Topic: WEB - on September 25, 2013 at 5:20:00 PM CEST
Emulator of the first "readily accessible" web browser
The line-mode browser, launched in 1993, was the first readily accessible browser for what we now know as the world wide web. It was not, however, the world's first web browser. The very first web browser was called WorldWideWeb and was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.
But WorldWideWeb only worked on the NeXT operating system. WorldWideWeb was a great piece of software, but it was important that the web should be accessible to many kinds of computers, not just NeXT machines.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 25, 2013 at 4:28:00 PM CEST
What Does The Fox Say?
Norwegian animators Twintrash have created the animated short "What Does The Fox Say," based on "The Fox" music video by Ylvis.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 25, 2013 at 2:49:00 PM CEST
Musik aus Maschinen, mit der Hand
So ähnlich, wenn auch deutlich mit weniger Equipment, sah es damals bei uns im Studio aus. Hardware. 38 Kilo Klinkenkabel, 23 Kilo MIDI-Kabelage. Dazu kleine MIDI to Sync Konverter von Deopfer, die uns die alten Roland Kisten irgendwie synchron in den MIDI-Park zu schleifen wussten. Riesenpult mit 4 Aux-Wegen, um die Effekte zu schleifen und mit immensem Rauschfaktor.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 25, 2013 at 2:47:00 PM CEST
The Heretic
For decades, the U.S. government banned medical studies of the effects of LSD. But for one longtime, elite researcher, the promise of mind-blowing revelations was just too tempting.
At 9:30 in the morning, an architect and three senior scientists—two from Stanford, the other from Hewlett-Packard—donned eyeshades and earphones, sank into comfy couches, and waited for their government-approved dose of LSD to kick in. From across the suite and with no small amount of anticipation, Dr. James Fadiman spun the knobs of an impeccable sound system and unleashed Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68.” Then he stood by, ready to ease any concerns or discomfort.
For this particular experiment, the couched volunteers had each brought along three highly technical problems from their respective fields that they’d been unable to solve for at least several months. In approximately two hours, when the LSD became fully active, they were going to remove the eyeshades and earphones, and attempt to find some solutions. Fadiman and his team would monitor their efforts, insights, and output to determine if a relatively low dose of acid—100 micrograms to be exact—enhanced their creativity.
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Topic: Drone - on September 25, 2013 at 2:46:00 PM CEST
Boeing Turning Old F-16s Into Unmanned Drones
Boeing has revealed that it has retrofitted retired fighter jets to turn them into drones. It said that one of the Lockheed Martin F-16s made a first flight with an empty cockpit last week. Two U.S. Air Force pilots controlled the plane from the ground as it flew from a Florida base to the Gulf of Mexico (video). Boeing suggested that the innovation could ultimately be used to help train pilots, providing an adversary they could practise firing on. The jet — which had previously sat mothballed at an Arizona site for 15 years — flew at an altitude of 40,000ft (12.2km) and a speed of Mach 1.47 (1,119mph/1,800km/h).
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 25, 2013 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
Überwachungsindustrie hält Politik in Geiselhaft
Der Wiener Kriminalsoziologe Reinhard Kreissl beim heutigen Hearing im EU-Parlament über die NSA-Spionage zur Überschätzung von Überwachung durch die Politik.
Der zweite Teil des Hearings setzte dort fort, wo der erste Teil zu Mittag geendet hatte. Die von der Kommission zur Faktenfindung eingesetzte Kommission hatte ebensowenig Konkretes zum Stand der Dinge zu sagen, wie EU-Kommissarin Cecilia Malmström am Vormittag. Das Hearing zog sich mühsam dahin, dass es sogar auf Twitter völlig ruhig wurde, bis der Kriminalsoziologe Reinhard Kreissl aus Wien zugeschaltet wurde.
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