Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
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February 8th, 2010German Homeschoolers Granted Political Asylum in U.S.
February 8th, 2010Via: TheLocal:
A US court has granted asylum to an evangelical Christian family who fled Germany because they were not allowed to homeschool their children.
An immigration judge in Nashville, Tennessee ruled that parents Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, and their five children, are free to stay in the US, where they have been since 2008, news agency [...]
Priest Uses Fingerprint Reader to Monitor Mass Attendance
February 7th, 2010Via: Reuters:
A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday.
The pupils will mark their fingerprints every time they go to church over three years and if they attend 200 masses they will [...]
Gever Tulley on Radio New Zealand
February 6th, 2010Via: Radio New Zealand:
Our guest author is American computer scientist, Gever Tulley – founder of the Tinkering School, a summer camp that encourages kids to play with fire, throw spears and take risks. He has now released a new book called “Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)” which he co-wrote with his [...]
Airport Body Scanning Raises Radiation Exposure
February 5th, 2010Via: Bloomberg:
Air passengers should be made aware of the health risks of airport body screenings and governments must explain any decision to expose the public to higher levels of cancer-causing radiation, an inter-agency report said.
Pregnant women and children should not be subject to scanning, even though the radiation dose from body scanners is “extremely small,” [...]
Sim City Baghdad
February 4th, 2010Via: On The Media:
The U.S. Army has long used video games to train troops in conventional warfare. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are anything but conventional. US troops fighting insurgencies need a unique skill set, one they’re learning from a simulator that resembles the popular game SimCity. Kim LeMasters, creative director of the [...]
Britain: Significant Percentage of Teenagers Think Oats Grow on Trees, Bacon Comes from Sheep
February 2nd, 2010Via: Telegraph:
Teenage schoolchildren think oats grow on trees and bacon comes from sheep, a survey showed today.
Many children and young adults also believe eggs were a key ingredient in bread, the researchers said.
The survey showed 26% of children thought bacon came from sheep, 29% thought oats grow on trees, while 17% of both children and [...]
Four Charged in Phone Scheme at Senator Landrieu’s Office
January 27th, 2010Via: USA Today:
The four men accused of trying to tamper with Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office phones share a common experience as young ideologues writing for conservative publications.
Federal authorities said two of the men posed as telephone workers wearing hard hats, tool belts and flourescent vests when they walked into the senator’s office inside a [...]
Americans Sign Petition to Repeal the First Amendment
January 26th, 2010I need a Zombies category.
If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online
January 21st, 2010The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future by Mark Bauerlein
Via: New York Times:
The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from the Kaiser [...]
