Internet Technology

News Used To Be Important - Now It's Just EntertainmentPeople talk about technology, mainly television, cellulat telephones and the internet having given us an unprecedented ability to communicate. But have they? OK, we can trade meaningless messages with strangers on the other side of the world, we can join the cacophony of social netwoks where everybody yells at once and nobody listens, or we can sit in isolation, shouting inmto the void. But none of those are communicating. Technology has actually inhibited communication. ...
Science cannot provide all the answers, there is room for faith
Why, in these days when the militant atheist supporters of Richard Dawkins and his fellow travellers are so ready to decry and belittle religiopus faith and claim science has proved God does not exist, do so many eminent scientists still believe in God, including a number who have made carers in science but are very active in their respectoive churces?

Google Evil Empire In New Privacy Violation
Once again the neo-Nazi nerds at Google are in trouble for playing fast and loose with our privacy. Google have bypassed browser privacy setting to track our movements on the web, the bettrer to target us with ads for poxy shite no sane person would buy. What is it these arseholes find difficult to understand about the idea that in the real world or cyberspace same rules apply ... [ Daily Stirrer - February 2012 ] The latest round in the Who's The Worst Internet Privacy Thief Saga
Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are locked in a blame game about who is responsible for destroying online privacy. First, Google was caught bypassing a security feature in Safari that allowed the search engine operator to track users of Apple Safari browser despite their bowser security being set to 'no tracking'. Yesterday, Microsoft acused Google of doing a similar thing with ...

Google's New Privacy Policy: 'All Your Base Belong Us'. Google has defended its decision to change the way it handles users' personal data as its new policy comes into force today. The internet search giant will now be able to use information about what people are entering into its search engine to target adverts according to users' interests under the changes.

The Latest Round In The Who's The Worst Internet Privacy Thief Saga
Back to the old Internet Evil Empire theme as another privacy controversy involving Google, Favebook and Microsoft explodes. As usual the web giants are displaying their total contempt for users privacy, the search engine and social networking sites revealing an estrangement from ethics by claiming if they can do something that makes it OK to do it while Microsoft say if users can't protect themselves against the securtity flaws in Microsoft's operating system, that's not Microsoft's problem. ...

Google Evil Empire In New Privacy ViolationOnce again the neo-Nazi nerds at Google are in trouble for playing fast and loose with our privacy. Google have bypassed browser privacy setting to track our movements on the web, the bettrer to target us with ads for poxy shite no sane person would buy. What is it these arseholes find difficult to understand about the idea that in the real world or cyberspace same rules apply ...
New Toilet Computer Game Will Really Piss People Off
Digital games colsole and game maker Sega is hoping to make a spash by nstalling video games in men's toilets. It could only happen in Japan of course: the firm is planning to install game consoles called "Toylets" at urinals for men in bars around ...

Google Has Comptely Forgotten 'Don't Be Evil' As The World Domination Agend Gathers Pace
At last Google has been caught stealing information from a business rival rather than private induviduals. Will people now wise up to these scumsucking pirates of the internet search engine world.

Google Has Comptely Forgotten 'Don't Be Evil' As The World Domination Agend Gathers PaceAt last Google has been caught stealing information from a business rival rather than private induviduals. Will people now wise up to these scumsucking pirates of the internet search engine world.
Britain's Too Soft Information Technology Curriculum To Be Beefed Up
These days, it seems no serios education debate is possdible because all anybody wants to talk about is how important it is for young people to learn programming skills: the Livingstone-Hope Skills Review has called for making computer science a part of the national curriculum. It's all part of an agenda driven push to make Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects central to our country's education system. But what's new? Almost every ...

Slaves Of The MachineSome say technology is the new magic and are willing to believe every new gadget launched improves beyond recognition the lives of those who own one. Others say we are becoming slaves to our machines and losing the ability to think for ourselves as well as our social lives and cultural bonds.
Cyber-attacks on UK at disturbing levels, warns GCHQ chief
The Daily Stirrer's technology expert Ian Thorpe reports on cyber attacks on UK government and business organisations. Ian has warned of our vulnerability many time, the inevitable consequence of listening to know - nothing scientists instead of computer professionals.

Smarphone - The Cyber-crime perpetrator in your pocket.by Ian R Thorpe.
The world is facing a wave of cybercrime and the likely perpetrator is right in your pocket. Think twice before you trust personal stuff to your smartphone, it is no more secure than a house with no doors.

Blackberry Crumble but Offer A RIMjob
If you are a progressive, web enabled, aspirational, upwardly moblile, high-tech, multi-gadget user who has long ago abandoned the idea of thinking for yourself as "so last century" and thus rely on your collection of electronic gizmos for career related activities, socal life and ...

Steve Jobs Greatest Innovation For Apple? hyperHype
Apple founder and self anoited messiah Steve Jobs is dead. Now perhaps thevworld can return to sanity and see that all those geeks who bought gadgets thinking they were buying sef esteem need help. Technologist Ian Thorpe looks at Apple's success and finds it was based on hype.

A Computer That Thinks?
Again, prompted by scientists hyperbolic claims, the question of will computers ever be able to think like humans is raised. Technology nerds long for the advent artificial intelligence and the thinking computer but as usual they have not thought through the likely consequences.

Facebook's Privacy Priacy
Once again Facebook are in trouble over their contempt for users privacy. It is quite astounding that this upstart corporation that is quite open about its ambition to control the internet does not seem to understand there are lines that cannot be crossed when it comes to broadcasting or "sharing" details of users private lives.

Facebooks Latest Violation Of Users Privacy
The Daily Stirrer looks at Facebooks latest embarrassing climbdown after initially denying a new data mining schem covertly violates usrs privacy ...

Google's Schmidt Tells US Senators "We're Not Mocrosoft
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, giving his testimony to the Senate Judiciary subcommittee that focuses on antitrust began by recalling a ghost of the committee's past: Microsoft. Schmidt never actually mentioned its arch enemy but it is clear ...

Policing The Ether
As a young British man is jailed for posting abusive messages on Facebook there are calls once again for the web to be regulated. But how can we regulate something so vast and nebulous? ask web apologists. Easy Peasy says Ian Thorpe with the benefit of 30 years systems experience, just don't listen to the script kiddies who say it can't be done.

New Gadgets Guaranteed To Break The Ice At Parties
The world is in trouble, over production, over consumption and over population combine to mess up the environment, the global exonomic system and the societies humans have formed. And the only solution our leaders can offer? More of the same stuff that screwed everything up ...
An Appreciation Of Project Gutenberg Founder Michael S Hart The internet and the myths and culture that have grown up around it have created many billionaires, most of them highly underserving of success as their products did not live up to the hype. Sad then to har of the death on an internet pioneer who was not in it for the money

IBM Develop Computer Chips To Replicate The Human Brain
Todays main story deals with an old chestnut that resurfaces ever two or three years. Some scientists dream of creating life in a test tube or growing human clones for spare parts. Others dream of using drugs or chip implants to turn us into unthinking automatons. And still more want to build machines that think like us and have human senses ...

Trust Me I'm Doctor Google
Just how much of our lives to the pathetic Labour Government plan to hand over to those fucking neo-nazis Google. Look at this: In the Times yesterday David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, turned on his party over reports that British patients might be encouraged to use Google Health and its counterparts, rather than persist with the expensive and much-delayed NHS database. "Google is the last company I would trust with data belonging to me," he wrote. [ ... ] Davis is right.
Not only is it unacceptable to let an internet company be involved in management of our health records database but that the company under consideration is a bunch of sneaky little ... read all