Radical security measures may be in store for a North County skate park.
The Poway Skate Park may soon be accessible only by way of pressing a thumb pad on a turnstile controlled by an electronic scanner that matches a skateboard’s print to one given in a new, free registration process.
Older story, but still pertinent. Emphasis mine.
This (past) year Adobe showed off a very complete looking sneak that took most people by surprise, “Adobe Rome”. This very ambitious project written in 20k (orignally I typed 200k, typo, thank you Jon for that find) lines of code works on both the web and desktop via Adobe AIR and is written completely using the Flex framework. Previously many people in the community had criticized Adobe for delivering a lackluster photo-editing application with Photoshop Express, especially compared to some other competitors that were also using Adobe Flex to produce much more impressive online tools. However this application seems to blow the rest of the online photo-editing applications away.
Yesterday at the Honda dealer’s service desk I found myself in an all-too-familiar situation, craning my head for a glimpse of a screenful of data that I paid for but do not own. Well, that’s not quite true. I do have a degraded form of the data: printouts of work orders. But I don’t have it in a useful form that would enable me to compute the ownership cost of my car, or share its maintenance history with owners of similar cars so we can know which repairs have been normal or abnormal.
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson unveiled new technology today that will allow officials to scan an arrestee’s iris and within seconds get all the pertinent information about the person.
As the Iranian authorities attempt to stifle tomorrow’s protests surrounding the anniversary of the Iranian revolution, they are going one step further: Iran is permanently suspending access to Google’s Gmail.
Fist Pump: I’m a Mac Ad Gets “Jersey Shore” Inspired iPad Parody [via Mashable]
Google Inc. Wednesday said it plans an experiment to deliver ultra-fast Internet access that will target several cities, reaching between 50,000 and 500,000 people.
If that sounds like hand-wavy theorizing to you, consider that it perfectly describes today’s blogosphere. There are millions of blogs in the world. The overwhelming majority of them are not very good, but even the top 1 percent still represents vastly more content than any one person can read. And the competition has made it virtually impossible for bloggers to charge for copies of their work. Even the most popular blogs are available for free online. Every “A-list” blogger understands that that he’d lose 90 percent of his readers overnight if he tried to charge a subscription fee. Notice that this is true even though some of the top bloggers are extremely talented and have large and growing audiences. The zero price of blog content isn’t a negative judgment about blog quality. It’s simply a reflection of supply and demand. Even at a price of zero, the supply of high-quality content exceeds the attention span of the average reader by a huge margin. Which means that the equilibrium price is zero. There’s no reason to think the economics of eBooks will be any different.
Why Books Want to Be Free (via azspot) (via quotingthecrisis)
SOUTH Australia has become one of the few states in the world to censor the internet.
The new law, which came into force on January 6, requires anyone making an online comment about next month’s state election to publish their real name and postcode.
Future Soldiers May Get Brain Boosters and Digital Buddies
The soldiers of the future might controversially boost their brains with drugs and prosthetics, augment their strength with mechanical exoskeletons, and have artificially intelligent “digital buddies” at their beck and call, according to the U.S. Army’s Future Soldier Initiative.
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.’s A4 chip, unveiled last week as part of its iPad, shows how Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is extending control over the company’s hardware at the expense of Qualcomm Inc. and Intel Corp.
The world needs a treaty to prevent cyber attacks becoming an all-out war, the head of the main UN communications and technology agency warned Saturday.
Let’s go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene. Remember that? I remember that it didn’t work with a ton of websites. Things like banks, e-commerce sites, and others. Why not? Because those sites were coded specifically for the dominant Internet Explorer back then.
Robert Scoble, as quoted by Daring Fireball: Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?
In order to add some more red dots to its map, AT&T plans to spend additional 2 billion dollars to improve its network this year.
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