- Man now living in the house of the lawyer who ripped him off. Sweet revenge.
- Boeing makes smart phones??? Who knew? Apparently this one self-destructs if tampered with.
- I’m not a sports person and I never heard of Dean Smith. But this is a touching tribute for a good man.
- Do seven people really control the security of the Internet? (H/T JB)
- Antimatter beams. Ho hum. So commonplace. (H/T JB)
- The most expensive eviction in NYC history. It involved the Mayflower Hotel, a cranky old hermit, and a room with a view. Quite a tale.
Dean Smith was a demi-god to some people, and a respected figure in basketball history to most others. I’ve often wondered what he was doing since retirement; I’m sorry to hear of his dementia.
I went to UNC but didn’t know him, he came there shortly after I left Chapel Hill. This is what I most admire him for: (From Wikipedia) “Smith is also known for running a clean program and having a high graduation rate for his players, with 96.6% of his athletes receiving their degrees.” He was adamant that college athletes were there to get an education first, THEN they could play. I think the quality of athletes that colleges turn out today reflect the downfall of Dean Smith’s philosophy.
But colleges that chase the fame of a talented athlete are getting payback: more and more athletes are using colleges, by leaving them early and leaving the college sports programs with no real talent.
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Justice is alive and well, and Patrick Coulton is the recipient. It’s about time lawyers started getting smacked down for unethical practices. However ― like doctors and politicians ― they often have to do the too-obvious misdeed before anyone is willing to punish them.
Should it surprise me that The Elders of the Internet really exist?
The phone disables the data from being read. The teaser blurb makes it sound like it goes all IED on you.
Obviously I have no way of knowing for sure if the Boeing phone is on the up and up, but I do know that when Boeing gets up in the morning they climb into the same pair of panties as the NSA. I’m not really convinced this phone is secure from anyone other than 14 year old boys who are locked up without any electronic devices. For all the NSA’s spying on Americans the one thing that keeps rattling around in my tiny mind is that if the NSA has your data so does everyone else, since the NSA doesn’t seem to be able to protect their data from anyone but the American people. And then there’s the brilliance of the US government and State Department in particular. If they see it as an answer… it’s probably not.
@EN: Thanks for that visual. 🙂
So … anti-matter pods are just around the corner?