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Ascent video highlights from STS-129, from STS-130, from STS-131, from STS-132. Also, the blast from the past, and the last launch for Endeavour.

Ascent video highlights from STS-129, from STS-130, from STS-131, from STS-132. Also, the blast from the past, and the last launch for Endeavour.

"Get ubiquidous encryption going"

These may be the droids you seek:

http://vimeo.com/18279777

(ignore the first 15 mins of chair shuffling)

"Yes, I'm rather taken with the idea of a distributed, hash-addressible global public cache right now."

Um, why yes.

There's a lot of thought being given to that for the last little while. It works well enough for pirate bay right?

I used Apollo workstations in the mid 80s an they had a decentralized file system. You never knew where your files actually were, all you knew if if you added disk it got used and you never seemed to be out of space. Oh and if the network was buggered you didn't have access to all the files you should you did.

I think the pirate bay guys already have a DHT DNS, the thing to not do is allow for any icann type organizations and the broken pats of the old dns, like character set issues, reserved letter and word issues, oh that and the massive institutional corruption that coopted organic growth of the network, probably a good idea to leave that out.

But the system worked great and I've been dismayed it only showed up once in commercial computer history.

There's a good video of a talk by public school teacher on this subject which is worth watching.

The article and slashdot story claim that the chip can sequence proteins. The video I linked to below shows that their chip 'analyzes' proteins by reading specialized aptamers for recognition (aptamers are a bit like a small nucleotide based antibody; they can bind to target molecules with high specificity).

While this is potentially very useful in many fields, not the least of which is medical, it is not the claimed disruptive sequencing technology. The method proposed by ON requires a great deal of forethought and design; it would only work on well characterized proteins that have been isolated with enough purity for aptamers to be developed.

http://vimeo.com/36909115

Skip the first 15 minutes of chair shuffling: http://vimeo.com/18279777

Seems that we didn't learn much (yet). AP1000 has its own set of flaws nobody in NRC cares about.

I'm not against nuclear power but we still have serious issues to be solved. Most serious one is corporate negligence (a.k.a. "cost cutting") and general corruption at NRC. In AP1000 case nobody addressed issues resulting from Fukushima fiasco.

http://techfragments.com/news/982/Software/Apple_iPhone_Virus_Spreads_By_SMS_Messages.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/iphone-virus-botnet-bank-details,9136.html
http://www.mactrast.com/2010/07/iphone-virus-discovered-be-vigilant-and-seek-advice/
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3573755?start=0&tstart=0

1) A vulnerability with a demo. There was never any malware written to exploit it, and as it was long since fixed, there never will be.

2) Only affects jailbroken iPhones.

3) You're the victim of an APRIL FOOL! From 2 years ago!
http://vimeo.com/10587301

4) Is nothing more than a user with a problem and no tech knowledge blaming his problem on a virus. There is no virus.

While reasonably rare, iPhone viruses and malware do exist in the wild.

No they don't. At least not on non-jailbroken iPhones.

Reminds me of the First Contact student made 3D short from awhile ago: http://vimeo.com/17272913.

You can download it from their Vimeo page. You'll need a Vimeo account, and you might have to wait, since videos are limited to 100 downloads a day.

When you watch the latest action packed scifi movie years from now with your grandkids, you will still be able to point out which ideas first came from Star Trek or Star Wars.

Except they didn't.

But if you copy an artist's work without compensating the artist, you have stolen from them, it is theft of service. There is nothing idealistic about the pirate economy.

Funny, but this really more a drug war thing. Glenn Greenwald recently debated Bush's drug czar on the drug war, and buried him. Just ground him into the dirt.

http://vimeo.com/32110912

This sums up the argument fairly nicely: http://vimeo.com/31100268

I don't think all GM crops are automatically bad. That's like saying that all plastics are bad, for all applications, which is silly.

However, there are a number of reasonable scientific, specific concerns about specific GM products and practices. Here's one:

Dr. Huber Explains Science Behind New Organism and Threat from Monsanto's Roundup, GMOs to Disease and Infertility

There are others, but I think the potential issues with roundup-ready corn, soya and now alfalfa and similar products are serious enough to warrant at least *really* investigating the consequences of their use, rather than just rubber stamping "Yes, sir, Monsanto, Oh, sure you can do whatever you want, we trust you *wink* *wink*".

Thomas has a pretty low-key way of presenting the shell access in the linked article - here's the Vimeo how-to video.

And if someone doesn't like it, they can use another site else like Vimeo. I have yet to have videos that have had audio disabled on YouTube suffer the same fate on Vimeo. Or host your own web site and take control of your life.

I just wish they would stop whining about how someone who is letting you use their site for free isn't fair .....

Not the entire WWW but the majority of it. Dissent will be stifled. Youtube, facebook, slashdot comments... everything is vulnerable. See here: http://vimeo.com/31100268

I am working on a product (link) that does exactly this. Bug report tab that lets you submit issues directly from the application itself. The only catch is that it's aimed at web development so it only works for web apps and websites. But it let's people click on DOM elements and place bug pins that let you visually see where an issue occured. It grabs the URL, data about the user, allows comments. Bugs are also managed right from your site as well, so your issue tracking environment is actually overlayed on the site you're working on. I'm matt@bugherd.com if you have any questions.

TLDR: Working on a bug tracker that works like OP described, old video of it in action - BugHerd intro video

Lily Tomlin

Sasha Dichter: The Generosity Experiment

http://vimeo.com/16175616 ...

I got to know Yves back in the 90's when he spent some time hanging out here in Zermatt (pre Jet-man days, when he only was doing sky surfing on a scale jet model of the Mirage he used to fly for the Swiss Air Force). Very nice guy. Very intense + focused guy too!

Here you can see a speed flyer (tiny, tiny paraglider) doing a similar trick with a guy flying a wing suit (in Wengen Switzerland). Kudos!
B.A.S.E. XRW part one - http://vimeo.com/29231099
B.A.S.E. XRW part two - http://vimeo.com/30623100

And this one is just plain cool. Great tune and slick video mix.
Spitfire Proximity - http://youtu.be/IZ9xoV6sUFc
(as my flying buddy told me: *the only reason to wear a helmet for these sports, is to have a place to mount your GoPro*)

I got to know Yves back in the 90's when he spent some time hanging out here in Zermatt (pre Jet-man days, when he only was doing sky surfing on a scale jet model of the Mirage he used to fly for the Swiss Air Force). Very nice guy. Very intense + focused guy too!

Here you can see a speed flyer (tiny, tiny paraglider) doing a similar trick with a guy flying a wing suit (in Wengen Switzerland). Kudos!
B.A.S.E. XRW part one - http://vimeo.com/29231099
B.A.S.E. XRW part two - http://vimeo.com/30623100

And this one is just plain cool. Great tune and slick video mix.
Spitfire Proximity - http://youtu.be/IZ9xoV6sUFc
(as my flying buddy told me: *the only reason to wear a helmet for these sports, is to have a place to mount your GoPro*)

May i introduce you to the concept of sewage sludge?

We might be creating the modern plague of our age - all under the greenwash guise of "recycling".

Here is a great introductory video.

Lax oversight is also a great way to attack US.

Know where your food comes from - as a farm geek to you computer geeks - know the difference between organic and certified organic.

Want to know more? Read this.

http://vimeo.com/28950423 (jump to circa 5:50)

Incidentally, if you want something that will actually go some way toward fixing what you're talking about (along with a long list of other things), pay attention to Larry Lessig and his anti-corruption movement.

Lessig has been promoting his message within the Occupy movement and I think he has the right idea. These are a couple of links if you have a couple hours to listen to them: Lessig on Diane Rehm discussing Occupy movement, Lessig lecturing about the issue.

If you don't have time, the bottom line is: Public financing of elections. And if the Occupy movement would get behind that as their single issue, they could dedicate themselves to something tangible and productive that would actually make a difference.

I got one; I've generally heard it called a "BC wheel" or an "Impossible Wheel". Could never get the hang of riding the thing - with a normal unicycle (or even its cousin the Ultimate Wheel) you can put pressure on the pedals to stop the unicycle whizzing off and leaving you to fall to the ground. With a BC wheel you just have to balance incredibly well - it's hard. Some people (often younger people, I think) can pick up the balance quite quickly.

Some folks made an ace video of some properly skillful BC riding:
http://vimeo.com/7390720

I like seeing unicycles mentioned on Slashdot because balance sports generally seem to be enjoyed by tech-minded people. I suspect it's because they can require an intense but non-intellectual concentration - and possibly because they are non-competitive, unconventional and still easy to enjoy even when there's nobody else to join in.

Found a 2010 video of a prototype. Looks like an internal demo video...seems odd that it's online.

"StreetScooter", great name for a product... that isn't a scooter.
Plus, there is no way a search for StreetScooter could return ambiguous results.

http://vimeo.com/28929146

This is a better jump rope model: http://vimeo.com/25808035

Sorry to hijack the thread but Haught relented and the video has been posted!
http://vimeo.com/31505142

The video has been released by the Gaines center.

The videos have been released.
http://vimeo.com/31505142

It's really not that hard to imagine how game-inspired software could tremendously help learning in every field.

The only problem is very few people are actually sitting down and doing it properly. There are precious little good exemples for the time being but it will come, eventually. One such good exemple is Chaim Gingold's upcoming interactive primer on geology. I also read that Khan's academy is developing a sort of leveling structure on top of its courses and I would not be surprised if that turned out to be tremendously effective.

I'm not arguing that computers will completely replace a teacher anytime soon (especially for good, one on one teaching) - but in many, many less than ideal cases it seems obvious good software would be very useful.

A year or two ago, a Swedish IT consultancy called Ångpanneföreningen did an interesting twist on this theme. I figured it might be relevant to share in this context.

Ångpanneföreningen released a site called www.welcometothelist.com (no longer live), which when loaded just gave you an empty screen with a command prompt ("> "). If you knew your way around a command prompt and had some brains and patience, you could command your way to a list of programming problems which you could solve using the command line interface (still in your browser). This approach became an incredible success story. 60 000 visitors from 130 countries, 10 000 registered users (you had to get your bearings in the command line interface to register), a claimed press visibility to around 5 million people, 700 000 "rounds" played, etc. All from just launching a fairly simple web site with absolutely no advertisement etc.

A video (unfortunately in Swedish, still you can see the interface etc) of the project can be found here:

http://vimeo.com/29714690/

The top results, the source code for the server, and a working live copy of the original site can be found here:

http://www.lonelyduck.se/thelist/

The unboxing video, though admittedly not perfect, also has a great deal of more up-to-date demo content in it.

For direct download:
http://av.vimeo.com/48323/967/69379567.mp4?token=1319148574_68f532a970ac33e3a5fb0a2b7cb02a82

If it does not work you can use this: http://savevideo.me/

The site has an "unboxing video", but not a demo video. Here's a demo video. That was version 0.3. It looks like a rather lame screen saver. Here's version 1.0 from a techno party in Berlin. It's still rather lame.

I'm all in favor of good nightclub video, but this isn't it.

I guess judge for yourself : http://vimeo.com/30307440 also : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

Judging by the video, the people he sprayed got pissed and collaborated to get him into trouble. There were a bunch of Russians in a group, its not unforeseeable they would make shit up. I am not trying to profile people, but the Russian's Ive met before tend to have a higher percentage of hoodlums, most likely because they had a rough life over in Russia. I see nothing wrong with pepper spraying people when someone is in danger. Its this fucked up society that makes it so you can't do anything to protect yourself or others, or if you do you have to worry about bogus lawsuits, meanwhile the police have no obligation to protect you. Don't believe me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia AND http://vimeo.com/30307440

Here's the video of the incident: http://vimeo.com/30307440 It's gotten a lot of air time here in Seattle. The people he broke up the fight on said to the responding police that they were just "dancing in the street" and the officer that showed up apparently had some personal dislike for Phoenix and booked him. Hoping the arraignment hearing tomorrow goes well for him as it clearly should. Also completely ignored by police is the video evidence of the dancing people getting in their BMW and trying to hit the guy they were fighting with.

http://vimeo.com/30307440

Uhhh.... okay. Friends claim there is no fight, fine. They still hit a random guy with their car: http://vimeo.com/30307440 I'm no fan of vigilantism and I think he was being a self-righteous ass in this instance, but there WAS crime being committed, people were getting attacked.

Full video here: http://vimeo.com/30307440

And yeah, given the response we're seeing in these articles by the police even after seeing the video ourselves it just shows precisely what these guys are trying to change.

From another article I read they wouldn't even hear about the hit and run you see on the video let alone everything else that's clearly an altercation going on.

Here is the video of what happened. It is not clear that these people were fighting btw: according to some accounts they were "dancing and having fun".

And here is an earlier draft of the text from the article:

Steve Jobs, an inspiration to artists and business leaders alike, had a hero of his own. According to this article from the New York Times, Edwin Land, the creator of Polariod was a role model for Jobs. Land was also a college dropout who developed great products, simply and elegantly designed to appeal to an enormous market. It's an interesting read, as is the linked Fastcompany book review.

Like Jobs, Edwin Land had numerous technological and commercial achievements. However, the NYTimes article calls the Polaroid SX-70 folding camera Edwin Land's 'supreme achievement'.

I happen to have a vintage Polaroid SX-70. After reading the article, I pulled it off the shelf to take another look. It's a really beautiful piece of design. It even came with this handsome leather case.

This camera was my father's, and I've handled it hundreds of times since I was a child. Today, pulling it out the case I was immediately struck with a question:

Why does a 40 year old camera have an Apple 30-pin connector port on it? (or at least one that looks nearly identical)
There is a port, just above the lens, that seems ready for any iPod accessory. It's not as obvious when the camera is open, but the port to connect the old fashioned 'flash bar' is very obvious when the camera is collapsed. In fact, the collapsed SX-70 looks like a piece of consumer electronics Steve Jobs would have created if he'd been born a generation earlier.
It's not just similar. Physically, it's almost an exact match. You can even put the tip of a 30-pin connector in the Polaroid and it's a snug fit. I know that this seems like Apple fanboi wishful thinking - that something could be this specifically thought through. Perhaps it is, and that thought occurred to me. So I tried other things that could be similar in size. An SD card. Close, but it doesn't fit. You don't get snug fit of the 30-pin connector.
Keep in mind that this is the only port on this device. And it's designed to allow the camera to interact with accessories. And this isn't just any device. It's the 'supreme achievement' of the man Steve Jobs called a 'national treasure'. Now, this port of nearly identical proportions is the common denominator three devices that could each, along with the original Macintosh, contend as Steve's 'supreme achievement.' And out of all of the sizes available for peripheral ports (micro-usb, etc), this is nearly an exact match, within micrometers (if I had the appropriate tools, I'd measure it for you). Here's a video to give you a better sense of the fit:

http://vimeo.com/30244633

Perhaps there was never an explicit intention to mimic the SX-70. Of course, if this similarity is by design, I am sure someone like Jony Ive would know. The port could have been a result of teamwork, but if Steve Jobs obsessed over Edwind Land's creations the way we obsess over his, there is a reason that this could have felt like the right size for an accessory port according to Steve's aesthetic sensibilities.

I've never givien much thought to the 30-pin connector. It wasn't any more interesting to me than a USB port. But now, I'd be very curious to know the background of the only physical trait that latest iPhone shares with the early iPods and with a forty year-old camera invented by a man Steve Jobs idolized. .

Here you go https://plus.google.com/116488482438030317181/posts/M9kTMbv7Sab?hl=en
And the video: http://vimeo.com/30244633

Images from the article: https://plus.google.com/116488482438030317181/posts/M9kTMbv7Sab?hl=en Video: http://vimeo.com/30244633

Here's the Vimeo link http://vimeo.com/30244633