HOME - The Movie
If you've never watched "Home" - watch it. Despite what you believe about human impact on our planet, this is an amazing visual tale of our planet's history and our brief history on it. Please pass this on to your friends.
My personal viewpoint is one that the documentary doesn't really cover in much depth. The issue I am referring too is that of overpopulation: Both in developed nations and in those developing.
Watch. Think.
No suprise here: Tax agents are using social networks to audit your return
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Interesting article today in the WSJ about the taxman using social media to ensure you've paid all your taxes.
I wasn't surprised by this, because years ago I worked with an ex-tax investigative intern, who said he used Flickr and the web to build wealth profiles about taxpayers. (e.g. That guy has a boat and a private dock on his private island..... and we said he made $60K last year?).
Life and health insurance companies will also be going into this territory soon enough, like building digital health risk profiles based on information exposed.
Pr0n preventing Firefox 3 upgrade :)
Here is a human interest piece for the day: Pr0n preventing Firefox 3 upgrade :)
Mozilla’s Security team has disclosed a very interesting piece of research which suggests people refused to upgrade to the latest version of Firefox because they were afraid the browser would expose their, ahem, private collection of websites.
In May, the company decided to have one last attempt at persuading the people on Firefox 2 to move up to Firefox 3, by hitting users of the old version with a pop-up that prompted them to upgrade. Those who declined were invited to fill out a questionnaire, asking them to reveal why they didn’t want the latest software.
The number one reason for not upgrading was the new location bar, and the fact that it delved into people’s bookmark collections to suggest sites as they typed. No fewer than 25% of Firefox 3 refuseniks cited this as the reason they wouldn’t upgrade. In fact, almost all of the people who provided feedback had tried Firefox 3, didn’t like what they saw, and headed back to Firefox 2.
“When we expanded the capabilities of the location bar to search against all history and bookmarks in Firefox 3, a lot of people contacted us to say that they had certain bookmarks they didn’t really want to have displayed,” Firefox’s principal designer, Alex Faaborg, tactfully explains on the Mozilla Blog of Metrics.
