Archive for August, 2012
Internet Archive: Over 1,000,000 Torrents of Downloadable Books, Music, and Movies
August 8th, 2012Via: Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is now offering over 1,000,000 torrents including our live music concerts, the Prelinger movie collection, the librivox audio book collection, feature films, old time radio, lots and lots of books, and all new uploads from our patrons into Community collections (with more to follow).
Chart of the Day, HFT Edition
August 8th, 2012Via: Reuters: This astonishing GIF comes from Nanex, and shows the amount of high-frequency trading in the stock market from January 2007 to January 2012. (Which means that the Knightmare craziness of last week is not included.) More: Nanex
Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping
August 8th, 2012Via: Wired: The federal government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision reversing the first and only case that successfully challenged President George W. Bush’s once-secret Terrorist Surveillance Program. “This case effectively brings to an end the plaintiffs’ ongoing attempts […]
Possible Egyptian Pyramids Found Using Google Earth
August 8th, 2012Via: Archeology News Network: Two unidentified, possible pyramid complexes have been located with satellite imagery from Google Earth. One of the complex sites contains a distinct, four-sided, truncated, pyramidal shape that is approximately 140 feet in width. This site contains three smaller mounds in a very clear formation, similar to the diagonal alignment of the […]
France: Hollande Wants 75 Percent Tax on Income Over $1.24 Million Per Year
August 8th, 2012Via: New York Times: The call to Vincent Grandil’s Paris law firm began like many others that have rolled in recently. On the line was the well-paid chief executive of one of France’s most profitable companies, and he was feeling nervous. President François Hollande is vowing to impose a 75 percent tax on the portion […]
Avatar Officer Installed at Arizona-Mexico Border Station
August 7th, 2012Via: Scientific American: People crossing the Mexican border into Nogales, Ariz., this week will have a chance to meet U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s newest officer—a polite yet no-nonsense bilingual gatekeeper with a thick shock of black hair and a striped gray tie. He may not have a name or join his fellow officers for […]
New Video from Inside Bohemian Grove
August 7th, 2012Via: BohemianKyle:
Windows 8 Will Apparently Prevent Booting to the Desktop
August 7th, 2012Via: ZDnet: If you were one of those business users counting on being able to circumvent the new tiled Windows 8 start menu, you may be disappointed. The final release-to-manufacturing (RTM) builds of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have been leaking to the Web for last few days. Those with access to the final […]
Huawei: The Company that Spooked the World
August 6th, 2012Via: The Economist: BANBURY, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake, is an unlikely fulcrum for the balance of power in the world of telecoms. But the “Cyber Security Evaluation Centre” set up there by Huawei, a Chinese telecoms giant, […]
Facebook: ‘Dark Profiles’
August 6th, 2012Via: Washington Post: Another time, Losse cringed when she learned that a team of Facebook engineers was developing what they called “dark profiles” — pages for people who had not signed up for the service but who had been identified in posts by Facebook users. The dark profiles were not to be visible to ordinary […]
