Well, maybe TSA is listening to *someone*...

Is it the White House's "ban the TSA" petition (oops sorry, pulled right before it got to the required number of signatures)?  Is it the pending election?  Is it the people opting out (maybe the screener who opts out)?  Who knows? but they're moving x-ray scanners from large to small airports , likely this means that the millimeter-wave (good) systems at say, MHT, might be replaced by backscatter (bad), from BOS, but I've been going to BOS a lot more often lately.

At least the TSA Agents are totally trustworthy

Perry

How good is The Cloud?

Well, it depends.  Remember, you're using someone else's servers.  If they slip, and you lose stuff, what are your options?

Here's the story of Kyle Goodwin, as told in his Motion For Return of Property to the US District Court in Virginia.  He was a Premier paying customer to MegaUpload (remember KimDotCom?), and stored his small business's backups of his video files there.

His hard drive crashed, and within hours the US and New Zealand courts had shut down MegaUpload's servers, shutting off access to Mr Goodwin's data.  It's stored in MegaUpload's colo site, bit turned off and unavailable.

So don't worry, the cloud is fine, your data on the other hand,  Reply hazy, try again.

Facebook selling YOU

Are we Surprised?

From the Wall Street Journal: Facebook Sells More Access to Members

Is there anything we can do about it?  Probably not.  Remember, if you're not paying anything, you're not the customer, you're the product.

 

Every Movie Ever Made in Every Language Any Time Day Or Night

(In a cheap motel in the middle of nowhere)

I guess they didn't mention the price

This was a 1999 commercial for quest, and talked about by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston in his article in Techdirt and an interview on the daily ticker linked by DSLReports.com.  The book is about why our internet is way worse than the rest of the world (largely because we frittered is away on smartphones).

The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use 'Plain English' to Rob You Blind

Warp Drive? What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Part Deux

New calculations show warp drive possible with much smaller energy expense

(500 KG vs the mass of a planet)
http://news.discovery.com/space/warp-drive-possible-nasa-tests-100yss-120917.html


The slide show is pretty good too  - here's a quote: "To initiate the warp drive, however, vast amounts of energy would be required. Also, there will be some practical issues to overcome, such as preventing the creation of artificial black holes, as well as catastrophic warp bubble collapse when the power is switched off."

The best part - They're trying it in their lab!

WCPGW?!

Update 11-18-2012:  The warp bubble will likely pick up a high energy particles which will accumulate in the bubble, which have to go somewhere, and will be released on arrival -  "A long trip could vaporize entire planets upon your arrival" 

We now have a great new weapon!  Hallelujah!  A reason to fund space travel!  (Don't tell anyone, but my money is on using those particles to power this whole thing as an interstellar ramjet)

Synthetic Life. Awesome.

Posted to Google Plus

Hacking DNA Jun 9, 2012  -  Limited

Synthetic Life.  Awesome.  What could possibly go wrong?
http://www.wesolveforx.com/#t=t&n=2d02ffdb

It made it to Slashdot - Feb 2013 

Proxy for the Onion Network

This is not The Onion

You can now get from the real internet to the Darknet - if you're not sure what I mean - Don't do it!

http://www.onion.to/enter.php