TECHNOLOGY
How Video Led Snowden to Contact Filmmaker
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How Society Controls Us
A vitally important series about how society in general – and schooling in particular – not only “dumb down” the population, but also control its thinking. It gets off to a slow start, but stick with it. If you truly get the ideas of this series under your belt, it will change your life. Video […]
The Rise of Education Tech
‘Gone are the days when all that’s needed is a chalkboard and textbook to reach students. Educators who really want to have an impact are turning to technology and in many cases the results speak for themselves. A recent survey by PBS Learning Media found that 74% of teachers incorporated devices such as tablets in […]
Top 100 Most Pirated Files
Cinema Only Plays Film Clips Being Shared Illegally In Real-Time [Video] ‘The Pirate Cinema is an interesting tribute to the world of pirated movies and TV shows – giving visitors a way to actually see what’s happening on one of the largest peer-to-peer websites. ‘Created by Nicolas Maigret and Brendan Howell, the display uses a […]
Why You Deserve to Lose Your Privacy
To the apathetics: did you know that you even have freedoms? Probably not to the extent that you should. Let me explain some of them. Full story Nillabyte is a discussion forum where you can submit your own ‘issue’ Asian officials’ e-mails may be vulnerable to PRISM ‘Government and security officials in parts of […]
Social Media Lingo and Oxford Snobbery
Why ‘To Tweet’ Is Lowercase but ‘To Google’ Is Not ‘The linguistic snobs over at the Oxford English Dictionary have accepted “tweet” — as in to post something on Twitter — into its exclusive language club because “it seems to be catching on” as a verb in its own right, which got us thinking: how […]
NSA and Websites’ Terms of Service
You Probably Agreed to NSA Snooping When You Accepted That Website’s Terms of Service ‘Tucked away in those long paragraphs of legalese on pretty much every major Internet website (including Time.com) is a clause about how a business will handle your private data when the feds come knocking. In general, these companies grant themselves wide […]
Virus That Disables Copy/Paste
That’s what it did to my netbook and I thought ‘this is a Trojan’. What’s amazing was the virus wasn’t caught by a heavyweight AV or antimalware. Only my first line of defense – Rkill – did that! Rkill was run on 06/11/2013 at 23:18:50. Operating System: Windows 7 Starter Processes terminated by Rkill or […]
Avoid Cloud Storage for Stricter Privacy
Dropbox and Google Drive are some favorite cloud storage ‘As web users, we are helplessly — almost laughably — devoted to the cloud. A 2012 IHS iSuppli report predicts that by 2017, 1.3 billion online users will subscribe to cloud services. Our files, photos and financial records are all connected to a cloud overlord, and […]
How to Protect Your Files from PRISM
Encrypt your files with these tools DocTrackr DocTrackr will also alert you when someone tampers with your files It helps individuals and businesses keep their documents under control. Know wherever they’re stored and whomever they’re shared with. Update your docs in real time, know what people are doing with them and even destroy them remotely. […]
