An honest man is flipping a fair coin. After flipping ‘heads’ seven times in a row, a banker walks up and offers the honest man a bet of $50 if the next flip is ‘heads’. The banker hasn’t seen the previous seven flips. Should the honest man take the bet? More importantly, do the previous [...]
This is new for me. I’ve never seen gmail down before. I have several accounts, and one of them came up with this message: We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are [...]
Note: I wrote this several months ago and never published it because I felt it was unfinished. However, this is a good introduction to another article I’m writing so I’m publishing it before it’s quite complete. Update (4/21/08): Looks like my discussion on tracking by Bluetooth has actually been done by the CS department of [...]