Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Beware of Technology named Beware

The Washington Post reports that there is a technology used by police forces called Beware. Beware, marketed by Intrado, profiles the threat level of a prospect for a police call. Calls to residences are among the most dangerous for police to answer. Their chances of being in harms way is much higher. So in addition to its 200 police camera "perched across the city," 800 more from schools and traffic cameras, and another several hundred worn by officers, the Fresno Police Department is testing yet another technology that is so invasive that it assigns a threat level to the person in the house before the police knock on the door. This is the type of technology used to spy on you every day. There's more.

The Post reports: "The cameras were only one tool at the ready. Officers could trawl a private database that has recorded more than 2 billion scans of vehicle license plates and locations nationwide. If gunshots were fired, a system called ShotSpotter could triangulate the location using microphones strung around the city. Another program, called Media Sonar, crawled social media looking for illicit activity...But perhaps the most controversial and revealing technology is the threat-scoring software Beware. Fresno is one of the first departments in the nation to test the program...As officers respond to calls, Beware automatically runs the addresses...to generate a color-coded threat level for each person."

Intrado's website describes Beware as: "Accessed through any browser (fixed or mobile) on any Internet-enabled device including tablets, smartphones, laptop and desktop computers, Beware® from Intrado searches, sorts and scores billions of publicly-available commercial records in a matter of seconds - alerting responders to potentially dangerous situations while en route to, or at the location of, a 9-1-1 request for assistance." It actually assigns a threat level of green, yellow, or red. But the company secret is how Beware scores an individual to assign the threat level, and its accuracy. A Fresno City Councilman had his threat level run and his home was rated yellow because of a previous resident, the Post reported.

Protecting police officers from unnecessary risk is important. Protecting personal privacy is a Constitutional requirement. Instead of being stewards of public property, such as roads, parks, schools, government buildings and the like, the government--local, state, and federal--has become dictator over public property. There is a big difference between a steward and a dictator. Under the deceptive guise of protection, your rights, your religious beliefs, your ability feel secure in the privacy of your home, can be violated by the all-knowing government. Exodus 20:3 says, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Government is not God. We should ensure that it understands that while we still have a say.
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
Bill Wilson
www.DailyJot.com

Monday, November 25, 2013

DARKNET IS 5,000 TIMES LARGER THAN THE "SURFACE" - UPDATE

UPDATE: Being in a hurry to post this I originally misspelled "Darknet" in the title and left out a paragraph that summarizes what this is!
the "darknet” – the vast, murky portion of the internet that cannot be indexed by standard search engines. Estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the "surface" web, it’s in these recesses where you’ll find human-trafficking rings, black market drug markets and terrorist networks.
THRILLING: The internet mystery that has the world baffled...

Friday, September 20, 2013

Comedian tells you why you shouldn't let your kids have a smart-phone

Popular comedian Louis C.K. sits down with late-night host Conan O’Brien: Read...and watch.

Saturday, May 25, 2013

McKinsey report: 12 disruptive tecnologies that will transform life, business, and the global economy

12 technologies that could drive truly massive economic transformations and disruptions in the coming years:
  1. Mobile Internet
  2. Automation of Knowledge Work
  3. The Internet of Things
  4. Cloud technology
  5. Advanced robotics
  6. Autonomous and Near-Autonomous Vehicles
  7. Next-generation genomics
  8. Energy storage
  9. 3-D printing
  10. Advanced materials
  11. Advanced oil and gas exploration and recovery
  12. Renewable energy

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

The Cloud

Apparently, it's not a good place to be!

Friday, June 01, 2012

Codename: 'Olympic Games'

...as a story in Technology Review points out, Stuxnet’s traits have already shown up several other malware samples that have hit American targets, implying that the Obama administration has been more focused on using its new weapons than in considering the consequences once that destructive code proliferated in the wild.
What Stuxnet's Exposure As An American Weapon Means For Cyberwar


Monday, December 05, 2011

Is Firefox toast?

So, what's going on with Mozilla--and, thereby, Firefox?

Ed Bott predicted earlier this year that Firefox is toast. Even if Microsoft does step in and save Mozilla for another year or two (or Google renews its own deal and keeps Firefox alive), the writing does seem to be on the wall.

Based on the trends of the past two years, the browser wars will soon be between Microsoft and Google. And then, beyond that, it will be interesting to see whether Facebook, Amazon, or Apple make a truly serious push.
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Monday, November 21, 2011

Wow--just what you've always wanted: A way to see the news in your eyeball all day long!

Redneck paradise!

Computerised contact lens will keep you up to date with news and texts

Oh wait: it's probably LIBERAL news. Scratch that.

Friday, October 21, 2011

NFC: Near Field Communication

NFC Technology: 6 Ways It Could Change Our Daily Lives
  1. Contactless payment

  2. Transportation

  3. Health Care

  4. Easy of Use

  5. Smart Objects

  6. Social Media
Near Field Communications World

NFC-Forum

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Laura Bush with Obama's Grandparents


Monday, April 18, 2011

App Zap


All those tweets, apps, updates may drain brain


Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Speaking of apps...

Here's a very funny one (the sad but funny but true kind):

HERE'S ONE FOR HEALTHCARE
Courtesy of RedState


Oh, wait...here's a REALLY funny article for you parents and/or older folks (over 50): "Techno gap? There's an app for that"

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Welcome to the Washington (D.C.) Two-Step!

Or should I say: Bait and Switch. Or, perhaps, it's a Shell Game. Oh, Hell, let's just call them all Grifters!
House Democrats keep stepping on President Obama's applause lines about innovation and job creation. On Tuesday, Mr. Obama announced that "we're proposing a complete elimination of capital gains taxes on small business investment" for one year.

Responding with rare dispatch, the House voted yesterday to change the capital gains rate for venture capitalists who invest in technology start-ups. But rather than eliminating the tax, the House more than doubled it, moving the tax rate to 35% from 15% by reclassifying such gains as ordinary income...

Knowing how popular tax increases are with unemployment at 10%, the House majority rushed the bill to the floor without a hearing or even a committee vote. Then they buried it in a package advertised as an extension of tax cuts for research and development.
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