Archive for December, 2011
Predator Drone from U.S. Air Force Base Used in North Dakota Police Operation
December 11th, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times: Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him off, he said. Janke knew the gunmen could be anywhere on the 3,000-acre spread in eastern North […]
North Carolina Weighs Restitution for Victims of Sterilization Program
December 11th, 2011Via: New York Times: Now, along with scores of others selected for state sterilization — among them uneducated young girls who had been raped by older men, poor teenagers from large families, people with epilepsy and those deemed to be too “feeble-minded” to raise children — Mr. Holt is waiting to see what a state […]
Forced Sterilisation in Peru During Fujimori Regime
December 10th, 2011Via: Independent: According to human rights groups, there may have been as many as 300,000 victims, overwhelmingly women, the majority of them poor and often indigenous, Quechua-speakers with limited Spanish. “They were the weakest and most vulnerable,” says Ms Vigo, whose case remains the only one to have reached the courts in Peru. Research Credit: […]
Moscow Braces for Mass Anti-Kremlin Protest
December 10th, 2011Monitoring… Via: Telegraph: Tens of thousands of anti-Kremlin protestors are expected to take to the streets of Moscow on Saturday in the biggest demonstration of its kind since Vladimir Putin came to power more than ten years ago. More: BBC: At Least 50,000 Police and Riot Troops Deployed in Moscow Ahead of Saturday’s Protests
Sound-Triggered Smartphone Ads
December 10th, 2011The really terrifying aspect of this is not the technology itself, but that some group of troglodytes will actually install this on their phones on purpose. Related: shewhomeasures.com: How about genitalia couplers (like in the video above—yes, watch closely) that communicate with the phone via Bluetooth? You know, for those extra special notifications, like when […]
Cryptogon Readers Sign Up for Hosting with BlueHost
December 10th, 2011Thanks to the owners of psynaptec.com and thepeoplesbook.com for signing up for hosting with BlueHost. Cryptogon received $180 as a result.
Cryptogon Readers Send Support in December
December 10th, 2011Thank you. Pookie $75 mercout.com NZ$100
November Earnings
December 10th, 2011Cryptogon earnings in November totaled $1501.06, which is a great result! Amazon commissions totaled $998. That component alone was just $2 short of the minimum earnings goal ($1000) for the month. The variety of things being ordered through Amazon is just incredible. Many people are obviously making very conscious efforts to keep Cryptogon on the […]
Learning High-Performance Tasks with No Conscious Effort
December 9th, 2011Via: Medical Express: New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort. It’s the kind of thing seen in Hollywood’s “Matrix” franchise. Experiments conducted at Boston University […]
Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps
December 9th, 2011Microsoft has had this capability for years, but it was related to pirated software and they would just kill certain functionality (see Office Genuine Advantage program). What you’ll be reading below is Microsoft taking another page out of Apple’s locked-down-vending-machine playbook. Via: PC Magazine: Microsoft’s terms of service for its Windows Store allows the company […]
