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Pretty cool man: @GovGaryJohnson
campaigns on Comedy Central:
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
F.T.C. Seeks Tougher Consumer Privacy Rules
U.S. Agency Seeks Tougher Consumer Privacy Rules
The agency, the Federal Trade Commission, called on Congress to enact legislation regulating so-called data brokers,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/business/ftc-seeks-privacy-legislation.html?_r=2&ref=technology#
Monday, March 12, 2012
No #MoonColonies in 2012: As thought w/space race of1960’s.
No Moon Colonies in 2012:
As thought would be during space race of1960’s.
But with the Digital Age today
people got global instant contact.
And that actually was NOT predicted in the 1950s & 60s at all:
Do you see any Cell Phones and
I-whatever-tablet-laptop-thingys
in this 2001 Space Odyssey clip here ?
No.
As thought would be during space race of1960’s.
But with the Digital Age today
people got global instant contact.
And that actually was NOT predicted in the 1950s & 60s at all:
Do you see any Cell Phones and
I-whatever-tablet-laptop-thingys
in this 2001 Space Odyssey clip here ?
No.
There is one clip in the movie with Phone booths with touch tone phones on the moon!! Anything beyond that tech was not even on the table when 2001 S.O. was written.
===2001: A Space Odyssey Recut (Part 2 of 6)TYCHO MAGNETIC ANOMALY-ONE http://youtu.be/mxZFlm3UZNA
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Sunday, March 11, 2012
I like the easy science that is behind #Gingrich’s #MoonBase idea. We should b pro active in #manned #SpaceExploration:
I like the easy science tht is behind #Gingrich’s #MoonBase idea. We should b pro active in #manned #SpaceExploration:
Sunday, February 26, 2012
In Attack on Vatican Web Site, a Glimpse of Hackers’ Tactics
Hacking will never go away , and I think that is a good think when done right;
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NYTIMES: By NICOLE PERLROTH and JOHN MARKOFF
Published: February 26, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — The elusive hacker movement known asAnonymous has carried out Internet attacks on well-known organizations like Sony and PBS. In August, the group went after its most prominent target yet: the Vatican.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/technology/attack-on-vatican-web-site-offers-view-of-hacker-groups-tactics.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1330309412-0Xu53cDoCX2qZGuCvZKtdw
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Willard Middling ( @WillardMiddling ) "I just want to be President of the USA so bad."
Hey!! Leave me alone!! I deserve to be President .
Don't you understand that!
@MittRomney @RickSantorum @Newt2012HQ@RepRonPaul @MittRomney
Don't you understand that!
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
"Online Data Helping Campaigns Customize Ads"
~~Very TechoPolitical ~
By TANZINA VEGA
Published: February 20, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/us/politics/campaigns-use-microtargeting-to-attract-supporters.html?hpPolitical campaigns, which have borrowed tricks from Madison Avenue for decades, are now fully engaged on the latest technological frontier in advertising: aiming specific ads at potential supporters based on where they live, the Web sites they visit and their voting records.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Re: Syria
For those of you who still doubt
Obama did the right thing in Libya,
just look at all the dead innocents in Syria now:
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@NYTIMES: February 19, 2012
"Two Senators Say U.S. Should Arm Syrian Rebels
"By ALISSA J. RUBIN
KABUL, Afghanistan — With the Syrian government continuing its deadly crackdown on its citizens, two senior American senators who were on their way to the Middle East spoke out strongly on Sunday in favor of arming the Syrian opposition forces.
The senators, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both Republicans, laid out a series of diplomatic, humanitarian and military aid proposals that would put the United States squarely behind the effort to topple President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. The senators, both of whom are on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that rebel fighters deserved to be armed and that helping them take on the Syrian government would aid Washington’s effort to weaken Iran.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/world/middleeast/mccain-and-graham-suggest-helping-syrian-rebels.html?_r=1&hp
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@NYTIMES: February 19, 2012
"Two Senators Say U.S. Should Arm Syrian Rebels
"By ALISSA J. RUBIN
KABUL, Afghanistan — With the Syrian government continuing its deadly crackdown on its citizens, two senior American senators who were on their way to the Middle East spoke out strongly on Sunday in favor of arming the Syrian opposition forces.
The senators, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both Republicans, laid out a series of diplomatic, humanitarian and military aid proposals that would put the United States squarely behind the effort to topple President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. The senators, both of whom are on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that rebel fighters deserved to be armed and that helping them take on the Syrian government would aid Washington’s effort to weaken Iran.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/world/middleeast/mccain-and-graham-suggest-helping-syrian-rebels.html?_r=1&hp
"2012: Year of #Birthcontrol Moms?"
#Democrats win this issue easy @ Mr. #GOP; & Mrs.GOP agrees with me too: "2012: Year of #Birthcontrol Moms?"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73043.html
" >Hasn’t been a front-burner political issue since the Supreme Court decided Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965.
>But then Rick Santorum said states ought to have the right to outlaw the sale of contraception.
>And Susan G. Komen for the Cure yanked its funding for Planned Parenthood.
>And the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops teed off on President Barack Obama’s contraception policy.
>And House Republicans invited a panel of five men — and no women — to debate the issue.
>And a prominent Santorum supporter pined for the days when “the gals” put aspirin “between their knees” to ward off pregnancy. "
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73043.html
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Never trust any hardware or software.
Never trust any hardware or software. Nor any one on the internet. Even sites you use regularly.~ tp ---
Anger for Path Social Network After Privacy Breach - NYTimes.com
By NICK BILTON
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"Last week, Arun Thampi, a programmer in Singapore, discovered that the mobile social network Path was surreptitiously copying address book information from users’ iPhones without notifying them."
Monday, February 6, 2012
The Death of the Cyberflâneur : By EVGENY MOROZOV
~~ The internet grows up. Now far from its wild west type free wheeling eclectic early days, the web today is a place of functions-- and not so much a place of recreations.~~ TP
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NYT -op-ed : The Death of the Cyberflâneur
By EVGENY MOROZOV
Published: February 4, 2012
"It’s easy to see, then, why cyberflânerie seemed such an appealing notion in the early days of the Web. The idea of exploring cyberspace as virgin territory, not yet colonized by governments and corporations, was romantic; that romanticism was even reflected in the names of early browsers (“Internet Explorer,” “Netscape Navigator”).
"Online communities like GeoCities and Tripod were the true digital arcades of that period, trading in the most obscure and the most peculiar, without any sort of hierarchy ranking them by popularity or commercial value. Back then eBay was weirder than most flea markets; strolling through its virtual stands was far more pleasurable than buying any of the items. For a brief moment in the mid-1990s, it did seem that the Internet might trigger an unexpected renaissance of flânerie.
"However, anyone entertaining such dreams of the Internet as a refuge for the bohemian, the hedonistic and the idiosyncratic probably didn’t know the reasons behind the disappearance of the original flâneur"
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Web's Growing Muscle
The Web's Growing Muscle
By AMY SCHATZ, GEOFFREY A. FOWLER and ERICA ORDEN
"Last year, though, Google spent $9.68 million on lobbying, up from $1.52 million four years earlier. Facebook, which had a one-man operation in Washington as recently as 2007, set a new lobbying record for itself, spending $1.35 million. "
By AMY SCHATZ, GEOFFREY A. FOWLER and ERICA ORDEN
"Last year, though, Google spent $9.68 million on lobbying, up from $1.52 million four years earlier. Facebook, which had a one-man operation in Washington as recently as 2007, set a new lobbying record for itself, spending $1.35 million. "
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When I started this blog project way back in 2000 the question
of Internet Power into the 21st century was central to its thesis.
Would the web evolve to a potent tool of grassroots political activism?
Well last week with the SOPA protests online the Internet came of age.
Technopolitically speaking.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Data Security Center In Utah Targets Cyberspace
~~ As long as the USA stays a free Democracy , with a free press & etc., this plan does not alarm me. But maybe I am just getting old and jaded , and getting [too?] used to a growing Big Brother in the name of National Security ~`
CAMP WILLIAMS, Utah
(Reuters) - A $1.5 billion dollar National Security Agency data center under construction in Utah will be an important step in dealing with rising volumes of information in cyberspace, officials said on Thursday. "It's a very important step in protecting the interests of our country. Banking, financial interests, Internet and national security. This is an important step forward in all of those," U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch told Reuters at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Data Center.
Monday, September 13, 2010
NY : In Primaries, Casting Votes Without Pulling a Lever
~~ I am not a fan of electronic voting as I have posted here often ,, but now it is in my home state -
- so I will have to grin and bear it . ~~
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In Primaries, Casting Votes Without Pulling a Lever
By DAVID W. CHEN
When New York City voters go to the polls on Tuesday to vote in primary elections for governor, attorney general, Congress and other offices, they may think they have showed up at the wrong location.
Gone will be the familiar if clunky voting booths with the lever machines and the throwback curtains. In their place will be tables where most people will be filling out SAT-style ovals on paper ballots, then feeding those ballots into an electronic voting machine not unlike a fax machine or an A.T.M.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Court allows warrantless cell
~~ As you will see this is a narrow decision.
They just can't go willy-nilly tracking folks for no reason. ~~`
September 7, 2010 1:44 PM PDT
Court allows warrantless cell location tracking
Thursday, August 19, 2010
E-Voting Machine Easily Reprogrammed To Play Pac-Man
~` I am really really spooked by the concept of e-voting as I have written about often here for years now ~` TP
McAfee Says Cameron Diaz Most Dangerous Person in Cyberspace August 19, 2010 10:50 AM EDT
Old internet trick.
It has happened to Technopolitical too.
During the first years of this blog Spammers would copy and paste MY whole blog into their infected websites,
so if i Google myself -I would find the spam page.
I did fall for the trick and lost my data.
Never Again, Be careful out there.
McAfee Says Cameron Diaz Most Dangerous Person in Cyberspace
August 19, 2010 10:50 AM EDT
"Surprisingly, teen stars Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus were at the bottom of the list and considered relatively safe choices.
Yes, Cameron Diaz is very pretty, but think before you push that download button."
http://technology.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978455267
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The debate over net neutrality
~~ I have been following the debate over Net Neutrality since 2005 -- and I gotta a admit , I thought it was a dead issue, till it reared it ugly heard again --this time with "do no evil Google" now advocating some form of tiered internet. So here is my take:
THE FREE MARKET will keep the internet free and open. Someone will always step up as an ISP service that will offer unbridled internet for HOME connections. Wireless connections make the issues of "hardware infrastructure" of wired systems less of an issue , so hopefully the Free Market alternatives will mean there will always be an option of ISPs. However , you may have to pay a bit more to surf the net w/o restrictions.
The debate over net neutrality has taken center stage after the FCC called off its attempts to negotiate a compromise with key industry players, and after Google and Verizon issued a joint "net neutrality" proposal of their own. The issue has devolved into a political knife fight with the two sides divided sharply along predictable ideological lines.
As Google defends its flip-flopped betrayal of the principles of net neutrality, and AT&T jumps on board endorsing the industry-sided Google-Verizon proposal, four Democratic members of Congress have jumped into the fray to assert their opposition to the plan. Edward Markey, Anna Eshoo, Mike Doyle, and Jay Inslee wrote a letter to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, declaring that "formal FCC action is needed."
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Fox News does not need my help looking stupid
bit.ly
The Obama team has offered Shirley Sherrod her job back. Now, tell Obama to fire FOX News instead by kicking them out of the White House Press Corps.
"So we're calling on the White House to remove FOX News." --- ?
I do not feel good about this.
I am a First Amendment Freak, and big Civil Libertarian,
...
Fox News does not need my help looking stupid - they do well w/o my help ! :) - this is a case in point # one.
i have faith in the free market system of journalism -- that the idiots of the world -- both reporters AND the those reported on --- get theirs in the end.
As in: Sen. McCarthy do you not have any decency, sir !?!
The truth will always win out with a fully free press.
For the White House to ban Fox , IMHO would do more harm than good.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
"The good news is that someone still wants to spy on us. The bad news is that it’s the Russians."
~` Great op-ed piece by Tom Friedman of the NY Times today.
Nice read of Russia's "problem" in moving beyond
the cold war mentality ~~ TP
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The Spies Who Loved Us
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
" My first reaction was: This may be the greatest gift to America by a foreign country since France gave us the Statue of Liberty. Someone still wants to spy on us! Just when we were feeling down and out, the Russians show up and tell us that it’s still worth briefcases of money to plant people in our think tanks. Subprime crisis or not, some people think we’ve still got the right stuff. Thank you, Vladimir Putin! Upon reflection, though, it occurred to me that this is actually a good news/bad news story. The good news is that someone still wants to spy on us. The bad news is that it’s the Russians."
Friday, July 9, 2010
"They found that the spread of home computers and high-speed Internet access was associated with significant declines in math and reading scores."
Stop reading my blog -- BUY or Borrow A BOOK !!! ~` TP
The Medium Is the Medium
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: July 8, 2010
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
Study links bee decline to cell phones
www.cnn.com
A new study has suggested that cell phone radiation may be contributing to declines in bee populations in some areas of the world.
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If this bears out as true,
this is a very historical find. It will change much.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Celebrating the birth of copyright : by Sen. Patrick Leahy.
By Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) - 04/13/10 02:31 PM ET :
The copyright laws offer creators incentive to produce new and unique works. These may come in various forms, including movies, music, and books, all of which are important components of American culture.
These works create jobs, from their production and manufacture to the advertising and sales that support them.
To cultivate these new jobs, intellectual property enforcement must keep pace with an ever changing digital world.
As an avid photographer I am intrigued by the debate at the turn of the 20th Century about whether photographs were copyrightable creations, or merely technical representations.
Public discussion then helped shape copyright laws to accommodate the new medium, just as it does now as times and technologies continue to change.
Today people watch television on handheld devices, skim books on digital readers and enjoy music on laptops, benefiting both content owner and the user.
But along with these new opportunities for distributing creative content, the World Wide Web has also brought new challenges.
"A rampant increase in online piracy threatens the financial viability of those same copyright owners who benefit from our new technology.
This risks harming not only those creators, but the hundreds of thousands of jobs that result from their products.
It also instills the user with a fundamental mistrust of the technology. Effective intellectual property enforcement is necessary to counter this attack. "
The copyright laws offer creators incentive to produce new and unique works. These may come in various forms, including movies, music, and books, all of which are important components of American culture.
These works create jobs, from their production and manufacture to the advertising and sales that support them.
To cultivate these new jobs, intellectual property enforcement must keep pace with an ever changing digital world.
As an avid photographer I am intrigued by the debate at the turn of the 20th Century about whether photographs were copyrightable creations, or merely technical representations.
Public discussion then helped shape copyright laws to accommodate the new medium, just as it does now as times and technologies continue to change.
Today people watch television on handheld devices, skim books on digital readers and enjoy music on laptops, benefiting both content owner and the user.
But along with these new opportunities for distributing creative content, the World Wide Web has also brought new challenges.
"A rampant increase in online piracy threatens the financial viability of those same copyright owners who benefit from our new technology.
This risks harming not only those creators, but the hundreds of thousands of jobs that result from their products.
It also instills the user with a fundamental mistrust of the technology. Effective intellectual property enforcement is necessary to counter this attack. "
: "Are Profits Hurting Capitalism?"
~` Great piece~~------------------------
OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS: "Are Profits Hurting Capitalism?"
By YVES SMITH and ROB PARENTEAU
Published: July 2, 2010
..."So instead of pursuing budget retrenchment, policymakers need to create incentives for corporations to reinvest their profits in business operations"
By YVES SMITH and ROB PARENTEAU
Published: July 2, 2010
..."So instead of pursuing budget retrenchment, policymakers need to create incentives for corporations to reinvest their profits in business operations"
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
"A Chinese court on Saturday sentenced a Tibetan environmentalist..."
"BEIJING, July 3 (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Saturday sentenced a Tibetan environmentalist who organized villagers to pick up litter and plant trees to five years in jail for inciting to split the nation, his lawyer said."
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