The bing-bongs, screeches, and whiirings of a diai-up modem are long forgotten now. For good reason. Dial up was slow, and if you’re one of those unlucky people reading this and waiting for the animated gif above this paragraph to load, you have our condolences. But still, nostalgia. It bit [Doge Microsystems] hard, and now…

20-year-old Timothy Dalton Vaughn from Winston-Salem, N.C now faces 80 years in federal prison, reports KrebsOnSecurity.com: Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites (including this one), took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and…

Ghost-hunting through a phone in AR, in tiny brick kits. …read more Source:: CNet

“I’ve been making the argument that everything is a free software issue for a few months now,” writes the campaigns manager for the Free Software Foundation, in a new essay sharing thoughts on “the issues proprietary technology poses in dating and maintaining romantic relationships”: Many dating Web sites run proprietary JavaScript… Proprietary JavaScript is a…

Hilary Mason, the former chief data scientist at Bitly and founder of Fast Forward Labs, is now the key AI executive and thought leader at Cloudera. So it may surprise people to learn that she thinks our obsession with AI’s cool factor is impeding progress, and inhibiting AI’s successful application in the Enterprise. …read more…

At least Bulbasaur and Growlithe look cute in the short TV spot. …read more Source:: CNet

This weekend the BBC reports on the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion — where “robotic cranes are dismantling 33-year-old, radioactive wreckage” — investigating an area of more than 4,000 square kilometres [2,485 square miles] that’s been abandoned since 1986. “That could be about to change…” An anonymous reader summarizes their report: “Every community…

…read more Source:: PacketStorm

If you had to guess the age of a person hailing from a country in which Lego is commonly available, you might very well do it by asking them about the Lego trains available in their youth. Blue rails or grey rails, 4.5, 9, or 12 volt power, and even somewhat unexpectedly, one rail or…

The Woo WA11 Topaz is an amazingly compact, yet truly high-end headphone amplifier. …read more Source:: CNet