Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
More Than One-Third of U.S. Adults Consume Fast Food Each Day
October 6th, 2018Via: Newsweek: On a given day, 36.6 percent of American adults will consume fast food, and that percentage only rises with higher income brackets. Researchers at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics studied the fast food consumption of adults in the United States. Released Wednesday, the report compares the […]
DEF CON Report: “Grave and Undeniable” Security Issues with Electronic Voting Systems
October 1st, 2018Via: Ars Technica: Today, six prominent information-security experts who took part in DEF CON’s Voting Village in Las Vegas last month issued a report on vulnerabilities they had discovered in voting equipment and related computer systems. One vulnerability they discovered—in a high-speed vote-tabulating system used to count votes for entire counties in 23 states—could allow […]
Insiders Selling at Record Pace
September 26th, 2018Via: CBS: Corporate insiders are dumping stock in their companies at a rate not seen in 10 years. With September not yet over, stock sales by company executives reached $5.7 billion, according to data from TrimTabs Investment Research — the highest September in a decade. August’s $10.3 billion in insider sales also reached a 10-year […]
Meet the People Falling for Scripted Robots
September 26th, 2018Is this actually contributing to Japan’s declining population? I had assumed that work related stress in Japan was simply too much to handle for a growing number of people, and that the bizarre digital escapism was a symptom of that. Would the otaku-as-pathology phenomenon be happening if work-life balance existed in Japan? In my opinion, […]
Steve1989MREInfo
September 26th, 2018I thought, “I’ll just watch one…” Steve1989MREInfo Via: Steve1989MREInfo:
W. Virginia’s Decision to Allow Smartphone Voting for Midterms Raises Serious Security Concerns
September 25th, 2018Give me a fucking break. Via: PJ Media: For the first time in our nation’s history, voters in 24 counties in W. Virginia will be able to vote using their mobile phones. While some are hailing the decision because it will make voting easier for members of the military deployed overseas, experts are warning of […]
New Zealand: State of Collapse in Northland’s Public Schools
September 19th, 2018Our Playcentre is located on the school grounds, so I hear the stories and see the police cars in the parking lot. The teachers look like death camp survivors. At this point, I’m pretty sure that the purpose of the Ministry of Education is to destroy the minds of as many children as possible. Premeditated. […]
Guadalajara: Trailer Full of Decomposing Corpses
September 19th, 2018In other news: Mexican Street Dogs Fight for Discarded Human Head in Tijuana. Via: Guardian: Mexicans have reacted with outrage after authorities in the western state of Jalisco left a trailer full of decomposing corpses on the outskirts of Mexico’s second-largest city following a wave of violence which overwhelmed local morgues. Locals in the Guadalajara […]
‘Apple’s Best Product Is Now Privacy’
September 14th, 2018Sadly, Apple is the least bad option for most computer users, no doubt about it. Please don’t believe that Apple is actually providing anything even remotely close to an objective definition of privacy, and security flaps can be as ridiculous and cringe inducing as on other platforms: Apple iTunes “Flaw” Allowed Government Spying for 3 […]
Tech Titans Plot Their Doomsday Escape to New Zealand Luxury Bunkers
September 5th, 2018Via: Bloomberg: Years of doomsday talk at Silicon Valley dinner parties has turned to action. In recent months, two 150-ton survival bunkers journeyed by land and sea from a Texas warehouse to the shores of New Zealand, where they’re buried 11 feet underground. Seven Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have purchased bunkers from Rising S Co. and […]
