IBM and the Holocaust

IBM and the Holocaust (VIA hugg.com)- Short video based on the Pulitzer Prize-nominated international bestseller book "IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black. The book, which documents IBM's direct links to Hilter and his so-called "Final Solution" by providing the Third Reich with census machines and punch card technology, caused IBM to issue a formal statement claiming that the Nazis controlled the operations of IBM Germany during the war.  » original news

GATES will give it all away... can't take iot with him

El Lobo writes "The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation To Spend All Its Assets within 50 years of both of them dying. The foundation focuses on improving health and economic development globally, and improving education and increasing access to technology. It also focuses on fighting diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. The Seattle-based foundation plans to increase spending to about $3.5 billion a year beginning in 2009 and continuing through the next decade, up from about $1.75 billion this year." The Wall Street Journal (excerpted at the link above) called the foundation's decision "a decisive move in a continuing debate in philanthropy about whether such groups should live on forever." Link

First computer 150 BC

Ancient Astronomical Computer Decoded"A mechanical device from 150BC was found in a shipwreck. Upon examination with X-Rays, the device appeared to be a revolutionary computer used to calculate lunar cycles. This device "is technically more complex than any known for at least a millennium afterward." >From the article "The hand-operated mechanism, presumably used in preparing calendars for planting and harvesting and fixing religious festivals, had at least 30, possibly 37, hand-cut bronze gear-wheels, the researchers said. A pin-and-slot device connecting two gear-wheels induced variations in the representation of lunar motions according to the Hipparchos model of the Moon's elliptical orbit around Earth." See a slideshow about the mechanism

Microsoft Windows Comes Of Age - Happy 21st Birthday!

Believe it or not Windows was 21 years old on Monday.  When it was launched in 1985 the PC market was barely out of it's infancy, and whatever you may think of Microsoft it is amazing what they Bill Gates & Co have built in such a relatively short time.

 

Link:   http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2006/11/18/1046/

Who maintains the internet?

"The internet has the potential to incite belligerence on a global scale, or even to empower demagogues and repressive regimes in ways that were historically impossible to achieve previously." wikipedia

Could you lose your internet? - (yes of relevant content )

Maybe you already have? - (yes well 90% of it ;-)

Due to mass media and marketing you don't even see half of it and never will - (You see what we want, not maybe what you want)

Why do you think you found this page "random chance"? Hardly

Not possible on the internet...

The 57 Million blogs maintained on the internet and that number doubles in size approximately every 230 days.

So, about 100,000 new weblogs are created each day...

In the December 2006 survey we received responses from 105,244,649 Web sites with content...

While Al Gore has done a lot to promote his books & movies... he did not create and does not maintain the internet, these guys do ;-)

• World Wide Web Consortium
• The Internet Society (ISOC)
• Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers

Why "Who Maintains the Internet Matters"... Here’s a little something to think about while the UN makes the case for greater international control of the internet turning a large class of people into social misfits, deviants and criminals and terrorists...

Who maintains YOUR internet? - Hoz