February 2012
34 posts
Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery →
“He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings “loaner” devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States and wipes clean the minute he returns. In China, he disables Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, never lets his phone out of his sight and, in meetings, not only turns off his phone but also removes the battery, for fear his microphone could be turned on remotely. He...
Humans, Version 3.0 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM →
The next giant leap in human evolution may not come from new fields like genetic engineering or artificial intelligence, but rather from appreciating our ancient brains.
There Is No Cyberspace →
“Cyberspace, not so long ago, was a specific elsewhere, one we visited periodically, peering into it from the familiar physical world. Now cyberspace has everted. Turned itself inside out. Colonized the physical. Making Google a central and evolving structural unit not only of the architecture of cyberspace, but of the world. This is the sort of thing that empires and nation-states did,...
[Video] Artist's Time-Lapse Map of the World's... →
For those of us that came of age during the 1980s and after, the threat of nuclear oblivion has never seemed to be a real threat. The dangers of AIDS, economic failure, terrorism have loomed large in the lives of Generation X, Y and the Millennials, but very few of us ever had to hide under our desks during a bomb drill or watch Dad obsess over the backyard underground bunker.
In 2003, Japanese...
Black Cat Hacks: This is meant to be a list of... →
blackcathacker:
Abine - A Firefox / Internet Explorer plugin that blocks third party advertising networks, manages HTTP, DOM, and Flash cookies, and securely manages site logins. Currently in private beta, but invites aren’t hard to get. Abine Privacy Suite
Ad Blockers for Browsers - Firefox: …
Smart Drugs & Nutrients In 1991 →
“In some of my interviews for the M2k History Project, I ask people if Virtual Reality and Smart Drugs let us down… or did we let them down. One interesting response came from Jim English, a Mondo 2000 friend involved — then and now — in the vitamin and nutrient business: “I think that the us part that failed were that we are a nation of fads. And smart drugs and smart drinks were a big...
First ‘Heartless’ Man: You Don’t Really Need A... →
“But after the operation, with the ‘machine’ as his heart’s replacement, Lewis’ blood continued to spin and move through his body.
However, when doctors put a stethoscope to his chest, no heartbeat or pulse can be heard (only a ‘humming’ sound)—which “by all criteria that we conventionally use to analyze patients”, Doctor Cohn said, he is dead. ”
natasha-vita-more-life-expansion-project-and-its-me... →
“Just got out of Santa Rita Jail last night the prisoners from the Oakland...”
– Occupy Oakland Protester (via anticapitalist)
Is the cyberwarfare arms race for real? Survey of... →
infoneer-pulse:
A global cyberwarfare arms race is in full swing, a majority of cybersecurity and policy experts surveyed worldwide agrees.
Such a finding may not be entirely surprising given that news reports of such an arms race have been popping up like mushrooms over the past year.
But the 2011-2012 survey – conducted by the Security & Defence Agenda (SDA) of Brussels, a specialist...
Self-steering bullet researched by US weapons... →
infoneer-pulse:
A self-guiding bullet that can steer itself towards its target is being developed for use by the US military.
The bullet uses tiny fins to correct the course of its flight allowing it to hit laser-illuminated targets.
It is designed to be capable of hitting objects at distances of about 2km (1.24 miles). Work on a prototype suggests that accuracy is best at longer ranges.
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