No wise man ever wished to be younger
Live everyday of your life
Jonathan Swift
While I am preparing a loooooong post about technology and privacy (with a provocative twist, for a change 😈 ), I have decided to play with face.com‘s face recognition technology.
What do you think? On target (hint: no, not on target, I am not THAT old, and definitely I AM a male)? Scary (hint: only if we are unaware of these technologies and their uses)?…
Over 600,000 Macs are infected with the FlashBack Trojan. Is yours one of those? Let`s find out.
Open the Terminal (c`mon, be a hacker, not a slacker) and type:
if it says:
The domain/default pair of (/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info, LSEnvironment) does not exist
that means your Mac is ok so far (otherwise, go here). Then type:
if it says:
The domain/default pair of (/Users/[your user name here]/.MacOSX/environment, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES) does not exist
that means your Mac is not infected (otherwise, go here).
There is a lot of debate and analysis on why is the US healthcare system so freakingly expensive (basic answer: greedy inhuman and short sighted powerful economic interest added to puppet politicians and sheepish voters). Here is one real life example: a friend in Atlanta told me that he went to the hospital ER after feeling intense chest pain. He knew it was most likely a strong episode of acid reflux (he had been suffering from that for some time), but it was so severe, he got scared and wanted to check.
Today I went to one of MoMA`s members-only gallery talks. This one was about their current Cindy Sherman exhibition (great website, by the way).
Rather than rambling on about Cindy Sherman`s interesting work (an obvious reference to identity, stereotypes, social criticism, art depiction, etc, with her easily recognizable periods and themes), on which there are many articles these days, here are some anecdotes:
Photography is not allowed (I really hate it when museums do not allow photography), so why do they place QRs (particularly when the phone coverage is quite bad)?
Atlanta`s Hartsfield airport has been having one of those useless scanners that show passengers naked for a while now. But the last time I was there, they were being tested, and most passengers did not go through them. Today, though, as I approached the security line, I saw that next to every metal detector, there was one of those scanners. “Wow, this is getting worse”, I thought, while seeing how almost everybody was going through the scanners.
On Sunday I went to the Independent Art Spaces Symposium and Art Spaces Directory Launch at the New Museum.
I purchased the Art Spaces Directory last week, and I believe it is an excellent work, useful informative, needed. But the symposium was… sad, to say the least: a bunch of gallery (art-spaces) curators, unable to play a PowerPoint (sic… makes me sick), and regurgitating exhibit picture after exhibit picture while vomiting names after names of artists, collectives and the like.
