Archive for March, 2012
Latest Attack in France Kills 4 Outside Jewish School
March 19th, 2012[???] Via: ABC: A motorcycle gunman opened fire Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two young sons and a schoolgirl, the prosecutor’s office said. It was the third deadly motorcycle shooting in the same area in recent days. French prosecutors were studying possible terrorist […]
In Sweden, Cash Is King No More
March 19th, 2012Maybe the Greeks are on to something with the tems, which is quite different from other schemes in that each account may only hold a limited amount of the currency. This is a very interesting idea because it prevents speculation, encourages commerce and eliminates large targets for thieves. Via: AP: Sweden was the first European […]
TSA Patdown of Toddler in Wheelchair
March 19th, 2012Via: YouTube: A toddler in a wheelchair is stopped by the TSA at ORD (O’Hare Airport in Chicago) and forced to into a sequestered area. On his way to a family vacation in Disney, this 3 year old boy is in a body cast for a broken leg.
China: 30 Million People Live in Caves
March 19th, 2012One for your Doomstead Ideas file folder. Via: Los Angeles Times: Like many peasants from the outskirts of Yanan, China, Ren Shouhua was born in a cave and lived there until he got a job in the city and moved into a concrete-block house. His progression made sense as he strove to improve his life. […]
Greece: Euro Free Alternative Currency Takes Off
March 18th, 2012I just helped out some people here in New Zealand recover from a bad computer virus situation. They paid me with a one year old heifer that we’re going to eat! In terms of the time I spent on the job and the tangible value of that heifer, this represent the best compensation that I […]
Scientists Create New Materials by Manipulating Sub Atomic Particles
March 18th, 2012Via: Stanford University: Researchers from Stanford University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the first-ever system of “designer electrons” – exotic variants of ordinary electrons with tunable properties that may ultimately lead to new types of materials and devices. “The behavior of electrons in materials is at the heart […]
Google Takes Down Russia Today YouTube Channel
March 18th, 2012Update: RT Back Up on YouTube —End Update— Update: RT Tweeting: RT’s YouTube channel taken offline by YT administration, appears to be a mistake so far, follow updates here and on FB http://www.facebook.com/RTnews —End Update— Via: Russia Today YouTube Channel: This account has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s policy against […]
Microsoft: Data Mining Your Digital Effluvia
March 18th, 2012People seem to be cracking up and looking for technological fixes to what amounts to mental illness that was caused by their technology in the first place. Here’s how Becky chronicles milestones and other pleasant moments with our children. She pastes photographs to sheets of paper and handwrites the details of what happened on the […]
Using Mobile Phone User Location Data for ‘Crowd (Soft) Control’
March 18th, 2012shewhomeasures.com: Via: PhysOrg: Eighty-eight percent of Americans now own a cell phone, forming a massive network that offers scientists a wealth of information and an infinite number of new applications. With the help of these phone users — and their devices’ cameras, audio recorders, and other features — researchers envision endless possibilities for gathering huge […]
Former Senior U.S. Intelligence Official and Current Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President Joan A. Dempsey: ‘We’re a Few Years Away from Realizing Real Quantum Processing and Quantum Computing’
March 18th, 2012Bamford lays out a narrative below about the “enormous breakthrough,” but, at the end of the day, it’s conventional computers. There’s no mention quantum computers, or even the far less “out there” photonic systems. Is Bamford’s piece a limited hangout? —Bamford Claims NSA Has Made “An Enormous Breakthrough” in Cryptanalysis And now… Via: CNN: One […]
