This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018.

I’m coming to Minneapolis! Oct 15: Presenting The Internet Con at Moon Palace Books. Oct 16: Keynoting the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.

#20yrsago My collection reviewed in NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/books/science-fiction.html

#20yrsago Homeland Security deports fiancee of Homeland Security staffer https://web.archive.org/web/20031025154021/https://landofthefree.blogspot.com/2003_10_12_landofthefree_archive.html

#10yrsago Phoenix TSA makes breast cancer survivors remove their prostheses https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/11/phoenix-airport-screening-draws-angry-complaints/2970589/

#10yrsago W3C’s DRM for HTML5 sets the stage for jailing programmers, gets nothing in return http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/10/what-do-we-get-for-that-drm.html

#5yrsago The US Patent and Trademark Office is ready to hand over an exclusive trademark for “Dragon Slayer” for fantasy novels https://memex.craphound.com/2018/10/12/updated-the-us-patent-and-trademark-office-is-ready-to-hand-over-an-exclusive-trademark-for-dragon-slayer-for-fantasy-novels/

#5yrsago A year later, giant Chinese security camera company’s products are still a security dumpster-fire…