This is pretty neat. Fish with wheels. I’m not sure if it’s useful, but it’s interesting.
[Via Marsblog]
This is pretty neat. Fish with wheels. I’m not sure if it’s useful, but it’s interesting.
[Via Marsblog]
William Sapphire anticipates the telepathigram. Of course it will be called something much simpler like message necessitating the new retronym mindless message. It’s much more unlikely for the retronym mindless message to be needed because of a new co-dominance of thoughtful messages.
There’s a long discussion over at Slashdot about the whether not email is for old f@rts.
A lot of good points over there, the most salient of which is that it’s not so much a generational thing as a “having a life” thing. Young people have a lot more free time to jabber at each other on IM, but for serious work-related discussions, email will remain essential for a long time (though I’m pushing clients to establish internal corporate blogs for a lot of this kind of discussion, to avoid spam issues, and provide better archiving and organization of topics). Also, with Facebook or other social networking sites, you’re limiting yourself to other Facebook members.
[Update in the afternoon]
Speaking of Facebook, as someone who has signed up, but not figured out why, what is a “friend” in Spacebook terms? What are the implications of it?
Bruce Schneier wonders if there is a back door in a NIST/NSA-approved random number generator. This seems like a good market opportunity for Jeff Manber.
Bruce Schneier wonders if there is a back door in a NIST/NSA-approved random number generator. This seems like a good market opportunity for Jeff Manber.
Bruce Schneier wonders if there is a back door in a NIST/NSA-approved random number generator. This seems like a good market opportunity for Jeff Manber.
Maybe fifty percent cheaper.
I’d seriously consider a rooftop system here in south Florida if that happened. Those kinds of prices would seriously reduce payback time.
Is the email age ending? I got an account on Facebook recently, but I still haven’t figured out why. Of course, I’m kind of anti-social by nature.
I’ve seen a spate of phishing attempts in my email lately, for institutions such as “Pacific Capital BanCorp,” with a fake URL to gather in my data (assuming that I have an account there). I’ll get half a dozen in a row, each with a different domain, such as “2dfe.com.” Does this mean that they’re having to create new domains and sites quickly before groups like Anti-phishing.org shut them down? I know that I report them the minute I see them. Of course, it’s harder to deal with the ones in China, which apparently just took over first place in this kind of thing from the US, according to Anti-phishing.org
By the way, it sure would be nice if Thunderbird had a feature for forwarding a group of emails to a single address, rather than having to do them individually.
[Update a minute or so later]
Hmmm…actually there is. If you highlight a block of messages, and hit “Forward,” it attaches them all to the forwarded message. Cool.
That wasn’t the headline that I would have used. I thought when I was about to read this story that they were using the lasers to simply find the IEDs. No, they’re using lasers to destroy IEDs remotely. I think they’re approaching the capability to put them on the frickin’ heads of the sharks.
[Update a few minutes later]
Speaking of twenty-first-century warfare, Alan Boyle has an interesting piece on the new age of battlebots.