Jack Henderson

It was a birthplace of a wealth of advances that fueled the technology revolution. Now, as reported in this article from Wired, the mother corporation of Bell Labs has announced a pull-back from basic research and an increased focus on more immediately marketable avenues of development. It’s their prerogative to do so, of course. Had [...]

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Wider than my front lawn and heavier than your car, with enough internal wiring to make a tin-can phone to my Mom’s house 500 miles away, the Mark I was truly a milestone in computing. I was playing Texas Hold ‘em on my cell phone the other night in a waiting room, and getting a [...]

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From the LA Times The West might have a stronger argument in questioning China’s potential for intrusive surveillance if it weren’t moving rapidly in the same direction. London is believed to have the largest number of closed-circuit TV cameras of any city in the world. Many countries have seen vast troves of personal data lost [...]

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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.” I started to type the word “dissident” here to describe Solzhenitsyn, and it occurred to me how inadequate such a [...]

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from Salon.com If the now-deceased Ivins really was the culprit behind the attacks, then that means that the anthrax came from a U.S. Government lab, sent by a top U.S. Army scientist at Ft. Detrick. Without resort to any speculation or inferences at all, it is hard to overstate the significance of that fact. From [...]

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From the Washington Post A top U.S. biodefense researcher has apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. read more | digg story

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