I must admit the whole European meltdown is happening much quicker than I, a staunch pessimist, would have thought. I guess we can chalk it up to markets being incapable of waiting. All the articles that I read about the crisis were suggesting that the $45 billion euro bailout package by the IMF and the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Zoltar’
Storm Cloud on the Event Horizon: The Final Upload
Posted in Financial Collapse?, Zoltar, tagged Apocalypse, black hole, event horizon, Greece, politics, Zoltar on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Satellite-based speed traps being tested in the U.K.
Posted in Too Much Information, Zoltar, tagged satellite, speed trap, surveillance, Zoltar on April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t even know why we even pretend that privacy exists anymore. We’re all just floating data points in the mind of Zoltar now! Click here for the article in the Telegraph. Mind you I sure wouldn’t mind if they used this technology to control the speed of cars through highway congestion zones… I HATE [...]
Deadliness Alert: The Great Computing Cloud Burst!
Posted in She Blinded Me with Science!, Zoltar, tagged Cloud Computing, Google, Internet, Zoltar on April 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Okay so let me get this straight.. While one hand is desperately trying to get a grip on the consequences of Too Big To Fail Financial Institutions the other hand is busy pushing ahead with the wonderful, “efficient” (man people do LOVE that word) technology of Cloud Computing which essentially derives it’s power from the [...]
Earth IS the computer!
Posted in The Prime Mover, Too Much Information, tagged Artificial Intelligence, don't believe the hype, Douglas Adams, G-Force, Google, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Internet, Zoltar on April 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
We call it “The Internet” or “The Web”. But don’t you think we need a name with a bit more weight behind it? Douglas Adams got it right when he wrote in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that “Earth is the Computer”. And he named it Deep Thought; which is pretty good but not nearly [...]
