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The subject of the NPR article was also kind enough to appear for an interview in this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PyKSuPl2g

Well, the air combat of that period represents an odd microcosm of behaviors never to be repeated again, by another human civilization. Even if we wanted to fight another war the s…

I think the natural interpretation is that the January 1977 numbers showed a value 60 times greater than the January 2013 value. (the dry weight of all the captured invertebrates) …

one of the most distracting and dangerous things I can think of No worries there. You won't actually be driving your own car by then. It'll be driving itself .

Thank you for the kind words. I don’t intend to write articles under any particular name, since it’s too easy to become typecast, and have expectations develop around a name. I dum…

Coming from the perspective in security, the one that says biometrics are identity tokens or user names, but not authentication tokens or passwords, the concept you present is reas…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

more of the same Oh, I don't know about that. There are many new things I can think of, and wish to create, but there are some non-trivial artificial barriers between me, and the t…

You should listen to some Vaporwave. It's specifically geared toward bastardizing a mutant version of that sort of close-of-the-twentieth-century mind set. A good place to start: h…

I'll take a moment to spell out what's going on here, since they seem to be beating around the bush in the article itself, possibly for fear of imitation in the wild. They take a s…

The social brain hypothesis is on a pretty weak footing, since schools of fish, flocks of birds, herds of ungulates, and swarms of insects all manage to socialize in largish groups…

This is the weird part about the internet of things. No one has any generalized rule for differentiating which things should be smart, and which things should stay dumb. One thing …

This is likely an “ advertorial ” in case you’ve never heard the term. It’s an open secret that editorials are often paid advertising slots masquerading as news. No one likes to ta…

In many ways this is malicious deception. In any instance where a login form is included in the scraped mirror, that represents an attacked user, and a phishing attempt. If someone…

B&H Photo in Manhattan is still like that. I think high-end photography is conducive to that style of operation, though. Handling the photographic items, and carrying them around t…

Near as I can tell, there’s nothing in this agreement that prevents me from choosing another license model. If I can choose to apply whichever license I want, then it would seem th…

The result would be mixed and scattered. Basically, we see exactly how it unfolds when a ransomware epidemic breaks out. Ransomware, in many ways tying people hands, such that an o…

It feels like widespread use of this sort of thing could only result in an arms race, not unlike ad blockers. First encounters would probably provoke immediate hang up by some port…

I also wish they ended the video with three or four middle-aged actors and actresses, in household settings, visibly demonstrating how much they enjoy consuming electricity, before…

The 32GB of RAM is silly, because virtual machines, and PCI buses lol. But I suspect the 150 mile marker has some other objective driving factor behind the reasoning for that numbe…