Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Animal Rights Group Says Drone Shot Down
February 18th, 2012Via: The Times and Democrat: A remote-controlled aircraft owned by an animal rights group was reportedly shot down near Broxton Bridge Plantation Sunday. Steve Hindi, president of SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness), said his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter drone to video what he called a live pigeon shoot on Sunday when […]
Lawmaker Demands DHS Cease Monitoring of Blogs, Social Media
February 17th, 2012This social media monitoring program is an absurd limited hangout. Where’s the outrage over things like MAIN CORE and Room 641A? Via: Wired: Rep. Jackie Speier (D-California) said Thursday she wants the Department of Homeland Security to cease its social-media and news-monitoring operation. Speaking at a Homeland Security subcommittee hearing, the California lawmaker said she […]
‘As soon as we get them buying diapers from us, they’re going to start buying everything else too.’
February 17th, 2012Via: New York Times: Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do […]
Members of UK Parliament Recommend Censoring Online ‘Extremism’
February 17th, 2012Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: In a report published last week, members of the United Kingdom Parliament concluded that the Internet plays a major role in the radicalization of terrorists and called on the government to pressure Internet Service Providers in Britain and abroad to censor online speech. The Roots of Violent Radicalisation places the Internet […]
Food Project Proposes Matrix-Style Vertical Chicken Farms
February 17th, 2012There’s a fair amount of freak-out occurring over this, but as far as I can tell, this is an art project that attempts to draw attention to the ghastly nature of current industrial poultry production methods. Oh yeah, I had an, “Oh shit,” moment when I checked out the pictures of the growth pods (which […]
India: Government Will Track Positions of All Mobile Phone Users
February 16th, 2012Via: The Indian Express: The government is looking to track all mobile phone users. As per amendments made to operators’ licences, beginning May 31, operators would have to provide the Department of Telecommunications real-time details of users’ locations in latitudes and longitudes. Documents obtained by The Indian Express show that details shall initially be provided […]
The Pentagon’s $51 Billion ‘Black’ Budget
February 16th, 2012If you find this Wired piece interesting, definitely check out, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World by Trevor Paglen. As an outsider, Paglen has no access to the black world, but he sort of feels around the edges of it and you really start to get a sense […]
Printing RFIDs on Paper at Fraction of Cost of Regular RFIDs
February 16th, 2012Via: University of Montpellier Press Release: Now, researchers in France have developed a way to deposit a thin aluminum RFID tag on to paper that not only reduces the amount of metal needed for the tag, and so the cost, but could open up RFID tagging to many more systems, even allowing a single printed […]
Steve Jobs Had Top Secret Security Clearance Between from 1988 to 1990
February 14th, 2012Via: Z6Mag: A Top Secret Security Clearance was brought up in Steve Job’s FBI report detailing when it was and when it was terminated. The top secret clearance for Mr. Jobs started in 1988 and was canceled in 1990. Steve Jobs was working at Pixar in the same time as the top secret clearance and […]
Canada: Proposal Would Create Massive Surveillance System
February 14th, 2012Via: The Montreal Gazette: Police will get much easier access to the web-surfing habits and personal information of all Canadians if a new law – expected to be introduced in the House of Commons next week – passes. Privacy watchdogs caution if the so-called Lawful Access law is passed, it would give police access to […]
