Archive for November, 2012
Chinese Regime Blocks Access to Google Services
November 10th, 2012Via: International Business Times: According to a website dedicated to tracking which sites have been blocked or censored by the Chinese government, Google.com along with a host of other Google services are no longer accessible from mainland China. The Chinese web monitoring website, GreatFire.org, first reported the issue at 1pm (GMT) today, Friday, 9 November […]
Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes
November 9th, 2012Via: Wired: It seemed like a simple enough idea for an iPhone app: Send users a pop-up notice whenever a flying robots kills someone in one of America’s many undeclared wars. But Apple keeps blocking the Drones+ program from its App Store — and therefore, from iPhones everywhere. The Cupertino company says the content is […]
Microsoft’s Big Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Built-In Advertising
November 9th, 2012Via: Hot Hardware: Despite the fact that I’ve been using Windows 8 for the past three weeks, I somehow managed to overlook a rather stark feature in the OS: ads. No, we’re not talking about ads cluttering up the desktop or login screen (thankfully), but rather ads that can be found inside of some Modern […]
How to Steal Data from Your Neighbor in the Cloud
November 9th, 2012It’s not easy, but the description of the attack is pretty interesting. Via: MIT Technology Review: The new attack undermines one of the basic assumptions underpinning cloud computing: that a customer’s data is kept completely separate from data belonging to any other customer. This separation is supposedly provided by virtualization technology—software that mimics an instance […]
Cisco VP to Memo leaker: Finding You Is Now ‘My Hobby’
November 9th, 2012In case the leaker happens to be reading: Be aware of canary traps. They might use the technique to try to identify you. Via: Network World: Cisco vice president of services Mike Quinn, a former CIA operations officer, believes that whoever recently leaked an internal company memo to a blogger committed corporate treason and violated […]
New Mastercard has LCD Screen and Keyboard
November 9th, 2012Via: BBC: A credit card with an LCD display and built-in keyboard has been launched in Singapore by Mastercard. The card has touch-sensitive buttons and the ability to create a “one-time password” – doing away with the need for a separate device sometimes needed to log in to online banking. Future versions of the card […]
‘Next Bush’ Makes Campaign Filing in Texas
November 9th, 2012Via: AP: George P. Bush, a nephew of former President George W. Bush and son of one-time Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, has made a campaign filing in Texas that is required of candidates planning to run for state office, an official said Thursday night. The younger Bush, a Fort Worth resident, filed a campaign treasurer […]
Foxconn Sees New Source Of Cheap Labor: The United States
November 9th, 2012Since MIT did it with Open Courseware years ago, I suspected that the point of the “free education” offerings was to create a pool of relatively skilled workers in some of the poorest countries in the world. You know, places with open sewers where people sleep on dirt floors… and where lots of these people […]
Odd-Even Gas Rationing System Coming To New York City, Long Island
November 9th, 2012Via: CBS: New York City and Long Island are following in New Jersey’s footsteps in instituting an odd-even gas rationing system. In an effort to ease long lines associated with the the fuel crunch taking place in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a rationing system will go into effect on Friday. Beginning at […]
A Holographic Microscope for Just $250
November 8th, 2012Via: MIT Technology Review: Traditional microscopy is a powerful tool for imaging small objects, such as cells. However, anybody who has used one will know its limitations: a tiny field of view and a shallow depth of field. That makes it hard to get a sense of the three dimensional shape of objects like cells. […]
