Archive for April, 2013
California Zombie Apocalypse: People Petition to Confiscate Guns
April 14th, 2013Via: Mark Dice:
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April 14th, 2013Report Uncovers ‘Water-Apartheid’ in the Occupied West Bank
April 14th, 2013Via: Common Dreams: A new report on Israel’s water grab in the occupied West Bank links the widespread deprivation of Palestinian water rights to Israel’s settlement expansion strategy, saying both demonstrate “a clear testament to its colonial and apartheid motives.” Published Monday by the Ramallah-based human rights organization Al-Haq, “Water for One People Only: Discriminatory […]
Judges Threaten California Governor Jerry Brown with Contempt of Court Over Prison Overcrowding
April 13th, 2013Via: Los Angeles Times: A panel of federal judges Thursday threatened to hold Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials in contempt of court if they do not quickly produce a plan to remove thousands of convicts from California’s packed prisons. In a blistering 71-page ruling, the jurists rejected Brown’s bid to end restrictions they […]
Huge Attack on WordPress Sites Could Spawn Never-Before-Seen Super Botnet
April 13th, 2013Via: Ars Technica: Security analysts have detected an ongoing attack that uses a huge number of computers from across the Internet to commandeer servers that run the WordPress blogging application. The unknown people behind the highly distributed attack are using more than 90,000 IP addresses to brute-force crack administrative credentials of vulnerable WordPress systems, researchers […]
Possible Bounce Points for Gold
April 13th, 2013Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. tl;dr: Possible bounce points to watch on gold: ~$1500, ~$1300 and ~$1154 — Gold has been caught in a sideways grind since 2011. That ended today with a big red candle, breaking it down and out of the range. The media […]
DARPA’s ‘Physical Intelligence’ Brain
April 12th, 2013Via: National Defense Magazine: The next frontier for the robotics industry is to build machines that think like humans. Scientists have pursued that elusive goal for decades, and they believe they are now just inches away from the finish line. A Pentagon-funded team of researchers has constructed a tiny machine that would allow robots to […]
Hacker Uses Android to Remotely Attack and Hijack an Airplane
April 12th, 2013Update: No, That German Hacker Probably Can’t Hijack an Airplane with Software An alarming dispatch from the Hack In The Box security conference in Amsterdam arrived on Wednesday: a hacker says he’s found a way to take over airplane controls. That’s probably not true. At least according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the European […]
20,000 U.S. M-16s Stolen from Unguarded Warehouse in Kuwait
April 11th, 2013And Now: America’s Uncleared War: Nearly 20,000 Foreign Mercenaries Fight In Syria Thanks to alvinroasting for sending this in. Via: Global Research: The civil war in Syria has opened opportunities for foreign mercenaries and about 20,000, financed by Afghan drug trafficking, have been fighting in that Middle East country, according to Russia’s Federal Drug Control […]
Boeing Subsidiary Spectrolab Sets World Record for Solar Cell Efficiency
April 11th, 2013Via: Boeing: A Spectrolab solar cell recently set a world record by converting more energy from the sun into electricity than any other ground-based solar cell without solar concentration. The Boeing [NYSE: BA] subsidiary’s achievement in ground-based solar cell efficiency was verified by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. […]
