The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
The Internet is a surveillance state
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/16/opinion/schneier-internet-surveillance/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
I kinda doubt this is news to any of my reader(s), but there is no privacy any more. Even if you want to live in a shack in the wilderness like the Unibomber …
Web-based ‘brain’ for robots goes live
Robots confused about what they encounter in the world of humans can now get help online.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21714191
Well, I am sad to say I didn’t see this one coming. It makes sense, though, and …
A $1 million bet on students without teachers
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/27/opinion/ted-prize-students-teach-themselves/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
I have a very strong objection to increasing the power of the “educational industrial complex“. I also have a strong objection to the current US paradigm of deliberately destroying …
I read about Dell’s decision to take his company private and did some head scratching over it. Generally speaking, the only point in going private is to be able to avoid the costs of regulation (which are non-trivial; for a …
The End of the Web, Computers, and Search as We Know It
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/the-end-of-the-web-computers-and-search-as-we-know-it/
The author makes it sound like there is a looming revolution in the way things are done. Perhaps so, but to me this seems like an evolution …
Software maker faces jail because his product was illegally used
Robert Stuart legally sold gambling software to overseas online casinos but the program was used by others in N.Y.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/03/software_maker_faces_jail_because_his_product_was_illegally_used/
This is one of the ‘lesser’ impacts of our police …
Internet Explorer flaw being exploited by ad companies, analytics firm warns
Spider.io says that vulnerability which lets mouse movements be tracked all over the screen is being used to watch users’ onscreen attention across millions of web pages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/13/internet-explorer-flaw-exploit-companies
Don’t …
Dear Future Earthlings
A message in a bottle won’t be enough to communicate with distant generations
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/346713/title/Dear_Future_Earthlings
I don’t think I have blogged on this topic before, but I have exchanged a few ideas on the topic with a friend …
Your Digital Legacy: States Grapple with Protecting Our Data After We Die
http://techland.time.com/2012/11/29/digital-legacy-law/?hpt=hp_t3
This is quite interesting to me on more than one level. When my dad died a number of years ago he left quite a few on-line accounts …
Fake tech gear has infiltrated the U.S. government
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/08/technology/security/counterfeit-tech/index.html?source=cnn_bin
What is really amazing to me is the totally unspoken story about the non-governmental costs associated with this exact same issue. Because the government has historically been required to go with …