Things That Don’t Turn Off

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I thought that thinking of our devices and what they do for us as persistent, things we’re always accountable to — in other words, you can’t just cut them off, or silence them or some such thing. More like pet ownership than just having an inert object that can be denied when it is convenient to ignore them, or discard them.


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The Four Suns of HD 98800

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APOD: 2007 July 30 - The Four Suns of HD 98800

Knuth Against Software Patent

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Surely nobody could apply mathematics if it were necessary to pay a license fee whenever the theorem of Pythagoras is employed.


Donald “God of Computer Algorithms” Knuth Against Software Patents

A few things we’ve been wondering about lately

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[This Modern World]: A few things we’ve been wondering about lately

Look

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The scanner, which has four times as many detectors as a typical multi-detector CT scanner, combines unrivaled image quality with remarkable speed. It can produce detailed pictures of any organ in a few seconds and provide sharp, clear, three-dimensional images, including 3-D views of the blood vessels, in an instant…

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