Local.
If it crashed on my property, I'd keep it. Does the “Make my day”
law allow me to shoot down the drone?
CBS
in Denver reports:
A drone crashed into a Brighton man’s backyard and now the
homeowner wants answers.
George Ray said the drone had a GoPro camera mounted on it and was
videotaping over his property located off Interstate 76 near 136th
Ave. early this morning.
Ray said he heard a strange sound outside his bathroom, “All I
could hear was a ‘Beep, beep, beep.”
When he looked outside he saw a drone with a camera.
“What dummy would be flying around a drone at 3:30, 3:45 in the
morning? It doesn’t make sense,” said Ray.
Shortly after the drone made an unexpected landing, “This is where
it landed at. Apparently it crashed right here, fell to the ground.”
So
here’s the kicker: the man turns the fallen drone into the
sheriff’s department, who returned it to the embarrassed drone
owner. But CBS reports that “Although what happened is not a
crime, it is considered out of the ordinary.”
This
hits all the “creepy” notes. I suppose one could argue that if
he’d never known a drone was recording his property at 3:30 in the
morning, there’s no real harm. But to think that your neighbor or
a stranger is having a drone hover over your property and be
recording it, well, how secure would you feel in your privacy? This
incident highlights some of the issues concerning drones, privacy,
and the need for regulations and a societal respect for privacy.
Making
sure all those “Things” can exchange the data they gather about
you?
Microsoft
Joins The AllSeen Alliance Internet of Everything Open-Source Project
The
AllSeen Alliance, the broadest Internet of Everything open-source
project, today announced that Microsoft has joined the group’s
multi-company effort as a Premier Member to make it easier for a
broad range of everyday devices, objects and services to interoperate
seamlessly and intelligently.
…
The AllSeen Alliance was established in December 2013 to address a
major challenge facing the Internet of Things, which according to
McKinsey Global Institute has the potential to create an economic
impact of $2.7 trillion to $6.2 trillion annually by 2025: Making
sure smart connected devices and objects can work together regardless
of brand, operating system and other infrastructure considerations.
AllSeen
Alliance members are collaborating on a universal software framework,
based on AllJoyn open source code, that allows devices to
autonomously discover and interact with nearby products regardless of
their underlying proprietary technology or communications protocols.
[Also
see: https://www.alljoyn.org/
Cute.
The
NSA Revelations All in One Chart
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Jul 3, 2014
By
Julia
Angwin and Jeff
Larson, ProPublica,
illustrations by Alberto Cairo: “This
is a plot
of the NSA programs revealed in the
past year according to whether they are bulk or targeted, and whether
the targets of surveillance are foreign or domestic. Most of the
programs fall squarely into the agency’s stated mission of foreign
surveillance, but some – particularly those that are both domestic
and broad-sweeping – are more controversial. Just as with the New
York Magazine approval
matrix that served as our
inspiration, the placement of each program is based on judgments and
is approximate. For more details, read our FAQ
or listen to our podcast.
Also, take our quiz to test
your NSA knowledge.”
Only
four?
Here
Are Four Threats the Internet Faces in the Next Decade
…
Here are four threats that came up most often in the report by Janna
Anderson and Lee Rainie, with a sampling of responses plucked from
Pew’s
Internet Project report.
Threat 1: Meddling by Countries
Threat 2: Evaporation of Trust
Threat 3: Companies Control the Internet
Threat 4: Backlash to ‘TMI’
Perhaps
my students will write an App to “summon” a drone to snap your
picture.
Forget
selfies -- make way for 'dronies'
Forget
selfies. Those are so 2013.
Make
way, instead, for a new way so show your handsome, or lovely, mug to
the Internet -- a budding Web movement that combines high-tech
geekery with the human desire to be seen.
Call
them "dronies."
As
personal drones find their way into more and
more hands, folks have begun using the personal, unmanned aircraft,
kitted out with video cameras, to add a little flare to the
Internet's ubiquitous "look at me" self-shots.
Perspective.
IBM used to make (almost) all the computers. Their mainframes owned
the corporate world. Now their website talks about their Cloud
services.
The
Chinese Ministry of Commerce’s anti-monopoly bureau has approved
Lenovo Group’s proposed $2.3 billion deal to buy IBM Corp’s
low-end server business.
Perspective.
Unfortunately, it is hard for CEOs to fire Board members.
Boards
Still Don’t See the Value of Digital
Companies
across the world are ramping up their digital initiatives, according
to a new survey from McKinsey, with the C-suite increasingly
leading the way. “Digitization has become a critical asset in many
companies’ quest for growth,” write the report’s authors,
noting the increased involvement by CEOs and other top executives.
There’s
only one problem. Boards don’t seem interested.
…
For firms looking to make the transition to digital but lacking
supportive boards, it may be time to think about replacing a director
or two. Research
has shown that companies that replace three to four directors every
three years outperform their peers. And even a couple digitally
savvy board additions can go along way toward building support
for new initiatives.
Perhaps
a Rose by any other name stinks? (Well, I find this interesting.)
The
effect of wording on message propagation
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Jul 3, 2014
The
effect of wording on message propagation: Topic- and
author-controlled natural experiments on Twitter. In
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL’14).
“How
does one make a message “successful”? Thisquestion is of
interest to many entities, including political parties trying to
frame an issue (Chong and Druckman, 2007), and individuals attempting
to make a point in a group meeting. In the first case, an important
type of success is achieved if the national conversation adopts the
rhetoric of the party; in the latter case, if other group members
repeat the originating individual’s point. The massive
availability of online messages, such as posts to social media, now
affords researchers new means to investigate at a very large scale
the factors affecting message propagation, also known as adoption,
sharing, spread, or virality.”
Interesting.
Navy
has its first female four-star admiral
The
Navy has its first female four-star admiral.
She
is Michelle Janine Howard, promoted on Tuesday to the service's
highest rank. The ceremony was held at the Women in Military Service
for America Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery, near the
Pentagon.
…
Howard has served 32 years in the Navy. She is a 1978 graduate of
Gateway High School in Aurora,
Colorado. She graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1982.
Dilbert
raises an interesting question. What is the opposite of a Turing
Test?
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