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Schneier on Security: My LA Times Op Ed on Photo ID Checks at Airport (31)
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Opinion The TSA's useless photo ID rules No-fly lists and photo IDs are supposed to help protect the flying public from terrorists. Except that they don't work. By Bruce Schneier August 28, 2008 The TSA is tightening its photo ID rules at airport security. Previously, people with expired IDs or who claimed to have lost their IDs were subjected to secondary screening. Then the Transportation Security Administration realized that meant someone on the government's no-fly ...Shared by [Curtis W] (24) Bojan (7) Brettsky (3) cgsheldon (114) Chris Hitchcock (27) cjh (6) Clay (40) Cory (4) dale.brayden@gmail.com (20) Dan (2) David (10) David Arcos (26) Drew (3) gautamg (11) Jon (4) Leximo (233) Logical Extremes (7) Nishant (5) Noah (22) Phillie Casablanca (11) Pito Salas (2) Ramanan (8) ResearchTalk (11) Robert Accettura (11) Ryan (5) Scott (16) Simon Phipps (6) Thomas (3) Thomas Amberg (34) trygve (9) Zac (3)- David Arcos said: Artículo "for dummies" de por qué los controles aéreos son inútiles
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Hey man, it’s cool… it’s cool… « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? (52)
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Hey man, it’s cool… it’s cool… Take all the bamboo you want… i gotz 2 feed awl of da hungree pandaz. picture: Me. lol caption: christym111 » Recaption ThisShared by Alan (3) alden (2) Alexandru Savu (31) Amihai (20) Bill (0) Chimpadink (1) Damon (16) Dan (3) Dan (2) danb420 (9) Daniel (0) Datch (18) Eric (0) fern (12) geeker87 (2) ghosttie (18) gizmo (10) GregEh (2) Gutshot (11) hornbeck (0) iBspoof (10) Ingotheranchhand (6) Jaime (13) Jameson (13) Kesor (8) Lien (45) Lucas (15) Magnus (4) marcel weiß (10) Mathy (2) Matt (0) Megan (0) Mike Mol (14) n8dude (18) Nicki (20) ORB (2) Owen (1) Peter (17) Phillie Casablanca (11) Rafael (4) Rafael Capanema (16) Reymond (2) Rob (18) salehoffline (3) Sean (6) ThomasHan (14) Tully (19) Uno (5) Venci (6) vforrestal (2) virtualcourtney (4) Walter DeFoor (28)- Rafael said: BWHUHUHAUHAUHA
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xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe (143)
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- Fred said: There's a short book you should read called "Godel's Proof" that will step you through proving why this is and is not funny.
- zar said: Sesso e teoria degli insiemi: questo dovrebbe andare nel libro :-)
- Max said: Wow. Hand it to xkcd for mashing up divergent themes! Make sure to check out the mouseover.
- Joshua said: oooohhhhhhhhh! I get it! because grdel's incomplete! yay!
- j_aroche said: jauajauajauajaa mathz
- ervin said: rafinált! :)
- Armish said: xkcd'nin her karikaturunu paylasabilirim sanirim
- Ken Hunt said: I love jokes about the incompleteness priciple.
- mernisse said: Teehee, personally I enjoy asphyxiation and the inverted wheelbarrow myself.
- David Arcos said: Lo buena que es una tira de xkcd es directamente proporcional a la cantidad de gente que no la ha entendido, pero "cree" que si.
- Luke G said: Heh
- Kluzter said: such a wise pervert guy
- Jeffrey said: rofl
- Pierre Phaneuf said: Math and kink, together, uh, at last.
- Will said: Love it.
- Ian said: Gödel jokes :D
- Data Vortex said: Have not read yet, but I'd be surprised if I am not a list-breaker.
- Maxim said: Geniale!
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Dreams of AI Design (4)
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Followup to: Anthropomorphic Optimism, Three Fallacies of Teleology After spending a decade or two living inside a mind, you might think you knew a bit about how minds work, right? That's what quite a few AGI wannabes (people who think they've got what it takes to program an Artificial General Intelligence) seem to have concluded. This, unfortunately, is wrong. Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally about reducing the mental to the non-mental. You might want to contemplate ...- matt said: Planes would fly just as well, given a fixed design, if birds had never existed; they are not kept aloft by analogies - LOVES IT!
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- bmcfee said: I've done this too...
- npike said: I think we've all been through this one at some point..
- kebernet said: The alt tag is great today.
- Ian said: so, so true.
- Aneel said: so precisely true
- LM said: Particularly apropos given my current apartment situation.
- Dimitri Glazkov said: This one is about me.
- Brandon said: This makes me want a Cantenna even more!
- Jessica said: Yeah, this is totally me in a couple weeks.
- Goyal said: Agreed :)
- deadlyicon said: heh yes! Fee Linksys day!
- Ashe said: So. True. Right, @mathiasx?
- Chris Schrier said: This is why I had internet at my apartment and house for a couple of weeks.
- тaмás said: There are few forces more powerful than geeks desperately trying to get internet in a new apartment.
- WindPower said: My thoughts exactly pendant les vacances
- Derick Valadao said: This brings back memories :)
- jschultz said: So true.
- Guttorm said: Cute
- Rob said: as someone currently using wireless named "linksys" from a neighbor, i applaud this comic
- Dustin Diaz said: "geeks desperately trying to get internet in a new apartment." Ha!
- Simon said: shared for the alt text
- James said: More times than I can count.
- Eric Atkins said: Pringles can = LOL
- tonyleachsf said: Ha, this is pretty close to my experience !
- Joshua said: bwahahaha ... when we moved last week, I had the DSL order, the backup cable order (they could give a more reliable-sounding install commit), and the netshare-on-3g-iphone plan 'c'. [DSL made the date, fortunately.]
- Steve said: soooooooooo true ;)
- Daniel said: I can relate to this :/
- Zaki said: I need to date the girl stick figure in xkcd cartoons
- Nick Campbell said: I agree with the comment on unsecured! Great!
- Alexandar said: gotta love the linksys people :D
- choffee said: Must have internet.
- Matt said: This seems familiar...
- Walter DeFoor said: agreed and a half.
- Zach said: OOh man, have I done this before >:D
- Ben said: Damn straight.
- Terrence said: I was just thinking about this when I move ...
- Bill said: Yeah, why weren't there any of those kind souls near my new place! (See mouse-over text)
- eric stimmel said: this could be us in a week and a half...
- FelipeC said: Hahaha, so true.
- mernisse said: How true... How True..
- Chris said: just like moving in to our apartments. number 1 priority = internet
- Josi said: i was using an open network i found in my building when i first moved in
- Randy said: Pretty relevant if you ask me
- Joe Smith said: Oh man. This was me all last week..
- Blaise said: This will be me on Monday. Heather, I really hope you've got the internet (and bears) sorted out in Nipissing.
- Matthew said: this is how its been for me for the last 4 days
- Sermed said: In memory of Adam's wifi attempts
- mac said: this is exactly my situation right now. Wish I bought that "Netshare" app for my iPhone that lets me share my EDGE connection with my laptop
- Jaemi kehoe said: Priceless
- Jakob said: I have actually done this with a cantenna before. Fortunately Brady lived in the dorm facing my apartment building, so I was able to get college internet access/network.
- cassio said: I have already tried that too :D still looking for internet...
- justin said: happy 'linksys' day!
- Murz said: Ooooh... how true.
- purplesque said: Afraid this is going to be me..
- Jon G. said: How ironically appropriate for my situation
- tom said: essid "linksys" - yeah!
- KeVroN said: fine I'll do share it too because I do it every day at bucketworks anyhoo
- Andrés David said: In a few weeks I'll remember what this feels like
- Steve M. said: the sad truth
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Citizenship Flexibility at the Olympics Is a Good Thing (1)
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At a recent family sing-along in the upper peninsula of Michigan, we dusted off John Lennon's "Imagine." The lyrics made me think about the Olympics. Could we imagine the Olympics without national teams? Imagine a world where the best athletes are able to compete. This is definitely not the current Olympic system. The country quota system [...]Shared by Dan (2)Contribute comment -
Star Wars fleet week in San Francisco (11)
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I dig this fun special effects video "documenting" San Francisco Fleet Week if the fleet were Imperial craft from Star Wars. Seen above, a Lambda-class shuttle soars past the Golden Gate Bridge. Death Star Over San Francisco (Current.com, thanks Vann Hall!) UPDATE: BB pal Bonnie Burton writes, "I actually interviewed the filmmaker last week on the Official Starwars.com Blog!"Shared by Aaron (7) Andrew (3) Carl (5) Dan (2) erbianchi (25) Jason Allen (1) Jay (0) Jen (27) lewis (5) Macky (1) Nathan (19)Contribute comment -
High-speed photo gallery (15)
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Flickr user Nebarnix posted an awesome gallery of high-speed photo eye-candy -High speed photography. If anyone has any requests I'd be happy to blow it up for you! Most of these photos are taken with a special flash unit that uses a high voltage arc in air as the light source. The flash of light lasts only 500 nanoseconds! - High-speed photography on Flickr [via NOTCOT] High-Speed Photography Kit Version 4 Read more | Permalink ...Shared by Aqeel (6) b-rad (13) Ben (3) Coolbox (11) Damon (16) Dan (2) ddddddd (11) docbaily (28) Fansari (20) jason (6) mariana (23) Randy (33) Rob (0) Sonya Smith (0) Will (9)- Will said: Things being shot in slo mo=win.
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Dumb Deplaning (2)
onSo I just traveled to Portsmouth, VA for an experimental conference - in the sense that I don't expect conferences of this type to prove productive, but maybe I should try at least once - in the unlikely event that there are any local Overcoming Bias readers who want to drive out to Portsmouth for a meeting on say the evening of the 20th, email me - anyway, I am struck, for the Nth time, ...Shared by Dan (2) Wesley (3)Contribute comment
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