Archive for April, 2010
Google: Biggest Wardriver of Them All?
April 25th, 2010Via: Register: Google’s roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it’s got your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN networks, and recording users’ unique Mac (Media Access Control) addresses, as the car trundles along. Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Data Protection Peter Schaar says he’s “horrified” […]
Stephen Hawking: Extraterrestrials Are Almost Certain to Exist; If We Encounter Them, Chances Are We’re Doomed
April 25th, 2010If Martians fell from the sky What would that do to God? Would we put the weapon down Or aim it up at the sky No one would believe it Except the fucking nut jobs They’d laugh and cry “We told you so!” Dave Matthews Band — Time Bomb The mainstream media is, increasingly, driving […]
DARPA Tested Hypersonic Glider Related to Quick-Response Global Strike System, and Then Claims to Have Lost Contact with It
April 24th, 2010There has been a lot of coverage of the launch of the X-37b, but as the right hand was waving at us, did you notice what the left hand was up to? The same day, the U.S. launched a Minotaur rocket that reportedly carried a Hypersonic Test Vehicle, which is a test platform for the […]
Failed German Bond Auction: Who Bails Out the Governments That Have Bailed Out the Feckless?
April 24th, 2010WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. This is a decent article, but it contains some rat poison: This just doesn’t happen in major government bond markets. In the U.S. Treasury market, if the total of bids isn’t double the total of securities being offered, it’s considered horrific […]
GM Pays Back TARP Loans With…TARP Loans
April 24th, 2010Why not? It works for Uncle $cam! Via: Reason: Have you driven a Ford lately? That might be a good idea, as it seems that GM’s claims to have repaid its TARP loans in full and ahead of schedule are, well, bullshit. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner […]
FDIC Friday: Regulators Seize Bank Linked to U.S. Senate Candidate
April 24th, 2010I’ve become bored with FDIC Fridays, but I couldn’t resist posting this one. Via: Reuters: Regulators on Friday seized a Chicago bank owned by the family of the Democratic nominee running for the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. Broadway Bank was among seven Illinois banks whose failure was announced on Friday. […]
Alan Grayson Discloses That Dodd Bill Covertly Eliminates Already Passed Legislation Requiring Full Fed Audit
April 24th, 2010Via: ZeroHedge: Once again we get confirmation that Chris Dodd is nothing but a paid manservant for his Federal Reserve masters, in addition to being a lame duck, whose last days in office are meant to do everything to allow the old-school Wall Street ways of endless secrecy and Fed bailouts to continue in perpetuity. […]
College Students Struggle to Go Without Media for 24 Hours
April 24th, 2010What could possibly go wrong? Via: Reuters: Crackberry is no joke. American college students are hooked on cellphones, social media and the Internet and showing symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Maryland who asked 200 students to give up all media for one full […]
SEC Staffers Watched Porn as Economy Crashed
April 23rd, 2010Via: Washington Post: Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says. The SEC’s inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo […]
Petman Biped Robot Walks 4.4 MPH
April 23rd, 2010Also: Boston Dynamics Wins Darpa Contract To Develop LS3 Robot Mule (It’s a Bigger BigDog)
