Archive for the 'Technology' Category
And Now… Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card
March 24th, 2010Mmm hmm. Via: Wired: Lawmakers are proposing a national identification card — what they’re calling “high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security cards” — that would be required for all employees in the United States. The proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) comes as the states are grappling to produce another […]
Madoff Programmers Face Charges for Creating Software that Generated Bogus Trading Records
March 23rd, 2010Via: Register: A federal grand jury has indicted two computer programmers on fraud and conspiracy charges for developing programs used by Bernard Madoff to cook the books in his billion-dollar ponzi scheme. Jerome O’Hara and George Perez knowingly created the programs that removed or altered key data contained in reports submitted to regulators in the […]
Iron-Nitrogen Compound Forms Strongest Magnet Known
March 23rd, 2010Possible solution to peak neodymium doom? Via: PhysOrg: A group of scientists from the University of Minnesota say that Fe16N2 crystals are more magnetic than the most magnetic material previously known, and its magnetism exceeds the predicted limit of magnetism for a material. Magnetism arises with the spinning electrons in a material, and with every […]
China Condemns Decision by Google to Lift Censorship
March 23rd, 2010How diabolical must a regime be for Google to look like the good guy? Via: BBC: China has said Google’s move to stop censoring search results is “totally wrong” and accused it of breaking a promise made when it launched in China. The US giant is redirecting users in mainland China to its unrestricted Hong […]
Cell on Wheels (COW)
March 23rd, 2010GooTube: Google Traffic Dominates the Internet
March 22nd, 2010That’s no moon. Via: PC World: Like a giant gravity-bending star, Google has grown so massive it is starting to have a measurable effect on Internet traffic flows, an analysis of the company’s activities has found. The blog analysis by Arbor Network’s Craig Labovitz follows on from his company’s Atlas Observatory Report of last October […]
U.S. Information Warfare Operation Takes Down Website Used to Plan Attacks on Americans Inside Iraq; The Website Was Set Up and Run by CIA and Saudi Intelligence
March 21st, 2010Via: Washington Post: By early 2008, top U.S. military officials had become convinced that extremists planning attacks on American forces in Iraq were making use of a Web site set up by the Saudi government and the CIA to uncover terrorist plots in the kingdom. “We knew we were going to be forced to shut […]
Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely
March 18th, 2010Via: Wired: More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments. Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar […]
Britain: Clinic Opens for Children Addicted to Video Games and the Internet
March 18th, 2010Via: Times Online: Doctors claim to have opened the first dedicated clinic in Britain to treat children addicted to video games and other technology. Capio Nightingale Hospital, a private facility in Central London, introduced the service after calls from parents concerned about their children’s use of games, the internet, or mobile phones. A spokeswoman for […]
Google Appears to Drop Censorship in China
March 16th, 2010Via: MSNBC: Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and regional independence movements could all be accessed through Google’s Chinese search engine Tuesday, after the company said it would no longer abide by Beijing’s censorship rules. Despite a report in the China Daily that Google China was still filtering […]
