Archive for December, 2009
Tens of Thousands Rally Against Berlusconi in Rome
December 7th, 2009Via: BBC: Tens of thousands of people have rallied in Rome, demanding the resignation of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The No B (Berlusconi) Day march was organised by grassroots groups via the internet and social networking sites. Mr Berlusconi faces separate tax fraud and bribery trials after he lost his immunity from prosecution in […]
Google Expands Tracking to Logged Out Users
December 6th, 2009Via: Tech Radar: Anyone who’s a regular Google search user will know that the only way to avoid the company tracking your online activities is to log out of Gmail or whatever Google account you use. Not any more. As of last Friday, even searchers who aren’t logged into Google in any way have their […]
Family Doesn’t Earn Enough to Satisfy the IRS Magic 8 Ball, Gets Audited
December 6th, 2009It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if a minimum income law was passed… —Men Who Took Food in Trash Sentenced to Six Months in Jail Via: Seattle Times: Rachel Porcaro knows she’s hardly rich. When you’re a single mom making 10 bucks an hour, you don’t need government experts to tell you how broke […]
AmTrust Largest of Six Bank Failures on FDIC Friday
December 6th, 2009Via: RTT News: Regulators on Friday shut down six U.S. banks, taking the total number of bank closures in the year to 130. The banks closed on Friday include AmTrust Bank in Ohio, which is the fourth-largest bank to fail this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, said it took over AmTrust Bank, […]
Man Controlled Robotic Hand with Thoughts
December 5th, 2009Via: AP: An Italian who lost his left forearm in a car crash was successfully linked to a robotic hand, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts, scientists said Wednesday. During a one-month experiment conducted last year, 26-year-old Pierpaolo Petruzziello felt like his lost arm had grown […]
Britain: Cash Prizes for Catching CCTV Criminals
December 5th, 2009Via: BBC: There are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain watching our every move. In London, there are more CCTV cameras than any other city in the world with one camera for every eight Londoners. But as victims of crime have found to their cost, catching criminals on camera is dependent on the equipment being […]
The Death of Mike Connell
December 5th, 2009Via: Brad Blog: On December 18, 2008, Bush IT expert Mike Connell, a highly skilled pilot, was killed in a sudden crash while flying his small aircraft from Washington DC to his Akron/Canton home airport. The cause of the crash is still unknown and under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. … Although mainly […]
U.S. Senator Jim Bunning on Ben Bernanke: “Your Fed has become the The Creature from Jekyll Island”
December 5th, 2009Related: The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
Gold: Down $46, Quasi Shooting Star for the Week
December 5th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. This is from Questions on Gold, November 13, 2009: Shorter term dollar bears and gold bulls, that upper channel line is your line in the sand. Short to medium outlook dollar bears and gold bulls: Stay the course as long as […]
FCC Now Planning “All-IP” Phone Transition
December 5th, 2009Via: Ars: The writing is on the wall for old school circuit-switched phone networks, and the world is going all-IP. Now, the FCC is gathering data to guide the next major transition of the country’s communications network.
