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20 entertaining short facts about computers and programs
Bashny.Net
Site publishes a selection of interesting short facts dedicated to the topic of computers, software and computer equipment. 
Fifteen-year teenager, whose identity is hidden due to the minority, hacked into NASA and Pentagon sites, for which he was sentenced to 6 months. He went online under the nickname c0mrade. < In 1936 in Russia was created an analog computer that was working on ... the water. The newest graphing calculators have a keyboard layout type abc, instead of qwerty, because otherwise they will be considered computers and can not be taken for an exam . In 1978, Apple Corps company, owned by the group was the Beatles, has sued the company Apple Computer for trademark infringement. They came to an agreement that Apple Computer will never have anything to do with music, and Apple Corps would never deal with computers. However, everyone knows about iTunes. The first computer bug (from the English bug -. "Bug" and "bug in the program") was discovered at Harvard in 1947. They found a moth stuck in a computer Mark II. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a program which is able to distinguish the genuine from the fake smile. < In 1956, IBM released the first "supercomputer" with the hard drive. Disc weighed more than a ton and could contain the "whole" 5 megabytes of data. Washington resident Jay Matthew Riley received a warning from the FBI computer for child pornography possession, and came to the police to confess. It is interesting that in fact sent a warning not the FBI, and a computer virus for the purpose of fraud. Investigators on the case of Casey Anthony, investigating the murder of his daughter, missed incriminating searches on the computer (for example, "how to strangle the man"), because the story checked into Internet Explorer, but forgot about Firefox. Scandinavian company «No More Woof» states that developed a way to read the thoughts of dogs using EEG sensors and microcomputers. Although 95% of the mail is sorted automatically, the US Postal Service employees include special reading the most strange inscriptions on the envelopes. For nearly 10 years the access password to the computer, managing the US nuclear missiles was 00000000. Generally, people blink 20 times per minute. However, sitting at the computer, it blinks three times less - only 7 times per minute The executive producer of studio "Pixar" John Lasseter was fired from Disney for ... addicted to computer animation.. The biggest leak of data in American military history occurred when government employees inserted into the computer memory card found in the parking lot. They did not know that foreign intelligence agents planted deliberately infested card virus. A nun from Ohio Sister Mary Kenneth Keller became the first woman in the United States, received his doctorate in computer science. Computer corresponding power the human brain could perform 38 quadrillion operations per second and would have about 4 petabytes of memory. Our brain is far superior to all hitherto by supercomputers. In 1982, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts refused to nominate the film "Tron" Steven Lisberger in the special effects category, t. To. They considered it cheating to use computers. Some people create a "good" viruses. For example, Welchia worm in contact with the computer removes the Blaster worm ( "bad" virus), establishes a protective update and deletes itself. < Only 8 percent of the money in the world is real. The rest of the money exists only in digital form. These well-known firms like HP, Apple and Microsoft started their activity in the ordinary garage. More than 80 percent of the e-mail is classified as spam.
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Fifteen-year teenager, whose identity is hidden due to the minority, hacked into NASA and Pentagon sites, for which he was sentenced to 6 months. He went online under the nickname c0mrade. < In 1936 in Russia was created an analog computer that was working on ... the water. The newest graphing calculators have a keyboard layout type abc, instead of qwerty, because otherwise they will be considered computers and can not be taken for an exam . In 1978, Apple Corps company, owned by the group was the Beatles, has sued the company Apple Computer for trademark infringement. They came to an agreement that Apple Computer will never have anything to do with music, and Apple Corps would never deal with computers. However, everyone knows about iTunes. The first computer bug (from the English bug -. "Bug" and "bug in the program") was discovered at Harvard in 1947. They found a moth stuck in a computer Mark II. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a program which is able to distinguish the genuine from the fake smile. < In 1956, IBM released the first "supercomputer" with the hard drive. Disc weighed more than a ton and could contain the "whole" 5 megabytes of data. Washington resident Jay Matthew Riley received a warning from the FBI computer for child pornography possession, and came to the police to confess. It is interesting that in fact sent a warning not the FBI, and a computer virus for the purpose of fraud. Investigators on the case of Casey Anthony, investigating the murder of his daughter, missed incriminating searches on the computer (for example, "how to strangle the man"), because the story checked into Internet Explorer, but forgot about Firefox. Scandinavian company «No More Woof» states that developed a way to read the thoughts of dogs using EEG sensors and microcomputers. Although 95% of the mail is sorted automatically, the US Postal Service employees include special reading the most strange inscriptions on the envelopes. For nearly 10 years the access password to the computer, managing the US nuclear missiles was 00000000. Generally, people blink 20 times per minute. However, sitting at the computer, it blinks three times less - only 7 times per minute The executive producer of studio "Pixar" John Lasseter was fired from Disney for ... addicted to computer animation.. The biggest leak of data in American military history occurred when government employees inserted into the computer memory card found in the parking lot. They did not know that foreign intelligence agents planted deliberately infested card virus. A nun from Ohio Sister Mary Kenneth Keller became the first woman in the United States, received his doctorate in computer science. Computer corresponding power the human brain could perform 38 quadrillion operations per second and would have about 4 petabytes of memory. Our brain is far superior to all hitherto by supercomputers. In 1982, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts refused to nominate the film "Tron" Steven Lisberger in the special effects category, t. To. They considered it cheating to use computers. Some people create a "good" viruses. For example, Welchia worm in contact with the computer removes the Blaster worm ( "bad" virus), establishes a protective update and deletes itself. < Only 8 percent of the money in the world is real. The rest of the money exists only in digital form. These well-known firms like HP, Apple and Microsoft started their activity in the ordinary garage. More than 80 percent of the e-mail is classified as spam.
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