- I just flew in from Las Vegas and boy are my arms tired.
- Polaroid to stop making Polaroid film.
- An abandoned anchor seems to be cutting cables by itself.
- Notes of the EU and Microsoft.
- PLUS a slew of Microsoft headlines and the Yahoo deal. Agh!
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When did Henny Youngman start writing material for John?
Summerlin is named after Howard Hughes’ grandmother, Jean Amelia Summerlin.
Hubert Sumlin
Duh, the fool anchor obviously got abandoned *because* it got stuck on the cables.
Why did you black hole my comment? Same as # 3 said. Plus of a reference to Hubert Sumlin.
Neal Stephenson had a fascinating (somewhat long) piece in the December ’96 Wired (4.12) about communications cables. Recommended reading for anyone interested.
Oops! Forgot to include the URL to the Wired article by Stephenson. You can read it in one long go (about 15k) at
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
The cables are being cut for a reason.
It gives the USA time to attach data gathering taps to them.
Its not the first time we did this. During the cold war we tapped a Soviet undersea cable.
Modern cables are optical so you can’t just tap them with a ring that picks up the magnetism of the wire, you must cut it first and install the bridge between the fiber bundles.
Rick,
WOW, you smart.