Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Avoid Gate Grope, Become a ‘Trusted Traveler’
May 18th, 2011Via: USA Today: Upset with being frisked and having a naked image taken of you at airports? Increasingly, stringent air security screening methods such as these are under question. And they’re not just being questioned by travelers upset at being groped. A consensus is building among the airline industry, business and leisure travel groups and […]
13 Palestinians Killed During Protests Along Israel’s Borders
May 16th, 2011Do you really think that this was coordinated over open social networks and Israel didn’t know about it? I don’t know what the point of this is, but there is no chance that Israel was “surprised” by it. Via: Toronto Star: The popular uprisings that swept the Mideast this year reached Israel’s doorstep Sunday as […]
The God of High Places
May 12th, 2011Via: Declarations of Interdependence: It is time for you to hear this, whether it be dangerous knowledge or not. Understanding the methods and motives of the worship of the God of High Places is very important for the future viability of the human race. I am just a squirrel, eating an acorn in the boughs […]
Britain: Babies to Be Given Anti-Obesity Drugs in the Womb
May 12th, 2011Via: Telegraph: One hundred obese mums-to-be will be given Metformin as part of a three-year study to tackle obesity rates and reduce the number of difficult births. Patients at Liverpool Women’s Hospital will be given the drug to reduce the food supply to their unborn babies, although it will not help the mums themselves to […]
Cellphones to Get Government Chips for Disaster Alerts
May 10th, 2011You won’t be able to opt out of receiving messages from Dear Leader… Some days, as I sift through all of this madness, I really miss George Carlin. I bet he’d just love this one. Via: Boston Globe: After more than five years of planning, a national emergency alert system that will send messages to […]
Schumer Calls for ‘Do Not Ride’ List for Trains
May 9th, 2011Via: CBS: Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for better rail security now that the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound has turned up plans to attack trains in the U.S. “Anyone, even a member of al-Qaida could purchase a train ticket and board an Amtrak train without so much as a question asked,” Schumer said. […]
And Now… Scientists Afflict Neural Network with Schizophrenia
May 8th, 2011I was reading along, thinking that this sounded like run-of-the-mill grant swindling, but then this paragraph damn near slapped me out of my chair: After being re-trained with the elevated learning rate, DISCERN began putting itself at the center of fantastical, delusional stories that incorporated elements from other stories it had been told to recall. […]
Resisting the Rise of the Machines as Marketing Meme to Sell Cars?
May 3rd, 2011Via: Dodge / YouTube: Related: Life in Touchscreen Hell
And Now… Bin Laden Is Dead
May 2nd, 2011No, Really: Bin Laden Buried at Sea Via: AP: A U.S. official says Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea. After bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition. That practice calls for the body […]
Superman Renounces U.S. Citizenship at United Nations
April 29th, 2011Via: Comics Alliance: The key scene takes place in “The Incident,” a short story in Action Comics #900 written by David S. Goyer with art by Miguel Sepulveda. In it, Superman consults with the President’s national security advisor, who is incensed that Superman appeared in Tehran to non-violently support the protesters demonstrating against the Iranian […]
