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Ben Feigert

Protect Our Right to Anonymity - 0 views

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    An editorial arguing that government should *not* have the authority to surveil private citizens via GPS. Also that it's important to draw a sharp line now, before gov't goes farther into facial-recognition and internet-based surveillance.
Ben Feigert

Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees - 1 views

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    Adding a new chapter to the research that cemented the phrase "six degrees of separation" into the language, scientists at and the University of Milan reported on Monday that the average number of acquaintances separating any two people in the world was not six but 4.74.
Ben Feigert

Software to Rate How Drastically Photos Are Retouched - 1 views

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    The photographs of celebrities and models in fashion advertisements and magazines are routinely buffed with a helping of digital polish. The retouching can be slight - colors brightened, a stray hair put in place, a pimple healed.
Ben Feigert

Some Malls Tracking Shoppers Through Their Cell Phones This Holiday Season - 0 views

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    By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld Nov 25, 2011 9:06 AM For some mall shoppers, Black Friday has become Track Friday. Thanks to a snoopy piece of tech from a U.K. company called Path Intelligence, some malls in Europe, Australia, and the United States will be tracking shoppers' movements today through their cell phones.
Bettina Fisman

Sharper Surveillance and NATO Coordination Aided Rebel Advance - 2 views

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    They talk about the help that is giving survelliance and the NATO coordination to the rebels in Lybia. With airplanes it saw which rebels were in danger and helped them.
Ben Feigert

London riots: BlackBerry to help police probe Messenger looting 'role' - 3 views

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    Did the encrypted (and difficult to surveil) BB Messenger service allow recent riots in England to grow out of control? What role should government play in tracking communications technology, during normal or extraordinary times? To what extent should private companies assist in government investigations, and is it justifiable under the laws of one country, but not in another?
Nigel Robinson

Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave | Video on TED.com - 1 views

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    "When Dave deBronkart learned he had a rare and terminal cancer, he turned to a group of fellow patients online -- and found the medical treatment that saved his life. Now he calls on all patients to talk with one another, know their own health data, and make health care better one e-Patient at a time." - TED.com
Nigel Robinson

Netflix Instant Accounts For 20 Percent of Peak U.S. Bandwith Use | Epicenter... - 0 views

  • Streaming media — real-time entertainment — accounts for 43% of peak period traffic in the U.S., according to Sandvine, which helps ISPs manage their networks and thus has access to buckets of information about usage patterns. But Netflix alone accounts for nearly half of that between 8 and 10 p.m., and that usage comes from only 1.8 percent of the service’s subscribers.
  • Per-user, Netflix is the heaviest user of downstream bandwidth in North America:
  • Good news for Hulu, Amazon Unbox and even YouTube, should its movie rentals service gain traction. Better news for the content creators, assuming they can come up with a killer streaming revenue model and as if they needed any more proof that on-demand, internet delivery is the future. Bad news for cable and satellite
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  • But Hastings does see that streaming is the engine for Netflix now. “In fact, by every measure, we are now primarily a streaming company that also offers DVD-by-mail,” Hastings said
  • “At the same time, the introduction of our streaming offering in Canada in late September has provided us with very encouraging signs regarding the potential for the Netflix service internationally.”
Nigel Robinson

Researchers Hack Into Cars' Electronics - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • “These cellular channels offer many advantages for attackers,” the report said. “They can be accessed over arbitrary distance (due to the wide coverage of cellular data infrastructure) in a largely anonymous fashion, typically have relatively high bandwidth, are two-way channels (supporting interactive control and data exfiltration), and are individually addressable.”
Nigel Robinson

Connected | An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology - 0 views

  • “Examining everything from the Big Bang to Twitter… a cinematic clickstream…incredibly engaging!” -The New York Times
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      This is a great resource for films about technology.
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    This film is currently (Oct 2011) being screened in the US and around the world. However, it can be purchased for educational purposes. Check out the What's Next section of the site - http://connectedthefilm.com/interdependence/whatnext/
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