Archive for the 'Technology' Category
DISA Plans New Top-Secret Presidential Network
February 9th, 2007The focus on HEMP is interesting. Via: fcw.com: The White House Communications Agency (WHCA) has developed a six-year plan budgeted at $35 million to beef up presidential communications with a new top-secret network and multimedia Crisis Management System (CMS) designed to operate in a wide range of fixed locations, on Air Force One and on […]
The Brain Scan that Can Read People’s Intentions
February 9th, 2007Clearly, the greatest Magic 8 Ball of all! HA! Via: Guardian: A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person’s brain and read their intentions before they act. The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists’ ability to probe people’s minds and eavesdrop on their […]
Steve Jobs Taps the Mat on DRM
February 7th, 2007They lost on this one, and They know it. Via: Apple: The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is […]
U.S. Plans to ‘Fight the Net’
January 31st, 2007Oh what a difference a decade makes. A little less that that, in this case. In 1995, when I first suggested to a professor that net centric warfare would become a core military competency, right along with rockets, rifles and bombs, I got a bit of a laugh. He let me write my paper anyway. […]
FBI Takes Page from NSA Handbook
January 31st, 2007Via: zdnet: The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed. Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of thousands of Internet users at a time into massive […]
‘We Will Be Able to Live to 1,000’
January 22nd, 2007Sure, Stupid, will we be able to drink the water? Or, maybe we won’t need any water. Maybe we will just download our consciousness into a computer running Windows version Hell-On-Earth-Meets-the-Matrix. Where do they find these f*@*&#g lunatics? In universities flush with grant money, that’s where. Clear air, food and water for the people who […]
Energy Scarcity vs. Cost of the War in Iraq
January 22nd, 2007I built a spreadsheet with functions that break down the cost of the war in Iraq into dollars per minute. According to the Pentagon, the war in Iraq is costing $8.4 billion per month. Cost of the War in Iraq Per Minute Cost per month: 8400000000 Cost per week: 2100000000 Cost per day: 300000000 Cost […]
Any Lawyers Out There Want to Help Me Sue Microsoft?
January 19th, 2007Reader SB submitted the following screenshot of Cryptogon on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7: Screenshot of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 warning users that Cryptogon is a, “Suspicious website.” Here’s a large version of the image. The browser includes a fault prone routine that attempts to guess whether or not a site is a phishing site. Since […]
Real Frankensteins
January 16th, 2007* shiver * If you thought the chimeras and the genetic primes were bad—I’m really not kidding—don’t read the piece below before going to sleep. This is mainstream news out of the UK. Via: Daily Mail: Hidden deep in a Russian forest, and guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot intruders on sight, the medical […]
iPhone as Infrastructure Bomb?
January 12th, 2007Steve Jobs dropped a serious clanger in a recent interview. The iPhone is locked down because, “Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.” iPhone as infrastructure bomb? HAHAHA Luckily, it’s a simple matter to step outside the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field: First, Cingular’s West Coast […]
