Month: September 2014

Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for August 16

By raincoaster on September 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

Welcome to Tuesday! Today’s a big Long Reads day, so you’d best warm up your cogitation muscles by skimming over I MEAN DEEP READING our news roundup headlines. Enjoy your daily ritual of cyberwar and crypto news before the drama… Read More ›

Harper government dismisses ‘ridiculous’ allegations that it covered up the deaths of ‘rogue’ Canadian spies

By raincoaster on September 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

Canada’s former spy chief cools his heels in a Panamanian jail cell, awaiting extradition on fraud charges, alleges spy death coverup he blames on Harper, and nobody has made this into an opera yet? COME ON PEOPLE!

You Can Now Text Groot

By raincoaster on September 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

He’s more reliable at replying than most of my friends, too. Hopefully Groot will last longer than Wheeeeponies did on Twitter.

Fun with Wifi! Fun with Math! No, come back, this is good!

By raincoaster on September 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

Originally posted on Almost looks like work:
A few posts back I was concerned with optimising the WiFi reception in my flat, and I chose a simple method for calculating the distribution of electromagnetic intensity. I casually mentioned that I…

Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News for September 15

By raincoaster on September 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

We’re back from our wireless vacay, pirating the wifi in a pirate radio station off the Left Coast. There’s a big, hairy dog on the floor, a discussion of minimum wage on the air, and while there is no picture… Read More ›

Crypto-Delays

By raincoaster on September 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

We apologize for the delay in posting. I have found, and happened to move into, the one spot on North America without the Internet. Regular service will return later today, once I’ve pulled a miracle out of my ass. Wish… Read More ›

Lubicon chief collected $1.5M, while community had no running water: audit

By raincoaster on September 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

Originally posted on Warrior Publications:
Former chief of the Lubicon Cree Bernard Ominayak. Community members in Little Buffalo, Alta., demand to know where oil and gas revenue went CBC News, Sept 12, 2014 Community members in Little Buffalo, Alta. are demanding…

MPAA Swears It’s Not Pushing For More Anti-Piracy Legislation

By raincoaster on September 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

Oh, when HAVEN’T we heard this before? With increasingly sophisticated peer-to-peer technology (eg the blockchain) comes the controlling pushback by the suits of the music industry. Never forget that studies show that people who download music buy more music.

Film Friday: Johnny Mnemonic Extended Edition

By raincoaster on September 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

Remember when the biggest action star in the world was Keanu Reeves? It happened, people, but it mostly happened because of a big bus and Laurence Fishburne and in spite of Johnny Mnemonic, which was a terrific short story and a… Read More ›

Yahoo vs the NSA: advantage Yahoo

By raincoaster on September 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

For the past seven years, Yahoo has been fighting the NSA in court. Why haven’t you heard about this till now? Because they were secret courts, secret proceedings, and secret terms. And Edward Snowden hadn’t been invented yet. Yahoo lost…. Read More ›

Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto #News for August 12

By raincoaster on September 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

Another week gone, and a glorious, sybaritic weekend laid out in front of us like a wanton professionally-companionable person. Naturally, you wouldn’t want to head into such a liason without a full complement of news bytes from around the Cryptosphere,… Read More ›

Google has open sourced a tool for inferring cause from correlations

By raincoaster on September 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

Originally posted on Gigaom:
Google announced on Tuesday a new open source tool that can help data analysts decide if changes to products or policies resulted in measurable change, or if the change would have happened anyway. The tool, called CausalImpact, is…