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Ambient Computing: How long before Cloud Computing starts to rain?
Ben Hyde writes: The four horsemen of the digital apocalypse are cpu, storage, communication, and content, aka Moore’s law and his friends mean that costs are always falling, capablities are always increase, and displacement opportunities are always popping up. These are the drivers that keep pulling the rug out from under any industry that’s built…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-07
Is it me or does Humphrey Hawksley’s blog look like a BBC website? Don’t mind but I remember newsreader fusses over less: http://is.gd/m58C # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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“Charlatanry in forensic speech science” -> Gagging Academics?
The security geek splash-story of the day comes from Private Eye, via Ian Brown, via FIPR; allow me to quote another website to set the context: neuroskeptic (Feb 1 2009) Via Mind Hacks, we learn about the case of Francisco Lacerda, a University of Stockholm academic who’s been threatened with legal action […] Nemesysco sell…
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links for 2009-03-06
MacHeist TweetBlast! Sounds cute, but I suspect it's a) missing a pile of ideas and necessary functionality, and b) lacking that functionality is too complex for the value it offers.
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-06
flash silliness: http://2006.1-click.jp/ # RT goals maybe hazardous to health: @adriana872 could this be forwarded to every manager of every corporation? Please?!? http://bit.ly/cWiNk # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Producer, Consumer, Community Member?
This links posting from Adriana contains the following: (my emphasis) How About Free? The Price Point That Is Turning Industries on Their Heads – Knowledge@Wharton good if inconclusive article. annoyingly, still talk of ‘consumers’ addicted to free content. Oh boy, ‘consumers’ who also produce and distribute ain’t consumers no more. media industry can’t accept that…
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links for 2009-03-05
Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: In Praise of the Sales Force Cory on the flipside of self publishing
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-05
security geeks must read this asap: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43014 # ‘Snyder revealed that a 3 hour and ten minute long director’s cut of “Watchmen” will come out in July’ – big surprise http://is.gd/lT2w # Rodeohead medly. That is not a typo. http://tinyurl.com/2u5p6j # this-pageism: Remember “This page must be viewed in Internet Explorer”? — Now it’s “This…
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Quick OSX Conversion of PostScript to PDF
If you are on a Mac and need to convert Postscript (or other) to PDF, and you are ancient enough to use commandlines, try the attached; I had no idea about convert but found it referenced in /Library/Scripts//Printing Scripts/Convert To PostScript.scpt for i in *.ps do /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert -f $i -o $i.pdf done
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-04
my code is made of purest win # Heavy Snow Shower due Reading, tomorrow pm? wtf? # 2x can Chickpeas, Juice 2 Lemon, 5x Clove Garlic (chop), ~6 heap Tb Tahini, salt, pepper, blitz with plastic blade, add EVOO until flowing. # =best houmous good for few days; was gonna add 1 Scotch Bonnet pepper…
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I found a new Security / Privacy Bug in Safari 4 Public Beta (5528.16) ?
I just found a bug, I think! The “Reset Safari” pulldown menu is meant to eradicate the entire browser’s state – so why is it that: 1) if I log into a site which uses HTTP Basic Authentication (possibly other forms, too) and supply my username and password… 2) and then I do “Reset Safari”…