Results 1 to 4 of 4

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

  1. #1
    Banned
    Join Date
    Jun 2013
    Posts
    8,546

    If You Use Google Maps, Be Ready for a Change Soon

    If You Use Google Maps, Be Ready for a Change Soon

    Feb. 20, 2014 9:29am Elizabeth Kreft




    If you use Google Maps, get ready: It’s going to have a new look very soon.
    After nearly a full year of public beta testing, Google announced Wednesday its new maps feature will be made available to the masses.
    Image via Gigaom


    According to Engadget, the new Maps gets rid of the old sidebar and instead puts search results directly on the map. It also incorporates real-time traffic data and a street-view carousel to help virtual tourists.
    Image via Engaget


    The new features won’t hit everyone’s computers at once, Google said in a blog post.


    “Over the coming weeks, the new Google Maps will make its way onto desktops around the world. Many of you have been previewing it since its debut last May, and thanks to your helpful feedback we’re ready to make the new Maps even more widely available.”


    The maps appear a bit larger and easier to read and, according to Gigaom, the new design places an emphasis on being “smart”: users not only can bring up directions to a location, but also find the most efficient method of transport to get there using the real-time traffic reports, as well as nearby places to stop.


    Google has also enhanced the street-view mode, which is helpful to view routes and virtually sight-see ahead of time. Below is a clip from of Google Map execs Jonah Jones and Bernhard Seefeld discussing the new Maps.



    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/20/if-you-use-google-maps-be-ready-for-a-change-soon/

  2. #2
    Banned
    Join Date
    Jun 2013
    Posts
    8,546
    Thursday, February 20, 2014

    YIKES: See What The Government Sees About You


    ACLU


    Published on Feb 20, 2014
    Take Action: https://www.aclu.org/GPSAct

    Law enforcement is taking advantage of outdated privacy laws to track Americans like never before. New technologies can record your every movement, revealing detailed information about how you choose to live your life. Without the right protections in place, the government can gain access to this information -- and to your private life -- with disturbing ease.

    As long as it is turned on, your mobile phone registers its position with cell towers every few minutes, whether the phone is being used or not. Since mobile carriers are retaining location data on their customers, government officials can learn a tremendous amount of detailed personal information about you by accessing your location history from your cell phone company, ranging from which friends you're seeing to where you go to the doctor to how often you go to church. The Justice Department and most local police forces can get months' worth of this information, without you ever knowing -- and often without a warrant from a judge.

    You can do something here:
    https://www.aclu.org/GPSAct







    http://www.activistpost.com/2014/02/...about-you.html

  3. #3
    Banned
    Join Date
    Jun 2013
    Posts
    8,546
    Rand Paul: "It's Time To Trash the NSA's Mass Surveillance of Americans, For Good"

    Matthew Feeney|Feb. 20, 2014 10:26 am



    Gage Skidmore/wikimediaWriting in The Guardian website’s “Comment is Free” page, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was "somewhat disingenuous" when he claimed in a recent interview with The Daily Beast that much of the uproar surrounding Edward Snowden’s revelations related to the NSA’s activities could have been avoided if the intelligence community had been more transparent in the wake of 9/11.

    From The Daily Beast:
    In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, Clapper said the problems facing the U.S. intelligence community over its collection of phone records could have been avoided. “I probably shouldn’t say this, but I will. Had we been transparent about this from the outset right after 9/11—which is the genesis of the 215 program—and said both to the American people and to their elected representatives, we need to cover this gap, we need to make sure this never happens to us again, so here is what we are going to set up, here is how it’s going to work, and why we have to do it, and here are the safeguards… We wouldn’t have had the problem we had,” Clapper said.
    Paul had this to say in response:
    The United States needs intelligence gathering, the ability to obtain and keep secrets, spying on foreign powers and genuine threats and all the other tools nations use to protect their security. No one is disputing this.
    But Clapper is being somewhat disingenuous here. Part of the reason our government does some things behind Americans' backs is not for security, but because certain activities, if known, would outrage the public.
    Spying on every American certainly falls into this category. I also believe it is blatantly unconstitutional, and bringing these activities to light would immediately spark debates the NSA would rather not hear.
    The notion that if the NSA had informed us they were monitoring every American would somehow make it OK, does not make it OK. Explaining why you are violating the Fourth Amendment does not invalidate the Fourth Amendment.
    Paul concludes his op-ed by saying,
    It's time to trash the NSA's mass surveillance of Americans, for good.
    Unsurprisingly, given that The Guardian is a U.K.-based paper, some of the commenters are upset that Paul didn’t say that the NSA's mass surveillance of everyone, not just Americans, should be scrapped.
    Paul recently filed a lawsuit against President Obama and other administration officials over the NSA’s phone metadata collection program.
    More from Reason.com on Paul and the NSA here and here.


    http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/20/ra...sh-the-nsas-ma


    Well DUH.... Rand Paul, talk is cheap, it is action that count, now what have you done for us lately!!!!

  4. #4
    Banned
    Join Date
    Jun 2013
    Posts
    8,546
    What Facebook is really all about
    In humor, truth




    "Facebook saves the CIA money"
    "The manpower that Facebook saves is huge..."

    This is a joke, right?

    Maybe not.

    What the heck is Facebook anyway? How did it raise so much money? Why do none of the money people, including the crooks who pump its stock, seem to care that it makes no money.

    What if Facebook were funded and promoted for an entirely different reason by people who are using the money of idiot investors to create a war chest to buy up and subvert as many communications companies as possible?

    This is a lot more plausible than the idea that a 20 something year old in a hoodie is running the show.


    So Facebook is really under the control
    of a 20-something year old in a hoodie?

    Somehow I don't think so.

    Video:

    http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/26034.html

    - Brasscheck

    P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and
    videos with friends and colleagues.

    That's how we grow. Thanks.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •