Archive for September, 2011
NFL Wants Pat-Downs from Ankles Up at All Stadiums
September 16th, 2011Via: USA Today: The NFL wants all fans patted down from the ankles up this season to improve fan safety. Under the new “enhanced” pat-down procedures, the NFL wants all 32 clubs to search fans from the ankles to the knees as well as the waist up. Previously, security guards only patted down fans from […]
Gold: Weekly Interval
September 16th, 2011Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. On gold, I’m focusing on the weekly interval after the unwinding of the recent double top on the daily. As of now, there is no damage to the long term bullish technical picture on gold. It’s debatable where long term damage […]
What Will Video Games Will Be Like in a Few Decades?
September 16th, 2011Here’s an example of a video game that I thought was fun when I was young: Choplifter (1982): Now, nearly three decades later, take a look at some gameplay footage from the upcoming, Battlefield 3: As I was watching that Battlefield 3 trailer, I found myself squinting, blinking and setting the volume to mute. (Maybe […]
Another Global Banking Sector Bailout / Can Kicking Exercise
September 15th, 2011Europe: The new Lehman Brothers. Via: Daily Ticker: Stocks surged in the U.S. and Europe early Thursday while Treasury prices tumbled on news of a coordinated easing by global central banks. “The Governing Council of the European Central Bank has decided, in coordination with the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan […]
U.S. Unable to Account for 36k Pounds of Its Own Weapons Grade Uranium and Plutonium
September 15th, 2011This is madness. Via: Business Insider: Under special nuclear cooperation agreements, the United States sent 38,580 pounds of enriched uranium and plutonium to more than two-dozen foreign agencies and is unable to account for 36,000 pounds of the material. The Government Accountability Office report says these 27 cooperation agreements, set up to facilitate cross border […]
U.K. Researchers to Test “Artificial Volcano” for Geoengineering the Climate
September 15th, 2011Via: Scientific American: Next month, researchers in the U.K. will start to pump water nearly a kilometer up into the atmosphere, by way of a suspended hose. The experiment is the first major test of a piping system that could one day spew sulfate particles into the stratosphere at an altitude of 20 kilometers, supported […]
Zero Day Industrial Control System Exploits Published
September 15th, 2011Via: SC Magazine: A security researcher has disclosed a laundry list of unpatched vulnerabilities and detailed proof-of-concept exploits that allow hackers to completely compromise major industrial control systems. Security researcher Luigi Auriemma disclosed the attacks against six SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems including US giant Rockwell Automation. The step-by-step exploits allowed attackers to […]
NRO Will Display Ancient Spy Satellites
September 15th, 2011Via: The Space Review: Later this week the National Reconnaissance Office is going to reveal information on two of its Cold War era satellite programs, HEXAGON and GAMBIT, and publicly unveil hardware that has been classified for decades. GAMBIT was started in 1960, with a first launch in 1963. HEXAGON started in 1966, with a […]
LA Porn Studio Begins Construction on ‘Post-Apocalyptic’ Underground Bunker
September 15th, 2011This is hilarious. Via: CBS: A San Fernando Valley adult entertainment studio began construction this month on what it calls a “post-apocalyptic” underground bunker in anticipation of a global catastrophe rumored to take place in late 2012. A spokesman for Van Nuys-based Pink Visual said the bunker will be “far more than a mere bomb […]
Swissair Crash May Not Have Been an Accident
September 15th, 2011Via: CBC: An investigator looking into the crash of Swissair Flight 111 near Peggys Cove, N.S., says he was prevented by senior RCMP and aviation safety officials from pursuing his theory that an incendiary device might have been the cause. “There was sufficient grounds to suspect a criminal device on that plane,” retired RCMP sergeant […]
