…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…

…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….

…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…

…hacker certifications in the early new millennium. As governments and corporations moved their operations online, demand for “ethical hackers” rose sharply, as did demand for means of demonstrating their trustworthiness….

…infiltrated systems for all sorts of reasons—for fun, learning, and showmanship—and in the process swiped data and documents but never released them. For decades, hackers have also acquired and published…

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…

…suing the NYPD for intimidation. Schoolcraft’s claims were bolstered by further research, when Eterno and Silverman (2010), a former cop and a sociologist, designed a survey in which retired officers…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…is the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration], and its recent rules around securing medical devices for manufacturers and vendors who create medical devices. It’s so remarkable to think that…

…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…

…only for sustaining long-distance kin relations but also for experimenting with self-development. The capacity to engage in novel forms of intimacy with strangers and in private forms of communications with…

…and a single health claim, and refer to Flipse and Penders (2012) and Penders and Nelis (2011) for more detailed accounts. We first discuss the claim that biological production of…

…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…

…unknown) to consumers. Instead of waiting for companies and governments to provide truthful representations of foods and their ingredients, citizens are encouraged to “take things into their own hands,” append…

…but also in its computational representations. The buyers and sellers of electricity employ traders, who code electric flows into digital databases to forecast LMPs and make buying and selling decisions….

…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…

…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…

…and reduces pressure on producers and the environment. These alternative food systems shorten the geographical and organizational distance between producers and consumers. For example, fair trade operators draw small producers…