Flowingdata.com is a great site. They also have good taste in beer.
Taking the route above, a trip to 70 breweries, you get about 197 hours of drive time across 12,299 miles. You stop in 28 states and pass through a total of 40.
From NYPost:
CIA Director John Brennan’s private account held sensitive files — including his 47-page application for top-secret security clearance — until he recently learned that it had been infiltrated, the hacker told The Post.
Later about the hacker himself:
“I think they’ll want to make an example out of him to deter people from doing this in the future,” said a source who described the situation as “just wild” and “crazy.
The You Are Not So Smart podcast is one of the best things I listen to each week. It literally makes me a better person. I don’t think my enjoyment of episode 58 is purely based on confirmation bias but it was really a terrific episode. There’s in-depth discussion of what it takes for there to be social backlash against a new technology and how we can predict where the next upheaval will come from.
Firewatch looks so good to me and I’ve marked February 9th on my calendar. I’ve followed the development mainly because it has a great team behind it. Now I’m excited because it looks like something new. It’s not a shooter or platformer. Call me excited.
A new YouTube show from First We Feast brings Dogfish Head’s own Sam Calgione to the computer screen. Many of the DFH beers seem more like research projects. They are fun to try but not anything I want on a regular basis. And that’s o.k.
I’ve seen Sam lecture on a variety of topics and I think this new show looks terrific. I’m thrilled to get more insight into what goes on in Sam’s head.
Molly McHugh at Wired:
Nachman says Intel has sent some end users detailed instructions on setting up ACAT as well as how to use it, and the team is also working with some patients on testing it out. Soon, they’ll be partnering with universities on experimenting with the system. It’s clear that ACAT is for developers and the academic community, at least for now.
Probably one of the most advanced speech systems ever created is now available for the world to access and improve.
Every major Synology OS update is a major advancement of the product line. The last DSM version focused on mobile applications and support for Docker. Now version 6 is on the way and it seems that Email and performance are receiving significant attention.
The new indexing options are going to be huge and the Spotlight integration makes me happy in totally inappropriate ways.
From the EFF:
As we explained before, the All Writs Act is not a backdoor to bypass other laws. The government cannot impose an unreasonable burden on Apple, and it cannot violate the Constitution. If the government truly wanted Apple to decrypt a phone running iOS 8 or later, it would blow past these boundaries. First, unless Apple is lying about how its system is engineered, it simply can’t grant access to the data on a locked phone—not by reflashing the operating system, and not by pushing a backdoored software update—because it’s locked.
Home looks like a really nice HomeKit based app for controlling hardware. This review by Ari Jay Comet provides a compelling argument for the app.
From ProPublica:
That means AOL’s ad network will be able to match millions of Internet users to their real-world details gathered by Verizon, including — “your gender, age range and interests.” AOL’s network is on 40 percent of websites, including on ProPublica.
AOL will also be able to use data from Verizon’s identifier to track the apps that mobile users open, what sites they visit, and for how long. Verizon purchased AOL earlier this year.
