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Self-surveillance: Should you worry or simply embrace your personal data?

H ave you ever wondered how much of your personal data is publicly available? What pictures are posted, what might be recorded, captured, documented, or stashed away in a database somewhere? Your internet browsing habits, travel patterns, online shopping, and credit card spending are just the most obvious information that someone else can access; what else could be knowable with a little effort...

EMBRACE System Demonstrator

Within the EMBRACE project an advanced communications system and network was developed. It uses the DVB technology for the high-speed downlink and a novel multi-frequency TDMA system for the return link. The return link is scaleable to accommodate the variety of data rates. Emphasis was put on providing quality of service (QoS) in wireless IP networks. Site diversity is used to increase the ava...

The EMBRACE System Demonstrator

Within the EMBRACE project an advanced communications system and network was developed. It uses the DVB technology for the high-speed downlink and a novel multi-frequency TDMA system for the return link. The return link is scaleable to accommodate the variety of data rates. Emphasis was put on providing quality of service (QoS) in wireless IP networks. Site diversity is used to increase the ava...

Pest control: embrace marketing.

Ten reasons to embrace scientism.

A strong version of scientism, such as that of Alex Rosenberg, says, roughly, that natural science reliably delivers rational belief or knowledge, whereas common sense sources of belief, such as moral intuition, memory, and introspection, do not. In this paper I discuss ten reasons that adherents of scientism have or might put forward in defence of scientism. The aim is to show which considerat...