Valin Posted July 3, 2019 Author Share Posted July 3, 2019 I'm not gonna pretend I understand half of what they are talking about....Still Link to post Share on other sites
Valin Posted July 30, 2019 Author Share Posted July 30, 2019 July 29 2019 State of Emergency Declared over Malware, Cyberattacks on the Rise Louisiana declared a state of emergency after malware attacks. A new type of mobile malware that users are completely unaware of has infected approximately 25 million devices has recently been discovered. A security company is creating a blockchain for hackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Police in the Netherlands and the UK have put together a legal intervention campaign for first time youth cybercriminals. Link to post Share on other sites
Kamexceni Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 Ok now Im tackling the lower core support. It really wasnt that bad, but I already had a new support that I was going to use the top half on a friends Tx DPS, so why not right ? Link to post Share on other sites
Kamexceni Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 Ok now Im tackling the lower core support. It really wasnt that bad, but I already had a new support that I was going to use the top half on a friends Tx DPS, so why not right ? Link to post Share on other sites
Geee Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Water harvester makes it easy to quench your thirst in the desert With water scarcity a growing problem worldwide, University of California, Berkeley, researchers are close to producing a microwave-sized water harvester that will allow you to pull all the water you need directly from the air — even in the hot, dry desert. In a paper appearing this week in ACS Central Science, a journal of the American Chemical Society, UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi and his colleagues describe the latest version of their water harvester, which can pull more than five cups of water (1.3 liters) from low-humidity air per day for each kilogram (2.2 pounds) of water-absorbing material, a very porous substance called a metal-organic framework, or MOF. That is more than the minimum required to stay alive. During field tests over three days in California’s arid Mojave Desert, the harvester reliably produced 0.7 liters per kilogram of absorber per day — nearly three cups of clean, pure H2O. That’s 10 times better than the previous version of the harvester. The harvester cycles 24/7, powered by solar panels and a battery. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Valin Posted October 17, 2019 Author Share Posted October 17, 2019 Here, on one sheet of paper, is a map of the entire internet as of 1973 A bit of internet history, via Twitter user David Newbury (@workergnome): Going through old papers my dad gave me, I found his map of the internet as of May 1973. The entire internet. Link to post Share on other sites
Valin Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 11.23.19 | Technology is advancing faster than ever, and it’s not slowing down. This decade was the era of smart phones, streaming, and the internet of things. But with 5G and AI on the rise, high-tech executive Jeff Brown believes 2030 will be a new world. Brown is an early-stage tech investor and analyst who’s seen the modern technological revolution firsthand. He describes quantum computing as a moon landing and 5G as game-changing. He predicts a near future full of artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, wireless surgeries, genetic healing, cryptocurrencies, and more! But with equal advances in encryption hacking and the AI tracking abilities of Google, Facebook, and even China, we must control our own data! Link to post Share on other sites
Valin Posted November 29, 2019 Author Share Posted November 29, 2019 Nov. 28 2019 21st Century Space Race IS ON, Spaceports and TOP-SECRET Satellites The space exploration industry is expected to boom in the next 20 years. With companies' reusable rocket platforms for low costs, countries who never developed space programs are now entering the race. Link to post Share on other sites
Valin Posted December 23, 2019 Author Share Posted December 23, 2019 Dec 23 2019 On December 23, 1947, three researchers at Bell labs demonstrated a new device to colleagues. The device, a solid-state replacement for the audion tube, represented the pinnacle of the quest to provide amplification of electronic communication. The History Guy recalls the path that brought us what one engineer describes as "The world's most important thing." Link to post Share on other sites
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Valin Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 Dec 18, 2018 Historian Niall Ferguson argues that today’s political polarization echoes the religious polarization of the Reformation. Both were brought about by technological disruption: The printing press, in the case of the Reformation; and the personal computer and internet, in the case of today. From Niall Ferguson's Long Now Seminar “Networks and Power”: http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/nov... Link to post Share on other sites
Valin Posted August 21, 2020 Author Share Posted August 21, 2020 Aug 4 2020 Link to post Share on other sites
Valin Posted August 25, 2020 Author Share Posted August 25, 2020 20 Years Ago You would not have seen this. That little Silicon Chip, is changing Everything. Link to post Share on other sites
Valin Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 Aug 31 2020 Elon Musk's Starlink constellation has FCC approval to include up to 12,000 satellites in low-earth orbit to provide low-latency gigabit broadband internet virtually everywhere on Earth. Musk plans 30,000 more. But this massive increase of orbiting objects has some experts worried about a catastrophic collision cascade that effectively shuts off space exploration forever. It could also threaten astronauts aboard the ISS, our GPS system, and military surveillance capabilities...not to mention the Gravity of the risk to Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Link to post Share on other sites
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Valin Posted November 7, 2020 Author Share Posted November 7, 2020 Starlink beta testers are impressed with the Internet speeds on the new service Not perfect, but better than expected Adrian Potoroaca November 4, 2020 Forward-looking: It's still early days to make a definitive judgment on how well Starlink works, but beta testers seem positively impressed with the new satellite internet service so far. For people living in remote areas around the world, this might be what they've been waiting for, provided the company can make it more affordable. Last month, SpaceX sent out invites to several people who expressed their interest in signing up for Starlink, its nascent satellite internet service. The company said at the time that more than 700,000 people were willing to give it a shot, so it launched the "Better Than Nothing Beta" program for people in Canada and the US. The biggest question on people's minds has been whether the new service lives up to expectations. Elon Musk promised earlier this year that the installation process was very straightforward and that connection quality would be good enough for competitive gaming, but now the first beta testers are chiming in with their own experiences. (Snip) Link to post Share on other sites
Valin Posted November 16, 2020 Author Share Posted November 16, 2020 From Painfully Slow to Lightning Fast: SpaceX's Starlink Makes Rural Internet Usable Rural Americans have long dealt with slow internet. But in interviews, SpaceX Starlink beta testers in Montana, Idaho, and elsewhere report speedy service that has transformed the way they use the web. Michael Kan November 10, 2020 Nickolas Friedrich lives in central Montana, where his local broadband connectivity hasn't been good. Every month, he pays about $120 for a measly 0.8Mbps download speed from the only DSL provider in town. And his connection can freeze up when too many neighbors are on the service at once. As a result, streaming videos isn’t really possible. Instead, it can take an hour to download a low-quality 240p video from YouTube. The situation is so bad that Friedrich used to go to the local library to download internet videos to his laptop so he could watch them later. But recently, he’s been able to enjoy Netflix and YouTube at home, where the internet speeds can now shoot up as high as 170Mbps. The reason? Starlink, the next-generation satellite internet service from Elon Musk's SpaceX, which Friedrich has been helping test out. “It has been a lot faster than the only ISP that still services us with DSL,” Friedrich told us in a chat on Reddit. He's now considering canceling his account with CenturyLink—which has long promised a fiber rollout, but without any specifics—and switching to Starlink. Is Starlink the Real Deal? (Snip) Link to post Share on other sites
Valin Posted December 19, 2020 Author Share Posted December 19, 2020 In search of lost time Scott Johnson Dec. 19 2020 Through sheer good luck, I came across the Osher Lifetime Learning Institute affiliated with Dartmouth College this past fall. It has been my goal to do the assigned reading I didn’t get to in my favorite college literature courses. Reviewing the Dartmouth Osher course offerings, I found two that met my needs. The first — the one I happened onto — was Professor James Heffernan’s course on chapters 7-12 of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Professor Heffernan was a member of the English Department when I was an undergraduate and is now retired from college teaching. He is an expert on the Victorian novel and on Joyce, among many other things. I regretted not having taken a course from him when I could. He gave the 24-part Great Courses lecture series on Ulysses and taught the book for something like 50 years. He must be one of the foremost living scholars of Ulysses. I couldn’t believe my luck in finding the course with its availability via Zoom. (Snip) Link to post Share on other sites
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