Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Botnets are now being tested to attack an entire country – Liberia
News about the Mirai botnet - millions of tainted Internet of Things devices being used to tandem to swamp targets with DDoS attack, as happened to Dyn last month - just keeps getting worse. Now an entire country, Liberia in west Africa, has been targeted, reports...
MIT grad who says he “invented email” gets money out of the Gawker lawsuit
I must admit to never having heard of claims by Shiva Ayyadurai, an MIT graduate, that he invented email in the 1970s, but Boston Business Journal reports that he "won $750,000 Wednesday in a bankruptcy court settlement with Gawker Media, according to court...
White House wants to build a national (other-than-Tesla) car-charging network
The United State Department of Transportation (DOT) is establishing 48 national electric vehicle charging corridors, which it's saying cover nearly 25,000 miles, in 35 states. I can't find a map and am awaiting DOT response so I don't know what, if any, New Hampshire...
GraniteGeek newsletter exclusive: How to fake your ballot selfie!
A picture is worth 1,000 words, but they don’t have to be accurate words.
Geeks’ favorite election topic rises in Maine, which ponders statewide instant-runoff voting
Elections would be more fun if matrix algebra was involved, wouldn’t they? Maine might go that route: It just might adopt statewide ranked-choice voting.
NSF admires package of sensors turning NH-Maine link into a ‘smart bridge’
UNH is loading the Route 1 bridge into Maine with sensors. Coolest part? They’re powered by a tidal turbine.
Cleverest promo of the week: If NH was a storage unit, what countries would fit inside it?
A company called selfstoreage.com is sending out email pitches to get some free publicity, like many, many companies do - but this one is clever enough that they deserve the attention: If New Hampshire Were a Storage Unit, What Countries Would Fit Inside? They cheat a...
UNH researchers hone in on oyster-tainting bacteria
By UNH News Service: DURHAM, N.H. – University of New Hampshire scientists are one step closer to being able to predict when oysters in the Great Bay Estuary may be at risk of being infected with a bacteria that has sickened consumers throughout the Northeast. UNH...
Sometimes the Mt. Washington webcam is not all that exciting
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 not.
Deep radioactivity means Conway is New Hampshire’s best bet to become a geothermal power
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 Monitor's edit board...
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