If you're looking for insight and rational discussion, the last place I would recommend is the YouTube comments section. Many "trolls" seem to have found no better way to pass their time than posting inane comments on popular YouTube videos. Your best bet is to not waste any time reading the comments, let alone replying to the offensive word vomit. If you use Firefox or … [Read more...]
Panoramic tour inside Kaspersky’s virus detection lab
Kaspersky Lab offers a panoramic virtual tour of their virus detection lab. You can rotate around and see where people are hard at work. It shows the work environment, dashboards, and a little bit of humor. Use your mouse to pan around and see the employees or the skyline. Click on the red '+' buttons for little facts about the office. You can check it out for yourself at … [Read more...]
Stanford offers free Technology Entrepreneurship class online
Stanford University will be holding its seventh offering of their free, online Technology Entrepreneurship class. It begins tomorrow, January 5th and runs through February 15, 2015. The workload is expected to be 10-20 hours per week and you will receive a statement of accomplishment upon completion. The class utilizes Stanford's NovoEd platform and is taught by Chuck Easley, … [Read more...]
How to disable YouTube’s new autoplay suggested videos
About a week or two ago, I was watching a video on YouTube and I was also hoping to share it with some friends but it annoyingly switched to some other video near the end of it. I looked at the URL to confirm that I was not in a playlist, just a regular stand-alone video. Apparently YouTube has made the decision to turn everything into auto-play by default by playing one of the … [Read more...]
Keybase embraces social networks for cryptography
Public key encryption is based on two keys, a public key and a private key. To send someone an encrypted message, you must find the recipient's public key which would allow them to decrypt the message with their private key, something only they know. Keybase aims to help PKI by taking advantage of social networks, places where people are already pushing their identities. By … [Read more...]