Archive for December, 2008
30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once
December 31st, 2008Cylons attack? Probably not. Anyway, there’s an object lesson in critical infrastructure here, even though this situation involves digital music players. Via: Ars: Around midnight Pacific time last night, 30GB Zunes began restarting and locking up at their boot screens. Reports have swamped official forums and fan sites, and Microsoft has yet to officially comment […]
Car Market Total Collapse
December 31st, 2008Apologies, I wasn’t able to determine the source of this. Scott found the source: BBC: California’s Car Crisis: Scott also sent: Fly over UK’s biggest car park. Chilling. Must see.
The $775,000-a-Year GI
December 31st, 2008Via: CounterPunch: Kosiak estimates that by 2018, the total spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with related spending on veterans’ health care and other matters, could reach $1.7 trillion. The 88-page report, which includes 182 footnotes, provides an exhaustive look at the cost of Bush’s foreign adventures. It also provides a more […]
Several Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
December 31st, 2008Thank you. MW2 $60 SH $125 TW $50 BS $25 UO €10 AS £15 IL AU$100
Judge Rejects Class-Action Status in FEMA Trailer Suits
December 31st, 2008Imagine my shock. The children who spent time in these trailers have been murdered, they just aren’t dead yet. See: Children in Katrina Trailers May Face Lifelong Ailments FEMA Trailer Manufacturers Knew About Formaldehyde, Findings Went Undisclosed Via: AP: A federal judge on Monday refused to grant class-action status to lawsuits claiming that thousands of […]
SSL CERTIFICATES SIGNED WITH MD5 AUTHORITATIVELY BROKEN
December 31st, 2008“…no tinfoiler in his right mind would bet his life on SSL.” —The Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity * Chortling sounds * Via: CNET: BERLIN–A key piece of Internet technology that banks, e-commerce sites, and financial institutions rely on to keep transactions safe suffers from a serious security vulnerability, an international team of researchers announced […]
NFL Encourages Fans to Send Text Messages to Security Staff to Report Troublemakers
December 30th, 2008Via: USA Today: Count Washington Redskins season-ticket holder Rick Cable as a big supporter of the NFL’s new Fan Code of Conduct. During the Redskins’ 23-6 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Nov. 3 at FedEx Field just outside Washington, Cable says, an obnoxious Steelers fan kept waving a “Terrible Towel” in the 47-year-old Cable’s […]
New Zealand Airline Flies Jetliner Partly on Biofuel
December 30th, 2008Via: AP: A passenger jet powered in part by vegetable oil successfully completed a two-hour flight Tuesday to test a biofuel that could lower airplane emissions and cut costs, Air New Zealand said. One engine of a Boeing 747-400 airplane was powered by a 50-50 blend of oil from jatropha plants and standard A1 jet […]
UK: CCTV Cameras and Microphones Spy on Children as Young as Four
December 30th, 2008Via: Telegraph: The surveillance equipment is in use in around 85 primary and secondary schools and colleges across the country. Classwatch, the company behind the system, says it is being used as a way to monitor children who are disrupting lessons. The firm said the equipment, which is sold with evidence bags approved by the […]
Which Texan Was Going to Buy a Young Girl for Three Hundred Thousand Dollars?
December 30th, 2008I used to think that I could mentally handle any subject matter, no matter how horrible. What could be worse than what happened to Native Americans? The Soviet Union under Stalin and then what the Russians went through during World War II (estimates of the number of dead vary by millions)? The extermination programs of […]
