Archive for June, 2011
IBM: Phase Change Memory
June 30th, 2011Via: PC World: Solid-state flash memory is widely used as a storage medium in tons of consumer devices, from cell phones to laptops like the MacBook Air. While it has big advantages over hard drives in terms of speed and a lack of moving parts, it has a limited lifespan. Now IBM researchers say they’ve […]
DOJ Criminal Investigation Into Deaths That Resulted from CIA Torture
June 30th, 2011Via: MSNBC / AP: Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday he has authorized a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two terror detainees who died overseas while the CIA was involved in interrogating them. During the Bush administration, Attorney General Michael Mukasey asked a federal prosecutor in Connecticut to look into the destruction of […]
Judge: Google Can Be Sued for Wiretapping in Street View Debacle
June 30th, 2011Via: Wired: A federal judge has found that Google can be held liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open Wi-Fi routers. The ruling is a serious legal setback for the search giant over activity it has engaged in across the United States for years. That decision, the first of its kind, was handed […]
Facebook: 10th Most Hated Company in America
June 30th, 2011Dvorak is right: Facebook is a sort of AOL. Via: Business Insider: #10 Facebook A common complaint includes user’s privacy and personal information protection. Social networkers worry about privacy and sometimes complain when Facebook introduces new features, like the news feed. Or when Facebook shuts down apps without warning users beforehand, like they did recently […]
U.S. War Number Six: Somalia
June 30th, 2011Via: Guardian: The US has conducted its first drone strike on Islamist militants in Somalia, marking the expansion of the pilotless war campaign to a sixth country. The missile strike on a vehicle in the southern town of Kismayo, reported last week as a helicopter assault, wounded two senior militants with al-Shabab and several foreign […]
U.S. Monthly Combat Deaths in Iraq at 3-Year High
June 30th, 2011Via: New York Times: Fifteen American soldiers have been killed in June, 14 of them in hostile incidents. According to icasualties.org, an online database, this was the highest number of combat fatalities since June 2008, when 23 soldiers and Marines were killed.
The Obama Administration’s Whistleblower Problem
June 30th, 2011Via: The Atlantic: Somewhere in the federal bureaucracy, there is a middle-aged woman sitting in a cubicle wearing business casual clothing, eating a turkey sandwich from a brown paper bag, and trying to decide whether the government misconduct she’s privy to should be exposed. Perhaps her agency is infringing on the constitutional rights of American […]
Launch Code for U.S. Strategic Nuclear Missiles Was Twelve Zeros Until 1977
June 30th, 2011“But I don’t understand what would be such a big deal if there were a nuclear exchange, only about 500 million people would die…” Via: Countdown to Zero: Research Credit: bretwalda
Britain: Council to Force Family Living On Their Own Land and Growing Their Own Food to Live in State Housing and Become Dole Recipients
June 30th, 2011Madness. Via: This is Devon: A COUPLE living an “off-grid” lifestyle say they face prison unless they move from their own land in Willand and return to an existence in the benefits trap. Stig and Dinah Mason bought Muxbeare Orchard after a sudden windfall allowed them to quit their impoverished lives on a Hertfordshire council […]
Cryptogon Readers Sign Up for Hosting with Bluehost
June 29th, 2011Thanks to the owners of spiritofthesunpublications.com and fetalearth.net for signing up for hosting with BlueHost. Cryptogon received $180 as a result.
