Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Building an Artificial America in a Supercomputer: Synthetic Citizens to Help Social Scientists
April 23rd, 2010I found a one paragraph version of this information linked from Technofascism Blog and I went looking for more. The full text from the 2008 IEEE piece is below. Knowing what we know about the surveillance data that’s being collected, I see no reason why the “simulation” couldn’t be setup to run on real data, […]
Facebook Steps Up Lobbying, Deepens Ties with Intelligence Agencies, FTC
April 23rd, 2010Here’s my (one sentence) guess about what this is actually about: Facebook is a CIA cutout that’s frantically lobbying for privacy legislation to remain lax so that it can continue to run its various intelligence operations on the platform. Via: Venture Beat: Facebook has been gradually boosting its profile in Washington D.C. over the past […]
WellPoint Routinely Cancels Coverage of Breast Cancer Patients
April 23rd, 2010So, let me understand this: Obamacare is going to require people to pay for insurance that can be canceled as soon as they come down with a serious illness? Get the state to hold a gun at people’s heads to pay into a scam. That sounds like a pretty good gig for those diabolical corporations. […]
IEEE: Build Backup Routes for Undersea Communications Infrastructure “Before we have to learn the hard way”
April 21st, 2010Cryptogon Flashback to 2002: Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won’t In the years since I wrote that, I started to think that a massive attack on the physical network infrastructure would make increasing sense to the elite if the financial scams became totally untenable, and the perpetrators needed a distraction […]
BioLite: Rocket Stove That Runs the Fan by Converting Heat to Electricity
April 20th, 2010No, it’s not available yet. (In case you’re new to rocket stoves.) I think that this is the first one with a thermoelectric generator. Are there others? Via: BioLite: With the BioLite Stove you can step off the grid and leave the petrol at home. Whether you’re spending a month in Alaska or a night […]
Britain: Plate Reading Cameras Combined with GPS Will Automatically Issue Speeding Tickets; System Calculates Average Speed Between Two Points in ‘SpeedSpike’ Network
April 20th, 2010Via: Telegraph: A new type of speed cameras which can use satellites to measure average speed over long distances are being tested in Britain. The cameras, which combine number plate reading technology with a global positioning satellite receiver, are similar to those used in roadworks. The AA said it believed the new system could cover […]
Digital Photocopiers Might Digitally Store Thousands of Documents That Get Passed on at Resale
April 20th, 2010You’ll love this one. Via: CBS News: At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds a secret. Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive – like the one on your […]
Adept Quattro: The World’s Fastest Pick and Place Industrial Robot
April 19th, 2010Via: YouTube / Botjunkie: The fastest pick and place robot in the world, the Adept Quattro, demonstrates its skills versus a user controlled moving platform.
Cultivated Play: Farmville
April 19th, 2010Related: The Future Where Soda Cans Have Screens Via: Future of the Book: Farmville is a free, browser-based video game that is played through one’s Facebook account. Users harvest crops, decorate their farms, and interact with one another, in what is ostensibly a game about farming. While this may sound like a relatively banal game, […]
Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It’s a Very Bad Idea
April 18th, 2010Via: Gizmodo: There are no naked pre-cogs inside glowing jacuzzis yet, but the Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice will use analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents, putting potential offenders under specific prevention and education programs. Goodbye, human rights! They will use this software on juvenile delinquents, using a series of variables to […]
