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Bill Genereux

GhostExodus, the ETA, and a Control-Systems Incident at Carrell Clinic (Part ... - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 03 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Bill Genereux on 03 Mar 10
     
    From Robert Wesley McGrew's computer security blog. Describes how he busted the hacker GhostExodus.
  • Bill Genereux on 03 Mar 10
     
    A Ph.D. student who busted a hacker who infiltrated a hospital control system by analyzing YouTube videos that bragged about the process.
Adam Bohannon

Heidegger 2 Twitter: Technology, Self & Social Networks. - 11 views

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shared by Adam Bohannon on 06 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Both object and subject are converted to a “standing-reserve”, to be disaggregated, redistributed, recontextualized, and reaggregated.
  • And human individuals, who were once reduced to resources (Frederick Taylor, and the authoritarianism of Human Resource departments), or “eyeballs” in the terminology of internet marketing executives; are now the creative engines of growth, innovation, and creativity.
  • This becomes even more interesting when we wonder about the context and meaning of start-ups intentionally exposing their office space’s ductwork - as if the open office with exposed pipes re-instantiates a manifestation of the hearth, or at least ‘un-hides’ the circulatory system of commerce.
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  • Postmodern technology uses the hyper-reality of simulations to get rid of the limitations imposed by reality. The limit of postmodern reality is not the total objectification of nature, but the replacement of reality by virtual reality totally under our control.
  • Borgmann’s antidote for losing our personality to the shallowness and superficiality of hyper-reality is to return to focal activities.
  • It takes commitment on our part to engage in focal activities, but the effort affords us a chance to maintain some sense of self in the technological world.
  • Thus technological rationality can claim that technologies are value neutral, and only uses are good or evil, despite the fact that the uses are shaped by the technologies.
  • And technology leads to new forms of domination. For the critical theorists history has always had domination, but in our time domination has changed from master over slave or lord over serf to the domination of humanity by economics and the market. We are given the illusion of liberty, but that is simply the freedom to choose between brands of mass-produced products.
  • Computer technology further de-contextualizes human experience by emphasizing information over understanding. And computers further domination by providing new means of tracking the productivity of workers to the corporation and depersonalizing supervision; very much a modern panopticon envisioned by Jeremy Bentham.
  • Foucault’s view allows for the possibility that information technology could be used to put people in more direct communication with each other and spread the concentration of power over society.
  • MS Word and freely available blogging software encourages us to constantly revise, so a work becomes a series of drafts, none of which is final (just like this post).
  • Gould’s attitude towards design finds philosophical support in pragmatism. Pragmatism recognizes that everyone is socially situated. Dewey taught that scientific theories or methods of logic are tools used in a certain social practice. Attention to the practices surrounding an object are important to understanding it. Since he viewed knowledge as participatory he argued that learning must come about by doing.
  • Metaphors provide us a way of understanding the world, by associating one thing with another. Powerful metaphors are like magic, and inform how we think of the objects described, revealing hidden aspects of the thing described. New metaphors for the forces in our lives will suggest new ways of living.
  • Metaphors interact with technology in several ways: technology serves as a source of metaphors, new technologies are understood metaphorically, and our metaphors in life pose problems to be solved technologically
  • By developing new metaphors, interface designers can suggest new ways of working with computers. If these metaphors are carefully chosen then they will provide a natural model which makes operation of the machine easy.
  • Just as metaphors can help us understand computers, computers can provide new metaphors for life. Postmodern theories of psychology suggest that there is no single unified “ego”, but that each of us is made up of a multiplicity of parts, while Minsky discusses the “agencies of mind” in his book “The Society of Mind.” Philip Bromberg claims that a healthy personality is one in which different aspects of the self can come to know one another and reflect upon each other.
  • This fluid multiplicity of personality is what gives us our flexibility and resilience.
  • Social networks allow participants to explore different aspects of their personality, to manufacture and evolve aspects of their personality depending on context and mood.
  • While some observers might see this activity as evidence of Heidegger’s disaggregation of the subject by technology, it can also be seen as a model for Bromberg’s self as being one while being many. This is just one way in which computer technology, the internet, and connected social networks can show us a new way of understanding ourselves.
Mellanie Roberts

Summary of Boellstorff (2008), Coming of Age in Second Life « media/anthropology - 2 views

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shared by Mellanie Roberts on 15 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Mellanie Roberts on 15 Feb 11
     
    A great summary of the book I read for my research. Wesch suggested and even lent me the book, it's fantastic. I'm about halfway through, luckily for me the first two chapters got me what I needed. Hopefully my summary will be as good!
Stephanie Patterson

With Shaquille O'Neal its leader, Twitter is changing sports - 3 views

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shared by Stephanie Patterson on 15 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Stephanie Patterson on 15 Feb 11
     
    This article offers an explaination as to why athletes are engaging in twittering, and why fans like it.
zubair789

Nokia Cell Phones Has Something To Say - 0 views

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shared by zubair789 on 20 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • zubair789 on 20 Jun 11
     
    Very few inventions have revolutionized the workings of modern society such as the cell phone. Since the 1980s, when cell phones were large and cumbersome and were hardly considered more than a status symbol among the yuppie culture, cell phones have grown to be probably the single most ubiquitous personal electronic device on the planet. As of 2009, there are approximately 4.6 billion
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