Or don’t buy something more reliable? KwikSet has a line of locks called “Smart Key” locks, that allow you to retool the cyclinder with a included keytool. Â It works well, and I haven’t had a problem with it…. Until yesterday when my wife reported that “we were having a problem with locking the door…”. I […]
I just did something that I never have done in the past…. And I shouldn’t be surprised at the results… I just read the “What’s the risk” help screen for the ActiveX installer prompt. Â You know the annoying prompt, where it asks “do you want to install this ActiveX control” or “What’s the risk?”. You […]
Rochester, NY/Oregon – Helen Bell first learned she could watch animals online when she heard about the Kodak falcons. Now she watches zoo cameras that follow pandas and birds, and she checks on a goat farm in Oregon. On July 4, she was scrolling through animal cams when she saw something terrible. “I saw a […]
This is from Watts Up With That? A detailed look at what happened at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, that we have been hearing so much about lately… Jimmy Haigh, a geologist by trade, sends along a PDF that is a compilation of on the scene photos taken right after the explosion and in the […]
Why Aren’t There More Terrorist Attacks? As the details of the Times Square car bomb attempt emerge in the wake of Faisal Shahzad’s arrest Monday night, one thing has already been made clear: Terrorism is fairly easy. All you need is a gun or a bomb, and a crowded target. Guns are easy to buy. […]
Since installing Mac OS X 10.6, whenever I empty the trash, it takes about 50x as long as it used to under 10.5. I just emptied about 100 files (totaling 50 megs / all local files), and it was about 20 minutes. It feels like its doing a secure delete, but I’m just using the […]
The term comes from the idea of a clumsy, ‘fat-fingered’ typist, who presses extra keys without being aware of it. As the practice of high-frequency trading continues to become more widespread, concerns are growing that erroneous trades carried out by ‘algos gone wild’—a sort of digitally amplified version of the ‘fat finger’ phenomenon—could cause a […]
Here’s a first hand experience (not mine), about a stolen iPhone, and a little bit of deterimination… The whole thing started when my plane landed in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon at 2:55pm coming from Cabo San Lucas. The guy sitting next to me on the plane asked me to loan him a pen so […]