“It’s not paranoia if something is really out to get you.”™
Much has been said about the power of crowdsourcing, but, the concept of an online game that harnesses the power of the internet “hive-mind” to prevent crime named “Internet Eyes” seems to walk a tight rope between security and invasion of privacy.
Strap it on Timmy, we need to know if your heart is going to explode after three laps!
Do you know what DDoS stands for? You might have seen it bandied around more frequently lately re: Twitter outages. Well for those that don’t know it stands for “distributed denial of service”.
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended [...]
Blackwater has reportedly created a CIA like intelligence division called, Total Intelligence Solutions, that will sell it’s information to the highest bidder.
Jeremy Schahill, author of the book, “ Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army,” expresses serious concern in light of this new development
“They’re marketing their services to not only [...]
In the 2004 flick The Day After Tomorrow, Hollywood gave us the worst case scenario of the possible effects of global warming and climate change, showering us with natural disasters to the tune of worldwide hurricanes, tornadoes, below freezing temperatures and floods. Now most of us aren’t worried about that kind of catastrophic [...]
There is a growing concern over the levels of pharmaceutical drugs that are being found in our lakes, rivers, streams and oceans. Although alarming in terms of human consumption, the greater concern is what effects will high levels of anti-depressants and antibiotics have on wildlife and microbe populations?
MSNBC reports:
“When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater [...]
Sexual Education has always been a sticky issue, but new research from Johns Hopkins University may ignite a whole new debate.
A newly released study found that teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely as those who don’t to have pre-marital sex and are less likely to practice safe sex. This [...]
For all the flat-earthers out there who are still saying, what the hey, I don’t work for an American auto company, and I drive a Toyota anyhow, (and I include the Republican Senators from Dixieland who consider their constituents to be the Japanese car assembly plants in their states), this world is too [...]
Just as government is ideally where people combine together to get things done that the individual cannot do on their own, i.e. infrastructure such as roads, etc., insurance is supposed to spread risk that the individual has, such as fire or injury, to the community as a whole. Unfortunately, you can see that often governments [...]
Taking sides in legal matters is always fraught with dangers, as in all matters historical, they often have subtleties that come back on those who choose sides early.
Caveat aside, something always smells funny when a prosecutor settles for a $100 fine and a license forfeiture when they started with 40 years prison time worth of [...]
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