Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Toddler TV Linked to Low Math Scores
May 4th, 2010Via: CBC: Too much time in front of the tube as a two-year-old can predict some negative consequences at the age of 10, a new study suggests. Researchers studied more than 1,300 children in Quebec and found that higher TV exposure as toddlers corresponded to less achievement in math, an increase in being victimized by […]
Globe Trotting High School for Budding iZombies Costs $88,000 Per Year, iPhone Included
April 29th, 2010Global competence? *chuckle* To me, this sounds more like, “How to wind up dead from a heart attack by age 25 and go broke while you’re at it.” Lots of airline food, security screenings, polluted cities. Is part of global competence having to learn what the Chinese fascist regime doesn’t want people reading on the […]
Professor Tim Bell: Computer Science Unplugged
April 27th, 2010Tim Bell, a University of Canterbury Professor of Computer Science, developed a series of materials for teaching computer science concepts to children, “Through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around.” He calls the curriculum Computer Science Unplugged. He spoke about Computer Science Unplugged on Radio New Zealand’s Nine […]
Samsung Issues 3-D TV Health Warning: If You Start to Feel Dizzy, Stop Watching; With Children, Watch Out for Lightheadedness and Involuntary Movements Like Eye or Muscle Twitching, as Well as Cramps and Nausea
April 26th, 2010This is right out of some Sci-Fi dystopia. The zombie drones will be entertained, programmed and socialized by screens that require warnings and disclosures, like pharmaceutical packaging inserts. Many of the zombie drones will be so stupid, dazzled and confused that they subject their own zombie dronelings to these technologies as well. Who needs horror […]
Blizzard Makes Over One Million Dollars Per Hour Selling Celestial Steed Video Game Horses
April 25th, 2010I’ll see your Farmville and raise you a Celestial Steed. Via: Dvorak: Blizzard has had unprecedented success with virtual item sales on the release of the Celestial Steed – a special in-game mount for World of Warcraft that costs the princely sum of $25, €20 or £17. According to WOW.com (via GamesIndustry.biz), a seven-hour queue […]
Stephen Hawking: Extraterrestrials Are Almost Certain to Exist; If We Encounter Them, Chances Are We’re Doomed
April 25th, 2010If Martians fell from the sky What would that do to God? Would we put the weapon down Or aim it up at the sky No one would believe it Except the fucking nut jobs They’d laugh and cry “We told you so!” Dave Matthews Band — Time Bomb The mainstream media is, increasingly, driving […]
College Students Struggle to Go Without Media for 24 Hours
April 24th, 2010What could possibly go wrong? Via: Reuters: Crackberry is no joke. American college students are hooked on cellphones, social media and the Internet and showing symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Maryland who asked 200 students to give up all media for one full […]
Building an Artificial America in a Supercomputer: Synthetic Citizens to Help Social Scientists
April 23rd, 2010I found a one paragraph version of this information linked from Technofascism Blog and I went looking for more. The full text from the 2008 IEEE piece is below. Knowing what we know about the surveillance data that’s being collected, I see no reason why the “simulation” couldn’t be setup to run on real data, […]
Facebook Steps Up Lobbying, Deepens Ties with Intelligence Agencies, FTC
April 23rd, 2010Here’s my (one sentence) guess about what this is actually about: Facebook is a CIA cutout that’s frantically lobbying for privacy legislation to remain lax so that it can continue to run its various intelligence operations on the platform. Via: Venture Beat: Facebook has been gradually boosting its profile in Washington D.C. over the past […]
IEEE: Build Backup Routes for Undersea Communications Infrastructure “Before we have to learn the hard way”
April 21st, 2010Cryptogon Flashback to 2002: Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won’t In the years since I wrote that, I started to think that a massive attack on the physical network infrastructure would make increasing sense to the elite if the financial scams became totally untenable, and the perpetrators needed a distraction […]
