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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Citizens.lk introduces state of the art security to Sri Lanka
This one is really hard to explain without expletives, but here goes. The Sri Lankan state wants citizens to register online on a website for their own security. Super idea, never mind that the Sri Lankan State is about as illiberal and undemocratic as they get today. The first version of http://www.citizens.lk was shoved to […]
Citizen journalism on Groundviews and Vikalpa’s YouTube channel interrogates assassination of Lasantha Wickremetunge
The Editor in Chief of the Sunday Leader and one of Sri Lanka’s best known journalists Lasantha Wickremetunge was murdered on 8th January 2009 en route to work. He was beaten and shot repeatedly and succumbed to his injuries in hospital. The first post on Groundviews on the assassination can be read here. Lasantha was […]
Drum roll. The XO-2.
Ignoring the still born XO, Negroponte’s moved on to bigger and greater things. The XO 2. Apparently out by 2010. No price yet, but we can expect it to double from whatever is announced before its launch, the launch date itself to go back by around 2 years, the operating system to run a cut down, insecure […]
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 […]
