Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Boston Dynamics: PETMAN
April 11th, 2013They expect us to believe that this is just a sort of moving mannequin to test military clothing. Have a nice day. Via: Boston Dynamics / YouTube: The PETMAN robot was developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the DoD CBD program. It is used to test the performance of protective clothing designed for hazardous […]
U.S. Killer Robot Operators ‘Weren’t Always Certain Who They Were Killing’
April 11th, 2013Via: McClatchy: Contrary to assurances it has deployed U.S. drones only against known senior leaders of al Qaida and allied groups, the Obama administration has targeted and killed hundreds of suspected lower-level Afghan, Pakistani and unidentified “other” militants in scores of strikes in Pakistan’s rugged tribal area, classified U.S. intelligence reports show. The administration has […]
IRS: We Can Read Emails Without Warrant
April 11th, 2013Via: The Hill: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has claimed that agents do not need warrants to read people’s emails, text messages and other private electronic communications, according to internal agency documents. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request, released the information on Wednesday. In […]
CourseSmart E-Textbooks Monitor Student Reading Habits
April 10th, 2013In technofascist America, E-books read you. Via: New York Times: Several Texas A&M professors know something that generations of teachers could only hope to guess: whether students are reading their textbooks. They know when students are skipping pages, failing to highlight significant passages, not bothering to take notes — or simply not opening the book […]
Laser Scans Objects in 3D from Half a Mile Away
April 10th, 2013Via: Engadget: 3D scanning at a range of 0.62 miles? It just became possible, thanks to a laser camera developed by physicists at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. You can pretty much see how it works from the images above — laser beams are bounced off the target and the duration of their return […]
USD Bitcoin Exchange Rate
April 8th, 2013Update: Bitcoin Crash The correct answer was that it hit $100 first, after reaching a high of $266. — Current Bitcoin Rate: Mt. Gox (USD) Related: Bitcoin.org
The Nonsense About iMessage Supposedly Frustrating DEA
April 8th, 2013I think I’m making progress. Readers who submitted this DEA / iMessage nonsense knew it was bullshit. Congratulations. You guys get it. Via: TechDirt: In reading over this, however, a number of people quickly called bullshit. While Apple boasts of “end-to-end encryption” it’s pretty clear that Apple itself holds the key — because if you […]
Detecting TOR Communication in Network Traffic
April 7th, 2013That’s a pretty good one. I wonder what it can tell about what’s running over VPN links… Via: Netresec: Notice how the flows to TCP ports 80, 9101 and 443 are classified as Tor? The statistical method for protocol detection in CapLoader is so effective that CapLoader actually ignores port numbers altogether when identifying the […]
France Tries to Censor Article on Military Communications Facility—Hilarity Ensues
April 7th, 2013Via: Wikipedia: The military radio station of Pierre-sur-Haute is a 30 ha (0.3 square kilometre) site used for French military communications. It is located on the Sauvain and Job communes, with the boundary between the Rhône-Alpes and Auvergne regions passing through the site. … In April 2013, the radio station attracted attention after the French […]
ATF Wants Database to Find Out Who Your Friends Are
April 7th, 2013Via: Wired: The ATF doesn’t just want a huge database to reveal everything about you with a few keywords. It wants one that can find out who you know. And it won’t even try to friend you on Facebook first. According to a recent solicitation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the […]
