Public SSL Server Database : ‘an online service that enables you to look up the configuration of any public SSL web server. The configuration of known public SSL web servers will be periodically inspected and the results recorded. This service relies on the SSL Server Rating guide for the assessment’
(tags: ssl grades security tls https servers sysadmin ssl-labs)‘Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two bugs do’ : a story of how a bug in Apollo 11’s Lunar Module control software, intended to work around a deficiency of the engine hardware, barely avoided mission-endangering results
(tags: apollo-program bugs software coding engines hardware don-eyles allan-klumpp interfaces specifications)X-keys Foot Pedal : recommended by JB. 3 switches, USB, $120. Linux support seems tricky; requires running Windows apps to reprogram the pedal’s firmware. ugh
(tags: x-keys hardware shopping wishlist usb keyboard foot pedals ergonomic)Sony FS-85USB foot pedal : comes with dictation transcription software and headphones, USB, UKP93.15. there’s a blog post indicating that it’s Linux-compatible, emulating a generic USB keyboard
(tags: hardware shopping wishlist usb keyboard foot pedals ergonomic)Foot pedal: Savant Elite dual action : from Kinesis Ergo, claims to do mouse or keyboard actions, $129, USB. Linux support unclear
(tags: hardware shopping wishlist usb keyboard foot pedals ergonomic)Thinkism : great Singularity contemplation from Kevin Kelly: ‘to be useful, artificial intelligences have to be embodied in the world, and that world will often set their pace of innovations. Thinkism is not enough. Without conducting experiments, building prototypes, having failures, and engaging in reality, an intelligence can have thoughts but not results. It cannot think its way to solving the world’s problems. There won’t be instant discoveries the minute, hour, day or year a smarter-than-human AI appears. The rate of discovery will hopefully be significantly accelerated. Even better, a super AI will ask questions no human would ask. But, to take one example, it will require many generations of experiments on living organisms, not even to mention humans, before such a difficult achievement as immortality is gained.’
(tags: ai singularity ray-kurzweil kevin-kelly science progress technology future philosophy intelligence knowledge thinkism)UK company selling “have you been phished” check using stolen data : according to this, a retired cop has set up a company called Lucid Intelligence with ‘the records of four million Britons, and 40 million people worldwide, mostly Americans’, and plans to ‘charge members of the public for access to his database to check whether their data security has been breached.’ How is this legal under Data Protection law? wtf
(tags: privacy uk law hacking phishing fraud crime police database identity-theft lucid-intelligence data-protection security colin-holder)