Archive for the 'Technology' Category
U.S. Taps Online Youth Groups to Fight Crime, Terrorism
November 25th, 2008Via: AFP: The US State Department announced plans on Monday to promote online youth groups as a new and powerful way to fight crime, political oppression and terrorism. Drawing inspiration from a movement against FARC rebels in Colombia, the State Department is joining forces with Facebook, Google, MTV, Howcast and others in New York City […]
1 Terabyte of Storage for $148?
November 21st, 2008I just checked my Amazon affiliate stats and someone bought a 1TB external drive for $148. I’m just floored by this. In 2000, the CEO of the company that I worked for told me to draw up plans to put 1TB of storage on the network. (In 2000, tera-scale infrastructure was a relatively big deal.) […]
Mexico: Interpol Official Involved with Narcotics Trafficking
November 20th, 2008This reminds me of The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc., which is one of the all-time-must-reads. I managed to find my ancient commentary on that piece. Via: CNN: A vicious turf war between drug cartels and Mexican authorities that has left as many as 4,300 dead so far this year may have caused a breach […]
Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science
November 20th, 2008Can Kurzweil’s consciousness be raptured into one of those things now? Via: Wired: A new crop of supercomputers is breaking down the petaflop speed barrier, pushing high-performance computing into a new realm that could change science more profoundly than at any time since Galileo, leading researchers say. When the Top 500 list of the world’s […]
Firms Scan Brain Waves to Improve Ads in Japan
November 13th, 2008Via: Physorg: US research firm Nielsen and its partner NeuroFocus said Wednesday they would offer a new service in Japan to scan the brain waves of potential customers to help companies improve their marketing. The service will review brain waves, eye movements and other physical features of potential customers to precisely study the impact of […]
Neuroimaging of Brain Shows Who Spoke to a Person and What Was Said
November 12th, 2008And what was said: As long as what was said was limited to one of three vowels. Man, I love the Science Daily headlines. Anyway, this is probably good enough to enable the researchers to swindle some more grant money, buy a few new Macbooks and possibly attract the attention of Darth Vader or some […]
Noosphereoogle Detects Flu Outbreaks Faster Than CDC
November 12th, 2008It’s the Noosphere. It’s Google. It’s the Noosphereoogle. Here are some comments from a previous post called, Astonishing Security Breach at South African Nuclear Facility: There’s a google tool anyone can use to observe meme saturation over time. It’s interesting stuff. http://www.google.com/trends Maybe .mil/.gov has a way of excluding the influence of crap culture and […]
Bletchley Park Saved for Posterity
November 7th, 2008Via: Guardian: Bletchley Park – the code breaking centre made famous for its role in cracking the Enigma code during the second world war – looks set to be saved from extinction after a £330,000 grant from English Heritage. Bletchley made its name by playing host to a team of mathematicians who used an early […]
Clancy’s End War
November 4th, 2008Here’s a fun one for the kids this holiday season; from the Tom Clancy Propaganda Industrial Complex: Video games must be considered as a key social engineering influence now. Take your pick on what your little Stanley is supposed to internalize as a result of “playing” this.
Microsoft Patents Web Moderator Robots
October 29th, 2008This is a real time Ministry of Truth tool that can change content as it’s moving over the web. Filters are great, as long as individuals are in control of them. For example, I don’t want to ever see any stories that contain the words McCain, Obama, Biden or Palin on Reddit. These stories waste […]
