Alexa has for years been the laughing stock of website statistics. It’s only based on the input of those who’re using browsers that have Alexa plugins or the relative few that put Alexa widgets on their sites. This means that Alexa is basing their statistics on a very small percentage of people.
When I first saw the headline “Robot suit for rent in Japan to help people walk”, the first thing that went through my mind was the obvious connection between the words “robotic suit” and Iron Man.
A Quantas Airlines plane had a sudden 300 foot drop in altitude recently and now Quantas is investigating the chance that laptops and other electronics being used by passengers could be to blame for interfering with the plane’s avionics.
I don’t usually like to quote links from iwon.com because after a while they tend to stop working but I’m making an exception for this one because of the picture they have accompanying the story that looks like it jumped out of a stack of Halloween invitations.
This is in spite of the fact that there are still a lot of un-answered questions about how they’re going to comply with privacy laws and what this is going to do to fourth amendment rights. It’s very possible that use of this kind of surveillance will be in violation of forth amendment protections if used beyond a certain magnification.
There’s a new program, the result of work by some researchers in Israel that can apparently alter an image of a face to make it appear more attractive.
I recently did a post, Google’s Obfuscated TCP that’s actual proof that if you don’t do at least a little research when posting on technical subjects, you can end up looking like a techi-toddler-wannabe
People interested in online privacy will be interested to know that there’s a project over on Google Code developing “Obfuscated TCP”.
In a recent entry, “Where Is IPV6?“, I wondered about the fact that with all the noise about IPV4 address space running out it struck me as a little disturbing that the continent of Africa was making the transition to IPV6 a heck of a lot faster than the rest of the world.
Aftrica is leading the world in the adoption of IPV6 addressing. I realize that African ISPs and networks aren’t exactly a dime a dozen, so they’ve got less to adapt and change. Plus the fact that because they’ve so much less established stuff there, they can adopt the new IPV6 ready equipment and software right from the start.
