“It’s not paranoia if something is really out to get you.”™
Some may accuse me of being a little too open to conspiracy theories, but this is so blatant I don’t even have to put my tin foil hat on. The U.S. Army has yet again insinuated it’s way into the gaming biz with branded, ultra-realistic sniper and assault-rifle controllers and headsets supported by popular Call [...]
Ok. Here it goes. I’ll admit it. I’m a smoker. Not a pack a day, but i’m someone that enjoys a post meal or glass of wine cigarette. And certainly, after a night on the town it will be an almost empty pack. There I said it. Yes, I want to quit soon… blah blah [...]
Shielding has been the land of tinfoil hats and conspiracies since we started covering it, so in the same vein the newest to add to the pile is something called “Range Anxiety”.
Maybe this freaks me out because I was such a late bloomer—but girls getting boobs at 9 just worries me. I know there was always that one girl in the class who seemed to “blossom” earlier than everyone else and it either made her the butt of jokes or super popular (mainly with the boys), but I’m talking about the alarming rise of early onset puberty.
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 [...]
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 scenario occurring, [...]
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 [...]