January 2013
53 posts
“Soylent is a crowd-powered interface: one that embeds workers from Mechanical...”
– Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside
“You don’t have to be a qualified pilot … The person could come from a...”
– Revealed: who can fly drones in UK airspace | World news | The Guardian
WatchLiveLeak.com - 1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World’s highest resolution video surviellience platform by DARPA.
“Data tax would work like pollution tax, the report’s authors propose. The...”
– Oh, those crazy Frenchies: Facebook faces family photo tax in France • The Register
“I couldn’t really begin to say why, but in the process of working myself up to...”
– Every Man His Own Shopping Channel | The Dublin Review
“True to pugnacious form, Dimon came out fighting. He took on Paul Singer, the...”
– Jamie Dimon’s defence of bankers won’t fly | Business | The Guardian
The Macroscope Defence.
“The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is hoping to implement...”
– BLDGBLOG: Operation Deep Sleep: or, dormant robots at the bottom of the sea
“We live in a time when the loneliest place in any debate is the middle, and the...”
– “The Coming Fight Between Engineers And Druids” by Paul Saffo, in Edge: What should be we worried about?. (via betaknowledge)
“The critic Michael J. Arlen recognized the profound moral implications of this...”
– Once Upon a Time, There Was a Person Who Said, ‘Once Upon a Time’ - NYTimes.com
“unsure how they arrived in such a precarious place, and uncertain even how to tell the story that might make sense of their journey.”
“As just a very basic investigative measure, once investigators acquired a...”
– Verizon Business Security Blog » Blog Archive » Case Study: Pro-active Log Review Might Be A Good Idea, via Dan W.
“He saw a woman wandering through his backyard. But before he could talk to her,...”
– If you lose your cellphone, don’t blame Wayne Dobson - News - ReviewJournal.com, via Dan W.
“Learning English is important, not only because it is the international...”
– Twitter / laurenthaug
“Two years ago, Brown attempted to teach Watson the Urban Dictionary. The popular...”
– Teaching IBM’s Watson the meaning of ‘OMG’ - Fortune Tech, via @jleedev.
“You might not care much about fine dining or coffee. But you probably do value...”
– Julian Baggini – The art of coffee
“Mazurczyk and his colleagues Maciej Karaś and Krzysztof Szczypiorski analysed...”
– Silent Skype calls can hide secret messages - tech - 05 January 2013 - New Scientist, via Nick L.
“Anonymous has set up a WhiteHouse.gov online petition to try and make...”
– Anonymous petitions the White House to make DDoS attacks a legal form of protesting | The Verge
“The Bicholim Conflict” of 1640-41, described in detail in the online piece...”
– Wikipedia’s ‘Goan war’ unmasked as elaborate hoax
“Like Bitly, Twitter has a great real-time data set and very smart data...”
– Twitter just told us how cool its real-time search is… and how it makes its money | The Verge (via Tim M.)
It’s cheap humans all the way down.
