Month: January 2018

Here are the computer technologies that are no longer safe to use, susceptible to having your information stolen:

Originally shared by Ramin Honary

Here are the computer technologies that are no longer safe to use, susceptible to having your information stolen:

1. Any computer with a RISC architecture CPU that does pre-fetching (susceptible to pre-fetch cache side channel attacks).

2. Any computer with DDR3 memory chips (susceptible to bit banging attacks).

So in other words 99.99999 percent of all computers in use today can be pretty easily hacked by anyone.

Of course, if you use Facebook or Google, you’re voluntarily giving all of your personal information away for free, so carry on I guess.

Redistributive victories are never peaceful. They are usually also short-lived.

Redistributive victories are never peaceful. They are usually also short-lived.

Originally shared by Joerg Fliege

On persistent inequality

Some thoughts on why inequality always seems to be with us, and always seems to get worse. So why aren’t more people calling for more redistribution?

People tolerate rising inequality, because the expect to be part of the winning team. Anchoring effects normalize existing inequality. Resignation sets in.

And history’s lesson is stark: “significant falls in inequality have generally been brought about not by gentle redistributive policies but by wars, revolution, disease and state collapse.”

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2018/01/how-inequality-persists.html

Not long after the Clovis people first set foot in the Americas, the Japanese were already making pottery such as…

Not long after the Clovis people first set foot in the Americas, the Japanese were already making pottery such as this. This is pottery from the Jomon period. These pots are between 9,000 and 13,000 years old.

Technology such as this wasn’t known in the West until around 6000 BC although it had been independently invented in sub-Saharan around 10,000 BC.

Exhibit at the Tokyo National Museum.