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GPS Turns Seattle Bus into a Convertible
I’m the first to admit I’ve become quite dependent on technology in just about every scope of my life. It’s actually why I generally understand the limitations of it at the same time, ironically. I also like to think I have some common sense. For example, I know that 12 feet is larger than 9 [...]
Chocolate Rains on Password Security
In what can’t possibly be the most scientific of surveys, Infosecurity Europe has discovered that women are four times more likely to give their computer passwords to a complete stranger than men – just show them your chocolate bar first. Office workers outside Liverpool Street Station in London were offered a chocolate bar and entry [...]
Microsoft: UAC designed to bring insanity
User Account Control is both the most publicized and hated feature of Windows Vista as evident by the random tech headlines on any given day. The incessent pop-up confirmation boxes inundate users on even the mundane of tasks. We’ve heard the lectures that this is really for own good, how we are more secure as [...]
Census Bureau needs grandpa’s abacus
There’s an old axiom on how NASA spent millions to research and develop a pen that functions in space, while the Russians turned to the trusty pencil. This tale isn’t quite accurate but nonetheless, it’s a perfect example of the frivolous spending that happens with your tax dollars by the US government. It’s happened again, [...]
U.S. funded medical site aborts “abortion” search
Score one for censorship and right-wing conspiracies – Popline, the self proclaimed world’s largest database on reproductive health has begun blocking all searches containing the word abortion. The site is run by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland with funding provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “We recently made [...]
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