online safety
FBI’s Online Wiretapping and your Computer
How the FBI’s online wiretapping plan could get your computer hacked ‘The fundamental problem is that eavesdropping facilities are a double-edged sword. They make it easier for the U.S. government to spy on the bad guys. But they also make it easier for the bad guys to hack our computers and spy on us. And, […]
School Privatizers Buy State-Level Elections
‘Billing itself as “the nation’s voice for educational choice,” the American Federation for Children pushes forward students of color as the beneficiaries of its lobbying work, but the politicians they support are not exactly heroes of the civil-rights movement. ‘Dark money for TV and radio ads further obscures the school-choice issue. Often, these are ads […]
EULA and the Advantage of Free Apps
EULA – acronym for End-user license agreement This EULA Will Make You Rethink Every App and Online Service You Use ‘…Without the public road, and utterly unencumbered access to it, a child’s lemonade stand would never turn a profit. The real business opportunity would be in privatizing other people’s roads. ‘Similarly, without an open, unified […]
A Googler’s Nightmare
When Google banned me from AdSense without explanation, I thought it was a severe case of dictatorship. But I recently learned not to expect explanations from Busy FREE services. Google can suspend your accounts without notice and explanation. When that happened to Tienlon Ho, he tried asking friends who work at Google for help but […]
Guitar Notes Writes eMail Messages
Musician Sends Emails Using His Guitar ‘David Neevel builds a device at home that lets him type using notes that correspond with a letter of the alphabet. ‘David Neevel realised that he spent far too much time typing things into his computer than he did practicing the guitar. The only logical solution was to find […]
A Great Resource for Avid Photographers
Explore the World’s Oldest Photography Museum See the oldest photos from 1840s ‘The George Eastman House is the first museum of photography to join the Google Art Project, a digital collection for works of art. ‘Without leaving your couch, you can visit Google’s Art Project online and see more than 40,000 works of art from […]
What Cross-site Scripting Is
If you use NoScript, you sometimes get a warning against potential cross-site scripting attempts ‘Cross-site scripting, also known as “XSS,” is a class of security exploit that has gotten a fair bit of attention in the last few years. Many users, and even Web developers, aren’t entirely clear on what the term means, however. I’ll […]
Cyberattack Affected You? Blame Your ISP
The Huge Cyberattack that Slowed Down the Web Yesterday morning, I noticed that my browser kept freezing. Also, it was almost an hour, yet one website I’m trying to curate on was still frozen. I checked for malicious activities but there was none. That made me madder because I thought my laptop was naturally dying! […]
The Quantified Self Movement
Analyze your own data ‘Technology has made it easier than ever to track your activity levels, your sleep cycles, how you spend your time, and more. The self-trackers who near-obsessively capture and analyze their own data are part of a growing “Quantified Self” movement. ‘Interested in giving self-tracking a try? Self-tracker Peter Zandan, an executive […]
The PediHome WN!!
(What Next!!) I boldly predict that this invention will flood the Third World very soon Tricycle House pedal-powered RV offers lots of home comforts ‘Conceived by architectural firm People’s Industrial Design Office (PIDO) for 2012’s “Get It Louder” Exhibition in Beijing, the Tricycle House addresses the fact that private ownership of land is not permitted […]
