Facebook Sacrifices Its Users to Greed
Facebook has been caught with a seriously nasty tracking and monitoring program that it's unleashed upon it's users.
Their new ad software broadcasts your current activities to your facebook friends. If you just bought a ticket to a concert, your friends might see an alert to that effect. If you just bought medication for your embarassing personal issue, .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Blogging, Consequences, Facebook, Families, If You Only Knew, MySpace, PoliceHow to Record A Phone Call And Save Your Butt
I've been on the wrong end of legal action due to someone else's incompetence. Because I lived in a "one-party" state, I was able to legally record a call to an office WITHOUT TELLING THEM and use it in a phone hearing as evidence. Because of this, I was able to prove that I had been given the .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Phone RecordingEFF Releases Free Software To Detect If Your ISP is Cheating You
Because Comcast has been denying the results of an Associated Press study showing they've been blocking certain types of traffic, the The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has done their own study proving that it's true.
Beyond that, they've created software that can be downloaded free that people can use to test it for themselves. Go EFF!
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: bittorrent, Comcast, EFFVisual Dictionary Helps Find “Whats-it-called” With Pictures
It's a little light on content at the moment, but I think this has potential. If you can't remember what something is called, you can hunt it down visually via connections to other pictures that are related or part of it.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Search EnginesAttorney Generals to Oppose TJX Settlement
Remember that TJX, the idiot company responsible for the biggest data breach in history, managed (somehow) to have part of their punishment include having to put their products on sale (oh, curses!)? Well, some Attorney Generals aren't satisfied with that.
It's nice to know that someone in a position of authority is actually paying attention.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: TJXStem Cell Debate May be Over
They may have found a way to modify regular skin cells into working like stem cells. Having another source that is easier to get, far more plentiful, and lacks those nasty moral issues would make the technology thrive. Let's hope for the best.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Stem CellsTyposquatting A Problem, But Tools are Wrong Solution
There's been a recent report about the Typo-squatting problem where they talk about mistyping a popular website name can get you served with a fake site full of ads, Malware - Viruses, Worms, and Trojans (Oh My!), or porn.
They mention the McAffee SiteAdvisor software that tries to alert you if you're on a site that probably isn't .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Google, Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty TricksGreece Shows US How It’s Done
When the police in Greece used a surveillance camera network to monitor demonstrations, the head of their Data Protection Authority (along with the deputy head and two others) all resigned in protest .
Too bad our leaders don't have the same level of integrity. We can't even get our new attorney general to admit that waterboarding is torture.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Big Brother, GreeceFree Software Foundation To Support RIAA Victims
The RIAA has been able to run free for years suing just about anyone it can using dubious legal methods. Well, their glory days may be over. The Free Software Foundation has pledged funds to "pay fees and/or expenses of technical expert witnesses, forensic examiners, and other technical consultants assisting individuals named as defendants in non-commercial, peer-to-peer file sharing cases .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Free Software Foundation, Good Stuff, RIAASpychips Author Sets Record Straight on Cancer-Causing RFID Implants
Caspian just released a paper documenting the research showing the causal link between RFID implants and cancer in lab animals. The reason they issued this report is because of the recent news press about the issue. They wrote and issued this report because "a lot of misinformation about the cancer research has circulated since [the original cancer .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Cancer, Implants, RFID, Verichip