A new web browser available as tech preview for Linux, Mac OS and Windows. Developed by some of the developers behind the original Opera browser, this new one is called Vivaldi. Android support is also planned. They pitch it as a web browser for the heavy duty users. I have not tried it yet, but I suppose I will have to. :-)
https://vivaldi.com/
tirsdag 27. januar 2015
mandag 26. januar 2015
Interesting new drone.
Interesting new drone.
It searches for cell phones without coverage. To be used when searching for missing persons when they are known to carry a cell phone (who doesn't) but may be outside coverage so they cannot be triangulated.
Originally shared by Teknologiske Nyheter
NTNU-studenter tror denne dronen kan redde liv i redningsaksjoner
Farkosten finner mobiltelefoner i områder uten dekning.
#NTNU #redningsaksjoner
http://bit.ly/1D8J3p4
It searches for cell phones without coverage. To be used when searching for missing persons when they are known to carry a cell phone (who doesn't) but may be outside coverage so they cannot be triangulated.
Originally shared by Teknologiske Nyheter
NTNU-studenter tror denne dronen kan redde liv i redningsaksjoner
Farkosten finner mobiltelefoner i områder uten dekning.
#NTNU #redningsaksjoner
http://bit.ly/1D8J3p4
lørdag 17. januar 2015
The best bath so far this year...
The best bath so far this year...
It had to be done, and someone had to do it, sooo... Jump in!
It had to be done, and someone had to do it, sooo... Jump in!
fredag 16. januar 2015
Is it time to stop pretending we have no influence on nature? This article is well worth a read.
Is it time to stop pretending we have no influence on nature? This article is well worth a read.
" The self-awareness that comes with recognizing our planetary power also demands we question our new role. Are we just another part of nature, doing what nature does: reproducing to the limits of environmental capacity, after which we will suffer a population crash? Or are we the first species capable of self-determination, able to modulate our natural urges, our impacts and our environment, such that we can maintain habitability on this planet into the future?"
Originally shared by David Brin
A fascinating look at our disruptive “anthropocene” geologic era: “Millions of years from now, a stripe in the accumulated layers of rock on Earth's surface will reveal our human fingerprint just as we can see evidence of dinosaurs in rocks of the Jurassic or the explosion of life that marks the Cambrian. Our influence will show up as changes in the chemistry of the oceans, the loss of forests and the growth of deserts, the damming of rivers and the retreat of glaciers. The fossil records will show the extinctions of various animals and the abundance of domesticates, the chemical fingerprint of artificial materials, such as aluminum drinks cans and plastic carrier bags and the footprint of projects like the Syncrude mine in the Athabasca oil sands of north-eastern Canada, which moves twice as much earth every year than flows down all the rivers in the world in that time.
“In the Anthropocene, humanity has become a geophysical force on a par with the earth-shattering asteroids and planet-cloaking volcanoes that defined past eras. Earth is now a human planet. We decide whether a forest stands or is razed, whether pandas survive or go extinct, how and where a river flows, even the temperature of the atmosphere. We are now the most numerous big animal on Earth, and the next in line are the animals we have created through breeding to feed and serve us. Four-tenths of the planet's land surface is used to grow our food. Three-quarters of the world's fresh water is controlled by us. It is an extraordinary time. In the tropics, coral reefs are disappearing, ice is melting at the poles and the oceans are emptying of fish because of us. Entire islands are vanishing under rising seas, just as naked new land appears in the Arctic.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gaia-vince/gaia-vince-age-of-humans_b_6349788.html
Concluding with: “The Anthropocene requires us to look at the world -- and engage with it -- from a new perspective. Only then will we design ways to produce food, water and energy and create livable conditions for the Earth's species.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gaia-vince/gaia-vince-age-of-humans_b_6349788.html
" The self-awareness that comes with recognizing our planetary power also demands we question our new role. Are we just another part of nature, doing what nature does: reproducing to the limits of environmental capacity, after which we will suffer a population crash? Or are we the first species capable of self-determination, able to modulate our natural urges, our impacts and our environment, such that we can maintain habitability on this planet into the future?"
Originally shared by David Brin
A fascinating look at our disruptive “anthropocene” geologic era: “Millions of years from now, a stripe in the accumulated layers of rock on Earth's surface will reveal our human fingerprint just as we can see evidence of dinosaurs in rocks of the Jurassic or the explosion of life that marks the Cambrian. Our influence will show up as changes in the chemistry of the oceans, the loss of forests and the growth of deserts, the damming of rivers and the retreat of glaciers. The fossil records will show the extinctions of various animals and the abundance of domesticates, the chemical fingerprint of artificial materials, such as aluminum drinks cans and plastic carrier bags and the footprint of projects like the Syncrude mine in the Athabasca oil sands of north-eastern Canada, which moves twice as much earth every year than flows down all the rivers in the world in that time.
“In the Anthropocene, humanity has become a geophysical force on a par with the earth-shattering asteroids and planet-cloaking volcanoes that defined past eras. Earth is now a human planet. We decide whether a forest stands or is razed, whether pandas survive or go extinct, how and where a river flows, even the temperature of the atmosphere. We are now the most numerous big animal on Earth, and the next in line are the animals we have created through breeding to feed and serve us. Four-tenths of the planet's land surface is used to grow our food. Three-quarters of the world's fresh water is controlled by us. It is an extraordinary time. In the tropics, coral reefs are disappearing, ice is melting at the poles and the oceans are emptying of fish because of us. Entire islands are vanishing under rising seas, just as naked new land appears in the Arctic.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gaia-vince/gaia-vince-age-of-humans_b_6349788.html
Concluding with: “The Anthropocene requires us to look at the world -- and engage with it -- from a new perspective. Only then will we design ways to produce food, water and energy and create livable conditions for the Earth's species.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gaia-vince/gaia-vince-age-of-humans_b_6349788.html
torsdag 8. januar 2015
I can't really express it better than +Yonatan Zunger does.
I can't really express it better than +Yonatan Zunger does.
I can only hope people are willing to agree that this is abuse of islam. These terrorists just use Islam as an excuse. They could have used any religion. Any muslim should stand up against these terrorists and show that this is not what they believe in.
Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger
The powerful must never be immune from mockery. If there is one thing which the past several hundred years have taught us, this is it: power which is not subject to examination, to criticism, to the salutary effects of lèse-majesté, is the greatest factory of tyranny that the world has ever known.
It is particularly ironic that the men who perpetrated today's massacre in Paris were angry over satirical depictions of Muhammad, because in doing so they have forgotten the exact reason why his depiction was forbidden: because the depiction of animals or of people encourages idolatry. [1] Islam has always been profoundly careful to avoid even the slightest suggestion of veneration of anything other than God: even the time for the mid-day prayer begins just after the Sun has passed its zenith, to avoid the appearance of Sun worship. The purpose of the hadith is to prevent people from worshipping the Prophet, not to put the Prophet on a par with God.
No, the reason for this had nothing to do with holy writ, and everything to do with people who want the right to declare that they may not be insulted, that their pride has more value than human life. And any claim which can be enforced with bloodshed is a claim which comes from power -- and thus a claim which itself has no claim on immunity from mockery. Because they demand it must not be spoken, and because they wish to prevent it from being spoken by creating a fear of murder among anyone who speaks out, it must therefore be spoken.
In the spirit of this, here are several of the cartoons which Charlie Hebdo published which brought down this rage. As its cover I present the best possible summary of all: a picture of Muhammad, saying "It's hard to be loved by assholes."
#JeSuisCharlie
[1] See e.g. Sahih al-Bukhari 3:34:318, http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/034-sbt.php#003.034.318
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/07/charlie-hebdo-cartoons-paris-french-newspaper-shooting_n_6429552.html
I can only hope people are willing to agree that this is abuse of islam. These terrorists just use Islam as an excuse. They could have used any religion. Any muslim should stand up against these terrorists and show that this is not what they believe in.
Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger
The powerful must never be immune from mockery. If there is one thing which the past several hundred years have taught us, this is it: power which is not subject to examination, to criticism, to the salutary effects of lèse-majesté, is the greatest factory of tyranny that the world has ever known.
It is particularly ironic that the men who perpetrated today's massacre in Paris were angry over satirical depictions of Muhammad, because in doing so they have forgotten the exact reason why his depiction was forbidden: because the depiction of animals or of people encourages idolatry. [1] Islam has always been profoundly careful to avoid even the slightest suggestion of veneration of anything other than God: even the time for the mid-day prayer begins just after the Sun has passed its zenith, to avoid the appearance of Sun worship. The purpose of the hadith is to prevent people from worshipping the Prophet, not to put the Prophet on a par with God.
No, the reason for this had nothing to do with holy writ, and everything to do with people who want the right to declare that they may not be insulted, that their pride has more value than human life. And any claim which can be enforced with bloodshed is a claim which comes from power -- and thus a claim which itself has no claim on immunity from mockery. Because they demand it must not be spoken, and because they wish to prevent it from being spoken by creating a fear of murder among anyone who speaks out, it must therefore be spoken.
In the spirit of this, here are several of the cartoons which Charlie Hebdo published which brought down this rage. As its cover I present the best possible summary of all: a picture of Muhammad, saying "It's hard to be loved by assholes."
#JeSuisCharlie
[1] See e.g. Sahih al-Bukhari 3:34:318, http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/034-sbt.php#003.034.318
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/07/charlie-hebdo-cartoons-paris-french-newspaper-shooting_n_6429552.html
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