Super Secret Google builds its servers in the dark. (Wired.com) Which box is yours? The Zumba prostitute in Maine kept a list of all her johns. Now that the names have been released to the public, fantasized images of the men paying for sex with someone other than their wives will help feed the 24/7 “news” cycle. […]
June 25, 2012
Imagine what you can do with the real thing! I read this article aloud to my husband. A day when everyone is Big Brother will dawn as people start wearing Google glasses, or a slew of competing augmented reality spectacles, that throw the Web up on a lens and also record the world. —- Mr. […]
June 15, 2012
Eric Cantor’s office just tweeted out this: Which linked to this: In Support of Legislative Transparency Google believes that policy-making should be grounded in sound analysis of data. We take this to heart — it’s why we launch tools like the Transparency Report, which shows when and what information is accessible on Google services around […]
June 14, 2012
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. ~Ethel Watts Mumford It’s not just God up there, watching you On Tuesday, Rep. Lamar Smith spoke to the Kendall County Republican Women’s PAC at its monthly luncheon. I asked him his thoughts about this: Spy planes able to photograph sunbathers in their back […]
April 11, 2012
Turning our lives into a “Dystopian commercialist nightmare”. ~Conor Friedersdorf Happy pretty girl + Google Glasses = So Much Fun? Dystopian societies feature different kinds of repressive social control systems, various forms of active and passive coercion. Ideas and works about dystopian societies often explore the concept of humans abusing technology and humans individually and collectively […]
February 22, 2012
Augmented Reality Hardened warriors on the verge of losing touch with our own humanity Google insists that its newest focus, Android-based “Heads Up” glasses that send data to the wearer about the surrounding area, are not about potential revenue streams. Of course not! The project is just an “experiment that anyone will be able to […]
February 9, 2012
Google knows a whole lot about you. How much do you know about it? The Battle Between Good and Evil; Our History and Our Future Lest I sound like a broken record on this topic, I’ll let someone else sound the warning: Here’s what Google knows about you, what it stores right there on its […]
January 26, 2012
Solutions. Money, and Power and Evil Intentions It stands to follow that any company with Don’t Be Evil as its mantra was really all about being evil in the first place. No surprise: The one who claims to be the most pure often harbors the most illicit secrets. From the beginning, Google has shown a […]
January 10, 2012
All this “Radical transformation” is getting on my nerves. Info Czar With news that the Department of Homeland Security is now retaining data on most of us, simply because we use social media or blog— Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that came out of DHS headquarters in November, Washington has the […]
October 16, 2012
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