Don't do this. (via @ryanaraine + @kimzetter)
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1:51 pm Mon
May 7, 2012
Random network security tip for those about to appear on TV
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NASA uses 450,000 gallons of water to shield launch vehicles from acoustic damage
NASA uses hundreds of thousands of gallons of water during launches to suppress vibration during liftoff: “a curtain of water around the engines to dampen the loudness of the test and protect the core stage from noise damage”. Here’s the system being tested! Water flowed during a test at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy […]
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Surveillance advocate Eric Schmidt is stepping down as head of Google parent company Alphabet
Eric Schmidt, the ex-Sun CEO who came onboard at Google to be the "adult supervision" for the founders and who has repeatedly declared privacy dead and dismissed people who worried about surveillance business-models as unrealistic nutcases, is stepping down as head of Alphabet, the parent company of Google.
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Amputee monkeys learn mind control methods to manipulate robotic arm
Neuroscientist Nicho Hatsopoulous and his team taught monkeys that lost limbs through accidents how to control a robotic arm. The work has profound implications on what they call the brain-machine interface. Via University of Chicago “That’s the novel aspect to this study, seeing that chronic, long-term amputees can learn to control a robotic limb,” said […]
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