[FRIAM] Fwd: [WedTech] Fwd: [Lectures] Community Lecture - Tonight, November 6, 2013

2013-11-06 Thread Stephen Guerin
-- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Smith Date: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [WedTech] Fwd: [Lectures] Community Lecture - Tonight, November 6, 2013 To: wedt...@redfish.com Just now watching the Live Stream (thanks to Ron Newman) wondering why I ever bother to try to

[FRIAM] Emergence of macroscopic directed motion in populations of motile colloids

2013-11-06 Thread Roger Critchlow
So take a tub full of microscopic colloidal blobs, make the blobs roll around by applying an external electrical field, and you can get the whole mess to swarm. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v503/n7474/full/nature12673.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v503/n7474/full/503043a.html

Re: [FRIAM] now that's the spirit!

2013-11-06 Thread Roger Critchlow
No more Mister Nice Google, it's all going to be random noise from here on out. -- rec -- On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > On 11/6/13, 5:30 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > I think the inter-mail-server hops are encrypted, or I certainly hope > so! And the clients all s

Re: [FRIAM] now that's the spirit!

2013-11-06 Thread Joshua Thorp
Yes in case someone missed this, a very interesting little post from washington post titled: How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/04/how-we-know-the-nsa-had-access-to-internal-google-and-yahoo-cloud-data/

Re: [FRIAM] now that's the spirit!

2013-11-06 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 11/6/13, 5:30 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: I think the inter-mail-server hops are encrypted, or I certainly hope so! And the clients all support encryption or alternatively use https web-apps. Some providers use more lighter protocols like LMTPA (Local Mail Transfer Protocol) for internal trans

Re: [FRIAM] now that's the spirit!

2013-11-06 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 11/06/2013 05:13 PM, Steve Smith wrote: Were they any more (or less) surprised to find that the NSA had it's finger on their internal pulse? I haven't followed the details of how the NSA tapped them internally and/or how it was Google didn't know that was happening. It sounds like Google a

Re: [FRIAM] now that's the spirit!

2013-11-06 Thread Owen Densmore
I'm amazed the inter-data-center traffic *wasn't* encrypted. I think the inter-mail-server hops are encrypted, or I certainly hope so! And the clients all support encryption or alternatively use https web-apps. Wouldn't that make at least mail secure? -- Owen On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:13 PM

Re: [FRIAM] now that's the spirit!

2013-11-06 Thread Steve Smith
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/googlers-say-f-you-to-nsa-company-encrypts-internal-network/ Were they any more (or less) surprised to find that the NSA had it's finger on their internal pulse? I haven't followed the details of how the NSA tapped them internally and/or

[FRIAM] now that's the spirit!

2013-11-06 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/googlers-say-f-you-to-nsa-company-encrypts-internal-network/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redf