Failing again. Failing better.
Today, Wired’s Danger Room posted an article about “loose geeks.” I think most people are at least familiar with the concept of loose nukes. “Loose geeks” refers to the related (but perhaps less well known) problem of how to prevent all the nuclear engineers, machinists, physicists, etc. from selling their services to unsavory regimes or…
Wired’s Danger Room blog recently posted an article about the U.S. Air Force’s “Micro Aviary” at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. There, the USAF has equipped a room with very sensitive motion-tracking sensors capable of tracking drones within a tenth of an inch. Researchers are using this capability to build and test micro drones…
Via twitter (HT: @meghancward), I came across Roni Loren’s blog and her post about the Life Cycle of a Blogger. I thought it was pretty amusing, and good advice for anyone considering starting a blog or website. Definitely check it out. As evidenced by my earlier post today about fixing a coding bug, this website…
A friend of mine (thanks, Ryan!) sent me this link in which Condoleeza Rice recalls an incident weeks after September 11, 2001 during which she was accompanying then-President George W. Bush to an APEC summit in China as his then-National Security Advisor. While in Shanghai, then-Vice President Richard Cheney informed Bush and his advisors that…
Anyone who has read Arthur C. Clarke’s 1982 book 2010: Odyssey Two will be familiar with the phrase, “ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE,” and the idea of possible life on Europa, Jupiter’s sixth-closest moon. But the possibility of such life is looking less like science fiction and more like…