Archive for August, 2014
Man 3D Prints Concrete Castle in Backyard, Designing Kit to Print Two-Story Houses
August 31st, 2014Via: 3ders: In Minnesota, contractor Andrey Rudenko is currently working on a project of gargantuan proportions that seems to be stretching and exploring the limits of 3D printing technology. Using a printer that was substantially modified and expanded, he has printed a concrete castle in his own backyard. And at 3 by 5 meters, this […]
Experimental Ebola Drug Cured 100% of Monkeys Tested
August 30th, 2014Via: USA Today: In what scientists are calling a “monumental achievement,” an experimental medication called ZMapp — given on a compassionate basis to a handful of Ebola victims in the current outbreak — cured 100% of monkeys treated in a Canadian study, researchers announced Friday. ZMapp, made by Mapp Biopharmaceuticals of San Diego, is in […]
Why Is Vladimir Putin Referring to Eastern Ukraine as ‘New Russia’?
August 30th, 2014Western elites stole Ukraine from a deranged dictator with a bogus populist uprising. Now, kleptocrat Putin is stealing it back with irregulars, mercenaries, and tanks. Don’t come to the conclusion that Putin is some sort of good guy. Putin is just like Western elites, but with a more direct approach, and what amounts to a […]
U.S. Hikes Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422%
August 29th, 2014Is there a loophole? Can one jump right to the DS-4083 if one intended to expatriate oneself when one gave their oath to a foreign sovereign and was grated citizenship? See this, Advice about Possible Loss of U.S. Nationality and Dual Nationality: Potentially Expatriating Acts Section 349 of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1481), as amended, […]
Syrian Refugees Top 3 Million; Up to 6.5 Million Internally Displaced
August 29th, 2014Via: CBC: Three million Syrian refugees will have registered in neighbouring countries as of Friday, an exodus that began in March 2011 and shows no sign of abating, the United Nations said. The record figure is one million refugees more than a year ago, while a further 6.5 million are displaced within Syria, meaning that […]
Inside Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program
August 28th, 2014Via: The Atlantic: After two years of development, the Silicon Valley company reveals to The Atlantic that it has substantial research effort into building flying robots than can deliver products across a city in a minute or two.
FOIA Request Reveals NIST Control of 1,000 Hours of 9/11 WTC Phone and Radio Recordings
August 28th, 2014Via: 9/11 Blogger: FOIA records obtained from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) pursuant to a request for internal NIST correspondence during their investigation of the World Trade Center (WTC) building destructions, reveal NIST’s control of 1,000 hours of telephone and radio recordings captured as the events of September 11, 2001 unfolded at […]
Splitting Water Offers an Inefficient but Effective Way to Store Energy
August 28th, 2014Via: MIT Technology Review: Germany, which has come to rely heavily on wind and solar power in recent years, is launching more than 20 demonstration projects that involve storing energy by splitting water into hydrogen gas and oxygen. The projects could help establish whether electrolysis, as the technology is known, could address one of the […]
Federal Cybersecurity Director Found Guilty on Child Porn Charges
August 28th, 2014Tor, Tor, Tor. Via: Wired: As the acting cybersecurity chief of a federal agency, Timothy DeFoggi should have been well versed in the digital footprints users leave behind online when they visit web sites and download images. But DeFoggi—convicted today in Nebraska on three child porn charges including conspiracy to solicit and distribute child porn—must […]
New Orleans Police Officer Turns Off Body Camera Minutes Before Shooting Suspect In Forehead
August 28th, 2014Via: Jonathan Turley: …I am still unclear why these body cameras can even be turned off by officers. The point of a body camera should be that it runs from check in to check out. It should not be under the control of the officer to guarantee a record that cannot be challenged by either […]
