Category: Articles
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Here we go again! This is me procrastinating on writing something practical to take time to write something fanciful. And if there is one thing I love writing about more than anything, it is blurring the line between science fact and fiction. Everything we have ever built was made from materials lying around on Earth,…
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Shawn Henry, an executive assistant director at the FBI, is stepping down after twenty years with the agency, citing frustrations with fighting a losing cyber-war. Hackers have proven themselves capable enough to sneak into the mainframes of companies such as Sony, NASDAQ, the CIA, FBI, and a litany of others. Even HBGary Federal, a cyber-security…
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Here’s a short blog post for tonight. Have you seen the new video released by Google five days ago? Here’s the link, watch it before reading on: Google self-driving car: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE I am a stoic person when I use the computer, usually. I wear my emotions on the inside, and usually only express myself with…
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This is about more than intelligent life in space, this is about intelligent life here on Earth. Our greatest scientists performed all of their mathematics by hand before Texas Instruments produced the first hand-held calculator in 1967, and even that could only perform the four primary operations; add, subtract, multiply, and divide. It is this…
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So I just bought the second generation iPad a few months ago, and in the past few weeks Apple has both announced and released a new iPad in record time. There are two schools of thought: those who just need a new product and buy whatever is the latest at the time, and those who…
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FOREWORD This is what I have been working on for the past week. It is perhaps a little ambitious given the complexity of the subject, the rate at which all of these technologies change and improve, and the lack of an easy answer. My goal is to explain in brief the origins, interplay, and scope…
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Recently, on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, renowned astronomer and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson made the case that space is our next frontier, and by seizing it we can step forward into the future. Once again, the viscerally motivated ‘Reverend’ Neil deGrasse Tyson has said something difficult to appreciate on television, much like his…
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An active solar cycle and a weakening geomagnetic field can have blistering consequences on those prone to getting sunburns. In the time it took me to clean the gutters this weekend, I had enough exposure to the sun to make sitting down tender for three whole days. I’m not saying I went to the beach…
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Remember when they told you never throw out sensitive information? All it takes is a credit card application for a conventional thief to make a living hell out of your personal finances. What a great piece of advice… for the eighties. Certainly, be aware of the consequences of your actions, but in the modern era,…