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Retweet of FTC

2015 Nov 15, 4:40
Cross-Device Tracking workshop introductory remarks by FTC Chairwoman @EdithRamirezFTC. Watch live: https://kvgo.com/ftc/11-16-2015-Cross-Device-Tracking … #FTCXDT
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Retweet of thegrugq

2015 Apr 12, 9:47
War in the Web 2.0 era: how Air Forces deal (or don’t) with Internet-based flight tracking tools. Interesting http://theaviationist.com/2014/10/13/war-2-adsb-opsec/ …
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Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse HTTP 301s) (scatmania.org)

2012 Nov 11, 1:26

Moral: laws should cover behavior not specific technologies. The implementation can change, laws shouldn’t take such dependencies.

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You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again | Epicenter | Wired.com

2009 Aug 17, 8:37Info on Flash cookies, US Govt websites cookie use, possible US Govt regulations on privacy/tracking users, plus a great zombie photo.PermalinkCommentszombie flash cookie wired privacy internet web browser politics government advertising google technical

PolitiFact | The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises

2009 Jan 24, 2:42"PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken."PermalinkCommentspolitics news government obama election president tracking

Packagetrackr - Package Tracking Service - UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, TNT and more

2008 Dec 30, 1:40Packagetrackr is like the isnoop tool but with IE8 integration. Its universal tracking across UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc., shows progress on a map, has RSS feed you can subscribe to telling you about the package's progress, and also added support for IE8's accelerator and webclips. Snazzy. Still want georss markup in the feed though.PermalinkCommentsgeo google map ups visualization mashup rss package shipping feed tool fedex usps tracker track accelerator webclip

Yellow Dots of Mystery: Is Your Printer Spying on You?

2008 Oct 23, 11:27Informative and humorous video on the topic of printer tracking dots. "Most color laser printers and color copiers are designed to print invisible tracking codes across every single printed page of their output. These codes reveal which machine produced a document and, in some cases, when the document was printed or copied."PermalinkCommentshumor video security privacy eff printer

Xbox Achievements for Everyday Life

2008 Sep 16, 7:54

I just upgraded to the Zune 3.0 software which includes games and purchasing music on the Zune via WiFi and once again I'm thrilled that the new firmware is available for old Zunes like mine. Rooting around looking at the new features I noticed Zune Badges for the first time. They're like Xbox Achievements, for example I have a Pixies Silver Artist Power Listener award for listening to the Pixies over 1000 times. I know its ridiculous but I like it, and now I want achievements for everything.

Achievements everywhere would require more developments in self-tracking. Self-trackers, folks who keep statistics on exactly when and what they eat, when and how much they exercise, anything one may track about one's self, were the topic of a Kevin Kelly Quantified Self blog post (also check out Cory Doctorow's SF short story The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away featuring a colony of self-trackers). For someone like me with a medium length attention span the data collection needs to be completely automatic or I will lose interest and stop collecting within a week. For instance, Nike iPod shoes that keep track of how many steps the wearer takes. I'll also need software to analyze, display, and share this data on a website like Mycrocosm. I don't want to have to spend extreme amounts of time to create something as wonderful as the Feltron Report (check out his statistic on how many daily measurements he takes for the report). Once we have the data we can give out achievements for everything!

Achievements for Everyday Life
Carnivore
Eat at least ten different kinds of animals.
Make Friends
Meet at least 10% of the residents in your home town.
Globetrotter
Visit a city in every country.
You're Old
Survive at least 80 years of life.

Of course none of the above is practical yet, but how about Delicious achievements based on the public Delicious feeds? That should be doable...

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The Quantified Self

2008 Sep 16, 4:56All about self-trackers who track and graph all sorts of personal data. I suppose mycrocosm is like the self-tracker's twitter. "A quick overview of the emerging culture of self-tracking ran in the Washington Post the other day. Called "Bytes of Life: For Every Move, Mood and Bodily Function, There's a Web Site to Help You Keep Track." The subtitle is a gross exaggeration, although in time it will be true."PermalinkCommentsprivacy data social personal kevin-kelly

Internet Explorer Beta Feedback

2008 Sep 3, 12:44This is the public site for logging and tracking IE8 Beta bugs. Read access is available to all. Write access requires acceptance into the Technical Beta program. Check the blog for info on joining that.PermalinkCommentsie blog ie8 bug development microsoft

Tracking the Trackers

2008 Jun 10, 4:52"...we were able to generate hundreds of real DMCA takedown notices for ... nonsense devices including several printers and a (non-NAT) wireless access point."PermalinkCommentssecurity bittorrent copyright dmca legal mpaa piracy printer research riaa washington

isnoop.net universal package tracking

2008 May 6, 12:12Get Google Map display of and RSS feed of your package progress via UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc package tracking. I was looking for an RSS feed to do this but I didn't think of Google Map integration. Neat idea. He should do georss in the RSS feed too.PermalinkCommentsgeo google map rss package UPS visualization mashup

Regular expression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2008 Mar 28, 10:38Running time of regular expression matching. Most modern regex APIs do backtracking and can have exponential running time depending on the regex string.PermalinkCommentsregex programming reference wikipedia big-oh running-time

IE8 Beta1 Feedback

2008 Mar 5, 1:33Bug tracking database for IE8 Beta1.PermalinkCommentsie ie8 microsoft bug

Giant White Glove

2008 Feb 11, 7:39FTA: "This is an experiment for the White Glove Tracking project, made with Java and processing. Source: Engine.java, DataFrame.java all: giantglove.zip."PermalinkCommentsvideo java humor white-glove-tracking micheal-jackson via:kris.kowal
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