Sexy Jihad

KernelTrap has a fascinating and lengthy interview with Richard Stallman.
If you don’t know who this guy is, he’s the one who founded the GNU Project in 1984, and the Free Software Foundation in 1985. He also originally authored a number of well known and highly used development tools, including the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), the […]

Seems that the guy who invented the ATM machine has finally been honoured, at 79 years old. Well, better late then never. An excerpt:
The De La Rue Automatic Cash System took in cheques impregnated with Carbon 14, which were bought in advance from a bank teller, and exchanged them for cash.
Each cheque was chemically […]