Archive for the 'Technology' Category
‘It’s Tracking Your Every Move’
March 28th, 2011Via: New York Times: A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a game. But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz, recently learned, we are already continually being tracked whether we […]
University of Utah to Consider Curriculum for Future NSA Data Warehouse Employees
March 28th, 2011I have one piece of advice for anyone who wants to do this sort of work: Get 3M 1440 headphones. If you should find yourself having to work with others, on that Christmas Eve graveyard shift, for example, a white sharpie would come in handy, too. In the past, when I worked in soul destroying […]
Festo’s Smart Bird
March 26th, 2011Research Credit: JH
Satire: CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs
March 24th, 2011Zuck: They “trust me” Zuck: Dumb fucks —Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook Via: The Onion: CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs Research Credit: growltiger
Social Computing Data Repository
March 24th, 2011Via: Arizona State University: Social Computing Data Repository hosts data from a collection of many different social media sites, most of which have blogging capacity. Some of the prominent social media sites included in this repository are BlogCatalog, Twitter, MyBlogLog, Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, MySpace, LiveJournal, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), Reddit, etc. The repository contains […]
China’s Real Time Voice Analysis Systems Drop Calls When People Mention the Word ‘Protest’
March 23rd, 2011Flashback 2005: Narus Opens New Office in China, Signs Two Partner Agreements in Region; New Office Further Strengthens Narus Presence in Asia: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Narus, Inc., the leading Carrier-Class IP Platform software provider, announced its opening of a new office in Beijing, China, to support direct sales in China. In conjunction with this, […]
Shortage of Japanese Parts Affecting Variety of Companies
March 22nd, 2011Via: Reuters: Sony Corp cut output at five more plants and Toyota Motor delayed restarting assembly lines, as the global supply of parts and products began to feel the full impact of Japan’s catastrophic earthquake. Global electronics and autos companies have been hardest hit by the turmoil, but in an illustration of how the ripples […]
FBI Tries to Blackmail Honorably Discharged Marine Into Becoming an Informant Because He Emailed a Muslim Cleric for Advice on Raising Children
March 22nd, 2011Man oh man. I think we need to let the mighty eagle soar once more for this one: Via: Chicago Sun Times: Abe Mashal, a 31-year-old dog trainer from St. Charles, says FBI agents told him he ended up on the government’s no-fly list because he exchanged e-mails with a Muslim cleric they were monitoring. […]
The FBI’s Next Generation Identification System
March 22nd, 2011This sounds pretty similar to what the DoD did in Afghanistan. And don’t miss the last sentence below. Via: Charleston Gazette: The Clarksburg FBI complex is taking part in a $1 billion project that will enable law enforcement agencies to identify criminals and terrorists by physical characteristics more quickly and accurately, an FBI official said […]
White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown
March 16th, 2011Via: Cnet: The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making “illegal streaming” of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.
