Archive for March, 2013
Fat Finger: ‘Data-Entry Error’ Led Military to Falsely Claim Taliban Attacks Are Down
March 2nd, 2013Via: Wired: The U.S. military proudly touted a 7 percent drop in Taliban violence in 2012 as a measure of progress in America’s longest war. Only one problem: The drop never happened. Its explanation: a data-entry error. The Associated Press’ Robert Burns discovered the mistake, which undercut a January claim by the International Security Assistance […]
Defense Distributed 3D Printed AR-15 Lower Survives 600+ Rounds
March 2nd, 2013Via: Defense Distributed:
Recovery: Disposable Income Takes Biggest Plunge Since Monthly Records Began in 1959
March 1st, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Disposable income, or the money left over after taxes, dropped 4 percent after adjusting for inflation, the biggest plunge since monthly records began in 1959. The drop also reflected the lapse of the payroll tax holiday. Excluding the effect of the tax and other special factors such as the timing of bonuses and […]
Arm Added to Big Dog Robot
March 1st, 2013😯 Via: YouTube / Boston Dynamics:
First Brain-To-Brain Interface Allows Transmission of Tactile and Motor Information Between Rats
March 1st, 2013Via: Duke University / Nicolelis Lab: A brain-to-brain interface (BTBI) enabled a real-time transfer of behaviorally meaningful sensorimotor information between the brains of two rats. In this BTBI, an ‘‘encoder’’ rat performed sensorimotor tasks that required it to select from two choices of tactile or visual stimuli. While the encoder rat performed the task, samples […]
Dairy Industry Wants to Add Artificial Sweeteners to Milk Without Disclosing This on Labels
March 1st, 2013Via: Yahoo Health / Healthline: Got diet milk? In a highly controversial move, the dairy industry wants to market artificially sweetened milk—without any special label to alert consumers. In a petition filed with the FDA, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) seek to change the definition of “milk” […]
How a Family of Four Manages to Live Well on Just $14,000 Per Year
March 1st, 2013Nope, this isn’t about my family. 😉 However, this will all seem very familiar to long time Cryptogon/Farmlet readers. Definitely click through for the whole thing, but I’ve excerpted the most important factor of them all. Via: Business Insider: “But we decided the best option would be not to have a mortgage payment at all,” […]
Manning Admits Providing Classified Data to WikiLeaks
March 1st, 2013Via: Wired: Wearing his Army dress uniform, a composed, intense and articulate Pfc. Bradley Manning took “full responsibility” Thursday for providing the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks with a trove of classified and sensitive military, diplomatic and intelligence cables, videos and documents. In the lengthiest statement to a military tribunal Manning has provided since his nearly three-year […]
