Category Archives: Technology

Google’s new trick: knowing where you parked.

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Thanos

While people worry about privacy doing tricks like this is all about your machines tracking you, and then guessing the meaning of your daily motions through the contextual sense of multiple sensors. If Google can do this then they can … Continue reading →

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Security Updates

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Thanos

First there’s Microsoft’s new IE vulnerability revealed Saturday: Late Saturday Microsoft revealed a vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer that is being used in “limited, targeted attacks.” They are investigating the vulnerability and exploit and have not yet determined what action … Continue reading →

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Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO): “Oregon Spirit” (Performed By Lisa Loeb)

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Thanos

I’m normally averse to profanity at this website, but in this case the curses and profanity are so richly deserved that I must post it. One other thing: good recovery at the Federal health care site (Healthcare.gov,) I’m glad that … Continue reading →

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Cloud done right

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Thanos

This Google Cloud Data center is a thing of beauty to anyone who has maintained large scale IT infrastructure long term. It’s well constructed, simply laid out, and efficient. The computing power displayed in these fully populated rows of chassis’ … Continue reading →

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Future of Technology survey from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Thanos

A majority of Americans are optimistic about technology’s potential impacts on our future even after the last couple of decades of dystopian future films from Hollywood. Most of them when asked about specifics like personal implants or robots caring for … Continue reading →

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Intelligence Gathering and the Unowned Internet – NSA, Berkman Center Panel Discussion

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Thanos

A good discussion on what’s right and what’s wrong with the current NSA rule sets and oversight. It starts dry but gets very interesting, please stick with it to the end. The long-term viability of an unowned, open Internet remains … Continue reading →

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‘Electronic skin’ equipped with memory

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Thanos

This is merely the beginning — nano-technology razor thin wearable and/or implantable sensors coupled with computer on a chips wearing highly accurate medical devices that track everything will become the norm as these devices will become printable or otherwise available … Continue reading →

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What’s the best encryption method for security?

Posted on August 25, 2013 by Thanos

This question is getting asked a lot, and the answers you see out in the public sphere of the internet range from pathetically underwhelming to just plain wrong in some cases. So this is my attempt to point people in … Continue reading →

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Meet Randroid, My Galaxy S4

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Thanos

Normally I don’t say good things about wireless phones because I work in the industry, I read lots of science fiction, and I know what’s possible now – so the typical smart phone underwhelms me more often than not. Not … Continue reading →

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Post Panamax? What’s that?

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Thanos

Great things are happening all around us, but the average person is not noticing them. How many have heard about the widening of the Panama canal, or the effects that will have on shipping? Slated to complete in 2015 the … Continue reading →

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