Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
The Pennsylvania case shows how even well-intentioned plans can go awry if officials fail to understand the technology and its potential consequences, privacy experts said. Compromising images from inside a student’s bedroom could fall into the hands of rogue school staff or otherwise be spread across the Internet, they said. [From Pa. school official defended [...]
Read this an it immediately resonated with me. According to a study by Auto MD, which is owned by the US Auto Parts Network, Inc. (i.e. people who have a vested interest in making parts for used cars) 77% of people are, on average, planning on driving their current cars at least 50,000 miles more [...]
- UK newspapers lash out against the BBC iPhone app, saying it undermines the commercial sector. I totally agree, when will people accept that a taxpayer financed entity providing a service that competes with the private sector is unfair? It’s be like the U.S. government, which owns GM, launching a series of safety investigations against [...]
this is a pretty cool video, air refueling an F-18 over Iraq:
“Most of the jobs are going overseas,” said Russ Choma at the Investigative Reporting Workshop. He analyzed which foreign firms had accepted the most stimulus money. “According to our estimates, about 6,000 jobs have been created overseas, and maybe a couple hundred have been created in the U.S.” [From Wind Power Does Not Equal Job [...]
I’ve been reading about some of the troubles that the Las Vegas hospitality industry is going through (as well as getting a lot of promo email for $40 a night suites at Mandalay Bay) and it again reminds me that populist uproar is neither rational nor constructive. Luxury hotels have also suffered from the backlash [...]
In 2008 the sight of a Toyota Prius sporting an Obama hopey changey bumper sticker rose to the level of being a cliche and the Prius itself became a social statement, outselling other hybrids based on existing gasoline powered models. Well the former hasn’t exactly turned out like everyone thought and now Toyota is launching [...]