January 11, 2009 at 6:37 pm · Filed under Tumbled
via Wired. Also see the search results of the #Gaza hashtag on Twitter (until the spammers are stopped).
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January 11, 2009 at 6:37 pm · Filed under Tumbled
via Wired. Also see the search results of the #Gaza hashtag on Twitter (until the spammers are stopped).
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December 17, 2008 at 6:00 pm · Filed under Tumbled
“We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that’s exactly what we did. And it worked. And that’s exactly what we’ll do this time.”
Steve Jobs, via CNN Money
October 17, 2008 at 10:16 pm · Filed under Tumbled
The Financial Crisis, as Explained to My Fourteen-Year-Old Sister
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August 29, 2008 at 10:11 pm · Filed under Tumbled
Admitted Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon lost his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday, and is expected to be on a plane to Virginia within three weeks. But — surprise! — he’s now been diagnosed at 42 with Asperger’s syndrome, and his lawyers are asking Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to keep him in London for medical reasons.
U.K. Hacker Gary McKinnon Plays the Asperger’s Card
via Wired
August 1, 2008 at 9:30 pm · Filed under Tumbled
Computer hacker Gary McKinnon loses US extradition battle in House of Lords – Telegraph
He was finally caught in 2002 when he attempted to download a grainy image he believed was an alien spacecraft and was traced through his own email address.
I guess 5 years of cracking (get it right Telegraph) and you’re bound to make a mistake.
“…we believe that the British Government declined to prosecute him to enable the US government to make an example of him. American officials involved in this case have stated that they want to see him ‘fry’.”
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