Archive for September, 2013
Russia Boosts Mediterranean Force as U.S. Mulls Syria Strike
September 7th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Russia is sending three more ships to the eastern Mediterranean to bolster its fleet there as a U.S. Senate panel will consider President Barack Obama’s request for authority to conduct a military strike on Syria. Russia is sending two destroyers, including the Nastoichivy, the flagship of the Baltic Fleet, and the Moskva missile […]
16 Major Firms May Have Received Early Data From Thomson Reuters
September 6th, 2013Via: Rolling Stone: Readers may recall an ugly story that broke earlier this summer, when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman rebuked the news/business information firm Thomson Reuters for selling access to key economic survey data two seconds early to high-frequency algorithmic traders. The story strongly suggested that some Thomson Reuters customers were using […]
Bullrun: The NSA’s Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security
September 6th, 2013If anything is still safe, it’s PGP-type stuff, that is to say, GPG. But who knows… For those of us who never believed in things like SSL/TLS or PPTP vs. NSA… *meh* But clueless Americans are definitely waking up to a weirder reality with this sort of information now entering mainstream awareness. Via: ProPublica: The […]
Russia Has Compiled 100-Page Report Blaming Syrian Rebels for a Chemical Weapons Attack
September 5th, 2013Via: McClatchy: Russia says it has compiled a 100-page report detailing what it says is evidence that Syrian rebels, not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, were behind a deadly sarin gas attack in an Aleppo suburb earlier this year. In a statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website late Wednesday. Russia said the […]
USDA: Rural Population Needed Not For Farming But For Cannon Fodder
September 5th, 2013Update: Quote from Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed Joel Salatin’s telling of the story below sounded somehow familiar to me. I just remembered why. I’d read the following in, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed way back in the 1990s: Terry was the quintessential product of Middle America. […]
PayPal Freezes MailPile’s Account, Access to Funds
September 5th, 2013Update: PayPal Releases Funds That move was just too ridiculous, even for PayPal. Via: MailPile: [Update: PayPal have unfrozen the account, for now at least. Thank you for your support!] — Via: Mailpile: The bad news is, PayPal have frozen our PayPal account. This means roughly $45,000 of the $135,000 we have raised so far […]
Amazon Hiring 100 IT Personnel for Positions Requiring Top Secret Security Clearances
September 5th, 2013Via: ComputerWorld: Amazon has more than 100 job openings for people who can get a top secret clearance, which includes a U.S. government administered polygraph examination. It needs software developers, operations managers and cloud support engineers, among others. Amazon’s hiring effort includes an invitation-only recruiting event for systems support engineers at its Herndon, Va., facility […]
Custom Video Game Helped Improve Cognitive Function in Elderly
September 5th, 2013Via: New York Times: There may be a new market for video games: octogenarians. Brain scientists have discovered that swerving around cars while simultaneously picking out road signs in a video game can improve the short-term memory and long-term focus of older adults. Some people as old as 80, the researchers say, begin to show […]
Oregon State University: Research Create Diodes That Use Quantum Mechanical Tunneling
September 5th, 2013Via: OSU: Researchers in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University have made a significant advance in the function of metal-insulator-metal, or MIM diodes, a technology premised on the assumption that the speed of electrons moving through silicon is simply too slow. For the extraordinary speed envisioned in some future electronics applications, these innovative […]
U.S. Stops Jailed Activist Barrett Brown from Discussing Leaks Prosecution
September 5th, 2013Via: Guardian: A federal court in Dallas, Texas has imposed a gag order on the jailed activist-journalist Barrett Brown and his legal team that prevents them from talking to the media about his prosecution in which he faces up to 100 years in prison for alleged offences relating to his work exposing online surveillance. The […]
