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Forget I said this. Clearly it’s impossible and the cranks at mit and nature should not have announced their findings.

I agree. (Edit: to add to this, I've always thought that the third-last episode of Futurama, 'Murder on the Planet Express', was a return to form and reminiscent of the heyday of the show).

On the subject of tv shows, ‘Peep Show’, the British sitcom, also had a very strong final season and final episode.

I find this really disgraceful.

A flaw in procedure that led to the initial catastrophes is at least understandable in terms of insidious errors in complex systems.

A continuation after the initial error is hard to explain other than by deliberate personal moral failure.

He says in the Computer History Museum talk that (paraphrasing) ALOHANet was eventually connected to ARPANet, making in effect the first connection of the Internet.

Surfing and invention sound like makings of a good life.

Speaking for myself, 'underappreciated' is the right word to describe his achievements. Quoting the article,

"Metcalfe and his colleagues at Xerox PARC adopted and tweaked the ALOHAnet technology in creating Ethernet"

It's an odd colour scale on that map, red, then light blue through black. Usually it's something simpler, like blue through red.

It takes a look at the scale to realize that the former Soviet Union countries actually have the best price rather than the worst price.

Might be good to have a 2nd map adjusted for PPP as well.

It's been a long time since I've used C, but I recall strncpy being safe. I assume from context that I'm wrong, though.

That’s a quote worthy of bash.org

Now that you point it out, that seems to be the case. The fuzziness around the edges (the east and north especially) threw me off, though that could probably be put down to compression in the image that was used as the source for the crop.

A nit pick, I guess, but it’s a square, not a cube.

The edges are interesting. I wonder what part of the image processing results in the irregularity. Some kind of interpolation, I’d guess, but that’s pure speculation.

Same idea with parentheses, at least I understand them.