David Lidsky's Blog, page 3401
November 15, 2013
#Antisec Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Given Maximum Sentence
Jeremy Hammond, the 28-year-old hacker who rose to prominence for the 2011 Stratfor hack, was sentenced to 10 years in prison today. I was in the courtroom.
In a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, Judge Loretta Preska, who was previously asked to recuse herself due to a possible conflict of interest, sentenced Jeremy Hammond to 10 years in prison--the maximum sentence for the violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) Hammond pled guilty to.
What Life Is Like In One Of The World's Fastest Growing Cities
Through the photographs of Shaun Fynn, Shanghai's architecture becomes a symbol for future modern cities.
All over Shanghai--and the rest of China--cranes erect high-rise apartment towers in record time. Shopping districts are quickly planned and just as quickly realized, while new transit stations seemingly appear overnight. In the hands of designer-photographer Shaun Fynn, the construction boom becomes the face of a "Brave New Modernism."
Following Twitter Complaints, McDonald's Is Adding A Third Drive-Thru Window
The fast-food chain will start adding an extra window to locations next year.
Fast food is supposed to be fast. Apparently, the McDonald's drive-thru wasn't fast enough, and disgruntled customers were taking to Twitter with their complaints. So now, McDonald's is adding a third window to speed things up a bit. There, are you happy?
I Can't Stop Looking At These Pictures Of Ugly Carrots
A new book called Defective Carrots features strange, grotesque photographs of vegetables deemed unfit for consumers.
Every day, thousands of "optically deficient" carrots are mechanically scanned and promptly removed from factory conveyor belts, deemed unfit for consumers. These are the runts of the litter, doomed to the purgatory of animal slop troughs, their dreams of making it into a salad or cake or soup forever thwarted.
Many people have told me these photographs are erotic.
This Grad Student Hacked Semantic Search To Be Better Than Google
Using some of Google's own algorithms, this new search engine lets you search for things you didn't know existed.
Google may be the dominant search engine, but it's far from ideal. One major problem: How do you search for things you don't know exist?
A Tribute To Granny Glamazons
Hellooooooo, hot grandmama!
In a tribute to gray-haired glamazons everywhere, legendary fashion photographer Tim Walker and illustrator Lawrence Mynott have created a glorious two-volume coffee table book called The Granny Alphabet, published by Thames and Hudson.
Infographic: Just How Roaring Was 1920s New York?
An interactive map of jazz-era New York packs the sights and sounds of neighborhoods new and old, from Chinatown to Harlem.
A typical wander through New York's Upper West Side in 1929 would have left the pedestrian virtually deaf, assailed by the blasts of street construction and traffic horns. Having managed to escape these with their hearing intact, the aural assault was pretty endless: booming radios, metal-clanging garbage collectors, noisy boys, quarreling neighbors, and, yes, howling cats.
Forget Small, Medium, And Large: This Shirt Comes In 50 Sizes
Realizing flaws in the existing sizing system, Stantt used 3-D body scans of more than 1,000 men to create a line of casual shirts that fit like they're tailored.
When sizing garments, most companies divide people into three broad categories: small, medium, and large. But a quick look around reveals what a flawed model this is--a person might be small-waisted but large-armed, or tiny-shouldered and long-torsoed, and none of those S/M/L labels really fit. Ill-fitting clothing inevitably leaves us with the Goldilocks problem, feeling too small or too large, especially when "extra" is the added qualifier on our labels.
Stella & Dot's Jessica Herrin Is Nobody's Avon Lady
The jewelry retailer's CEO is turning the trunk show model on its head--with excellent results.
Although direct marketing has come a long way from the days of the Mary Kay catalog and neon-green Tupperware, Jessica Herrin, CEO of jewelry and accessories retailer Stella & Dot, has breathed new life into the business model.
In One Year, Candy Crush Has Been Downloaded Half A Billion Times
A casual gaming app has become one of the most successful games ever.
A year ago, the simple puzzler game app Candy Crush Saga hit the app stores, and today the company behind it, King, says the app has just passed the 500 million download mark across all app stores globally. This makes it, as King points out, "one of the most successful games of all time."
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