Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space

Deep Sea Fish Farming in Geodesic Domes: Upgrade

Cellphone network flaw discovered

It seems like the next C3 conference will be epic.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/18/german-researchers-discover-a-flaw-that-could-let-anyone-listen-to-your-cell-calls-and-read-your-texts/

Note to self: implement https on server before 2015

Apparenlty the Chrome development team has decided to consider any http traffic as insecure from next year.

See the source here :

Chrome Plans to Mark All 'HTTP' Traffic as Insecure from 2015

via THN

"I can not let you do that Dave" Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Trailer

A programer's universe

SCiO - Your Sixth Sense

Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters

Sergei Lupashin: A flying camera ... on a leash

Wind power is cheapest energy, EU analysis finds

Onshore windfarms far cheaper than coal and gas when health impacts are factored in, report shows

more here 

and here

BBC Horizon 2014-2015 "Inside the dark web"

Even if I hate the coined name "Dark web", this is a must see.
This hour won't be wasted.

Dremel selling a 3d printer

I only have one thing to say "Shut up and take my money!!"

Rooms and bacteria

You Colonize Your Hotel Room With Your Own Personal Bacteria Within Hours : http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/08/28/cops-could-use-bacterial-signatures-to-catch-a-murderer/

On 3d printing a gun ...

I remember all the fuss and buzz the media generated with this "liberator" gun printed out of plastic.
It is delightful to read the opinion of the police officer confirming what we all thought, the higher risk is for the person who fires this device.

“Just because the weapon will shoot doesn’t mean it will be safe to shoot,” explained Lacross. “You could get injured pretty bad with something like that.”

Funny enough, this wont be mentioned by the journalists who scared everyone for starters.

http://3dprint.com/12773/power-to-print-3d-print-gun/

Australian telecom minister explaining you why you don't want a faster broadband.

The following link and video were brought to my attention by a friend.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/26/nbn-report-finds-fibre-to-premises-plan-not-worth-the-expense

 

This is a short sighted view with a 2000’s style communication in mind, not 2014 and onwards.

Even if there is currently a bottleneck at the personal computer side, this is very short sighted for the development of the country. Especially when televisions are talking about on demand TV, 4K and 8K (very very high resolution). There is a need for large bandwidth in a short medium term. Telstra is developing ideas of telepresence conferences and doing demos about that … how do you do that on conventional line with other people doing things on the line at the same time ?
There is a saying in France that approximatively says that : “accusing his dog of having rabies to justify getting rid of it “
That plus the surveillance, Australia is not looking like the place of the future … the next government will have some catching up to do…

:-/

Interesting cheat sheets from makeuseof

If you are using twitter, google, youtube, or linux, there might be something for you there... check it out : http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/downloads

Cybersecurity as Realpolitik by Dan Geer presented at Black Hat USA 2014

A great speech about the concerns of the internet and software in these days and age.

The Austrlian Security Inteliligence Organisation dreams about Minority report

This article in Boingboing is making me sad and worried about Australia.
"
 The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation wants the power to break into any computer on the Internet and to spy on any person in the world: Liberal MP Philip Ruddock says "We are now looking at how you find out what people are thinking about even before they do it."

"

see more here 
and here 

Coca-Cola 2nd Lives

starwars philosophy

vacuum tubes

@Sean_Nicholls makes lock picks from paperclips at TOOOL SF

Surfing like a Pig...

great culture

Cloud security explained

Toucan shows off for the camera in Brazil

Introducing outernet

check it out  https://www.outernet.is/

process vs expectations

Phone hacking on motherboard

All The Ways To Hack Your Phone: Phreaked Out (Ep…: http://youtu.be/dysnKiXUlRU

more safety through sharing wireless networking

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/eff-open-wireless-router/

recycling ocean's plastic for 3D printing

This is the kind of  article that brightens a monday morning for me.
What if we could re-use all this plastic ?

source : http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-plastic-waste-flooding-our-oceans-can-fuel-3d-printers

It seems like this is worth checking it out.

quote of the day

 Einstein said " Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.”

Israel's Killer Robots

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/find-and-ban-glassholes-with-this-artists-google-glass-detector/?mbid=social_gplus

So this is where privacy is becoming the big question, and the "glasshole" is in sight.

Software: everything is Broken

Here is an interesting post on why no computing system is secured.

https://medium.com/message/81e5f33a24e1

Ted talk: What happens when the media's priority is pofit.

Man in the middle attack on cable network

Man in the middle attack on cable network

I saw this morning a fascinating article in the online news site "the hacker news" about a hijacking of cableTV broadcast.

http://thehackernews.com/2014/05/hacking-cable-tv-networks-to-broadcast.html 
I would not be surprised to see this happening but I am still taking it with a pinch of salt.

It will be very interesting to see the presentation of Rahul Sasi.