{"id":180292,"date":"2017-06-01T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/01\/linkage-209\/"},"modified":"2017-06-01T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T10:04:00","slug":"linkage-209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/01\/linkage-209\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/great-white-shark-jumps-australian-fishermans-boat-050052887.html\">Great white shark jumps into Australian fisherman&#8217;s boat<\/a> (<i>Yahoo<\/i>) Bad day at the office.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2017\/05\/breaking-the-iris-scanner-locking-samsungs-galaxy-s8-is-laughably-easy\/\">Breaking the iris scanner locking Samsung\u2019s Galaxy S8 is laughably easy<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Not surprising.  Most of these features are more security theater than actual security.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2017\/05\/the-a-eon-amiga-x5000-reviewed-the-beloved-amiga-meets-2017\/\">The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Modern hardware, backwards compatibility, and a rather high price, but if you are into Amigas, you should look into it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2017\/05\/how-to-build-your-own-vpn-if-youre-rightfully-wary-of-commercial-options\/\">How to build your own VPN if you\u2019re (rightfully) wary of commercial options<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) It won&#8217;t stop the NSA, but it will (probably) stop your ISP (**cough** Comcast **cough**), and unlike the commercial providers, you will know that it&#8217;s not being abused.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/nature\/2017\/05\/magna-carta-was-good-humans-even-better-fish\">The Magna Carta was good for humans &#8211; but even better for fish<\/a> (<i>New Statesman<\/i>) There is a line in the Magna Carta restricting the crown&#8217;s use of weirs to trap fish, which resulted in an explosion of fish in the English diet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/band-posters-of-the-renaissance-how-medieval-music-fans-showed-off-their-taste-77973\">Band posters of the Renaissance: how medieval music fans showed off their taste<\/a> (<i>The Conversation<\/i>) At concerts, they held up tinder boxes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/shortcuts\/2017\/may\/30\/dr-seuss-bank-of-england\">How Dr Seuss could simplify boring, wordy documents<\/a> (<i>Guardian<\/i>) The Bank of England is using Dr. Seuss as a training aid for staff to help them write more clearly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I mention Dr. Seuss, I gotta show the best bit from the TV show <i>Moonlighting<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fT4LqmyjexA\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great white shark jumps into Australian fisherman&#8217;s boat (Yahoo) Bad day at the office. Breaking the iris scanner locking Samsung\u2019s Galaxy S8 is laughably easy (Ars Technica) Not surprising. Most of these features are more security theater than actual security. The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died (Ars Technica) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-180292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}