Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Building the Perfect Kill House with Video Games
September 2nd, 2010Via: Kotaku: The Laser Shot Virtual Shoot House gives these specialized warriors a chance to blow in doors, fire live ammo and take out life-sized enemies, all in a real environment helped along by quite a bit of video game technology. The soldiers are deadly serious about their training. The weapons and ammo they use […]
Enslaved
August 31st, 2010Mmm hmm. Research Credit: DW
California Students Get Tracking Devices
August 31st, 2010Make sure that the little zombies-in-training get a breakfast stick or two to start the day off right. *sigh* Similar: In-School Suspension Program Via: San Jose Mercury News / AP: California officials are outfitting preschoolers in Contra Costa County with tracking devices they say will save staff time and money. The system was introduced Tuesday. […]
Do the Evolution
August 31st, 2010Via: Pearl Jam – Do the Evolution / YouTube: Research Credit: MC
UVB-76 Activity Picking Up Over Last Several Days
August 26th, 2010Via: Wikipedia: UVB-76 is the callsign of a shortwave radio station that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz (AM suppressed lower sideband). It is known among radio listeners by the nickname The Buzzer. It features a short, monotonous buzz tone, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per […]
Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
August 26th, 2010Via: Forbes: As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.
Character Amnesia
August 26th, 2010Via: AFP: Like every Chinese child, Li Hanwei spent her schooldays memorising thousands of the intricate characters that make up the Chinese writing system. Yet aged just 21 and now a university student in Hong Kong, Li already finds that when she picks up a pen to write, the characters for words as simple as […]
Computers that Read Minds Are Being Developed by Intel
August 26th, 2010This is from, Operation Mind Control by Walter Bowart, published in 1978 (look around online and you can find it for substantially less than the used copies are going for on Amazon *wink*): In 1975 a primitive “mind-reading machine” was tested at the Stanford Research Institute. The machine is a computer which can recognize a […]
The U.S. Government Can Attach GPS Transmitter to Your Vehicle, Track Your Movement; No Warrant Necessary
August 26th, 2010Absolute maniac fascism. Via: Time: Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own […]
U.S. Scans Afghan Inmates for Biometric Database
August 25th, 2010Via: Wired: Every detainee who comes into Parwan leaves basic information with the Detainee Services Branch during in-processing: Name; father’s name; residence. A mark of any identifying scars, marks or tattoos. Residence of record. After a shower and a medical exam, the DSB scans their irises and collects prints from all of their fingers, rolling […]
