed in Firefox 67.0.3 and Firefox ESR 60.7.1. Based on this, we can confidently say that all versions […]
The release of GNU nano 4.3 has been announced. Changes in the new version: The ability to read and write to the FIFO has been restored. Startup times are reduced by allowing full parsing to occur only when necessary. Accessing help (^G) when using the –operatingdir switch no longer causes a crash. Reading a large or slow file can now be stopped using […]
Alan Kay recommends this book. He often says the phrase "The computer revolution has not happened yet." But the computer revolution has begun. More precisely, it was started. It was started by certain people, with certain values, and they had a vision, ideas, a plan. Based on what premises did the revolutionaries create their plan? For what reasons? Where did they plan to lead humanity? At what stage are we […]
Samsung, according to online sources, has submitted an application to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to register the Galaxy Tab Active Pro trademark. As the LetsGoDigital resource notes, a new rugged tablet computer may soon enter the market under this name. Apparently, this device will be made in accordance with MIL-STD-810 standards […]
At the end of the week, the quarterly reporting conference of Broadcom, one of the leading manufacturers of chips for networking and telecommunications equipment, took place. This is one of the first companies to report revenue after Washington imposed sanctions against Chinese Huawei Technologies. In fact, it became the first example of what many still prefer not to talk about - the American sector of the economy is beginning to […]
An automated medical center uses many different devices, the operation of which must be controlled by a medical information system (MIS), as well as devices that do not accept commands, but must transmit the results of their work to the MIS. However, all devices have different connection options (USB, RS-232, Ethernet, etc.) and ways to interact with them. It is almost impossible to support them all in MIS, [...]
Almost always we create our problems with our own hands… our picture of the world… our inaction… our laziness… our fears. That then it becomes very convenient to swim in the public stream of sewer patterns ... after all, it is warm and fun, and the rest is all the same - we sniff. But after a hard fail comes the realization of a simple truth - instead of generating an endless stream of reasons, […]
Hedy Lamarr was not only the first to appear naked in a movie and fake an orgasm on camera, but also invented a radio communication system with protection against interception. I think people's brains are more interesting than their looks. Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr said in 1990, 10 years before her death. Hedy Lamarr is a charming actress of the 40s […]
MachineGames is working on Wolfenstein: Youngblood, a spin-off of the series that tells the story of B.J. Blaskowitz's daughters. The completion of the project will be the longest in the entire family of Wolfenstein shooters from the Swedish team - to see the finale, users will have to spend from 25 to 30 hours. Wolfenstein: Youngblood executive producer Jerk Gustafsson told GamingBolt: “It seems a little strange that the game […]
In nightly builds of Firefox 69, Mozilla developers have disabled the ability to play Flash content by default. The release version is expected on September 3, where the ability to always enable Flash will be removed from the settings of the Adobe Flash Player plugin. The only option left is to disable Flash and activate it for specific sites. But in the ESR branches of Firefox, Flash support will remain until the end of next year. Such a decision [...]
