Archive for August, 2015
On Average, People Who Obtain Degrees from Quarter of Colleges Never Recover Cost of Education
August 31st, 2015Via: The New Yorker: These types of studies, and there are lots of them, usually find that the financial benefits of getting a college degree are much larger than the financial costs. But Cappelli points out that for parents and students the average figures may not mean much, because they disguise enormous differences in outcomes […]
Up to 90% of Seabirds Have Plastic in Their Guts
August 31st, 2015Via: Guardian: As many as nine out of 10 of the world’s seabirds are likely to have pieces of plastic in their guts, a new study estimates. An Australian team of scientists who have studied birds and marine debris found that far more seabirds were affected than the previous estimate of 29%. Their results were […]
Microsoft Adding Windows 10 Style Spyware to Windows 7 and Windows 8
August 31st, 2015Update: Several Windows 10 Privacy Tools — How many hosts is Microsoft phoning everything home to? Is it feasible to just block them all with an external firewall so a Windows box simply can’t reach Microsoft? The article below says that Windows 10 is ignoring the hosts file and phoning home anyway, so it seems […]
Maryland Man Fined $50 for Picking Berries in Park
August 30th, 2015Via: Reason: To me, nothing screams summer like picking and eating fresh berries. I know I’m not alone. Greg Visscher, head of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Young Republicans Club, has been picking berries with his family for years. So it was with some degree of surprise that Visscher found himself confronted last month by a […]
British Tabloids: Spy Found Dead in a Bag Hacked Into Secret U.S. Data on Bill Clinton
August 30th, 2015Via: Daily Mail: The British spy whose body was found padlocked inside a bag in his flat had illegally hacked into secret data on former U.S. president Bill Clinton, it has been revealed. Gareth Williams, 31, was discovered in a holdall in the bath at his London home five years ago this month, but the […]
Frederick Forsyth Reveals MI6 Spying Past
August 30th, 2015Via: BBC: The Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth has revealed he was working for MI6 for more than 20 years. The disclosure comes with the publication of the author’s autobiography The Outsider: My Life. Fans have long suspected that Forsyth, 77, acclaimed for his highly realistic spy novels, may have been involved with […]
Boeing: Portable Drone-Killing Laser
August 29th, 2015Via: The Verge: Boeing has been researching ways to disable drones with lasers for a while now, and this week, the defense contractor released new footage (below) of its Compact Laser Weapons System: a portable, tripod-mounted device that can burn a hole in a UAV or a quadcopter in seconds. The system is essentially a […]
Pentagon Teams Up with Apple, Boeing to Develop Wearable Tech
August 28th, 2015Via: Reuters: U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter awarded $75 million on Friday to help a consortium of high-tech firms and researchers develop electronic systems packed with sensors flexible enough to be worn by soldiers or molded onto the skin of a plane. Carter said funding for the Obama administration’s newest manufacturing institute would go to […]
San Francisco as Open Sewer
August 28th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: City officials say corrosion from urine — human and canine — contributed to the collapse of a light pole that fell on a car at Taylor and Pine streets in San Francisco. … In the Tenderloin, at Eddy and Jones streets, I watched a group of small schoolchildren ushered across the […]
The Zapruder Film Mystery
August 28th, 2015Via: E2 Films: The Zapruder Film Mystery from E2 Films on Vimeo.
