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Well done! Both for the app and seeing the fight through. All of us would be lucky to have people as dedicated as you and your team in our cities.

Airships, particularly rigid airships (Zeppelins), are massive and it's the mass that becomes a problem. The airship is inflated to a state of neutral buoyancy so it floats and can…

FB's security people likely track and have copies of account/password dumps from site breeches. Sort of like Troy Hunt does with haveibeenpwned.com but for their own internal secur…

Well, he is the author of both. Your link is a more in depth version of his position. Thx!

Also, business used to have have counter checks available for customers (if they took checks). Basically a standard blank form, sort of like what banks have for withdrawals but wer…

Given that recent reporting has shown that ads and tracking are the biggest culprits in page load times, AMP appears to be solving an ad/tracking problem more than a web page probl…

He does work in corp sec trying to stop spearphishers who target food processors. I think the point is to educate other IT staff while trying convince MS to provide more security c…

The author is obviously smart and dedicated - and I’d probably be forced to terminate him. He is an non-supervisory employee, who has not been given administrative access to these …

The purchase page says that it for non-commercial use; no link to a commercial version. Looks like it is still free in the App Store FWIW.

So... Ad researchers have rebranded Gen Y?? That's kind of funny. (Also shows how much attention I was paying. I thought there were Boomers, X's, Y's, and Millenials)

The other important points influencing the decision were the amount of time spent examining the hard drive and extensive detail of the search. "...that wherever the Supreme Court o…

No downvote from me however... If you want email and privacy, you need to encrypt. Email is as secure like a postcard; at least that is what we use tell the people that wanted to a…

I think it is hard to say how this will play out. Maybe the author is right and people will care less about their domain name, or it could be become one of several presence items t…

An interesting article for both the application of tools ans people to solve a problem and the pictures. I had to go through the article twice because the first time I stopped read…

Following Schneier's link to Gigaom it's pretty hard to get the choice to opt out - even if one already knows it exists.

Also of note for those new to Pope Hat, Ken White is a former Federal Prosecutor. His perspective from both sides of federal law makes for some interesting posts.

That makes a lot sense and is pretty cool. Thanks!

The Internet is a necessity. That doesn't make actions like these less creepy.

Having no background in plants or genetics - In my experience most systems are a series of tradeoffs. Even though C4 has evolved over 70 times, are there advantages conveyed by C3 …

From her tweets and other posts it sounds like she was broke with no place live. A difficult situation even before getting into legal trouble.

So is the breakthrough just the pre-cooler, or the pre-cooler together with the scimitar engine? It sounds like the innovation is the helium pre-cooler, but even at that it's hard …

A very interesting article. For me two key statements come toward the end. "Did you know that at high altitude, the brain goes through metabolic changes, and some people can adapt …

Cool idea. If each PGP character is mapped to one (or more each) noun, verb, adjective, and adverb one could construct a message that looked like boring text but was actually encry…

Fascinating article. I was only aware of the 4 major blood types plus Rh±, it's also inspiring the efforts people will make to help others.

Great video on the bio-mechanics of round shield fighting. At 33m I wasn't sure I was going to watch it all; turned out it was fascinating.