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Computer science researchers at Princeton University have posted a fascinating and troubling video on the complete lack of security found in the Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — both in its hardware and software. The troubling part is how ridiculously easy it is to hack one of these machines …
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker Near Oraibi, on the Hopi Indian Reservation in Arizona, there is a petroglyph that the Hopi people etched into a sandstone cliff many, many years ago. The petroglyph on this cliff, commonly known as Prophecy Rock, depicts a …
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If there is one thing I can and do recommend to everyone whenever I get the opportunity to do so, it’s this: explore the benefits of a regular and consistent meditation practice. Not only is the resultant stress reduction conducive to good health, but more importantly, mindfulness and meditation …
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Is science under attack in America today? According to some journalists and scientists the answer is yes. With the recent moral controversies surrounding new advances in biological science, along with the whole intelligent design debacle, I would have to agree. The problem, however, is far …
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In a comment on a my previous post about 50 Facts that Should Change the World, Andrew duly pointed out the problem with publicizing ever more facts about global atrocities and injustices as a means of fighting apathy: There are so many problems in the world and, thus, so many social causes. In …
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To study the Way (of design) is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.
To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between one’s self and others. — Dogen Zenji Dai Osho I can think of nothing more …
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“From one gut feeling I derive much consolation: I suspect that machines to be programmed in our native tongues — be it Dutch, English, American, French, German, or Swahili — are as damned difficult to make as they would be to use.” — E.W. Dijkstra If you look around at the world of programming …
Recently, I finished reading Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work . If you’re a programmer interested in the history and critique of your craft, here’s a book worth perusing. Coders at Work is a collection of fifteen interviews with some of the most “famous” or “interesting” programmers alive today. I …
With the introduction of Adobe AIR 2.5 and AIR for Android, the AIR API gains a new class: StageWebView . StageWebView can best be described as HTMLLoader’s younger and less-capable step-brother, designed for mobile devices (though it also works in desktop AIR). Like HTMLLoader, StageWebView …
One of the more notable problems with digital artifacts, besides their ephemeral and intangible nature, is that they tend to lack character. They are produced by machines and they are readily reproducible by other machines without marginal additional effort. They lack the individuality and …
