Posted in Health, Personal, Technology, tagged shoe-fitting, x-ray on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Slumped on my sofa, laptop and TV fully engaged, I’ve been browsing the Web this evening. I came across an article on the old shoe-fitting machines in use when I was a kid. It’s been decades since I thought about those things. They were cutting-edge x-ray technology, seemingly magic. Look through the viewer, see your feet inside [...]
Posted in Privacy, Technology, tagged hackers, Privacy on June 28, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Hackers, for a number of years, have been the driving force behind the security measures instituted on the Internet. Virtually every website that asks us to enter a password or any sensitive personal information usually has in place security measures to protect our privacy from those dastardly hackers yearning to get their hands on our [...]
Posted in Privacy, Technology, tagged Google, hack, NSA, Privacy, wiretaps on February 11, 2006 | No Comments »
The NSA, when it feels the need, listens in on our phone conversations. This so-called wiretapping takes many forms: bugging, tapping, intercepting, snooping through phone company records, etc. The technology these days is diverse and extremely sophisticated.
It is all too easy, then, to imagine that if Google, for example, refuses a government request for information, [...]
Posted in Immigration, Sports, Technology, tagged SpaceShipOne, X Prize on October 4, 2004 | No Comments »
Cheers to SpaceShipOne for successfully completing its second flight into space this morning and claiming the X Prize of $10 milllion!
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