Archive for October, 2012
Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electronic Spying Case
October 20th, 2012Via: Wired: The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s bid to hold the nation’s telecoms liable for allegedly providing the National Security Agency with backdoors to eavesdrop, without warrants, on Americans’ electronic communications in violation of federal law. The justices, without comment, declined to review a lower court’s December […]
Lebanon’s Top Intelligence Official Assassinated
October 20th, 2012Via: CNN: Al-Hassan and at least two others died in a massive explosion Friday in the typically peaceful and cosmopolitan Ashrafiyeh district of East Beirut that he called home.
Does the Romney Family Now Own Your E-Vote?
October 20th, 2012Via: Global Research: Will you cast your vote this fall on a faulty electronic machine that’s partly owned by the Romney Family? Will that machine decide whether Romney will then inherit the White House? Through a closely held equity fund called Solamere, Mitt Romney and his wife, son and brother are major investors in an […]
Crimes by ATF and DEA Informants Not Tracked by Feds
October 20th, 2012*yawn* Via: USA Today: The nation’s top drug and gun enforcement agencies do not track how often they give their informants permission to break the law on the government’s behalf. U.S. Justice Department rules put strict limits on when and how agents at the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and […]
Which Brand of Fascism This Time?
October 20th, 2012Via: Global Research: Every four years, the deck chairs of the political Titanic that is the American empire get rearranged in the choreographed spectacle of another presidential “election”. The 2012 charade is particularly disgusting; the lies more blatant and shrill, as the world continues to burn.
‘You’re not going to hear about the Windows 8 upgrade cycle. This is the end of Windows.’
October 20th, 2012I run IT for a small business here in the Far North of New Zealand as a favor to family members. While it’s a small business, it’s one of the largest employers in the region. The employees are decentralized and I thought about establishing the right kinds of network connections and remote access systems, servers, […]
Brain-Controlled Full Body Suit to Be Used In Fukushima Cleanup
October 19th, 2012Via: Neurogadget: Japanese company Cyberdyne announced today an improved version of HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb), the exoskeleton which we wrote about almost two years ago, when a tech journalist took a few steps at CES 2011 wearing the brain-controlled cyber-trousers. The latest version of HAL has remained brain-controlled but evolved to a full body robot […]
Fresh Air Into Petrol
October 19th, 2012Energy returned on energy invested (EROEI)? Nope, nothing along those lines is mentioned. Via: Independent: A small British company has produced the first “petrol from air” using a revolutionary technology that promises to solve the energy crisis as well as helping to curb global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Air Fuel Synthesis […]
Samsung Accused of Severe Mistreatment of Chinese Workers
October 19th, 2012Via: China Labor Watch: Indeed, the list of illegal and inhumane violations is long, including but not limited to well over 100 hours of forced overtime work per month, unpaid work, standing for 11 to 12 hours while working, underage workers, severe age and gender discrimination, abuse of student and labor dispatch workers, a lack […]
Student Loan Debt Hits Record High
October 18th, 2012Via: CNBC: The average college student who graduated in 2011 had $26,600 in student loans, according to a new report, which estimates two-thirds of last year’s college graduates had student loan debt. The average debt is the largest since the Institute for College Access and Success began compiling the figures in 2005, and it comes […]
