Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Introducing iPanopticon for Students
June 21st, 2007Anyone who willingly submits to this deserves what’s coming. Via: Breitbart / AP: New technology will place cameras inside students’ homes to ensure that those taking exams online don’t cheat. This fall, Troy University in Alabama will begin rolling out the cameras for many of its approximately 11,000 online students, about a third of whom […]
Vertical Farming in the Big Apple
June 20th, 2007I know. Urban hipsters want iPods, free love and electric SUVs. Absolutely any technology or policy that offers a glimmer of hope of keeping things going will be embraced with religious ferocity, regardless of the level of absurdity. As more and more people give up on the political process, they will seek comfort in the […]
NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite
June 14th, 2007In the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity, I wrote: There are dozens of off the shelf products that you would swear were designed for use by intelligence agencies, but they’re routinely peddled to—and used by—corporations. If corporations have and use these surveillance capabilities, what are the intelligence agencies running on the service providers’ networks? I’ll […]
Remember My Warnings About Proxy Services?
June 6th, 2007Mike Ruppert responded to my post about Armorware. As I expected, he didn’t address any of the several concerns I raised. He confirms what we already knew: He’s virtually clueless about computer security and is promoting something he doesn’t understand because it looks “elegant” to him. * sigh * He did, however, mention Alex Jones. […]
The Power Crisis Mythology, the 40% Efficient Solar Cell and the Cost of the War in Iraq
June 5th, 2007Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing, has developed a solar cell technology that has a conversion efficiency of 40.7%. They accomplished this with a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The annual budget of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory: $210 million The cost of America’s war […]
Big Brother, Big Business
June 3rd, 2007Here’s a two hour CNBC piece about privacy, surveillance and the emerging biometric lockdown. Even though the situation presented here is grim, we know that it’s much worse. If, however, you or someone you know is looking for a general, easy to understand presentation on these issues, and have about two hours to spare, this […]
Remember My Warnings About Closed Source Computer Security Products and Services?
June 1st, 2007Read the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity and then try to guess who’s an affiliate for Armorware, a proprietary computer security software suite? This is Mike Ruppert’s Armorware page. That’s right. That Mike Ruppert. I stopped paying attention to Ruppert after his weird statements in the wake of the Gary Webb murder, which came after […]
Volkswagen’s 282MPG Car
May 29th, 2007This story is five years old. Do you get it yet? Via: Canadian Driver: A few years ago, Volkswagen took on a task that many people thought was impossible: they decided to develop a fuel-efficient, road-going compact car that could achieve an average fuel consumption of just 3 litres per 100 km (94 mpg). Not […]
National ID: Biometrics Pinned to Social Security Cards
May 15th, 2007Via: Wired: The Social Security card faces its first major upgrade in 70 years under two immigration-reform proposals slated for debate this week that would add biometric information to the card and finally complete its slow metamorphosis into a national ID. The leading immigration proposal with traction in Congress would force employers to accept only […]
Pentagon to Merge Next-Gen Binoculars With Soldiers’ Brains
May 3rd, 2007If you think that the ultimate goal for this project is a set of “Star Wars”-style binoculars, you’ve got another thing coming. Of course, we can’t leave it up to the Wired reporter to connect the dots. The article asks, “Why all the rush?” Three years ago, I wrote: The ultimate goal is to replace […]
