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EA··on The future of flying
One day, to travel hundreds or thousands of miles across our planet's surface, we'll be pulled upward to a router and then drop to a port near our desired destination.
EA··on Nasa.gov Redesign
Not attractive but functional?

Yep, they are running Drupal 7.

EA··on The Apple Watch
“You’ll still be able to do with Apple Watch what you do with your current watch: tell the time (and if you want, the date) at a glance and trust that it’s accurate.”

...if you return your watch to a charging station daily.

He goes on:

That said, compared to a traditional watch, daily charging is terrible.

Before entering into the smartphone market, I charged my cellphone less than 100 times per year. Now, I have to charge my smartphone at least once a day. It's a tax on my lifestyle that I don't mind paying.

I hated the daily charging of my smartphone at first. Now, I plan my day and commutes with respect to a battery to ensure I have enough charge for me to interweave the technology in my pocket with my experiencing of the analog world.

I suspect I and others will make the same allowance for a smart watch and the Apple Watch will be a very profitable device for Apple.

EA··on Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimited Cloud Drive Storage
Unlimited Everything Plan (free 3-month trial, then $59.99 per year–equivalent of less than $5 per month): Store an infinite number of new and existing photos, videos, files, documents, movies, and music in Cloud Drive.
EA··on We know where you’ve been: Ars acquires 4.6M license plate scans
Been flying a drone over landfills for a year now. I'm taking high resolution photographs of all the address labels I can find. Wrote a script to do OCR on the photographs and then export that into an Access Database. Been mailing out flyers to positives asking folks to do better recycling.
EA··on The US government's web traffic
404 on the link to the 1,350 domains: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/gov-domains-api
EA··on Why GM Hired 8,000 Programmers
Yep
EA··on Twitch acquires eSports pro-gaming team Evil Geniuses
CAL was the online version of the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL). Angel Munoz was the owner for all that.
EA··on Knot Strength: Structures That Make a Natural-Fiber Knot Strong or Weak (2010)
The palomar knot is one the strongest knots for tying a hook to fishing line...unless you do not wetten the knot while tying it.
EA··on Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?
No even close: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/pos...
EA··on New York Police Officers to Begin Wearing Body Cameras in Pilot Program
Most carry an array of networked sensors on their person already. - NSA
EA··on CIA covert operation helped America win the race to the moon
The USA got a lot of "tech goodies" when they brought Dr. Wernher von Braun and company from Germany.
EA··on What I Learned After I Published My Twitter Password
Up until last fall, a hacker could social engineer their way into an AT&T account.

OP's Twitter account is only as secure at his cell phone service account.

EA··on Yahoo spends $58 million to fire its chief operating officer
Flickr has 1 TB of free storage. Old Flickr Pro accounts have "unlimited" storage space.

She bought Tumblr.

Will she release some hardware?

EA··on Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?
It's one thing to have a big airplane.

It's another thing to have a big invisible airplane.

EA··on Planes Landing in Beijing: Video from Space
The near-term future of disruptive spaceflight isn't sending big heavy objects into space---it's sending nano-satellites into orbit around the earth.
EA··on How Bitcoins Involved in Crime Can Be Seized by the Feds
I have US dollar bill B03542754F in my pocket right now. I wonder about its "blockchain" and how it has flowed into and through our economy. I wonder if it at anytime in its life has been a part of illegal activity.
EA··on Facebook Fraud [video]
He specially addressed that at 05:25 into the video. And he spent $20 instead of $5. He marketed to the US, CAN, AUS, and the UK and analyzed the new likes. The likes appeared to come from fake users.
EA··on How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
Up until late 2013, it was very easy to social engineer your way past Customer Sales Rep call screens to gain access to an AT&T account once you put together a few pieces of personal data (which was even easier to obtain) of the account owner. You didn't need to know the account password to gain access if you had other pieces of information. Those bits of information leak out through other service providers and are sometimes available through State and Federal Government systems.

That meant that anyone using SMS via AT&T for two-factor auth was vulnerable.

The extra layer of security is only enabled if you call AT&T and ask them to further protect your account from future changes.

EA··on The rise of Dogecoin, the internet's hottest cryptocurrency
Dogecoin can't be a real thing one day?

Those people probably said the same thing about a website called Mt. Gox: Magic The Gathering Online which went on to be the leader in BitCoin exchange.

EA··on Spotify Raises $250 Million, Valued Above $4 Billion
What if every person that heard a song over the radio had to pay $0.0001 per listen?

If a wired music mass distribution system existed before wireless broadcasting (AM/FM), wouldn't the whole business model of the music industry be different?

EA··on Russia: Hidden chips 'launch spam attacks from irons'
Scary to think that my coffee pot is connected to your coffee pot by a piece of metal.
EA··on GoDaddy Buys Media Temple
(mt) sent this to their customers:

Greetings,

I am proud to share some momentous news with you today. GoDaddy, the Internet's largest platform for small businesses, has acquired (mt) Media Temple. We will continue operating as an independent and autonomous company and our mission will remain unchanged. However, new investments from GoDaddy will provide us the necessary resources to strengthen our focus on web professionals and will help accelerate our plans to expand internationally.

At Media Temple, we've always been on a mission to provide the highest quality service at the lowest possible price. When I co-founded the company in 1998, I saw an industry that wasn't meeting the needs of web designers all that well. At one extreme, there was expensive and overly-complex dedicated hosting that required customers to over-build their solutions. At the other extreme, there was incredibly cheap "unlimited" hosting that was untrustworthy and lacked class and transparency. At neither end was there a company truly qualified to understand and partner with the creative community.

Thanks to incredible customers like you, our model worked out. We've doubled-down on designers and have created a new platform to help people push the outer limits of the web. Now with 225 employees, Media Temple serves 125,000 customers making up more than 1.5 million websites in over 100 countries. We are proud to be one of Los Angeles' original startups, repeatedly recognized as one of the best places to work in the city — and one of the fastest-growing companies in the world.

Personally, working with GoDaddy on the acquisition this year has been unexpected, yet incredibly rewarding. Led by new CEO Blake Irving, the GoDaddy leadership team, which now includes Media Temple's President, Russell P. Reeder, is transforming the company with fresh thinking, new advertising, and an inspiring new strategy. It really is impressive, and so is their new mission: "Help small businesses easily start, confidently grow, and successfully run their online ventures."

Though our customers have traditionally been very different, both companies have similar priorities of providing excellent service experiences. However, we also understand and respect the vast differences and needs of our respective customer bases. Hence, Media Temple will continue to run as an independent business and is not being integrated into GoDaddy. Our customers should not experience any changes to their service levels, pricing, or the expert support we are known for. We're not moving our servers, and the phone number is not changing. We will remain in Los Angeles and will stay committed to being the most amazing hosting provider possible. In all seriousness, our mission to host great ideas feels like it's just getting started!

I am confident that Media Temple has made the right decision and I know the company is only going to get better from here. Please see our website FAQ to understand this news even further. If you have any questions or comments, please let us know at questions@mediatemple.net.

Thank you so very much for your passion, your feedback, and your support over the years.

Best regards,

Demian Sellfors (mt) Media Temple Co-founder @demian_sellfors

EA··on Any.do Cal
I can't get my eyes to look at the demo playing on the iPhone.

I keep staring at the background video.

EA··on Global flight-path maps
The author used "a combination of python, arc and illustrator, with python doing the actual work for arcmap." - https://twitter.com/MichaelMarkieta/status/33935004333520076...
EA··on Flickr's redesign makes it a photo service actually worth sharing
https://secure.flickr.com/tools/
EA··on Association between muscular strength and mortality in men (2008) [pdf]
"We love CrossFit. It is great job security." - my physical therapist

edit: my point being that from the PT's POV, the more intense the strength training, the more likely a serious injury will occur during training.

EA··on The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency
Modest CPUs produce bitcoins very slowly. So, there is an incentive to create a botnet to harness the power of thousands of CPUs to mine bitcoins.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

EA··on Physicists Say They Have Found A Higgs Boson
Radio waves were described by their co-discoverer in 1888 as "an interesting laboratory experiment" with "no useful purpose" whatsoever. - Wikipedia entry for Higgs boson
EA··on Ask HN: What is your favorite podcast?
Freakonomics

http://www.freakonomics.com/radio/freakonomics-radio-podcast...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354...

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