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...January 22, 1984, during the third quarter of Superbowl XVIII, an advertisement aired that would change the world’s perception of computing. As faceless gray drones marched lockstep down a long metallic tunnel, a sledgehammer wielding woman, clad in red and white sportswear raced past them. She approached an enormous screen casting Big Brother’s unhappy gaze upon the crowd and the woman launched the projectile, shattering his visage. The screen froze and words began to scroll: “On January 24th, Apple Computers will introduce Macintosh. And you?...
It’s nice to know that you’re only looking at your female classmates as faceless T&A in the summer, “Sam,” but perhaps you’d do us the courtesy of using your real name next time so that all women with a shred of good sense can avoid...
...pressures to the customer base and bottom line may turn out to be for the telecom industry what the automobile was to the horse. Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom predicts that in less than a decade, telcos and cablecos will be on the bottom of the telecom food chain, faceless operators of low-value pipes delivering high-value content to smart mobile devices. Don't say you haven't been warned...
...Internal Revenue Service seems like a faceless bureaucracy without much heart, says a former insider, that may be because it is. Richard Yancey has seen the all-powerful IRS from the inside out, spending 12 years as a government "repo man" pursuing businesses and individuals with long overdue taxes. Yancey left the job in 2003 with decidedly mixed impressions, which he writes about in his memoir, Confessions of a Tax Collector. Yancey spoke with TIME about his years as a revenue officer, getting jumped on the job and what to do if the IRS comes knocking. (Read "Another Victim...
...sweaty, morally ambiguous overseas conflict, and - surprise - look who's at the door again wanting to borrow a cup of brains. "We live in an age when it's very easy to be afraid of everything that's going on," Grahame-Smith says. "There are these large groups of faceless people somewhere in the world who mean to do us harm and cannot be reasoned with. Zombies are sort of familiar territory...