a few pages of updated news stories and facts (terranaut)

wednesday

posted ‎‎Nov 4, 2009 12:21 PM‎‎ by gary greenwald

- infected websites still are growing out of control, with now almost 6,000,000 known infected webpages, and rising.

- apple yet again using its powers to install uninvited software remotely onto windows computers, with the users not even aware. read HERE and HERE and HERE

- apple also hoping to gain some patents for crippling cellphones, ie remotely controlling them in order to disable/limit them

tuesday

posted ‎‎Nov 3, 2009 1:57 PM‎‎ by gary greenwald

- interesting proof of concept for an organ in the 1600s, the katzenklavier

- list of things about melatonin, which i take more than probably any other supplement for the past decade.

- unusual side effect of the flu shot to a woman, so odd you almost wish it were a tv skit and not real.

tuesday

posted ‎‎Oct 27, 2009 10:37 AM‎‎ by gary greenwald

- nice concept mercedes van with rear computer space

- some interesting random insect photos HERE and some neat microscope photos HERE

- another step closer to walking, unshakable, robots, developed by the military.

thursday

posted ‎‎Oct 15, 2009 10:30 AM‎‎ by gary greenwald

- first manmade black hole in efforts to provide a future power source

- the first in a future generation of critical issues of cloud computing; you dont control your own data, its held elsewhere, so not only a privacy issue, but when something goes wrong....

- a fantastic view of the universe by one man and his camera, but shooting 100s of photos and stitching them together it provides a amazing fullsky view, something a telescope with its limited view cant do. this is computer-intensive website.

thursday

posted ‎‎Oct 8, 2009 8:34 AM‎‎ by gary greenwald

- soon computers chips themselves will be able to decode dna, so not just big companies can read dna of people, but personal devices too in the long-term future will decode everyone around.

- another small step in the quest to remotely control living and robotic insects for surveillance, this time controlling a living beetle with a remote control.

- another small step towards controlling the dna/genes responsible for aging.

monday

posted ‎‎Oct 5, 2009 7:16 AM‎‎ by gary greenwald

- in reality life and virtual life, the average american commits felonies, innocently, every day. with misinterpretations and old outdated laws, this makes it easy for anyone to become an easy target for the 'law'.

- as now even electronic devices within humans have wireless connections, it leaves the door open for bodies to become 'hacked', as any electronic device can always be hacked; nothing can be immune.

- i dont own a mattress for a few reasons, but the amount of dead skin and dustmite/mite feces alone makes it all the more reason not to use them, when over one pound per year collects inside the mattress.

monday

posted ‎‎Sep 28, 2009 7:20 AM‎‎ by gary greenwald

- now that its possible to visualize numbers, they move onto the alphabet, words, concepts, and then in 10-20 years minds are monitored to provide 'security' and 'targeted ads'...

- for a decade (i first read of him in 2001) this mans been documenting his whole life to be a digital searchable archive. some day lives will have each life moment recorded, searchable, and in that great 'computing cloud' that looms above.

- now that the UK has become used to the govt watching them with cameras in the streets for so long in such a large amount, its time for the normal creep-down of tech, for now the cameras tag and look-up details on drivers and their licenses, then businesses flash ads on billboards relevant to that driver, like changing his oil for his certain car model.

thursday

posted ‎‎Sep 24, 2009 1:28 PM‎‎ by gary greenwald [ updated ‎‎Sep 24, 2009 2:13 PM‎‎ ]

- more people are experimenting with putting a hd camera in a styrofoam container with a gps, tying it to a balloon, and getting video and photos of space, all for $100-something...heres one video

- just got THIS book, which has single pages quickly running thru the top 250 mathmatical formulas found by man, really interesting to dig into, and the author writes more scientific books about other subjects as seen HERE.

- the military doesnt passively wait for highschool grads to visit them, they are aggressively obtaining personal info and using tactics to get into the pre-high-school crowd, the military spends $25k to try to recruit someone, where colleges spend about $2k. text and audio story.

wednesday

posted ‎‎Sep 21, 2009 7:02 AM‎‎ by gary greenwald [ updated ‎‎Sep 24, 2009 1:30 PM‎‎ ]

- i added an index of all the TED talks so you can quickly see the topics and watch the videos of interest. these short videos from the worlds leaders in various science fields are some of the best to find online.

- the first real photographs of atoms were unveiled this month, showing the actual friction glow of the electron fields, to see the smallest known element and know it glows, thus every single particle of our bodies glow, is just another day of wonder in this life.

- heres just a quick summary of the type of info the DHS keeps on ordinary american citizens, since our daily public actions now are preserved indefinitely.

wednesday

posted ‎‎Sep 9, 2009 9:44 AM‎‎ by gary greenwald

- very short but interesting video about the largest english-speaking country, china.

- article about some issues with the coming 'cloud' computing-centric world.

- someones blog with phil in it.