Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
NFL Wants Pat-Downs from Ankles Up at All Stadiums
September 16th, 2011Via: USA Today: The NFL wants all fans patted down from the ankles up this season to improve fan safety. Under the new “enhanced” pat-down procedures, the NFL wants all 32 clubs to search fans from the ankles to the knees as well as the waist up. Previously, security guards only patted down fans from […]
What Will Video Games Will Be Like in a Few Decades?
September 16th, 2011Here’s an example of a video game that I thought was fun when I was young: Choplifter (1982): Now, nearly three decades later, take a look at some gameplay footage from the upcoming, Battlefield 3: As I was watching that Battlefield 3 trailer, I found myself squinting, blinking and setting the volume to mute. (Maybe […]
Microsoft’s Desperation to Catch Apple in the Crackpad Race to the Land of Dumb and Dumber
September 14th, 2011As you guys know, I’m not much of a fan of any operating system. I find Windows XP to be the least bad for what I do. Windows 7 is usable. Mac OSX is usable (but doesn’t support MultiCharts, an application I use daily). Linux still sucks, on the client side, and I guess that […]
‘Person of Interest’ TV Show
September 13th, 2011Just in case you didn’t know the state was doing this to you all day long… Via: Wall Street Journal: To promote its new fall drama “Person of Interest,” CBS Corp. is turning its eye on viewers. To highlight the show’s theme of citizen-surveillance, CBS is tapping into the trend of interactive billboards, installing one […]
Court Approves Lawsuit Against Toyota Over Cyberstalking Ad Stunt
September 13th, 2011This is definitely one for your Not The Onion file folder. Via: Wired: A woman who was targeted by Toyota in a creepy, stalker-themed online advertising stunt will be allowed to sue the company, despite the carmaker’s argument that she unknowingly agreed to the whole thing. Amanda Duick sued Toyota in 2009 over its intrusive […]
‘Find My Car App’ for Mall Zombies Also Handy for Police
September 11th, 2011Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Westfield’s new app means you’ll never lose your car in the shopping centre again – and police now have at their fingertips technology to track down stolen and unregistered vehicles. Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney recently added to its iPhone app the functionality for shoppers to find their parked car by […]
33 Percent of Americans Raised Middle Class Move Downward as Adults
September 9th, 2011The report doesn’t mention people who were raised in middle class households and consciously, voluntarily moved downward. *wink* My family of four is severely poor, according to the definitions in the report (and by New Zealand definitions), but we’re far better off than some people we know who are making several multiples of what we […]
Mall of America: Identifying “The Terrorists”
September 8th, 2011Via: NPR: The report tells how the Bloomington police officers took Van Asten to a police substation in the basement in the Mall of America after mall security questioned him. They frisked him. They seized his camera. They detained him in that room for one more hour. The police called the Joint Terrorism Task Force. […]
Terrahawk’s M.U.S.T. Is a Mobile Guard Tower in a Shady-Looking Van
September 8th, 2011Via: TechCrunch: National Security isn’t always about the flashy solutions. Not everything can be rail guns and one-winged drones. Sometimes you just need a sort of seedy-looking van that slowly, slowly turns into a climate-controlled guard tower. Research Credit: noncompliant
Police Called After Man Butchers Cow in His Driveway
September 8th, 2011A man takes sane action and hordes of bureaucrats deliberate the many “possibilities” of charges he should face. Disclosure: We have our cows slaughtered in our driveway. Via: Standard Examiner: Charges may ensue for an Ogden man who startled the neighbors by butchering a cow in his driveway over the weekend. Police were called to […]
