Earlier the Belgian SWIFT concern got into a muddle by stating that it had allowed the U.S. access to SWIFT transfer information based on warrants issued by the U.S., but refused to show the EU which warrants had been issued. They basically just maintained they had done nothing wrong and that was that. Now it Read more about SWIFT traffic monitored[…]
This is an interesting A – Z on how retail stores make you stay in their stores longer and buy more. It’s not complete (such as it not having anything about the most expensive goods being on the right of the isle and the cheapest being on the bottom left), but it has a whole Read more about Make you shop[…]
The UK is on guard after a huge database containing loads of trivial details of everyone under 18 and accessible to around 400,00 people is called ‘unsafe’ – duh. At the same time the US is parading it’s huge counter terrorism database – which no one will ever hack. Really. You’d have thought they’d have Read more about Big national databases[…]
One complaint is all it took for Turner to review Tom and Jerry cartoons and decide to edit out most instances of them smoking. This really reminds me of the good old Stalinist days where Trotsky and any other ex-ranking member who had displeased the iron man was edited out of any movies or photographs Read more about Tom and Jerry Censored[…]
Well done, Tammie Marson fought the giants and won! She claims that allthough there were illegal files on her computer that had been downloaded over her internet connection, there was simply no way that they could prove it was her who had downloaded the stuff. Anyone else of the hundreds of cheerleaders that came into Read more about No, RIAA, you CAN’T prove it was me![…]
In an earlier post, I vented my frustrations about smoking studies – few of them are available and the ones that are are flawed: there are very few indeed with a sample size larger than 15 (which is surprising considering the millions of smokers out there) and the one (and only one!) I’ve been pointed Read more about Anti anti smoking[…]
And because their LRO rocket had quite a bit of extra space on it, they decided to crash it into the moon, causing an explosion that should create a 17 foot crater and a 30 mile high plume. Yay science!
Here we go – it’s the second time the CCTV camera’s being set up in the home surveillance capital of the world, the UK, has been caught misusing the material captured on camera. The first time the cops were watching people undress at home, now they’ve gone a step beyond and are selling footage of Read more about Why we don’t like invasions of privacy[…]
Which the apple founder raised by going public with a company who’s charter states that it’s a ‘blank-check’ company – ie. one that doesn’t have to do anything. Oh and on the share issue, the company has allready run a $30m profit!
The Guardian has an odd article on how the Iranians think that anything and everything that happens in their country is due to the chicanery and sly dealings of the British. This apparently is the one thing that unites all Iranians.
Well, I’ve been looking for medical proof the past 8 years that smoking really is that bad for you, but have never been able to find it – all I’ve found is conjecture, sensationalism and bad quotes by reverends and law professors. Statistical studies containing only 8 or 12 subjects are bad science, so I’ve Read more about Is smoking really that bad for you?[…]
For a secret service, it’s quite amazing how they now have a website for the world to see! Together with neat marketing corporate logo’s and all!
The Register has had a fantastic competition to use Google Earth to find weird stuff in the system – and readers have responded! 11 pages of fantastic satellite imagery…
Microsoft had nothing better to do on the 17th, so it decided to patent the address book!
nasty http://www.atcsd.com/PressReleases/02_26_04.html Used on their own people in the US: http://www.infowars.com/print/ps/soundcannon_photos.htm Used in Iraq: http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040307-120634-6220r.htm — Zathur
The Greeks have developed a cream / mud which allows you to be just that.
.. and how long has the current (aggressively pro-GM) US President been in office again? Since 01/2001 .. you do the math .. All imports of United States corn have been stopped at British ports following the discovery that the US has been illegally exporting a banned GM maize to Europe for the past four Read more about US sent banned corn to Europe for four years[…]
What’s it going to be? Asteroid impact, World War III, Global Warming, Global Dimming, Biowarfare or is it just a minor die off post Global Peak Oil? Consider Voluntary Human Extinction as a more humane alternative.
Apparently Googlebar browsers display content Google wants you to see on a site and not what the sitemaker had in mind…
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