Design with Intent | 2005 December

Cinemas jamming mobile phone signals

By Dan Lockton ⋅ December 20, 2005 ⋅ 5 comments

Via Boing Boing – the US’s National Association of Theater Owners wants the FCC’s permission to block mobile reception inside cinemas. To be honest I thought this already happened in some places… maybe I’d mentally linked it to office buildings with Faraday cage wall structures to prevent eavesdropping on wireless data transfer; I don’t know [...]

New Analog Hole Bill

By Dan Lockton ⋅ December 17, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Via EFF DeepLinks, the news that a new “Digital Transition Content Security Act” is being proposed in the US – specifically targetting video ADCs (see discussion of the analogue (analog) hole).

Service discrimination via two-tier internet

By Dan Lockton ⋅ December 17, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The spectre of a two-tier internet (see Control & networks) looms closer again, as detailed in this Boston Globe article – Telecoms want their products to travel on a faster Internet (via Furdlog).
“The proposal supported by AT&T and BellSouth would allow telecommunications carriers to offer their own advanced Internet video services to their customers, while [...]

A small-scale attempt to promote the site!

By Dan Lockton ⋅ December 10, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Please digg this site if you find it interesting – the more people find it and get involved, hopefully the better it’ll become. Thanks!

“The progressive and dispersed installation of a new system of domination”

By Dan Lockton ⋅ December 8, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Burak Arikan of the MIT Media Lab helpfully pointed me to Gilles Deleuze’s 1990 essay, ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control.’

Intel Viiv: control through integrated systems

By Dan Lockton ⋅ December 6, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Via Furdlog: Intel’s new Viiv technology, the basis of a new range of dual-core processor ‘home media centres,’ will, apparently mean that:
“PCs would work with televisions and digital recorders and portable devices so people could move their entertainment wherever they wanted.” (LA Times story)

GPS External Speed Control in Canada

By Dan Lockton ⋅ December 5, 2005 ⋅ 8 comments

Via Slashdot, a CNN story reports that:
Canadian auto regulators are testing a system that would enforce speed limits by making it harder to push down the car’s gas pedal once the speed limit is passed… [using] a global positioning satellite device installed in the car to monitor the car’s speed and position.

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