Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Programmer Steals Software That Runs Goldman Sachs’ Automated Trading Systems
July 6th, 2009Update: Programmer Out on Bail Via: Reuters: A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc computer programer accused of stealing secret trading codes from the financial firm has been released from federal custody after posting bail, authorities said on Monday. Sergey Aleynikov, 39, was arrested by the FBI on Friday and charged with “theft of trade secrets.” […]
UK Spy Chief’s Family Details Posted on Facebook
July 5th, 2009You can click the link with confidence. I made sure that I linked to a version of this story that won’t show you the new head of the SIS in his Speedo. Via: AP: He’s the spy who came in from the beach. Holiday snapshots and family details about the newly appointed head of Britain’s […]
NSA Plans Massive Data Center in Utah
July 5th, 2009Via: The Salt Lake Tribune: The National Security Agency was so confident that its nearly $2 billion plan for a new data center in Utah would be approved by Congress that it began designing the facility last November. NSA budgeting documents also indicate that the design of the 1-million-square-foot center should be completed by February, […]
Thales Liberty Multi-Band Radio
July 4th, 2009Thales is a large French “Defense” electronics company. The French government owns 27% of it. I don’t know if that’s necessarily interesting in any Cryptogon sort of way. Just FYI. Why is this going in False Flag Operations as well as Technology? Just in case people involved with an “event” hear weird things over their […]
Big Brother Untangles Baby Babble
July 2nd, 2009Via: BBC: In 2005, the artificial intelligence researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab set out to understand how children learn to talk. “We wanted to understand how minds work and how they develop and how the interplay of innate and environmental influence makes us who we are and how we learn […]
Fisk: In Tehran, Fantasy and Reality Make Uneasy Bedfellows
July 1st, 2009I’m not coming down on any side here. While my gut feeling is that CIA/Mossad/MI6 are throwing gasoline on the fire, I can’t point to any evidence of that. The past doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the present, but being familiar with how the U.S. has screwed with Iran in the past, it’s […]
Digital Media Are Overwhelming Our Consciousness and Eclipsing Our Capacity for Reflection
July 1st, 2009Via: OnTheCommons: One of the more pernicious enclosures of the commons is the enclosure of time and consciousness. It’s pernicious because it is so subtle and rarely discerned. When commercial values such as productivity and efficiency become so pervasive and internalized, they crowd out other ways of being. Our very sense of humanity — full-bodied, […]
UK: Government Backs Down from Requiring ID Cards; Will be Voluntary at First
July 1st, 2009While this may seem like good news, it’s just a flick of the switch to make it compulsory. We’ll see how voluntary it is after a Sufficiently Horrific Provocation. Via: Reuters: Britain said on Tuesday it was dropping plans to bring in compulsory biometric identity cards for airport workers and that the multi-billion pound scheme […]
U.S. Air Force Test Fires ICBM from California Coast
June 29th, 2009Via: AP: The Air Force successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile Monday from the California coast to an area in the Pacific Ocean some 4,200 miles away. The ICBM was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Santa Barbara at 3:01 a.m. and carried three unarmed re-entry vehicles to their targets near […]
The Union of Soviet Indian Republics Is Rolling Out a National ID Card
June 28th, 2009Tens of millions of people who who can’t read or write (see: literacy in India) will need an identity card to get their government food handouts. Yes, it has come to this. Via: New York Times: Policy makers see a national ID card as critical to improving the delivery of social services, subsidies and other […]
