SpiderOak: secure private cloud, unlike Dropbox
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Day: December 10, 2015
Why people think total nonsense is really deep
The precise reasons that people see profundity in vague buzzwords or syntactic but completely random sentences are unknown. Some people might not realize the reason they don’t understand something is simply because there is nothing to understand. Or they might just approach things they hear and read less skeptically. There are also a few characteristics Read more about Why people think total nonsense is really deep[…]
GCHQ can hack your systems at will – thanks to ‘soft touch’ oversight, judges not needed thanks
Privacy International battle exposes ‘bulk’ warrants Documents released by GCHQ to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal suggest the agency may be allowed to hack multiple computers in the UK under single “thematic” or “class” warrants. Responding to complaints brought by Privacy International and seven global internet and communication service providers, the British spy agency told the Read more about GCHQ can hack your systems at will – thanks to ‘soft touch’ oversight, judges not needed thanks[…]
Physicists make transparent conductors by means of stamping and growing
The researchers based the new process on a combination of two existing techniques. Using the stamping technique ‘Substrate Conformal Imprint Lithography’, which originates from a collaboration between Philips and AMOLF, they stamped a pattern in a thin layer of plastic on top of a glass substrate. The result looks much like a nanoscale landscape: a Read more about Physicists make transparent conductors by means of stamping and growing[…]