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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Why quantum computing is hard |
| 12:12:30 am mst / 10 March 2001 found by paul / filed in future / source Economist 115 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| A good overview from the Economist on the current state of quantum computing as well as the major hurdles that need to be overcome. |
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| Test your reflexes |
| 4:53:41 am mst / 10 March 2001 found by paul / filed in fun / source Fark 215 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails |
| Fark pointed us towards this online reflex tester. |
| Warning -- addictive! |
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| Do you kick Yahoo? |
| 5:18:23 am mst / 10 March 2001 found by diana / filed in business / source Salon 70 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Scott Rosenberg argues that Wall Street analysts are still way off the mark, this time in their dire, silly predictions about Yahoo. |
| As he says, if they were so wildly-off base in their global optimism about the internet, then why should we trust their new-found global pessimism? |
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| Digital Music for Artists, Perhaps Someday? |
| 9:06:38 am mst / 10 March 2001 found by MysteriousStranger / filed in digital media / source Misc 46 hits / 3 comments / 0 e-mails |
| The folks over at DownSlam have a pretty interesting model for digital music that would reward artists rather than labels, as well as give consumers more control over what they buy. |
| Unfortunately, the illness of NASDAQ means that DownSlam will have a hard time getting funded. Nevertheless, interest in options like these is always heartening! |
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| NJ concrete company gets internet paving contract |
| 1:40:39 pm mst / 10 March 2001 found by paul / filed in humor / source SatireWire 59 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| From the (parody) article: "In a surprise move, ICANN, the Internet's governing body, announced today that NorthJerseyConcrete.com has won a bid to pave the Internet, a 10-year, $400 billion project that critics call laughable, but that ICANN insists has 'suddenly become a matter of life or death.'" |
| When I read the quotes from "Anthony Capiello", I keep hearing the voice of "Fat Tony" from the Simpsons... |
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| Ripping off billionaires |
| 7:27:27 pm mst / 10 March 2001 found by paul / filed in legal / source NY Post 110 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Two men in New York have been charged with using the internet to adopt the identities of some billionaires (including Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen), then looting their bank accounts. Their (not implausible) theory was that the billionaires would be unlikely to notice a discrepancy of a mere $1 million here and there. The thieves got caught when they became too greedy and attempted to transfer $10 million at once. (Link via Techdirt.) |
| I think I'll be checking my bank statements carefully this month, in case someone tries to steal a few nickels from me... |
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