Archive for August, 2010
Germany to Roll Out ID cards with Embedded RFID; They Will Also Be Used for Establishing Identity Online
August 23rd, 2010Via: International Business Times: The production of the RFID chips, an integral element of the new generation of German identity cards, has started after the government gave a 10 year contract to the chipmaker NXP in the Netherlands. Citizens will receive the mandatory new ID cards from the first of November. The new ID card […]
Raytheon’s Directed Energy Pain Weapon Mounted from Ceiling in California Prison
August 23rd, 2010Here’s another one for your bulging Land-O-The-Free file folder. Via: The Signal: The reporters standing in front of me in line shouted in agony and crumpled in pain as the laser cannon zapped them. With each agonizing shriek I heard, my time in front of the laser cannon grew closer until finally I stepped onto […]
Real Headline: First U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq Since Withdrawal of Combat Troops
August 23rd, 2010Combat Brigades in Iraq Under Different Name Satire: Obama Declares Victory, Sort Of, Depending On How You Look At It, In Iraq Via: Guardian: An American soldier was killed by a rocket strike near Basra today, in the first US fatality since the last combat troops left Iraq.
Egg Recall
August 22nd, 2010Our hens just started laying. Via: AP: Two Iowa farms that recalled more than a half-billion eggs linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmonella poisoning share suppliers of chickens and feed as well as ties to an Iowa business routinely cited for violating state and federal law.
Frederick Forsyth Claims NSA Wrecked Wife’s Computer by Remote
August 22nd, 2010I’d like to know more about what happened to her computer. Via: BBC: Frederick Forsyth, bestselling author of thrillers like The Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War, was in the West African state of Guinea-Bissau last year when the president was assassinated. His presence there, he now believes, led suspicious US intelligence […]
Gene Burnett – Jump You F*#kers (A Song For Wall Street)
August 22nd, 2010Research Credit: Carol
Hardship Withdrawals from 401(k) Retirement Plans Rose to Highest Level in Decade
August 22nd, 2010Via: CNN: Hardship withdrawals from 401(k) retirement saving plans rose to the highest level in 10 years during the second quarter, Fidelity Investments said on Friday, in the latest sign of a dismal economy. Fidelity reported that, as of the second quarter, 2.2% of all 401(k) participants had made a hardship withdrawal at some point […]
Combat Brigades in Iraq Under Different Name
August 22nd, 2010Via: Army Times: As the final convoy of the Army’s 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Lewis, Wash., entered Kuwait early Thursday, a different Stryker brigade remained in Iraq. Soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division are deployed in Iraq as members of an Advise and Assist […]
Blackwater Founder Moves to Abu Dhabi
August 22nd, 2010Via: New York Times: Erik Prince, whose company, Blackwater Worldwide, is for sale and whose former top managers are facing criminal charges, has left the United States and moved to Abu Dhabi, according to court documents. Mr. Prince, a former member of the Navy Seals and an heir to a Michigan auto parts fortune, left […]
Copenhagen Suborbitals
August 22nd, 2010Homebrew submarine: Check Homebrew rocket: Check Homebrew sealaunch platform: Check The countdown is running on the test flight: The micro spacecraft (MSC) Tycho Brahe-1 is the payload of the HEAT booster. It is a pressurized volume providing support for one upright standing/half-sitting person, with a full view through a polymer plexiglas-dome to experience the entire […]
