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Facebook Opens Up Your Inbox to Outsiders, For a Fee

Mattfree88 — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:28:13 +0000

Facebook Opens Up Your Inbox to Outsiders, For a Fee

Want to send me a Facebook message? But you’re not my Facebook friend?

Pay up.

The social network is overhauling its in-house messaging system with a new set of filters that it says will help users reach out and poke each other more effectively; you can see details here. Part of the overhaul: A test that will allow some users to ping people they’re not friends with, if they’re willing to spend a dollar.

Student expelled from public school for refusing to wear RFID tracker

mjberns83 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:47:16 +0000

In Texas, of all places, a high school student is expelled because she refused to wear the mandatory school-issued RFID trackers because they violate not only her privacy but also her religious beliefs.

UK Will Order More ISPs to Block The Pirate Bay

Mattfree88 — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:16:07 +0000

UK Will Order More ISPs to Block The Pirate Bay

The BPI (British Recorded Music Industry), the voice of the British recorded music bizz, is reported to make desperate efforts of extending its Internet-blocking policy about The Pirate Bay onto other largest broadband providers, including TalkTalk, Virgin Media, Sky, O2, and Orange.

Illegal File-Sharing Chips Away At North Korean Propaganda

Mattfree88 — Sun, 27 May 2012 20:51:48 +0000

Illegal File-Sharing Chips Away At North Korean Propaganda

In the high-stakes debate over control of the Internet, it is common to hear how the free flow of information is crucial to development of humanity. For North Korea, a country that has almost zero Internet access and is repressed beyond anything experienced in the West, the free flow of information is a distant concept. But according to a new report, the sharing of pirate TV shows and music among the citizens of the country is challenging the DPRK regimes’ depiction of the outside world.

No Cash Society

LoveFreedomAndLiberty — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:05:01 +0000

A no cash society? Read more here..................

Real ID Drivers License

LoveFreedomAndLiberty — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:57:59 +0000

Oklahoma woman does not renew her drivers license.

Air Force Surveillance Tool Widens View of Afghanistan

andrew.valish — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:21:06 +0000

This winter, the Air Force is set to deploy to Afghanistan what it says is a revolutionary airborne surveillance system called Gorgon Stare, which will be able to transmit live video images of physical movement across an entire town.

The system, made up of nine video cameras mounted on a remotely piloted aircraft, can transmit live images to soldiers on the ground or to analysts tracking enemy movements. It can send up to 65 different images to different users; by contrast, Air Force drones today shoot video from a single camera over a "soda straw" area the size of a building or two.

Flying cars set to soar into the marketplace in 2011

The_Expatriate — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:10:53 +0000

Terrafugia gets key FAA clearance for its 'roadable aircraft' and looks to deliver first one next year