I’m turning up a lot of stories these days highlighting abuse of power by those in authority. Technology is turning things around and everyday people armed with something as simple as cell phones with cameras are now our reporters.
Japanese journalized shot at point blank range, unprovoked. [video]
School guards break teenagers arm for leaving crumbs. [story, [...]
This is very cool. Supercomputer class machine nuilt for $2500, should be about ~$1250 by end of year.
Calvin College - News - Calvin Students Research Kent County Congregations
“So far as we can tell, this is the first supercomputer to have this low price/performance ratio—the first to cost less than $100/Gflop,” said Adams.This is a [...]
That was a bit freaky, reading about traffic tickets and the like here, I clicked through the “Privacy Information” link to here.
“Although we may use your Amazon.com cookie to determine whether you are a recognized Amazon visitor and to offer personalized content (such as product recommendations) and special offers, we do not keep or attempt to [...]
“Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the CIA’s computers made edits to the page of Iran’s president. It also purportedly shows that the Vatican has edited entries about Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.”
From this article.
This is brilliant:
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
I love the way they waited long enough for organizations and individuals to do enough to incriminate themselves [...]
[This is fascinating, exciting and scary .. all at once]
Technological singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Technological Singularity is the hypothesized creation, usually via AI or brain-computer interfaces, of smarter-than-human entities who rapidly accelerate technological progress beyond the capability of human beings to participate meaningfully in said progress.
