Archive for October, 2011
Insane Ban on Cash Transactions in Louisiana
October 13th, 2011Via: Ackel and Associates: This summer, the State Legislature and Governor of Louisiana passed a law that bans individuals and businesses from transacting in cash if they are considered a “secondhand dealer”. House Bill 195 of the 2011 Regular Session (Act 389) broadly defines a secondhand dealer to include “… Anyone, other than a non-profit […]
Facebook Reportedly Can Track Web Browsing Without Cookies
October 13th, 2011This is related to browser uniqueness. See How Unique – and Trackable – Is Your Browser? and Network Device Fingerprinting for the background on how this works. Again, Facebook widgets must be blocked from loading by default, unless, of course, you’re ok with this nonsense. Ghostery is the easiest solution. AdBlock+ and NoScript will also […]
Navy Seaman Acting as NCIS Informant on Day of Death
October 13th, 2011Via: Deerfield Patch: In February 2010, Navy seaman Kyle Antonacci was found hanging by a belt in the closet of his room at Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois. His cause of death was ruled asphyxia by hanging but how he died is yet to be determined. Kyle was 22 years old and had recently […]
Elevated Radiation Reports in Tokyo
October 13th, 2011Via: Kyodo: High radiation doses were reported Thursday in spots in Tokyo and neighboring Chiba Prefecture, both over 200 kilometers away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, with their readings found to exceed current dose levels in some evacuation zones around the plant. Airborne radiation of up to 3.35 microsieverts per hour was recorded […]
Britain: Scientists Reconstruct Black Death Plague with Genetic Material Taken from Ancient Corpses Buried Under Royal Mint
October 13th, 2011Don’t look at me. I just work here. Via: BBC: The genetic code of the germ that caused the Black Death has been reconstructed by scientists for the first time. The researchers extracted DNA fragments of the ancient bacterium from the teeth of medieval corpses found in London. They say the pathogen is the ancestor […]
‘No Food Rights’ Judge Quits to Work for Monsanto Law Firm
October 13th, 2011There ought to be a RICO investigation into that f*cker. Via: Food Freedom: The Wisconsin judge who recently ruled that we have no right to own a cow or drink its milk resigned to join one of Monsanto’s law firms. Former judge Patrick J. Fiedler now works for Axley Brynelson, LLP, which defended Monsanto against […]
Harrisburg Files for Bankruptcy
October 13th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which faces a state takeover of its finances, filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to pay the debt on a trash-to-energy incinerator. The City Council made its 4-3 decision yesterday against the advice of a city attorney who said members did not follow proper procedure. It’s this year’s ninth bankruptcy filing […]
Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’
October 13th, 2011Do you notice how this technocratic theocracy is the same old snake handling and sky god worship, but with “science” and computers? Same result, it just doesn’t look like a Pentecostal revival. Instead of people speaking in tongues and waving bibles, technocrats in suits are telling us that the machines will find the terrorists who […]
X-37 Variant Might Carry Astronauts
October 12th, 2011Via: Wired: The Air Force’s mysterious X-37B “space plane” is only on its second, eight-month-plus orbital mission, ostensibly conducting science experiments. But manufacturer Boeing has already drawn up plans for a major upgrade to the nimble, 29-foot-long robot — one that could more than double the vehicle’s size and make room for up to six […]
AOL Launches New Unmanned ‘Lights Out’ Data Center
October 12th, 2011They role all the hardware issues into batch jobs that get dealt with by contractors. I wonder how many years it will be before they build Ikea warehouse style data centers, where robots will actually pull and replace the defective server units? You could have a data center the size of a couple of football […]
