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The Lone Gunman TV show

Electric Caves wrote 4 months ago: Thought our viewers may enjoy this one, even if you are familiar with the show it may have been awhi … more →

Tags: A History Of Illusion, tabula massy, Society, Open Your Eyes, wake up!!!, cover up, Anarchy, Terence McKenna, Post Industrial

The NYTimes reports: Siri and Apple’s Future1 comment

tarpon wrote 7 months ago: By STEVE LOHR Not enough hardware eye candy. That was the undertone of disappointment that surrounde … more →

Tags: Google, Apple, SIRI, iPhone, Microsoft, --darpa, M.I.T. Sloan school of Management

The "world's most wanted hacker," Kevin Mitnick, has gone straight (interview)

Dean Takahashi wrote 7 months ago: Kevin Mitnick was once labeled the world’s most wanted hacker. Back in 1992, he tangled with a … more →

Tags: Security, Hacker, Ghost in the Wires, world's most wanted hacker

Steve Jobs of Apple Dies at 56

amARTS&MEDIA wrote 7 months ago: There’s this photo my Mom has on me playing at this computer that covered a quarter of our kit … more →

Tags: Graphic Design, Reporting and Commentary, Steve Jobs, Apple

Steve Jobs: The best of the obits

Philip Elmer-DeWitt wrote 7 months ago: A few gems among the flood of tributes Source: Apple Inc. If you have time for only one story about … more →

Tags: Apple 2.0, Apple, Brian Lam, John Gruber, Steve Jobs, Steve Levy, Walt Mossberg

Steve Jobs, Apple’s Visionary, Dies at 56

Bookblurb wrote 8 months ago: Steven P. Jobs introduced the iPhone 4 in San Francisco in 2010 Jim Wilson/The New York Times   … more →

Tags: Obituaries, Apple, The New York Times, jim wilson, Steven P. Jobs, Stephen Wozniak, Timothy D Cook

CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised

priestanathema wrote 9 months ago: Katie Hafner / John Markoff Goodreads.com / Amazon.com … more →

Tags: cyberpunk, documentry, Cyber Culture, Hightech Lowlife, Books, Hacker, Cyberpunk, hackers, outlaws

Video from "From the French Revolution to the Spanish Revolution. 15M movement in Spain", Johm Markoff

acampadaboston wrote 10 months ago: Video of the lecture and debate with John Markoff. July 14th 2011. MIT. Cambridge, MA. USA Here you … more →

Tags: Events, Video

From the French Revolution to the Spanish Revolution. 15M movement in Spain. Lecture by John Markoff2 comments

acampadaboston wrote 11 months ago: Download poster pdf Democracy is not given, democracy is built. This statement has been demonstrated … more →

Tags: Events

Time for Web 3.0?1 comment

Dinosaur Dan wrote 1 year ago: In February of 2009, John Markoff published an article in The New York Times called Do We Need a New … more →

Tags: NetComm-related, General Musings & Complaining, netcom2011, new internet, digital pearl harbor, hackers, internet safety, The New York Times

Steve Jobs and ... Owsley Stanley?6 comments

Philip Elmer-DeWitt wrote 1 year ago: A New York Times op-ed piece strains to make a connection Stanley at his 1967 arraignment for LSD po … more →

Tags: Apple 2.0, Steve Jobs, lsd, New York Times, Owsley Stanley, lysergic acid diethylamide

Bet You Can't Do It! Have A Conversation Without Asking A Question

milkywaynews wrote 1 year ago:    It starts when you wake-up; you’re asking yourself, your mate, or somebody…..questions. Maybe you … more →

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computers vs Humans, Nytimes.com, I.B.M.'s Watson, jeopardy, Computer Scientist John Seely Brown, alex trebek, Intelligence Augmentation, Computer Scientist John McCarthy

"Excuse me iPad, check please!"

dklupenger247 wrote 1 year ago: The new iPad menu for Stacked A new chain of restaurants will be opening in southern California and … more →

Tags: NY Times, USA Today, Stacked, iPad, California, new menu, ipad menü

How the Stuxnet virus works

Scott Kistler wrote 1 year ago: Tom Ricks says that this has been the best newspaper work that he’s encountered on Stuxnet, th … more →

Tags: Middle East and Islamic World, America as a World Power, American Foreign Policy, Israel, Iran, William Broad, stuxnet, david Sanger

Dear Mr. Kristof:

Warren Langer wrote 1 year ago: Nick Kristof, the Pulitzer winning journalist of The New York Times, is asking for one student and a … more →

Tags: Personal Memories, Humor-Satire, History, Politics, kindle, New York Times, Bronx High School of Science, University of Illinois, Bermuda Triangle

In the rush to commercialize cloud computing, is security getting overlooked?

cmdoel wrote 2 years ago: The promising technology of Cloud computing recently suffered its first serious bout of growing pain … more →

Tags: Microsoft, T-Mobile Sidekick, Amazon, Google App Engine, Eric Schmidt, Ajax Applications, cyberpunk, Katie Hafner, Digital Equipment Corp

Down The Technological Rabbit Hole: LSD Inventor Hofmann's Letter To Steve Jobs4 comments

halmasonberg wrote 2 years ago: Steve Jobs Well, it seems psychedelic drugs and the modern computer age have more in common than one … more →

Tags: Music, Science, Grateful Dead, New York Times, letter, Steve Jobs, lsd, psychedelic drugs, Douglas Engelbart

The Singularity is Near!

sashahc wrote 3 years ago: Okay, not really. But Kurzweil is up to his old tricks again. Check out this NYTimes Article by John … more →

Tags: AI, Kurzweil, Singularity, NYTimes

Contemplation: The Coming Robot Apocalypse?

Nathaniel wrote 3 years ago: Hi Y’all!  Time for another contemplation (this may be an emerging dominant way of posting on … more →

Tags: General Destruction, Robots, zombies, New York Times, Killbots, Science Fiction, apocalypse, pterodactyls, Superbrain


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