We live in some pretty extraordinary times as far as technology is concerned. To think we hold more technology in our hands via our cell phones than what they had when a man landed on the moon is crazy.
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Palate Cleanser – and I Remember Dropping Trays of These
Even in the early 70s, secondary magnetic memory was rather expensive. At the BU Academic Computing Center where I was a student operator and teaching assistant, disk packs held 5MB 10 disks on a single spindle.
The NSA Has Violated Our Rights … It’s Official
After exposure by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, it took seven years. But last week a federal appeals court ruling came down. It says the Obama-Era NSA’s bulk collection of phone metadata was both illegal and unnecessary.
Technology, Society, Cyber-Culture, Privacy and Constitutions
Since well before we eagerly leapt into the world of technology, we gave very little thought to the possibility that someday we would find ourselves at a perilous fork in the road as a society, culture, and country.
Teachers, is Your Profession Becoming Obsolete?
Years ago I saw a survey by parents that indicated they preferred their children attending a local public school using a traditional model where their children were taught by great teachers. I think most everyone would agree with that, even when they opt for a private school.
NPR Broadcast Ratings Take a Hit – No Commute, No Commuters Listening
NPR’s cavalcade of partisan political radio romances is officially a COVID19 casualty. Wounded would be more accurate. The New America, with its infectious factions facilitating frauds, has hit the fake-news NPR to the tune 25% of its listening audience.
Moving Out With American Trucking
American trucking is responsible for much of our way of life. Most of us fail to realize how many of the things we use or consume daily do not have a local source. Whether it’s food, fuel, electronics or clothes; the goods are not from a local source.
The Best Ways To Upgrade Your Business This Year
It is important to always consider ways in which you can upgrade your business. You cannot expect to succeed and compete with other brands if you simply stay the same every year, especially when you consider just how quickly the landscape changes in terms of technology, trends, and expectations. This also makes it hard to … Read more
Does anyone believe China belongs on the Human Rights Council of the United Nations?
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, China received an appointment to the United Nations Human Rights Council panel. It will play a key role there picking the world body’s human rights investigators. This includes global monitors on freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention.
Important Fleet Tracking Insights Fleet Managers Should Know
Fleet managers have an obligation to optimize the productivity of the company. Strategies like company vehicle tracking, fuel management, marketing of the business, and increased safety and security differentiates a performing fleet company and one that is not. The biggest concern today is tracking the fleet vehicles so that they remain productive, safe, and improve … Read more
Op-ED: Using Tech effectively in New Hampshire schools
To screen or not to screen? That is the question facing parents and educators across the country.
Digital technology has opened up new possibilities in teaching, as well as so many other areas of modern life. But new research finds that too much screen time can hinder a child’s educational development.
Will reality have any real effect on political debate?
The conservative/liberal debate is interesting because both terms are undefined. It’s healthy to have this debate. But what exactly is the debate today? The terms have any meaning anyone wants to assign them, any time they feel like using them. Which is to say, they are utterly useless except as pejoratives.
Put Your Phone Down and Pay Attention
Would you like to learn a little-known secret? For several years before I gave a damn about politics, I practiced writing column length articles. Hey, I like to write. The topic at the time was driving. Traffic stats. Driver safety. And my kids were going to be drivers someday, so it sort of made sense.
Discovery: Scientists Can Turn CO2 From the Atmosphere into Coal at Room Temperature
Put your land hogging species killing inefficient, green energy windmills and solar panels away. Oh, and the billions in pro-ups, handouts, and subsidies as well. Scientists in Australia have come up with an affordable, scalable process for turning CO2 from the air into solid carbon.
Donald Trump’s Moves To Develop US Supplies of Lithium and Other Critical Minerals
No modern economy, especially a (cough-cough) green one, can long survive without critical minerals like lithium. But until recently US resources have gone undeveloped or underdeveloped. Most of our lithium comes from South America or Australia via China. That means strategic enemies. The Green President didn’t do much if anything to change that. Mr. Trump, however, has.
Motion Technology For All My PC’s
Coming in May 2013 – A motion technology interface that plugs into any PC – via USB port – allowing you to use your hands to interface with your computer. More details and links to more details here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3b4w749Tud8
Email Doodlings: NH GOP – Bang! There goes one foot
BackStory: Since the national election, much has been made of the Obama Data Machine – hundreds of millions of dollars spent, hundreds of people employed, and a use of advanced IT married with Big Data and Behavioral Engineering / Science for the singular purpose of keeping Obama in the Oval Office seat. Certainly, the GOP, the NH GOP, needs to learn that lesson (one among many) that the terms, conditions, and actions of campaigning have been forever changed. The ability to find, persuade, motivate, and get new and low information voters to go and vote was a model of technology – far beyond what has been yet defined, spec’d out, implemented, and used.
Agreement all around: the GOP, heck – the NH GOP, has to get with it and soon. Or either be relegated to minority status for a long time -or come out with another kind of disruptive technique (perhaps totally orthagonal to even the “new normal” of Big Data / Behavioral Science / Campaigning. If the latter happens, great but in the mean time, it is pretty much agreed that Tech must be upgraded. Pretty much, it is a must – anything to better connect with voters. One email that came in over the transom:
Party Of Science and Technology Hits Way-Back Machine For Benghazi Cover-Up
I still have an election 2010 bumper sticker on my car that say’s “Take Back America.” Last week I saw a bumper sticker, clearly designed to counter that idea “Take American back where?” with a list of dates traveling into antiquity. The left thinks they are the party of science, progress. They tell themselves these things to cover up their desire for a failed system of government that in the scope of human history has itself been the rule rather than the exception. A top down tyranny directed by a chosen few who decide what is best for the rabble. Forward!
Well the party of technology is at cross-purposes over their cover-up in Benghazi.
A personal defense weapon, printable with a 3D printer. On the way….
I LIKE these guys. Just donated $20 to them. I urge you to watch the video below, then go see their website and contribute too. Will 3D printers be outlawed? In many places, yes. Will printing personal defense weapons be outlawed?
http://youtu.be/AQ6Q3BfbVBU
One of the quickest ways to get “The Look” from TMEW is to show her this picture of this rig and ask…
…”Wouldn’t this look great on MY desk?” (even as she knows that I don’t play computer games). A pitiful “Please?” didn’t help either…. More nice setups at the link. (H/T: Caveman Circus)