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Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World | Justastory
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Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World. February 26, 2014. Looks like hackers may have put paid to the bitcoin. Six percent of them have been stolen. More than just a bit as this article from the New York Times suggests. Will People Get Their Bitcoins Back? Garrick Hileman, an economic historian at the London School of Economics, discusses on CNBC the potential impact on Bitcoin by the disappearance of the Mt. Gox exchange. Without the trouble at Mt. Gox, the SecondMarket plans would have bee...
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December 22, 2014. This fabulous article written by George Gilder and published in Wired. Magazine, deals in some depth with recent advances in processing power following Moore’s Law. 8211; you know that one about exponential advances in technology. Anyway, George writes brilliantly and yet another good piece from Wired I found when researching Disruptive Technology…. To feed the ravenous appetite of a new breed of computer. How will we feed it? How will it be tamed? Continue reading Lust for Power.
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Large scale privacy invasion by NSA. March 13, 2014. This story comes from Eduard Kovacs. I believe it originally comes from the Intercept. If it’s true it is truly scary. The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher have published another report based on information stolen by Edward Snowden from the US National Security Agency. The latest report highlights the technologies that enable the intelligence agency to perform industrial-scale exploitation of computer networks. Since it’s impossible to ma...
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Chinese Implicated in Agricultural Espionage Efforts. February 4, 2014. This interesting piece is from The New York Times. We tend to think of China as an industrial thief of other peoples’ intellectual property but apparently it now crosses over into pastures new…. Corn seedlings in a research greenhouse at Pioneer Hi-Bred, a subsidiary of DuPont, in Johnston, Iowa. Daniel Acker for The New York Times. Survivalists ready to hole up now for 32,00 per head. April 21, 2010. Abandon any notion of surviving ...
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Large scale privacy invasion by NSA. March 13, 2014. This story comes from Eduard Kovacs. I believe it originally comes from the Intercept. If it’s true it is truly scary. The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher have published another report based on information stolen by Edward Snowden from the US National Security Agency. The latest report highlights the technologies that enable the intelligence agency to perform industrial-scale exploitation of computer networks. Since it’s impossible to ma...
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Recommended reading | Justastory
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I am making my recommended reading less poncey this year. I am going to focus more on what I am reading right now, just with a view to sharing really. For Whom the Bell Tolls. The Computer and the Brain. By John von Neumann. What have you really enjoyed reading this year? Do drop me a line – it would be good to hear your recommendation in return. readingreccs@justastory.co.uk. Dark, dark, dark. Very disturbing and not for the faint hearted. Very well written though. By delillo – much better than hi...
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All posts by admin. Just a story writer and gleaner from other places. December 22, 2014. This fabulous article written by George Gilder and published in Wired. Magazine, deals in some depth with recent advances in processing power following Moore’s Law. 8211; you know that one about exponential advances in technology. Anyway, George writes brilliantly and yet another good piece from Wired I found when researching Disruptive Technology…. To feed the ravenous appetite of a new breed of computer. WITH abou...
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Fury as experts say Ecstasy is harmless Mail Online. January 29, 2014. I have been having this long (and interesting) debate with my teenage daughter about whether or not drugs should be legalised. She is adamant that MDMA is harmless. The Daily Mail think otherwise…. Molly, e, mdma: one pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small. Controversial claims that Ecstasy may not be dangerous and that its adverse effects could be imaginary caused outrage yesterday. The shocking figures, compiled by the i...
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Chinese Implicated in Agricultural Espionage Efforts | Justastory
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Chinese Implicated in Agricultural Espionage Efforts. February 4, 2014. This interesting piece is from The New York Times. We tend to think of China as an industrial thief of other peoples’ intellectual property but apparently it now crosses over into pastures new…. Corn seedlings in a research greenhouse at Pioneer Hi-Bred, a subsidiary of DuPont, in Johnston, Iowa. Daniel Acker for The New York Times. The defendants in the Mo case visited numerous seed testing fields in Iowa and Illinois that were used...
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45 million fake 1 coins in circulation – and how to spot a fake pound coin. March 20, 2014. This great feature came from The Bolton News. They show you how to spot a fake coin after the BBC announced yesterday there were as many as an eye-popping 45 million of them in circulation. WITH about 45 million fake pound coins in circulation and a suspected counterfeiter on the loose in Bolton. We have put together a handy guide on how to spot a forgery. Spotting a fake coin. The orientation of the obverse and r...
