I received this Japanese clear file as a gift from a friend. The inscription is quite inspiring.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. Life is [...]
In 1980 AT&T was a powerful institution with a lucrative monopoly on transporting long-distance voice communications, but forbidden by law from permitting the government to eavesdrop without a warrant. Then in 1981 Judge Greene took its voice monopoly away, and in the 1980s and 90s the Internet ate the rest of its lunch. [...]
Google’s (GOOG) much awaited answer to Facebook ecosystem is finally coming to light. The existence of this Google platform was first reported by TechCrunch and is going to become official tomorrow.
Google will announce its new social networking initiative, Open Social on Thursday. Joining Google and its Orkut social network are other partners such as [...]
We have all heard about it. On Wednesday, Microsoft invested $240M into Facebook, beating Google to the punch, and giving the folks on University Avenue a $15B valuation (“yes, mini-me, $15B dollars…”) and a war chest large enough to …
According to government documents studied by The New York Times, the FBI asked several phone companies to analyze phone-call patterns of Americans using a technology called “communities of interest”. Verizon refused, saying that it didn’t have any such technology. AT&T, famously, did not refuse.
What is the “communities of interest” technology? It’s spelled out very clearly [...]
“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
“CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.”