Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
UK PM’s Internet Censorship Insinuation Receives Praise from China
August 18th, 2011Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it […]
Britain: Police Could Get New Curfew Powers
August 16th, 2011Via: Guardian: New powers allowing police to clear the streets and create “no-go” areas for the public are being considered, the home secretary, Theresa May, has said. May said it was time to consider whether the police needed a power “to impose a general curfew in a particular area” in the aftermath of last week’s […]
Paul Krugman on CNN: “If We Discovered That Space Aliens Were Planning to Attack… This Slump Would Be Over in 18 Months”
August 15th, 2011The Al Qaeda swindle isn’t working, so why not double down and shoot for the stars? Via: CNN Clip on YouTube: Paul Krugman wants to create a Keynesian-infused Space Alien Economic Bubble to revive the depressed one we have right now.
Choose Real Food
August 13th, 2011Via: Whole Health Source: The people who design government dietary guidelines are gagged by the fact that politics and business are so tightly intertwined in this country. Their advice will never directly target the primary source of obesity and metabolic dysfunction– industrially processed food– because that would hurt corporate profits in one of the country’s […]
Russia: Government Sponsored Youth Camp
August 12th, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times: They wake up to the Russian national anthem and gather near the main stage lined with huge portraits of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his boss (on paper at least), President Dmitry Medvedev, where they do their morning exercises to music interrupted periodically by recorded quotations from both leaders. As the […]
School Bans Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-5, So Vonnegut Library Gives Copies to Students for Free
August 10th, 2011Via: io9: Most of us regard Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five as a masterpiece of thought-provoking science fiction, but the School Board of Republic High School in Missouri felt differently. They decided to ban the novel. And in response, the Vonnegut Memorial Library offered to provide a free copy to any of the 150 students […]
U.S. Wants to Build Cybersecurity Protection Plan for Cars
August 4th, 2011Better make sure your car’s firewall and antivirus definitions are up to date. *grin* Via: Network World: As cars and other forms of transportation increasingly rely on online systems for everything from safety to onboard entertainment, the cybersecurity threat from those who would exploit such electronic control packages has also increased. That’s why the US […]
Facebook Comes Before Tap Water as India’s Poor Get Smartphones
August 4th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: In a two-room shanty with no running water in northern Mumbai, Darshana Verma makes tea on a small stove. On a bench nearby, her 18-year-old son, Vishal, messages Facebook friends on the keypad of his Nokia smartphone. “This is the Internet age,” said the 36-year-old domestic helper, who spent more than half her […]
China to New Zealand: Embrace Your Status as an Authorized Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong Franchisee
August 4th, 2011*sigh* Via: New Zealand Herald: China is launching a public relations offensive in New Zealand and the rest of world, saying the West has nothing to fear from China’s rapid economic growth and investment. The Chinese embassy’s political counsellor Cheng Lei held a rare press conference this morning at the embassy in Wellington, reading out […]
Israeli-Style Airline Passenger Screening Starting in Boston
August 2nd, 2011Via: Boston Herald: Boston’s TSA screeners — part of a security force whose competency has come under fire nationwide — soon will be carrying out sophisticated behavioral inspections under a first-in-the-nation program that’s already raising concerns of racial profiling, harassment of innocent travelers and longer lines. The training for the Israeli-style screening — a projected […]
