Category: Notes From The Electronic Cottage
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 11/13/08
November 13th, 2008, Comments Off
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
On this program, we’ve often looked at technologies which have the potential to impinge on the liberty and privacy of individuals. To see what a world might look like in which a combination of technologies, all of which are available today, are deployed by the state - in the name of combating terrorism, [...]
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/30/08
October 30th, 2008, Comments Off
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Robots have long been the stuff of science fiction but they are fast becoming parts of our everyday life. While we may be preparing for the presence of robots in a technological sense, we seem less prepared to deal with the moral and legal questions that autonomous robots will bring to our society [...]
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/23/08
October 23rd, 2008, Comments Off
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Interested in college level learning but don’t have the time or the financial wherewithal to sign up for a course at a college or university? The web might have just what you need - college level course materials, textbooks and journal articles, and even software to take notes and do assignments - and [...]
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/16/08
October 16th, 2008, Comments Off
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Happily, we’ll have no more hanging chads in this year’s presidential election. Less happily, there are a lot of very serious unknowns in the use of electronic voting machines. To date, these machines have proven problematic, and they may even be hackable. Let’s keep our fingers crossed AND our eyes open.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/02/08
October 2nd, 2008, Comments Off
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Got your head in a cloud? How about your data? “Cloud Computing” is a new buzzword in the computing world. But what does it mean? What are its advantages? And how about disadvantages? Let’s take a listen.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/25/08
September 25th, 2008, Comments Off
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
With the recently published policy for information searches at the U.S. Border, including searches of laptops and other electronic devices, many folks are wondering if there is anything that they can do to keep their
personal information personal when they go abroad. Let’s look at a few options, including encryption software such as TrueCrypt [...]
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/11/08
September 11th, 2008, Comments Off
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/03/08
September 3rd, 2008, Comments Off
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
There are lots of places on the Web where you can find stuff you probably wouldn’t think you could find. Inogolo and Spock are just two of them. And on your radio dial, there’s a place where you can hear a lot of stuff you wouldn’t think you’d hear on radio - that [...]
