This is one woman's harrowing story, in her case an obsessed and disgruntled ex eventually gave himself away before harm could come to her, after he'd watched her every move through her cell phone. With the proliferation of cheap and easily installed
devices, someone can not only listen, see texts, and monitor conversations, but watch your room, or the movie along with you in what you thought was the privacy of your home.
Apple as Net Nannies, Never! Okay, maybe a little, a token really. Apple, wishing to avoid more incidents of
children finding porn apps and "offending their parents," pulled Boobie n Bikini apps from iTunes. Yay!
Everyone felt safe and happy now.
Psst! Those in the know, say the iTunes store is still full of dirty, nasty, obscene porn. These are experts,
we owe it to hear them out, even at the expense of a few moms and dads not sleeping well at night.
It is being called everything from an invasion of privacy to fodder for child porn. The 2300 laptops given out in the affluent Philadelphia suburb were only to activate the feature with the web cam to locate lost or stolen computers. Last year it became obvious that school officials were keeping an eye on students at home, raising great concern that many had left computers open in their bedrooms, unaware that anyone could or was watching them.
Pssst.....I know how old Barbie is. Not to burst anyone's bubble, but this plastic chick has held 124 jobs since her debut in a zebra striped bathing suit in 1959 where she had a pretty good gig, just sun tanning and going on glamorous dates. Now she wants to really work for a
living, when she could could kick back and draw a pension! You'd think she'd have 'found herself' by now. Babs has been everything from an astronaut, to a rock star. and race car driver. The owner of the plush Malibu Barbie mansion wants to work with binary code, subsist on Cheetos, soda, and pizza, and forget about those glam vacations! Woman in the industry discuss what aspects of authenticity Mattel has hit, and what they've missed.
"The new iPad from Apple - can set you up with fast uploading without all that water bloating," confides one lady to another in this well done "MADtv" sketch. The greatly anticipated iPad is hailed as the most revolutionary piece of personal technology since the slide rule, but is a case of expensive product labeling gone horribly awry.
The top three of a year of geektacular stories from Rachel Maddow in 2009. For instance: Why parrots love men who can't love, or maybe it's their hair? Blaggo should join Stephen Fry on next year's "BBC Last Chance to See" and solve that mystery! There's much more to come!
Other stories making the top of the list: Robots who do everything, and yes, I do mean the G-rated ones, not the new sex robots. You won't be disappointed in
Iranian robot snakes, wall walking robots, and scary looking "Big Dog" traveling on all fours, and of course the smaller wheeled Urban Hopper. Mix well, and add 82 baby Sea Turtles born at Sea World, then glimpse other stories which nearly made it to the finals
Who could be against Net Neutrality? Mostly it seems to be those who are paid very well to be against Net Neutrality along with the KIND OF PEOPLE like of congressmen Gingrey and Wilson who we pay to be corporate whores AND stupid.
There is much confusion on this issue which I will try to make short and simple. Perhaps its best to think of it in terms of the "equal protection clause" of the 14th Amendment. It concerns the same KIND OF PEOPLE then as it does now.
A cabal of internet providers - namely the cable, satellite and phone companies want to charge whatever they please to whomever they please for whatever reasons they please for different degrees of internet service. With fiber optics on the horizon they wish to sell that and other proprietary services to the highest bidder with exclusive accounts.
This means Comcast / Time Warner can sell an exclusive FIBER ACCOUNT to Yahoo which they could then deny to Google. You and I click our Google icon and it takes a minute to come up but when we click on Yahoo it comes up instantly. Who you gonna call? Imagine that in all aspects of the web. And even more problematic, they can put all the small websites like this into the very slow lane killing us off.
Google, Yahoo!, Vonage, Facebook, Ebay, Amazon and Microsoft to name just a few are advocates for Net Neutrality. The opponents are the ISPs (Comcast / Time Warner / AOL) and Telecommunications companies (Verison / T Mobile) as is the extreme wingnut Cato Institute is a big player against Net Neutrality which should be enough to conclude than Net Neutrality must be good idea.
These companies already control congress, radio, television and the very air we wave in. This medium is all there is left to everyone on an equal basis. Help Keep it that way!
This is not so much to fart in the general direction of those who believe it was Bush and the Jews who blew up the Pentagon. After all, even after they get their ass kicked by Bill Maher its an easy argument. Well then, where is the missing airliner and people on it? End of argument.
Soooo... Having a large company take your fart idea and screw your bottom line is the same as black baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson integrating Major League Baseball. Hmm.... There's a guy who doan know when to shut up! Must have had his finger pulled so often there's nothing left tween his ears.
There is something suspiciously missing from this story of a Governor gone missing? Where is the most central object of the 21st Century and the accompanying three most used words directed into that object. WHERE ARE YOU?
Wives who've long suspected "business trips" now have a friendly detective agency. It's free of charge, you needn't leave your keyboard, and cheating husbands are dropping like extremely surprised and indignant flies!
Most recently, a wife whose husband claimed to be away on business, suspected where he was conducting 'business' and zoomed in on the spot. There in it's glory was her husband's unmistakable Range Rover with his special bling bling hubcaps, parked outside of the suspected female 'friend's' house, with nice big color photos to prove it.
Divorce proceedings are underway. If their divorce laws aren't the silly community property variety - he had better hope the girl friend is ready to move him in, and
buy him some clothing, as his wife will have the shirt from his back with such irrefutable evidence.
This little black car doesn't look at all like the Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984, and so far the technology hasn't been put to the use those of tin hat and black helicopter paranoia imagine, but it certainly has ruined some affairs, and given the cheated upon spouse all of the evidence necessary.
This isn't an isolated case by any means, and we are speaking only of Britain where the technology is very new, having been online since March 20. There has been an explosion of divorce cases since the inception of the 360-degree photo search which covers 25 cities and towns was introduced. It does make me
wonder why British women have jumped right on this technology and Americans seem to be lagging behind?
The big question now will be whether judges will agree with the only lame defense cheating spouses can offer; that an invasion of privacy cost him his marriage and Range Rover, not his roving. I know it wouldn't fly with Judge Judy, how much
less with the powdered wig crowd remains to be seen.
Divorce cases aside, others have been caught for lesser things since its launch on March 20, and complaints have been streaming in, causing Google to remove at least the following two images. Was it truly necessary to show a man furtively leaving a sex shop? Google risks becoming Big Brother when they publish photos of this sort, as well as that of an office worker having a cigarette next to a No Smoking sign.
Perhaps we would want to know if this one is true however. The Sun published that a fleet of UFOs were seen on Street View
hovering over an East London bookies establishment, perhaps they wanted in on the action?
Wife and Google Street View Catch Cheating Hubby
Sing Star, already popular beyond the designer's wildest dreams is now wireless, allowing amateurs to compete or practice their chorography along with their singing in their very own home or a party setting. This may well be a blessing to the karaoke crowd.
Originally designed as a "girl's game", sales skyrocketed to both sexes and all ages. Over 400,000 users have formed an online community, it will only grow more with the wireless advantages you see here in the video with virtually everyone represented here expressing themselves, bustin' a move, gettin'down with their bad selves, Dancin' with them se-helves, cutting a rug, jumpin' around, gettin' up off o' that thing! being served, serving tea?
Stephen King in his fictional book "Cell" warned of a very bad behavior-producing, zombie-like virus transmitted via cell phone. As of that time, neither he nor his wife novelest Tabitha King carried cell phones, making the three of us the only people in the United States. "Call me on the land line sonny." I don't feel quite so badly now.
A 20-something shop assistant in Guangzhou, China had his lifetime cell phone minutes used up, as in forever and suddenly. Ironically it due to simply charging and replacing his cell phone battery. He'd just finished charging the battery and put the phone in his pocket when it inexplicably exploded. Little is known as the other employee wasn't there, but heard a loud bang and ran in to find her co-worker on the floor. This is the ninth recorded incident in China since 2002. This most high profile was that of a welder who kept his phone in his pocket, raising one very important safety precaution, heat and batteries do not mix. An inquiry found that the mobile phone battery had exploded due to the heat of the iron mill. The Lithium batteries widely used in mobile phones can explode if they're overcharged, or if exposed to heat the inflammable liquid inside can explode.
As always, use caution in purchasing phones and batteries. The investigation continues. While the store was a Lenovo computer products outlet, police are investigating whether the phone and battery were counterfeit. The next question is how to tell, does anyone know, other than slight misspellings?
Two of the world's biggest mobile phone battery makers Nokia and Motorola were quick to deny they were the distributors of the volatile batteries, proclaiming them to be counterfeit.
After the latest incident, the Shin Min Daily News published advice for consumers on how to avoid mobile phone explosions. The tips included:
Always use original batteries. Be sure that batteries by the manufacturer are meant for your mobile phone.
Never modify your phone
Always use original battery chargers
Do not expose your mobile phone to high temperatures, and avoid exposing it to direct sunlight
Avoid long phone conversations
Do not make or answer calls when the phone is charging
Try to keep your phone in a bag instead of in a pocket
"How to get someone else's heart beating fast while yours stays calm."
No, it's not a blurb on the cover of Cosmo, it's a university course description of a masters degree program at Potsdam University in Berlin. Geared for budding IT engineers, it is part of the social skills program. We weren't aware that there was a social skills program in IT schools. Apparently with the computer age the traditional methods of flirting no longer apply. Additionally it will help prepare students with the social skills needed to succeed both in their private life and their work life, or so says the school spokesman.
It's already a hit! Monday 440 students will start the class.The curriculum
includes: Body language,stress reduction methods,which they'll need with the next section - public speaking and presentation skills. Do you really think 440 students signed up just for those features? Now for the good stuff.
How to write flirtatious text messages and emails.
How to impress people at parties.(no magic tricks)
How to handle rejection (operators are standing by)
I have a question,how does one grade such a class? Does one bring proof of email,
IM's, photos collected?
Not to be a wet blanket, but perhaps a few additional pointers might be included to babes in the woods?
How to spot an obviously re-touched, or 20-year-old photo, The field guide to various chat room psycho types,helpful tip: always meet in a public place close to the door, how to tell if you're in a sex only room. I'm just saying,they could learn from the experience of others.
Berlin: IT students earn credit for online flirting at Potsdam University
If you are one of the many who are frequently tied to their cell, either talking or texting, you may not be so pleased when your car won't allow you to do either one while driving. It was one thing when your car reminded you in a pleasant voice that your door was ajar, or you were low on fuel, the worst it could do was continue to remind you. However, if you absolutely must communicate, you'll need to pull over, turn off the engine and remove the key. It could save you a ticket or worse.The nifty new gadget is called Key2SafeDriving, and is the brainchild of
US university researcher Xuesong Zhou and Dr. Wallace Curry. When you've pulled over, you may phone them to complain. It works by sending a wireless signal to a driver's mobile phone blocking calls or texting. Like most other modern annoyances "it's for your own good."
Of course we can thank "the children" for this one as well as most other pesky nanny laws . In many states laws are being enacted to stop teenagers from talking or texting while driving. It's just my observation, but it may be presumptuous to assume they are the worst offenders.
Parents have had the option of snooping from afar for quite some time. GPS has been popular, allowing parents to track each and every move..of the car anyway.
Ford is rolling out the MyKey device as a standard feature on many of its' cars in October 2010. With it, these doomed teens will have the speed of their cars controlled, the volume on the radio, and makes certain to fasten the seatbelts. Parents will be able to monitor every move! The parental units will scarcely have time for other pursuits, between the complete and rigid control of MyKey, GPS, and Key2SafeDriving, it will be just like having your parents along for the evening!
Teens Spied Upon and Cars Controlled, Now Parents Big Brother Prevents Driving, Talking
Stand Proud, Stand With Me - all of the technically impaired! Let the tek-heads laugh and point while they install insidious bugs and programs in our computers. They don't know how slowly a bit of orange juice spritzed into a vital part of their keyboard or open box with a hypo works, but works well! Yes we're "mad" in every sense of the word....and we're not gonna take it anymore!
Adam Savage, co-host of the popular Mythbusters program spoke of the conference call with Texas
Instruments and other biggies, in which Discovery Channel execs were told in no uncertain terms would the segment exposing RFID's security flaws be shown. What's to hide? We are constantly being told how very secure our information and transactions are.
In a country where we depend upon credit and debit cards almost daily, some eye-opening crime has
escalated despite the protests of the major companies who issue the cards.
Despite increasingly widespread use in passports and credit cards, radio-frequency identification is notoriously insecure. Hackers have successfully hijacked RFID-enabled credit cards from almost 70-feet away. Mythbusters had arranged a conference call with Texas Instruments to explore a similarly depressing demonstration.
Adam Savage relays the conference call.
"Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and
everybody else... They were way, way outgunned and they absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down being a large corporation that depends upon the revenue of the advertisers. Now it's on Discovery's radar and they won't let us go near it".
Unless you're using a steel wallet to protect your cards, (truly) - you can still be scanned the low-tech way as described in a video entitled "How Anyone With Eight Bucks Can Steal Your Credit Card". Another video shows a slightly more sophisticated method with which hackers can transfer information directly from cash machines, and any number of places from far away. I've elected not to show them in
the off chance someone with eight dollars burning a hole in their pocket, and too lazy to google is looking for a new career.
The true irony? The same page bearing the warning video featured a paid ad. "Where to buy credit card reading equipment."
Discovery and Mythbusters gagged from airing flaws in RFID security.
At one time walking and chewing gum was the tongue in cheek measure of coordination. The 21st century has raised the bar, perhaps far too high.
While it's good for business, reports from across the country prompted an alert from the American College of Emergency Physicians. People distracted while walking and texting have presented with varied injuries and even died from the habit of looking down at the tiny screen. A limited survey reported two deaths in California alone. A San Francisco woman was killed by a pickup truck
earlier this year when she stepped off a curb while texting, and a Bakersfield man was killed last year by a car while crossing the street and texting.
While doctors tsk away at patients who collide while texting and walking, causing them to run into other pedestrians, fall off of curbs, walk into signs, and even text while bicycling, roller blading, or worst of all...driving, they are not immune. One doctor questioned admitted once believing he was saving time by driving and texting. "We think we're multitasking, but we're not," he said admitting it was stupid. "You're focusing on one task for a split second, then focusing on another one, and with
something moving 40 miles an hour like a car, it just takes a couple of seconds to be hit. He also observed that common sense is far from common. Can I get an amen? Give homo sapiens a toy and they will use it at the peril of all.
ER Docs warn of danger in texting while walking, driving?
A demonstration given at the 2008 Black Hat Conference and geek fest should give us pause and reason to consider the possible or probable misuse of the new smart chip enabled credit cards.
A volunteer called from the audience was told to leave his smart card inside of his wallet. With the card “safely” inside the volunteer’s wallet and pants pocket, Inventor and RFID security expert Adam Laurie read and displayed its contents on the presentation screen, the person’s name, account number, and expiration date – all clearly visible!
He was demonstrating his Python script designed for this and countless purposes.
Consider the possibilities. Criminals will lose touch with old scam methods and only require a bit of technology.
A thief can capture the contents of an RFID-enabled credit card just in passing.
The same is true for chips implanted in the human body, work access badges, public transit cards, and the new passports in use in more than 45 countries. The medical community has long been interested in implanting information in our bodies, right or wrong. I’ll admit it has been a boon for animal identification…but that’s as far as Auntie Technology is willing to go.
With astounding irony, credit card companies seem to be some of the biggest advocates of this technology. The companies argue that it will save time when processing payments with the RFID enabled cards.
An amazing display of how things can go wrong can be found on Spanish beaches. Visitors are encouraged to have RFID enabled tags injected into their bodies. The alleged benefit to you being you don’t need to take your wallet to the beach, and merchants can scan your wrist to get a unique ID from which to debit your account for another drink.
Of course, someone with the technology to read it can also stroll along the beach and capture it.
Lastly, proud inventor Laurie demonstrated how his personal code could be changed, then turned himself into a canine by changing his personal info into a coding sequence reserved for animals.
Am I the only one who wonders if it wouldn’t it be just as easy to change it to that of another person?
Best news for last! Anyone may obtain the Python scripts free of charge on Laurie’s website. He also sells the hardware necessary to read and write to RFID tags and cards.
Tis an ill wind which blows no good. Hal Lindsay and other doomsday writers will finally have reason to renew their wait for the Rapture and count their money, now that the “mark of the beast” is here “Without which, nothing may be bought or sold! “ BOO! Hands – Free Way to Steal a Credit Card and More
Last week saw just one high-definition DVD released to both HD-DVD formats: a low budget movie about a small town coming together to make a porn flick. With Joe Pantoliano as the village idiot and Ted Danson as town homo, "The Amatuers" was the only film to come-out on both Blu-ray disk and Hi-Def format.
According to EngadgetHD's weekly headcount, Sony BluRay increased their lead in releases of HD discs to 444 versus 386 movies. The week saw two Blu-ray DVD releases from Topics and Buena Vista, and one each from Sony and Warner.
The names of the blue-ray titles are unimportant when compared to HD's lone offering. Toshiba's fifteen gigabytes of fame (thank you, Andy Warhol) came to an end with the high definition release of "Girls Gone Wild: Baby Bash - Live and Uncensored!"
So what if there's no longer a choice in HD formats -- if you're stuck with an obsolete player, you can still choose this week between a new porno title and GGW.
If you’ve ever been tied up in traffic wondering why the cell phone user next to you in intently staring at his phone, juggling a latte’, and driving with his knees, be happy you can see his hands.
Soon you’ll have little reason to ask what is so important. Let the chips and bumpers land where they may. Likewise, those who would like to see a law on the books which requires a headset in the hopes of avoiding some accidents by avoiding a bit of distraction, will be thrilled to know that not only will there not be laws about such things, but their fellow motorists will be busy flipping back and forth through favorite porn sites! I’m wagering those might be just a bit more distracting than his previous search for numbers in his address book, or online game.
Porn and profits go together like the proverbial horse and carriage, and American companies aren’t about to be left behind. When they looked up and realized that pornography on cell phones in Europe will be at $1.5 billion by 2012 with the global market reaching $3.5 billion in 2010. I presume they felt there was a great deal more money to be made by providing distraction for your
Friends, neighbors, and fellow drivers – than in simply helping those lost in the cereal aisle by enabling them to make a call home….I assume that is a nation-wide phenomenon?
North America generated just $26 million last year. It must make them weep in contrast to the haul Europe is making.
Some phone carriers shied away from porn sales. For example, Canada’s second largest phone company Telus Corp. withdrew a mobile porn service after complaints from hundreds of customers and criticism from the Catholic Church.
We won’t be following Canada. We mainly only tell them what to do, not follow their lead for cryin’ out loud!
This IS good news for those waiting for the realistic sex automatons to become available at Costco at a reasonable price, and phone companies have realized you’ve got to give the people what they want. They did recently tell us we are a nation with ADD, can this be a good combination?
New phone systems being built by google have pledged to support any type of mobile software.
American carriers had been concerned about offending customers, and the difficulty of keeping underage children from enjoying the expanded services. In spite of these concerns, they won’t be able to be left behind, and those who do not wish to push porn, can at least allow their customers to utilize it…and so the die is cast. I leave it to others to decide whether we are becoming an even more isolated country.
Original Reuters title Porn to Spice up Cell Phones
Outsourcing has it’s benefits. Apparently if NASA had sought to build the new space commode for the international space station in the U S of A, it would have cost a lot more than the mere 19 Million the Russians are putting on our tab. Still, I can’t shake the feeling that relations with Russia are at a low point, and what a perfect place to play a practical joke or two hey? No mere golden beauty, as pictured, this toilet works! You can imagine the problems which could occur in zero gravity without some special precautions. First, the depositor must strap in, with leg restraints and thigh bars to keep the space traveler in place.
Once deposited, neither you nor your cabin mates want to see the result floating by. Not to worry, with the new model, fans suck waste into the commode and hold it there until it can be disposed of properly, as long as the power works. I’d love to know who dreamed of this next feature. Crew members will have individual urine funnels which are attached to hoses, the urine is deposited into a waste-water tank. So far so good you say? The best is yet to come. This marvelous new system will be able to transfer urine to a device which can produce drinking water. If I were an astronaut, I’d sneak a sizable supply of spring water aboard just in case some of the designers do have a sense of humor, or a grudge of long standing.19MDown the Drain For Space Toilet posted July 6, 2007 AP Press
In the It’s Just What I Wanted Department, a school in impoverished Nigeria received a lovely gift, with all good intentions. They were given 300 laptops, one for each child. That is wonderful, yes? It would be if they had power. On the other hand, they are the first school in the country where each student has his or her own laptop. Some fortunate students have electricity at home, though it is often irregular, those students said they enjoyed browsing the internet and are very happy. In a week those few will all have a MY Space page.Seriously, Nigeria, while the world’s sixth largest exporter of crude oil, has very little electricity, mainly in the cities where it is undependable at best.Most homes and private businesses rely on generators.
The One Laptop Per Child Program was founded by Nicholas Negroponte, an American professor, to provide laptops to all pupils at 100 dollars each by 2008 to developing countries.. The computers, built in China for $100, are expected to be given to between 5 million and 15 million children in China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, and Thailand, and other countries. So far, India is the only country to turn them down.
Now, we must travel to the good ol’ USA where everyone has dependable electricity, laptops, cell phones, and whatever electronic goodie comes along. I had no idea the young set were using their cell cameras in the exact same way as many of their elders. Technology gone awry in American Grade schools. This came from the Seattle Police Blotter today. I’m not saying the laptops for all would lead to cell phones and then – this, but it bears watching..
I don’t want to give away my antiquity completely, but I recall grade schools as places where only first graders had crushes on one another, from then on, boys considered girls icky and vice versa for a few years. Not now. Today, this installment deals with elementary children who are precocious.
It seems some elementary school children (school unnamed), had been sending photos of themselves back and forth,. These were no mere photos, mind you. These were photos first sent by the boys exposing their genitals, and responded to by the girls with shots of their breasts. “When a principal called in one parenttodiscuss the issue (and to show him some of the images) the father allegedly lunged across the table and fought the principal for the cell phone. After literally twisting the principal’s arm, the father got the phone and began deleting the evidence before leaving the building. Dad was interviewed by officers”. (who no doubt kept their hands behind their backs) . westseattleherald.com grade school has changed!
I am probably very alone in this, but watching someone else play a video game rates right up there with being trapped into trying to say something nice about someone’s 150 frankly homely baby photos. I’d just rather not.
Imagine my surprise to learn that this has become a top rated televised spectator sport in South Korea, where the nimble fingered e-gamers are treated like rock stars, making the ladies swoon, and holding the rapt attention of the nation. I can only pray that this fast form of stardom doesn’t reach the states where we know there are many who are in training, or at least that’s what they can tell their moms now when they pound on the door with that old favorite “go get a job!”Wearing a silver and white space suit, the current e-stud is Lee Yun-yeol, age 22. The game? Starcraft. Lest you think he’s in it for the flashy wardrobe, adoration of fans, and wide exposure alone, he makes over $200,000 a year in prizes and endorsements, having clicked his way to the top. Literally millions tune into channels devoted to live tournaments and top players enjoy the same status as our top sports stars. Yes, they watch others play games. I submit you can probably do that in any suburban home with children or teenagers in this land,many of whom hold their own Starcraft tournies, but without the rabid viewer attention of their South Korean counterparts.
South Korea is holding it’s collective breath, when it was announced that a sequel will replace the real time strategy game “Starcraft”. (Just when they were getting good after ten years). The new game isn’t much different, being called Starcraft Two. While some are optimistic, saying that the new sequel will keep the original storyline (yawn) about wars between three species in a sci-fi universe, others are reluctant to lose the edge they’ve honed low these many years, and prefer not to trade them for the new and better graphics, and changes in game playing strategies.
Lest you think this a flash in the pan, even the South Korean Air Force has a team, and big companies like Samsung and SK Telecom sponsor games and leagues.Starcraft has sold 9.5 million copies since it’s debut in 1998. Millions tune in to watch the tournaments, and are rabid fans. “Dancing With the Stars” isn’t seeming so silly to me these days. Then again, I’m always choosing the losing vocational direction, so don’t pay any attention to me. Just stay tuned to Kick, and hone your Starcraft Two skills, if you must. Rhee So-eui - Reuters 6/15/07 from “World of e-sports Braces for a Change
Wives who've long suspected "business trips" now have a friendly detective agency. It's free of charge, you needn't leave your keyboard, and cheating husbands are dropping like extremely surprised and indignant flies!
"How to get someone else's heart beating fast while yours stays calm."
If you are one of the many who are frequently tied to their cell, either talking or texting, you may not be so pleased when your car won't allow you to do either one while driving. It was one thing when your car reminded you in a pleasant voice that your door was ajar, or you were low on fuel, the worst it could do was continue to remind you. However, if you absolutely must communicate, you'll need to pull over, turn off the engine and remove the key. It could save you a ticket or worse.The nifty new gadget is called Key2SafeDriving, and is the brainchild of
US university researcher Xuesong Zhou and Dr. Wallace Curry. When you've pulled over, you may phone them to complain. It works by sending a wireless signal to a driver's mobile phone blocking calls or texting. Like most other modern annoyances "it's for your own good."
Adam Savage, co-host of the popular Mythbusters program spoke of the conference call with Texas
Instruments and other biggies, in which Discovery Channel execs were told in no uncertain terms would the segment exposing RFID's security flaws be shown. What's to hide? We are constantly being told how very secure our information and transactions are.
At one time walking and chewing gum was the tongue in cheek measure of coordination. The 21st century has raised the bar, perhaps far too high.
A demonstration given at the 2008 Black Hat Conference and geek fest should give us pause and reason to consider the possible or probable misuse of the new smart chip enabled credit cards.
A volunteer called from the audience was told to leave his smart card inside of his wallet. With the card “safely” inside the volunteer’s wallet and pants pocket, Inventor and RFID security expert Adam Laurie read and displayed its contents on the presentation screen, the person’s name, account number, and expiration date – all clearly visible!
He was demonstrating his Python script designed for this and countless purposes.
If you’ve ever been tied up in traffic wondering why the cell phone user next to you in intently staring at his phone, juggling a latte’, and driving with his knees, be happy you can see his hands.
Outsourcing has it’s benefits. Apparently if NASA had sought to build the new space commode for the international space station in the U S of A, it would have cost a lot more than the mere 19 Million the Russians are putting on our tab. Still, I can’t shake the feeling that relations with Russia are at a low point, and what a perfect place to play a practical joke or two hey? No mere golden beauty, as pictured, this toilet works! You can imagine the problems which could occur in zero gravity without some special precautions. First, the depositor must strap in, with leg restraints and thigh bars to keep the space traveler in place.
In the It’s Just What I Wanted Department, a school in impoverished Nigeria received a lovely gift, with all good intentions. They were given 300 laptops, one for each child. That is wonderful, yes? It would be if they had power. On the other hand, they are the first school in the country where each student has his or her own laptop. Some fortunate students have electricity at home, though it is often irregular, those students said they enjoyed browsing the internet and are very happy. In a week those few will all have a MY Space page.Seriously, Nigeria, while the world’s sixth largest exporter of crude oil, has very little electricity, mainly in the cities where it is undependable at best.Most homes and private businesses rely on generators.
I am probably very alone in this, but watching someone else play a video game rates right up there with being trapped into trying to say something nice about someone’s 150 frankly homely baby photos. I’d just rather not.
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