From Screen Junkies:
Since we had to say goodbye to David Bowie so soon, we decided to honor him by reviewing that one weird kid’s movie he was in that was way worse than we remember.
From Screen Junkies:
Since we had to say goodbye to David Bowie so soon, we decided to honor him by reviewing that one weird kid’s movie he was in that was way worse than we remember.
The first episode of “X-men: Danger Room Protocols” by animator Joel Furtado is here, and it’s as awesome as I thought it would be when I watched the series’ trailer last week. Check it out!
The annual list of the “worst passwords” has again failed to tell us anything useful about security, thought perhaps provided a little (predictable) detail about popular culture.
As always happens this time of year, a publicity-seeking company behind a password manager application has put together a list of the 25 worst passwords by simply counting up which ever ones appeared most often in leaked databases that showed up online last year.
As always it’s prompted a flurry of stories about how Internet users are dumb because they continue to use obvious passwords, with 123456 and password always vying for the top spot.
And as always, that’s a completely idiotic conclusion because the list tells us nothing about how secure the average password is. The most used passwords will always be obvious by definition. Drawing lessons from this is like looking at the list of the 25 most popular names for new babies and deciding it tells us that the population as a whole chooses popular names.
To get even a mediocre insight into overall levels of password security we’d need data on average password length, what percentage of people use dictionary words, and what percentage of people use digits and symbols.
The only real insight into security habits from the list is that few folk fall into the category of being aware of the dangers of an easily-guessable password but haven’t exactly come up with the best responses. One new entry in the list is passw0rd, which has to be an example of taking the smallest possible step towards security. Another new entry is 1qaz2wsx, which presumably will disappoint those who thought they’d come up with something original.
As for cultural lessons, baseball has overtaken football as a password, while princess, solo and starwars have all popped up as new entries.
Stephen Byrne, one of my favorite artist on the web, has illustrated an awesome sequel to “The Force Awakens” where Rey and her friends fight the ultimate evil of the Star Wars universe. The comic is kind of long, so if you’re reading this from the front page, the first panel is right below, and the rest is behind the “read more” link underneath.
Out of all the people that were pranked, only two knew the whole thing was a joke. Unbelievable!
Here are a few segments of Planet Earth being narrated by the one and only Snoop Dogg instead of by Sir David Attenborough. The end of part II is especially funny.
A spectacular display of drone technology by Intel Corporation (USA) involving 100 small aircrafts being launched skywards in formation has earned a new world record title for the Most Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) airborne simultaneously.
Controlled on the ground by a crew using PCs with Intel software, the mass of drones lit up the night sky in sync to a live performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and executed a stunning light show resembling a fireworks display.
“Drone 100” took place at Flugplatz Ahrenlohe, Tornesch, Germany, in November 2015. The record was set in collaboration with Ars Electronica Futurelab to push the limits of the UAV industry and to show what UAVs can be used for.
Statistics are persuasive. So much so that people, organizations, and whole countries base some of their most important decisions on organized data. But any set of statistics might have something lurking inside it that can turn the results completely upside down. Mark Liddell investigates Simpson’s paradox.
[TED Ed]