Archive for February, 2012
Denver Family Stranded After Passport Denied Because of Crease
February 22nd, 2012Via: KDVR: A Denver family was supposed to be in Belize this week enjoying a beach getaway with their loved ones. Instead, they’re in a hotel room in Dallas, TX because an American Airlines official there claimed they had a mutilated passport. “We started at Denver International Airport, where we checked in and all our […]
The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom
February 22nd, 2012Via: Wall Street Journal: On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year’s end. As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last […]
Greece: ‘We Won’t Pay’
February 22nd, 2012Via: Der Spiegel: The people who could ultimately give Greece the coup de grace are not the kind to throw stones or Molotov cocktails, and they have yet to torch any cars. Instead, they are people like 60-year-old beverage distributor Angelos Belitsakos, people who might soon turn into a real problem for the economically unstable […]
Google’s Heads-Up Display Glasses
February 22nd, 2012Via: New York Times: People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time. According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not […]
Now Glyphosate (Roundup) Found in People’s Urine
February 22nd, 2012Via: GM Watch: According to an article in German in the Ithaca journal, a German university study has found significant concentrations of glyphosate in the urine samples of city dwellers. The analysis of the urine samples apparently found that all had concentrations of glyphosate at 5 to 20-fold the limit for drinking water. As well […]
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Questioned About Prostitutes, Orgies; Police, Government Officials Involved
February 21st, 2012You know… The usual. Via: AP: Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being questioned Tuesday by French police investigating a suspected hotel prostitution ring. Strauss-Kahn arrived at the police station in the northern city of Lille, an Associated Press reporter saw. Police are probing a suspected prostitution ring in France and neighboring Belgium […]
Single Atom Transistor
February 21st, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Scientists have taken an early step toward surpassing the limits of a technological principle called Moore’s Law by creating a working transistor using a single phosphorus atom. The atom was etched into a silicon bed with “gates” to control electrical flow and metallic contacts to apply voltage, researchers reported in the journal Nature […]
Nanotechnology Turns Plants into Common Plastic
February 21st, 2012Via: Reuters: Dutch scientists have found a way of turning plant matter into the building blocks of common plastics using a nanotechnology process that offers an alternative to oil-based production. The team from Utrecht University and Dow Chemical Co produced ethylene and propylene – precursors of materials found in everything from CDs to carrier bags […]
U.S. Super-Sizing Afghan Jail It Promised to Abandon
February 20th, 2012Via: Wired: There once was a plan to turn over the main U.S. detention center in Afghanistan to control of the Afghans in 2011. That’s out the window. Instead, the military is offering millions to vastly expand the center’s inmate intake. Specifically, $35 million will fund expansions necessary to house “approximately 2,000 detainees” at the […]
Iranian State Media PressTV Claims Jamming in Europe and Online
February 20th, 2012Via: PressTV: Jamming signals have been reportedly interrupting the broadcast of Press TV, Iran’s 24-hour English-language news channel, in various locations across Europe. Press TV viewers in Europe say the frequent attacks last three to four minutes each time. Some reports indicate that the news channel’s online stream is also targeted at the same time […]
