Archive for the 'Technology' Category
More on What Kent Kresa Might Bring to GM
April 1st, 2009What technologies might someone like Kent Kresa be tasked with providing to GM? —Obama Fired GM’s CEO; What’s Stirring Behind the Black Curtain? Not only did the Obama administration fire GM’s CEO, the Los Angeles Times reports that they also installed Kresa as Chairman. Via: Bloomberg: Alternative Energy, Technology Kresa will probably help steer GM […]
British Government Wants to Install “Communication Box” to Track Vehicles Across Europe
March 31st, 2009Via: Guardian: The government is backing a project to install a “communication box” in new cars to track the whereabouts of drivers anywhere in Europe, the Guardian can reveal. Under the proposals, vehicles will emit a constant “heartbeat” revealing their location, speed and direction of travel. The EU officials behind the plan believe it will […]
Obama Fired GM’s CEO; What’s Stirring Behind the Black Curtain?
March 30th, 2009Most people would probably read over the AP piece below without thinking twice about the mention of GM’s new Chairman of the Board: Board member Kent Kresa, the former chairman and CEO of defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., was named interim chairman of the GM board. Woh. Hold on there. Who is Kent Kresa? In […]
Robot Uses Biological Brain
March 29th, 2009Via: Seed Magazine: Kevin Warwick’s new robot behaves like a child. “Sometimes it does what you want it to, and sometimes it doesn’t,” he says. And while it may seem strange for a professor of cybernetics to be concerning himself with such an unreliable machine, Warwick’s creation has something that even today’s most sophisticated robots […]
Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries
March 29th, 2009You don’t find this out by reading the New York Times piece below, but in The Snooping Dragon: Social-Malware Surveillance of the Tibetan Movement we read the following: The OHHDLstarted to suspect it was under surveillance while setting up meetings between His Holiness and foreign dignitaries. They sent an email invitation on behalf of His […]
Electric Cars: The Tesla Model S Which Most Americans Won’t Be Able to Afford, or the Reva Li-on, Which Americans Won’t Be Allowed to Buy
March 27th, 2009I looked at the news about the upcoming Tesla EV sedan, and I thought *meh*, at $50,000, it might as well cost $50 million. Production doesn’t start until mid 2011. But check out this little Reva. That vehicle would easily cover all of our regular driving needs. With a couple more solar panels (besides the […]
Imbecile Nearly Drives His BMW Off Cliff Because GPS Told Him To
March 25th, 2009Turn left, Dave. Via: Mirror: Horrified Robert Jones ended up with a careless driving charge after his satnav left his BMW perched on the edge of a cliff. Robert, 43, followed the device’s instructions as he headed for a friend’s house – even when it began taking him up a steep, rocky footpath. He finally […]
Jay Rockefeller: Would It Be Better If We Hadn’t Created the Internet?
March 23rd, 2009Cattle Respond to Magnetic Fields from Power Lines
March 22nd, 2009Via: AP: High-voltage power lines mess with animal magnetism. Researchers, who reported last year that most cows and deer tend to orient themselves in a north-south alignment, have now found that power lines can disorient the animals. When the power lines run east-west, that’s the way grazing cattle tend to line up, researchers led by […]
Obama Administration: Constitution Does Not Protect Cell-Site Records
March 19th, 2009In my case, there’s no way the programs I want to talk to Congress about should be public ever, unless maybe in 200 years they want to declassify them. You should never learn about it; no one at the Times should ever learn about these things. —Russell Tice, Former NSA SIGINT Officer All of these […]
