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givemeinternet: I think there is a glitch in the matrix
Anti-American street art in Hong Kong
February 05, 2014
Dr. Ed Chung's theory of GEEK Evolution:
Unlocked iPhones, the New International Currency
Vernon Silver, writing for Businessweek:
I’ve been paying my bills with iPhones. Not with apps or on bank sites — I’ve been using the Apple hardware as currency.
It started by accident in December, during a business trip to New York. I live in Rome, where domestic work comes cheap and technology is expensive. An unlocked, gold, 32-gigabyte iPhone 5s that costs about $815 with tax in the U.S. goes for €839 (about $1,130) in Italy, roughly a month’s wages for workers who do laundry, pick up kids from school, or provide care for the elderly. When one worker heard I was visiting the States, she asked me to pick her up an iPhone in lieu of the equivalent cash for work she’d done. Lining up inside the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, I was surrounded by shoppers speaking languages from around the world. The salesman looked stunned when I said I wanted an unlocked iPhone. Just one?
Olympic Sized Gaffe - We have surveillance video of hotel showers...
(Say What?!?!?!)
Then an aide whisked Kozak away before he could answer any follow-up questions...
...former NSA operative John Schindler has some counter-surveillance advice for Sochi's shower users... Shut door and run shower hot for 10 minutes. Clear spot on mirror is the cam. (more)
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Are Young Prodigies Responsible For All Our Scientific Breakthroughs?
Einstein once quipped that “a person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of thirty will never do so.” Is this true?
Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralize the Web
Twenty-five years after the Web's inception, its creator has urged the public to reengage with its original design: a decentralized Internet that remains open to all.
Speaking with Wired editor David Rowan at an event launching the magazine's March issue, Tim Berners-Lee said that although part of this is about keeping an eye on for-profit Internet monopolies such as search engines and social networks, the greatest danger is the emergence of a balkanized Web.
"I want a Web that's open, works internationally, works as well as possible, and is not nation-based," Berners-Lee told the audience, which included Martha Lane Fox, Jake Davis (aka Topiary) and Lily Cole. He suggested one example to the contrary: "What I don't want is a Web where the Brazilian government has every social network's data stored on servers on Brazilian soil. That would make it so difficult to set one up."
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A map showing gender inequality around the world
By using data pulled from the United Nations Development Program, Time has compiled a map showing just how far the world has to go to reach gender equality.
Rather unknown but really special places on earth
Mobile Face-Recognition-App to identify Strangers
Kiss your Meatspace-Anonymity goodbye: Eine kommende Mobile App gleicht Fotos per Gesichtserkennung mit Social Media-Profilen ab und schickt den Namen von Fremden inklusive Links zu Facebook und Twitter und Dating-Sites. Auf ihrer Website drohen sie schon mit: „this is just the beginning“. Bring out the Creeps!
An upcoming app for Android, iOS, and Google Glass called NameTag will allow you to photograph strangers and find out who they are — complete with social networking and online dating profiles.
Spot someone out and about that you want to identify, and you can capture their face using your device’s camera. The app will send the photo wirelessly to NameTag’s server, where it will compare the photo to millions of online records and return with a name, more photos, and social-media profiles, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, where the person (or their friends) might have publicly posted photos of themselves.
Facial recognition app matches strangers to online profiles (via Algopop)
Headhunters Can't Tell Anything From Facebook Profiles
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
privilege summed up in a rly cute little comic.
privilege summed up in a rly cute little comic.
Dogs Defecate In Alignment With Earth's Magnetic Field
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mysecretorigin: pencilblots: jesuisuneetoile: dorkygoodness: ...
This humidifier sits right on your desk and can be screwed on any spare plastic bottle you have lying around.
Ive honestly, literally, waited all my life for something like this
Crying real nigga tears rn
Holy shit I want this
my asthma desires this product
NEED!!!!!! Every winter my nose tries to bleed because of the heating/cooling issues in my office
YES!!
i need this
(Edit: I didn’t see the link in the OP. It is too early for meeeee.)
added to wish list!
TIL that an ignostic is ''someone refuses to discuss whether God exists until the terms are defined.''
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LOL My Thesis
A new Tumblr blog asks graduate and undergraduate students to submit their thesis in one sentence. Some cannot keep it to strictly one sentence, but that's all right, as long as it's short. The thing is, ask anyone about their thesis and they'll either talk your ear off or say it's too complicated to explain. When boiled down to one line, they become completely ridiculous. For example:
All I care about is food and I found a way to make it vaguely sociological.
When you collect oral folklore from your Southern family, you find out creepy things.
I spent 372 pages describing what Kafka meant by everything he didn’t write.
The government hiring people is a good way to bring down unemployment; we stopped doing it because we are stupid.
I stared at kids playing videogames to prove that kids like playing videogames.
Read more, or submit your own, at LOL My Thesis. -via Time Newsfeed
Evolution of reddit in stacked areas
Computer science PhD student Randy Olson likes to analyze reddit in his spare time. We saw his network of subreddits already, but his look earlier this year at the evolution of reddit is more interesting. The yearly breakdowns and explanations are the best part. I'm relatively new to reddit (and totally feel like an old man when I visit), so it's fun to see what the site used to be. More news and fewer Scumbag Steves, with a humble beginning in nsfw?
A Times reporter took three genetic tests and got three wildly different answers
If a recent New York Times piece is any guide, direct-to-consumer genetic testing may have more accuracy problems than we thought. Reporter Kira Peikoff ordered three simultaneous tests of her genome from 23andme, Genetic Testing Laboratories, and Pathway Genomics — and the results varied more widely than you might think. According to 23andme, she had an elevated risk of psoriasis, with a lifetime risk of 20.2 percent, but GTL put her lifetime risk at only two percent, well below average. Both firms showed her Type 2 diabetes risk as slightly below the general population, but described it as "decreased" and "medium" respectively, two very different interpretations. It's a reminder of how far genetic testing services still have to go on the accuracy front, over a month after 23andme was blasted by the FDA for marketing their products without approval.
- Source The New York Times