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Medieval News Archive07-Feb-2007
In Susan Kleiner's view, the conventional American practice of dieting by deprivation owes more to the techniques of Medieval torture than to modern science. Keeping information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the tech industry's most formidable challenge, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday. Speaking to an annual gathering of 15,000 computer security experts in San Francisco, Gates invoked the metaphor of a Medieval castle to explain the problem: Programmers don't bother to protect corporate crown jewels when members of their ... Something dawned on me last week. Seems like one of those things that should be common knowledge, something so obvious nobody needs or wants to talk about it. But, it was a new idea to me and one I can't get out of my head. At least one of my direct ancestors was alive at every moment in human history . Imagine any point in the past - ancient, Medieval, or modern - and I guarantee you ... Keeping information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the tech industry's most formidable challenge, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday. Speaking to an annual gathering of 15,000 computer security experts in San Francisco, Gates invoked the metaphor of a medieval castle to explain the problem: Programmers build bigger moats and thicker fortress walls -- but they ... An 800-year-old copy of the Gospels commissioned by a German prince is out in the open for its annual six weeks of public display.The volume spends most of the year in a special climate-controlled safe at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbuttel in Lower Saxony, Deutsche Welle reported. This year, the Gospels created for Henry the Lion can be seen through March 18.Henry, prince of Saxony and ...
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