Archive for May, 2013
Recovery: 44% of Homeowners With a Mortgage Can’t Sell
May 24th, 2013Via: The Street: About 44% of homeowners with mortgages cannot afford to sell their homes, according to a recent blog post from real estate company Zillow. Despite a recovery in prices, over a quarter of homeowners with mortgage loans still owe more than their homes are worth. “But another 18.2 percent of homeowners with mortgages, […]
Cryptogon Reader Sent $50 Donation
May 24th, 2013Thanks, DM. Much appreciated.
Is Google Going To Make Internet Access Available To Everyone?
May 24th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Google (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt’s April 13 tweet was bold, ambitious, and a bit inexplicable. “For every person online, there are two that are not,” wrote the co-author of the book The New Digital Age. “By the end of the decade, everyone on Earth will be connected.” Commenters were flummoxed by Schmidt’s prediction. […]
Sears Turning Shuttered Stores Into Data Centers
May 23rd, 2013Via: Data Center Knowledge: Will blinking blue lights of servers soon fill the aisles that previously offered the Blue Light Special? Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from former Sears and Kmart retail stores as a home for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless towers. With the creation of Ubiquity […]
NIKKEI 225 DOWN 7.32%
May 23rd, 2013Via: Los Angeles Times: Wall Street followed Europe in a broad sell-off following a 7.3% overnight plunge in Japan’s stock market. … Weak Chinese manufacturing data helped send Japan’s Nikkei down 1,143.28 points, or 7.3%, to 14,483.98. The drop was reportedly the worst percentage loss since the country’s March 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami. Related: […]
The Robot-Driven Data Center of Tomorrow
May 23rd, 2013Via: Data Center Knowledge: There is an evolution happening within the modern data center. Huge data center operators like Google and Amazon are quietly redefining the future of the data center. This includes the integration of robotics to create a lights-out, fully automated data center environment.
U.S. Acknowledges Killing of Four U.S. Citizens in Counterterrorism Operations
May 23rd, 2013More transparent and accountable now, promise. *wink* Via: Washington Post: The Obama administration acknowledged Wednesday that it has killed four Americans in overseas counterterrorism operations since 2009, the first time it has publicly taken responsibility for the deaths. Although the acknowledgment, contained in a letter from Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to Congress, does […]
Court Rules Bin Laden Death Photos Can Stay Secret
May 23rd, 2013Via: Reuters: A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them. The unanimous ruling by three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals […]
Portland, Oregon Rejects Adding Fluoride to Drinking Water
May 23rd, 2013Wow, very well done, Portland! Via: AP: The mayor of Portland, Ore., has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water. With more than 80 percent of the expected ballots counted late Tuesday night, the Multnomah County election website showed the fluoride proposal failing, 60 percent to 40 percent. Mayor […]
‘Man Killed in Deadly Terror Attack in London Street’
May 23rd, 2013Friend of Adebolajo’s Arrested Via: AP: Nusaybah said Adebolajo became withdrawn after returning last year from a visit to Kenya, where he claimed he had been arrested and then abused both physically and sexually while in jail. Nusaybah claimed that Britain’s domestic spy agency, MI5, approached Adebolajo to recruit him upon his return to Britain […]
