5 Best Online #Backup Services, including #SpiderOak for security & #Bitcasa for cheap multi-Tb capacity http://bit.ly/1eot7Bv
via @kmkubo
http://lifehacker.com/five-best-online-backup-services-1006345049
Not Even #SiliconValley Escapes History: geo-center of ’83 tech world (AMD HQ) is now superfund self-storage facility
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/not-even-silicon-valley-escapes-history/277824
Great eval of @LastPass on old @SecurityNow episode, highlighting total #encryption approach & plan if company tanks
Also, login grids, 1-time passwords
Steve thoroughly evaluates LastPass, explains why high-security passwords are necessary, and tells us how LastPass makes storing those passwords secure.
http://twit.tv/show/security-now/256
downloaded, synched, listened & posted
@Shteyngart on what to do #ifihadglass: wear it during a your wedding, hangout, be a “Glasshole,” &c http://nyr.kr/18BKgHg via @ivanoransky
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/05/130805fa_fact_shteyngart
MT @KromerBigData: #DataScience in @nytimes http://bit.ly/13mPhxS McKinsey says ~60% more in field needed for ~500K new jobs in 5yrs
QT:”As an academic field, it cuts across disciplines, with courses in statistics, analytics, computer science and math, coupled with the specialty a student wants to analyze, from patterns in marine life to historical texts.”
QT:”Universities can hardly turn out data scientists fast enough. To meet demand from employers, the United States will need to increase the number of graduates with skills handling large amounts of data by as much as 60 percent, according to a report by McKinsey Global Institute. There will be almost half a million jobs in five years, and a shortage of up to 190,000 qualified data scientists, plus a need for 1.5 million executives and support staff who have an understanding of data.”
MT @ChristianMesser: $MSFT crisis: Stock plunging, Ballmer under attack. http://bit.ly/1382z12 ~35=>~32 on 7/19, ~60 all-time high ~’00
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/07/22/microsoft_crisis_stock_plunging_ballmer_under_attack.html
Fact or Fiction: #Encryption Prevents Digital Eavesdropping
http://bit.ly/12XkyHl via @sciam @lggreenemeier – Nice technology overview
History of the LCD: discovery of a “light-valve” circa 1900 in Europe, to initial commericalization by RCA in the US, to large-scale production in Asia
LCD History: discovery ~1900 in Europe, init. dev. by RCA, Korean production now http://bit.ly/1bALGVV 4th State of Matter via @scilib
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/08/130708fa_fact_baker
ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY
A FOURTH STATE OF MATTER
Inside South Korea’s LCD revolution.
BY NICHOLSON BAKER
JULY 8, 2013
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516506/silicon-valley-cant-be-copied
MT @mkaplanPMP: Billions have been spent trying to replicate Silicon Valley. http://bit.ly/1dKZeuR NJ was 1st attempt
Why Web Reviewers Make Up Bad Things: From 1K customers, 15 reviews & 1 bad #review http://bit.ly/15IxPqc via @zenan_liu @nytimes
QT:
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The other conclusion is that behavior online is too easily taken as a mirror of reality when it is nothing of the sort. What seems to be the voice of the masses is the voice of a self-appointed few, magnified and distorted.
“For every thousand customers, only about 15 write these reviews — and one of them is writing negative reviews of products he hasn’t bought,” Mr. Simester said. “How surprised should we be that one out of a thousand people do something we have trouble understanding?” ”
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/why-web-reviewers-make-up-bad-things/?smid=tw-nytimes