Call back Voyager 2
Back into the Solar System Voyager 2, you missed something!
Posts by Florida1920
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New moon discovered around Neptune brings total to 14
'Thundering mechanical behemoth' walker mech to attack Leicester today
No sale, Yahoo! Hulu goes off the auction block
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US Navy robot stealth fighter in first unmanned carrier landings
US public hate Snowden - but sexpot spy Anna Chapman LOVES him
Monday 8th July 2013 17:34 GMT 
Lord knows
Most Americans don't fear the NSA 'cause they got doG on their side. HE wouldn't let anything bad happen to them. Besides, how much trouble can you get into when the only book you own is the Bible and your emails are limited to pix of the grandkids, links to stupid kitten videos and hate-mongering homophobic rants?
FRBs and variable forces: a big week for astronomy
Yahoo! slurps! up! auto-shorteur! vidapp! Qwiki!
Bolivian president's jet grounded so officials can look for Snowden
US State Department coughs up $630k for Facebook Likes
Dubya: I introduced PRISM and I think it's pretty swell
Ex-inmate at Chinese prison: We made airline headsets
The future of cinema and TV: It’s game over for the hi-res hype
Cuba bound? Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong
Facebook: We now have one million real admen stalking you. Huzzah..?
Increased cell phone coverage tied to uptick in African violence
Wednesday 19th June 2013 03:17 GMT
Re: Doubtful. NOT
In the U.S., Canada and Australia the indigenous populations were nearly exterminated. In Africa they were dragged from the outer reaches to disease-ridden cities so their white overlords could keep them under control. They never were allowed into the inner circles of control. When the whites had plundered enough and/or the situation was getting deadly, they split, saying "You can have your country back now." Except it bore no resemblance to their or any other country. 99.99% of the evil happening in Africa today is the direct result of white exploitation.
New material enables 1,000-meter super-skyscrapers
NSA: 'Dozens of attacks' prevented by snooping
Thursday 13th June 2013 03:14 GMT 
Great harm to animals
Think of the donkeys! ObL already knew about PRISM of course. That's why he used a personal courier, not a telephone. Had al-Kouriah not ordered take-out felafel so often they'd never have found him.
If this dope was so sensitive, how was a tech in Hawaii able to access it? Need to know my Minox. Heads should roll at NSA, but not starting with Snowden's. Good grief, my gossiping great aunt is better at keeping secrets.
Users rage as Fasthosts virtual servers go titsup... again
Sneaky new Android Trojan is WORST yet discovered
Forget the word 'cyberwar' says Marcus Ranum
It! Started! With! A! GIF!... Yahoo! Actually! Buys! Tumblr! for! $1bn!
Adobe's Creative Cloud fails at being a cloud
NORKS powers down whole towns to find pirates
Monday 6th May 2013 18:36 GMT
DVD Player Registration
I'm sure the NORKs require purchasers of DVD players to register them. They know who has one, so hiding/swapping is futile. Closing up Kaesong makes me think Kimmy's getting ready for some serious repression to consolidate his power. Kim's playing defense while making pro-offense statements, but those in the know, know better. Tyrants elsewhere have had a bad time of it lately. How does Kim make sensible progressive moves without appearing to lose face? The kid's in a bad position. Unfortunately, faced with tough choices, hereditary tyrants usually respond by cranking up the pain. See Mssrs Assad, Gaddafi, Mubarak et al.
You can bet the West is doing all it can to destabilize the regime, because that's what the West does best. Unexpected consequences be damned. Unfortunately for the West, the DPRK has borders with Russia and China. That probably means the pot will keep simmering while a few million more NORKs die in the name of global something-or-other.
Movie review: Star Trek Into Darkness
Suspected Chinese NASA spy smuggled smut not state secrets
Thousands rally behind teen girl cuffed, expelled in harmless 'explosion'
Reddit: So very sorry for naming innocent man as Boston bomber
Wednesday 24th April 2013 16:44 GMT
"First we fix the blame, then we fix the problem." Except the problem is rarely addressed because no one wants to admit it even exists. American foreign policy will only become even more militaristic as a result, and right-wingers will use Boston as an excuse to further their goal of creating a police state at home. The American nation was created through expropriation and genocide, and our history has become so normalized, most Americans see them as charitable endeavors. Maybe by mid-century, when the majority will be people whose ancestors were victims of "Manifest Destiny," the country will realize who really was to blame for these sporadic acts of payback.
Cameron: Get those saucy websites off Blighty's public Wi-Fi
US Air Force reclassifies 6 cyber tools as weapons
Tuesday 9th April 2013 17:18 GMT
This is how the illusion of "transparency" is created and maintained. Releasing this information gives the impression that we (U.S.) have an open government, which only obscures "vital" secrets. A further illusion is that the government is on top of threats and we can sleep well at night. Pay no attention to that surveillance drone circling your neighborhood.
How I nearly sold rocket windows to the crazy North Koreans
Friday 5th April 2013 16:01 GMT 
Little Boy and his big toys
Young Kim creates the fiction that the joint US-ROK military exercises were an imminent threat to NK, and that his blustering, moving missiles and closing the factory forced the US to back down and thus preserved NK.
He's getting NK and himself in the news every day, and Chuck Hagel is running in circles setting up defenses against the Mighty DPRK. On the homefront it's clear the US is scared of DPRK, and that's all good for kid Kid Kim.
But he can't keep this juggling act going forever, and sooner or later the rumblings of millions of empty stomachs will drown out the rhetoric. For that, Kimmy has no plan. Maybe he thinks he can achieve his aim of self-aggrandizing direct talks with the US, which will never happen. And that the US will start flowing relief supplies again. Given the state of the US economy, you'd see rioting in America if much money was spent feeding the Norks. China doesn't want a pro-Western government on their border, so it's in their interests to keep DPRK afloat. Will they give military assistance if a war starts? Undoubtedly. So let's hope no jittery soldier on either side accidentally discharges a weapon pointed at the other side. And that the Great Successor takes up a less-dangerous hobby, like birdwatching.
http://jim.kearman.com/html/kim-jong-un-birding.html
The one with the field guide in the pocket.
Head of privacy at Google leaves. Yes, that's a real job
Spies in the sky: The leaps and bounds from balloons to spook sats
Friday 1st March 2013 23:19 GMT
Re: For those interested:
When I was at the USAF 792nd Radar Squadron in North Charleston, SC, in 1966 or 1967 one of our radar ops spotted a "UFO" hauling butt at very high altitude. That brought a major down from the Pentagon to investigate. The op was told he hadn't seen anything, which didn't set well with him, as he was conscientious and knew he had. It probably was an SR-71 headed for Mother Russia, but we weren't allowed to know those things.
US insurer punts 'bestiality' to wide-eyed kiddies, gasp 'mums'
The universe speaks: 'It's time to get off your rock!'
Monday 18th February 2013 13:23 GMT 
No need to travel afar. The young-rich-famous-and-fertile could board an Earth-orbiting station, accompanied by robotic orbiting capsules containing post-apocalypse survival supplies. Caviar, pate and other essentials. Durable necessities could be cached in secret locations on earth. Wait out the disaster, then return when the smoke clears and repopulate. If the whole planet goes "pffft" then at least they have a front-row seat. Free beer and crisps for the rest of us.
US diplomat: If EU allows 'right to be forgotten' ... it might spark TRADE WAR
Tuesday 5th February 2013 16:58 GMT
Re: SO what?
No way Apple, HP et al are going to let the USG keep them from marketing anywhere they want. The stuff's made in Asia anyway. Remember how contraband found its way into Libya and Iraq during the Times of Embargo? What could happen is increased tariffs on goods made in Europe. Americans might then have to sell their souls to buy a Mercedes. As an American ex pat living in America, I'm not sure there are many unentailed souls left anyway.
Foxit outfoxes fiendish flaw to fix foxed-up Firefox PDF plugin
Trust the cloud with my PRECIOUS? You gotta be joking
Tuesday 25th December 2012 00:27 GMT 
Distrusted clouds before there was one
Back in 2001, being of limited resources, I used several free webhosting services to stash sundry files, as my laptop had a 2-GB drive and no CD burner. One of them must have had their operation in the World Trade Center, as the service disappeared without a trace one day in September. Other people had bigger problems and there was nothing mission critical there, but when the biz got going I was a believer in redundant backup methods I alone controlled. When the Cloud drifted over the horizon I wasn't even tempted.
Actually, my experience with stuff like this goes back further, to when I worked at a major monthly rag. The Powers decided to put MS Word on the server so we editors could run it over the LAN. I didn't trust that so I downloaded a copy onto my HD and renamed it . Came the day when we were nearing deadline and the server or the LAN or something blew up, and there was much screaming, tearing of hair etc in the halls, while I was able to keep working. The message, which all of you pro IT folks know is, you have to expect and plan for failure. If the Powers say, "What are the odds?," reach for the cattle prod and nudge them toward the elevator shaft.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
