interview with authorfuturist arthur c clarke from an atampt-mit conference 1976
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arthur c clarke science fiction author and futurist crossed paths with the scientists of the bell system on numerous occasions in 1945 he concurrently but independently conceived of the first concept for a communications satellite at the same time as bell labs scientist john robinson pierce pierce too was a science fiction writer to avoid any conflict with his day job at bell labs pierce published his stories under the pseudonym jj couplingin the early 1960s clarke visited pierce at bell labs during his visit clarke saw and heard the voice synthesis experiments going on at the labs by john l kelly and max mathews including mathews computer vocal version of bicycle built for two clarke later incorporated this singing computer into the climactic scene in the screenplay for the movie 2001: a space odyssey where the computer hal9000 sings the same song according to bob lucky another bell labs scientist on the same visit clarke also saw an early picturephone and incorporated that into 2001 as wellin 1976 atampampt and mit held a conference on futurism and technology attended by scientists theorists academics and futurists this interview with clarke during this conference is remarkably prescientespecially about the evolution of communications systems for the next 30 yearsthe interview was conducted for an episode of a bell system newsmagazine but this is the raw interview footagefootage courtesy of atampampt archives and history center warren nj

the animals house of the rising sun old school computer remix
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while following on the coat tail of my first popular video quotqueen bohemian rhapsody old school computer remixquot i tried to change the venue and built a couple of robot bands yeah machines that play actual instruments these videos didn039t fair as well so i decided to go back to the basics and create another video utilizing old computer equipment for this video i recorded each instrument separately with a decent stereo mic and i also used a mixer to adjust the audio levels i would like to point out that absolutely no sampling or audio effects were used instrumentsa hp scanjet 3p adaptec scsi card and a computer powered by ubuntu v910 os as the vocals hey the scanner is oldb atari 800xl with an eico oscilloscope as the organc texas instrument ti-994a with a tektronix oscilloscope as the guitard hard-drive powered by a pic16f84a microcontroller as the bass drum and cymbal i was very pleased how the hard-drive drums turned out and they sound great i will definitely use them in my next video oh yeah my next video i would like to use a current song so please leave any recommendations 3oh3 is a big contender i would like to give a shoutout to james houston who i think was the first person to use multiple legacy computer equipment in conjunction to make a song be sure to take the time to view his youtube video quotbig ideas: don039t get any - radiohead cover by james houstonquotfor all the haters out there:1 the timing is not off take the time to listen to the actual song before criticizing2 no i don039t have a lot of spare time so i have to use it sparingly3 fair use on the internet not making any money here i wasn039t even born when this song came out but this is just one way of reviving an older song and introducing it to generation z:thanks for watchingbd594

message from anonymous: operation facebook nov 5 2011
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operation facebookdate: november 5 2011target: https:facebookcompress:twitter : https:twittercomop_facebookhttp:piratepadnetycpcpwrl09ircanonopsli opfacebookmessage:attention citizens of the worldwe wish to get your attention hoping you heed the warnings as follows:your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed if you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill facebook for the sake of your own privacyfacebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments such as those of egypt and syria everything you do on facebook stays on facebook regardless of your quotprivacyquot settings and deleting your account is impossible even if you quotdeletequot your account all your personal info stays on facebook and can be recovered at any time changing the privacy settings to make your facebook account more quotprivatequot is also a delusion facebook knows more about you than your family http:wwwphysorgcomnews170614271html http:itgruntscom20101007facebook-steals-numbers-and-data-from-your-iphone you cannot hide from the reality in which you the people of the internet live in facebook is the opposite of the antisec cause you are not safe from them nor from any government one day you will look back on this and realise what we have done here is right you will thank the rulers of the internet we are not harming you but saving youthe riots are underway it is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity it is a battle for choice and informed consent it039s unfolding because people are being raped tickled molested and confused into doing things where they don039t understand the consequences facebook keeps saying that it gives users choices but that is completely false it gives users the illusion of and hides the details away from them quotfor their own goodquot while they then make millions off of you when a service is quotfreequot it really means they039re making money off of you and your informationthink for a while and prepare for a day that will go down in history november 5 2011 opfacebook engagedthis is our world now we exist without nationality without religious bias we have the right to not be surveilled not be stalked and not be used for profit we have the right to not live as slaveswe are anonymouswe are legionwe do not forgivewe do not forgetexpect us

rotary engine
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this animation provides a basic understanding of how the rotary engine is put together and how it works music taken from the ford piston engine animation found here:http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=oxd1plgur8mplease visit my website for more 3d work:http:wwwmattrittmancom----------------------------------

senator introduces online security bill - nytimescom
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senator richard blumenthal introduced a bill that aimed to protect citizens

cpu collection vintage hardware ibm mcm intel c4004 - youtube
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click here to see the entire collection: https:youtube9mzlm1nd3sahere a quick overview about my cpu collection and vintage hardware i have about 4000 pi

learning high-speed flight in the wild science robotics 2021 - youtube
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quadrotors are agile unlike most other machines they can traverse extremely complex environments at high speeds to date only expert human pilots have bee

phantom of the floppera
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test run of my diskette organ doing toccata ampamp fuguepeople have made floppy drives sing before but this is my personal take on itfeatures two 3 12quot drives and two 5 14quot drives connected to a pic18f14k50 microcontroller it interfaces to any midi source via midi over usb straight midi would also be possible with an additional small circuit and some minor firmware changes this initial version can respond to all 128 midi notes and pitch bends - 2 semitonesas it can produce only four simultaneous notes and each drive has a different range and tonal characteristics best results are obtained by arranging compositions by hand however it features two modes of operation: in one mode midi channels 1 through 4 are played directly on floppy drives 1 through 4 in the other mode all 16 midi channels are read and notes are quotintelligentlyquot divvied out on a first-come first-serve basis quotnote stealingquot ensures that melody lines sound but chords are often cut short one or the other produces acceptable results for many unmodified midi files straight out of your favorite media playeri apologize for the poor video quality :

how to be a computer hacker
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this tutorial will instruct you on how to be a computer hacker- both visually and professionally it039s useful for impressing your friends family and many more not only does it make you look more intelligent but trust me you will have people constantly asking to bro out with you because they know you039re such a cool guymusic used:quotvariation on egmontquothttp:incompetechcomstatic200607variation_on_egmonthtmllicensed under creative commons cc by 30http:creativecommonsorglicensesby30

james bond spiral jump stunt
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this handheld movie sequence is of an actual automobile stunt which was used in the james bond film 039the man with the golden gun039 the automobile stunt was created in 1970039s at calspan in buffalo ny as a validation test for the highway vehicle object simulation model hvosm computer program the automobile stunt was conceived and created by raymond r mchenry wwwmchenrysoftwarecom via his hvosm computer simulation model the stunt was also used in a travelling automobile stunt showalso see http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=ak2g5gge6-k

police typing fail
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a clip recorded on sky sports news talking about the violence after rangers vs celtic game an interview with a police officer went wrong when the officer pretended to use his computer however you can clearly see that he isnt even logged in

a brief history of winamp
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a history of the iconic media player from its humble beginnings as a dos media player to the latest mobile-device enabled version more info here : http:wwwoldversioncomblogthe-history-of-winamp

dennis ritchie obituary technology the guardian
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as co-inventor of unix and the programming language c he had a key role in shaping today

newegg039s shocking incompetence - youtube
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newegg sold us a motherboard that they knew was damaged it was even labeled as such and newegg themselves had started to rma it but then they blamed us for

genesys: an interactive computer-mediated animation system
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this is a digital copy of a 15:42 minute 16mm film made in 1970 it presents a demonstration of one of the pioneering interactive systems that would enable artists with no previous computer training to do animation the system is called genesys and it was built by ron baecker as part of his 1969 phd thesisthis system is imho phenomenal for all kinds of reasons it mainly used the rand tablet the grandparent of today039s graphics tablets for input hence animators who were skilled in drawing were presented with a familiar tool - a stylus - with which to interact with the computer and be able to do so using already established drawing skillsthis was one of the first systems ever to practice user-centred design where the intended user was someone who not only was not computer literate but came from a field - animation - that was about as far away from engineering as one could be it is significant that the full demonstration is done by lynn smith such an animator and not by ron or one of his colleagues from mit my challenge to anyone who is not impressed by this is the following: find any other demo of a highly interactive computer system from 1970 or earlier that does thisbut this system is not just interesting because it did a lot of stuff a long time ago that we take for granted today it goes beyond this it introduces concepts in pen-based computing and not just animation that have high relevance today and yet are still not possible even on most pen-based systems animation or otherwise in particular the key notion of genesys is that of quotpicture-driven-animationquot that is a picture could either be a visible object or a motion path for some graphical object and furthermore not only could an object follow a hand-drawn motion path it could do so with the same dynamics as the line was drawni love this work it has a huge impact on my own and i am really glad to finally have a high-quality digital copy that is generally available so that this work can get the attention that it deservesthis work was done at mit039s lincoln lab and is just one example of the spectacular work that was done there on the tx-2 computerfor more information on genesys see:baecker ronald m 1969 interactive computer-mediated animation phd thesis mithttp:wwwlcsmitedupublicationspubspdfmit-lcs-tr-061pdfbaecker rm 1969 picture-driven animation proceedings of the afips spring joint computer conference 273-288for more information on the pioneering work at lincoln lab including genesys see:buxton william 2005 interaction at lincoln laboratory in the 1960039s: looking forward -- looking back panel introduction proceedings of the 2005 acm conference on human factors in computing systems chi03905 april 3-7 2005 1163-1167http:billbuxtoncomlincolnlabpdffor related historical work in interactive computer animation see also:nrc1971 keyframe animation 7 minute 45 second 16 mm film produced by the national research council of canadahttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=epie_h8jf6ebuxton w 2008 my vision isn039t my vision: making a career outof getting back to where i started in thomas erickson amp davidmcdonald eds hci remixed: reflections on works that haveinfluenced the hci community cambridge ma: mit press 7 - 12