Ransomware For The Rest Of Us
" Once you register for the product, you can create your malware in three simple steps.
Enter the ransom amount. (The site takes 20% of the ransom.)
Enter your “cause.â€
Submit the captcha"
Similar to other threats, ransomware has now appeared in an easy-to-deploy cybercrime kit. The malware is called Tox, and it’s free.
Franklin's Kite Experiment
Mythbusters tackled this one but here are the docs themselves. 
Michael from Vsauce teams up with Keith once again to look at some documentation regarding one of th
No Linux Support, No Deal
Team Rift gives me yet another reason to not include them in future VR decisions…
" Our development for OS X and Linux has been paused in order to focus on delivering a high quality consumer-level VR experience at launch across hardware, software, and content on Windows. We want to get back to development for OS X and Linux but we don’t have a timeline."
tl;dr – Given the challenges around VR graphics performance, the Rift will have a recommended specification to ensure that developers can optimize for a known hardware configuration, which ensures a better player experience of comfortable sustained presence. The recommended PC specification is an NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD 290, Intel i5-4590, and 8GB RAM. This configuration will be held for the lifetime of the Rift and should drop in price over time. …
What has changed in 10 years? The Speed of Outrage.

http://tomscott.com – http://twitter.com/tomscott – On stage at Thinking Digital 2015, I talk about
Coopting The Core, Bizness As Usual
Any force that reaches a threshold of ability to make change faces this problem. Marketing to change as change.
“Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantilize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control.â€ï»¿
Given that Simon Pegg has spent most of his career riffing on and benefiting from “geek culture,†he got in a bit of hot water when he told Radio Times, “Nerd culture is the product of a late capit…
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