links for 2008-10-15
Posted by del.icio.us bot at October 15th, 2008
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Barack Obama's campaign has decided it worthwhile to put up advertising in video games.
(tags: virtualworld games politics future)
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Known as synthetic telepathy, the technology is based on reading electrical activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph, or EEG. Similar technology is being marketed as a way to control video games by thought.
"I think that this will eventually become just another way of communicating," said Mike D'Zmura, from the University of California
(tags: technology science future transhumanism weird)
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prevailing view is that TJX is escaping too easily (e.g., providing marketing gimmicks of relatively small vouchers for use in stores and a sale event) and that it will not suffer any significant financial repercussions as a result of the breach. Concern has also been raised over the fact that such an early settlement will leave important issues regarding responsibility and liability for such security breaches unresolved.