by David Brooks | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog
They should get some serious show in the Presidential range today. I’ve never gone snow-shoeing in October … hmmm …. This screenshot is from the webcam on the observation desk of the Mount Washington Observatory, which can be really interesting. Or...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
NOTE; This item was in last week’s Granite Geek newsletter. If you have a free subscription, you’ve seen it already. If not, get one! It lands in mailboxes today (Thursday). One of the candidates for some state office recently told the Concord...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
The Boston Globe has a story that I had completely missed: The closed Chester College in Chester, N.H., has been bought by Busche Academy, a Chinese private school that plans to bring as many as 300 Chinese students here, perhaps next year, to get an American high...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
I discussed the DDOS attack by Manchester’s Dyn with NHPR yesterday – it was the subject of my Monitor column – and I thought I had been pretty realistic about how bad the malware-infected Internet of Things could be. But a Slate piece (here it is)...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
The attack on Dyn in Manchester over the weekend was a reflection of how the Internet of Things has been slapped together in a really insecure way, which is Not A Good Thing. Not good as in, say, ransomware in your implanted insulin pump – pay up or you’ll...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
The topics are set for the two – yes, two! – science cafe series in New Hampshire: In Nashua on Nov. 2 we’ll discuss the causes and effects of our drought, while in Concord on Nov. 15 we’ll discuss 3-D printing, and whether it is living up to...
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