Engineers Invent Acoustic Equivalent of One-Way Glass – Slashdot.
Wild stuff. One way sound?
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… Is This The iPhone Replacement?
Another good iWatch story, talking rumors and potential developments. Here’s my previous thoughts on it from last year.
I think the golden era for the smart phone is dwindling. They will probably never go away but (given skype, facetime, … Read the rest
The iGuitar is Here
It’s Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car
It’s Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car – Slashdot.
I told y’allz.
I build (and then query) databases, and have been doing it for many years.
Facebook, Google, NSA, the cops, drug stores, retailers, the education … Read the rest
Facebook Is Also Tracking What You Don’t Do
It’s kind of obvious at this point that Facebook is storing, packaging, and selling every bit of data you give them while you use their “free service” to connect with your family, friends, and whatever.
I think most people get … Read the rest
Attack of the Screen Zombies!
Great article about how most of us are growing addicted to our devices:
https://medium.com/better-humans/aa594e4cf609
… Read the rest
The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes
The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes – Slashdot.
What an amazing group of stories about sound, and what sorts of things can be learned by removing as much of it as possible.… Read the rest
How iPads are changing the NBA
Tea Party Excess Threatens High-Tech Success
Interesting Op-Ed from a prominent Physics professor regarding how the political climate in the Tea Party era makes it very difficult to fund scientific research, and how critical to the past and future growth of the USA scientific research is.… Read the rest
What a Perfect iWatch Could Do
Wearable computing has been in R&D for decades and the “smartwatch” seems to be imminent. But there’s rarely a perfect new product.
Apple is known for disrupting markets and instantly making existing products passe (including their own), but their first … Read the rest
Browse Google Like It’s 1988
Check out the Google BBS Terminal aka “what google would have looked like in the 80’s”.
Learn more on my gopher.iwish.edu
Dial into my BBS tonight.… Read the rest
Critical Listening of Soundscapes
Besides music as created by humans, sounds of all kinds fascinate me. The vibration underlying sound is, in my opinion, the most underrated and sometimes disregarded human stimulus.
To that end, I discovered an amazing site called Aporee that celebrates … Read the rest
Have Fun Wallowing In Your Limited Voice Functionality
That’s exactly how Xbox people are.
Sony fucks.… Read the rest
Oh My Obamacare, Part 5: Software Is Now Working, Time For Research
Healthcare.gov let me in today, let me make my account, and get through the identity confirmation stage. That identity phase is always interesting – this one used various pieces of government-known data and asked it back to you, with misleading … Read the rest
Oh My Obamacare, Part 3: Go Live Day For Biggest Software Project Ever
Such crazyness about Obamacare in this country, but I had a moment of clarity the other night….. IT’S JUST A SOFTWARE CHANGE.
Repeat after me, it will make you feel better — Obamacare is just a software upgrade. We all … Read the rest
The Challenge of Uncompressed Audio Formats
Good overview of the situation I’m heavily interested in (see “Save the Audio” section) – the battle between quality audio and convenient audio. Since the late 90’s most of us have accepted worse-sounding audio in the name of convenience, whether … Read the rest
Big Dumb Droids
Those giant Android tab-phone things with the super bright low-res screens are pretty annoying. Everyone thinks they are the UPS guy walking around with those plastic monsters.
Choice is good, so I don’t want everyone with the same kind of … Read the rest
ACLU Study Says Police Cameras Create Database of Our Movements
Ah great:
ACLU Study Says Police Cameras Create Database of Our Movements – Slashdot.
The Cops Are Tracking My Car and Yours – Ars Technica.
I always wanted to see someone (else!) do an experiment with the traffic … Read the rest