* Gearhead: A remote control for iTunes * Backspin: Wiretapping, whistleblowing and IT ethics * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: A remote control for iTunes
Before you ask, I am no further along in solving the deferred procedure call (DPC) mystery that has been plaguing me for the last few weeks. The DPC problem has simply vanished, and despite my desire to get to the bottom of it, nothing I do will bring it back. So, until something noteworthy in the system performance department happens, DPCs will not be mentioned again. This week I have a cool gadget for you. If you, like me, prefer to work with music playing, then there’s a good chance you might be using iTunes.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: Wiretapping, whistleblowing and IT ethics
Recently a retired AT&T employee named Mark Klein announced at a Capitol Hill press conference that he had evidence that “An exact copy of all Internet traffic that flowed through critical AT&T cables … was being diverted to equipment inside the secret room.”
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
CyberJihad
It’s high noon in Texas, 11/11. Seems my Internet connection is still working. F-Secure has been watching the Iraqi server allegedly responsible for starting the attack, but so far it’s been pretty quiet.
Prince of Gripes
Why is it that some recording artists, such as Radiohead, understand that the media world is changing because of the Internet and that fighting that change is not only pointless but self-destructive while others, such as Prince, apparently don’t get the issue?
Getting to Grips With Bayes
‘Splaining real math is always tricky because it is almost always counterintuitive. So, short of quantum physics and multi-dimensional tensor calculus what math topic is remarkably tricky to understand? Try Bayes theorem.
Flight Patterns
Flight Patterns is a visual art piece by Aaron Koblin. A description from an earlier Web site:
The Flight Patterns visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.
Anti-Phishing Phil
Carnegie Mellon has created an educational game called Anti-Phishing Phil. From their Web site:
Our user studies have found that user education can help prevent people from falling for phishing attacks. However, it is hard to get users to read security tutorials, and many of the available online training materials make users aware of the phishing threat but do not provide them with enough information to protect themselves. Our studies demonstrate that Anti-Phishing Phil is an effective approach to user education.
Athlete of the Future
JPL engineers built a futuristic robot that may one day go to the moon.
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