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LeopoldS

Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free software movement founder - 3 views

www.networkworld.com/...031411-richard-stallman.html

gadget

shared by LeopoldS on 28 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 28 Feb 14
     
    "I don't have a cell phone. I won't carry a cell phone," says Stallman, founder of the free software movement and creator of the GNU operating system. "It's Stalin's dream. Cell phones are tools of Big Brother. I'm not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I'm not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop." he is right once more ...
  • Paul N on 03 Mar 14
     
    I am going to live in the forest! Sadly, while true, there's no way around it these days. On the up-side the information overflow these days exceeds processing speeds. Soon it will become increasingly difficult for NSA or other organizations to find anything in the tons of data they stash away. Like some guy said in a random youtube video I can't find now anymore: "good luck trying to find my personal data when I'm tagged in 5000 pictures of cats!"
Luís F. Simões

Ville Vivante: The Dynamic Dimension of Geneva - 3 views

villevivante.ch

data visualization human swarm

shared by Luís F. Simões on 15 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Every mobile phone leaves digital traces permanently, while interacting with the mobile infrastructure. It can be seen as a mobile sensor that allows to define the geographic position of the subscription holder, almost in real-time.
  • Luís F. Simões on 15 Mar 12
     
    beautiful and hypnotic, but I'd like to know exactly what it is they are visualizing. These don't seem to be the changes in people's locations during phone calls...
jcunha

NanoSmell Project - 0 views

www.nanosmell.org

smell the TV-computer-phone

shared by jcunha on 19 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • jcunha on 19 Aug 16
     
    "Despite years of promise, an odor-emitting component in devices such as televisions, phones, computers and more has yet to be developed."
LeopoldS

David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face | Alan Rusbridger ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...nda-schedule7-danger-reporters

shared by LeopoldS on 20 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 20 Aug 13
     
    During one of these meetings I asked directly whether the government would move to close down the Guardian's reporting through a legal route - by going to court to force the surrender of the material on which we were working. The official confirmed that, in the absence of handover or destruction, this was indeed the government's intention. Prior restraint, near impossible in the US, was now explicitly and imminently on the table in the UK. But my experience over WikiLeaks - the thumb drive and the first amendment - had already prepared me for this moment. I explained to the man from Whitehall about the nature of international collaborations and the way in which, these days, media organisations could take advantage of the most permissive legal environments. Bluntly, we did not have to do our reporting from London. Already most of the NSA stories were being reported and edited out of New York. And had it occurred to him that Greenwald lived in Brazil?

    The man was unmoved. And so one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history occurred - with two GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the Guardian's basement just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents. "We can call off the black helicopters," joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro.

    Whitehall was satisfied, but it felt like a peculiarly pointless piece of symbolism that understood nothing about the digital age. We will continue to do patient, painstaking reporting on the Snowden documents, we just won't do it in London. The seizure of Miranda's laptop, phones, hard drives and camera will similarly have no effect on Greenwald's work.

    The state that is building such a formidable apparatus of surveillance will do its best to prevent journalists from reporting on it. Most journalists can see that. But I wonder how many have truly understood
  • H H on 20 Aug 13
     
    Sarah Harrison is a lawyer that has been staying with Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow. She is a UK citizen and her family is there. After the miranda case where the boyfriend of the reporter was detained at the airport, can Sarah return safely home? Will her family be pressured by the secret service? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23759834
LeopoldS

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system | Science | Th... - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...er-higgs-boson-academic-system

phy physics publications

shared by LeopoldS on 08 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 08 Dec 13
     
    what an interesting personality ... very symathetic Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, believes no university would employ him in today's academic system because he would not be considered "productive" enough.

    The emeritus professor at Edinburgh University, who says he has never sent an email, browsed the internet or even made a mobile phone call, published fewer than 10 papers after his groundbreaking work, which identified the mechanism by which subatomic material acquires mass, was published in 1964.

    He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in today's academic culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers. He said: "It's difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964."

    Speaking to the Guardian en route to Stockholm to receive the 2013 Nobel prize for science, Higgs, 84, said he would almost certainly have been sacked had he not been nominated for the Nobel in 1980.

    Edinburgh University's authorities then took the view, he later learned, that he "might get a Nobel prize - and if he doesn't we can always get rid of him".

    Higgs said he became "an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises". A message would go around the department saying: "Please give a list of your recent publications." Higgs said: "I would send back a statement: 'None.' "

    By the time he retired in 1996, he was uncomfortable with the new academic culture. "After I retired it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it. It wasn't my way of doing things any more. Today I wouldn't get an academic job. It's as simple as that. I don't think I would be regarded as productive enough."

    Higgs revealed that his career had also been jeopardised by his disagreements in the 1960s and 7
  • Thijs Versloot on 10 Dec 13
     
    And the follow up by Nobel prize winner Randy Schekman http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boycott-science-journals
  • LeopoldS on 12 Dec 13
     
    interesting one - Luzi will like it :-)
johannessimon81

'Hologram-lite' idea for 3D phone displays - 0 views

www.nature.com/...-for-3d-phone-displays-1.12647

shared by johannessimon81 on 19 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 19 Jun 13
     
    Nature paper by HP Labs: they use waveguides to produce a 3D wide-angle glasses-free image. Here's there website: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Innovation-HP-Labs/On-Our-Way-to-Glasses-Free-3D/ba-p/134391#.UcFSSOdgfTo
Ma Ru

Dialing Phone Numbers on Cell Phones Activates Key-Concordant Concepts - 0 views

pss.sagepub.com/...0956797610397668

technology mobile science psychology

shared by Ma Ru on 17 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Ma Ru on 17 Feb 11
     
    Personally, I have the habit of switching off keypad sounds in any device I use (mobile, camera, etc.). Now I have scientific results to back this philosophy up :) P.S. Mass-media version is here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20139-predictive-texting-alters-our-perception-of-numbers.html
Luís F. Simões

Shell energy scenarios to 2050 - 6 views

www.shell.com/...shell_energy_scenarios_2050

energy future forecast politics economy climate_change

shared by Luís F. Simões on 09 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Luís F. Simões on 09 Mar 11
     
    just in case you were feeling happy and optimistic
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  • Francesco Biscani on 09 Mar 11
     
    An energy scenario published by an oil company? Allow me to be sceptical...
  • Joris _ on 10 Mar 11
     
    Indeed, Shell is an energy company, not just oil, for some time now ... The two scenarii are, in their approach, dependant of economic and political situation, which is right now impossible to forecast. Reference to Kyoto is surprising, almost out-dated! But overall, I find it rather optimistic at some stages, and probably the timeline (p37-39) is unlikely with recent events.
  • Luís F. Simões on 10 Mar 11
     
    the report was published in 2008, which explains the reference to Kyoto, as the follow-up to it was much more uncertain at that point. The Blueprint scenario is indeed optimistic, but also quite unlikely I'd say. I don't see humanity suddenly becoming so wise and coordinated. Sadly, I see something closer to the Scramble scenario as much more likely to occur.
  • LeopoldS on 12 Mar 11
     
    not an oil company??? please have a look at the percentage of their revenues coming from oil and gas and then compare this with all their other energy activities together and you will see very quickly that it is only window dressing ... they are an oil and gas company ... and nothing more
  • Joris _ on 14 Mar 11
     
    not JUST oil. From a description: "Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies." Of course revenues coming from oil are the biggest, the investment turnover on other energy sources is small for now. Knowing that most of their revenues is from an expendable source, to guarantee their future, they invest elsewhere. They have invested >1b$ in renewable energy, including biofuels. They had the largest wind power business among so-called "oil" companies. Oil only defines what they do "best". As a comparison, some time ago, Apple were selling only computers and now they sell phones. But I would not say Apple is just a phone company.
  • LeopoldS on 14 Mar 11
     
    window dressing only ... e.g. Net cash from operating activities (pre-tax) in 2008: 70 Billion$ net income in 2008: 26 Billion revenues in 2008: 88 Billion Their investments and revenues in renewables don't even show up in their annual financial reports since probably they are under the heading of "marketing" which is already 1.7 Billion $ ... this is what they report on their investments: Capital investment, portfolio actions and business development Capital investment in 2009 was $24 billion. This represents a 26% decrease from 2008, which included over $8 billion in acquisitions, primarily relating to Duvernay Oil Corp. Capital investment included exploration expenditure of $4.5 billion (2008: $11.0 billion). In Abu Dhabi, Shell signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to extend the GASCO joint venture for a further 20 years. In Australia, Shell and its partners took the final investment decision (FID) for the Gorgon LNG project (Shell share 25%). Gorgon will supply global gas markets to at least 2050, with a capacity of 15 million tonnes (100% basis) of LNG per year and a major carbon capture and storage scheme. Shell has announced a front-end engineering and design study for a floating LNG (FLNG) project, with the potential to deploy these facilities at the Prelude offshore gas discovery in Australia (Shell share 100%). In Australia, Shell confirmed that it has accepted Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s entitlement offer of new shares at a total cost of $0.8 billion, maintaining its 34.27% share in the company; $0.4 billion was paid in 2009 with the remainder paid in 2010. In Bolivia and Brazil, Shell sold its share in a gas pipeline and in a thermoelectric power plant and its related assets for a total of around $100 million. In Canada, the Government of Alberta and the national government jointly announced their intent to contribute $0.8 billion of funding towards the Quest carbon capture and sequestration project. Quest, which is at the f
  • Joris _ on 14 Mar 11
     
    thanks for the info :) They still have their 50% share in the wind farm in Noordzee (you can see it from ESTEC on a clear day). Look for Shell International Renewables, other subsidiaries and joint-ventures. I guess, the report is about the oil branch. http://sustainabilityreport.shell.com/2009/servicepages/downloads/files/all_shell_sr09.pdf http://www.noordzeewind.nl/
  • LeopoldS on 16 Mar 11
     
    no - its about Shell globally - all Shell .. these participations are just peanuts please read the intro of the CEO in the pdf you linked to: he does not even mention renewables! their entire sustainability strategy is about oil and gas - just making it (look) nicer and environmentally friendlier
  • Joris _ on 16 Mar 11
     
    Fair enough, for me even peanuts are worthy and I am not able to judge. Not all big-profit companies, like Shell, are evil :( Look in the pdf what is in the upstream and downstream you mentionned above. Non-shell sources for examples and more objectivity: http://www.nuon.com/company/Innovative-projects/noordzeewind.jsp http://www.e-energymarket.com/news/single-news/article/ferrari-tops-bahrain-gp-using-shell-biofuel.html thanks.
ESA ACT

LE WEB 3 - 0 views

www.leweb3.com

web2.0

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    check the winners of the start-up competition 12th dec 07: 1st place - Goojet ( facilitates implementing web applications on cellular phones) 2nd place - PLYMedia (gives videos some "semantic" content) 3rd place - G.ho.st (virtual pc everywhere whenev
LeopoldS

Open WhisperSystems >> Open WhisperSystems - 0 views

whispersystems.org

security

shared by LeopoldS on 30 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 30 Jul 14
     
    encrypted phone calls on android and now also ios devices? here we go, from the programmer of PGP
Christophe Praz

A Drone That Finds Survivors Through Their Phones - 0 views

actu.epfl.ch/...survivors-through-their-phones

drone wifi AI

shared by Christophe Praz on 14 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Christophe Praz on 14 Jul 14
     
    This is the interesting master project of a good friend from my university, not really related to space though. Replacing the drone's wifi antenna by an Avalanche Victim Detector, it could be a very promising tool to deploy the first avalanche searches.
Marcus Maertens

Magic tricks created using artificial intelligence for the first time - 3 views

www.qmul.ac.uk/...143235.html

FUN ai INF

shared by Marcus Maertens on 02 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 02 Dec 14
     
    Let an AI develop your magic tricks! (The one with the smart phone is actually neat)
  • alekenolte on 04 Dec 14
     
    They published it in Frontiers of Psychology...?
Thijs Versloot

Is increased light exposure from screens and phones bad for your health? @Wired - 1 views

www.wired.com/...ificial-light-may-be-unhealthy

shared by Thijs Versloot on 19 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 19 Mar 15
     
    As Stevens says in the new article, researchers now know that increased nighttime light exposure tracks with increased rates of breast cancer, obesity and depression. Correlation isn't causation, of course, and it's easy to imagine all the ways researchers might mistake those findings. The easy availability of electric lighting almost certainly tracks with various disease-causing factors: bad diets, sedentary lifestyles, exposure to they array of chemicals that come along with modernity. Very difficult to prove causation I would think, but there are known relationships between hormone levels and light.
  • Paul N on 21 Mar 15
     
    There is actually a windows program called flux, that changes the temperature on your screen to match normal light cycles. When the sun sets it switches to a "warmer" more reddish tint on your screen to promote sleepiness. The typically bright blue/neon white settings of most pc settings is quite "awakening" and keeps your brain running for longer. This impacts your sleeping patterns and all the consequences of that. Amazingly, this flux thing does have an effect. That being said, I wouldn't be too quick to blame it all on PC/artificial lighting time. Sedentary lifestyles, etc can very well place one in a position of long term pc/phone usage so it's quite hard to draw a causal link.
  • LeopoldS on 23 Mar 15
     
    nice - also exists for MAC btw: https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/mac/
johannessimon81

Peel-and-Stick: Fabricating Thin Film Solar Cell on Universal Substrates - 3 views

www.nature.com/...srep01000.html

technology

shared by johannessimon81 on 28 Feb 13 - No Cached
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  • LeopoldS on 28 Feb 13
     
    any clue how? "With the peel-and-stick process, we integrated hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) TFSCs on paper, plastics, cell phone and building windows while maintaining the original 7.5% efficiency. The new peel-and-stick process enables further reduction of the cost and weight for TFSCs and endows TFSCs with flexibility and attachability for broader application areas. We believe that the peel-and-stick process can be applied to thin film electronics as well"
LeopoldS

Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of Its Customers | Threat Level | Wired.com - 3 views

www.wired.com/...google-nsl-range

spying google INF

shared by LeopoldS on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 06 Mar 13
     
    not a surprise though still bad to read ....
  • Ma Ru on 07 Mar 13
     
    On a side note, it's hilarious to read an article on something repeatedly referred to as being secret...
  • LeopoldS on 10 Mar 13
     
    quite self-explanatory described though: "The terrorists apparently would win if Google told you the exact number of times the Federal Bureau of Investigation invoked a secret process to extract data about the media giant's customers. That's why it is unlawful for any record-keeper to disclose it has received a so-called National Security Letter. But under a deal brokered with the President Barack Obama administration, Google on Tuesday published a "range" of times it received National Security Letters demanding it divulge account information to the authorities without warrants. It was the first time a company has ever released data chronicling the volume of National Security Letter requests. National Security Letters allow the government to get detailed information on Americans' finances and communications without oversight from a judge. The FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of NSLs and has even been reprimanded for abusing them. The NSLs are written demands from the FBI that compel internet service providers, credit companies, financial institutions and businesses like Google to hand over confidential records about their customers, such as subscriber information, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, websites visited and more as long as the FBI says the information is "relevant" to an investigation." and ""You'll notice that we're reporting numerical ranges rather than exact numbers. This is to address concerns raised by the FBI, Justice Department and other agencies that releasing exact numbers might reveal information about investigations. We plan to update these figures annually," Richard Salgado, a Google legal director, wrote in a blog post. Salgado was not available for comment. What makes the government's position questionable is that it is required by Congress to disclose the number of times the bureau issues National Security Letters. In 2011, the year with the latest available figures, the FBI issued 16,511 National Sec
LeopoldS

Strand1 - 2 views

www.sstl.co.uk/News-and-Events

nano phone cubesat

shared by LeopoldS on 09 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 09 Mar 13
     
    very nice project - though I would not call it a "major UK space mission" ..
johannessimon81

18-year-old massively improves supercapacitors during Intel International Science and E... - 1 views

www.dnaindia.com/...n-charge-a-phone-in-20-seconds

technology science NRG

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  • johannessimon81 on 22 May 13
     
    "Her goal was to design and synthesise a super capacitor with increased energy density while maintaining power density and long cycle life. She designed, synthesised and characterised a novel core-shell nanorod electrode with hydrogemated TiO2(H-TiO2) core and polyaniline shell. H-TiO2 acts as the double layer electrostatic core. Good conductivity of H-TiO2 combined with the high pseudo capacitance of polyaniline results in significantly higher overall capacitance and energy density while retaining good power density and cycle life. This new electrode was fabricated into a flexible solid-state device to light an LED to test it in a practical application. Khare then evaluated the structural and electrochemical properties of the new electrode. It demonstrated high capacitance of 203.3 mF/cm2 (238.5 F/g) compared to the next best alternative super capacitor in previous research of 80 F/g, due to the design of the core-shell structure. This resulted in excellent energy density of 20.1 Wh/kg, comparable to batteries, while maintaining a high power density of 20540 W/kg. It also demonstrated a much higher cycle life compared to batteries, with a low 32.5% capacitance loss over 10,000 cycles at a high scan rate of 200 mV/s."
Ma Ru

What happens when you take two random ACT studies and cross them over? - 3 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-22786371

technology BIO science INF

shared by Ma Ru on 10 Jun 13 - No Cached
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  • Ma Ru on 10 Jun 13
     
    Mobile phone-controlled cyborg cokcroaches!
  • Beniamino Abis on 11 Jun 13
     
    I've seen the same thing (almost) in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode!
  • Dario Izzo on 11 Jun 13
     
    Also good for our next app .... dock a roach onto the iss!!!!
Dario Izzo

Phone Sats - 2 views

www.phonesat.org

shared by Dario Izzo on 22 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 22 Apr 13
     
    whos calling?
  • johannessimon81 on 23 Apr 13
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