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more about #bigbrother dcoaster: Gizmodo, you really need to check your facts before you go off on an atrocious tangent. THIS IS NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY! Even your precious iPhone... more » TheSonOfKrypton: Palm: Creepy practices to match our creepy advertising girl. Is anyone really surprised? more » One Banana, Two Banana: It measures its velocity? What is the terminal velocity of a palm pre? more » rockmanx9: latitude": 36.594108, "longitude": -82.183260, Bristol, TN?? more » m4ximusprim3: Well, that's not disconcerting or anything. EXCEPT THAT IT FUCKING IS. Jeez, talk about tinfoil hat stuff. more » Zombie Peach: I for one welcome our new creepy girl overlords more » pinshot: This actually makes me happy in way. Because this shows that the government it getting scared, they know people are are at breaking point and ther... more » DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his stapler.: You are an idiotic child-thing with no knowledge of history. You obviously don't know that Nutbastard was referring to the famous "I'm mad as hell" s... more » nutbastard: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The... more » Someone horked my name at engadget: sin-bins......had not heard that one before. Maybe GitemSteveDave could give em some pointers. more » whiteknight89 digs DBZ: "Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turne... more » nutbastard: Government: Selling Providing for you shit you don’t want, wonderful social services against your will, according to democratic process, with money ... more » Kaiser-Machead: And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once ... more » Lampbane: These are the same kids they tried to give to the 456 on Torchwood, mind you. more » Intelext: Its not like its any different in other countries, in the U.S we have laws to "protect us" but any federal agency could easily tap into phone lines a... more » deanbmmv: To be perfectly honest if I could give half the current kids in Britain a good thrashing I would. This is only a proposal (it'll likely be dropped) bu... more » switchblade saints: hmmm, not sure how this would work exactly since in my state insurance covers the driver as well. So I can have non-owners insurance and drive someon... more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: I just know tons of comments will be something like "you shouldn't trust digital devices" or "heh, should've made a backup son", but I for one am chee... more » strider_mt2k: Find what make that crap possible and break it. Through software, through physical disconnection of the hardwarte involved, or WHATEVER. more » YouISee: Just another reason I can't go for SOLE digital distribution. I want my own physical copy. more » -
#creepy
Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
Palm Pre's webOS, besides juggling your life or whatever that creepy girl says, sends information back to the mothership periodically, like what apps you've installed and how much you've used 'em. And location data. Wait. What? Updated. More » -
#surveillance
Britain Putting CCTV Cameras in Homes to Make Sure Kids Do Their Homework
Thousands of "the worst families in England" are being put in "sin bins," or subsidized housing outfitted with closed-circuit cameras. The cameras will be used to ensure that children do their homework and go to bed on time. Holy shit. More » -
#amazon
High School Student Suing Amazon After They Deleted Homework From His Kindle
Forget blaming it on the dog, thanks to Amazon students have a 21st century excuse for lost homework. When Amazon foolishly yanked 1984 from thousands of Kindles, Justin Gawronski's electronic notes for a summer assignment became useless. More » -
#facialrecognition
Carnegie Mellon Demos the Power of Facial Recognition Using Star Trek: TOS
Want to know how much screen time William Shatner commanded in Star Trek? Or how little Chekov received, for that matter? Carnegie Mellon has you covered, as it has "face mined" the entire series. More » -
#bigbrother
Chicago Street Lights May Scan for Car Insurance
Ticketing red light runners is standard practice in many big cities, but Chicago is considering doing one better and scanning every car going by for up to date insurance. More » -
#bigbrother
Australia, a Country with a Moronic Government, to Block BitTorrent
Australia loves censoring and filtering things on the internet, but its government hasn't had its fill yet. Next up: blocking BitTorrent in the entire country. -
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#microsoftad
Second Gates-Seinfeld Ad Shows They're Very Rich, Unlike Us
Remember that first Seinfeld-and-Gates adventure into Shoe Circus, which alluded to something about Windows being “soft and chewy and delicious?” Well, the new Laural and Hardy of ambiguous advertising have a new spot out and it's... making fun of your average scalloped potato-eating, leather giraffe from Cabo-buying, grumpy Grandma-having Suburban family. The incredibly rich duo try to connect on a “normal people” level and kind of fail utterly. Like Windows Vista. I think. More » -
#imperialeyes
Spy Drones Coming Soon to the US, AT-ST Walkers to Follow Next
Reuters is reporting that the Miami-Dade police department will "soon" start deployment of the infamous Honeywell Micro Air Vehicles, the spy drones that will keep all you criminals and Gizmodo editors in check with forward and downward looking cameras, flying over a 100 waypoint flight plan at 57MPH, and from 10,500-foot altitude. Seeing them hovering over the skies is kind of menacing. Actually, with the right music, it's downright scary. More »
