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POPSArtists stage street scenes to lurk in Google maps Like many first-time Street View users, Kinsley and Hewlett, then roommates, typed in their address and found their house. Kinsley and Hewlett soon found themselves discussing surveillance and virtual reality, and began considering how they might explore those issues and Street View through art. "But instead of dwelling on the darker undertones of these issues, we began to think about ways of playing with the system," Kinsley said in an e-mail interview from Iceland, where he is participating in an artist residency. The "Street With a View" project was his master of fine arts thesis project at Carnegie Mellon University. "We were interested in interjecting something staged, something fictional, into Street View and playing with - and subtly questioning - the notion of reality in something that we perceive as a factual representation of our world," said Kinsley, 26.
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POPSThe Internet of things In doing so, the internet of things promises to reshape our lives as fundamentally as the introduction of the railway, but with less public consent or even debate about its arrival. Before it does arrive, perhaps we could spare a moment to think what it might mean. As one day in the future you might even get assigned your own unique IP number. By then, of course, it will be too late to complain.
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POPSIndicting the hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's private email - Harpers.org The DOJ has mounted an extraordinary case against the hacker who revealed Sarah Palin's apparent systematic violation of the Open Records Act (by using a private email address to conduct government business). Given that the DOJ normally doesn't care much about cyber-crime, one has to wonder how the decision to allocate those resources was made.
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POPSOur "Digital Shadow" -a Mind-Bending Prediction In terms of numbers, the figures are staggering. The size of the digital universe for 2007 reached 281 billion gigabytes, or, 281 exabytes. This works out to be about 45GB of digital information per person on the planet. And, considering the lack of information for some of the third world countries, one can only imagine how much those of us reading this article will have under their belts. Furthermore, the amount of information about us that is generated automatically on a pretty much daily basis outweighs the total volume of information that we create about ourselves. Naturally this has large security implications that the IT sector will have to address more and more as time passes.
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POPSSurprising Things You Can Get For Free (Or Almost) More free stuff: Sheet music MutopiaProject.org has 1,272 pieces available Radio service Pandora.com is like your own personal radio service Gently used stuff at freecycle.org Photo organizer Picasa (picasa.google.com) Spam filter Get your download at spamato.net Family calendar Famundo.com is an online calendar, address book and message board
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POPSThe need to rate trustworthy information online Tim is spot on and I think we need to address the anonimity of the web. If you're anonymous online you should automatically be branded untrustworthy and electronic IDs should be used for interactions online so that each person you interact with can rate your trustworthiness.
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POPSFriday Night Clip -. BBB issue alert on Worldwide Loan Club What can I say? Off in the distance I hear the sounds of mass clicking of user control panels (user cp) as forum signatures around the traps are replaced with the next big thing. All singalong this will be the one I've waited for la la la. 2008 is full of programs with elaborate descriptions and hype Quite amusing really. Seems to me a more simple one word description causes less problems. A duck is a duck as is a hyip a hyip no matter what frock it is wearing. Or how it is talked up
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POPSPalin: Iraq war 'a task that is from God' And I wonder what "God" she is referring to? Last I knew was that "God" is a peaceful entity - not one that promotes and projects war, especially for Gas and Oil. She must either have the wrong God or is totally confused.
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POPSComcast to cap online use The cap will be set at 250gb. If you go over that, you get a courtesy call from Comcast as a first warning. The second time that you go over, your account will be immediately suspended for an entire calendar year. People that watch movies or video's online are going to be hit hard because you can go over your daily limit in minutes. And don't forget that companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and others are offering online (cloud) storage. Some applications such as Google's http://docs.google.com/ are online and would be completely inaccessible to small business's or home offices. Plus there are X-box, Playstation, Nintendo and many other consumer boxes that require the internet to access online games, calenders, address books, and even clocks.
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