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mwilson1962

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Let's Talk, iPhone

General Magic Didn't General Magic have a pretty decent PA service back in the 90's? As I remember, it could set up appointments, sort your... (read full comment)  

Posted on October 3, 2011 at 8:52 AM EDT

The Best Hard Science Fiction Books of all Time

Almost done with "The Windup Girl". Great story! Highly original, interesting extrapolations. (read full comment)  

Posted on June 8, 2011 at 9:12 AM EDT

A Laptop You Can Break Down by Hand, Then Recycle

Why just laptops? It would be cool if common power and comm interfaces for the components of things like TVs, stereos, etc. could be developed,... (read full comment)  

Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:06 AM EST

An Operating System to Run It All

Qt One great thing about MeeGo is that it's environment is based on Qt, arguably the best GUI development environment out there. (read full comment)  

Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:04 AM EDT

A Privacy-Focused Alternative to Facebook Is Revealed

Will it be free of the stupid games people play and with which they flood my screen? I hate Facebook... (read full comment)  

Posted on September 22, 2010 at 8:41 AM EDT

How Spammers Use Low-cost Labor to Solve CAPTCHAS

The book "Freedom" by Daniel Suarez (but read "Daemon" first) had an interesting solution - tens of thousands of spammers are gunned down almost... (read full comment)  

Posted on August 12, 2010 at 8:56 AM EDT

How HTML5 Will Shake Up the Web

Web programming It is unbelievable how crappy the underlying architecture of the web is. HTML and XML are terrible ways to exchange data -... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 22, 2010 at 8:36 AM EDT

Q&A: Buzz Aldrin

Who the hell would want to leave Earth permanently and live in an underground tube on a deadly planet-size desert? (read full comment)  

Posted on June 25, 2010 at 9:07 AM EDT

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America's Broadband Dilemma

Broadbandification Everyone should have at least "slow broadband"; this is equivalent to everyone having at least basic telephone service and... (read full comment)  

Posted on June 23, 2010 at 9:38 AM EDT

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Falcon 9 Soars in Its Debut

I suspect the "skeptical representatives" are all from districts with big aerospace companies. It is debatable that we need to send humans into... (read full comment)  

Posted on June 8, 2010 at 8:43 AM EDT

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