We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis. We have moved much of this site to this wiki, and intend to move the remainder.

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Where the crypto rubber meets the Road of Finance. Epidemic of cryptojacking can be traced to escaped NSA superweapon. Boingboing writes on the connection between. Discovering the subtle bugs the NSA weaponized is sophisticated work that can only be performed by a small elite of resear.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013. OpenSCAD - 3-D modeling script language. I had been looking for some easy-to-use 3-D CAD software which runs on Linux, and is preferably open-source. The goal is to design and build stuff like this Do It Yourself Book Scanner. Where all the pieces can be cut out of a 4x8ft sheet of plywood or maybe thick plexiglass. I had initially passed over OpenSCAD. Here is a small module for a part.

The standards committee of JavaScript. Read the ES6 feature proposals.