Link Dump
Security fail: some on-the-ground military robots may have the same unencrypted video security hole problem as the Predator drones (previously linked). Speaking of which, "Wikileaks has published what is identified as detail and a demonstration of "how to read out video and mission control data from US Predator drones." (boingboing)
Paging rcfox: is the Mayon volcano in the Phillipines ready to blow?
More fun with Google suggestions: Is Fox News a...
Apparently if you have a Blackberry, Bing is now your only Internet search provider option. "The move is part of the five-year search and advertising deal Verizon signed with Microsoft in January for a rumored $500m."
The EFF has published an buyer's guide for e-books charting the privacy features/exposures of each.
Finally, change we can believe in from the Obama administration: airlines can now only hold you prisoner on the runway for a maximum of 3 hours.
A Texas A&M scientist thinks terahertz-frequency waves or T-rays can replace X-rays for most applications without the attendant health effects on humans.
Popular Science reports that more than 2/3 of cocaine shipments seized on their way into the U.S. are "laced with another drug that's commonly used to deworm opossums." boingboing: "In other news, wait: people commonly deworm opossums?" (It's also a cancer treatment drug, and can cause weakness in the human immune system.)
A Slashdot-linked item takes some traffic/server/data center type numbers from Facebook and estimates that if it were written in C instead of PHP, the amount of computing power saved could eliminate over 22,000 of their 30,000 servers leading to a 49,000-ton reduction in carbon output. "Of course, it is a bit unfair to isolate Facebook here. Their servers are only a tiny fraction of computers deployed world-wide that are interpreting PHP code."
Paging rcfox: is the Mayon volcano in the Phillipines ready to blow?
More fun with Google suggestions: Is Fox News a...
Apparently if you have a Blackberry, Bing is now your only Internet search provider option. "The move is part of the five-year search and advertising deal Verizon signed with Microsoft in January for a rumored $500m."
The EFF has published an buyer's guide for e-books charting the privacy features/exposures of each.
Finally, change we can believe in from the Obama administration: airlines can now only hold you prisoner on the runway for a maximum of 3 hours.
A Texas A&M scientist thinks terahertz-frequency waves or T-rays can replace X-rays for most applications without the attendant health effects on humans.
Popular Science reports that more than 2/3 of cocaine shipments seized on their way into the U.S. are "laced with another drug that's commonly used to deworm opossums." boingboing: "In other news, wait: people commonly deworm opossums?" (It's also a cancer treatment drug, and can cause weakness in the human immune system.)
A Slashdot-linked item takes some traffic/server/data center type numbers from Facebook and estimates that if it were written in C instead of PHP, the amount of computing power saved could eliminate over 22,000 of their 30,000 servers leading to a 49,000-ton reduction in carbon output. "Of course, it is a bit unfair to isolate Facebook here. Their servers are only a tiny fraction of computers deployed world-wide that are interpreting PHP code."