Archive for May, 2010
Bill Gates Funds Geoengineering Company That Will Make Clouds Out of Sea Water
May 12th, 2010Via: Mother Nature Network: Basically a fleet of ships equipped with screens & vacuums pump up millions of gallons of ocean water and using high-powered water canons introduce the water some 3000 feet in the air, where clouds are formed. The added moisture content would increase the thickness of the water vapor, making the clouds […]
Europe Rewrites its Rule Book in Creating Fund to Contain Financial Crisis
May 12th, 2010Via: Washington Post: The massive emergency fund assembled to defend the value of the euro is backed by a political gamble with an uncertain outcome: that European governments will rewrite a post-World War II social contract that has been generous to workers and retirees but has become increasingly unaffordable for an aging population. The trillion-dollar […]
Swiss Artist Catalogs Mutant Insects Around Nuke Plants
May 12th, 2010Via: Wired: Conventional wisdom holds that nuclear power stations don’t leak enough radiation to create malformed organisms. But in some locations, Hesse-Honegger discovered mutations — curtailed feelers, misshapen legs, asymmetrical wings — in as many as 30 percent of the bugs she gathered. That’s 10 times the overall rate of about 3 percent for insects […]
Senate Votes 96-0 to Audit Federal Reserve
May 12th, 2010Senate Passes Watered Down Sanders Amendment to Audit the Fed 96-0 Via: Los Angeles Times: The Senate voted 96 to 0 on Tuesday to authorize a congressional audit of the secretive Federal Reserve Board’s emergency aid program and full disclosure of who got the money, a plan that could reveal more details about government help […]
Gold Hits New Record High
May 12th, 2010Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument.
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 […]
18 Missiles, 14 Dead in Latest Drone Attack
May 11th, 2010Via: Wired: There was a massive drone attack in Pakistan today — one involving multiple unmanned aircraft and “up to 18 American missiles,” according to the Associated Press. 14 people are dead. This second robotic strike in three days is the latest sign that the American drone war in Pakistan has reached a new peak. […]
Eric Holder: Miranda Rights Should Be Modified For Terrorism Suspects
May 11th, 2010Via: Huffington Post: Attorney General Eric Holder said for the first time today on ABC’s “This Week” that the Obama administration is open to modifying Miranda protections to deal with the “threats that we now face.” “The [Miranda] system we have in place has proven to be effective,” Holder told host Jake Tapper. “I think […]
Food-Stamp Tally Nears 40 Million, Sets Record
May 11th, 2010Via: Reuters: Nearly 40 million Americans received food stamps — the latest in an ever-higher string of record enrollment that dates from December 2008 and the U.S. recession, according to a government update. Food stamps are the primary federal anti-hunger program, helping poor people buy food. Enrollment is highest during times of economic distress. The […]
‘Starving Yogi’ Astounds Indian Scientists
May 11th, 2010Via: AFP: An 83-year-old Indian holy man who says he has spent seven decades without food or water has astounded a team of military doctors who studied him during a two-week observation period. Prahlad Jani spent a fortnight in a hospital in the western India state of Gujarat under constant surveillance from a team of […]
