April 2011
59 posts
“Our wireless spectrum is a public asset and we lease it like we lease other...”
– said Robb Topolski, a veteran networking engineer and frequent critic of the large carriers. Topolski questioned poor coverage by Verizon on parts of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
In recent weeks, the [National Association of Broadcasters] has taken a new approach to its concern over a year-old FCC...
“AT&T is the largest single corporate contributor to congressional campaigns,...”
– AT&T’s Man in the White House | Save the Internet
AT&T is a horrible person. I gave my sister a new phone, which happened to have wifi. Because of that, they automatically added a data plan, and *for her convenience* made sure it was the top plan. Why? “Because if the...
The Future of SiLo's Language Library: My... →
Deliri Inc, also plans to add in a moderator section in the very near future. Qualified language experts will be able to verify their creditials and police content within their sphere of expertise. And Ase doesn’t expect them to work for free.
“Let’s say you’re a professional translator. This is sort of working against you, because you are giving your expertise to us...
“Finally, we have been talking for a few years about our Convergence strategy.”
– 2020 Vision: The Future of Gaming - PC Feature at IGN
Zone of Reflective Capacity - Wikipedia, the free... →
Through their work with collaborative groups of adults, Tinsley and Lebak (2009) identified the “Zone of Reflective Capacity”. This zone shares the theoretical attributes of the ZPD, but is a more specifically defined construct helpful in describing and understanding the way in which an adult’s capacity for reflection can expand when he or she collaborates over an extended period...
“The principle of Digital Radio Mondiale is that bandwidth is the limited...”
– Digital Radio Mondiale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
International Space Station Reference →
When astronauts, cosmonauts and mission specialists from many nations fly on the international space station, they will have amateur, or ham, radio as a constant companion. Since its first flight in 1983, ham radio has flown on more than two-dozen space shuttle missions. Dozens of astronauts have used the Space Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment, or SAREX, to talk to thousands of kids in school and...
Glass Dragon: China's Cyber Offense Obscures... →
Contrary to the image of China as a nearly invincible cyber powerhouse, Beresford says in an interview with Threatpost Editor Paul Roberts, that the fast-growing nation suffers from woeful cyber security practices at home that leave, literally, thousands of networks and databases vulnerable to even trivial, remote attacks. Beresford, who publicized holes in domestic Chinese SCADA systems in...
How bacteria could generate radio waves |... →
Source: The physics ArXiv blog — Apr 25, 2011
Radio-frequency emissions from certain bacteria could be generated by free electrons moving around DNA loops as they transition between quantum energy levels, researchers at Northeastern University and University of Perugia suggest, based on modeling.
The frequencies would be at 0.5, 1 and 1.5 kilohertz, which are the frequencies that have been...
Neural mechanisms of abstract learning |... →
Source: PhysOrg.com — Apr. 28, 2010
Brown University researchers have found neural mechanisms that underlie our remarkable ability to discover abstract cognitive relationships when dealing with new problems.
In a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, they found that the frontal cortex of the brain appears to be organized in a front to back hierarchy: more anterior regions support...
Can hobbyists and hackers transform biotechnology?... →
In the just-published Biopunk, journalist Marcus Wohlsen surveys the biohacker movement, which has been made possible by a convergence of better and cheaper technologies.
The bio DIYers believe that individuals have a fundamental right to biological information, that spreading the tools of biotech to the masses will accelerate the pace of progress, and that the fruits of the biosciences should...
Nicholas G. Carr: IT Doesn't Matter →
In a long and notably lucid essay in the Australian edition of CIO magazine, Tim Mendham corrects some of the mischaracterizations of my argument and provides an incisive reading of the reactions to it. Toward the end of the piece, he writes, “There is an element of fanaticism and over-protectiveness in some of the responses, particularly as so many seem to indicate clearly either they have...
SPEAK EASY SERIES: Conversations with Artists &... →
The Creative & Collective Process behind Cinema 16: Molly Surno, Experimental Filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz & Musician Julianna Barwick in Conversation with Cara Cannella
William McDounough, Designing the Next Industrial... →
Peter Senge at the Sloan School of Management asks the CEOs who come in for the Learning Laboratory: Who is the leader on a ship crossing the ocean? The answers he gets are the captain, the navigator, etc. He says, No, it’s the designer of the ship, because you could be the best captain in the world but if the ship is not seaworthy, you are going down. We need a new design. Designers must...
enormego. - A QuickShareIt Goodbye: 2006-2011 →
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looks like I’ll get the annual account after all…
“What do the phenomena that differ going forward and backwards in time tell us...”
– “Arrow of time” List of unsolved problems in physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yikes. Reading that helps to focus on the day to day.
Dangerous Prototypes · How cops hack your... →
from the comments:
So what you are telling me is that on my Android device I should use an exacto-knife on the data leads for USB; then create an app that looks like a lock screen but forces my jailbroken device to go into it’s recovery mode when it detects the device being plugged into power and perform a 3 pass zeroing of the attached SD Card and the Flash ROM locations. It wont delete all the...
Seth's Blog: Alignment →
Long-term brands and relationships are built on alignment. Here are a few examples (“I” is the royal I, not me in particular):
A perfect relationship: I want your company to help me, and your company wants to help me. We’re both focused on helping the same person.
The Walmart relationship: I want the cheapest possible prices and Walmart wants to (actually works hard to) give...
The Bicycle Forest :: BikeCAD →
BikeCAD is a parametric CAD tool for bicycle frame design. The Bicycle Forest has created several variations of this program to accommodate specific designs and tasks such as recumbents, full suspension, tandems, and wheel building.
Tom Ford's how to: 5 ways to be a gentleman →
Sitting down with Jefferson Hack, Editor-in-Chief of Another magazine, Ford has given his five-step how to as follows:
You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
A gentleman today has to work. People who do not work are so boring and are usually bored. You have to be passionate, you have to be...
Socraft: Essential Names For Common Social Media... →
Socraft: The discipline and understanding of leveraging social networks in order to achieve exposure / recognition / power / interaction. E.g.: “Adam has been into socraft ever since he got a Twitter in 1996.”
Getting Gills: Establishing a social presence. E.g.: “Yo did you see Sheen last month? Dude got gills quick.”
Bubbling: Practice of placing extreme limits on interaction with more than a...
The Can't Cope Won't Cope Auto-Fed Auto-Feed::... →
cantcopewontcope:
from: http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fbi/4777/crop_circles_in_cyberspace.html “A brand new strange phenomenon in that unlikeliest of places - the financial markets
On 6 May this year, the financial markets freaked. The Dow Jones index (which tracks the overall value of key stocks on…
Are You Following a Bot? (The Atlantic) →
cantcopewontcope:
from: The Atlantic
“How to manipulate social movements by hacking TwitterOne day last February, a Twitter user in California named Billy received a tweet from @JamesMTitus, identified in his profile as a “24 year old dude” from Christchurch, New Zealand, who had the avatar of a tabby…
"People who are more aware of their own heart-beat... →
cantcopewontcope:
Link to original article via: @neuroconscience
“What underlies our sense of time? A popular account claims an internal pacemaker emits regular pulses, which are detected by an accumulator. The amount of accumulated pulses represents the amount of time that’s passed.
Luminant Point Arrays (2010) - Stephan Tillmans →
cantcopewontcope:
Description from artist’s statement:”The Luminant Point Arrays show tube televisions in the moment they are switched off. The television picture breaks down and creates a structure of light. The pictures refuse external reference and broach the issue of the difference between abstraction and…
Why So Dumb →
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Burning Question: Is Wi-Fi Squatting Illegal? |... →
“It’s not clear,” says Orin Kerr, a professor at George Washington University Law School and an expert in cyberlaw. “It’s probably OK, but you can’t rule out a prosecution.” Though using an open Wi-Fi network doesn’t feel like hacking, the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act sees things differently. That 1986 law makes it a felony to access computer systems, including routers, without...
“At a certain point you’ve got to shut the outside world out and let things go to...”
– Robin Pecknold via SPIN (via sidens)
“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”
– Ray Bradbury. This is great. Thank you, Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
It’s hard to remember that “getting hit” isn’t always bad.
An Inside Look at Hacker Business Models |... →
As hackers started making money, the field became full of “professionals” that inspired organized cyber crime. Similar to industrial corporations, hackers have developed their own business models in order to operate as a profitable organization. What do these business models look like? Hacker Business Models The industrialized hackers are intent on one goal—making money. They also know the...
Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report:... →
The Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) revealed that data loss through cyber attacks decreased sharply in 2010, but the total number of breaches was higher than ever. Interestingly, the number of compromised records involved in data breaches investigated by Verizon and the U.S. Secret Service dropped from 144 million in 2009 to only 4 million in 2010, representing the lowest volume of...
“Color compares sounds between users to figure out which users are listening to...”
– Snooping: It’s not a crime, it’s a feature
OK, this is one of those issues where you can say “its recording me!” and not be wrong, but not necessarily be right either. Slippery slope arguments would certainly apply here, and given the obliviousness lack of mindspace...
WatchWe reported the rumors, we spied it on the show floor at CTIA yesterday, and T-Mobile finally announced it this morning. Well here it is now in the flesh: the G2x from LG. The hardware looks pretty much identical to its sibling, the LG Optimus 2X that we reviewed recently, but instead of featuring a custom UI, the software is plain Froyo (Android 2.2.2). Another major difference is the inclusion...