At least with our homes we have some reasonable ways to know whether or not a government agent has entered it. With our technology, however, they could enter our computers, phones, tablets, etc., take whatever they want, and we would never know unless they decided to tell us. And there have been too many instances of that happening for the American people to feel comfortable giving the government even more tools to access our technology.

Perhaps if the government had behaved more responsibly with our civil liberties to date, this wouldn’t be much of an issue.

Via Obama Makes Case for Government Access to Private Property @ Boots & Sabers.

Encryption, Sen. Johnson, Technology

Ron Johnson Favors FBI in Apple Battle

Body Cams?

Timing

Via The dead-children ad that cast a pall over the Super Bowl @ Althouse.

Anti-procrastination software maker claims procrastination a big problem

Via Three-fourths of college students in survey attribute procrastination to Internet distractions @ JS School Zone.

Could it handle the workload?

Via “Is there an app that detects bogus claims in a story pretending to be reporting?” Althouse.

Open

Via Apple CEO Tim Cook Comes Out Of Closet, Proud To Be Gay @ CAFFEINATED POLITICS.

Benders

Via What if you buy an elegantly thin iPhone and put it in your back pocket and proceed to sit on it all day? @ Althouse.

$349 and up

So now, why would I want something on my wrist again, something that I’ll want to take off whenever I type, which I do much of the day? I don’t see it. And it’s certainly not so aesthetically pleasing that I’d feel cool flaunting it as an accessory. It’s for men, isn’t it? Remember pocket…

Crime, Technology

Accomplice?

Via “A college student accused of killing his roommate asked Siri for advice on hiding a body the day the man went missing…” @ Althouse.

History, Science, Technology

7.20.1969

State Government, Technology

Lt. Gov. Kleefisch on Broadband

Technology, UW Madison

She’s gone electric

Via Electric cars coming to UW-Madison @ State Journal On Campus Blog.

Technology, UW Madison

No Email Wednesday

The outage occurred at 7:55 a.m. Wednesday when the power source quit to the universal power supply — a roomful of batteries that power a data center on Dayton Street. The data center is the largest at the university although it’s supplemented by dozens of smaller centers across campus. Power returned to the data center…

Food, Technology

PancakeBot

Via FREE WHITEWATER.

Government Spending, State Government, Technology

$137,800,000

Via Dem lawmakers call for hearing on massive IT project @ JS All Politics Blog.

State Government, Technology, Wisconsin

New state website

Via Wisconsin.Gov.

Education, Schools, Technology

Tablets peaking?

Via College students aren’t embracing tablets like experts expected, study says @ JS School Zone Blog.

Technology, UW Madison

UW-Madison moves online

UW-Madison is offering 100 online courses this summer, up from 64 last summer and 49 the summer before. Via UW-Madison expanding online course offerings for summer term @ JS School Zone.

Business, Technology

Software company that lets others make software get seven-figure investment

Drifty, founded in 2012 by Max Lynch and Ben Sperry — friends since kindergarten in the Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood and former co-workers at Madison mobile game developer PerBlue — makes software designed to help users create their own mobile apps or mobile websites. Via Drifty draws $1 million investment; and coming events for techies @…

Business, Technology

So, would SXSW work in Wisconsin?

Maybe, if it’s done the Wisconsin way, some say. … more» Via Madison.com.

Accidents, Milwaukee, Technology

Will a satellite crash land in MIlwaukee?

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about: They aren’t saying Milwaukee is in the target zone, but then again, they aren’t saying Milwaukee isn’t…. more» Via JS Hubbub Blog.

Packers, Technology

Still spotty

Via Cell service a work in progress at Lambeau Field @ JS Business of Sports Blog.

Crime, Local Government, Misconduct, Photography, Police, Technology

Local policing and point of view cameras

Point of view cameras, activated during each and every encounter, will exonerate police of false complaints while confirming actual misconduct. Via Local Policing and Point-of-View Cameras @ Daily Adams.

Technology

The age of predictive robots

Serve you better. Via Robot knows what you are about to do @ Althouse.

Technology, Wisconsin

Wisconsin middle-of-pack for broadband speed

Someone’s sure to propose big public spending to solve the problem. Via WMTV.

Schools, Technology

Madison School Board’s bungled search for new superintendent

Someday, they’ll discover…the Web: The consultant hired by the Madison School Board to coordinate its search for a new superintendent didn’t raise questions about the work experience of finalist Walter Milton Jr. in its background investigation summary, records show. But Milton acknowledged to board members in written materials that an Internet search about him would…