Dual-powerful Stuff - 07 August 2007
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silveradeptMy base of operations wasn't fully set up and working until yesterday late. So, in probably a very fast form, here we go.
Happy Birthday, World Wide Web HTML pages. It's been sixteen years now, with more yet to come. Also in technology, Computer World talks to four women who have been sucessful in IT and what made them that way. Something more impressive than this is the woman who saw and survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Brand names influence prschoolers, study finds. Identical foods, one wraped in a name brand, the other not, nd the children prefer the ones they perceive as being from the name brand. Never doubt that marketing doesn't have an impact on your children.
I can't be sure whether this is serious or not, but it appears that divulging that the FISA court has restricted aspects of warrantless wiretapping may be an illegal disclosure of classified information . If this is a legitimate complaint, then it's a pretty obvious way of showing just how ridiculous the classification systems and the broad rach of laws pertaining to them are. Which may be the point, indeed. Something signifcantly more serious is that More than 50% of IRS workers turned over sensitive security information in a recent test call to a person posing as tech support , changing their name and password to something the caler specified, without contacting anyone and asking about the validity of the call. Or perhaps that the Pentagon cannot account for 109,000 AK-47 rifles given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005 . They're there, just nobody knows where they are. Which means they could be in the hands of people the Penagon would rather not see armed.
Homeland Security's director says that if liquid bomb plot had succeeded, it would have had serious, 11-September like consequences. Which seems awfully well-timed in the current climate, that's for sure.
What we can be happy about, though, is it's probably not really likely that the government will institute some form of dictatorship or martial law. Effort-wise, I'd say it's probably easier to corrupt what's already there and make it work to your advantage than to start anew with something that could potentially alienate your supporters and get the apathetic to do something against you.
How's this for a racket? Bank 'overdrafting protection' fees have totaled $17.5 billion U.S. per year. The Slacktivist says the fees are quite the easy way to make more money for the bank.
I remember during the last election campaign, someone started a thought that said liberal-leaning voters shoudl withhold or refuse sex with those who weren't of similar ideology. Now, at least in New Zealand, some people are being both vegan and refusing to have sex with anyone who isn't also vegan.
Something really silly - the Chinese government has asserted that Tibetan leaders are not permitted to reincarnate without permission from them. In this case, though, "reincarnation" means the choosing of a successor to the Dalai Lama and the Pachen Lama. So it's not quite what we had in mind from the headline. Something that can be construed being of simple mind is this following article from Physics Today that says the Muslim World can be a scientific pinnacle again - if it's willing to give up what makes it a fundamentally Muslim world, at least in part. By getting rid of some of the components of the faith that run counter to the scientific method, anyway. Although it may be possible that it's the same sort of thing that gripped Latin Christendom as well. Whatever worked for us might work for them as well, but it would be nice to skip the Crusades and all the other wars fought while in non-scientific eras.
Tonight's next-to-last link is something that makes Hideo Kojima look like a predicter of the future - the Pentagon may be implanting microchips inside soldiers' brains to monitor their health. If you watched the Metal Gear Sold 4 playtesting, one of the cutscenes happens to talk about chips and nanomachines implanted inside soldiers. Perhaps this is the beginning of what will eventually develop FOXDIE? Even more so, scientists have developed a way of making items levitate, and have demonstrated it on small items. Maybe it will be possible to get bigger things to lift soon, as well. Or maybe it'll only be found to work on small things, and we'll have plenty of levitating toys.
The very last link is an update of sorts on the Second Strikethrough item - the LJ Staff account posts in lj_biz new clarifications of policy - fandom types will do well to read, because there are some items in there that you want to know.
Happy Birthday, World Wide Web HTML pages. It's been sixteen years now, with more yet to come. Also in technology, Computer World talks to four women who have been sucessful in IT and what made them that way. Something more impressive than this is the woman who saw and survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Brand names influence prschoolers, study finds. Identical foods, one wraped in a name brand, the other not, nd the children prefer the ones they perceive as being from the name brand. Never doubt that marketing doesn't have an impact on your children.
I can't be sure whether this is serious or not, but it appears that divulging that the FISA court has restricted aspects of warrantless wiretapping may be an illegal disclosure of classified information . If this is a legitimate complaint, then it's a pretty obvious way of showing just how ridiculous the classification systems and the broad rach of laws pertaining to them are. Which may be the point, indeed. Something signifcantly more serious is that More than 50% of IRS workers turned over sensitive security information in a recent test call to a person posing as tech support , changing their name and password to something the caler specified, without contacting anyone and asking about the validity of the call. Or perhaps that the Pentagon cannot account for 109,000 AK-47 rifles given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005 . They're there, just nobody knows where they are. Which means they could be in the hands of people the Penagon would rather not see armed.
Homeland Security's director says that if liquid bomb plot had succeeded, it would have had serious, 11-September like consequences. Which seems awfully well-timed in the current climate, that's for sure.
What we can be happy about, though, is it's probably not really likely that the government will institute some form of dictatorship or martial law. Effort-wise, I'd say it's probably easier to corrupt what's already there and make it work to your advantage than to start anew with something that could potentially alienate your supporters and get the apathetic to do something against you.
How's this for a racket? Bank 'overdrafting protection' fees have totaled $17.5 billion U.S. per year. The Slacktivist says the fees are quite the easy way to make more money for the bank.
I remember during the last election campaign, someone started a thought that said liberal-leaning voters shoudl withhold or refuse sex with those who weren't of similar ideology. Now, at least in New Zealand, some people are being both vegan and refusing to have sex with anyone who isn't also vegan.
Something really silly - the Chinese government has asserted that Tibetan leaders are not permitted to reincarnate without permission from them. In this case, though, "reincarnation" means the choosing of a successor to the Dalai Lama and the Pachen Lama. So it's not quite what we had in mind from the headline. Something that can be construed being of simple mind is this following article from Physics Today that says the Muslim World can be a scientific pinnacle again - if it's willing to give up what makes it a fundamentally Muslim world, at least in part. By getting rid of some of the components of the faith that run counter to the scientific method, anyway. Although it may be possible that it's the same sort of thing that gripped Latin Christendom as well. Whatever worked for us might work for them as well, but it would be nice to skip the Crusades and all the other wars fought while in non-scientific eras.
Tonight's next-to-last link is something that makes Hideo Kojima look like a predicter of the future - the Pentagon may be implanting microchips inside soldiers' brains to monitor their health. If you watched the Metal Gear Sold 4 playtesting, one of the cutscenes happens to talk about chips and nanomachines implanted inside soldiers. Perhaps this is the beginning of what will eventually develop FOXDIE? Even more so, scientists have developed a way of making items levitate, and have demonstrated it on small items. Maybe it will be possible to get bigger things to lift soon, as well. Or maybe it'll only be found to work on small things, and we'll have plenty of levitating toys.
The very last link is an update of sorts on the Second Strikethrough item - the LJ Staff account posts in lj_biz new clarifications of policy - fandom types will do well to read, because there are some items in there that you want to know.
