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Probably should be "Rebuilt the CERN Browser"

The Silversmith browser went into service in 1986. It worked with SCI documents under security controls. The user could only access the sections of the document permitted by heir clearance. It includeded in-line images that linked to descriptions providing access to data in a prescribed linked bounding box. The Security mechanism could be configured to resemble the security procedures of WWMCCS (Now SIPRNet)(WorldWide Military Command & Control System), Later renamed WIS (WWMCCS Information System).

A modified version providing semantic sezrches was made available to the U.S.Army Material Command in 1988. In 2007 an ACM in Boston a paper described another variant that provided searches using creative strings.


It's all in the language. What is a ring? It is clearly a 2D geometry as there are just heads and tails, and no fan-in or fan-out. Adding thise mechanisms would lead to neurons which could start doing AI. GAWD FORBID!


This architecture appears to overlap with the, then, Bell Labs LambdaXtreme telephone switch. It was sold to Alcatel as it appears to be an optimum design for a swich that covers the E.U. Switching was likely in the control plane, and perhaps an optical fabric was used for administrative changes in both the control and dats pkane.


The scope of a domain is defined by its bounds. Expressed mathematically the bounds can be expressed using any variable type that can enclose an area or a field of elements or sets. The range of the bounds can extend to infinity. An abstract unspecifued domain may have no associated elements, sets or operators.


Norway has done work in this area that uses computers. Their system recognizes fish and parasites. As the fish pass through the systdm a laser zaps the parasites and antibiotics are not needed.


Does the State Dept get involved in these cases? Surely China has responsibility over this ISP.


Some Latin countries practice burning of certain home contents once a year. This "Noche de Diablos" (Night of the Devil) where straw and fabrics are burned help rid the community of pests, but is troublesome for cities. Guatemala's government asks people not to burn things in the street as it stresses the asphalt. But there are small bonfires all across the city on December 6th. And used toilet papers are regularly burned on the pavement once a week. Such is life in an agrarian culgure.


Mushrooms are very forgiving of spores from other mushrooms and easily include them into their structures. So much so that they are considered promiscuous. No book will help you with this in the emergency room. Why take a chance? Go to the gricery store and have a comfortable dinner. And, please keep this in mind: the President of the Boston mycology club died of mushroom poisoning, and he was surounded by "mushroom experts".


> And, please keep this in mind: the President of the Boston mycology club died of mushroom poisoning, and he was surounded by "mushroom experts".

Do you have a link for that? My web searches brought up 0 hits for this.


If microscopic spores from poisonous mushrooms can render edible mushrooms deadly, then how can you trust even grocery store mushrooms? They aren't grown in sealed semiconductor fab cleanrooms.

I've only heard of look-alike mushroom deaths, never a death caused by an ostensibly safe species of mushroom that was being promiscuous with deadly spores. Can you substantiate this threat?


His work also spanned large regions of CS. We owe most operating system architectures for his work on T.H.E. Computer designs including the basic ISO stack.


Yes, I worked on it in 1972 for Earth Resiurces Technology Satellite, ERTS, developing an image orocessing library to correct for satellite angles, Sun position and cloud cover. I bellieve that was for NRO/CIA as it was used for grain yields during the Cold War. It read multiple color bands plus IR and we could recognize corn and wheat blight. This allowed it to be used for crop yield predictions, so we knew Russian yields before they did. It was a bunch of linear array processing functions. That satellite is now called IntelSat, likely a KeyHole 10/11.


Out of curiosity, what can you do with data abour Russia's farm yields?

Probably a lot, but besides maybe predicting price changes of the crop, I can't think of much (I guess that's why I'm not a gov analyst).


In Cold War times, information from remote sensing was recognized as important to understanding the USSR grain harvest and possible instability it might cause. I'm sure interest and target lists have only increased since then.

See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_United_States–Soviet_Unio...

Or the perennial Afghanistan poppies: https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/9851


@saganus Completely unrelated but I saw you ask a question back in 2019 on how to repair a TRS-80 Model 4P. You might want to look at the YouTube channel Adrian's Digital Basement. He repaired a Model 4P about 10 months ago. Did three videos on it.

Hopefully you already figured out how to fix it though!


Awesome! thanks a lot!

Will check the videos out. I have not had the chance to repair it yet.


Cool! Glad to help, in a small way.

The Model I was my first computer. So I have a soft spot for the TRS-80 line :)

As a note. Adrian lives in the Portland, Oregon area. If that would be of any use to you.


The discussions among team members was that once the U.S. had reliable predictions of crop yields then the State Dept could respond in the grain markets. Thee were grain reserves that were available that could be used to flood the global markets resulting in lower grain prices and lower revenues for Russia. The undersanding was that "Grain is Gold", and it appears now that that is still true.


That's pretty wild. Thanks for the details


Probably concessions at the bargaining table at the intersection of arms and food.

Where before the harvest they might balk at some of the language in an agreement after they learn the harvest was going to be disappointing they may agree to certain demands and make concessions.


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