Archive for the 'Technology' Category
O3b Links With Google for Fast Satellite Internet Capacity
September 10th, 2008Alternately, here’s one for your old, dusty Teledesic file folder. Hey, brother, can you spare a bird? I’m actually thinking, yes, thinking of going back to dialup even though a lightning ground strike blew up most people’s modems around here, including mine, during a recent storm. If you’ve ever looked at a surge suppressor that […]
Reddit Filter Plus
September 10th, 2008A computer science student in Sweden has fixed and improved the now broken Reddit Content Filter script for Greasemonkey. The new script is called Reddit Filter Plus. Ahhh, Reddit is usable again. I contacted Burger, the author of the script (he may not want his real name used here), to see if I could contribute […]
Police Can Sometimes Recover “Deleted” Information from Mobile Phones
September 9th, 2008Chip implants? Most people willingly carry their own surveillance team around in their pockets. That’s right. If you use a mobile phone, the filth can track your position on the ground in real time AND activate the microphone, turning your mobile phone into a audio bugging device. And this is all while you’re not talking […]
Chrome: A Bit More Than Just Another Browser
September 3rd, 2008Chrome might look like just another browser to the average user, but, under the hood, Google has focused on building a system dedicated to running web based applications. What does that mean? People are running increasingly complex applications inside the browser; which has resulted in performance and security problems. To advance Google’s agenda, of getting […]
Culture of Surveillance May Contribute to Delusional Condition
August 30th, 2008There’s now a psychiatric designation for people who are aware of systems like the NarusInsight Intercept Suite and Siemens’ Intelligence Platform. Via: IHT: Psychosis in the 21st century looks something like this: You think your every move is being filmed for a reality television show starring you, and that everyone in your life is an […]
The Numerati
August 30th, 2008After staring down the bottomless abyss of formal schooling, this is what the best and brightest can expect when working for IBM: Full time, automated surveillance by a Magic 8 Ball system that will match “commoditized” workers to tasks and monitor their progress on a minute by minute basis. Via: Business Week: By building mathematical […]
New Zealand Supermarkets Chipping Cheese Blocks, Meat to Prevent Theft
August 30th, 2008Via: New Zealand Herald: Supermarkets are introducing electronic tags on items popular with shoplifters and other thieves. The Source Tagging Alliance, set up by leading retailers, is encouraging suppliers to use radio frequency identification (RFID) and source tagging on grocery product packaging at the point of manufacture. Retailer Association chief executive John Albertson told the […]
Uncle Sam Wants Your Brain
August 25th, 2008Via: Wired: Drugs that make soldiers want to fight. Robots linked directly to their controllers’ brains. Lie-detecting scans administered to terrorist suspects as they cross U.S. borders. These are just a few of the military uses imagined for cognitive science — and if it’s not yet certain whether the technologies will work, the military is […]
Wealthy Mexicans, Worried About Kidnapping, Are Buying Personal Satellite Tracking Systems
August 25th, 2008From what I’ve been able to tell from this, the implanted chip has nothing to do with tracking the person. It’s probably for postmortem identification purposes. There’s an external box that the person must carry with them (a GPS receiver that’s probably tied into the mobile phone network). As soon as the kidnap victim is […]
Army Moves Ahead With Mobile Laser Cannon
August 20th, 2008Via: Wired: The Army is moving ahead with plans to mount a laser cannon on a massive, 35-ton-plus truck. The service just handed Boeing a $36 million contract to “continue developing a truck-mounted, high-energy laser weapon system that will destroy rockets, artillery shells and mortar rounds,” according to a company statement. Under the High Energy […]
