Yes, it’s true, we haven’t been around for a while, and for that we apologize. If you miss your Tek Lado friends, here’s where to find some of them: Follow Nick Lohr on Twitter here. Follow Liz Spikol at the new site she’s editing, Curbed Philly. Contact Mel Gomez via email. Follow Samer Kalef on Twitter here. As for this [...]
This headline from cnet gave me the shivers: Comcast installs roach-infested cable box, customer claims Apparently, Antonio Munoz of Aurora, Illinois, recently installed cable service from Comcast. After the cable guy left, roaches crawled out of the box. Here’s more: Munoz made several calls to the customer service line, and stopped in the Lake Street location, and no one was [...]
An Israeli law center, Shurat HaDin, is threatening to sue Twitter unless it shuts down an account that the center says belongs to Hezbollah. The center describes itself this way: Shurat HaDin—Israel Law Center is an Israeli based civil right organization and world leader in combating the terrorist organizations and the regimes that support them through lawsuits litigated in courtrooms [...]
GoDaddy has long been king of kings of domain registrars, and even when CEO Bob Parsons shot an elephant and crowed about it on video, most non-PETA-affiliated users didn’t flee. But when GoDaddy trumpeted its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), users took notice. SOPA was proposed by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who probably has a lot in [...]
While it’s still not clear who the perpetrators were of the first Stratfor hack, that same group is now claiming responsibility for a system breach of Special Forces Gear, a somewhat, um, intense website, founded by a Special Forces veteran, that sells military and law enforcement gear as well as stupid T-shirts. The website describes the business this way: Ltc [...]
People who live in the steep hills of Medellin, Colombia’s Comuna 13 neighborhood have a poor quality of life—not only because they live in poverty in this shantytown community, but because getting from one place to another is the equivalent of climbing a 28-story building. But the installation of urban outdoor escalators will change their lives. Whereas residents once had [...]
Why do they do it? Why do businesses continue to store unencrypted information? Is it so difficult to encrypt data? Well, look, maybe it is for some businesses, I don’t know, but it shouldn’t be for Stratfor, for god’s sake, which is a think tank that spends its days and nights thinktanking about … wait for it … Internet security. [...]
Google Shoot View allowed players to play a First-Person Shooter using neighborhoods captured by Google as the background for the game and using people displayed in the maps as targets. Google took immediate action. The Dutch agency Pool Worldwide received a warning from Google that GSV was in violation of Google Maps Terms of Service. Pool is now blocked from [...]