Saturday, May 23, 2015

Sam Todo's TV Robot

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/humanoid-robot-built-old-tv-parts

RIT Robotics Club

http://mdrc.rit.edu/

Greater Rochester Robotics

Voyager

http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Voyager

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

New Jim Crow (Informed Consent)

...In many states parolees and ex-felons cannot vote. KQED notes, some 6 million ex-felons are disenfranchised in the US. Since African-Americans are sentenced at startlingly higher rates than European-Americans, the burden of loss of voting rights falls especially heavily on them.
“Disenfranchisement laws disproportionately affect African Americans: in 2010, 1 of every 13 African Americans of voting age — about 7.7 percent nationally — was disenfranchised, a rate more than four times greater than with non-African Americans. In some of the strictest states — including Florida, Kentucky and Virginia — more than 20 percent of the African American population was disenfranchised, the report found.

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Stingray Gathering Your Phone Data

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/meet-the-machines-that-steal-your-phones-data/

Senate Bill 1035 Renewing the Patriot Act until 2020

https://fight215.org/

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Interstellar Space

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/may/21/interstellar-revelations-outer-space/
J.C. Cuillandre, CFHT/Giovanni Anselmi, Coelum Astronomia The Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion, about 1,500 light years from the earth, as seen from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii; from Michael Benson’s book Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle (2009)

The Curfew Worked - National Guard Leaving (Baltimore Sun)

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-curfew-lifted-20150503-story.html#page=1