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Watch the World’s Highest Resolution Drone-Mounted Camera in Action #surveillance #geek
Meh – compound eye plus aperture synthesis and basic depth perception. An exabyte per day is pretty cool, though. Sure, your phone can take a decent picture, but it’s not even in the same universe as the best camera the government’s got. At 1.8 gigapixels, the DARPA-developed ARGUS-IS the highest resolution surveillance platform in the…
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Guest Post: ‘A Venture Capitalist’s Experience of Startups and Security’
A security-aware and very technically competent venture capitalist within my circle recently shared an epic rant, which with a little light editing and with requisite permission I have edited into this posting. I think it contains an important message – not least it demonstrates that funders are catching up with the fundamentals, and you’ll soon be less able…
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How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail # patent trolls on the back foot? #mustread
“Thank you for calling Soverain technical support,” says Wolanyck, if you press option 2. “If you are a current customer and have a tech support question, please call us at 1-888-884-4432, or e-mail us at support@soverain.com.” That number, like the “customer support” number on Soverain’s contact page, has been disconnected. Soverain isn’t in the e-commerce…
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Cyclical History in “The Wanting Seed” – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia # thought provoking #anthonyburgess
Approximately, yeah… Often repeated in the novel is the concept that history is cyclical. As Tristram explains in the first few chapters to his slumbering history class, there are three phases: Pelphase, Interphase, and Gusphase. Pelphase is named after Pelagianism, the theology of Pelagius. The Pelphase is characterized by the belief that people are generally…
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Question: Is the Daily Mail in charge of child protection policy making? /ht @openrightsgroup
What is the Government’s online child protection policy? Is the Daily Mail in charge of child protection policy making? I would prefer to be writing an article with a headline that doesn’t have a question mark at the end. But the Government seems to determined to confuse and frustrate those wishing to understand their position…
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Scottie Pinwheel # The cutest example of the Dining Philosophers problem EVAR #MUSTWATCH
Leave the table where it is, rotate the diners in lockstep. Ignore forks.
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Dinner: conversation regards love and death and human imperatives.
… and a really good steak. Hawksmoor Spitalfields. Props to Georgina who looked after us.
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Carleton University free speech wall torn down within hours # Sometimes #Censorship is not done by the State
Sometimes censorship comes from a different kind of authoritarianism … Only hours after students installed a “Free Speech Wall” at Carleton University to prove that campus free speech was alive and well, it was torn down by an activist who claimed the wall was an “act of violence,” against the gay community. “What we wanted…
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Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins — Remains of the Day #mustread
This: The day Amazon launched its video store, the top DVD store on the web at the time, I think it was DVD Empire, lowered its prices across the board, raising its average discount from 30% off to 50% off DVDs. This forced our hand immediately. Selling DVDs at 50% off would mean selling those…
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Farnborough Police are into drug humour / puns in a bad way
#Cherrywood – Woman caught given official warning after being caught with cannabis. #TokingTheMickey — Farnborough Police (@FarnboroughCops) January 25, 2013
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Male Geeks Rise Up For Women #beyondparody @BBCWomansHour – on live right now
On right now. Reference this discussion – “No Willy No Woman’s Hour“
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French court orders Twitter to reveal racists’ details #antisemitism # THERE’S A REASON IT’S CALLED ‘DELETE’
A French court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of users who spread anti-Semitic messages, months after offensive tweets were removed. The Paris high court issued the order to the popular US micro-blogging site at the request of the French Jewish students’ union (UEJF) and others. Anti-Semitism groups hope to identify the users and…