Wow. I thought that 4K (improved HD TV standard) was most likely a marketing ploy to sell TVs. I’ve changed my mind. This footage is incredible on my non-retina (but 1920×1080) laptop display. It should be extraordinary on a big TV. Find the biggest bestest computer screen you have and enjoy.
Teton Gravity Research Aerial Reel – The Bay Area in 4K on Vimeo on Vimeo
A quite marvellous speech to close SXSW. Worth reading, even if you don’t get the geek humour bits.
If more computation, and more networking, was going to make the world prosperous, we’d be living in a prosperous world. And we’re not. Obviously we’re living in a Depression.
I like the idea of bitcoin, but I have to agree that it feels crazily bubbly. Also, no sensible government would let a uncontrolled currency loose on the world.
The Bitcoin bubble, at $1 billion, is tiny compared to those that burst in 2000 and 2008. Nevertheless, because Bitcoins are the most demonstrably valueless financial asset ever created, they represent the sharpest ever refutation of the efficient-markets hypothesis.
via Commentary: The Bitcoin Bubble and a Bad Hypothesis | The National Interest.
One contrary thought: if there is value in currency dealings being near anonymous and untraceable, then no other currency has that baked into it. Could that be the source of value that Bitcoin needs to avoid the argument above?
Crikey, I’m glad Wiffy was in the air before I read this. No wonder plane manufacturers are so dodgy about wireless devices, and I’m glad they are.
Summary: you can misuse some on-plane systems to install an attack framework and then, so long as AutoPilot is on, use an Android app (PlaneSploit) to control many critical aspects of the plane.
Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone and more from The Register. (Why the mention of Android in both? He could have written for jailbroken iOS, I’d have thought, so it isn’t relevant to the story).
Much as I love Spotify, I worry that my playlists and starred items (I use the star to note that I like a tune and want it downloaded to my mobile devices) are only in Spotify, and that
There is no obvious way to get playlists out of Spotify in any sort of usable format, so thankfully others have done the heavy lifting.
The super easy way: select all in a playlist (ctrl+A for Windows) and then drag the selection into a blank Word document. You’ll have enough and the links will open the tracks in Spotify.
The heavier-weight alternative: install a custom app into Spotify. You’ll need to flag your account as a developer one (just log in to the developer portal, no cost) and then maybe log in and out of Spotify. I found this app didn’t work for the starred playlist, so I made a static version of the starred list and we were all good.
Spot My Songs works well getting these kind of lists into Spotify, I have had less success with Ivy is here.
Facebook Says Misconfiguration Allowed Spammers To Impersonate Users.
Old news, but I guess this wasn’t big news because we have only seen spam as a result. I hope that’s all that was going on.
It does explain why I’m still getting messages “from” friends of mine with fake actual email addresses. Thankfully the spam is of such rubbish quality that it is easy to avoid.
Wow. Nokia HERE (I hate weird caps) is rubbish.
There is a Lego display in Times Square right now, but no swimming pool. And it is lucky for you if you have a smattering of not-quite-yutping that you can see the Causeway Bay MTR station (Tung Lo Wan Zaam), although it is not shown anywhere else, and Times Square is the furthest exit from the actual station.
Christ alive. Unusable in Hong Kong again.
How To Predict The Future has a slightly silly title but uses a very simple method to look at what hardware developments say about the likely availability of breakthrough innvoation in services.
The toggle is a bit hidden at the bottom of Mobile settings>Org Settings>Android Settings. But it works. Google Apps Mobile Management: Org Settings – Google Apps Help.
Data Wrangler for all of the data geeks out there. Really neat pro-active cleaning and management of messy data sets.