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anonymous

US Gov. 2.3 gegapixel camera - 0 views

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SOCIAL security privacy control people IT SYSTEMS int systems IMPACT science politics ITGS

shared by anonymous on 21 Aug 09 - Cached
  • it also means that people can be illuminated without being aware of it.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Aug 09
       
      What about privacy, of people who are not criminals?
  • The ability to provide real-time surveillance of large areas may be getting closer, as the Army launches a quest for a 2.3 gigapixel camera that could be packaged aboard a drone or a manned aircraft.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 27 Aug 09
       
      Social > Privacy
  • In terms of specifics, the Army is looking for 2.3 gigapixels running at two frames per second. By my reckoning, this suggests continuous coverage of area of around sixty-two square miles at 0.3m resolution with a single sensor
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 27 Aug 09
       
      It systesms > harware & software
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  • Airborne cameras providing a persistent view were a key factor in Task Force ODIN’s success in Iraq; given the new technology, their successors could have even more impact. And those cameras might have some effect on the home front too.
Risa Yokoi

Physical abuse at Internet addiction Treating Camps in China. - 0 views

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SOCIAL control people IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health education ITGS

shared by Risa Yokoi on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • a boot camp to treat internet addicts in China
  • to have been beaten several times by the camp's principal
  • children spend too much time online
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  • the camp claimed it could cure the "problem" for 5,000 yuan ($730; £450).
  • China has more internet users than anywhere else in the world - almost 300 million.
  • He said most people running internet addiction boot camps were not properly qualified to treat or handle youngsters.
Maliha Rahman

Rogue pharmacies still a problem for search engines | Health Tech - CNET News - 1 views

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SOCIAL reliability integrity IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health ITGS

shared by Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The study, conducted by LegitScript, an online pharmacy verification service, and KnujOn, an Internet compliance company, found that 90 percent of the reviewed Internet pharmacy advertisements were from fake or illegal Internet pharmacies.
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09
       
      (IT systems: communication system): the idea that 90% of the pharmacies advertising online through the internet are fake and illegal , and is providing people with a unreliable communication system.
  • "We were able to purchase potentially addictive drugs without a prescription or any age verification via Bing.com ads," LegitScript President John Horton told CNET News. "We also received counterfeit medication. Microsoft profits from these illegal ads, which put Internet users at risk."
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09
       
      fake unreliable advertisements selling addictive drugs without a prescription and giving out incorrect information in order to get money. (can cause serious health issues and creating an unreliable communicating environment)
  • "the Internet has become a haven for drug seekers and abusers, particularly (regarding) controlled substances. It is a much more serious and dangerous phase of the Internet."
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09
       
      unreliable, illegal communication system
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  • Microsoft disputes LegitScript's claim that 90 percent of the sponsored Internet pharmacy ads on Bing are fake or illegal, adding that it is working to weed out the rogue advertisers that do slip through. The company uses an Internet pharmacy verification service called PharmacyChecker--a competitor of LegitScript--to ensure that its sponsored prescription drug advertisements are legitimate.
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09
       
      (social, integrity)getting fake internet pharmacy verification lacks intregity. in this case selling unprescribed drugs that can cause serious health issues heavy concequences
  • The authors took a closer look at 10 of the 69 online drugstores. None of the 10 required a valid prescription. Orders were placed with two of them. Of the two drugs received, both were tested and one was found to be counterfeit.
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09
       
      (Impact, Health) People all over the world are using unreliable sites and purchasing counterfeit drugs which is highly risky to one's health and can badly affect a person.
  • Maliha Rahman on 27 Aug 09
     
    The NABP's own analysis of search results from Google and Yahoo turned up many drug ads from sketchy purveyors.
Maliha Rahman

Young 'cyber-mentors' step up (BBC) Criterion B - 1 views

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SOCIAL privacy control IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health education ITGS

shared by Maliha Rahman on 31 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Maliha Rahman on 08 Dec 09
     
    this article talks about cyber mentors or in other words people who help out others, are stepping up in the technological world of the internet and mentoring people or users who are being bullied or bugged through online sources
Ali Parrish

Music Copyrighting - 0 views

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SOCIAL security policies people control IT SYSTEMS int systems IMPACT business ITGS

shared by Ali Parrish on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • the Business Software Alliance is a "far less unpopular organization" than the RIAA. I think the answers are quite illuminating. First, BSA's members have always offered their products for sale to the public, through any channel that wants to sell them. Second, BSA's members are consumer-oriented; they try to develop products that respond to consumers' needs, and not, the reverse: focusing on what they want to sell to consumers.
  • It is true that there have in the past been complaints about the music industry from the public and retailers -- retailers, almost all of whom have been driven out of business. These complaints are though about poor business practices, not business practices. The complaints aren't that the record industry is a business, but that it has been poorly run as a business.
  • The CD is not a fair fight with the download.
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  • Third, because consumers can easily purchase BSA's members products, those who copy without paying are simply scofflaws. I think the fact that the public does not object to BSA's campaign proves my point and disproves yours and the music industry's: people do not want things for free; they are willing to pay for them. If people were simply thieves, then they would have an even stronger reaction against the BSA because the price spread between copying and buying is so much vaster than with music.
Risa Yokoi

Switching TV signal from analogue to digital - 0 views

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SOCIAL control people globalization IT SYSTEMS basics IMPACT arts business ITGS

shared by Risa Yokoi on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The process of turning off the analogue television signal in Wales begins
  • It means that viewers who do not have digital will not be able to see BBC Two from Wednesday, and then they will lose all channels within a month
  • Digital UK said 90% of homes in Wales already had digital TV
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  • process of turning off traditional analogue TV signals
  • "The UK is going digital, the US has already gone digital, some European countries as well.
  • It helps people of my age and it helps people who are very lonely," she said. "It brings life into the home when I can't get out. I couldn't be without it if I tried. I love my TV, I always have.
  • confusion leading to people being overcharged when changing
Elvira Russ

EU's exploding-iPhone investigation heats up | Crave - CNET - 0 views

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shared by Elvira Russ on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Claims of iPhones exploding have surfaced in Britain and France, with at least one person, a teenager, sustaining an eye injury. In addition, KIRO TV in Seattle has turned up 800 pages of documents from the Consumer Product Safety Commission that include cases of burning or flaming iPods.
  • There have been many well-documented cases of laptop batteries bursting into flames, so it's plausible that iPhones could heat up too, given that they use the same (or similar) battery technology.
  • I'm on my third iPhone (having upgraded twice), and I've also owned an iPod Touch. I loved them all dearly, largely because they never exploded into flames, burning me and my family alive. Just saying.
Ali Parrish

Nokia: New Laptop Offering - 0 views

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shared by Ali Parrish on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The Booklet also has integrated Bluetooth, GPS, a webcam and an SD card reader. Nokia claims it has a 12-hour battery life.
  • "The presence of this internal wireless modem is why the Booklet 3G is a natural extension to Nokia's traditional phone handset product range."
  • "A growing number of people want the computing power of a PC with the full benefits of mobility," said Kai Oistamo, Nokia's executive vice president for devices.
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  • The Booklet has an aluminium case, weighs 1.25 kilograms (2.75 lbs) and its 10-inch screen is HD-ready.
  • Mr Fogg said the Booklet's unique selling point was an "internal mobile broadband card with a SIM slot." "Other netbooks rely on external USB mobile broadband modems for Internet access," he wrote on his blog.
  • The Windows-based device is about 2cm thick and will offer 3G connectivity as well as wi-fi.
iman mustafa

Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user - 0 views

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ITGS SOCIAL Control IT SYSTEMS applications IMPACT buisness and employment

shared by iman mustafa on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The blogger, who uses the account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET New
  • A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the sitewide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
  • Kelly declined to speculate on who was behind the attack, but he said: "You have to ask who would benefit the most from doing this and think about what those people are doing and the disregard for the rest of the users and the Internet."
iman mustafa

BBC NEWS | Technology | Downloading is not enough - 2 views

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SOCIAL globalization and cultural diversity IT communication systems IMPACT arts entertainment SEP6-BM5

shared by iman mustafa on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Kids, it seems, like unlicensed services because they are free. But the report also acknowledges their usefulness in finding more obscure music and letting them listen to a band before they buy
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues- security, control & authenticity
  • They are willing to abandon p2p in favour of licensed services that they have to pay for, but they wouldn't pay for a streaming service like Spotify.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT systems- application & communication systems
  • It might be that young people have no faith that the streaming services are going to stay around since they operate at the discretion of the record labels, which have clamped down on many services that are popular with young music fans in the past.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      Area of Impact- Business & Arts, Entertainment & leisure
  • iman mustafa on 06 Sep 09
     
    Bill Thompson says young people's needs from online music may be too complex and transient for the industry to track.
Elvira Russ

BBC NEWS | Technology | Kids' top searches include 'porn' - 0 views

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shared by Elvira Russ on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • In a statement Symantec's internet safety advocate, Marian Merritt, said that with the service, "parents can stay in the loop on what their kids are doing online".
  • "Any of us who have been teenagers are not surprised kids look for information about sex," Ms Merritt told AFP news agency.
  • "It also helps identify 'teachable moments' when parents should be talking with their kids about appropriate online behaviour and other issues in their kids' online lives."
YooJin Jung

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Tough cure for China web addicts - 0 views

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shared by YooJin Jung on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The mostly male youngsters at this centre all have the same problem - they are addicted to the internet.
  • elling, this is where they hope to be cured.
  • And through a tough programme of physical exercise, medication and couns elling, this is where they hope to be cured. There has been a lot of interest in these boot camps over recent weeks after two teenagers were beaten up at two separate camps in China. One died, the other was seriously injured.
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  • The patients - all teenagers or in their 20s - are sent to the centre because their parents believe they spend too much time on the internet.
Ali Parrish

YouTube Shares Video Profits with Individual Users - 0 views

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SOCIAL control globalization people IT SYSTEMS int systems IMPACT business ITGS

shared by Ali Parrish on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The new scheme aims to identify hugely popular videos from individuals
  • Such videos are typically by individual users; the more entertaining among them get posted in many other places and as a result get a rapidly growing number of views.
  • For instance, Lauren Luke of northeast England began posting make-up tips on YouTube in 2007. She was approached to become an advertising partner and now the hobby has become her main source of income.
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  • The Partner Program will start in the US, and YouTube says it plans an international version soon.
  • and have helped many people earn thousands of dollars a month as their videos went viral and endured over time," YouTube product manager Shenaz Zack said in the post.
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