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Police as Thailand's new media censor?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 08/11/2011
» Secret plans to hand media censorship over to police. Yingluck govt plan to give power to close newspapers to police chief.
Israeli premier embraces new media
AFP, Published on 31/03/2011
» Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu held an electronic forum on Wednesday, taking questions from the public through the Internet while local TV and YouTube screened his answers.
When disaster strikes, why doesn't Thailand learn its lessons?
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 27/10/2010
» Disasters. With the Indian Ocean earthquake back in 2004 and the resulting tsunami, one would think Thailand would have learned a thing or two about handling disasters. Perhaps, but many of those lessons were not put to use when the floods hit the country last week.
Thai technicians part of Chile mine rescue
Jon Fernquest, Published on 22/10/2010
» The steel joint safety inspection they performed was a small but important part of the operation utilizing the latest in advanced technologies.
Censorship versus security
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 18/08/2010
» Freedom of speech, abuse of power by the government, and the new norms of a democratic society empowered by the Internet were all topics discussed by a wide variety of speakers at a seminar on the third anniversary of the Computer Misuse Act, often known as the Cybercrime law, hosted by the Thai Netizen Network, Media 4 Democracy and the Southeast Asia Press Alliance.
Holding Your Own
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/08/2010
» 'Hey you're that farang who teaches English, right?" The voice comes from just to my right and it kind of startles me. I turn around to see a Thai woman of indeterminate age, though no more than 60 and hopefully not less than 45. One hand is on her hip and the other is clutching a mop. Her hair is tied back in a bun and she has a weather-beaten look, as if working with a mop is more palatable than anything she's ever done in a rice paddy.
Edible kitty litter, Viagra & Odourless cat's urine
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/05/2010
» One of the first things I become expert at whenever I visit the United States is its television. I have no choice in the matter. Over here in the States I'm awake when I'm asleep in Bangkok, and jetlag thus hits me like a Northeastern truck driver on methamphetamines.
Untangling the stats to establish the smart phone leaders
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 21/04/2010
» So what is the most popular smart phone platform out there? BlackBerry? It certainly seems that way with our former Prime Minister telling his peasant mob to use it to watch a certain coloured TV channel that is otherwise banned.
Cracking good time
Database, Published on 13/01/2010
» German tech nerd Karsten Nohl showed off at the Chaos Communication Conference in Berlin how he cracked the encryption that you were trusting to keep your phone calls un-tappable throughout Thailand; the researcher proved it would be pretty simple to crack any GSM encryption; he said the 20-year-old encryption algorithm used by most GSM companies is simply too weak, and can be cracked by anyone who really cares; he released all the data, cracking tables and instructions, but did not give away an actual cracking program, because that might be illegal.