while Planet Labs restricts their resolution to 5m to protect privacy, others won’t, and the age of 24/7, cheap, high resolution satellite imagery is only a few years away.
Month: November 2013
Cooking triples neurons
Humans can only afford 86b neurons (25% of daily caloric intake) due to cooking: more calories in less time. an orang utan can only afford 30b neurons with 9h of feeding / day, the practical max. proponents of all-raw diets are really saying 30b neurons is enough for everyone.
2022-02-17: Humans use far more calories per body mass than primates:
Expensive Boeing
starting at $76M. kinda crazy to think some of their models set you back $350M, and what do you get for all of that? not a ton of leg room and stale pretzels.
Hyperbolic shaving blades
MITM attacks on routing
We have observed Man-In-the-Middle hijacks on more than 60 days so far this year. ~1500 individual IP blocks have been hijacked, in events lasting from minutes to days, by attackers working from various countries. It’s possible to drag specific Internet traffic halfway around the world, inspect it, modify it if desired, and send it on its way. Who needs fiberoptic taps?
if you liked it, should have put encryption on it.
The 8 trillion fraud
the Pentagon is the only federal agency that has not complied with annual audits. $8.5 trillion in taxpayer money since 1996 has never been accounted for.
and of course no one has held the pentagon accountable, because security.
Student loans
as usual, the onion has the tl;dr version.
GoT Rap Battle
should tide you over for a couple months
Deaf Surveillance
this is very clever. turn a disadvantage (no hearing) into an asset (no distractions from chatty coworkers & noise). bravo!
In the fall of 2012, the governor of Oaxaca decided to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. He hired 20 people who could not hear or speak to monitor footage from the state capital’s 230 surveillance cameras. The move didn’t just provide to jobs to people who normally can’t get them in Mexico. It also improved the city’s surveillance system.The video footage is silent, and deaf monitors are both capable of reading lips and less easily distracted than officers who can hear by other things happening in the command center.
Buttcoin ledger
I like to make fun of buttcoin as much as anyone, but some aspects are true progress, like traceable transactions. It is unfortunate that research into currency systems always attracts the crackpots first.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 