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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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How Much Counterterrorism Can We Afford?
In an article on using terahertz rays (is that different from terahertz radar?) to detect biological agents, we find this quote: "High-tech, low-tech, we can't...
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The Real Risk: Traffic Deaths
The New York Times Room for Debate blog did the topic: "Do We Tolerate Too Many Traffic Deaths?"
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Buying an ATM Skimmer
Interesting: TM skimmers -- or fraud devices that criminals attach to cash machines in a bid to steal and ultimately clone customer bank card data -- are marketed...
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Cheating on Tests, by the Teachers
If you give people enough incentive to cheat, people will cheat: Of all the forms of academic cheating, none may be as startling as educators tampering with children's...
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AT&T's iPad Security Breach
I didn't write about the recent security breach that disclosed tens of thousands of e-mail addresses and ICC-IDs of iPad users because, well, there was nothingwere...
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Friday Squid Blogging: LOLSquid
It's supposed to be a classic, but I've never seen it before.
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Remote Printing to an E-Mail Address
This is cool technology from HP: Each printer with the ePrint capability will be assigned its own e-mail address. If someone wants to print a document from an...
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The Continuing Incompetence of Terrorists
The Atlantic on stupid terrorists: Nowhere is the gap between sinister stereotype and ridiculous reality more apparent than in Afghanistan, where it's fair toPortrait...
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Hot Dog Security
A nice dose of risk reality: Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement calling for large-type warning labels on the foods that kids most...
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Patrolling the U.S./Canada Border
Doesn't the DHS have anything else to do? As someone who believes that our nation has a right to enforce its borders, I should have been gratified when the Immigrations...
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Filming the Police
In at least three U.S. states, it is illegal to film an active duty policeman: The legal justification for arresting the "shooter" rests on existing wiretapping...
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Dating Recordings by Power Line Interference
Interesting: The capability, called "electrical network frequency analysis" (ENF), is now attracting interest from the FBI and is considered the exciting new frontier...
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Reading Me
The number of different ways to read my essays, commentaries, and links has grown recently. Here's the rundown: You can read my writings daily on my blog. These...
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Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
On April 1, I announced the Fifth Annual Movie Plot Threat Contest: Your task, ye Weavers of Tales, is to create a fable of fairytale suitable for instilling the...
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Protecting Cars with The Club
From the Freakonomics blog: At some point, the Club was mentioned. The professional thieves laughed and exchanged knowing glances. What we knew was that the Club...
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Behavioral Profiling at Airports
There's a long article in Nature on the practice: It remains unclear what the officers found anomalous about George's behaviour, and why he was detained. The TSA's...
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