On 15/12/2013, at 3:19 AM, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote:
Or instead of McDonalds ads on our computer screens, we may be seeing
the entrances to Mcdonalds drive-throughs through our vehicle screens.
Cheers :)
Stephen
... will that become drive-thoughts or the ultimate 'click-through', the
I'm not an economist, but it seems to me that the driverless car is a
Detroit nightmare.
Instead of parking the car when you don't want it (as we do now), you
merely release it to transport someone else.
If the duty cycle of the vehicle is increased, fewer vehicles are required.
Oh, and look!
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 07:39 +1100, Richard wrote:
I'm not an economist, but it seems to me that the driverless car is a
Detroit nightmare.
Instead of parking the car when you don't want it (as we do now), you
merely release it to transport someone else.
If the duty cycle of the vehicle is
[Inamongst the blurb in this NSA charm-offensive are some glimpses of
how low-grade NSA's internal security arrangements were.]
NSA installs new system controls in wake of Snowden leaks
Tabassum Zakaria, Warren Strobel
itNews
Dec 15, 2013 10:51 PM (9 hours ago)
At 08:44 AM 16/12/2013, Roger Clarke wrote:
The NSA's internal review has determined about 98 percent of the
scope of the material that Snowden had accessed, and officials have
found no evidence that he had help either within the NSA or from
adversary spy agencies.
98 percent of the **scope** is
Google have announced that they will begin cacheing the images in email
ads. Advertisers load emails with uniquely-named images that are
downloaded at the time the mail is displayed. This allows them to track
stuff like whether the email was viewed, at what time, by what client, at
what
Although what you've included below is what is widely being reported, it is
NOT what Google is currently doing.
Google is currently NOT pre-downloading images, but instead are downloading
it and caching it the first time that it is accessed. They are also moving
towards displaying images by
I don't know what the fuss is about. Google is doing just enough, but could
certainly do a lot more.
For example, it could pre-fetch all images referred to by incoming mail and
then cache those. Then spammers would never know if the mail was read. Better
still, it could rewrite image URLs to
On 14/12/2013, at 9:19 AM, Karl Auer wrote:
On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 09:16 +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/529392/20131211/gchq-forced-privatesky-secure-email-service-offline.htm
We are business people but we believe in privacy, internet freedom and
responsible
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 16:18 +1030, Glen Turner wrote:
On 14/12/2013, at 9:19 AM, Karl Auer wrote:
entity. If there were a distributed mechanism in place (think Tor),
these problems would go away.
I don't know what that mechanism is - but it's the answer :-)
The problem with distributed
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 07:24 +, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote:
As much as I hope you are right Karl ... here's a map showing that by 2012
the NSA has placed 50,000 High-Speed Optical Cable access points worldwide
It's not about physical access (well, not ALL about physical access).
It's about
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