Sri Lanka Watch reports that, According to intelligence reports, a massive fake facebook scam is underway by certain individuals to collect personal photos and information of people for commercial and other purposes. This is the latest Internet scam that is common in Colombo and Kandy areas. Sri Lanka Watch, in a remarkable display of sheer […]
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IGP now wants to “suspend licenses” of porn websites in Sri Lanka
An order by the Inspector General of Police in Sri Lanka, the same chowderhead who once said women could record themselves getting raped through mobile phones, now wants to the Director General of Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to suspend the licenses of 12 websites which were exhibiting nude photographs. Firstly, none of the websites the IGP […]
Sunday Times in Sri Lanka “hosts” Twitter!
Not satisfied with such pathbreaking initiatives in the “professional” print media industry in Sri Lanka such as using Wikipedia to defame and plagiarising content from Flickr, the Sunday Times in Sri Lanka proudly announces today that it has “linked up” with Twitter and will be “hosting” the service to boot! Journalist Surekha, understandably a little […]
The Economist magazine held up in “post-war” Sri Lanka?
Victory’s Rotten Fruits appears in the print edition of the most recent Economist. This is an email I got this morning from a friend and subscriber to the mag in SL. This week’s Economist has apparently (as per Vijitha Yapa – to whom I pay a bloody 11,000 bucks for the magazine) been “held up” […]
The rise of the Nanny State: Sri Lanka to filter pornography on the web
It was almost exactly a year ago that I read this report on Techcrunch that said children in Nigeria were accessing porn from the XO Laptop (alias $100 PC). The story noted, tongue in cheek that It’s heart warming to know that the efforts of the well meaning folks behind the OLPC project are delivering […]
The rise of Big Brother in the UK
It’s disturbing to read about the intention of the British Government to create a database to record every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public as part of “the fight against crime and terrorism”. It’s this kind of mindless sleepwalking into a surveillance society that reminds me of Orwells 1984. Conrad’s The Secret Agent […]
Facebook ‘more effective than emergency services in a disaster’?!
A sad predilection for sensational reporting on Facebook (echoing the Second Life fetish with many tech journalists) leads to the most bizarre assertions. The Telegraph reports on a story that will appear in the New Scientist with claims that Facebook is more effective than emergency services in a disaster. Of course, what it means is that Facebook, […]
IBM solves all challenges in a natural disaster in under an hour!
From Paul Currion comes a pointer to this tragi-comic article on IBM’s latest discovery – complex algorithm that solve all challenges, even unknown ones related to natural disaster preparedness and management: …The model allows all unforeseen challenges to be solved, mostly within an hour, and has very good scalability that promises to gracefully manage even larger models in […]
