Caught the first episode of the series tonight. Good stuff. A little dumbed down but entertaining all the same.
Category Archives: Science & Nature & Technology
10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology – NYTimes.com
Some good ideas on how to generally best deal with your personal technology.
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web
A pretty good overview of the web.
It hits some critical highpoints and does it without being too preachy or overly complicated.
How to keep your customers safe at your business’ hotspot
Following the trend of my previous post, tips for keeping customers safe if you provide a wireless connection. I imagine that works for anyone using your home network as well.
Top 10 Things Science Fiction Promised Us That Didn’t Happen in 2010 | GeekDad | Wired.com
As everyone else always says: where the hell IS my jetpack?
That and other things we don’t have yet on this list.
The Hunt Is On: Massive Collider Churning Out Data : NPR
Science!
The world hasn’t ended. We haven’t breached space/time. All the naysayers and religious freakazoids are wrong. Just like they are about AIDS being a punishment against gays. Or climate change being wrong. Or about how it’s God’s will for them to bomb brown people. Just plain wrong.
Here is what the folks at the Large Hadron Collider have actually been up to.
After John Tyner: A Five-Step Plan to a Sane Airport Security System | Mother Jones
After reading about these Republican Porn Scanners, it just galls me to think of how stupid our fellow countrymen are. These frightened fools think that technology can trump common sense. I have quite a few links about how to intelligently deal with security and those who think they have a justification to violate our rights to prevent the last (often failed) terrorist attack from happening.
Face it, no one is going to hijack a plane the passengers will passively sit in ever again. No shoe bomb can’t be found by a good dog. Or even a bomb in some women’s underpants on some guy. A pack of underpaid, bored TSA goons isn’t a patch on ACTUAL security screening.
Here is the first effort to promote saner security that works. Too bad no one will listen.
EFF’s Guide to Protecting Electronic Devices and Data at the U.S. Border | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Some good advice from the EFF on how to handle your electronic devices safely at border crossings.
Given that the TSA just blatantly sold itself like a cheap whore to Michael Chertoff’s naked picture taking company, don’t think those asshats work for you and me anymore. If they ever did at all.
Google’s Earth – William Gibson
The “creator” of cyberspace sets us straight on the whole Google-is-stealing-our-privacy meme.