Archive for the 'Technology' Category
New Zealand: Controversial Internet Piracy Bill Becomes Law
April 14th, 2011If at first you don’t succeed, try again under urgency. Via: Stuff: A bill that could see internet users have their access cut off if they repeatedly share copyright material has been passed by Parliament. The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill, which aims to stamp out internet piracy, passed by 111 votes to 11 […]
Rebels Hijack Gadhafi’s Phone Network
April 13th, 2011Read, U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators for context and then you tell me who you think pulled this off. While the story below describes a much different technical solution than what’s described in the latter story, there’s a lot happening that’s spooky. If Ousama Abushagur is just a, “31-year-old Libyan telecom […]
Facebook’s New Realtime Analytics System: HBase to Process 20 Billion Events Per Day
April 13th, 2011Via: High Scalability: The need for such a high powered analytics system is driven by Facebook’s brilliant plan for world wide web domination via the viral propagation of social plugins, all tying the non-Facebook web back into Facebook and the Facebook web back into the non-Facebook web. Basically anything that people can do is captured […]
EFF to San Francisco Entertainment Commission: Don’t Turn SF into a Police State
April 13th, 2011Stark raving maniac fascism. Via: EFF: The city of San Francisco has a long history of political activism and cultural diversity, which could be in danger if the San Francisco Entertainment Commission has their way. The Electronic Frontier Foundation joined civil liberties and privacy groups in criticizing a proposal from the San Francisco Entertainment Commission […]
iPads Take a Place Next to Crayons in Kindergarten
April 13th, 2011The elite want to liquify your child’s brain, squirt it into a plastic tube, package it up and route it to their private prisons, wars for resources, and dead end cubicles. This process should be automated to the extent possible. Here’s a visual representation of what public education has become: Via: AP: Kindergarten classes are […]
X-47B Killer Drone: Navy Wants Autonomous, Carrier Take Offs and Landings
April 12th, 2011Via: Wired: Take the X-47B experimental killer drone made by Northrop Grumman, the first drone intended to fly off an aircraft carrier. At the Navy League’s annual Sea Air Space convention outside Washington, Northrop and the Navy and unveiled new details about the tailless, triangular plane and their schedule to get it flying off a […]
The Sock Puppet Industrial Complex: U.S. Trains ‘Activists’ to Evade Security Forces
April 11th, 2011If any component of this is noteworthy, it’s the scale. The core of this is as old as the hills. Many of the TwitFace kids today haven’t even heard of the The Mighty Wurlitzer, but every crop of kids that fascists harvest are generally ignorant of who they’re actually serving, and there’s a fresh crop […]
Off Topic: Telecom More Than Triples Far North XT Rural Download Speed
April 8th, 2011On 8 April, early AM hours NZ time, I noticed that my Telecom XT connection was running much faster than usual: Woh. That’s interesting! I’ve been using Telecom XT “out here” since November 2009 and the link was always throttled back to a maximum of 1.3 Mbits/sec up and down. Since this morning, I’m getting […]
Shortage of Japanese Parts Puts U.S. Economy at Risk
April 7th, 2011Via: Yahoo – Daily Ticker: The devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last month is slowly starting to have a bigger impact on U.S. manufacturing. Toyota announced Monday that its North American plants would likely have to close later this month due to supply disruptions in Japan. Honda, Nissan and Ford have already announced […]
Georgian Woman Looking for Scrap Copper Cuts Off Web Access to Whole of Armenia
April 7th, 2011Via: Guardian: An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday. The woman, 75, had been digging for the metal not far from the capital Tbilisi when her spade damaged […]
