Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Quantum Locking
October 18th, 2011Via: YouTube:
Facebook Accused of Violating U.S. Wiretap Law
October 17th, 2011I know. You get it re: Facebook already. Ok, one more: Why Facebook Is After Your Kids. Via: Register: A Mississippi woman has accused Facebook of violating federal wiretap statutes by tracking her internet browsing history even when she wasn’t logged onto the social networking site. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in federal court […]
Verizon Wireless Now Handing Over Your Web, Location and App Data to Advertisers by Default
October 17th, 2011Via: PC Magazine: For the last month, Verizon Wireless has been notifying customers through email of a major change to its default privacy setting: it will begin collecting your Web browsing history, cell phone location and app usage, for third-party marketing purposes. You can opt out of such surveillance, although Verizon has promised not to […]
Major Manufacturers Have Ceased Production of New Motion Picture Film Cameras
October 16th, 2011Via: Salon: We might as well call it: Cinema as we knew it is dead. An article at the moviemaking technology website Creative Cow reports that the three major manufacturers of motion picture film cameras — Aaton, ARRI and Panavision — have all ceased production of new cameras within the last year, and will only […]
115-Year-Old Electric Car Gets Same 40 Miles Per Charge as Chevy Volt
October 15th, 2011Via: Daily Caller: Meet the Roberts electric car. Built in 1896, it gets a solid 40 miles to the charge — exactly the mileage Chevrolet advertises for the Volt — the much-touted $31,645 electric car General Motors CEO Dan Akerson called “not a step forward, but a leap forward.” The executives at Chevrolet can rest […]
Government Cameras In Your Car?
October 14th, 2011Via: MSNBC: Imagine that you couldn’t drive on major highways without agreeing to put a camera in your car — one that could film either the occupants or the vehicle’s surroundings and transmit the images back to a central office for inspection. You don’t have to read George Orwell to conjure up such an ominous […]
One-Year-Old Tries to Work Magazine Like an iPad
October 14th, 2011Via: YouTube:
Path Intelligence: Tracking People Via Their Mobile Phones as They Meander Around Malls
October 14th, 2011Via: news.com.au: SHOPPING centres will monitor customers’ mobile phones to track how often they visit, which stores they like and how long they stay. The technology, brought to Australia by a UK-based company, has prompted a call for privacy or telephone intercept regulators to investigate. One unnamed Queensland shopping centre is next month due to […]
Facebook Reportedly Can Track Web Browsing Without Cookies
October 13th, 2011This is related to browser uniqueness. See How Unique – and Trackable – Is Your Browser? and Network Device Fingerprinting for the background on how this works. Again, Facebook widgets must be blocked from loading by default, unless, of course, you’re ok with this nonsense. Ghostery is the easiest solution. AdBlock+ and NoScript will also […]
Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’
October 13th, 2011Do you notice how this technocratic theocracy is the same old snake handling and sky god worship, but with “science” and computers? Same result, it just doesn’t look like a Pentecostal revival. Instead of people speaking in tongues and waving bibles, technocrats in suits are telling us that the machines will find the terrorists who […]
