12:26 PM Tuesday, July 06, 2010

http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/jf1003539
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/06/scienceshot-this-beer-knows-wher.html
...
 In a study published in the current issue of The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 
researchers found that water samples from 33 cities across the United State could be reliably 
traced back to their origin based on their isotope ratios. And because the human body breaks 
down water's constituent atoms of hydrogen and oxygen to construct the proteins that make 
hair cells, those cells can preserve the record of a person's travels.
...

"...the main genetic selection criteria these days is not skill, intelligence, or 
any of the usual virtues. It's entertainment value. Have that, and everything 
else will come to you."
--Charles Sheffield, 'The Dalmation of Faust', 1978

2:57 PM Monday, June 07, 2010
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/05/obama-backing-deal-lift-global-ban-commercial-whaling/

"That moratorium on commercial whaling was the greatest conservation victory
 of the 20th century. And in 2010 to be waving the white flag or bowing to the 
stubbornness of the last three countries engaged in the practice is a 
mind-numbingly dumb idea," Patrick Ramage, the whaling director at 
the International Fund for Animal Welfare, told FoxNews.com.

3:05 PM Saturday, June 05, 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/03/AR2010060304965.html

"...
The surge in Special Operations deployments, along with intensified CIA drone 
attacks in western Pakistan, is the other side of the national security doctrine 
of global engagement and domestic values President Obama released last week. 

One advantage of using "secret" forces for such missions is that they rarely 
discuss their operations in public. For a Democratic president such as 
Obama, who is criticized from either side of the political spectrum for too 
much or too little aggression, the unacknowledged CIA drone attacks in 
Pakistan, along with unilateral U.S. raids in Somalia and joint operations 
in Yemen, provide politically useful tools. 

Obama, one senior military official said, has allowed "things that the 
previous administration did not." 
..."

4:05 PM Thursday, May 20, 2010

http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/faq/faqcur.htm#2

Is U.S. currency legal tender for all debts?
According to the "Legal Tender Statute" (section 5103 of title 31 of the U.S. Code), "United 
States coins and currency (including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal 
Reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, 
and dues." This means that all U.S. money, as identified above, when tendered to a 
creditor legally satisfies a debt to the extent of the amount (face value) tendered.

However, no federal law mandates that a person or an organization must accept currency 
or coins as payment for goods or services not yet provided. For example, a bus line may 
prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills.

Some movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations as a matter of policy may 
refuse to accept currency of a large denomination, such as notes above $20, and as long 
as notice is posted and a transaction giving rise to a debt has not already been completed, 
these organizations have not violated the legal tender law.

3:14 PM Tuesday, May 18, 2010

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/bottlebomb.asp

2:55 PM Tuesday, May 18, 2010
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/05/outsourcing_to.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8677486.stm

"
Authorities in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are planning to set up an outsourcing unit in a jail. 
The unit will employ 200 educated convicts who will handle back office operations like data entry, and process 
and transmit information.

The unit, which is expected to undertake back-office work for banks, will work round the clock with three 
shifts of 70 staff each.

Working in the unit will also be financially rewarding for the prisoners.
"

11:46 AM Tuesday, May 11, 2010
http://www.google.com/help/places/partners/sba/index.html

1:25 PM Saturday, April 24, 2010

http://www.sophos.com/security/best-practice/facebook/
http://www.techspot.com/guides/280-manage-facebook-privacy/
http://gigaom.com/2010/04/22/your-moms-guide-to-those-facebook-changes-and-how-to-block-them/
http://www.neowin.net/news/facebook039s-new-features-can-secretly-add-apps
http://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-security-flaw-lets-you-see-friends039-chats

https://register.facebook.com/editaccount.php?ref=mb&drop&__a=4
...at the bottom, and click 'deactivate.'

If you want to actually delete it, you have to go here:
https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

Turn off instant personalization: Uncheck the box at the bottom of this page. This will 
prevent Facebook from allowing Pandora and Docs.com and Yelp to show 
you customized content based on your Facebook details:
http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy#!/settings/?tab=privacy§ion=applications

You can control which applications are allowed to share your data, as well as what 
your friends can share about you, on this page:
http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy§ion=applications

All of your privacy settings, such as what turns up when people search for you, who 
you have blocked, and so on, can be controlled on this page:
http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy§ion=applications#!/settings/?tab=privacy

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U.S. senators raise Facebook privacy concerns
http://www.neowin.net/news/us-senators-raise-facebook-privacy-concerns
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100427/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_facebook_privacy_concerns
"Four Democratic senators have raised concerns over Facebook's privacy controls in a letter due 
to be sent to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg..."

12:06 PM Thursday, April 22, 2010

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-122/sp800-122.pdf

12:46 PM Wednesday, April 21, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Luckner

12:56 PM Tuesday, April 20, 2010

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/title-2/
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/the_effectivene_1.html

He goes on to discuss Obama's authorization of the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American living 
in Yemen. He speculates on whether or not this is illegal, but spends more time musing about the 
effectiveness of assassination, referring to a 2009 paper from Security Studies: "When Heads Roll: 
Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Decapitation": "She studied 298 attempts, from 1945 through 
2004, to weaken or eliminate terrorist groups through 'leadership decapitation' -- eliminating people in 
senior positions."
From the paper's conclusion:
The data presented in this paper show that decapitation is not an effective counterterrorism strategy. 
While decapitation is effective in 17 percent of all cases, when compared to the overall rate of 
organizational decline, decapitated groups have a lower rate of decline than groups that have not had 
their leaders removed. The findings show that decapitation is more likely to have counterproductive 
effects in larger, older, religious, and separatist organizations. In these cases decapitation not only has a 
much lower rate of success, the marginal value is, in fact, negative. The data provide an essential test 
of decapitation's value as a counterterrorism policy. 

...Particularly ominous are Jordan's findings about groups that, like Al Qaeda and the Taliban, are 
religious. The chances that a religious terrorist group will collapse in the wake of a decapitation strategy 
are 17 percent. Of course, that's better than zero, but it turns out that the chances of such a group 
fading away when there's no decapitation are 33 percent. ...

11:18 AM Friday, April 16, 2010

http://publicintelligence.net/baltimore-police-department-guns-that-look-like-toys/

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