Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
G20 Post Mortem / Open Thread
September 27th, 2009A few people seem surprised that the U.S. is a police state. Oh the cops. Oh the poor students. Oh boo hoo, we just want to wave our signs. The don’t taze me bro generation is obviously going to have to figure this one out the hard way. My position has always been that people […]
“Artificially Intelligent CCTV Could Prevent Crimes Before They Happen”
September 24th, 2009I’d put the chances of this working as described within five years at about 0%. It sounds like a good grant swindle, however, for the people involved with the “research.” How much fun will kids have with gaming this thing? Via: Telegraph: A new generation of Minority Report-style security cameras that can detect criminals before […]
Microchips Will Make Sure Patients Swallow Their Drugs As Directed
September 22nd, 2009Via: Financial Times: Patients who fail to pop pills on time could soon benefit from having a chip on their shoulder, under a ground-breaking electronic system being developed by Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceuticals group. The company is testing technology that inserts a tiny microchip into each pill swallowed and sends a reminder to patients by […]
Israeli Government Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews
September 14th, 2009U.S. Taxpayer money (a lot of it borrowed from China) is being used to promote crackpot religious purity propaganda in Israel. This is off the rails. Via: Alternet: The Israeli government has launched a television and Internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of […]
George Carlin – Conspiracy Theorists
August 26th, 2009Massachusetts: $1,000 Fine Per Day, 30 Days Prison for Refusing to Obey State Officials During Swine Flu “Emergency”
August 24th, 2009Legislation: AN ACT RELATIVE TO PANDEMIC AND DISASTER PREPARATION AND RESPONSE IN THE COMMONWEALTH
The Continuing Militarization of Biological Sciences
August 24th, 2009Don’t miss the last sentence. Via: Nature: In 2003, military analysts from the Counterproliferation and Technology Office of the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington DC predicted that emerging biotechnologies were likely to lead to a “paradigm shift” in the development of biological warfare agents. They warned that it would soon become possible to engineer agents […]
California spends $216,000 annually on each inmate in the juvenile justice system. It spends $8,000 on each child attending the Oakland public school system.
August 21st, 2009I’m definitely not for the expansion of the public indoctrination and lobotomy system, but this is Batshit insanity of the highest order. Via: New York Times: It’s time for a fundamental re-evaluation of the criminal justice system, as legislation sponsored by Senator Jim Webb has called for, so that we’re no longer squandering money that […]
School Kids Buying Their Breakfast Sticks Using Fingerprint Readers
August 20th, 2009In case you don’t get the “breakfast stick” reference: “Texas: In-School Suspension Program” Uses GPS Tracking Systems Attached to Students. Via: Chronicle Telegram: For lunch Monday, Elyria High School served up pepperoni pizza to the students who came back for the first day of classes. But instead of students handing over cash, some placed their […]
Your Tax Dollars at Work for Michael Bay
August 19th, 2009Via: David Bordwell: Back in July, when I was watching films at Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, I managed to catch several of the films in the Frank Capra retrospective. Two of them, Dirigible (above and left) and Submarine, were surprisingly spectacular, given that at the time Columbia was still a relatively minor studio. It […]
