…that promotes this kind of telescoping. On the one hand, the technology allows casinos to anticipate the tastes of predefined cultural, ethnic, and demographic groups; game screen font sizes, for…

…cold” seems a hallmark of grand civilization. The Chinese, Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans all stored snow and ice under insolation for use in cooling drinks and medicines. In southern Europe…

…the code to copy itself and spread. On the other hand, his conviction for Fraud and Abuse clearly sends a different message—that this was a criminal act, and as 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…

…are based on politics. And resources. And qualified personnel. And care. And steering. In short, they need to be continually produced. As such, bootstrapping can assume different scopes and directions….

…hacks, leaks, and whistle-blowing? And why did it come into being only between 2007 and 2011, when it was conceivable—ideologically and materially—for it to have emerged much earlier? Prior to…

…then discuss how the authority and credibility of the certification was ultimately limited by the tension between the goals of professionalism—to standardize and authorize knowledge practices—and the creative and subversive…

…the complex thicket of technology and society. Take for example the phenomenon known as “Big Data” and the miraculous new forms of problem-solving, knowledge creation and economic productivity it promises….

It was 1965: televisions were blaring, and Alan Lomax was worried. As Gilligan’s Island, The Andy Griffith Show, Green Acres, and Bewitched capered into tangerine family rooms, the famous American…

…this realm: the cyber realm. And then e-commerce took off after 2000 and it became the interest of criminals because there was a monetary gain to it. And then we…

…always kept the wireless jailbreaker and the stick separate — plausible deniability. The jailbreaker had legit uses, and wasn’t, in and of itself, illegal. I plugged the USB in and…

…described as “including applicants’ financial histories and investment records, children’s and relatives’ names, foreign trips taken and contacts with foreign nationals, past residences, and names of neighbors and close friends…

…of acquisition and release of the ClimateGate and Podesta email databases changed the way the databases could be thought about and thought with, foreclosing some avenues of interpretation, legitimization, and…

…research, the hoarding of exploits and vulnerabilities, the use of those tools by law enforcement and spy agencies, and ultimately citizens’ right to privacy online. The rest of this piece…

…the distinctive features of each country’s culture and ideals with view to promoting within each nation sympathy and respect for the ideals and aspirations of the others, and a just…

…profiles [2] structure a collective debate on LIY tactics, and serve to disseminate labeling templates and photographic evidence of relabeling actions. *** The issues that bedevil LIY activism and generate…

…who design markets (engineer-economists, if you will), traders employed by the buyers and sellers (i.e., generators and utilities), and computing experts who assist both market designers and traders. Even as…

…that the disease had “spread from Nigeria and the Gold Coast along the hinterland and Sierra Leone and into…Sénégal.” There were the usual heroes, like the MRC researcher Dr. Lourie,…

https://beacon.nist.gov/home The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains an archive of the generic and the default called the Standard Reference Materials. It is an archive of a very…

…representative or legislator who is called upon to reform the judiciary or the penal code and yet who is, hypothetically, ignorant of juridical statistics, will be as rare and inconceivable…

…allow requesters to pay for data and nothing more. Workers need to understand American English and have access to a computer and an internet connection, but requesters do not pay…

…consequence: the volume of data, and the space of available interpretations. (These two components share an interesting symmetry with Gorham’s argument about episteme and doxa —truth and opinion—and the consequence…

…region. But if the region’s apple and pear orchards stand for healthy sweetness, then what does the sugar beet and its refined sugar stand for today? Sugar has become suspect…