Category: Tech Talk

Miscellany of questions and information tidbits on day-to-day interaction with technology

First test of Ph anti-cybercrime law may involve Tito Sotto kin

October 4, 2012October 4, 2012 benign0 39 Comments

It may be an ironic first test of the Philippines’ newly-minted Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. News broke this morning of what could be the first high-profile incidence of cyber-bullying over social networking giant Facebook since RA 10175 came into effect. The incident involved a nephew of embattled Philippine Senator…

Crime, Politics, Tech Talk

‘Honorable’ Pwede na yan mentality back fires!

September 27, 2012September 27, 2012 Ms. Mike Portes 10 Comments

The BANGKO SENTRAL NG PILIPINAS WEBSITE at http://www.bsp.gov.phÂ HAS BEEN HACKED!Â This is what our government gets when our legislators dare pass a cybercrime bill that’s impotent! Screencap reads: Anonymous Philippines The Philippine Government has just passed a bill that effectively ends the Freedom of Expression in the Philippines.The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is the…

Politics, Tech Talk

Wanking to lewd Web videos now a crime in the Philippines!

September 17, 2012September 18, 2012 Kate Natividad 33 Comments

Now that there is an anti-Cybercrime law in the Philippines, stuff published online is now subject to the same libel laws that have for some time been applied to stuff published on traditional media like newspapers and magazines and broadcast on TV and radio. I suppose the principle there is that computers and their networks…

Crime, Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Time for some nipple activism!

September 12, 2012January 27, 2016 Kate Natividad 17 Comments

I feel sorry for my nipples. Unfortunately for them, we live in a society that frowns upon the sight of female nipples catching a bit of sunshine. Whereas it is perfectly acceptable — no, ordinary — for women in certain tribes in Africa, South America, and in our own country’s mountainous provinces to walk around…

Culture, Media, Society, Tech Talk

Gadget envy: Why Tito Sotto’s plagiarism fails the ‘So What? Test’

September 11, 2012 benign0 7 Comments

Not to put too fine a point to it but Philippine Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III is now the laughingstock of the country. His consistent failure to recognise the errors in the way he allegedly lifted material verbatim from several bloggers’ works to use in a speech he delivered to defend his position against the…

Lifestyle, Religion, Society, Tech Talk

First Man on the Moon: Neil Armstrong 5 Aug 1930 – 25 Aug 2012

August 26, 2012August 26, 2012 benign0 3 Comments

The following are excerpts from Craig Nelson’s awesome book Rocketmen describing the role the late Neil Armstrong played as commander of the spacecraft Eagle which landed him and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin on the Moon in 1969 while crew member Mike Collins remained in orbit in their Command Module mothership above. Eagle fell to an altitude…

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App.net: Would you pay to be social online?

August 17, 2012 benign0 3 Comments

Tech entrepeneur Dalton Caldwell is betting that after free social networking services like Friendster, MySpace, then Facebook and Twitter had succeeded in turning social media into something as essential to the 21st Century human being as air, people will now be willing to pay for it. Nothing shocking about the concept. Think bottled water. So…

Society, Tech Talk

‘Big Data’ – What’s the big deal?

August 13, 2012 benign0 2 Comments

Big data is the management ‘science’ of turning the heaps of data being captured in unprecedented volumes by gadgetry and software penetrating and weaving themselves into our lives in an increasingly intimate manner into information that big business can use to sell us more stuff using less resources. The data is “big” because it is…

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