Link. Microsoft, please come back. I’m sorry for all the bad things I said about you.
Daily Archives: January 15, 2018
Guardian on Trump’s growing porn star payouts.
Link. Melania understands the deal she made.
Facebook Chatbot experiment failed. M dead.
Link. I forgot the chatbot revolution. Turned out to need an army of humans.
Ransomwared? Try this before paying
Link. Key archve.
“Google has stopped indexing the older parts of the Web.”
Link. I’ve seen this for 1+ year(s) on my (Google) Blogger posts.
Undocumented iOS response to password entry error can scew your iDevice.
Link. This is nuts.
Hawaii false alert was inevitable
Link. Next question for RCA: Why wasn’t this fixed years ago.
Feedbin Share to Micro.blog
Link. I support but have yet to integrate into my life
NYT annotates historic record of Trump white supremacy
Link. Case closed.
Returning from a Nordic ski resort in genteel decline …
This resort was in Northern Minnesota, along the Gunflint Trail. Could be anywhere though; every one we’ve visited in the past 15 years has had better days.
Lovely times when there is snow, but always with some melancholy. The world has moved on. There’s not enough consistent snow cover to sustain Nordic skiing in North America.
It was a beautiful sport – especially on narrower classic trails through woods. Our snowless winters feel longer for its passing.
“1995 paper titled The Intel 80×86 Processor Architecture: Pitfalls for Secure Systems, authors Sibert, Porras, and Lindell described architecture subtleties and implementation errors that made many x86 processors undesirable for secure systems”
Link. What else did they warn about?