Posts by readman

The chip that changed my world – and yours

I purchased the Z80 card for my Apple II+. I was into assembly programming the 6502 and was looking to learn the Z80. I missed the 6502 memory mapped IO.

How tech firms can drive growth without making inequality worse

As usual the people close to the tech business have the idea that if everyone learned to code they would all make good money. The number of jobs in a typical community that could employ a coder are a very small percent of the working population. I was employed as a software engineer at a large aerospace company for many years and I can tell you that the majority of jobs were in manufacturing, not engineering. The actual of number of "coders" was an even smaller fraction of all engineers.

Good news! US broadband speeds are up. Bad news – they're still rubbish

you city folk are lucky. I live in the northern california mountains and I'm lucky enough to be able to get a wireless ISP that provides 1.5 mbps (that's bits per second}. Most folks are stuck with satellite, one neighbor has a $350/month bill. My speed hasn't changed for the last 3 years. No DSL, No Cable, no fiber. and never will have those options.

Dad who shot 'snooping vid drone' out of the sky is cleared of charges

Resolution is what its about

Satellites see his yard every day and photograph it. Airliners probably pass over several times each day. News helicopters might overfly once in a while. It is the "Personal Space" that is violated that makes it unsavory and disliked.

FBI may pillory Hillary with email spillery grillery

Re: Only to be expected

it's too bad this revelation gets a political spin and this commentator ignores the legal facts. If anyone other than a current candidate had broken the law it would be investigated by the FBI since it involves slips in the protection of national security information. Please ignore the political mis-mash and just look at the crime on its own merit. At least Edward Snowden's release of national security information has so far escaped the political smear and folks are weighing in based on the risk of harm to the US verses people's right to know what is going on in the government. The only case I am hearing on Clinton's case is that it is all political and no one seems to care that mis-handling of information is in its self dangerous.