Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data
First, before we look into that alert, the system lets us quickly access a variety of background information about our subject. To start with of course, we can easily see Mr. Benjamin’s movements throughout the course of the day: A sense of the subject’s movements over time can als...
Tomgram: Chase Madar, The Criminalization of Everyday Life | TomDispatch
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Hasnain says:
"Even as simple a matter as getting yourself from point A to point B can quickly become a law enforcement matter as travel and public space are ever more aggressively policed. Waiting for a bus? Such loitering just got three Rochester youths arrested."
What the frak...
Posted on 2013-12-10T19:38:49+0000
Why Cul-de-Sacs Are Bad for Your Health
Award-winning Canadian journalist Charles Montgomery's fascinating new book Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design examines how lessons from psychology, neuroscience and design activism can help us fix broken cities and improve our quality of life in an increasingly urban-centered w...
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Posted on 2013-12-10T19:13:26+0000
Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers - Blog - Hacker School
Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers We're excited to announce that Google is sponsoring over $150,000 of need-based grants for female programmers to come to Hacker School. These grants will allow us to provide financial assistance for living expenses to women for our upcoming...
Hasnain says:
If anyone wants to do a fully funded 3 month crash course on programming in NYC. Easy visa too.
Posted on 2013-12-10T07:08:05+0000
Smile Always Automatically Loads Amazon's Free Charity Donation Page
Chrome: AmazonSmile is a neat program where Amazon donates 0.5% of your Amazon purchases to a charity of your choosing. The problem is that you have to remember to login at smile.amazon.com before shopping for it to work. Smile Always is a simple Chrome extension that automatically redirects you to…
Hasnain says:
I think anyone buying stuff from Amazon should use this.
(thanks, Saagar)
Posted on 2013-12-10T01:10:42+0000
The Vigilante of Clallam County
Patrick Drum was tired of seeing sex offenders continue to hurt children. So he decided to kill them.
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Posted on 2013-12-09T20:36:25+0000
Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life
There are more than 22,000 homeless children in New York, the highest number since the Great Depression. This is one of their stories.
No Man's Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Exploration Sim - Indie Statik
At Spike's VGX tonight, four-man team Hello Games announced a seemingly huge, procedurally generated, first person sci-fi exploration sim called No Man's
Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system
Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers'
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Posted on 2013-12-07T06:02:06+0000
Stolen cobalt-60 found in Mexico; curious thieves likely doomed
Mexican authorities say hunt for missing radioactive over and that the two men who stole it are likely doomed.