Hoover don't know Squanto: Police marking people of Asian Indian descent as 'Native American' Meet Mr. Patel It looks a little like Wounded Knee in Hoover, the way they're rounding up Native Americans. On charges like "failure to display insurance," "expired tag" and "crossing a fire hose. " Who knew there were so many Native Americans in Hoover, anyway? Whoops. There aren't. Because Hoover "Native Americans" come with names like Singh and Gupta, Musuluri and Patel. Hoover can't tell its Indians from its Indians. Time and again over the last few years, Hoover officers have stopped men and women with names of Asian Indian descent, and ticketed them for minor traffic offenses as they would anyone else. On dozens of those records, they didn't check a box that said "Asian. " They didn't check "white" or "black," "other" or "unknown.
" They chose "Native American. " Because in Alabama, one Indian is as good as another. Bhuvanesh Gopala might as well be Red Cloud. It is embarrassing to all Alabamians. "Somewhere there's a glitch," Derzis said. Which is good to hear. It's not like that, Derzis said. Facial Recognition Technology Spurs Privacy Concerns for Feds. Facial recognition software is increasingly being used by both the public and law enforcement. But while the benefits, such as assisting police and federal agencies to keep criminals off the streets, are obvious, at least one member of Congress is concerned about privacy ramifications from the rapidly advancing technology.
According to various news reports, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday, Oct. 19, for a report on the security impacts of facial recognition technology. Rockefeller, who is the chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, asked for the FTC’s recommendations by Feb. 9, 2012. “As in many fast growing and changing sectors, public policy has not kept pace with the development of this sort of technology,” Rockefeller wrote in a letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz. “The privacy concerns are evident. Public.Resource.Org. News. Propaganda 2.0 and the rise of ‘narrative networks’
George Dvorsky November 16, 2011 DARPA, the Pentagon's advanced concepts think-tank, is looking to take propaganda to the next level and they're hoping to do so by controlling the very way their targets perceive and interpret the flow of incoming information. The Pentagon believes that by engaging in 'narrative control' they can alter an individual's grasp on reality and the way in which they evaluate current events. Simply put, DARPA is looking to shape minds with stories. Now, this isn't an entirely new concept. The notion of narrative control, or narrative networks, has been bunted around for a few years now. It's been said that history books are written by the victors.
The United States has been engaging in narrative control for quite some time now. Now I'm not suggesting that this isn't a valid interpretation of events. But now DARPA wants to take this further and make it more scientific and systematic. This is pretty heavy stuff. Lim describes how the project will unfold: Help For First-Time Visitors To The FMS Web Site: Financial Management Service. It is our hope that your visit to our Web site will be a worthwhile experience, and that you will be able to successfully navigate through our site to find the information, reports or publications you are looking for, as well as the answers to any questions you may have about the services we provide. For our new or infrequent Web site visitors, we have put together on this page several resources to assist you, as well as links to general information about us that will explain what it is we do, as well as suggestions for directing you elsewhere in cases where the specific information or services you are hoping to find are not available through this site.
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I know. I’m one of them. People are not going to put these devices down in the near future. Wearable computing is a broad term. Over the last year, Apple and Google have secretly begun working on projects that will become wearable computers. In Google’s secret Google X labs, researchers are working on peripherals that — when attached to your clothing or body — would communicate information back to an Android smartphone. Apple has also experimented with prototype products that could relay information back to the iPhone. At least, I hope that’s what he would see.
Michael Gazzaniga: "Who's in Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain" Program Highlights Advances in neuroscience point to an ever more complex system, and a system that operates almost completely beneath our consciousness. But in a new book, neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga argues that not all of our thoughts and actions stem from cell-to-cell events. He explains why he believes social interaction plays a critical role.
Some Major Misconceptions About the Brain About 60 years ago, scientists thought that the brain was basically a blank slate, or, as Gazzaniga puts it, "a big piece of putty. " Gazzaniga's mentor, Roger Sperry, showed that neurons grow in particular ways to get to specific parts of the brain - which demonstrated that the brain is already structured, rather than a blank slate. Developmental psychologists then began demonstrating that babies, at a very young age, have concepts of social interactions like reciprocity and retribution. Dividing the Hemispheres Are All Human Brains Basically The Same? A Life in Science "The Greatest Life There Is"
GIS Today - GIS in Everyday Life. Updated November 08, 2010 GIS is everywhere. Most people at this point think to themselves "I don't use it", but they do; GIS in its simplest form is "computerized mapping". I want to take you on a quick trip examining the rise of GIS (Geographic Information System) in everyday life, exemplified by consumer GPS devices, Google Earth, and geotagging. According to Canalys there were approximately 41 million GPS units sold in 2008, and in 2009 the number of GPS enabled cell phones in use had exceeded 27 million. Popular GIS Applications Before consumer GPS devices were so prevalent we used to have to go to a computer and look- up directions, such as with Bing Maps. Traditionally desktop GIS has dominated the GIS mindset.
Georeferencing Photos One of my favorite things to do is georeference pictures. Even before the average computer user was using GIS on a near daily basis, everyone has benefited from it. How has GIS become such an integral part of society almost seamlessly? The Actor Network Resource: Alphabetical List of Publications. The Impact of Information Technology on Work and Society | BenMeadowcroft.com. Aim of the report The aim of this report is to provide a brief summary of some of the main technological developments that have taken place in information technology and how these developments have had an influence on the way we work and on society in general, in the last thirty years. It would be useful to outline some “working definitions” for some of the terms, which have been introduced in the opening paragraph.
These definitions will help define the scope of this report. Definitions of Terms used in the Aim The first definition is of “information technology”. Information technology is the technology used to store, manipulate, distribute or create information. The type of information or data is not important to this definition. Kathleen Guinee wrote, “By information technology, I mean the tools we use to perform calculations, to store and manipulate text, and to communicate. The second definition is of “the way we work”. The third definition is of “general society”. Common Traditions. General Dynamics Information Technology - Home. Federal IT Dashboard.