Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Airlines to Require More Passenger Data
August 13th, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: Airlines this week will begin requiring some people making reservations for domestic flights to submit their dates of birth and genders as part of a screening process aimed at keeping boarding passes out of the hands of suspected terrorists, the Transportation Security Administration said. The agency said the screening would all […]
“They know which books you search for. They know which books you browse through, they know how long you spend on each page.”
August 12th, 2009Via: NPR: Google has been working on a monumental project to scan millions of library books and put them online. Many of those books are not yet readable, because of a copyright lawsuit filed by authors and publishers. That lawsuit has been tentatively settled, and if a judge approves the deal this fall, millions more […]
The Cash “Magically Appeared on Their Electronic Benefit Cards”
August 12th, 2009What’ll it be? A $100 bonus to get the chip implanted early? Via: New York Daily News: A $200 back-to-school giveaway for needy kids sparked a mad rush for money on the streets of New York on Tuesday. “It’s free money!” said Alecia Rumph, 26, who waited in a Morris Park, Bronx, line 300 people […]
All Cars Would Carry GPS to Track Miles Under Blumenauer Bill
August 9th, 2009Via: Daily Emerald: On July 23, Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer introduced legislation that would fund a pilot program demonstrating the potential viability of replacing a national gas tax with a national mileage fee to generate more money for the construction of highways. Opponents say the mileage fee would increase taxes, but Blumenauer said the increase […]
British Government Installing CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes
August 3rd, 2009Via: Wired: As an ex-Brit, I’m well aware of the authorities’ love of surveillance and snooping, but even I, a pessimistic cynic, am amazed by the governments latest plan: to install Orwell’s telescreens in 20,000 homes. £400 million ($668 million) will be spend on installing and monitoring CCTV cameras in the homes of private citizens. […]
Off Topic: Calculate Digital Roots of Close Prices in EasyLanguage
August 1st, 2009I wanted to plot the digital roots of close prices in MultiCharts/EasyLanguage. For example, a close is 1.29. That is: 1+2+9 = 12, then 1+2 = 3. The result is 3. It took me awhile to figure out how to implement the modulo operation properly in EasyLanguage, but I did it and I thought I’d […]
UK’s (Voluntary for Now) National ID Card Unveiled
July 30th, 2009Via: BBC: Home Secretary Alan Johnson has unveiled the final design of the controversial national identity card. The card will be offered to members of the public in the Greater Manchester area from the end of this year. Ministers plan to launch the £30 biometric ID card nationwide in 2011 or 2012 – but it […]
India to Control Population Growth by Giving People Television (Not The Onion)
July 30th, 2009Via: Times Online: India intends to harness the passion-killing properties of late-night television to help to control a potentially catastrophic population explosion. Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Health and Family Welfare Minister, has called for the country to redouble its efforts to bring electricity to all of its huge rural population. The introduction of the electric […]
Obama’s Emergency Escape Plan Leaked Online
July 30th, 2009Via: News AU: SENSITIVE documents including plans for the emergency evacuation of US President Barack Obama and motorcade routes have been leaked on a file-sharing network, authorities say. Chairman of the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Edolphus Towns said the documents had been discovered with file-sharing program LimeWire. Other sensitive documents found with […]
Data Detailing New York Stock Exchange Network Exposed on Unsecured Server
July 29th, 2009Via: Wired: Sensitive information about the technical infrastructure of the New York Stock Exchange’s computer network was left unsecured on a public server for possibly more than a year, Threat Level has learned. The data, which was removed after Threat Level disclosed the situation to the NYSE, included several directories of files containing logs; server […]
