Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Wired: Do We Have a Right to “Mental Privacy”?
April 8th, 2008The point is moot since the average person’s mind has already been destroyed and filled with nonsense. The tech that’s coming will be targeted at those of us who are trying to feign ignorance, obedience and apathy in order avoid being branded as a thought criminal. But even then… Why? The U.S. Government already has […]
Google Supplying Search and Collaboration Systems to U.S. Intelligence Agencies
March 31st, 2008Via: Telegraph: Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects. Agencies such as the National Security Agency have bought servers on which Google-supplied search technology is used to process information gathered by networks of spies around the world. Google is also providing the […]
Attorney General: Piracy Funding Terror
March 30th, 2008Please see: Militant Electronic Piracy: Non-Violent Insurgency Tactics Against the American Corporate State for more context. Via: AP: Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Friday that the huge profits generated from piracy and counterfeiting are increasingly flowing into the coffers of terrorist groups. In remarks to Silicon Valley executives at the Tech Museum of Innovation, Mukasey […]
ABC News Soundbite Version of NSA Intercept Story
March 26th, 2008For those of you who aren’t willing to wade through a post like, NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite, and the related documents, here is a condensed version:
MIT Developed Microchip 10X More Energy-Efficient than Present Technology
March 23rd, 2008Sure! Clouds of NSA dust and Homeland Security e-mites. The air will be so thick with the stuff that “the terrorists” won’t be able to find their targets. Via: MIT Energy Initiative: Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have designed a new chip for portable electronics that could be up to 10 times more energy-efficient […]
National Dragnet Is a Click Away
March 6th, 2008Ministry of Pre-Crime and Magic 8 Ball Affairs. Via: Washington Post: The expanding police systems illustrate the prominent roles that private companies play in homeland security and counterterrorism efforts. They also underscore how the use of new data — and data surveillance — technology to fight crime and terrorism is evolving faster than the public’s […]
Brain Computer Interface for $300?
March 3rd, 2008Can this be real? I used to work for a company that designed EEG systems. It was run by top shelf, Big Deal neuroscientists, etc., and those guys would would have viewed the system described below as reverse engineered alien technology from Area 51. That would have been 2000-2001. But in 2008, there will be […]
Google Reveals Plans for Health Database
February 29th, 2008Oh sure. A convenient new service for the undead hordes, while the mind boggles at what it will actually be used for. Must Read: Pookie’s Comment Via: Financial Times: Google on Thursday laid out plans for one of its most anticipated new services, a digital health records system meant to give users more control over […]
U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft
February 27th, 2008Practice models for SEAS? It’s too early for April Fools… Via: Wired: Be careful who you frag. Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the U.S. intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other massive multiplayer games, according to a data-mining report from the […]
Japan’s Launches Satellite Capable of Providing Users in Remote Locations with Gigabit Class Internet Connections
February 25th, 2008Can people in New Zealand hop a ride on this bird? Hmm? Pretty please with sugar on top? Via: Network World: Japan has launched a satellite that is able to provide high-speed Internet connections to homes and offices at speeds rivaling those of today’s fiber optic connections. The satellite launched Saturday, called Kizuna, is part […]
