Yes, obviously, the NSA would be very interested in “advertising across geographic regions.” Right. Not only is this a hideous patent, the privacy implications are also huge. As noted in the article, geo-targetting is used even today, but one has to assume the NSA did something novel and improved upon that idea, hence increasing accuracy.
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Your (not my) tax dollars at work.
NYT via Slashdot - You might have thought that the White House had enough on its plate late last month, what with its search for a new Supreme Court nominee, the continuing war in Iraq and the C.I.A. leak investigation. But it found time to add another item to [...]
The first court ruling against file sharing in Sweden was announced today. As suspected, the “crime” amounted to “only” a fine, though a quite sizable one, considering that the case revolved around a single movie. 16,000.00 SEK (about 2000 USD) to be precise. Ironic bottom line: Don’t download a movie. You’ll be better off, legally [...]
Sci Fi Wire - SCI FI Channel announced that it has ordered a 10th season of Stargate SG-1 and a third season of its spinoff series, Stargate Atlantis. Production on both 20-episode seasons is slated to begin in early 2006 for summer premieres on SCI FI.
Heading into a 10th season, Stargate SG-1 becomes the longest-running [...]
McDonald’s is missing the point again.
Ad campaign aims to combat recent attacks on quality and safety practices by fast-food giant.
CNN - The detectors, along with hourly tasting tests of burger and sausage patties made at the plant and five-hour-long nightly cleanups, are just a few of the food quality and safety measures McDonald’s Corp. requires [...]
Put together with other environmental concerns, it becomes clear that military operations worldwide do incalculable damage to the biosphere. And it’s not just depleted uranium, spent shells, blast craters or oil spills either. Sometimes the damage is far more subtle, yet every bit as grievous.
CNN - Environmentalists sued the Navy on Wednesday, claiming that a [...]
Is Gigabyte 3D Aurora perhaps the answer to my workstation case plight? It’s big, not like A-Open or Chieftec but well beyond those puny midi towers, and it’s aptly designed. And dare I say very stylish. At least compared to the other large cases.
The downside is that the Aurora is a rather expensive aluminum design [...]
I got a mail from the Thank Poland campaign. They encourage supporters to visit the EV50 (European of the Year) poll and make a stand against software patents.
The founder of the NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign, Florian Mueller, is currently running in an Internet poll for the “European of the Year” against such celebrities as U2 frontman Bono [...]
Charlie McCreevy “was misunderstood” apparently in the Swedish labour row. This beginnings of this story slipped by me last week. McCreevy should have rung a bell but it didn’t. This crud of a commissioner is obviously the same McCreevy that fought the hardest to keep the patent directive alive, circumvent democracy by ignoring the European [...]
Got one of those too, not that I could care less, but I was curious so I did some Googling.
PPCPRIMER - When I received one of these last week, I finally decided to have a look at the ExpoActive website. Almost immediately I was put off by the site’s mediocre appearance and awkwardly written content. [...]
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