And, for your reading enjoyment, more links! Before we go there, though, have any of you thought about Location Privacy? I know that I have, but had never really considered that Firefox would be so backwards that it would go out of its way to reveal my location. OK, yeah, sure: if I’m looking for a pizza, it’s probably easier if Google knows where I am, physically. Why, though, should anybody else know? And ought I not be asked, prior to this information being divulged?
If you wish to change this behavior, you have to go into Firefox, enter about:config into the URL box, and change the geo.enabled setting. It’s only available this way, not via any tools/options menu or anything. Painful. Here’s what firefox has to say about it all. Doesn’t inspire me, much.
Semantic Web:
- Research Developed at the School of Computing Empowers the Web of Data
- Semantic Research Sets World Standards
- New game for PlayStation 3: Crunching numbers
- Andalusian Parliament Is the First European One With a Documental Search Engine Based on AI
- Researchers Looks to Perfect ‘Babel Fish’ Universal Translator
Robotics:
- Eureqa, the Robot Scientist
- A New Step Forward for Robotics
- As Robots Become More Common, Stanford Experts Consider the Legal Challenges
- Experts: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughts
Data Analysis:
- ECS Researcher to Undertake First Internet-Scale Musical Analysis
- Crime Scene Measurements Can Be Taken From a Single Image
Law:
- FCC Plans to Formalize Internet Rules on Net Neutrality Draw Fire
- Palm Pre user sues, alleging data loss
- Judge affirms $675,000 verdict in RIAA music piracy case
- Terms of (Ab)use: Are Terms of Service Enforceable?
- Google Public DNS: Wonderful Freebie or Big New Menace?
- Senator Bayh Responds on ACTA
- Lawsuit Demands Answers About Social-Networking Surveillance
- Side A: DJs Win Laptops Back
- Keith Olbermann reports on Amy Goodman’s Canadian Border Detention on MSNBC
- Vancouver Observer: Amy Goodman Gets Brilliant Story Idea from Canadian Border Guards
- Local Governments Offer Data to Software Trackers
Security / Surveillance:
- Scientists Promise an End to Web Attacks
- New Algorithms for Computerized, Large-Scale Surveillance
- Surveillance Shocker: Sprint Received 8 MILLION Law Enforcement Requests for GPS Location Data in the Past Year
Social networking
- Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Facebook creates online safety board
- DARPA’s Latest Challenge: Locate These 10 Balloons
- With Lure of Cash, M.I.T. Group Builds a Balloon-Finding Team to Take Pentagon Prize
- Lawsuit Demands Answers About Social-Networking Surveillance
E-publishing:
Nano-technology:
- Are We Invited to the Nanotechnology Party?
- Single-Atom Transistors Are the Smallest Yet
- Researchers Build Artificial Immune System to Solve Computational Problems
- Glasgow Scientists Predict the Unpredictable to Guide Future Nano-Chip Design
Technology:
- PhotoelasticTouch Combines 3D Shapes With Touchscreens
- Cellphones Team Up to Make Wi-Fi Where You Want It
- New Software to Simulate Future Financial Crises
- Human Brains Emulated in the Computer World
Education / Equal Opportunity:
- First-Ever Computer Science Education Week Targets Issues in Teaching Computer Science
- Women Make Strides in Sciences
- Viewpoints: Why Aren’t More ‘Techies’ Women?
- Equal Opportunities Through Technology Education
Politics:
- H-1B Demand Spike May Signal Improving Outlook for Skilled Pros
- Bangalore Blooming Into Innovation Hothouse
- Gropenhagen Conference: Prostitutes Offer Free Climate Summit Sex
- Destabilizing the UK’s Digital Economy
Miscellany:
- PG&E moves to add energy from wind, space
- Take Five: City Fashions Rest Stop for Weary Beavers
- The Original LOL Cat?
- Weissensee Cemetery: Renovations Begin at Europe’s Largest Jewish Graveyard
- Doherty Über Alles: Rocker Offends Germans with Nazi-Era Anthem
- Stone Age Mystery: German Excavation Reveals Signs of Mass Cannibalism
- CSIRO Researchers Create Giant Waves