Archive for November, 2011
And Now: Iran About to Produce Nuclear Weapons [roll eyes]
November 7th, 2011Via: Washington Post: Intelligence provided to U.N. nuclear officials shows that Iran’s government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon, receiving assistance from foreign scientists to overcome key technical hurdles, according to Western diplomats and nuclear experts briefed on the findings. Documents and other records provide new details on the role […]
Condo at the End of the World
November 7th, 2011Wow, doombats on afterburner! Lengthy article at link. Via: The Verge:
Foxconn Wants to Build “Intelligent Robotics Kingdom” to Replace Human Workers with Robots
November 7th, 2011I love how they mention that this facility will create jobs! Yeah, 2000 jobs for people who are tasked with figuring out how to eliminate millions of other people’s jobs. This is definitely one for your Arbeit Macht Frei file folder. Via: Cnet: iPhone maker Foxconn aims to manufacture its own robots and automation equipment […]
50 Companies Team to Create Open Source EV
November 7th, 2011Via: Wired: The StreetScooter is a $7,000 EV with a 74 mph top speed and an 80-mile range. It relies on leased batteries and uses a heat pump for heating and air conditioning, and shipping company DHL has already ordered 3,500 of them — but the most interesting thing about the vehicle is how it […]
China Has Space Tracking Station in Australia
November 7th, 2011Via: AFP / Space Daily: China has acquired a space tracking station in Australia, its first such facility in a close US ally, a report said Saturday. The station in remote Dongara, about 350 kilometres (217 miles) north of Perth in western Australia, was used during Tuesday’s launch of the Shenzhou VIII mission, Hong Kong […]
Most Unemployed No Longer Receive Benefits
November 7th, 2011What became of them? System D might be a partial explanation. Via: CNBC: The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America’s unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits. Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent — a shift […]
‘Researchers Creating Ultimate Flu Shot’
November 7th, 2011Get ready for more autoimmune diseases. Via: CBS: “We are in the front line of discovery,” said Dr. Beatrice Fontoura. She and her team at UT Southwestern have discovered a compound that works to fight multiple strains of the flu, including the deadly Spanish Flu that killed millions of people around the world in 1918. […]
‘Socialbots’ Invade Facebook: Cull 250GB of Private Data
November 5th, 2011Via: PC World: Facebook was recently invaded by a robot army created by four researchers to demonstrate the ease at which online social networks can be maliciously exploited by the unscrupulous. With a horde of 102 bogus Facebook friends, the University of British Columbia researchers showed that they could harvest personal information on members not […]
CIA’s Vengeful Librarians
November 5th, 2011Here’s one for your Complete Lack of Surprise file folder. Via: AP: In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day. At the agency’s Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the “vengeful librarians” also pores over Facebook, newspapers, […]
ISGP Updates
November 5th, 2011Joël van der Reijden let me know that he has updated ISGP, which is now being hosted on wikispooks.com: You may like to see them: Three-establishment-model The first photocopies of Cercle documents I did these updates in response to David Teacher making the Third Edition available of his book Rogue Agents. Unfortunately, David hadn’t seen […]
