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Greetings. We start today with a fully-fledged computer the size of a USB stick device. HDMI on one end, USB on the other, fully functional Linux-loaded computer in between. Possibly also SD card storage.
Out in the world today, Ms. Maddow's commentary on the stated goals of Osama bin Laden suggest that even in death, he achieved victory, or at least went a very long way on his goals. That part is not being paid attention to in the analysis of how fortified the compound was, or saying that the massive spending and manhunt the United States did to find and kill bin Laden will have dividends against the next terrorist group that tries anything, with parading the plots that might have been around.
It's certainly not being paid attention to when torture apologists rush to say that bin Laden should have been captured alive so that he could be tortured to give up his "intelligence" assets and crow that this killing of bin Laden was directly due to the torture program and what information it gathered. They really want to sell that point to you that torture worked. It may be part of a bigger frame justifying all the means of the last presidency as being good because they brought about a favorable end, but there is a definite interest in making sure that everyone now believes things were legitimate and there's no need for continued investigations.
Not everyone's on board with that - some would like to see a more clear definition of when it's acceptable to violate borders, when kill shots should be ordered, and to blacken and whiten what have been very grey areas for the last few weeks and years.
It might get a little attention when Congress discusses whether or not to continue on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars now that the ostensible reason for their existence has been found and snuffed out, but I expect a lot of the discussion to be "We have to do more now, because the next in line will be plotting against us!"
Pakistan is doing their very best to lobby the United States to not change their aid package with the revelation of where bin Laden was, hiring several U.S. lobbyist firms, while also requesting that the United States cut their military presence in the country.
As with all political things, there's room for hypocrisy arguments on both sides.
And finally, everyone wants to see the proof of death.
Elsewhere, state regulators for China have banned detective shows, spy dramas, and programmes involving time travel for the next three months or so. So no Doctor Who for China.
The political shifts in the Middle East may have paved the way for Hamas and Fatah to sign a reconcilliation agreement, allowing for both Palestinian factions to form a unity government.
Water being sold as having come from the Zam Zam well in Mecca contains a rather high level of arsenic. Even the genuine products are thus not fit for consumption, despite their holy significance.
Finally, The last living combat veteran of the First Great War, Claude Choules, has joined all the others in the Dead Pool's Paradise realm at 110 years of age.
Domestically, The number of claims for unemployment insurance last month in the United States matched its highest total in January. The eceonomy is so awful that when McDonalds announced they would be hiring 50,000, and ended up hiring 62,000, they had more than one million applicants for those jobs.
The exploded dam in Missouri has more consequences than just changed water pressure - soil and crop yields will be affected, too, as will the makeup of the ground itself as it floods.
A corporation can prosecute you under laws designed against crackers if you get information in a manner against the company's authorized-access policies, according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Whistleblowers will be prosecuted, yet again.
Oh, and then there's the Republican House + 16 anti-women Democrats quietly passing H.R. 3, a bill that redefines rape, increases taxes on women and those that provide health insurance to women, turns the IRS into abortion cops that will make women prove that their abortion is one of the few allowable, and completely outlaws any tax money at all going to abortions in the District of Columbia. They'd like to slip it in under the radar while everyone's celebrating the death of bin Laden.
And John Ashcroft joins the board of Xe, nee Blackwater, as an ethics advisor. Yeah, that's right. The guy who helped institute the torture regime is now an ethics advisor.
Last out, the beginning of the Republican 2012 candidacy...the nuts versus the snores began last night.
In technology, the extent of the Sony hack expands further - Sony Online Entertainment accounts have been potentially compromised, along with their credit card data. In looking for someone to blame, Sony would like to blame Anonymous, but all they have is one line. And it's not the style of the prominent Anonymous hacks, either. Perhaps they'd like to hide that they has been told they were running outdated software with known vulnerabilities?
More reasons to build your own computer (or at least have a clean install disc to use if you get a rental) - rental companies are using spyware to take pictures of you using their computers.
And then there are crimeware kits taking advantage of programs being available for multiple platforms to inject malware attacks onto computers that were normally exempted from attacks.
Aside from that, though, there are nekomimi ears that react and move with brain waves.
A 3D printer has the potential of creating organs that can be then transplanted into patients - in such a manner that rejection would be very unlikely, as the printer could be loaded with material that the recipient's body would recognize.
Speaking of 3-D printers, a project with a Kinect-enabled XBox 360 and a 3-D printer allows you to make your own army-person-sized souvenier in a pose you create.
Scaled Composities successfully flew SpaceShipTwo using a feathered mode that would allow for simpler (although not necessarily less intense) re-entry from space. We pair this with a letter of note from a Mr. Shepard volunteering to be the first United States astronaut put into space and wha tthe eventual result of that volunteer letter would be.
Last out, CERN successfully trapped antimatter atoms for sixteen minutes in a containment field. It's too bad that a potential equation suggests there may be only 50 civilizations in the galaxy that we can communicate with.
In opinions, Mr. Ahlert is quite pleased with the Conservative majroity in Canada, expecting the Harper majority government to be able to do great things for their economy...like Alberta oil exraction and other things the Left is not fond of.
Ms. Strassel suggests the Obama administration is trying to make corporations stop donating to political causes by requiring that they list their donations as a requirement of bdiding for government contracts. She says, "Well, at the very least, all fo those liberal groups that lobby should be required to disclose their donors, too.", nicely confusing political groups with agendas for corporations that are supposedly about profit and are mostly apolitical. If they bid for government contracts, they would have to disclose, I'm guessing. Ms. Strassel can comment on whether or not the idea of requiring people bidding for contracts to disclose their political affiliation is a good idea or will be used in political ways, but to confuse lobbyists with corporations is, well what Citizens United did.
Elsewhere, Ms. Strassel gives low marks to the current administration based on their mostly unfulfilled promise to be more transparent than the last administration.
Last for tonight, an idea pitched about interviewing various important-but-deceased persons from the afterlife, from one Mr. Vonnegut. And why one should not call Mr. Gaiman a "pencil-necked weasel" - his fans are many and they contain the ability to crash your website through wanting to leave comments en masse.
Out in the world today, Ms. Maddow's commentary on the stated goals of Osama bin Laden suggest that even in death, he achieved victory, or at least went a very long way on his goals. That part is not being paid attention to in the analysis of how fortified the compound was, or saying that the massive spending and manhunt the United States did to find and kill bin Laden will have dividends against the next terrorist group that tries anything, with parading the plots that might have been around.
It's certainly not being paid attention to when torture apologists rush to say that bin Laden should have been captured alive so that he could be tortured to give up his "intelligence" assets and crow that this killing of bin Laden was directly due to the torture program and what information it gathered. They really want to sell that point to you that torture worked. It may be part of a bigger frame justifying all the means of the last presidency as being good because they brought about a favorable end, but there is a definite interest in making sure that everyone now believes things were legitimate and there's no need for continued investigations.
Not everyone's on board with that - some would like to see a more clear definition of when it's acceptable to violate borders, when kill shots should be ordered, and to blacken and whiten what have been very grey areas for the last few weeks and years.
It might get a little attention when Congress discusses whether or not to continue on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars now that the ostensible reason for their existence has been found and snuffed out, but I expect a lot of the discussion to be "We have to do more now, because the next in line will be plotting against us!"
Pakistan is doing their very best to lobby the United States to not change their aid package with the revelation of where bin Laden was, hiring several U.S. lobbyist firms, while also requesting that the United States cut their military presence in the country.
As with all political things, there's room for hypocrisy arguments on both sides.
And finally, everyone wants to see the proof of death.
Elsewhere, state regulators for China have banned detective shows, spy dramas, and programmes involving time travel for the next three months or so. So no Doctor Who for China.
The political shifts in the Middle East may have paved the way for Hamas and Fatah to sign a reconcilliation agreement, allowing for both Palestinian factions to form a unity government.
Water being sold as having come from the Zam Zam well in Mecca contains a rather high level of arsenic. Even the genuine products are thus not fit for consumption, despite their holy significance.
Finally, The last living combat veteran of the First Great War, Claude Choules, has joined all the others in the Dead Pool's Paradise realm at 110 years of age.
Domestically, The number of claims for unemployment insurance last month in the United States matched its highest total in January. The eceonomy is so awful that when McDonalds announced they would be hiring 50,000, and ended up hiring 62,000, they had more than one million applicants for those jobs.
The exploded dam in Missouri has more consequences than just changed water pressure - soil and crop yields will be affected, too, as will the makeup of the ground itself as it floods.
A corporation can prosecute you under laws designed against crackers if you get information in a manner against the company's authorized-access policies, according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Whistleblowers will be prosecuted, yet again.
Oh, and then there's the Republican House + 16 anti-women Democrats quietly passing H.R. 3, a bill that redefines rape, increases taxes on women and those that provide health insurance to women, turns the IRS into abortion cops that will make women prove that their abortion is one of the few allowable, and completely outlaws any tax money at all going to abortions in the District of Columbia. They'd like to slip it in under the radar while everyone's celebrating the death of bin Laden.
And John Ashcroft joins the board of Xe, nee Blackwater, as an ethics advisor. Yeah, that's right. The guy who helped institute the torture regime is now an ethics advisor.
Last out, the beginning of the Republican 2012 candidacy...the nuts versus the snores began last night.
In technology, the extent of the Sony hack expands further - Sony Online Entertainment accounts have been potentially compromised, along with their credit card data. In looking for someone to blame, Sony would like to blame Anonymous, but all they have is one line. And it's not the style of the prominent Anonymous hacks, either. Perhaps they'd like to hide that they has been told they were running outdated software with known vulnerabilities?
More reasons to build your own computer (or at least have a clean install disc to use if you get a rental) - rental companies are using spyware to take pictures of you using their computers.
And then there are crimeware kits taking advantage of programs being available for multiple platforms to inject malware attacks onto computers that were normally exempted from attacks.
Aside from that, though, there are nekomimi ears that react and move with brain waves.
A 3D printer has the potential of creating organs that can be then transplanted into patients - in such a manner that rejection would be very unlikely, as the printer could be loaded with material that the recipient's body would recognize.
Speaking of 3-D printers, a project with a Kinect-enabled XBox 360 and a 3-D printer allows you to make your own army-person-sized souvenier in a pose you create.
Scaled Composities successfully flew SpaceShipTwo using a feathered mode that would allow for simpler (although not necessarily less intense) re-entry from space. We pair this with a letter of note from a Mr. Shepard volunteering to be the first United States astronaut put into space and wha tthe eventual result of that volunteer letter would be.
Last out, CERN successfully trapped antimatter atoms for sixteen minutes in a containment field. It's too bad that a potential equation suggests there may be only 50 civilizations in the galaxy that we can communicate with.
In opinions, Mr. Ahlert is quite pleased with the Conservative majroity in Canada, expecting the Harper majority government to be able to do great things for their economy...like Alberta oil exraction and other things the Left is not fond of.
Ms. Strassel suggests the Obama administration is trying to make corporations stop donating to political causes by requiring that they list their donations as a requirement of bdiding for government contracts. She says, "Well, at the very least, all fo those liberal groups that lobby should be required to disclose their donors, too.", nicely confusing political groups with agendas for corporations that are supposedly about profit and are mostly apolitical. If they bid for government contracts, they would have to disclose, I'm guessing. Ms. Strassel can comment on whether or not the idea of requiring people bidding for contracts to disclose their political affiliation is a good idea or will be used in political ways, but to confuse lobbyists with corporations is, well what Citizens United did.
Elsewhere, Ms. Strassel gives low marks to the current administration based on their mostly unfulfilled promise to be more transparent than the last administration.
Last for tonight, an idea pitched about interviewing various important-but-deceased persons from the afterlife, from one Mr. Vonnegut. And why one should not call Mr. Gaiman a "pencil-necked weasel" - his fans are many and they contain the ability to crash your website through wanting to leave comments en masse.
