Archive for December, 2011
Eight Companies Hit with Lawsuit Over Carrier IQ Software
December 7th, 2011Via: Computerworld: Apple is one of eight companies that have been named in another class-action lawsuit filed over the use of Carrier IQ software in mobile handsets. The lawsuit was filed last Friday in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and accuses Carrier IQ, three wireless carriers, and four handset makers of violating […]
Russia: Election Fraud at All Levels of the Vote
December 7th, 2011Ballots filled out with pens containing erasable ink? Via: France24: Opposition leaders called for a second round of mass demonstrations in Moscow on Tuesday, to protest against last weekend’s parliamentary election amid widespread claims of irregularities favouring Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. Our Observer on the ground, who participated in Sunday’s election as an observer […]
Alabama: Inmates Can Replace Hispanic Farmhands
December 7th, 2011Via: Politico: Alabama farmers frantically looking for workers to replace those that have fled the state in the wake of its tough new immigration law should just stop by their local prison, according to the head of Alabama’s agriculture department. John McMillan, commissioner of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries, told the Montgomery Advertiser […]
Library of Congress to Receive Entire Twitter Archive
December 7th, 2011Via: Federal News Radio: The Library of Congress and Twitter have signed an agreement that will see an archive of every public Tweet ever sent handed over to the library’s repository of historical documents. “We have an agreement with Twitter where they have a bunch of servers with their historic archive of tweets, everything that […]
Troops Deployed in Moscow to Deal with Anti Putin Protests
December 6th, 2011Putin should just wow-em with some more action man antics. Via: BBC: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has played down his party’s losses at Sunday’s parliamentary election as inevitable for a party in power. Thousands of police and interior troops are on alert in Moscow, after one of the biggest opposition rallies in the city […]
BP Claims Halliburton Destroyed Gulf of Mexico Spill Evidence
December 6th, 2011Via: BBC: Oil giant BP has accused oilfields services firm Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence relating to last year’s oil well blast in the Gulf of Mexico in which 11 people were killed. At a hearing in a New Orleans’ court, BP said Halliburton had “intentionally” destroyed test results on its cement product used at […]
Supreme Court Will Hear Case of Man Arrested After Telling Cheney What He Thought About Iraq War
December 6th, 2011Via: New York Times: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether Secret Service agents protecting Vice President Dick Cheney may be sued for violating the free speech rights of a member of the public who made critical remarks about the Bush administration’s war policies. The case arose from an episode in 2006 at […]
Harvard Group Takes Complexity Out of Video Face Replacement
December 6th, 2011Via: PhysOrg: The tool claims to be able to replace faces using only single-camera video with minimal user input. The software can render a ten-second video in about twenty minutes. The software is promoted as a system that can be used by amateur and budget-wary film makers. Kevin Dale, part of the school’s Graphics, Vision […]
The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The U.S.
December 5th, 2011Via: Business Insider: The US military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will. We produce so much military equipment that inventories of military robots, M-16 assault rifles, helicopters, armored vehicles, and grenade launchers eventually start to pile up and it […]
S&P Places 15 Euro Nations on Warning for Downgrade
December 5th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Standard & Poor’s said Germany and France may be stripped of their AAA credit ratings as the debt crisis prompts 15 euro nations to be put on review for possible downgrade. The euro area’s six AAA rated countries are among the nations to be placed on a negative outlook, and their credit ratings […]
