I love this stuff (thought cryptonomicon was a great book), so this was an interesting read. Russia – “if they can do it, so can we!”
Tag Archives: science & technology
The Great Library of Amazonia
This is a great read. As I was telling Jimmy, if I ever had fat stacks of cash, this would be an amazing project. The potential is quite unbelievable.
DRM
Lesson number 85,923 on why DMCA is bad. A computer science grad student at Princeton wrote a report showing the CD DRM (digital rights management, in other words, you can not backup or rip the CD to mp3s) was ineffective – it could easily be defeated by use of the ‘shift’ key. The stock of …
Spiritual Machines
I am sure this won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I figured I would post it anyway. I am currently reading The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil – and really enjoying the book. Sort of the same subject, but much less technical – I found this interesting read on future robotic labour …
Darpa crazies
This is seriously disturbing. Wired has the scoop. What national security experts and civil libertarians want to know is, why would the Defense Department want to do such a thing? The embryonic LifeLog program would dump everything an individual does into a giant database: every e-mail sent or received, every picture taken, every Web page …