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| 20.2.2013 | 3 months ago
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The latrine duty of the connected future is for certain unlucky individuals to daily watch unspeakable horrors of violence and porn and click “ban”…
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| 10.1.2013 | 4 months ago
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Suddenly, Hollywood style hacking doesn’t seem so silly anymore:
It assumes that you have access to a suspended/screen-locked computer whose disk is encrypted. You access the machine over its FireWire interface (or, if it doesn’t have FireWire, you plug a FireWire card into one of its slots, and the machine will automatically fetch, install and configure the drivers, even if it’s asleep), and then use the FireWire drivers to directly access system memory, and from there, patch the password-checking routine and walk straight into the computer.
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| 9.1.2013 | 4 months ago
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Somehow, this joke also makes perfect sense - how to otherwise govern what happens with digital remnants? (via DELETE MY BROWSER HISTORY Medicalert bracelet - Boing Boing)
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| 27.9.2011 | 1 year ago
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Internet is not a direct representation of reality but skewed in the same way a tabloid newspaper is. But as internet becomes part of everyday life, it also becomes part of reality. That’s the process that makes any Mohammad a terrorist in justice by correlation, as algoritms group and filter based on far less complicated patterns than humans. (via danah boyd: “Guilt Through Algorithmic Association” – Boing Boing)
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| 15.3.2011 | 2 years ago
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Via an excellent article in Futurismic, I realized the simple fact that Speakularity, that is the massive digitalization of voice, is going to add an interesting new dimension to internet.
At the moment, we are in a phase where more and more communication is text based, and also most written material is digitalized or made digitally from the beginning. But a vast amount of communication is still by voice. Who indexes what has been said?
Once automatic speech transcription gets big (and we are in its infancy now), literally anything that has been spoken can be digital, searchable and stored. The amount of information available will multiply.
Imagine measuring popularity of a product on how many times it has been mentioned, globally, by indexing surveillance videos, Youtube videos, live feeds from people’s smartphones, TV programmes, etc. It is basically Echelon opened up to the Internet.
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| 29.12.2010 | 2 years ago
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Chinese: The New Dominant Language of the Internet
China gained 36 million additional internet users last year meaning there are now over 440 million internet users in the country. English has long been the most widely used language on the internet but with Chinese Internet growth rising at the rate it is, it could be less than five years before Chinese becomes the dominant language on the internet.
» via TheNextWeb
(via futuramb)
