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audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/45_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 45 Watch: Youtube Notes A cure for depression? If you’re a mutant mouse that is Scientists breed mice without gene related to serotonin transmission. Serotonin important on mood, sleep and sexuality. Mice found to act if they had been treated with antidepre…
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https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/44_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 44 Watch: Youtube Notes News from the world of Yaaar Owner-Free File System takes aim at copyright What was the name of the previous effort at this? – we covered this in an early technolotics show System creates situation (using encryption) whereby copyrighted da…
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https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/43_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 43 Watch: Youtube Notes Scanning Your Email Update Update to the email scanning story from #41 One of our viewers was so concearned by the encroachment on privacy represented by website blocking at the ISP / email scanning MP responds stating that there is no rea…
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https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/42_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 42 Watch: Youtube Notes Is Blue sky R&D dead? Scientific capital is not being replenished via Blue Sky research. Start-ups are being locked out of the market by patent and trade secrets litigation. Cold War era brought us the transistor and Arpanet, seeds of toda…
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https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/41_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 41 Watch: Youtube Notes Guilty by conception UK goverment unveils scheme to identify future criminals at birth. Aim is to identify those at risk of failure, violent behaviour or criminality and then take action to prevent that happening. Midwives, doctors and nur…
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https://garethstack.com/content/audio/technolotics/40_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 40 Watch: Youtube Notes Police State UK – The abuse of antisocial behaviour orders A physics graduate is fined £80 for describing a metal detector as “piece of shit that wouldn’t stop anyone” in public. Kurt Walker fined £80 for using the word “fuck” in a public …
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/39_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 39 Watch: Youtube Notes Fear and loathing in single sex schools Review of data from across the world showed no evidence that single-sex schools were consistently better. Ability and social background of the pupils reason for their performance in school le…
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https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/38_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 38 Watch: Youtube Notes Bush to set up domestic spy service George Bush has announced a new Intelligence agency to be set up within the FBI – the National Security Service The agency will be empowered to sieze the property of those suspected of spreading WMD This…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/37_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 37 Watch: Youtube Notes LA Police to watch from the air Police in LA have announced plans to launch UAV’s ‘The SkySeer’ Am I the only one who thinks Farenheit 451 has come to pass? The drones – autonomously controlled via GPS – will observe the ground for…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/36_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 36 Watch: Youtube Notes A Dose Of Genius Dramatic increases in the numbers of students using “smart pills” to increase concentration, focus, wakefulness and short-term memory. Adderall, used to treat attention-deficit disorder. Sales up 3,135 per cent in …
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/35_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 35 Watch: Youtube Notes The Stolen Election Rolling Stone on how Bush stole the 2004 election Robert Kennedy Jr, son of Robert Kennedy, leading US environmental campaigner writes It’s never been clear the exact (actual) outcome of the 2000 election – firs…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/34_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 34 Watch: Youtube Notes Evil Broadcast Treaty stopped Podcasters saved from new broadcast copyright – for now WIPO – Broadcast treaty Seeks to give copyright rights to the first person to transmit something – even if they have no role in creating it Creat…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/33_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 33 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes The Death of Net Neutrality Article by Daniel Berninger on GigaOM website. Argues that net neutrality refers to “the uses of the Internet not the quality of access”. Already a large number of classes of service available …
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/32_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 32 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Digg hits a gas main Social bookmarking phenomena Digg is in trouble this week, after being accused of the blogosphere’s greatest sin – censorship Slashdot have posted a story – in Taco’s mangled grammer ‘submitted so num…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/31_technolotics_dialup.mp3] Listen: Episode 31 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Mac BootCamp Intel macs now officially run Windows http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ Macs get mainstream – All silicon valley geeks must have PowerBooks (except me) How will OSX cope with the competition – Who …
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/30_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 30 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Robocode competition Interviewees: Imelda Morton (former competitor and student) Peter Benilov (creator of one of the pitbots) Louise Crowe and Aoife Clohessy, (2nd level students) Niall Donnelly (member of the WIT team w…
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https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/29_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 29 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Matrixstream IPTV Movies / Television channels streamining instantly through any broadband connection up to 1080P resolution over the H.264 codec through best effort network – public internet [1] The claim is HD can be distribute…
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https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/28_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 28 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Everyone by the campfire A discussion of the democratizing impact of citizen media, distributed distrobution, folksonomy, podcasting, vidcasting and the future of news, entertainment and human communication Buzzwords: Web2.0, eme…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/27_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 27 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes How Easy to kill you All One journalist wondered just how easy it would be to create a biological WMD. Scientists have always been skeptical that individuals or terrorist groups about the idea that individuals or small gr…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/26_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 26 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Bullying Causes Brain Damage An experiment where mice were repeatly placed in cages with larger dominant aggressors found that levels of BDNF (Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor) were decreased ‘bullied’ mice went on to be…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/25_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 25 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes PS3 Sexclusive According to kikizo.com, last month sony shipped the final PS3 dev kits to developers Still no signs of final hardware – the cases you’ve seen are just mockups “I think to fit everything that Sony wants in …
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/24_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 24 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Psilocybin Mushrooms Banned They grow naturally on earth They’ve been used to religious, meditative, and personal insight for thousands of years They are completely non addictive But the ‘loophole in the law’ has been clo…
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https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/23_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 23 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Special Report – File Sharing Lawsuit Last Years File sharing Case Application Last July before Justice Kelly J in commercial court. BT, Eircom and other ISPs should provide Names and Addresses linked to I.P of file traders US Co…
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https://garethstack.com/content/audio/technolotics/22_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 22 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Granny Apple in the News Will Disney buy Pixar, and make Steve King? After days of speculation the Telegraph are reporting that the deal will go ahead Jobs will be largest Disney shareholder But will he have any power – Roy Disne…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/21_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 21 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Revolutionary Interface A Mock up of the Nintendo revolution interface which will allow us to play emulated games is now available [1] Games will be rentable or purchasable for NES, SNES and N64 – together with the Revolu…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/20_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 20 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes The American Paradox This years winner of the nobel prize for literature, the playwright Harold Pinter, addressed the Academy on the topic of American Imperialism [Hear / See / Read his lecturehttp://nobelprize.org/litera…
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Listen: Episode 19 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Police State Miami Although Miami hasn’t been hit by a terrorist attack – authorities convinced it is a credible target To confuse Al Qaida and other wanabe terrorist – displays of force And maybe [1] maybe not [2] unconstitutional random ID checks Police state anyone? News Sources disagree as to wh…
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https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/18_technolotics.mp3 Listen: Episode 18 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Lies Damn Lies and the Recording Industry An article has been published in the New York times about the file sharing revolution Sean Fanning has developed software called snocap, that subtitutes requested copyrighted content on P…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/17_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 17 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Perfect spheres into space to check Einstein’s theory The Gravity Probe B satellite [1] was launched by NASA to measure the curvature and rotation of space time around earth [2] Testing two unverified predictions of general rel…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/16_part1_technolotics.mp3] [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/16_part2_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Part 1, Part 2 Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8qGAe0WDSo Feed: http://technolotics.wordpress.com/feed/ Notes Googleblogger article Google mobile is a new suite of f…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/15_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 15 Feed: RSS Notes New service offers podcasters 25c a download! Fruitcast will soon launch, the service works by inserting adds in podcasts, and offering podcasters [1] up to 25c per download [2] This could add up to a hefty premium if true – but critics…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/14_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 14 Feed: RSS Notes Flock Released Folksonomy browser released Very early version Includes blogging features, del.icio.us integration instead of bookmarks, and a feedreader Why Google are really scanning the whole worlds library Whats the point – the books…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 13 Feed: RSS Notes Contributer Reminder Anyone is welcome to contribute stories – either through our email or wiki However we will never run with anonymously contributed stories Please include your real name and email Also we will only discuss stories tha…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 12 Feed: RSS Notes Why you shouldn’t buy another ipod The long awaited ipod video has been released, along with the new iMac G5, and iTunes 6 containing the long awaited iTunes video store Videos are restricted to music and 5 ABC tv series for now, and ar…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/11_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 11 Feed: RSS Notes Folksonomy rankings, the future of search? Ok what is a folksonomy [1] A new search engine for social bookmarking, entitled collaborative rank [2], has launched. Site is a research project by a student of the University of New South Wal…
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This weeks episode totaled out at over 90 minutes! But we enjoyed it so much, we wanted to let you listen to the lot. It’s now available as three separate parts [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/10_technolotics_1of3.mp3] [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/10_technolotics_2of3.mp3] [audio https://gareth…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/09_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 9 Feed: RSS Buy it, burn it, return it Scotti’s Record Shops chain in northern New Jersey, US, actively encourages ‘piracy’ [1]. Are CD rentals the way forward? How long can a forward thinking approach like this survive? Customers can return a new or used…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/08_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 8 Feed: RSS Notes Britain makes moves toward totalitarianism British government proposes up to three month “internment in all but name” (Amnesty international), without charge, for ‘terror suspects’ [1], the equivalent of a 6 month prison sentence, withou…
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/07_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 7 Feed: RSS Notes Ipod nano a crashing bore Ipod nano is announced to much fanfare [1], possibly the most over hyped device ever? Pointlessly tiny colour screen, for what, photos? Less space NO new features, e.g.: Camera, wifi, radio narrowcasting, video …
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/06_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 6 Feed: RSS Notes Filesharers buy more music Guardian Reviews Study – which alleges filesharers buy more music [1] – Fileshares spend 4.5 times more on (downloaded) music, according to music research firm ‘The leading question’ – Controversy exists as to …
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[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/05_technolotics.mp3] In this episode we discuss: Who’ll mind the mainframes is mainframe programming a dying art? Researchers use Transcranial magnetic stimulation to uncover change blindness Lancet metastudy finds homeopathy doesn’t work Europe Russian and Japan may unite to build manned cr…
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In this episode we discuss… The jokers on who in the Nolan Batman sequels? Coke aint so sweet in India Stimulating stimuli cause temporary blindness Epigenetics, the science which transcends genetics Gvisit.com – website stats meets google maps FCC want to track your wifi ip phone Feds want flyer background checks Google’s new share offer – what ar…
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In this episode we discuss.. Gaming addiction claims another Korean life Republican conflict over stem cells Snuppy the cloned puppy Ipodsubwaymaps.com – shows up Apple, shines on google Google implements wildcard natural language questions Mobile phones in UK to spy on their users British licence plates get RFID tagged [audio https://garethstack.c…
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In this episode we discuss.. 10 year sentence in UK for keeping your private key private MacTel to use TCPA/Palladium ‘treacherous computing’ How to protect your privacy with TOR, Privoxy, and Peerguardian What’s wrong with Wikipedia? – The flaw in folksonomy systems First conviction in UK for using an open access point Irish Music Rights Organisat…
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First episode of technolotics. In this episode we discuss.. Bag searches on the NY subway John C. Dvorak (no relation the keyboard) doesn’t understand CC Windows Vista to require secure monitor ‘Oil Barton’ of the House of representatives committee on Energy and Commerce investigates environmental researchers Japanese researchers create worlds most…
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