Joe Petviashvili

“"HAMNET" ==== Shakespeare's play adapted for irc First performed 12 December 1993 20:00 GMT on #Hamnet”

“would hack into living room sized mainframe systems was to get access to computers that could run a C compiler to learn programming.”

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“Establishing empathy is one of the harder things to recreate over the web”

Pakistan Telecom has decided to (accidentally probably) hijack their IP address space which means that nobody in the world can reach Youtube." The Pakistani government blocked the access to YouTube "because of content deemed offensive to Islam".

“the belief that an endless influx of newbies since that date has continuously degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet”

“the first spam ever”

“What does it mean to be Internet famous?”

the site will use other proxies to calculate risk. Each borrower must scan in their national ID cards to verify who they are, and list their school, major, grades, hometown, parents ID cards and income.

An internet start-up aims to untangle the web for you by launching a site which aims to analyze and organize all your digital data

While there is a certain grand mystery to some aspects of human behavior, others can be easily explained. Just find yourself a garden-variety house cat, along with a $10 laser pointer.

Wine Therapy database of back posts and comments is a wealth of information: tasting notes, restaurant recommendations, stories and so on. Late last year someone hacked the board software, got administrative privileges and deleted the database. There was no backup.

"For $44 billion, Microsoft could buy every Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley venture-backed start-up in existence. That includes Facebook at $15 billion. It includes Slide, RockYou, and every other elemental company. It would be a Moe Green kind of scene more...

Hate is the main feature that people are fascinated with in Utu since it’s the method that a Hub uses to throttle misbehaving peers.