George Orwell’s Big Brother
Open Proxies and Edit Wars on Wikipedia
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009There was an interesting article earlier this week concerning IP blocking by Wikipedia, a wildly popular online encyclopedia tool. Wikipedia’s “Arbitration Committee” of experienced volunteer editors voted to block changes from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates.
Is this censorship or good enforcement? Read on, and you decide.
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Big Brother is Waking up in Ohio
Saturday, December 27th, 2008The Register.com recently reported on a disturbing announcement from the University of Ohio. Professor James W. Davis and grad student Karthik Sankaranarayanan have developed software that can independently, without human intervention, track a person via the CCTV cameras.
Davis and Sankaranarayanan’s software works by using a pan-tilt-zoom camera to create a panoramic image of its entire [...]