Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
16X Fewer Federal Safety Inspections on Deepwater Horizon Than Required
May 17th, 2010Via: AP: The federal agency responsible for ensuring that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that the oil rig be inspected at least once per month, an Associated Press investigation shows. Since January 2005, the federal Minerals Management […]
Internet Approaches Addressing Limit
May 12th, 2010I wouldn’t be too concerned about this one. IPv6 has been in roll out phase for several years. Modern operating systems support IPv6. Windows XP, by far the most popular operating system, has supported IPv6 since Service Pack 1. While XP is the most popular OS, it is dropping slowly every month now, mostly because […]
Plan for Congressional Audits of Fed Dies in Senate
May 7th, 2010Looks like that one thousand point pants shitter from yesterday sent a pretty clear message. Via: Wall Street Journal: Last-minute maneuvering in the Senate allowed the Federal Reserve to sidestep legislation that would have exposed its interest-rate decision-making to congressional auditors. Pressure from the Obama administration led Senate lawmakers to alter a provision pushed by […]
Gulf Oil Spill: The Halliburton Connection
May 4th, 2010Halliburton Acquired Boots & Coots On 9 April 2010 Via: Los Angeles Times: Investigators delving into the possible cause of the massive gulf oil spill are focusing on the role of Houston-based Halliburton Co., the giant energy services company, which was responsible for cementing the drill into place below the water. The company acknowledged Friday […]
Halliburton Acquired Boots & Coots On 9 April 2010
May 1st, 2010And then… ‘Last Resort’ Safety Device Failed in Fatal Drilling Incident: Boots & Coots Inc. of Houston and Amarillo, Texas-based GSM Enterprises Inc., two of the companies that extinguished hundreds of oil wells in Kuwait set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in 1990, have been brought in to help cap the leaks. Halliburton’s timing was […]
Sophisticated Counterfeiting Operation Run Out of Apartment Facing Federal Reserve Building in Los Angeles
April 30th, 2010Update: Brian Alexik Walks Free Yep, you read that right. Via: Los Angeles Downtown News: Brian Alexik, the former fugitive who was arrested last year for drugs, weapons and counterfeiting charges, was sentenced today to five years probation as part of a plea deal and released from custody. Alexik, who was arrested on June 3, […]
New Telescope Called “Lucifer” Built Next to Vatican Observatory
April 25th, 2010Via: Popular Science: A new instrument with an evil-sounding name is helping scientists see how stars are born. Lucifer, which stands for (deep breath) “Large Binocular Telescope Near-infrared Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research,” is a chilled instrument attached to a telescope in Arizona. And yes, it’s named for the Devil, […]
Elliot Spitzer: “There are no coincidences in this world. None.”
April 20th, 2010Update: AIG-Goldman Sachs Trades Should Be Probed by SEC, Cummings Says Via: Business Week: The regulator suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for fraud should widen its probe to determine whether securities backed by bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc. were improperly created, said two lawmakers. It is “not beyond the realm of comprehension” that Goldman […]
Random Matrix Theory
April 12th, 2010Via: New Scientist: SUPPOSE we had a theory that could explain everything. Not just atoms and quarks but aspects of our everyday lives too. Sound impossible? Perhaps not. It’s all part of the recent explosion of work in an area of physics known as random matrix theory. Originally developed more than 50 years ago to […]
Polish President Lech Kaczynski, Several Other Top Polish Officials, Killed in Plane Crash
April 10th, 2010Via: Guardian: The Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife were among 132 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a regional airport in Russia early this morning. The governor of the west Russian town of Smolensk confirmed there were no survivors from the Tupulov Tu-154 plane, which came […]
