New pope's choice of name will carry his first message

By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Even before he utters his first words in public, the new pope who emerges from the conclave this week will send Roman Catholics around the world a message encoded in the name he chooses.

It may not be one they immediately understand. Picking an unlikely one from the distant papal past - for example, Hilarus or Zephyrinus - would send Catholics scurrying to their history books to see what it could mean.

But one harking back to modern popes - Benedict or John Paul or John - would signal right away the new leader of 1.2 billion faithful wants continuity with the papacy his name refers to.

One name making the rounds in Rome before the 115 cardinal electors filed into the Sistine Chapel for their conclave on Tuesday was Francis, a name Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley might take if he emerges as the new pontiff.

[Related: How the pope picks his name]

O'Malley is a Franciscan friar who prefers the brown habit and white rope belt of his Capuchin order to his red cardinal's finery. No pope has ever taken the name of Saint Francis of Assisi, the 13th century reformer who lived in poverty and told followers: "Preach the Gospel always, if necessary use words."

PROGRESSIVES AND CONSERVATIVES

Leo - Latin for "lion" - tops a list of bets placed with Paddy Power, a Dublin bookmaker putting odds on the next pope, his name and age.

The name has a progressive ring because the last to choose it, Leo XIII, helped adapt the Church to modern thinking about the industrial age during his papacy from 1878 to 1903.

His encyclical "Rerum Novarum" (Of New Things) was the first on social justice and defended the rights of workers. It argued that both communism and capitalism were flawed and that the state must work for the common good of all its citizens.

The preferential option for the poor that it advocated became a rallying cry in Latin America, which is why a candidate from the region - Brazil's Cardinal Odilo Scherer is the one most frequently mentioned - might choose this evocative name.

The name will first be heard when a fellow cardinal emerges on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to announce "habemus papam" - we have a pope - to the crowd gathered in the square.

Pius, last used by Pius XII from 1939 to 1958, would signal a staunch conservative while John, which recalls his successor John XXIII from 1958 to 1962, could refer either to a compassionate pastor or a reformer.

John XXIII was a jovial type who convened the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) that led to some reforms the last two popes rejected and devoted their papacies to reining in.

Milan's Cardinal Angelo Scola, another top contender, might choose Pius, the second name in the betting list. In a sermon on Sunday, he said the next pope should guide the Church "in the footsteps marked by the great popes of the last 150 years".

[Related: Vatican demystifies Sistine smoke signal]

There were four popes named Pius in the last century and a half, all of them distinctly conservative and believers in a strong centralized papacy with the most recent of them still a figure of controversy over his role during World War Two.

Pius IX (1846-1878) rejected democracy, Pius X (1903-1914) denounced modern liberal politics and Pius XI (1922-1939) is remembered as an autocratic ruler. Under Pius XII (1939-1958), the Church cracked down on liberal theologians.

While the name might imply a strongly orthodox papacy to Catholic prelates, Jews would most vividly recall bitter inter-faith debates over Pius XII and accusations he failed to stand up to Hitler and Mussolini during World War Two.

Defenders say Pius XII did as much as he could to defend Jews against the Holocaust, so taking the name could identify the new pope as one of a conservative group that has pushed for him to be made a saint. Jewish groups have urged the Vatican not to canonize him, at least until wartime records are clearer.

After his election in 2005, German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said he chose the name Benedict to honor Saint Benedict of Nursia, "whose life evokes the Christian roots of Europe", and Pope Benedict XV who sought reconciliation during World War One.

JOHN PAUL THE LESS?

The Latin maxim "nomen est omen" - a name is a sign - is as valid today for popes as it was for ancient Romans whose emperors took new names or titles when they assumed power.

Key figures in the Bible also changed their names, including Saint Peter the first pope and Saint Paul, the missionary to the Gentiles, so there is a Christian precedent as well.

The first pope known to have changed his name was John II in 533. He was called Mercury by his family but thought the Christian pontiff should not have the name of a pagan Roman god.

This became more common after an 18-year-old with another pagan name, Octavian, was chosen in a rigged election in 955 and decided to take the name John XII. A man named Peter opted for Sergius IV in 1009, avoiding comparison with the first pope.

Cardinal Angelo Roncalli reportedly spent the evening before his election as John XXIII in 1958 thumbing through a list of popes to check what earlier Johns had done. He chose the name because his father had it and it recalled the Apostle John.

When Albino Luciani was elected in 1978, he took the first double name in papal history, John Paul I, to show he wanted to combine John XXIII's reforms with the more traditional stand of his immediate predecessor, Paul VI (1963-1978).

When John Paul I died 33 days later, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Poland honored him by taking the papal name John Paul II.

It is unlikely another pope will call himself John Paul any time soon. If Wojtyla goes down in history as John Paul the Great, as his supporters call him, a successor taking his name could risk being known as John Paul the Less.

(This story has been corrected to fix spelling of "habemus", paragraph 11)

(Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/popes-choice-name-carry-first-message-134955609.html

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Video: No Pope, Yet

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CNOOC keen to fix Britain's broken benchmark oilfield | Energy ...

China?s state oil company is prioritising a fix for Britain?s biggest oilfield, the accident-prone Buzzard, which plays a part in setting global oil prices.

CNOOC has taken a controlling stake in the North Sea field central to the price of benchmark Brent crude and which, every time it shuts, can raise costs for some of China?s oil imports.

China imports around a third of its oil ? over 2 million barrels per day (bpd) including Nigerian and other African crudes ? based on Brent prices. An increase in Brent prices by $1 per barrel costs the world?s top energy consumer over $60 million a month or $720 million a year in additional oil import spendings.

?We fully expect to increase production from the UK North Sea assets,? CNOOC said in a statement to Reuters. ?Detailed operational matters have not been finalized, but we are working on specific plans for the North Sea assets.?

The Chinese company owns a stake in Buzzard through its $15.1 billion purchase of Canadian oil firm Nexen Inc., operator of the field, which closed last month.

The purchase gave Chinese companies operatorship of around 300,000 bpd or a third of the dwindling UK North Sea oil output of roughly 1 million bpd.

CNNOC is the world?s largest dedicated exploration and production company by market capitalization ? with 40 percent of its proven reserves outside China.

Reuters reported at least six Buzzard outages that slowed or shut down output in 2012. A one-month planned shutdown in 2012 took twice as long as expected. So far in 2013, the field has had one unplanned stoppage.

Buzzard normally pumps 200,000 barrels per day, less than 0.25 percent of daily world supply.

That contrasts sharply with its role for the global oil markets as the largest contributor to the Forties crude blend, the most important of the North Sea crude grades underpinning the Brent benchmark.

As a result, Buzzard shutdowns often lead to an increase in Brent prices as well as premiums of Brent futures for immediate delivery .

As well as boosting costs for oil consumers, this frustrates traders in the North Sea market.

?It is literally unbelievable,? said a crude trader with a bank, caught on the wrong side of a sudden jump in Brent after a production glitch in November. ?It is easy to say from the sidelines, but still, this is worse than Nigeria.?

Buzzard?s problems have been irritatingly regular for traders but are unlike those of Nigeria, Africa?s top exporter where theft from pipelines hampers production and oil spills occur almost daily.

PROBLEMS TO TACKLE

By the North Sea?s standards, where some fields have been producing for decades, Buzzard is relatively youthful, having started production in 2007. Other field partners are Suncor Energy Inc and Britain?s BG Group.

Age may play a part in Buzzard?s woes.

The Forties pipeline system, which gathers the oil from Buzzard and more than 50 other fields, dates back to 1975 and, say industry sources, often breaks down.

More reliable Buzzard output would lead to more stable exports of Forties crude blend. Its loss for one day can cause delays in Forties loadings since field output of 200,000 bpd is enough to fill a Forties cargo every three days.

Higher-than-expected levels of sulphur in Buzzard?s oil have also caused problems, and meant that new equipment has had to be installed. Sulphur in higher concentrations is corrosive and damages pipelines.

According to a 2009 article by John Sheehan in JPT, the publication of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Nexen was forced to add a fourth production platform to reduce the sulphur level so the oil could still be transported in the Forties pipeline.

Delays associated with the new facility contributed to unplanned outages at the field in 2011.

Another reason, said a source with a Buzzard field partner, may also have been a strong safety culture and risk aversion at Nexen. Work may have taken longer and the field shut as a precaution more frequently.

On top of this, engineers say the field was designed in an era when a focus on cost-cutting may have removed margins of flexibility seen in older assets.

In the 1990s, oil prices were much lower: spiking to $40 after Iraq?s 1990 invasion of Kuwait and sinking to $10 in 1999, but mostly trading around $20. The prospect of today?s $110 oil, back then, was pretty much unthinkable.

Nexen did not go into detail when asked to comment on the reasons for Buzzard?s outages although a company spokeswoman, Patti Lewis, described the field as ?one of the most complex operations working in the UK North Sea.?

She said Nexen had worked over the last two years to improve reliability at its operations company wide and in the third quarter, Buzzard?s production efficiency was 86 percent, slightly better than planned.

Asked if a safety focus lay behind outages, Nexen said output was not the sole factor it used to judge success.

?Production efficiency is only one measure that we follow and Nexen is very proud of our reputation as a responsible energy developer,? Lewis said in the email.

Nexen, which is still led by its CEO, Kevin Reinhart, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Chinese company, also said work already done by Nexen had increased reliability.

?Nexen has recently completed a major turnaround at Buzzard,? CNOOC said. ?In conjunction with the existing team, we have the relevant expertise to continue to safely and successfully manage the field.?

? Thomson Reuters 2013

Source: http://business.financialpost.com/2013/03/12/cnooc-keen-to-fix-britains-broken-benchmark-oilfield/

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Brandi Glanville to Gerard Butler: THANK You!

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Artist Showcase: Matt Tkocz by Galen Dara | Lightspeed Magazine

Matt Tkocz (mattmatters.com) is a concept designer and film illustrator working in the film industry in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Rybnik, Poland in 1986. At the age of two, his family moved to Germany where he grew up and eventually ended up studying Graphic Design. In 2008 he moved to California to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where he graduated with honors with a B.S. degree in Entertainment Design in April 2012. Since then he?s dabbled in all sorts of fields in the entertainment industry.

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?At A Boy is our cover image for this month; it has the nostalgic feel of an old photograph, a lone individual on a rocky beach with their faithful . . . cyborg? Beautifully painted, subtly humorous, a bit melancholy, where did the idea for this painting come from?

I?m very much into paintings that feel like there is a little bit of story or a greater context behind them. I?m always fascinated by ordinary scenes with an element of the extraordinary?or vice versa. And that?s what I tried to do with this painting. A peaceful moment as it could appear on a postcard, with a dash of badassness!

Your style is an awesome mix of painterly strokes, stunning atmospheric effect, and touches of photo-realistic detail. It also looks like you drew several of the architectural pieces traditionally first, pencil on paper, is that correct? What is your typical working method, how does a piece evolve from start to finish?

Yes, most of the architectural drawings were done in pencil on 17?14 sheets of tracing paper. They were part of a school assignment and our instructors made us stick to a certain process. And even though working traditionally can be frustrating and painful, the lessons you take away are invaluable and I highly recommend it to anyone. That being said, I?d rather die than go through that nightmare again!

These days I work almost exclusively digitally. A while ago I got myself a fancy, overpriced Wacom Cintiq which makes sketching on the computer almost as intuitive as on paper, but gives you the infinite flexibility you can?t get with any traditional medium.

As for my process, it is probably very similar to everyone else?s. I start out with research and rough sketches, which become more defined and detailed as I get closer to what I like, until I eventually end up with a final color illustration of the design.

You have amazing drafting skills, creating incredible building and vehicle designs. Was that always a fascination of yours? How do you go about creating these futuristic structures?

When I attempt to come up with any design (be it vehicle, character, or environment), I mostly try to figure out what the subject?s purpose in the context of the story is. Darth Vader?s dressing room has to fulfill different requirements than?let?s say?Hannah Montana?s interrogation chamber. (Everybody taking notes, yes?) Every design has its own set of attributes: Time period, form language, function, color scheme, and so forth.

Once I get a better idea of the basic needs of the design, I sketch out thoughts until I find a solution I can live with. From there, it?s mostly a matter of tweaking, detailing, and making it pretty. Along the way I always refer back to as much reference as I can, because it makes life way easier.

You are quite the storyteller, taking us to a pretty diverse array of otherworldly (and off-word) locations. Creeping around giant strawberries in Nano, traveling down into the gullet of a gigantic alien organism in Fantastic Voyage, you even delve into the realm of fantasy with Dragon Slayer. I was delighted to discover Rotation:81 and Style and Moves; two wordless illustrated collections you have put together. Can you tell us more about these books? What are your aspirations for your own storytelling?

Rotation:81 is a rough story I wrote back in college to give some context to my senior project. I didn?t want people to think that my portfolio was just a huge dump of unrelated images (which it was, to be perfectly honest). I tried to string my artwork together into a cohesive plot.

I guess my ultimate goal is to write and direct my own properties some day, be it for film or games. I don?t want to be other people?s design-bitch forever, after all. Like most, I?d rather make a living creating my own stuff.

It seems like much of your work history is connected to visual storytelling; working in the game and film industry. What have been some of the highlights you?ve experienced? Are there individuals or situations that have been pivotal to who you are as an artist?

The truth is, I graduated college less than a year ago, so I have to admit the list of my accomplishments is not very long so far. But I promise to get back to you on that as soon as I become a Design Rockstar.

Where do you usually find your inspirations? If you happen to get stuck on a project, what are some things you do to get through that?

I usually steal ideas wherever I can. The true challenge lies in covering your tracks! TED talks and documentaries are usually a great source to inspire sick thoughts, which sometimes lead to interesting imagery. When I get stuck, I ask my design pals for a second opinion. They always figure something out. Also, screenwriter Blake Snyder described a little technique in one of his infamous Save the Cat! books that stuck with me. He said, when stuck with a certain problem, to think of ?a bad way to solve it.? That usually takes the pressure off and clears the road for fresh thought.

What does a normal work day look like for you? What are you doing when you are not working on an art piece? (Do you have any non-art related hobbies?)

When I work in-house at a studio, my work day is pretty much the same as everyone else?s with an office job. Laid back studios usually have an old fashioned 9-6 work day. Others make you work 12 hours or more. When I work from home on freelance jobs, the work pace is usually more relaxed so I end up having to make up for it by working longer hours. Hobbies? I sort of had to give those up when I started this concept design thing. But I do like to write and shoot short films whenever I get the chance.

Who are some of the artists who have inspired you?

My favorite artists change frequently, it always depends on my mood. Growing up, I was a big fan of Greg Capullo, whose work absolutely blew my mind. Back then I wanted to become a comic book artist but eventually stumbled upon this whole concept design thing. The artist whose work introduced me to concept art was the great Alan Tew (who, in my opinion, doesn?t get nearly as much appreciation as he deserves). Since then I?ve drooled over many, many different artists and designers who had a big influence on my taste and style. Amongst those were rockstars like John Berkey, Neil Campbell Ross, Niklas Jansson, Paul Lasaine, to only mention a few. At this point it?s probably appropriate to apologize to all the greats out there if I happened to plagiarize their work in a too obvious manner. I?m sorry, guys, but I could not resist!

What are you working on now?

All the interesting projects have not been announced yet so I have to keep quiet for a little while longer. But on my own time I am working on an epic short film called The Time Rapist, if anyone cares.

Matt, it?s been a pleasure talking to you, Thank you!

The pleasure is all mine!

Source: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/artist-showcase-matt-tkocz/

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Daily Kos: Six ways your electronica owns you

FinSpy: who's tracking your every e-mail?

Tinfoil milliners, pay attention, please. Not that a hat would help in this case.

On 30 Aug 2012, the NY Times ran a story Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents. The gist is that software is being used to spy on people that governments find ... inconvenient. This despite the software's purported intent: to help police in "a country that obeys the rule of law" to catch nasty people committing nasty crimes. From the NYT article, bold emphasis added:

The software proved to be the stuff of a spy film: it can grab images of computer screens, record Skype chats, turn on cameras and microphones and log keystrokes. The two men [featured in the article] said they discovered mobile versions of the spyware customized for all major mobile phones.

But what made the software especially sophisticated was how well it avoided detection. Its creators specifically engineered it to elude antivirus software made by Kaspersky Lab, Symantec, F-Secure and others.

The software has been identified as FinSpy, one of the more elusive spyware tools sold in the growing market of off-the-shelf computer surveillance technologies that give governments a sophisticated plug-in monitoring operation. Research now links it to servers in more than a dozen countries, including Turkmenistan, Brunei and Bahrain, although no government acknowledges using the software for surveillance purposes.

The market for such technologies has grown to $5 billion a year from "nothing 10 years ago," said Jerry Lucas, president of TeleStrategies, the company behind ISS World, an annual surveillance show where law enforcement agents view the latest computer spyware.

FinSpy is made by the Gamma Group, a British company that says it sells monitoring software to governments solely for criminal investigations.

[...] FinSpy gained notoriety in March 2011 after protesters raided Egypt?s state security headquarters and discovered a document that appeared to be a proposal by the Gamma Group to sell FinSpy to the government of President Hosni Mubarak for $353,000. It is unclear whether that transaction was ever completed.

You don't control your expensive iPhone ... Apple controls your expensive iPhone

Also in August of last year -- the very next day following the NYT article excerpted above, in fact -- Devin Coldeway wrote about a new Apple patent for NBCnews.com: Apple patent would disable phone based on location?(bold emphasis added below).

Among a bevy of patents awarded to Apple this week was one that would enable or disable certain features of a phone depending on its location. It could be useful, but it also raises serious questions about who really owns your device.

The patent, "Apparatus and methods for enforcement of policies upon a wireless device," was pointed out by Apple Insider Thursday. It's similar to an application made public in 2011 that would use a sensor in the phone to detect whether it was allowed to take pictures or make calls. The new patent relies on GPS, cell tower or Wi-Fi data to determine location, and then "changing one or more functional or operational aspects" of the device.

What kinds of serious questions does this patent raise?

That same news-day, Mark Frauenfelder posted to BoingBoing an item titled Apple granted patent for location-based camera phone disabling. Frauenfelder quoted from the patent application describing the ability to apply "policies" to devices so that their function is limited or disabled in "sensitive locations," then observes (bold emphasis added):

I imagine movie theaters would be the first to use this remote disabling feature (if Apple ever decides to move ahead with this technology; just because they have a patent doesn't mean they'll use it). The paranoid side of me imagines governments using it to prevent citizens from communicating with each other or taking video during protests.

That's interesting, 'cuz that's what the 'paranoid' side of me imagines too. Maybe even the same sorts of governments who would pay six figures or more for the use of FinSpy.

Do you know whether your local school district is spying on your children tonight?

I didn't catch this story when it happened (I learned about it from a webcast I watched last month). The gist: a school district in suburban Pennsylvania loaned laptops to students in?2010, then used software installed on the laptops to spy on them. Yes, you read that right. To spy on children.

"Spy" in this case includes turning on the cameras while the kids were using their laptops at home, including in their bedrooms. Here's the gist from Wikipedia's article about the class action lawsuit brought in the matter, Robbins v. Lower Merion School District, sans extensive links to fascinating footnotes (bold emphasis added):

[...] in what was dubbed the "WebcamGate" scandal, the schools secretly spied on the students while they were in the privacy of their homes. School authorities surreptitiously and remotely activated webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home. After the suit was brought, the school district, of which the two high schools are part, revealed that it had secretly snapped more than 66,000 images. The suit charged that in doing so the district infringed on its students' privacy rights. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction, ordering the school district to stop its secret webcam monitoring, and ordered the district to pay the plaintiffs' attorney fees.

The lawsuit was settled 'to protect taxpayers' ... see School settles laptop spying case to "protect taxpayers" on Arstechnica.

Your phone is tracking your movement while shopping?!!

Fast forward to last week, when Quentin Hardy blogged on the NY Times?that your phone's WiFi antenna is being used to monitor your movements in certain stores, from when you enter 'til when you leave, capturing where in the store you go (and thus what merchandise you're checking out), and how long you stay. This monitoring happens whether or not you're using your device to connect to the internet, or to make a phone call. Nope. That phone you're carrying, unused, in a pocket or purse or backpack is reporting on you in any case. From 7 March 2013, in Technology Turns to Tracking People Offline?(bold emphasis added below):

The big initial use is the so-called bounce rate, or the percentage of people who come into the store who leave without making a purchase. But the technology also helps stores make sure that there is enough sales help or that enough registers are open. By seeing how people move in a store, retailers can also better determine where to place low-profit and high-profit items.

[...]

Computers are already recognizing people moving around, both voluntarily and involuntarily. [...] at a conference in Santa Monica, Calif., held by the Montgomery and Company investment firm [...] a company called Omnilink, which makes ankle devices for people under home arrest, talked about plans to expand into monitoring elders, children, workers on their own in the field and the infirm.

So now you can think of that smartphone as the key to having an intimate relationship with Big Brother. But don't worry. They'd never use your own phone to target you in a drone attack. Would they?

Even Deans at Harvard get their e-mail secretly inspected. Why should you be immune?

Can you imagine a more august and privileged group of individuals, a group of individuals to whom more deference is paid, than the faculty of Harvard University? I mean, okay: short of England's royal family, or Donald Trump when he's surrounded by trembling toadies.

Well, deference didn't stop Harvard's administrators from secretly spying on 16 faculty members who hold the role of "resident deans" ... nope, those nosy administrators wormed their way into the professors' e-mail accounts, looking to unmask a suspected 'culprit' who shared information?with the press?about a cheating scandal. From the NY Times, dateline 10 March 2013,?Harvard E-Mail Search Stuns Its Faculty Members:

"I think what the administration did was creepy," said Mary C. Waters, a sociology professor, adding that "this action violates the trust I once had that Harvard would never do such a thing."

[...] Though some professors were disinclined to speak to a reporter, they showed less restraint online, where sites were buzzing with the news, and several professors said the topic dominated the faculty?s private conversations.

On his blog, which is closely followed by many people at Harvard,?Dr.?[Harry R.] Lewis[, a professor and former dean of Harvard College,] called the administration?s handling of the search "dishonorable," and, like some of his colleagues, said the episode would prompt him to do less of his communication through his Harvard e-mail account, and more through a private account.

I hope Professor Lewis's idea of "a private account" isn't one provisioned by a behemoth like Google or Microsoft. You've got to figure that these companies are going to pay even less deference to Harvard faculty than the administrators at Harvard University. And it's pretty hard to imagine that all the Harvard faculty who follow Lewis' example are going to read the fine-print Terms of Service that pretty much nobody but the folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation reads anyway.

Google Glass: Who's Watching Whom???

Everybody from CNN to CNET to?TechCrunch?is gushing over the latest news about Google Glass, a wearable interface to the greatest data farm on Earth, livestreaming data to and from your eyeglasses to ... wherever. At the SXSW show yesterday, Google spoke to developers about the interface -- the Mirror API -- that programmers will use to build apps for Google Glass.

The hype from Google's Timothy Jordan, as reported on TechCrunch, in a story with a very long headline:

As part of today?s presentation, Jordan also detailed some Glass apps Google has been working on itself, and apps that some of its partners have created. The New York Times app, for example, shows headlines and then lets you listen to the full article by telling Glass to ?read aloud.? Google?s own Gmail app uses voice recognition to answer emails (and it obviously shows you incoming mail, as well). Evernote?s Skitch can be used to take and share photos, and Jordan also showed a demo of social network Path running on Glass to share your location.

But it doesn't take much imagination to visualize sidewalks full of people using their glasses to snap photos and shoot video of whatever they find interesting ... including you. James Kendrick wrote yesterday for ZDNet's Mobile News, an article titled?Google Glass: Expect widespread usage bans over privacy concerns. Yes indeed. Excerpting:

A bar in Seattle has already generated buzz in tech communities with a preemptive strike against Google Glass. The proprietor doesn't want patrons to have to worry that someone with Google Glasses might be snapping photos. His patrons come in for privacy and he wants to keep it that way.

That may have been nothing more than a publicity stunt but it portends a greater problem for Google Glass. When the general public becomes aware of Google Glass and exactly what it does, expect to see a lot of reactions similar to that of the Seattle bar owner.

Is this a matter of your devices owning you, or of someone else's devices owning you? Well, both actually. When that Google Glass wearing minions pass you on the sidewalk, you're the data being streamed to Google and ... wherever. But once s/he has passed? Everything the glass-wearer does, everywhere she goes, whatever she says to whomever: combine that with FinSpy or the WebcamGate software and everything about that glass-wearer is tracked and analyzed, by agents and for reasons over which s/he has zero control.

Google Glass is expected to begin rolling out to software developers and others later this year.

Are you feeling like somebody's looking over your shoulder?

Bottom line: Today somebody just might be peeking out of your pocket. Next year, warnings to beware the evil eye will begin to take on whole new data dimensions of meaning.

This diary is cross-published from the authors blog, One Finger Typing

Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/12/1193519/-Six-ways-your-electronica-owns-you

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SAP Opens Singapore-Based Co-Innovation Lab

SAP just opened another co-innovation lab, this time in Singapore. The lab is its 21st globally, and the fourth in the Asia-Pacific region. The German software giant hopes it will allow member organizations to have a space to experiment with different hardware and software combinations, and provides its cloud infrastructure to them to back this. The aim, it says, is to encourage the creation of new technologies with the environment. The Singapore facility has the support of other vendors Cisco, Intel, NetApp and VMware, who will make their products available to members. The co-innovation lab sits in a larger facility that SAP established in 2011 here, called the Global Research and Business Incubation center in Singapore, which serves as the company’s Asia-Pacific research headquarters. While today was the official opening of the co-innovation space, some startups in the country have been testing out the space, said SAP. YFind Technologies, based in the island state, is one that has used the lab to build its indoor location positioning product. It?s trying to provide a way for stores to get foot traffic analytics laid over the location data, which can be used to reach out with marketing campaigns. The first such lab was opened in Palo Alto in 2007, and had vendors like Citrix Systems and F5 coming in on the infrastructure side, as well as Cisco, Intel and NetApp again.

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