Archive for August, 2013
Florida: “Things just got a little carried away today”
August 17th, 2013Via: Palm Beach Post: Gerard Longo once described Scott Tobiassen as a violent man who brags about his fighting ability and just how “bad” he is. Longo said Tobiassen owns knives, axes, machetes and switch blades. He sharpens his knives as a hobby, and shows other just how sharp the weapons are by using them […]
Area 51: Nothing to See Here, Move Along
August 16th, 2013Swamp gas, weather balloons, U2 spy planes… Via: BBC: The CIA has officially acknowledged the secret US test site known as Area 51, in a newly unclassified internal history of the U-2 spy plane programme. The document obtained by a US university describes the 1955 acquisition of the Nevada site for testing of the secret […]
Lies, Damn Lies and Chinese Economic Data
August 16th, 2013Via: CNBC: China may be exaggerating the size of its economy to the tune of $1 trillion by releasing “willfully fraudulent” inflation and GDP [gross domestic product] data, according to a study out this week. Numbers from the world’s second largest economy are treated with skepticism by some economists, but this latest report has attempted […]
Death Toll from Egypt Violence Rises to 525
August 15th, 2013Via: Los Angeles Times / AP: Egyptian authorities on Thursday significantly raised the death toll from clashes the previous day between police and supporters of the ousted Islamist president, saying more than 500 people died and laying bare the extent of the violence that swept much of the country and prompted the government to declare […]
“Average Cost to Raise a Kid: $241,080” ???
August 15th, 2013Our annual household income is roughly what this report indicates the cost would be to raise one child for a year in the U.S. And we have two children. Living mortgage free is like living on a different planet compared to those who have a bank’s boot on their necks. Via: CNN: From day care […]
Intel’s New Optical Server Interconnect: 1.6 Terabits Per Second
August 15th, 2013Via: PC World: Intel is looking to use light and lasers to shuffle data faster among servers, and is proposing a new optical interconnect, MXC, that could change the way servers are implemented in data centers. The chip maker is pitching MXC as a “next-generation optical connector” that could be a big step in standardizing […]
Encryption Is Less Secure Than We Thought
August 14th, 2013Via: MIT News: Information theory — the discipline that gave us digital communication and data compression — also put cryptography on a secure mathematical foundation. Since 1948, when the paper that created information theory first appeared, most information-theoretic analyses of secure schemes have depended on a common assumption. Unfortunately, as a group of researchers at […]
Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities Beyond Normal Limits
August 14th, 2013Via: Scientific American: There seems to be a simple way to instantly increase a person’s level of general knowledge. Psychologists Ulrich Weger and Stephen Loughnan recently asked two groups of people to answer questions. People in one group were told that before each question, the answer would be briefly flashed on their screens — too […]
Google: If You Use Gmail, You Have ‘No Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy’
August 14th, 2013Via: Business Insider: If you happen to be one of the 400 million people who use Google’s Gmail service for sending and receiving emails, you shouldn’t have any expectation of privacy, according to a court briefing obtained by the Consumer Watchdog website. In a motion filed last month by Google to have a class action […]
More Fast and Furious Guns Surface at Crime Scenes in Mexico
August 14th, 2013Via: CBS: Three more weapons from Fast and Furious have turned up at crime scenes in Mexico, CBS News has learned, as the toll from the controversial federal operation grows. According to Justice Department tracing documents obtained by CBS News, all three guns are WASR-10 762-caliber Romanian rifles. Two were purchased by Fast and Furious […]
