Just in case we thought
they were not serious... Let's not make a mistake guys.
Russian
fighter jet passes near US warship
A Russian fighter jet
was engaged in "provocative action" when it repeatedly
passed near a US
Navy guided missile destroyer
for over 90 minutes in the international waters of the Black Sea off
the coast of Romania, the Pentagon
claimed today.
… "The Russian
plane made a total of 12 passes. It did not overfly the deck of the
Donald Cook," he said, adding that the Russian fighter jet was
not exactly circling over the US ship.
There was another
Russian fighter jet (S-24) which was at a very high altitude. [I
bet that one was armed. Bob]
… Warren said at
the time of the incident, Donald Cook was in international waters,
East of Romania.
(Related)
Nato
satellite images reveal huge build up of Russian troops at Ukrainian
frontier
(Related Maybe) They
used to do this a lot.
Japanese
fighters scrambled as Russian planes fly near archipelago
… Of the four
planes, an Ilyushin Il-20 electronic surveillance plane flew from the
Soya Strait off Hokkaido, northern Japan, to areas off the Pacific
coast of the Kanto region, eastern Japan, before making a return
flight on almost the same route, ministry officials said.
Another Ilyushin Il-20
made a round-trip flight along the Sea of Japan coast from west of
Hokkaido to areas off the Chugoku region, western Japan, they said.
In addition, two Tu-95
bombers flew from east of the Korean Peninsula over the East China
Sea and Japan's remote southwestern islands before turning northward
along the Pacific coast of the mainland, the officials said.
But will they take any
action? Probably not.
More
online Americans say they’ve experienced a personal data breach
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on April 14, 2014
Pew Research – Mary
Madden – “As news of large-scale data breaches and
vulnerabilities grows, new
findings from the Pew Research Center suggest that growing
numbers of online Americans have had important personal information
stolen and many have had an account compromised. Findings from a
January 2014 survey show that:
- 18% of online adults have had important personal information stolen such as their Social Security Number, credit card, or bank account information. That’s an increase from the 11% who reported personal information theft in July 2013.
- 21% of online adults said they had an email or social networking account compromised or taken over without their permission. The same number reported this experience in a July 2013 survey.”
If you look at me
through your Google Glass, am I a victim? (Or merely “Content”)
Should
Google know your deepest darkest secrets?
Google opens up its
Explorer Program today, offering the general public an opportunity to
purchase Glass for $1,500.
… And what about
the people on the other side of the camera? As they have no legal or
political mechanism for opting out of Glass, they can either jump on
the bandwagon or stay home: Our entire lives are now fair game for
recording and sharing. Lest we fret too much about the prospect of
full disclosure, Mark Zuckerberg reminds us that privacy is no longer
a "social norm." It's so last century, right?
… According to
Google's Eric
Schmidt, we need not be concerned if our entire lives are
recorded and made visible to others, because: "If you have
something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be
doing it in the first place." By taking a moral high ground, he
reduces privacy to a protection mechanism for illegal or illicit
activities.
(Related?)
New documents released
by the FBI show that the Bureau is well on its way toward its goal of
a fully operational face recognition database by this summer.
EFF received these
records in response to our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
for information on Next
Generation Identification (NGI)—the FBI's massive biometric
database that may hold records on as much as one third of the U.S.
population.
Providing service to
the “not yet” connected should produce loyal (for a time, “locked
in”) customers. Making high speed Internet is not too important.
Eventually, they could compete with Cable and Cell Phone companies.
Google
buys drone maker Titan Aerospace
The technology company
announced Monday that it has acquired Titan Aerospace, a start-up
founded in 2012 that makes high-altitude, solar-powered drones.
The purchase is part of
the
new push in Silicon Valley to find ways of delivering Internet
service to underserved areas, particularly in the developing world.
… The purchase
marks the latest salvo in the tech cold war between Google and
Facebook.
The slope has been
greased, prepare to slip!
You might remember back
in February when it was announced that Netflix had come to an
agreement to pay Comcast (which at that time had not yet won the
prestigious "Worst
Company in America" award — congrats, guys!) for the
privilege of connecting directly to Comcast's servers for an
undisclosed sum.
The official
announcement...
… But it wasn't
long before Netflix's Reed Hastings wrote
a blog post calling for strong net neutrality and talking about
exactly the kind of issues Netflix had to pay to solve. The
implication is that the big cable companies can essentially hold a
service like Netflix hostage until a check is cut. For a somewhat
less biased look at the deal, check out What
The Netflix-Comcast Deal Really Means In Plain English at
Business Insider.
(Related) “Ignore
the monopoly behind the curtain...”
Time Warner Cable was
the only major pay-TV company to reduce the price of basic cable TV
over the past four years, a new report out Monday has found.
The New York cable
company reduced the advertised price of TV service by 2.5 percent
between 2009-13, according to Free Press, a group aimed at changing
media and technology policy.
Meanwhile, Comcast,
which moved in April to buy TWC for $45 billion, raised its
advertised basic TV rates by 68 percent over the same period,
according to the Washington, DC, group, which is part of a campaign
to torpedo the mega-deal.
(Related) I'm burning
up the Internet at 2.13Mbps. This is almost 500 times faster.
TalkTalk
teams up with Sky to bring superfast broadband to York
… "We are going to deliver a pure fibre network that will
deliver speeds of 1 Gig per second (1,000 Mb)
direct to homes and businesses in York independent of BT Openreach
infrastructure," TalkTalk's Chief Executive Dido Harding said.
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