Category: Kent Crispin

The best visualization I’ve seen of the comet that Rosetta is orbiting now.

http://io9.com/now-you-can-truly-appreciate-the-size-of-comet-churymov-1623548762

 

Originally shared by ****

Step aside, Facebook. There’s a new social network in town. Scholarly versions of Facebook, designed specially for researchers, have taken off to a degree that no one expected. But what are researcher using these networks for? Do they offer anything that Facebook and Twitter don’t? And what does the trend mean for science? We surveyed thousands of academics to find out go.nature.com/fjvxxt

 

John Kenneth Galbraith’s “The Age of Uncertainty”

A  1977 miniseries on economic history.

1. The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism

2. The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism

3. The Dissent of Karl Marx

4. The Colonial Idea

5. Lenin and the Great Ungluing

6. The Rise and Fall of Money

7. The Mandarin Revolution

8. The Fatal Competition

9. The Big Corporation

10. Land and People

11. The Metropolis

12. Democracy, Leadership, Commitment

13. Weekend in Vermont (three one hour programmes in which Galbraith discusses economics, politics and international relations with guests such as Henry Kissinger, Georgy Arbatov and Edward Heath). These interviews are not covered in the book.

Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose was in part a response to and rebuttal of Galbraith’s series.

From FixYT:

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=KGSID_Uyw7w

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=Hb_leVNwyg8

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=kFdK8zqZMEo

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=0CFY7_WHuUc

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=sxAoymq_SEA

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=McW2aFpJxsM

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=cUKGhjnOSuY

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=c7WCOepX2bo

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=HofggHfMjh8

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=Rv8b_ou-NQM

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=zIVp1uzC9zk

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=v_mGDrG3l5k

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=QaZ8x-rQwD0

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=Ml1Y60Qu9Vw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Uncertainty

Recipe For Building a Cheap Raspberry Pi Honeypot Network

http://owl.li/2L6QWC

 

Originally shared by Brent Kerlin

http://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/06/26/securing-ssh-two-factor-authentication-using-google-authenticator/

 

Originally shared by Jonathan White (Slashazard)

There is a book coming out about Joss Whedon. This is a good chapter about the beginnings of Firefly. Hopefully this hasn’t already been posted here.

http://io9.com/the-real-reason-why-joss-whedon-named-his-space-western-1614273050/+charliejane

 

Originally shared by Will Hill

Can we have distributed communications systems or not?  A conversation on Diaspora has gone so wrong, that I suspect impersonation.  Edward Morbius continues to tell me that port blocks and other technical measures against people running mail servers are justified by the high volume of spam that large mail ops receive.  I think that leads to unacceptable spying and censorship and that the same reasoning will be used to dismantle any effective, distributed communications method.   If I can’t be trusted to run a mail server, why should I be trusted to run a Friendica pod?   Is this really Ed that I’m talking to?  

If anything the cost of spam to large providers proves that email and other services are better done small.  Small servers don’t have enough readers to be worth while.  Damage to one server impacts fewer people.  An abundance of choices gives everyone redundancy, and so on and so forth.  There is an analogous security argument for an abundance of free software distributions. Freedom leads to cooperation, abundance, diversity and security.  Centralization leads to monopoly, censorship and neutralization of dissidence.  I thought these were bedrock concepts of free computing and networking.  

Is there something I’ve missed here?

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4412606