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So much for the past

08-05-28 – 08:01:am

From the letters to the editor (a/k/a “Rants and Raves”) for WiReD 1.02 (May/Jun 1993):

My copy is too wide for the top of my toilet. It’s hard to keep the lid up with Wired hanging over the edge. Steve Cisler - sac@apple.com

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Steve Cisler interview

08-05-22 – 10:35:pm

A video’s worth a thousand tributes.

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The Central Point

08-05-14 – 08:41:am

Brent Staples in the today’s NYT:
But Central Point, [Va.,] which had been a visibly mixed-race community since the 19th century, was home to a secret but paradoxically open interracialism. The community’s story goes a long way toward explaining how [Mildred and Richard Loving] thought about race and why they behaved as they did.
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Private-public key history

08-05-12 – 09:56:pm

Steve Bellovin’s “Prehistory of Public Key Cryptography” (08-01-16) says the technique was developed several years earlier than thought—and, according to former NSA Director Bobby (Ray) Inman, “a decade earlier than Diffie and Hellman,” possibly inspired by “a World War II–era paper by an unknown person at Bell Labs.”

In a talk “The Early Days in Nuclear [...]

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