Daily Archives: December 13, 2010

Fast, Cheap and Ooops. NASA’s NanoSail may be dead, but it was not that big of a deal.

December 13, 2010UncategorizedAnthropology, CosmosGreg Laden

Fast, Cheap and Out of Control is part of my own personal enigma. I have shown it to people who don’t know me, who don’t know what I think about, who don’t know much about what I study. Nineteen out of twenty such people react in this matter:

A cold stare with underlying anger for wasting their precious time.
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Read Gawker? Gizmodo? Lifehacker? You’ve been pwnd.

December 13, 2010UncategorizedTechnologyGreg Laden

Registered users of Gawker.com media sites have had their names, email addresses, reading histories, and passwords stolen. But that’s OK, because just yesterday I heard you say that any information hackers steal from secret computer databases should be public. (Or did I hear you wrong?)

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