An official definition of Ports, as used in computer networking: “The protocols of the Transport Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite, most notably the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), use a numerical identifier for the data structures of the endpoints for host-to-host communications.  Such an endpoint is known as a [...]

Corporate law has always treated corporations in a way similar to that of real people – they are a legal entity. The officials and stockholders are protected as individuals by this corporate shield. However, the media, the e-media particularly, have been extending this to the point that they refer to corporations as if they were [...]

Incredibly, Citibank, one of the largest banks in the world, is in such bad financial condition that they need to sell some or all of their assets. How can these huge organizations choose management so incompetent that they can do this much damage? Does running something that large makes them feel they are invincible?
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There are many inexpensive clocks and watches that are described as having “atomic time”, or more-correctly being “radio-controlled”. The feature does not seem to be heavily advertised, so the average person seeing one of these probably has no idea what it all means. Certainly there is not a little atomic time device [...]

After Halloween, inevitably there is the leftover candy dilemma. If there are children in the house, they will have their stash of candy collected while trick-or-treating, much of which they probably don’t really like. But the bigger problem is the leftover bags of candy, from over-buying to give out to neighborhood trick-or-treaters -after all, running [...]