May 2013
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Watchdootzy:
this video will make your day better
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yeahiwasintheshit:
we’re a culture thats only about 3 or 4 generations into using toilet paper. we dodged that one.
There is no great stagnation.
April 2013
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March 2013
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February 2013
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“Too many interviewers intrude too much. … They try to make us think...”
– Brian Lamb on interviewing for broadcast.
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Texas "Anti Drone" Laws Would be Toughest in USA →
Not to be outdone by Virginia or Oregon, Texas State Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Terrell) is introducing a bill that almost totally ban the use of drones by individuals with only a few exemptions. His reasoning is impecable:
“Do we want our local police departments laying off officers and simply parking drones over our homes to keep an eye on all of us?” Gooden asked.
Awesome....
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U.S. Cancels Regular Drone Strikes on Saturdays →
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Citing budgetary concerns, the United States announced today that it would discontinue regular Saturday drone strikes on U.S. citizens, beginning in 2014.
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“A major problem with 3D printing that most people ignore is that there’s no...”
– A little reality check from Ashlee Vance.
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Bill would require all Idaho kids to read ‘Atlas... →
BOISE – Coeur d’Alene Sen. John Goedde, chairman of the Idaho Senate’s Education Committee, introduced legislation Tuesday to require every Idaho high school student to read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and pass a test on it to graduate from high school.
R.I.P. irony.
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Virginia Senate panel backs two-year moratorium on... →
Add Virginia to the list of states enacting drone statutes:
The Senate Courts of Justice Committee today approved an amended bill that would effectively ground for two years the use of drones by Virginia law enforcement agencies except in emergencies.
Unlike Oregon, Virginia legislators seem to understand that they can’t regulate the airspace in the state, which is the sole domain of...
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“For decades robots stumbled along on the ground, slowly and clumsily, rarely...”
– Lev Grossman writing in TIME.
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“New policies will also govern how the intelligence agencies can carry out...”
– That’s The New York Times reporting on new Pentagon guidelines for using cyberweaponry. “Searches of faraway computer networks” is a good euphemism for what just happened to the NYT itself.
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Your junk, 3D-printed →
Here is a typically prurient article form the New York Post about a “collective” that creates personalized sex toys. They use a 3D laser scanner to capture a man’s aroused privates in a process that take 30 to 45 minutes. Such personalization was not previously possible:
Plaster molds and other attempts take too long and often leave the customer limp with disappointment.
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“Drones are nothing more than a new technology, as was fire, the original...”
– Marc Goodman
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Anticipating domestic boom, colleges rev up drone... →
Although just three schools currently offer degrees in piloting unmanned aircraft, many others – including community colleges – offer training for remote pilots. And those numbers figure are set to increase, with some aviation industry analysts predicting drones will eventually come to dominate the U.S. skies in terms of jobs.
“Just” three colleges offer bachelor degrees in...
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Why We Shouldn't Fear Personal Drones →
Some sanity from Chris Anderson.
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Privacy battle against U.S. drone surveillance... →
[Bruce] Schneier agrees the technology is now in place for “a wholesale surveillance state.”
“And, you have to remember that technology never gets worse,” Schneier said. “It always gets better. That’s what’s worrisome.”
He said Markey’s bill will not solve the problem, because it is already arriving a bit late. “It’s...
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What Happens When You Walk Into a Bar Wearing... →
Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic:
“When you buy a new phone, it’s in your pocket, but this, you’re wearing something on your face. Anyone that cares what they look like is not gonna wear Google glasses. That’s my opinion,” [bar owner Tom] Madonna said. “If you are super nerdy and you like to show off that you’re in tech and smart and all those things, I...
January 2013
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Aaron Swartz: The Punishment Did Not Fit the Crime →
Yours truly writing at Reason.com:
The problem, therefore, is not just that federal prosecutors in this case refused to engage sober prosecutorial discretion, it’s that they had the option to seek—and to threaten with—a punishment so out of proportion to the crime. How can such severe punishments be justified for computer crimes?
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Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times... →
Here’s an admission against interest in the eighth paragraph:
Security experts found evidence that the hackers stole the corporate passwords for every Times employee and used those to gain access to the personal computers of 53 employees, most of them outside The Times’s newsroom.
How were the passwords for every employee available for the taking? Let me guess, they were unencrypted....
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“I don’t want to watch the dang westerns. Maybe he takes the best parts of...”
– Kathleen, after I try to convince her that since her favorite movie is Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, she should watch some of the movies it references like Black Sunday or The Searchers.
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Drones spur fierce debate in Oregon over privacy,... →
I was just saying how it will only be a matter of time before someone attaches a gun to a commercial drone, and I come across someone else who thinks this, too:
Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, and Rep. John Huffman, R-The Dalles, have introduced separate but related legislation aimed at restricting future use of drones by law enforcement and the public. Both bills would criminalize use of...
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