ToddWBurgess

No Internet for us back in the day with its myriad of issues. Just BBSs and screaming at the family when the carrier dropped and you wanted to know who picked up the phone.

I think the biggest risk is someone integrates AI with ballistic missile detection systems and the AI creates a false positive event (missile launch). And on top of that the country with the false positive has an alert ballistic missile arsenal of its own ready to launch for this contingency.

Ideally, the leader of the targeted country waits it out but what if waiting it out could mean losing it all? It's not a hypothetical scenario either. There were a lot of false positive events on both sides during the cold war. It's why countries with nuclear weapons only allow them to be launched by humans. That said what if the decision to launch is based on erroneous data?

Found the December 1994 article I read that was my first introduction to HTML and helped me write my first home page. One of the few articles I read that has stayed with me for over 30 years

Before watching that video all the IBM employees would have had to get together and sing songs. It was a long standing tradition at IBM that all employees at the start of the day had to get together and sing songs praising IBM and Thomas Watson. You can still find copies of the IBM song book floating around the Internet.

When my Dad started in the late 60s IBM had discontinued the morning song tradition.

It has never really went away. Check the news and you can see news stories about employees at anatomy schools and funeral homes who were engaged in the illicit sale of bodies and body parts for a variety of purposes.

I am a former funeral director who has had some professional experience with medical donations so I still find it all very interesting even though I have long since left the industry.

sysop breaking in for chat:

I remember getting a modem for Christmas 1990 (2400 baud modem) and logging into BBSs and my world would never be the same. I was a hardcore BBS user from 1990-1994.

In 1994, I got my first Unix account with Internet access when I started University. Once I saw the Internet there was no going back (even if it was only the 1994 edition) and I gave up on using BBSs ever again. I suspect most people have a similar story to mine.

In Canada because of our privacy rules we have the ability to opt out of having our address published in the official government ham database. American hams don't have that option which complicates things for them.

I am a ham radio operator and also a member of Radio Amateurs of Canada. As we all know, the weather can be a matter of life and death and it is important Canadians have access to the latest weather. I am glad that RAC is taking up the cause for Canadians. In many parts of the country weather radio services parts of the country that don't have reliable Internet or AM/FM radio broadcasts. 73

Writing a blog nobody reads is called a diary.

This article reads like study notes for the Canadian Advanced ham license exam. It's a great crash course on diodes.

Sounds like the start of the plot for a heist movie

I thought the joke was things were running on HP-UX (said the guy that had to use campus services running on HP-UX in the 90s).

Let the 90's Unix flame wars begin!