Archive for the 'Technology' Category
New York City Surveillance Center Staffed with Employees from Large Wall Street Firms
February 7th, 2012Via: Counterpunch: The New York Times, the worldwide news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), Wired Magazine, the New York City Council had all previously reported the location of the supposedly super secret counter terrorism center on their public web sites: 55 Broadway in the bowels of the financial district. What was a secret about the operation, […]
The Army Wants You … to Be a Virtual Lab Rat
February 7th, 2012Via: Wired: American soldiers already prep for war using virtual worlds. One day, the Army hopes, you’ll join the GIs in a military-approved digital realm. In the Army’s latest call for research proposals, the service is looking for ways to develop a “Virtual Laboratory of Aggregate Behavior,” or VLAB. Put simply, the program would yield […]
Congress Passes Bill That Opens U.S. Skies To Unmanned Drones
February 7th, 2012Via: AP: A bill to speed the nation’s switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology, and to open U.S. skies to unmanned drone flights within four years, received final congressional approval Monday. … The FAA is also required under the bill to provide military, commercial and privately-owned drones with […]
DARPA Calls for Implantable Biosensors
February 7th, 2012Via: Wired: Now, the Department of Defense’s far-out research agency is after the ultimate kind of Quantified Self: Soldiers with implanted body sensors that keep intimate tabs on their health, around the clock. In a new call for research, Darpa is asking for proposals to devise prototype implantable biosensors. Once inserted under a soldier’s skin, […]
Britain: Talking CCTV Cameras In Camden To Be Turned Off
February 7th, 2012They need to load the ED209 voice on that thing. Via: Telegraph: Pressure group Big Brother Watch had said that the cameras, which automatically warn everyone they see to leave, were only acceptable in a ‘in a police state’. In a statement issued this afternoon, Camden Council claimed that the camera’s pre-recorded American message should […]
Dimitri Christakis – Media and Children
February 6th, 2012Via: TEDxRainier:
Satellite Phone Encryption Cracked
February 4th, 2012Via: Telegraph: German academics said they had cracked two encryption systems used to protect satellite phone signals and that anyone with cheap computer equipment and radio could eavesdrop on calls over an entire continent. Hundreds of thousands of satellite phone users are thought to be affected. “We were able to completely reverse engineer the encryption […]
How America Made Its Children Crazy
February 4th, 2012“It’s not some sci-fi dystopic concern that’s always 20 years out. They’re gunning for your children’s minds with this right now.” —Sorry iBooks, Paper Books Still Win on Specs Via: Asia Times: Learning how to learn is the point of education. We will forget the great majority of specific things we were taught: Euclidean proofs, […]
Are Teenagers More Doomed Than Usual?
February 3rd, 2012“Once the dumb are wished into existence, they serve valuable functions: as a danger to themselves and others they have to be watched, classified, disciplined, trained, medicated, sterilized, ghettoized, cajoled, coerced, jailed. To idealists they represent a challenge, reprobates to be made socially useful. Either way you want it, hundreds of millions of perpetual children […]
2010 Attack on VeriSign Just Recently Disclosed
February 2nd, 2012Via: Reuters: VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world’s websites, has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the leading Internet infrastructure company. The previously unreported breaches occurred in 2010 at the Reston, Virginia-based company, which is ultimately responsible for the integrity of […]
