Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Experiment Allows Scientists to Identify Which of Three Seven Second Video Clips Test Subjects Are Thinking About
March 15th, 2010Thought reading machine? You definitely wouldn’t know it from reading many of the headlines that have been written about this story, but the answer is no, it’s not a thought reading machine. Eleanor Maguire, one of the researchers, said, “We are not at the point of being able to put people in a scanner and […]
Five Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted
March 12th, 2010Via: Cracked: Are some games intentionally designed to keep you compulsively playing, even when you’re not enjoying it? Oh, hell yes. And their methods are downright creepy. Related: The Future Where Soda Cans Have Screens Research Credit: ltcolonelnemo
Airlines Will Cancel Flights to Avoid Risk of Fines for Delays
March 10th, 2010Didn’t think air travel in the U.S. could suck any more than it already does? Behold… Via: MSNBC: Passengers may soon be seeing more cancellations on airport departure boards. Several airlines, including Fort Worth-based American and Houston-based Continental, say they will cancel flights rather than risk paying stiff penalties for delaying passengers on the runway. […]
Gendercide: The Worldwide War on Baby Girls
March 9th, 2010Via: Economist: XINRAN XUE, a Chinese writer, describes visiting a peasant family in the Yimeng area of Shandong province. The wife was giving birth. “We had scarcely sat down in the kitchen”, she writes (see article), “when we heard a moan of pain from the bedroom next door…The cries from the inner room grew louder—and […]
Five Ways Your TV is Slowly Killing You
March 7th, 2010Via: MSNBC: You’ve accepted the idea that TV makes you dumber. You know there are lots of more edifying things you could be doing with your time than cheering on the contestants on “Survivor.” And unless you’re working out to an exercise video, you know those hours sprawled out in front of the screen are […]
Baby Dies as Parents Raise Virtual Child Online
March 5th, 2010Via: NineMSN: A Korean couple let their baby starve to death while they were busy raising a virtual child online, police said. The couple, from Suwon in South Korea, would leave their three-month-old daughter home alone in their apartment while they spent up to 12 hours a day playing a Second-Life style3D fantasy game called […]
Military Allows Twitter, Other Social Media
February 28th, 2010Military personnel are no different than any other target population that needs to be monitored and tracked. Who knows what will actually be done with the surveillance data that will be collected from this… Via: Reuters: The Pentagon announced on Friday it has authorized the use Twitter, Facebook and other so-called “Web 2.0” sites across […]
Weaponizing Mozart: How Britain Is Using Classical Music as a Form of Social Control
February 26th, 2010Via: Reason: In recent years Britain has become the Willy Wonka of social control, churning out increasingly creepy, bizarre, and fantastic methods for policing the populace. But our weaponization of classical music—where Mozart, Beethoven, and other greats have been turned into tools of state repression—marks a new low. We’re already the kings of CCTV. An […]
The Future Where Soda Cans Have Screens
February 24th, 2010My ability to grasp what many people consider to be “normal” is slipping away, a little bit each day. I wonder if this is how my dad felt when, over a decade ago, I explained to him that I didn’t always need to go to the office in order to do my work. My dad […]
The Digital Dictatorship
February 22nd, 2010If you pretend that the author is referring to the U.S. when he mentions countries like Iran and the former East Germany, this is much more informative. Via: Wall Street Journal: Since the publication of John Perry Barlow’s “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” in 1996, they have been led to believe that cyberspace is […]
