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How the First Computer Almost Used Gin for Memory
Jun
30
by Macrobius at 12:56 PM (334 Views / 0 Likes) 0 Comments
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/28/wilkes_centenary_mercury_memory/

What could possibly go wrong?


Centenary If Alan Turing had been in charge of the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) project in the late 1940s, the first computer memory might not have been based on mercury - but on a good gin.

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Putin Signs Controversial Laws On Homosexuality, Religious Protection
Jun
30
by rasputin at 11:53 AM (479 Views / 2 Likes) 2 Comments
Gay parades and "Christ in piss" are now criminal offenses :agree:

http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-putin-law-homosexuality-religion/25032223.html

Рussian President Vladimir Putin has signed laws strengthening the penalties for "propagating homosexuality among minors" and for...
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End of Life for Altavista: The Last White Search Engine
Jun
30
by Macrobius at 3:29 AM (779 Views / 0 Likes) 6 Comments
http://searchengineland.com/altavista-eulogy-165366


Goodbye AltaVista. You deserved better than this. Better than the one-sentence send-off Yahoo gave you today, when announcing your July 8 closure date. But then again, you always were the bright child neglected by your parents.

The Amazing AltaVista

You appeared on...
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White Elderly Poverty in the Great Plains States
Jun
30
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2013/06-2/20130628_300002.jpg
by Macrobius at 2:13 AM (898 Views / 0 Likes) 4 Comments
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-29/which-households-have-incomes-below-30000

To be sure, a lot of those hot spots are the rez too. The fact that Western counties have geographically more area (but fewer inhabitants, is slightly distorting as well -- but these data are perspicuously portrayed):
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