Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Grocery Shopping in South Korea
July 4th, 2011Tesco: Homeplus Subway Virtual Store. Via: Youtube: Research Credit: JH
South Korea: Entire Primary Education Curriculum Will Be Delivered Digitally By 2015
July 4th, 2011South Korea, a division of Samsung. Via: MIT Technology Review: By 2014, all of South Korea’s elementary-level educational materials will be digitized, and by 2015, the entire school-age curriculum will be delivered on an array of computers, smart phones and tablets. While the country’s education ministry is yet to announce the make or model of […]
India: Cars for Sterilisation
July 1st, 2011Via: BBC: Health officials in the Indian state of Rajasthan are launching a new campaign to try reduce the high population growth in the area. They are encouraging men and women to volunteer for sterilisation, and in return are offering a car and other prizes for those who come forward. Among the rewards on offer […]
Britain: Council to Force Family Living On Their Own Land and Growing Their Own Food to Live in State Housing and Become Dole Recipients
June 30th, 2011Madness. Via: This is Devon: A COUPLE living an “off-grid” lifestyle say they face prison unless they move from their own land in Willand and return to an existence in the benefits trap. Stig and Dinah Mason bought Muxbeare Orchard after a sudden windfall allowed them to quit their impoverished lives on a Hertfordshire council […]
Visions of Teen Angst, Then and Now
June 29th, 2011When I was a kid, films like Better Off Dead, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and many others, told stories about the seemingly infinite number of ways that being a teenager could suck.. I know these types of films are still made, and while I have no idea what the modern versions are […]
The First Advertising Campaign for Non-Human Primates
June 28th, 2011Via: New Scientist: Keith Olwell and Elizabeth Kiehner had an epiphany last year. At a TED talk, the two New York advertising executives learned that captive monkeys understand money, and that when faced with economic games they will behave in similar ways to humans. So if they can cope with money, how would they respond […]
Britain: Police Break Into Homes; Lecture People About Burglary Risks
June 28th, 2011I didn’t believe that this was real. I thought that some hoax had been picked up by a tabloid newspaper and that it was off to the races from there. Nope. It’s real. This is the ‘Operation Poppins’ page on the London Metropolitan Police website. Via: The Sun: COPS are breaking into homes in a […]
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Intentionally Flooded Farmland, Now Offering to Buy It
June 28th, 2011Via: KMBC: Some river bottom property owners say they received a letter from the Army Corps of Engineers’ Kansas City district office asking them if they want to sell their land. KMBC’s Micheal Mahoney reported that the letter is angering some of the people who received it because some of them are fighting for their […]
FOIA’d Documents Raise New Questions About Airport Body Scanner Radiation Risks
June 27th, 2011Cancer clusters… Via: Electronic Privacy Information Center: In a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, EPIC has just obtained documents concerning the radiation risks of TSA’s airport body scanner program. The documents include agency emails, radiation studies, memoranda of agreement concerning radiation testing programs, and results of some radiation tests. One document set […]
Sinister Public-Private Partnership to Spy on Web Users
June 23rd, 2011Via: Guardian: When President Eisenhower left office in 1960, he provided the American people with a warning. “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Sixty years later, […]
