Archive for January, 2010
This Week in Pre-Crime: Mind-Reading Security Systems
January 8th, 2010Via: AP: The aim of one company that blends high technology and behavioral psychology is hinted at in its name, WeCU – as in “We See You.” The system that Israeli-based WeCU Technologies has devised and is testing in Israel projects images onto airport screens, such as symbols associated with a certain terrorist group or […]
Sentenced to 40 Months in Jail, UBS Whistleblower Seeks Probe of Government Lawyers
January 8th, 2010Via: Reuters: Lawyers for the whistleblower who helped in the U.S. tax probe of Swiss bank UBS AG asked the government on Tuesday to probe Justice Department lawyers for allegedly making false statements about his case. The National Whistleblowers Center, representing former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld as he fights the government over his role in […]
Windows 7 Has Lots of ‘GodModes’
January 8th, 2010Via: Cnet: Those intrigued by the “GodMode” in Windows 7 may be interested to know that there are many other similar shortcuts hidden within the operating system. Intended for developers as a shortcut to various internal settings, such features have been around since Vista and even before, according to the head of Microsoft’s Windows division, […]
Burned Remains of Playboy Model Found in Dumpster
January 8th, 2010What is it about Florida? Via: Miami Herald: A woman visiting Miami with her boyfriend for the holidays was found burned in a trash bin after a night out clubbing. Paula Sladewski and her boyfriend flew into South Florida to spend New Year’s Eve at a Lady Gaga concert at Miami Beach’s posh Fontainebleau. But […]
Wal-Mart and H&M Destroy Brand New, Unsold Clothes
January 8th, 2010Add up all the sorrow, hard work and resources that went into producing those goods… Straight to the landfill. Wal-Mart apparently uses a machine to destroy the clothes. How very American is that? Did someone get rich designing and building the machines that Wal Mart uses to destroy brand new clothes before they are thrown […]
TSA Agent at LAX: “I am god, I’m in charge.”
January 8th, 2010Via: NBC: They are the first line of defense in airport security but two troubling incidents involving TSA agents at LAX are raising concerns. A TSA agent was arrested on January 3rd in Terminal One at LAX, a source told NBCLA. He had just gotten off duty and was behaving erratically, saying, “I am god, […]
Freezing Weather-Related Death Toll Rises to 22 in Britain
January 8th, 2010But first, we flashback to 2000: Independent: Snowfalls Are Now Just a Thing of the Past: Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our […]
Robotic System Makes a Novel Scientific Discovery
January 8th, 2010Dress up brute force real pretty and put lipstick on it. Via: Wales Online: IT was hailed as taking artificial intelligence to a new level. Now, the creation by Welsh scientists of the first robot in the world to make an independent scientific discovery has been named the fourth most significant discovery of 2009 by […]
Judge Allows Apartheid Suit Against Daimler AG, General Motors, Ford Motor Co. and IBM
January 7th, 2010Via: Courthouse News: A federal judge in Manhattan again allowed a lawsuit to proceed against several corporate giants for their alleged role in aiding South Africa’s oppressive apartheid regime. Daimler AG, General Motors, Ford Motor Co. and IBM are accused of “aiding and abetting” human rights violations under the apartheid government. In October, the South […]
Green Shoots: State Tax Revenue in U.S. Drops Most Since 1963
January 7th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: U.S. state tax collections fell the most in 46 years in the first three quarters of 2009 as the recession shrank revenue from sources including personal income, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government said. Revenue dropped 13.3 percent, or $80 billion, compared with the same nine months of 2008, to $523 billion, […]
