computer

I read in Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works that Alan Turing said that one could, theoretically, build a computer out of dice, toilet paper rolls and other stuff. How? Or, perhaps more to the point, how does a computer work at the very bottom rung? What makes the 1's and 0's?

I noticed a wordpad file on the desktop of the host computer titled "you should read this". It said roughly "thanks for the free inet access. You should probaly tighten up your security and change your netgear router from the default password" I thought it was kind of neat actually, glad it was...

Hacker's defense: the computer did it This is becoming a serious issue and one that I think merits discussion. I am very interested in reading other forum members' thoughts on this. How responsible should we be assumed to be if a hack is traced back to our computers? How can that be...

I was browsing around on www.theinquirer.net when I stumbled upon this article. And for anyone wanting to know what PuRam is... Here is PuRam summed up for the average techie Puram is a Ram drive think of it as a hardrive thats has a seektime of 20ns rather than 12ms everything is fast...

Dark Arts: The Real Reason Your Computer Keeps Crashing Advice for the cybersavvy coven, as published in the spring 2003 edition of New Witch magazine. » Because the physical hard drive is a conduit for a unique type of energy, it is possible for nature spirits (called vaettir) to take up...

I have Windows XP. My Recycle Bin has 19 files that do not actually show up as icons or anything. But say I send a document file to the recycle bin, and then go to the recycle bin and click on "Empty Recycle Bin." The usual window pops up asking me if I am sure I want to do this, but instead...

This may seem to be a silly question but a time will come when it will be true. With the growth of technology, in time there will be a device you can connect to your brain, that will interface with computer systems.( wireless). Would you feel less human. Replacing an arm or leg with machines...