MetaFilter posts tagged with Control

Arms Control Wonk

Burhanistan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:33:39 -0800

Arms Control Wonk - a collaborative blog detailing the ins and outs of strategic weapons programs around the world. Originally started by Jeffery Lewis (published articles). Some fun recent posts: The Blue and Yellow Bomb (a history of Sweden's canceled nuke program) Votkinsk Portal Monitoring Facility (detailing the US team stationed in Russia tasked with counting mobile missiles produced there) A criticism of the recent Seymour Hersh article on Pakistan's nukes And of course, The Fall's response.

Xbox Wars

Coyote Modern — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:32:19 -0800

Science fiction writers have always been writing about remote control war, the Isreali arms industry has been develping remote control drones (as seen in Pakistan), but only the US military has a remote control mini tank driven via an Xbox controler!

Animata

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:46:02 -0800

Animata is an open source real-time animation software, designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances.

Lacking Control Increases Magical Thinking

homunculus — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:20:22 -0800

Of Jock Straps and Conspiracy Theories. A new study looks at how lacking control increases the tendency for magical thinking and illusory pattern perception. [Via]

Hearts and Minds

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:53:03 -0800

The US military has been putting more attention into brain science research, covering such potential applications as mind reading, mind control, cognitive enhancement and brain-machine interfaces. This is detailed in the report "Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies" (also available in an abridged PDF version), authored by a National Research Council committee convened by the Department of Defense.

Propacrayonda

Ambrosia Voyeur — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:34:24 -0800

Coloring is fun! Engage kids and get your message across with soothing, simple style!

Print these .pdfs for the little ones in your life to color. Together, learn a little grown-up wisdom about Being a Witness in Federal Court, Disaster Preparedness, Food Safety with Thermy™, Why Elephants Cry, Biomedical Research with the Lucky Puppy, or how the United Nations is a very bad organization made up of foreign countries who do not want you to be free, with Brasco!

So, it wasn't the Happiest Town on Earth?

amberglow — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:54:55 -0800

Remember the Town Disney Built? -- 50% of the homes in Celebration, Florida are up for sale. A failure of corporate-owned and -planned Community™? or just a fallout of the bursting of the housing bubble? And whither New Urbanism? Celebration's Front Porch (home page) a neo-traditional architectural view: The Celebration Controversies

Fox in Print

destro — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:31:55 -0800

Newsfilter: Murdoch Buys The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones After some protests from editors about what sort of control News Corp. would have over the paper, a deal has been reached with the Bancroft family that runs the paper to sell for $5 billion. Murdoch gave up some demands for editorial control but still has the ability to hire and fire editors at will, making this the same sort of fig leaf agreement he made with the Times of London.

Truth or Wikipedia-inspired Truthiness?

KokuRyu — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:59:34 -0800

The only rat-free zones in the world are the Arctic, the Antarctic, some especially isolated islands, and the province of Alberta in Canada . Alberta is unusual in that rat infestation was prevented by deliberate government action. The first rat did not reach Alberta until 1950, and in 1951 the province launched an extremely aggressive rat-control program that included shooting and poisoning rats, and bulldozing, burning down, and blowing up rat-infested buildings. By 1960 the number of rat infestations in Alberta had dropped below 200 per year and has remained low ever since. We clubbed them with brooms and 2x4s, got most of them that way

Im in ur congress, monitoring changes to ur legislation

grobstein — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:22:13 -0800

Slashdot poster has brilliant legislative reform idea: "Source Control for Bills in Congress." What if sneaky changes to pending legislation showed up as soon as they were made instead of in ominously worded media reports months later?

You think about sex. We do the rest.

unSane — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:13:54 -0800

Never mind the monkey! Wait til the open-dildonics community implements it. Some links NSFW, duh.

Butt Out

brandz — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:36:19 -0800

Ban of all Bans? is this really all about health?

Why do they sell hot dogs in tens and buns in eights?

Sticherbeast — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:44:43 -0800

Architectures of Control in Design. A blog examining product designs intended to restrict or enforce behavior. In the built environment, we see speed bumps and roundabouts with intentionally obscured visibility; in the digital environment, we see various species of DRM and trusted computing; and in other commerical products, we see car hoods only openable by licensed dealers, printer cartridges for only one sort of printer, and a set of shoes for children which detects the amount of steps they take in a day and translates that activity into the amount of TV they may watch. The control may be for economic reasons, for reasons of safety, or even simply to enforce social nicety - and for each of these reasons are the implications worth regarding . [via the excellent things]

Keep Internet out of UN control, says US

zouhair — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:54:26 -0800

The Bush administration is backing a US Senate resolution to stop the UN in its plans to try and move some control of the Internet away from the US -- A new resolution introduced in the U.S. Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet. Senator Norm Coleman, a Republican from Minnesota, said his nonbinding resolution would protect the Internet from a takeover by the United Nations that's scheduled to be discussed at a summit in Tunisia next month.

It's all in the mind.

all-seeing eye dog — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:23:08 -0800

Neuroeconomics: "Eventually it could help economists design incentives that gently guide people toward making decisions that are in their long-term best interests in everything from labor negotiations to diets to 401(k) plans." Note the ambiguous use of the pronoun "their"--are we talking about the long-term interests of people in general or of economists?

more mind control

all-seeing eye dog — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:14:20 -0800

"An autopoietic system is one organised to respond to the world. Prod it and it will react homeostatically, striving to reach a new accommodation that preserves its integrity. There is a global cohesion - a memory of what the system wants to be - that reaches down to organise the parts even while those parts may be adding up to produce the functioning whole."

Remote Control Shark.

mecran01 — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:03:13 -0800

Remote control shark. No mention of attaching lasers. Yet.

Can a Pharmacist Refuse To Dispense Birth Control?

Postroad — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:44:31 -0800

Can a Pharmacist Refuse To Dispense Birth Control? "Neil Noesen, a relief pharmacist at the Kmart in Menomonie, Wis., was the only person on duty one day in 2002 when a woman came in to refill her prescription for the contraceptive Loestrin FE. According to a complaint filed by the Wisconsin department of regulation and licensing, Noesen refused because of his religious opposition to birth control. He also declined to transfer the prescription to a nearby pharmacy and refused once again when the woman returned to the store with police...."

All your IP belong to us

Mick — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 19:29:45 -0800

An attempt by developing countries to put management of the Internet under United Nations auspices is likely to be shelved at next month's world information summit in Geneva - but the issue is now firmly on the international agenda.

Hey buddy. Everything costs. You a communiss or something?....

troutfishing — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 12:41:05 -0800

Future of the Net: "Information wants to be free" vs. "truth costs extra" "...a coalition that included Amazon.com, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Disney and others....spoke of "tiered" service, where consumers would be charged according to "gold, silver and bronze" levels of bandwidth use. The days where lawmakers once spoke about eradicating the "Digital Divide" in America has come full circle. Under the scenario presented by the lobbyists, people on fixed incomes would have to accept a stripped-down Internet, full of personally targeted advertising. Other users could get a price break if they receive bundled content -- news, music, games -- from one telecom or media company. Anybody interested in other "non-mainstream" news, software or higher-volume usage, could pay for the privilege. The panel's response was warm, suggesting that the industry should work this out with little federal intrusion. That approach has already been embraced by the industry-friendly Federal Communications Commission." For more, see The Center For Digital Democracy

KABOOM!

crunchland — Sun, 03 Aug 2003 20:07:37 -0800

Whatever you do, don't touch anything, especially the walls! [note: flash]

wackybrit — Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:03:48 -0800

Drive Me Insane! Want to send a man to the asylum? Paul Mathis's site allows you to control his lights, lava lamp, remote control car, and allows you to follow him around his Texan home camera by camera and microphone. I turned his lights on and off about ten times, so I've already had my fun. ;-)

rushmc — Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:49:24 -0800

Are national governments about to take over the Internet? Has ICANN done such a terrible job that they should be permitted to?

Brilliantcrank — Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:55:31 -0800

Is the Revolution really over? According to Wired it is, “…one day, the digital revolution was over. The big media companies wrested control of the Internet from the kids in the horned-rimmed glasses.” Derek has his comments on this but to add my own, nothing new and exciting happens anymore.

The Internet has become synonymous for pink slips, mergers, and legal battles.

I know there was a previous link to this article but I was inspired by Derek to bring a different matter to the table.

chiXy — Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:30:46 -0800

"It cannot be every man, woman and child out for themselves in the wild, wild west" :HP's Fiorina Backs Net Regulation Once again a behemoth corporation and the Federal Government must implement regulations because the flock is way too stupid to think for themselves.