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Climate Change Will Boost Plane Turbulence
Why you should care about climate change if you care about your grandchildren ‘Get used to a bumpy ride. The strength and frequency of atmospheric turbulence affecting transatlantic flights will increase by midcentury, a new study suggests. Researchers used a global climate model to assess the intensity of clear-air turbulence—the kind that stems from wind […]
Use Your USB to Evade Censorship
Cubans turned the humble and tiny memory sticks into a powerful tool to evade censorship by exchanging them with one another ‘Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez on Saturday told newspaper publishers from around the Western Hemisphere that “nothing is changing” in Cuba’s ossified political system and that “the situation of press freedom in my country […]
The First App I Created
(3-9-13) Just created my Twitter/Wolfram app here. You don’t need to be a techie and write scripts. Create yours here Obama Administration supports journalist who was arrested after recording cops Government says constitutional rights were violated Is your country one of those that ban taking photos and videos of police? We can hope now that […]
Malaysia-Philippine Battle Goes Cyber
Update: ‘Malaysian troops launched an attack on an armed Filipino group on Tuesday, trying to end a standoff on Borneo island after violence in recent days that killed at least 27 people, a Malaysian government official said…’ more Hackers go to war in cyberspace. Whichever started this will only lose respect. Even Anonymous doesn’t approve […]
Facebook Is Using You to Annoy Your Friends
How to Stop It When FB suspended my account without giving any reason, I wondered what it was doing with my FB page. Lifehacker gave the answer I suspected all along. ‘Facebook is using you, whether you know it or not. Sometimes it’s obvious: you like a page, you click share, Facebook benefits. Other times, […]
How Your Curiousity Could be Criminal
‘Once upon a time, in the days before the ubiquitous and invisible internet, there was only one network. It was made of long-distance lines — actual wires — and it was ruled by an absolute monarch, Ma Bell. Most people traveled the network along conventional channels. But there were also explorers, a small group of […]
Stop Game Addicts with Virtual Assasins
A new job for online game wizards Chinese dad hires virtual assassins to harass video game-obsessed son ‘What would you do if your adult son was playing video games all day instead of looking for work? Well, one Chinese father resorted to desperate measures when he reportedly hired in-game hitmen to attack his son whenever […]
Commit Suicide with Mars One Mission
Over 1000 volunteers for ‘suicide’ mission to Mars A very nice way to commit suicide if you’re determined to do so ‘Since the launch of its website in June 2012, Mars One has enjoyed a profound, international following. With more than 850,000 unique visitors to the website, Mars One has received thousands of emails. Among […]
The ECPA Act and Your eMail Privacy
When Will Your Email Betray You? ‘…ECPA is hopelessly out of date, and fails to provide the protections we need in a modern era. Your email privacy should be simple: it should receive the same protection the Fourth Amendmentprovides for your home. ‘So why hasn’t Congress done anything to update the law? They’ve tried a […]
Data-Mining Obama’s Key to Victory
Inside the Secret World of Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win ‘…Exactly what that team of dozens of data crunchers was doing, however, was a closely held secret. “They are our nuclear codes,” campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt would say when asked about the efforts. Around the office, data-mining experiments were given mysterious code names such […]
