On 10/29/15, grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote: > http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/28/ibm-will-acquire-the-weather-companys-digital-business/ > According to IBM, the acquisition helps it to harness one of the > largest big data opportunities in the world ... The deal will combine > two big data platforms, IBM's cognitive and analytics business with > that of Weather ... The Weather Company has the fourth-most visited > mobile app in the U.S. and handles 26 billion inquiries to its > cloud-based services daily, generating about 4 GB of data per second > ... including Weather's mobile and web properties, which analyze data > from ... over 40 million mobile phones > > http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/aberdeen-havre-de-grace/bs-md-jlens-blimp-loose-20151028-story.html > JLENS, has become a fixture of the Baltimore skyline since the first > of the two blimps was launched over Middle River in December. When > aloft, the aircraft use sophisticated radar to see up to 340 miles in > any direction ... It can be used to track ... cars on land. > Authorities say the system is intended to watch for and direct fire on > ... other threats.
F*CK F*****CK. > Privacy advocates, meanwhile, have expressed > concern about deploying such sophisticated surveillance technology > over the United States. Oh whew! - you had me going for a second there gp, now I can sleep safe at night, knowing that privacy advocates -have- expressed concerns. Just as well or we'd be well and truly monitored. "They" solved the problem for me. Gee I love privacy advocates, give me nothing to do to retain my privacy. What a wonderful world we live in.
