Fooling your cars GPS system into believing you are somewhere else, apparently, has already been done: “In December, CNN confirmed that instead of showing the cars where they really were — cruising along the Moskva River — the GPS suddenly insisted the cars were 20 miles away, at the Vnukovo International Airport.” What’s next? How…
This is some really good advice from Jim Calloway. I might even have to think about this before the next tropical storm comes through south Louisiana. One evening soon at home, go through your entire house videoing everything with your smart phone or digital camera. Open every closet and every drawer. Don’t worry about clutter….
This doesn’t seem to be getting better. “According to this year’s Dell End-User Security Survey, a staggering 72 percent of employees are willing to share sensitive, confidential or regulated company information inappropriately. Those surveyed were not malicious but rather were just trying to do their jobs the best they could.” Clearly, we aren’t doing something right,…
One of my former coworkers wrote up a really good description of how credit card fraud happens. I recommend reading the entire thing if you want to learn about the details, but you definitely want to pay attention to Grayson’s advice for consumers. “If you have the option, choose businesses that use chip readers instead…
Frankly, I think this is a better place for Twitter to focus. The previous attempts to “silence” trolls was full of hit and miss decisions about what was appropriate and what was not, and was clearly being decided upon by biased human beings. If you can’t define abuse without creating massive problems, maybe the best…
On a trip to the Old Louisiana State House this weekend, I saw what happens when someone exits from the interactive touchscreen educational program, in the photo above. It was an interesting reminder that at educational sites and corporate events, these kind of displays are really nothing more than a computer monitor in a decorative…