Protect Your Data from Skype for Android
What you need to know to protect your data from being exposed by the poorly-configured Skype for Android app.
What I’m Reading
Shareworthy articles and content syndicated from other sites. These aren’t things I’ve written or necessarily endorse, for the record.
Piracy as a Protected Religion
Piracy as a religion?? That's so crazy…it might just work!
A group of self-confessed radical pirates are pinning their hopes on gaining official recognition of their own unique belief system. The founders of the Missionary Church of Kopimism – who hold CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols – hope that along with this acceptance will come harmony, not just with each other, but also with the police.
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Open Large Datasets
Quora thread listing over 50 sources of open large datasets. Combined with datasciencetoolkit.org and NoSQL databases these may lead to interesting experiments. Remember BigData doesn’t necessarily need big budgets.
Original title and link: Open Large Datasets (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
Screen-Free Week Starts Today
Since you are reading this, you probably don’t know / don’t care that it is screen-free week. This year the people behind screen-free week are taking things a step further by asking you to turn OTHER people’s TVs off too. I’ll tell you what, they come near my computers / TV and they might ended up starting “emergency room week.”
We recommend families participate in Screen-Free Week by turning off their TVs, computers and other screens for entertainment April 18–24, 2011. In addition to the health benefits, many people find that choosing to cut back their screen time offers an opportunity to replace it with family activities such as taking walks, playing games and spending time outside, and this can be rewarding and satisfying.
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Awesome: The future according to Google search results
xkcd has done some digging and learned exactly what will happen in the next 91 years, according to Google search results. Read on to learn exactly when cars will be driven by dogs, Atlantis will reappear, and when HTML5 will actually be completed.