Walking the Appalachian Trail

Well the time has arrived for me to begin my journey on the AT. The most optimistic prediction is that I last two weeks. 2000 people try to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail every year about 50 complete the journey. The odds are against me, no doubt, but the one thing I enjoy more than being [...]

Powerline Exploit Allows Keylogging via Ground or Laser

Hackers are now able to log keystrokes via grounded outlets or remotely by laser. Pretty ingenious when you think about it but even more to worry about if your security conscious. The exploit is achieved by monitoring the grounded electrical circuit within 15 feet of the target. When a keyboard is used it generates a [...]

How to avoid a colliding Galaxy

Get out of the way! Only speculation exists about how we arrived on Spaceship Earth. Some will say it was God and others will say evolution. Now that we are here we need to make sure we stay. We can’t afford to go the way of the dinosaur and yet that may be our fate [...]

Life, Probability and Fractals

What is the probability of life outside of Spaceship Earth, most people will say it is pretty slim. Now more than ever we are finding life in inhospitable places and in  places we have been unable to look previously. We may have even found life in our own solar system. Mars is already showing signs [...]

Quantifying Human Potential

Human potential is not difficult to quantify. We all know those who excel for they are hard to keep hidden. Well then why don’t we all excel? Genetics. There are differences in all of us, some of those differences limit our abilities. However, our greatest asset is our mind.
If the brain were so simple we [...]

Interface, Design and Prototyping

Creating a good design is not easy and it’s not meant to be. It requires prototypes to flesh out all the bugs. What makes a good design? Something performs above standard and that has an interface that is intuitive and simple. Any hammer can drive a nail, some do it better than others. And that [...]

Fermi Paradox revisited

I’ve talked about this before but never on kikbot.org, it’s time I put it on record.
Wikipedia: Fermi Paradox
The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between the high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations.
Well it seems we must not be as [...]