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Ireland kicks off wireless 'black boxes' for cars
News Working with technology and service providers Safety Intelligence Systems (SIS) and IBM, the project is to allow airline-style "black boxes" embedded in automobiles to instantly transmit crash data to a centralised database, allowing emergency...
[November 6, 2003, 15:50]
Ireland kicks off wireless 'black boxes' for cars
Talkback The Black Box, hmmm.let's not fool ourselves. It will of course never stop at just warning about 'Accident Black spots' it will most assuredly send data to 'whomsoever' that records our position to within 3 square metres, and also the speed at...
[November 7, 2003, 16:04]
Government entices hacking attacks
News Another representative of Gap Gemini points out that it would be even simpler for someone to launch a distributed denial of service attack in order to prevent one of these black boxes collecting incriminating data.
[July 21, 2000, 16:12]
Critics attack 'dangerous' gov't comms-snooping plan
News According to insiders, some ISPs have already been pitching to the Home Office to provide the 'black boxes' to record the data. Under the proposed Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), internet service providers (ISPs) would be required to...
[July 15, 2008, 17:30]
Big Brother in the black box
News Intelligence agencies stress that the black boxes will help them fight computer hackers. The Russian government has gone even further, using a regulatory change from an existing agency to implement a network of black boxes.
[July 13, 2000, 9:56]
How thin the line between phobia and philia...
Blog Over time, the bank balance would shrink alarmingly, while the clothing would find itself perfectly camoflagued among equally black boxes of varying shapes and sizes. In extreme cases, the sufferer would become entirely surrounded by these boxes...
[October 1, 2007, 12:39]
Europe sets pace for next generation multimedia
News The DVB accord sets out a technical specification and platform for the next generation of multimedia black boxes to provide interactive services into the home. Various black boxes are under development from a variety of players interested in...
[September 29, 1997, 15:37]
Google and Sun will fight it out...
Talkback T1R, in the interest of fairness, proposes a solution: a few black boxes full of servers for Googlers to use their '20% time' on, and we all call it even? Then, maybe Sun can get back to solving server power problems and Google can fix Google Apps...
[October 12, 2007, 17:29]
New Ubuntu 9.04 installed - not many dead
Blog So far, that seems to be used by email and IM clients - but not Tweetdeck (I presume because Air doesn't know about it), which throws its own black boxes with its own tales of things up into the same top right hand corner, there to do battle with...
[April 20, 2009, 11:36]
GCHQ denies developing mass surveillance tech
News Clayton said that 'black boxes' used for deep packet inspection had already been placed on content service provider (CSP) networks. Lots of black boxes have been rolled out to CSPs, to pick up communications traffic data.
[May 5, 2009, 17:16]
Thursday
Blog Black boxes for cars are getting closer, whether it's last week's announcement of one that monitors teenage drivers and warns them when they're thrashing the family motor or today's announcement about Advanced Automatic Crash Notification.
[August 5, 2002, 11:18]
Dell's dilemma
Talkback Er, Dell has been selling black boxes only for some time now. And BTW, Dell built its original reputation on reliable boxes and excellent support. But many companies now make reliable boxes, and Dell's support has "gone south".and not only for the...
[July 25, 2006, 19:36]
Industry lambasts snooping law costs
News Of particular concern is the government's refusal to detail how it will pay ISPs and other companies who will, under the Act, have to install "black boxes" in their premises that will allow police to intercept communications from employees and...
[April 30, 2002, 17:55]
Because after all... Phorm is 121Media
Talkback >If they were being honest about their intentions, they would offer a browser add-on that did all this for you, rather than install black boxes at the ISPs and scarf heaven knows what off the data streams.
[December 17, 2008, 15:51]
US Congress readies 'super-DMCA'
Talkback There's a high risk of ending up with software that has huge black-boxes inside (parts you can't even point at to avoid stepping on sensitive yet powerfull toes but everything else is pointing to it as being a factor) and given the huge lobby...
[April 26, 2006, 2:07]
Automated Rule-Based Diagnosis Through a Distributed Monitor System
White Papers It is desirable to consider applications as black-boxes for the diagnostic process. In today's world where distributed systems form many of the critical infrastructures, dependability outages are becoming increasingly common.
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
Hacking Embedded Linux Based Home Appliances
White Papers However, even bigger problem can be the fact that embedded systems are perceived as black boxes which are very hard to hack, contrary to an "Open" PC. Embedded Linux is an interesting phenomenon. With millions of devices shipped to-day, from...
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
Math ScriptConsole
Downloads This can save you the trouble of entering black DOS boxes or opening Windows run dialog. Math ScriptConsole (MSC) lets you do mathematical calculations using scripts and commands in a console-based multiple-window interface.
[December 20, 2003, 7:00]
Big Brother in the black box Pt II
News Russian president Vladamir Putin -- a former KGB agent -- introduced the directive on black boxes as a priority. But while British authorities, the FSB and Kremlin maintain a united front on the logic behind what civil libertarians view as...
[July 13, 2000, 9:58]
ZephIR
Downloads It can control DVD players, receivers, VCRs, satellite boxes, cableboxes, childrenââ? It comes with its own software and looks like a tiny black box with little LEDs on the front of it and a USB cable hooked to it.
[January 5, 2008, 7:00]
