From “Should You Use A White Or Black Background For Music Websites?”: Usually, the color scheme influences over how long people will stay on your website. It is said that dark fonts on the light background are more comfortable to…
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Medical Data Hacking?
From: “Why Are Hackers Increasingly Targeting the Healthcare Industry?” (Slashdot) My comment there: This problem has to be a myth. Each time I enter the healthcare industry, I have to fill out the same “wonderful” multi-page form by including basic…
Future Filter
Information filtering is a big deal, but common sense dictates that it’s going to become a much bigger issue and industry — and thankfully create a lot of jobs for our species. Algorithms (e.g. search engines) are largely responsible for…
Tagged with: algorithms, curation, information, information management, Internet, journalism, technology
Posted in TechYes
Posted in TechYes
Private Taping
While our government is pressing the Unbreakable Encryption Prohibition button in our world with pitiful technological privacy implementation at least involving data mining, there’s this… FBI Director James Comey… admits he puts a piece of tape over the webcam lens…
Tagged with: computer security, computers, encryption, government, law, privacy, surveillance, technology
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Path to Slutty Robots
Prompted by: People Feel Weird About Touching Robot Butts, Researchers Find (Slashdot) How would you feel if a robot asked you to touch its butt? Maybe it sounds like a silly question, but as robots proliferate and anthropomorphize, it’s actually…
Privacy is Dying
Prompted by “Samsung Warns Customers To Think Twice About What They Say Near Smart TVs”: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/02/14/1742240/samsung-warns-customers-to-think-twice-about-what-they-say-near-smart-tvs In a troubling new development in the domestic consumer surveillance debate, an investigation into Samsung Smart TVs has revealed that user voice commands are…
Tagged with: computer security, computers, privacy, security, technology
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Ad(d) Hypocrisy
Prompted by “Online Ad Czar Berates Adblockers As Freedom-Hating ‘Mafia’”: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/01/26/1720217/online-ad-czar-berates-adblockers-as-freedom-hating-mafia Randall Rothenburg, the president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has made a speech branding the creators of Adblock Plus (who were banned from the conference where…
Tagged with: advertising, communications, computer security, computers, freedom, freedom of speech, health, information, Internet, liberty, mainstream media, privacy, security, software, stress, stress management, technology
Posted in TechYes
Posted in TechYes
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