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Sat Feb 27 2021 at 2:15:07 At the risk of aging myself, Ive been using the Internet in one form or another since 1993. For all the negative things I could say about my dad, he was never a technophobe. Growing up, ours was pretty much always the first (and sometimes only) household among my friends and relatives to have whatever the latest new thing was. Now, granted, Internet access was not exactly "brand new" in 1993 (and indeed, my dad had been using BBSes for years before that) but I was def...

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Feb 26, 2021 TODD: I want to talk to Brian in north Alabama. Brian, youre on the Rush Limbaugh program as Todd Herman filling in for our departed friend. Brian, welcome to Rushs show. CALLER: Thank you for taking my call. And my condolences go out to Rushs family and the staff there and all of his listeners. I wanted to touch on a point you made earlier about you cant separate the family. My mom and dad listened to Rush from the get-go. My dad hes passed, but my mom still listened, and shes cri...

Members of Congress don’t agree on much these days, but there’s one idea both the right and the left support: Something needs to be done to rein in social media companies. Democrats’ concerns revolve around harassment and misinformation, while Republicans’ focus is on political speech. Both sides have set their sights on a small but critical piece of federal law known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. But such discussions have been clouded by fundamental misunderstanding...

Thu, Feb 18th 2021 10:45am — Cathy Gellis One of the arguments for changing Section 230 is that even if we needed it a long time ago when the Internet was new, now that the Internet has been around for a while and some of the companies providing Internet services are quite big, we dont need it anymore. This view is simply untrue: Internet service providers of every size still need it, including and perhaps even especially the big ones because they are the ones handling the greatest volume of ...

You have a new memory: escaping the pull of the portal. Books review by Markie Robson-Scott

12 Most Influential Entrepreneurs in America In this article, we will present the 12 Most Influential Entrepreneurs in the World. Click to skip ahead and see our discussion on the 5 Most Influential Entrepreneurs in America. The rise of internet connectivity is causing a boom in entrepreneurship worldwide. In a study by America’s SBDC, about 49% of millennials said they plan to start their own company over the next 3 years, while 62% of the surveyed audience said they already have an idea of...

26 Years… of Delphi February 15, 2021 Today is Delphi 26th anniversary. A very long time… Many things have changed, some more than others. Here’s my 26 picks! On February 14th 1995, Borland introduced a new tool for developers, one that sparked a lot of enthusiasm and over 26 years has been used to build applications used by billions of people (think about the good old Skype) and it still being used today for building apps for many incredibly different tasks. We are running a showcase fo...

I wonder if the Chinese National Anthem is played during timeouts?

This is Mark Cubans most underrated skill as a businessman, according to his former professor CNBC 2/9/2021 © Provided by CNBC Self-made billionaire Mark Cuban, investor on ABCs "Shark Tank" and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, often attributes his success to his commitment to life-long learning. But "the most underrated thing" about Cuban is a skill he honed working at a bar in college, Cubans former statistics professor at Indiana University, Wayne Winston, reportedly told podcast host Joe ...