Want to join the fight against COVID-19 & don't know how cause you're not a doctor, scientist, etc.? There's a great way anyone can help. You can donate unused computing power from your computer to Folding@Home, a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, focusing on disease research including COVID-19. "The problems we’re solving require …
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Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet by Joseph Menn My rating: 3 of 5 stars Fatal System Error is an absolutely scary as shit, totally frightening book about today’s hackers and their ties to the Russian mob and how billions of US dollars in terms …
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book was a fascinating history of personal computing in America, most specifically in Northern California, most especially in the Stanford region. I swear, I had no idea that Stanford played such a …
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Review: Windows 8.1 widens gap with older PCs - Yahoo! News. "So, instead of bringing back a familiar environment, the revived "Start" button is mainly just another way of directing you to the new one." That seems to defeat the purpose, doesn't it? I have a Windows 8 machine and I don't understand the fuss. …
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