Links for 21-11-2006
Bumper SL/CopyBot/IP round-up, electric sitar, fighting lobster videos, dekotora, future postage stamps…
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“Designers who can put out new ideas quickly will do relatively well in the resulting economy of novelty, while designers that have counted on ongoing sales of existing designs to build up their in-game bank accounts will suffer.”
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“…the havoc sewn by Copybot promises to transform the virtual word into a bold experiment in protecting creative work without the blunt instrument of copyright law.” Interesting perspective.
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“The trouble began with the appearance of virtual gold rings in several areas of the virtual world [...] they starting replicating wildly and, eventually, the servers on which the game is hosted began creaking under the strain…”
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SLH report on Philcon, number 1.
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SLH report on Philcon, number 2.
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“Cotton that has been genetically engineered so its seed is no longer toxic could provide protein-rich food for poor countries. The researchers say the technology used could make other toxic plants safe to eat.”
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“The paintball minigun has six triggers and delivers 1,200 psi (pounds per square inch) of pressure…” You spell that O, V, E, R, K, I, L, L.
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“This Electronic Sitar (known as the ESitar) has digitizing sensors, custom positioned to traditional Sitar technique, which converts human musical gestures to binary code which machines can comprehend.” Paging Ravi Shankar…
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“The flaw could let a hacker steal the cryptographic keys used to protect sensitive communications and financial transactions, simply by monitoring the amount of effort the microchip is expending…” Ouch.
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“…this is the first time the biodiversity of the animal communities living at these sites has been observed directly and thoroughly documented, providing the first discovery of cold seep communities in the entire southwest Pacific.”
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Kathryn Cramer has plenty of snaps from Philcon.
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12 – Fly fight clubOkay, the fly combat videos are pretty funny, but the battling lobsters even more so. Does this mean there is something wrong with me?
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“Touch, rather than concentration, could let people multi-task with their hands, and this may also potentially help improve the performance of people with coordination problems, according to psychologists.”
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“Dogged by rumors that Ares I rocket would not be able to lift the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle … NASATags: links
November 22nd, 2006 at 1:37 am
[...] Spy software could use analysis of CPU branch prediction to break encryption keys. Even a 512-bit key in “a few thousandths of a second”. Scary. (thanks, Armchair Anarchist). [...]