Archive for July, 2013
U.S. Navy Makes History by Landing Unmanned Drone on Aircraft Carrier
July 11th, 2013This is what passes for industrial policy in the U.S. Air transportation companies would like nothing more than to replace human pilots with machines. This X-47B effort is essentially public funding toward that goal. Anyway, someone should Photoshop out the meatsacks on the deck of the aircraft carrier and replace them with T-1000s. Via: Guardian: […]
Lack of Experienced Pilots, Boneheaded FAA Policies and Over Reliance on Flight Automation Systems Will Cause More Plane Crashes
July 11th, 2013Via: Natural News: When flight 214 crashed last week at the San Francisco airport, killing two people and injuring dozens, many people were in a state of disbelief. How could a Boeing 777 — the “Titanic” of commercial airliners — be piloted so carelessly that the pilot seemingly flew it into the seawall and caused […]
Celebrated University of Toronto Education Professor and Highly Regarded Civil Servant Arrested on Child Porn Charges
July 10th, 2013Via: Toronto Star: It was a child exploitation investigation that spanned from New Zealand to Canada that included an undercover agent conducting an online chat with a suspect believed to be from Toronto. On Monday, Toronto police say, that multi-jurisdictional investigation culminated in the arrest of Benjamin Levin, a celebrated U of T education professor […]
Insider Threat Program: Federal Workers Directed to Spy on Each Other
July 10th, 2013It doesn’t matter that the crackpot techniques don’t work. The regime knows that they don’t work. The point is to punish people at random for no reason other than for the spectacles to serve as reminders of what happens to disloyal servants of the regime. Via: McClatchy: In an initiative aimed at rooting out future […]
Jon Corzine Will Not Face Criminal Charges Over MF Global
July 9th, 2013Shocker. Via: Marketwatch: There will be no criminal charges for former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine over the use of customer funds leading up to collapse of MF Global. The criminal probe into whether there was wrongdoing on the part of Corzine by the Department of Justice will now be dropped due to lack of […]
Bin Laden Raid Files Moved from Pentagon to CIA to More Easily Shield Them from Public Scrutiny
July 8th, 2013Via: Washington Post: The nation’s top special operations commander ordered military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout to be purged from Defense Department computers and sent to the CIA, where they could be more easily shielded from ever being made public. The secret move, described briefly in a draft report […]
California: Female Inmates Pressured Into Accepting Sterilization Procedure
July 8th, 2013Via: Center for Investigative Reporting: Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals, The Center for Investigative Reporting has found. At least 148 women received tubal ligations in violation of prison rules during those five years – and there […]
Solar Powered Plane Completes Cross-Country Flight
July 8th, 2013Via: AP: A solar-powered aircraft completed the final leg of a history-making cross-country flight Saturday night, gliding to a smooth stop at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The Solar Impulse touched down at JFK at 11:09 p.m., completing the final leg of the cross-continental journey that started in California in early May. For […]
Egypt: Clashes Between Army, Protesters Kill 54
July 8th, 2013Via: CBC: Egyptian soldiers and police clashed with Islamists protesting the military’s ouster of the president in bloodshed that left at least 51 protesters and three members of the security forces dead, officials and witnesses said, and plunged the divided country deeper into crisis with calls by the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party for all-out rebellion […]
Firefox 22: How to Zoom Text But Not Images
July 8th, 2013With version 22, Firefox is now paying attention to the system wide zoom setting in Windows 7. This is resulting in both the text and images being enlarged in Firefox for those of us who set the global zoom at “Medium – 125%” or “Larger – 150%” in Windows 7 Control Panel – Appearance and […]
