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You set up two pages (e.g., page.html and protectpage.html). page.html has the javascript code snippet within the tags. protectpage.html has the protected information. If someone enters the correct password — ‘letmein’ in the example — the protected page opens in a new browser window.

Of course, the password is identifiable by viewing page source. Also, a webcrawling bot will probably index or scrape protectpage.html at some point.

Anything more sophisticated is challenging.
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http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/cut10.shtml

QT:{{”
You set up two pages (e.g., page.html and protectpage.html). page.html has the javascript code snippet within the tags. protectpage.html has the protected information. If someone enters the correct password — ‘letmein’ in the example — the protected page opens in a new browser window.

Of course, the password is identifiable by viewing page source. Also, a webcrawling bot will probably index or scrape protectpage.html at some point.

Anything more sophisticated is challenging.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-marketplace-1.4980976

A similar video segment also aired on CBC’s national news program ‘The National’ last night (about 500,000 viewers on average). And the story is on the CBC news homepage today.
https://www.cbc.ca/news

Useful
https://www.electricitylocal.com/states/connecticut/new-haven/

Batch Cloud Data Transfer for @AWScloud
https://AWS.amazon.com/snowball & https://AWS.amazon.com/snowmobile Snail mail trumps email for really large data. Interesting to calculate effective transfer rates as compared “Ethernet.” Surprised that I couldn’t find even crude estimates.

https://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-NASA-Apollo-Saturn-V-21309

It’s 1 meter tall when built (tallest lego set ever made) and has 1969 pieces (year of the Apollo 11 launch).

The design was submitted by a couple of LEGO fans, and the company decided to manufacture the set.

Currently sold out, but they will be manufacturing more sets until 2018.

Whole-organism lineage tracing by combinatorial… genome editing, w. #CRISPR + seq. barcodes, by @JShendure lab
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/05/25/science.aaf7907 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/05/25/science.aaf7907