Author Archives: Thanos

A New Year’s Resolution Challenge for All – Always Augment Your Intelligence

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Thanos

In this millenium why shouldn’t you Google, ask Siri, or Alexa, almost anything just to double check? Why wouldn’t you augment your intelligence with the biggest brain and knowledge base on the planet: the Internet? Please take a New Year’s resolution to start asking Google and Siri more, start augmenting your feeble human intelligence, in this coming year stop handicapping your brains friends. Continue reading →

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Alexander Gerst’s Earth timelapses From ESA

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Thanos

A stunning collection of several timelapse photo series taken from the ISS. Alexander Gerst’s Earth timelapses – YouTube.

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Microsoft Tells U.S.: The World’s Servers Are Not Yours for the Taking

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Thanos

Microsoft legal has a philosophy that local laws ought to apply to data — the only part that gets fuzzy under this approach is cloud data that is mirrored in multiple servers across multiple nations. This discussion and case is … Continue reading →

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Brad Smith and Jonathan Zittrain on Privacy, Surveillance, and Rebuilding Trust in Tech

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Thanos

Some key concepts come up in this discussion of trust and corporate principles in the Post Snowden age of the internet. Pay attentions to Microsoft’s conclusions on when to redirect government subpoenas and when to deny extraterritorial requests. “…but secret … Continue reading →

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Vemödalen: The Fear That Everything Has Already Been Done

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Thanos

So I have this feeling often while taking photos — and then I try to do something different, but actually doing something different that’s not been done before is exceedingly rare because … 7 billion. Let me repeat that: Seven … Continue reading →

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Net Neutrality’s Biggest Fan: Justice Scalia

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Thanos

One of the key arguments in the brand X case was that broadband providers didn’t just offer transmission, but also packaged information services such as e-mail, and thus were information providers. However you then have to ask what’s the essential … Continue reading →

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If You Use SSL 3.0, it’s Time to Migrate Off

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Thanos

Google’s getting ready to phase out SSL 3.0 in Chrome 39 due to it’s vulnerability to “man in the middle” attacks like those presented by Poodle. If they are going there, then you need to move as well. While Google’s … Continue reading →

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Gigabit Providers Not Focused on Apps – Study

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Thanos

The headline statement won’t be true until the real broadband apps are actually there because while you can predict a trend you can’t predict the future. Locking into broadband apps until real broadband is in place a while would be … Continue reading →

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Responding to DVD subscription decline, Netflix closes call center

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Thanos

This is as predictable as the sunrise, if there weren’t titles only available on DVD then the red envelopes would be even fewer. Netflix is closing a call center devoted to its DVD subscription business in Hillsboro, Oregon, letting go … Continue reading →

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The Best 3-D Printed Gun Yet Shoots Paper Airplanes

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Thanos

Paper Airplane Machine Gun / Papierflieger-Maschinenpistole – YouTube.

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