Thursday, June 27, 2013

The Commercialization of Local $PACE

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/27/paypal-launches-galactic-program-to-get-payment-systems-ready-for-the-commercialization-of-space/?fromcat=all

TV and PC

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/tech-tips-and-tricks/how-to-watch-free-movies-online-legally.html,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiDihttp://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2357919,00.asp,
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-wireless-display.html,
http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/samsung-to-add-streaming-from-pcs-to-tvs,
http://www.engadget.com/tag/WiDi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Mini#Home_theater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_TV#History iTV http://www.apple.com/appletv
The company could have called it, Apple iTV to differentiate it from itv UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ITV#2013_rebranding

http://reviews.cnet.com/apple-tv-review vs http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-media-receivers/roku-3,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBgck_QrOK4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad1LmFF3e_8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_TVhttp://www.google.com/tv/features.htmlhttp://gizmodo.com/tag/google-tvhttp://www.cnet.com/2700-32146_1-797.htmlhttp://www.engadget.com/tag/googletvhttp://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2418202,00.asphttp://googletv.blogspot.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_television#Concepthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8ONsvFv670http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta3gjMqAct4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Center,
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows7/products/features/windows-media-center,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight,
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows7/products/features/windows-media-center,
http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/06/26/heres-how-to-download-the-windows-8-1-preview-right-now/?fromcat=all,
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57540793-285/how-to-add-windows-media-center-to-windows-8-pro-for-free

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee_Box

http://eyeio.comhttp://www.ultrahdtv.net/sony-eyeio-4k-movie-service,
http://advanced-television.com/2013/05/31/eyeio-ultrahd-movies-for-sony-tvs,
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/31/sony-will-use-eyeios-video-compression-tech-to-deliver-4k-movie

http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/06/digital-eye.html

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The Edward Snowden Saga

http://www.infowars.com/pardon-edward-snowden-petition-reaches-threshold-for-white-house-response
This is quite a big problem for E. Snowden.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765632805/Bring-Snowden-back.html
Some say that there was a better way for him to reveal certain things.
http://www.infowars.com/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-goes-missing
What if certain charges against him are exaggerated or even fabricated?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62DDPMWIGqE
Yet, someone in such a position as Snowden is bound by a security & secrecy agreement.
Is this just another contrived story to form a diversion from other topics? Regardless, almost everything is recorded & has been for a while.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765631598/Paper-UK-government-getting-US-spy-agencys-data.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Expansion_of_headquarters,
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765631684/NSA-revelations-force-question-What-do-we-want.html,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard_process#Start_of_the_process,
http://web.archive.org/web/20000617163417/http://www.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa/msft-nsa.html

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765631555/What-you-should-know-about-NSA-phone-data-program.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_in_popular_culture#Films

http://desert-shapes.blogspot.ca/2013/06/jerome-corsi-phd-global-surveillance.html,
http://desertshapes.blogspot.ca/2013/06/big-data-surveillance.html

Monday, June 17, 2013

Some very expensive TVs

http://store.sony.com/p/Sony-4K-TV-Ultra-HD/en/p/XBR65X900A
"Sony's first foray with the new TV technology was an 84-inch set it began selling in November for $25,000."
"Sony's rivals, Samsung and LG, also sell sets, but theirs are only available in models larger than 80 inches with price tags of nearly $40,000 and $17,000, respectively."
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-sony-4k-ultra-hd-tvs-20130523,0,7835515.story

http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/best-buy-stocking-4k-ultra-hd-tvs-to-spark-sales,
http://www.techradar.com/news/home-cinema/high-definition/ultra-hd-everything-you-need-to-know-about-4k-tv-1048954

When a 4K HDTV starts to get under a $1000 more people get interested.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33153_7-57589595-10391733/get-a-50-inch-seiki-4k-hdtv-for-$965.99-shipped

EyeIO or http://eyeio.com,
http://www.ultrahdtv.net/sony-eyeio-4k-movie-service,
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/31/sony-will-use-eyeios-video-compression-tech-to-deliver-4k-movie

The Julian Assange Saga

In a sense, Julian Assange is in a digital prison.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/wikileaks-julian-assange-marks-one-year-inside-ecuadoran-embassy-in-uk
You can access to some nice computers & HDTVs, but all you can do is look out a window to directly see the real world. Perhaps going occasionally up to the roof helps a little.

Ray Kurzweil: A.I.,etc.

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/04/kurzweil-google-ai,
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-age-of-intelligent-machines

A.I. is quite a fascinating area of research with astounding implications.
http://deeplearning.net

This is still a day & age when a lot of people are impressed with a PS3.  http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/06/ul_ps3viz/?pid=3362&viewall=true
Imagine a time when they start talking to you as if they have read your bio, or your mind.

http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/06/ai-and-big-data-etc.html


A.I. and Big Data, etc.

Artificial Intelligence. can try to mimic some attributes of the human mind, but A.I. is more like a digital brain & a database database. http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/01/david-vintiner-world-memory-championships

http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/06/ray-kurzweil-aietc.html,
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/andrew_ng,
http://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3511

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/apr/02/obama-brain-initiative-fight-disease,
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/why-spend-a-billion-dollars-to-map-the-human-brain/274594

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/the-next-nsa-spying-shoe-to-drop-artificial-intelligence.html

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-customer-information-nsa,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-spies-at-gchq-spied-on-foreign-politicians-at-g20-summit-meetings-in-london-8661182.html

In one sense, the more retrievable data that can be stored, the better.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/army-biometrics-cloud
Of course, this means that almost everything in & around the world can eventually become recorded or interpolated. http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/06/global-surveillance-systems.html

The brain is a physical organ that some believe only produces the illusion of consciousness.
https://www.msu.edu/~brains/brains/human
As humanity advances with technology, there is even more of a push to basically imply that consciousness is simply a byproduct of the human mind. There can't be life before or after the current life experience, because the concept of reincarnation causes too many people to ask too many questions. There can't be any intelligent life on other worlds, because that will also cause too many people to ask too many questions about the nature of reality. http://www.infinicity.org

As a small portion of humanity has been able to develop more efficient & expansive supercomputers to record everything possible, it is hoped that most of humanity will never become aware of  the ancient concept of the Akashic Records.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#Level_II:_Universes_with_different_physical_constants,
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-rethinking-universe-groundbreaking-theory-multiverse.html,
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-physics-complications-lend-support-to-multiverse-hypothesis
So far just trying to record, interpolate & model-the-known-universe is challenging enough.

http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/08/big-robot-is-watching-you.html

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Digital Eye ()

Eye symbolism has been around for quite a while. Indeed, iconography has taken many shapes & forms through the ages. Thus, the icon has transitioned into the digital realm. Eye symbolism & products aren't just confined to the TV-and-PChttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_icon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#Mascot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32/64http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Con

Thursday, June 13, 2013

BIG DATA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data

http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/news/big-data-analytics/defending-nsa-prisms-big-data-tools/240156388
Aside from all the feel good articles to make people more at ease, who really knows whats going on behind the scenes?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/06/Report-Seized-Phone-Records-May-Be-Stored-at-NSA-Data-Center-in-Utah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Centerhttp://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter,
http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/big-brothers-big-data-are-coming-to-utah,
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/12/nsa-data-center-front-and-center-in-debate-over-liberty-security-and-privacyhttp://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=22705217,
http://rt.com/news/utah-data-center-spy-789

Essentially a data-BLOB can be created for any person, place or thing, its just a matter of creating a vast data-storage system. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/nsa-to-store-yottabytes-in-utah-data-centre-49304118

The Utah_Data_Center has become the epitome of the vast data_warehouse#information_storage complex.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/03/04/nsa-utah-data-center-visit/2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundless_Informant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#History,
http://gcn.com/articles/2013/06/10/nsa-bumblehive-data-center-capacity.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_visualization#Overview

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(U.S._intelligence_official)

It is essential that various viewpoints & sources are explored, in order to have an expanded perspective of things. http://www.infowars.com/nsa-spying-is-about-intimidating-the-media-american-citizens

Robert_Young_Pelton is literally a man of many adventures & projects.
http://comebackalive.comhttp://dangerousmagazine.com,
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/blog/tag/robert-young-pelton

http://www.informationweek.com/security/privacy/nsa-prism-whistleblower-snowden-deserves/240156522

http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/03/the-data-tower.html,
http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/04/big-data-and-cosmic-data.html