Monthly Archives: April 2008
Lollipop Ladies and Ubiquitous Surveillance
Just a quick note, but in Britain lollipop ladies may soon be outfitted with cameras to monitor traffic at dangerous intersections. It’s the children, of course, who are motivating this new deployment of cameras – cameras will presumably cut down … Continue reading
Boost Up Your Net With ISP Injections
I’ve written about Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technologies before, and their various potential privacy issues. Generally, I’ve talked about how the possibility of having your ISP persistently monitor your online actions could stifle the substantive abilities exercising of autonomy, liberty, … Continue reading
Social Networking: The Consumption?
A little while ago, the New York Times ran a piece where they discussed the ‘Sticky-factor’ of Facebook. Effectively the article boiled down to the fact that it’s a nightmare to exit the Facebook ecosystem – actually removing your data … Continue reading
The Digital Workshop and Analogue Drill Presses
Your browser doesn’t support JavaScript or you have disabled JavaScript. The Parsons: together in celebration One of the memorable things about my Grandfather was his workshop. There were tools absolutely everywhere (perfectly organized – he just had a lot of … Continue reading
