…evident when I leaned over a hole watching water slowly dissolve while discussing with scientists from the Underground Water Research Agency in Costa Rica how texture, granularity, and seepage affected…

…case signals that by 2008, hackers were openly pursuing this game plan; and unlike the Hal Turner incident, the mainstream press picked up the Sarah Palin hack, with Gawker and…

…Grocery Product Code to develop standards in support of a single checkout system. Their work will lead to recommendations for the UPC (Universal Product Code) in 1973. 1973: Soylent Green…

…stick with the Stuxnet code into a computer running the Siemens SCADA software. The worm replicated itself through an internally networked system and it apparently opens up control to outsiders,…

…It was all national-security-ied up the arse of course, of course, but Huawei was a critical infrastructure partner of the Seven Eyes nations, and Samuel kept his clearances up with…

…control methods, regulatory and legal issues, cryptography, policy development, and “information ethics” (Tipton 1993). Importantly, certification also required that members swear to uphold the (ISC)2 code of ethics. For many…

…with new or historic ideas about programming paradigms, system design and information design, as well as a range of assumptions and visions about cognition, communication, sociality, politics and media. The…

…hackerly and Open Source approach to biological construction [is] one that trades on the equation of DNA to source code and then posits that such code must be editable and…

…distinction in discussions of “neoliberalization.” In another significant contemporary arrangement, privately provided infrastructural goods are justified as serving a public interest. Consider, for example, the pervasive contemporary attempts to promote…

…of engaging in ethnic politics. This happens in ways significant and mundane: the public even scrutinizes promotional giveaways for signs of ethnic favoritism, requiring Safaricom’s CEO to publicly insist on…

…You could be tempted, tantalized, sign up to betray, betray (in spirit if not in flesh), create evidence, go through guilt and regret and concealment, and finally be shamefully and…

…timestamp of its creation, output frequency, a status code, and—most significant, for the question of archivesthe value of the previous output, the most recent random broadcast. This collection of data…

…been the victim of one of the biggest and most significant to national security hacks of personally identifiable information in U.S. history. Eventually OPM would admit that more that 21…

…up as an analytical source by news organizations can signal against its reliability as a primary source to other mainstream journalistic news organizations and simultaneously signal its attractiveness to conspiracy…

…address to an Internet Service Provider (ISP), in order to have internet access. Moreover, the citation (precedent) that Judge Jones drew upon to uphold his order, namely, United States v….

…in around late summer, early fall, around 2015. One group gets in and then the second group comes in around March 2016. And that’s the group that ultimately leaked the…

…between the goals of stove promoters and those of rural people, the poor performance of stoves that do not live up to big claims, the burden of buying new cooking…

…machine to measure the charge a sample holds.[1] Yet costly design components (including gold) are also part of the reason that glucometer strips remain too expensive for most people in…

…He described city buses carrying signs proclaiming “Pyidawtha” as their destination; children singing Pyidawtha songs in the street; and Pyidawtha coffee bars where one could buy a cup of “Pyidawtha…

…largely pivoted upon questions of land and water. Whether in critique or in support of wind power expansion, local populations, state agents, and corporate representatives have found themselves caught up…

…these two countries would be enough to trigger a cascade of sovereign defaults in Latin America and undoubtedly result in bringing down a significant portion of the American banking system….

…up. For more info on the setup, see Public Lab research note: Setup for UV Testing with Spectrometer. Josh’s results analyzed in Spectral Workbench. Compare the first image in the…

…not all studies have found significant links. The situation is even worse for mass intervention studies that have sought to establish a statistically significant connection between risk-factor reduction and benefits…

…demagogues. They communicate with their public not directly but through the mediation of signs, because they aim at reforming human actions rather than transforming the natural world. Weber makes a…