Google Search Technique Aided NY Dam Hacker in Iran
http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-search-technique-aided-n-y-dam-hacker-in-iran-1459122543 Appears to be ‘#Google dorking,’ using operators like inurl:
Cypherpunks Write Code
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/cypherpunks-write-code Describes a mailing list at the origin of #PGP & @wikileaks
Lostpass https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/543 … Describes a subtle #phishing attack on @LastPass but still ends up strongly endorsing the program
TOR: Not so Anonymous https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/493 Illustrates how traffic stats & metadata are more important for Security Now than #encryption
Moving on from #Picasa
http://GooglePhotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html Another highly used software falling out of fashion, disrupting many users’ workflows
Moving on to Lightroom?
Another example of Geek Chic:
http://www.SFChronicle.com/Opinion/openforum/article/Going-beyond-geek-chic-CeBIT-6883249.php?t=a28a0bfcd600af33be&cmpid=twitter-premium
Learn Different
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/07/altschools-disrupted-education An “AltSchool” for kids (not a Mooc) where all is filmed & analyzed. A prep-school for #1984 in ’16.
Annals of Technology MARCH 7, 2016 ISSUE
Learn Different
Silicon Valley disrupts education.
BY REBECCA MEAD
Seen from the outside, AltSchool Brooklyn, a private school that opened in Brooklyn Heights last fall, does not look like a traditional educational establishment. There is no….
Tech Companies…Clamor to Entice #CloudComputing Experts
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/technology/tech-companies-new-and-old-clamor-to-entice-cloud-computing-experts.html $300k-$1M salaries for those with 5+ years of experience
Why #fashion week is passé
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/03/economist-explains-5?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/whyfashionweekispass Technology is making the timing of big shows irrelevant
iPad Pro reinvents the…fashion sketch
http://mashable.com/2016/02/18/ipad-pro-fashion-sketch $AAPL uses classic Haute couture to make ipad more appealing to the tech set
A man who recorded every detail of his life for 5 yrs
http://qz.com/519298/the-story-of-a-man-who-recorded-every-detail-of-his-life-for-five-years/ Interesting combo of hi-tech camera & low-tech written logbook
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“For example, the camera captured a meeting with a colleague in the office corridor, but that didn’t make it in to the log book. Or the log book captured a 30-minute task completed on the computer, but the camera missed that.
The result, as he had suspected, was that the combination was helping him capture more of his day. The log book allowed for reflection and the narrative camera added texture to the reflection.
The power of introspection
There is some scientific evidence of the benefits of Villarroel’s practice. “The experience is consistent with mindfulness practices, which have been shown to have great benefits,” Ronald Riggio, a psychologist at Claremont McKenna College, told Quartz. “The perception of time, however, is subjective.””
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