Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Apple’s Welcoming Ceremony Challenged By Robot
I’m cool with a robot waiting in line for a little tech innovation. Get used to it, cyborg haters. https://t.co/Q4Omggedoc — Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) September 25, 2015 It makes more sense than a human...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: $5 Raspbery Pi Computer
With computers this cheap, the hardest part is finding applications that are programmed well enough to work on under-powered hardware. . . . → Read More: Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: $5 Raspbery Pi Computer
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Sanders Backs Up Clinton, Gets Back Stabbed By DNC
One of the notable moments of the Democratic Debate on CNN weeks ago was when Bernie Sanders bluntly said he was sick and tired of hearing about Hillary Clinton’s emails. Clinton infamously used...
View ArticleBill Longstaff: Technology bargain betrayed—where have all the rewards gone?
Early in the Industrial Revolution, many workers were concerned about being replaced by machines. The most well known group were the Luddites, British weavers who smashed mechanical looms that...
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Most Dangerous Writing App
I tried this silly online app, and won on my first try. I chose the easiest 5 minute difficulty though. I’m certain I won’t be able to use this dangerous writing app effectively. I should have a...
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Being a Cyborg Can Leave a Lot to Think About
Pacemakers and Piracy: The Unintended Consequences of the DMCA for Medical Implantshttps://t.co/uGz68CtR7V pic.twitter.com/ZXFrZgRCBd — Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) April 25, 2016 “Today there are well...
View ArticleScripturient: Transcendance
It’s not surprising that AI replaced the biological form in the popular Frankenstein monster trope. In fact the smart-evil-machine scenario has been done so often this past decade or so that I’m more...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Story Of Human Voice Recordings
For the longest time, historians thought they knew Edison was the first to record the human voice. Then a team of researchers realized there were earlier recordings that were made by a Frenchman...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Wildrose offices burgled, computers stolen,...
David Climenhaga over at AlbertaPolitics.ca has the scoop. Here is an excerpt from his piece tonight: In an email to supporters sent late Sunday with the bland subject line, “A Wildrose Update,”...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: IT Problem At Saskatchewan Government
What’s going on?Trying to communicate with #skpoli gov't?Don't bother. E-mail server, website all still down.— Murray Mandryk (@MMandryk) December 7, 2016server down all day. No gov't news releases. So...
View ArticleScripturient: Microsoft killed solitaire for me
Solitaire – also known as Klondike and Patience – is a very popular game on computers. So popular, in fact that a version of this 200-year-old card game has been included by Microsoft in every version...
View ArticlePostArctica: Ellis D. Kropotechev and Zeus, This marvelous time-sharing...
Stumbled on to this interesting little 16mm film made by a couple of Standford grad students in 1967. Some computer history and plenty of innuendo. Enjoy!
View ArticleScripturient: Forty years of geekitude
It was forty years ago this fall, in 1977, that I bought my first computer. I had little experience with computers prior to that – a few weeks working after hours on an APL system at the U of T, mostly...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: More Vague First World Problems
I made a large purchase last week Tuesday, and have had problems paying for it. Oh, I’ve got the money, I mean I’ve had some difficulty sending it to the seller. I put a deposit down instantly over the...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Spy Agency Fighting Malware
Canada’s CSE is attempting to make it easier for organizations to detect malicious software in files.
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A gripping tale of lost Bitcoins
I’m just glad this wasn’t me. You probably won’t be disappointed reading this tale of a man losing his Bitcoin recovery information, and the low-tech, and high-tech means he tries to recover them from...
View ArticleScripturient: Of mice and men, and trackballs, too
Late last year, I purchased another laptop to separate my work and recreational uses. After a long search in stores, and a lot of online
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: How to use Nanowallet for the NEM blockchain
May 4, 2018 NEM is a cryptocurrency, inspired by Bitcoin and an alt-coin called NXT. It isn’t compatible with Bitcoin, however. For this reason it
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Tech Giants Funding Climate Denial
Microsoft and Facebook and Google threw money into a “LibertyCon” [Too appropriate] convention along with Heritage Institute [Brad Wall’s chums], and other climate change denial orgs.
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Civic Hatchback vs. LEAF Hatchback
Should you buy a Honda gas burner, or a pure electric Nissan if you need a family hatchback motor vehicle? “2019 Civic hatchback and coupe models are priced […] at $20,150US and $19,350US,...
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