So what do you do when your wife’s computer says this?
Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
Why, this of course: How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting
Of course, we couldn’t find her Windows XP recovery CD, so we borrowed one from a [...]
Amici write to call to the Court’s attention several computer science issues raised by Petitioners and amici who filed concurrent with Petitioners, and to correct certain of their technical assertions. First, the United States’ description of the Internet’s design is wrong. P2P networks are not new developments in network design, but rather the design on [...]
Mar 042005
It is significant that “culture” is sometimes described as a map; it is the analogy which occurs to an outsider who has to find his way around in a foreign landscape and who compensates for his lack of practical mastery, the prerogative of the native, by the use of a model of all possible routes.
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Mar 022005
It’s nice to join the international community on occasion: Supreme Court Abolishes Juvenile Death Penalty
Some interesting snippets from the ruling include:
Neither retribution nor deterrence provides adequate justification for imposing the death penalty on juvenile offenders, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the 25-page opinion. “It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion [...]
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