Archive for October, 2015
Bill Would Give Legal Protection to Firms that Share Data with Government
October 27th, 2015Via: Washington Post: The Senate on Tuesday passed a cybersecurity bill that would give companies legal immunity for sharing data with the federal government, over the protests of some lawmakers and consumer advocates who say that the legislation does not adequately protect Americans’ privacy. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, must now be reconciled […]
U.S. Weighs Special Forces in Syria, Helicopters in Iraq
October 27th, 2015Via: Reuters: The United States is considering sending a small number of special operations forces to Syria and attack helicopters to Iraq as it weighs options to build momentum in the battle against Islamic State, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
Shocker: Court Chooses to Ignore Overwhelming Evidence of NSA’s Mass Internet Spying
October 27th, 2015Via: ACLU: A federal district court yesterday dismissed Wikimedia v. NSA, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of a broad group of educational, legal, human rights, and media organizations whose communications are swept up by the NSA’s unprecedented Internet dragnet. Our lawsuit concerns the NSA’s “upstream” surveillance, which involves the mass interception and […]
Standardized Testing Mess in U.S. Public Schools
October 27th, 2015Via: Washington Post: The number of standardized tests U.S. public school students take has exploded in the past decade, with most schools requiring too many tests of dubious value, according to the first comprehensive survey of the nation’s largest districts. A typical student takes 112 mandated standardized tests between pre-kindergarten classes and 12th grade, a […]
California 1st State to Pass Bill Banning Indiscriminate Antibiotic Use in Livestock
October 27th, 2015Via: Natural Society: Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed a bill that will effectively ban the routine use of the drugs in the animals. [1] “California is a big agricultural state, and it often is a bellwether for the nation. We often see the FDA following suit or other states following suit,” said Elisa Odabashian of […]
Tampons, Sterile Cotton, Sanitary Pads Contaminated with Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide (Glyphosate)
October 27th, 2015Diva Cup The Keeper LENA Menstrual Cup Lunette Menstrual Cup And many more… Via: Russia Today: The vast majority ? 85 percent ? of tampons, cotton and sanitary products tested in a new Argentinian study contained glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, ruled a likely carcinogen by the World Health Organization. Meanwhile, 62 […]
‘Zeno Effect’ Verified: Atoms Won’t Move While You Watch
October 27th, 2015Via: Cornell University: One of the oddest predictions of quantum theory – that a system can’t change while you’re watching it – has been confirmed in an experiment by Cornell physicists. Their work opens the door to a fundamentally new method to control and manipulate the quantum states of atoms and could lead to new […]
Google Employee Living in a Truck in the Company Parking Lot Is Saving 90% of His Income
October 27th, 2015Via: Business Insider: A 23-year-old software engineer at Google is saving about 90% of his take-home pay. When your only fixed living cost is truck insurance, you can save a large chunk of your income. One San Francisco-based Google employee in this exact situation, who lives in a 128-square-foot truck in the company’s parking lot, […]
Citigroup Testing Eye-Scanning ATM
October 27th, 2015Via: NBC: No card reader, no PIN pad, no touch-screen display — how you bank at your ATM could drastically change in the not-so-distant future. Citigroup is testing an automated teller machine made by Canton, Ohio-based Diebold that relies on your smartphone and perhaps an eye scan to dispense your cash.
U.S. Special Forces Deployed in 145 Countries in 2015
October 27th, 2015Via: Truth-Out: Since 9/11, US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has grown in every conceivable way from funding and personnel to global reach and deployments. In 2015, according to Special Operations Command spokesman Ken McGraw, US Special Operations forces deployed to a record-shattering 147 countries – 75% of the nations on the planet, which represents a […]
