Author Topic: Interesting "stuff" (Read 1308827 times)

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #550 on:** January 11, 2015, 03:48 PM »

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Hello The '90s are calling and your flip phone is ready
-Arizona Hot (January 10, 2015, 03:11 PM)

Bleh. "Moebius Strip Fashion" is so confusing.

(Disdain voice) "Eauh. Flip phones are SO 2014 faux-hip revival. Well, THAT wave is over!"

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #551 on:** January 11, 2015, 04:10 PM »

(Disdain voice) "Eauh. Flip phones are SO 2014 faux-hip revival. Well, THAT wave is over!"
-TaoPhoenix (January 11, 2015, 03:48 PM)

Said as they prepare to lynch you for not having a flip-phone.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #552 on:** January 11, 2015, 04:17 PM »

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #553 on:** January 13, 2015, 08:55 PM »

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5 Signs You Should Take a Break From Social Media Other than DonationCoder, of course!

Beyond Apple Juice 11 Kids’ Drinks Around the World

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #554 on:** January 14, 2015, 04:56 PM »

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #555 on:** January 14, 2015, 05:04 PM »

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Eight all-time great hacking movies

An Internet of Treacherous Things
A zombie network of home routers highlights the importance of prioritizing smart appliance security.
By Glenn Fleishman on January 13, 2015
Why It Matters
Within five years there may be 50 billion smart devices in homes and offices.
Plenty of science-fiction stories feature ordinary household appliances staging a revolt. In an episode of Futurama, toasters and home robots rise up against their human oppressors. Two trends are now starting to make such scenarios seem less far-fetched.
One is the wave of Internet of things devices being developed for homes—on full display at the CES trade show last week. The other is the increased hacking of home networking gear—as demonstrated by a zombie horde of home network routers discovered recently.

Smart Home Devices Will Need Smarter Security MIT Technology Review

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #556 on:** January 14, 2015, 05:12 PM »

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Interesting "stuff"

Google's modular Project Ara smartphones are coming to Puerto Rico

Google's Project Ara Is Finally Coming Out With Its Modular Smartphones--In Puerto Rico

This is Google’s latest Project Ara prototype The Verge

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Interesting "stuff"

The Evolution of Auto Show ‘Booth Babes’ - WSJ

Renegade · « **Reply #557 on:** January 14, 2015, 06:11 PM »

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The Evolution of Auto Show ‘Booth Babes’ - WSJ
-Arizona Hot (January 14, 2015, 05:12 PM)

I'll leave this with everyone.

https://www.google.c...ng+girls&num=100

Renegade · « **Reply #558 on:** January 16, 2015, 06:17 AM »

Creepy robot:

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #559 on:** January 20, 2015, 12:49 AM »

Hackers Don't Need Wi-Fi to Steal Your Data

Man catches wife cheating, live posts the experience on Reddit

Renegade · « **Reply #560 on:** January 20, 2015, 09:11 AM »

AK-47 fired underwater WITH ALL THE PHYSICS TO EXPLAIN THE FUNKINESS~!

There's some wild physics with gases and liquids going on in there, so for the science geeks, very much worth a watch, even if you don't like guns. (FYI - you need something like a gun to recreate the kinds of things going on in there.) Pressure differentials and goodness.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #561 on:** January 20, 2015, 03:13 PM »

A lot of bad password articles today. I guess it's a New Year thing.

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Many Passwords Are So Bad They Don’t Even Need to Be Hacked

Hey Dummy, Stop Using These Passwords Video PCMag.com

Please don't use these passwords. Sincerely, the Internet

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Bad passwords 2015.pdf (62.99 kB - downloaded 160 times.)

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #562 on:** January 20, 2015, 03:18 PM »

20 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Moon Landing

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Interesting "stuff"

New police radars can 'see' inside homes

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #563 on:** January 20, 2015, 03:22 PM »

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This Website Lets You Chat With Your Future Self Co.Exist ideas + impact

If anyone tries this and it can be done, let us know what you thought of it.

Meanwhile, the Aquos K is a pretty stylish flip phone with some impressive specs. It sports a 3.4-inch LCD display, a 1410mAh battery, a quad-core 1.2GHz processor, a 13-megapixel rear camera and a waterproof design. It comes in black, white and red variants.

Sharp hasn’t revealed pricing or availability for the new phones, though for now it looks like both devices could be limited to Japan. We’d love to see the Aquos mini arrive in the U.S., where it could be a real mid-range contender depending on how much Sharp plans to charge.

Sharp Unveils the Aquos Mini and a New Flip Phone

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #564 on:** January 20, 2015, 03:32 PM »

If anyone tries this and it can be done, let us know what you thought of it.
-Arizona Hot (January 20, 2015, 03:22 PM)

Well, their site design looks pretty strange, and I couldn't get a handle to get going!

"Tell me web design doesn't look like that in the future!"

Aging software is pretty old news. But I'm skeptical of the text responses to stuff. It has to just be dressed up grade B scifi/futurism. Because we have a 50 50 chance of ending up in a dystopia like the classics but with better tech (than some of them, but not others!)

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #565 on:** January 20, 2015, 03:43 PM »

20 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Moon Landing
-Arizona Hot (January 20, 2015, 03:18 PM)

Still a bit edgy, but more towards the interesting stuff side here.

1969:
As the guys were getting ready to lift off of the Moon to go back home, Buzz noticed something important was amiss. A switch from a kind of important circuit breaker had fallen out -- the breaker that allowed the Lunar Lander (LEM) to take off from the Moon...Buzz found the hole where the breaker used to be and jammed a pen in there to complete the circuit.

2015:
Listened to chess lecture. Dad calls. (???? Unknown actions). Sound card burns out.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #566 on:** January 20, 2015, 03:49 PM »

Because we have a 50 50 chance of ending up in a dystopia like the classics but with better tech (than some of them, but not others!)
-TaoPhoenix (January 20, 2015, 03:32 PM)

Then I suggest you start studying classic dystopias, so you can have a response prepared. Do you expect Big Brother to be watching you?

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #567 on:** January 20, 2015, 03:53 PM »

2015:
Listened to chess lecture. Dad calls. Sound card burns out.
-TaoPhoenix (January 20, 2015, 03:43 PM)

Would Buzz(Lightyear?) be proud of your solution to that?

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #568 on:** January 20, 2015, 04:07 PM »

Because we have a 50 50 chance of ending up in a dystopia like the classics but with better tech (than some of them, but not others!)
-TaoPhoenix (January 20, 2015, 03:32 PM)

Then I suggest you start studying classic dystopias, so you can have a response prepared. Do you expect Big Brother to be watching you?
-Arizona Hot (January 20, 2015, 03:49 PM)

Big brother(s), little brothers (corporations), and everyone on social media is watching already.

My current response is self-induced psychopathic defeatism to stay below the radar. "Everybody has things to hide. Some are less interesting than others."

Planned response #1: Everyone will eventually be assigned their very own agent. And since it's National Security, they might be just a wee cut above Go-Phone tech support.

So invite your agent to have Pizza!

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #569 on:** January 20, 2015, 05:05 PM »

2015:
Listened to chess lecture. Dad calls. Sound card burns out.
-TaoPhoenix (January 20, 2015, 03:43 PM)

Would Buzz(Lightyear?) be proud of your solution to that?

-Arizona Hot (January 20, 2015, 03:53 PM)

He is now!

So you can have your main volume "is what it is", but somehow the separate Wave ended up at zero and you can't see it on the simple master volume interface.

Stoic Joker · « **Reply #570 on:** January 24, 2015, 11:01 AM »

Here's a broken link that lead me to a very interesting and informative 404 page.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #571 on:** January 24, 2015, 11:41 PM »

Interesting "stuff"

Does anyone here play Little Alchemy for Android or Chrome?
I can't comment on the version for the Mac, I'm not an Apple polisher.

Renegade · « **Reply #572 on:** January 25, 2015, 05:13 AM »

Here's a broken link that lead me to a very interesting and informative 404 page.
-Stoic Joker (January 24, 2015, 11:01 AM)

That just got bookmarked!

IainB · « **Reply #573 on:** January 25, 2015, 10:35 AM »

As a keen cyclist with children, I had always been in favour of the New Zealand law making it compulsory to wear a bicycle helmet. However, the outcome of that law is apparently not what one might have intuitively expected - according to a 2012 report from the NZ Medical Journal. I'd not seen it before. Very interesting statistical analysis.
Evaluation of New Zealand’s bicycle helmet law - New Zealand Medical Journal

tomos · « **Reply #574 on:** January 25, 2015, 11:04 AM »

As a keen cyclist with children, I had always been in favour of the New Zealand law making it compulsory to wear a bicycle helmet. However, the outcome of that law is apparently not what one might have intuitively expected - according to a 2012 report from the NZ Medical Journal. I'd not seen it before. Very interesting statistical analysis.
Evaluation of New Zealand’s bicycle helmet law - New Zealand Medical Journal
-IainB (January 25, 2015, 10:35 AM)

Seems like a good article

Related:
I remember reading a report in some Sunday paper a good few years back that claimed that wearing a helmet while cycling led to drivers taking less care around cyclists, which in turn led to more accidents and fatalities.
(Sorry, no links. The statistics for that article came from France IIRC, & FWIW.)

I cycle regularly in the summer. I've found that if I cycle well, i.e. keep a very straight line, some drivers will pass dangerously close to me. So I tend to weave slightly to try and keep them more aware, and wary, of me. Not ideal, but I'm still here :-/