Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

Red Dog, also known as Red Dog Poker or Yablon, is a game of chance played with cards. It is a variation of acey-duecey or in-between. While found in some land casinos, its popularity has declined, although it is featured … Read More

The recent turmoil in the Arab world forced the Saudi Arabian royal family into critical regime stabilization decision junctures. The Saudis hiked their 2011 Homeland Security & Law Enforcement procurement budget by 46%. During 2013-2015 Saudi Arabia plans to procure … Read More

Termenii Internet şi internet provin din împreunarea artificială şi parţială a două cuvinte englezeşti: interconnected = interconectat şi network = reţea. Sensurile celor 2 termeni sunt strâns înrudite, în funcţie de context: Substantivul propriu „Internet” (scris cu majusculă) desemnează o … Read More

Influential engineers, activists, and entrepreneurs changed history through their vision and determination. Ceremony to be held 3 August in Berlin, Germany    [Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland — 26 June 2013] The Internet Society today announced the names of the … Read More

A hacker is anyone who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations, primarily in their fields of interest, namely programming or electrical engineering. As will be discussed below, there is a trend in the popular press to … Read More

Signs of an unsuccessful site are clearly identified. Briefly, here are some characteristics of a doomed page: a page with a reasonable design (somewhere around the average), but the administrators have not tried to index the website at any major … Read More

During coin flipping the coin is “flipped into the air”, i.e., caused to both rise and rotate about an axis parallel to its flat surfaces. Typically, agreement is reached that one person will explicitly assign the action that will ensue … Read More

US Libraries began providing free e-books to the public in 1998 through their web sites and related services, though the e-books have been mostly scholarly, technical or expert in nature, and couldn’t be downloaded. In 2003, libraries started supplying cost-free … Read More

An auction is the approach of buying and promoting issues by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then promoting the item for the highest bidder. In financial theory an auction is usually a strategy for figuring out the … Read More

The date Data The recommended order for dates is day, month, year, with open punctuation. Thus 20 November 1982 is perfectly clear and punctuation would not add any­thing. Ordinea recomandabilă pentru date este ziua, luna,  anul cu punctuaţia liberă. Astfel … Read More

The number of visitors observed by a website is a measure of its reputation. By analysing the statistics of visitors it is possible to determine shortcomings of the website and look to improve these locations. It is also possible to … Read More

The computer itself is the main source of information for the investigator. In the computer, information is stored on the hard disk. A hard disk drive is a device that can record magnetic data, consisting of one or more rigid … Read More