Elcomsoft turns your PC into a password cracking supercomputer
24th October 2007
Read it. Not good news.
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24th October 2007
Read it. Not good news.
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24th October 2007
David Friedman questions the conventional wisdom. He’s good at that.
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on Ethnic Cleansing, Other Horrors, and the Racial IQ Controversy
24th October 2007
Read it. I can’t say they’re wrong.
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24th October 2007
Read it. I’m not sure whether this is cool or just silly. Wouldn’t mind having one, though.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Toyota’s i-Real: wrap yourself in a killer whale
24th October 2007
Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the hard questions.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Who will defend James Watson?
24th October 2007
Read it. The headline alone tells you pretty much all you need to know about how far American culture has degenerated.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Musicians deliver ‘no nukes’ petition
24th October 2007
Read it. And laugh.
Posted in Your tax dollars at work - and play. | Comments Off on Reid’s approval falls to low in home state
23rd October 2007
Read it. Someday the public will wake up to the fact that college faculty don’t really give a shit about teaching, but are all about research and publication; teaching is the K.P. they have to do to keep up their affiliation with the gravy train.
Say you’re an Assistant Professor at Harvard (or Stanford, or MIT, or UCLA). Do you get tenure for being a good teacher? Nope. You get tenure for research and publication. In fact, if you spend too much time being a teacher and not enough time being a researcher and writer, you can hose yourself, career-wise.
So this makes perfect sense. Rather than spend six hours a week in front of a bunch of pimply adolescents, spend a couple hours doing a real good video, put it on the net, and go back to what’s going to bring in the bucks.
Posted in Is this a great country, or what? | Comments Off on Universities Figuring Out The Value Of Giving Away Content For Free
23rd October 2007
I live in Texas; I have zero interest in how much of California might be on fire, a topic that seems to be consuming (pun intended) the local “professional” news media here in Dallas.
Wake me when the flames approach Amarillo.
Posted in Axis of Drivel -- Adventures in Narrative Media | Comments Off on For the Record
23rd October 2007
Wash: “Gee, college is good. But not everyone can afford to go. We’d better subsidize it.”
Rinse: “Wow, demand for college has sure jumped.”
Repeat: “Whoa, the cost for college has gone up a lot. We’d better increase the subsidy.”
A basic requirement for any sane political system is demonstrable evidence that candidates for office are familiar with elementary economics. (In case you were wondering, no, we don’t have one of those.)
Posted in Your tax dollars at work - and play. | Comments Off on College Costs Outpace Inflation Rate
23rd October 2007
Read it. That certainly explains the Senate — and most senior faculty.
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on Educated People Develop Dementia Later But More Rapidly
23rd October 2007
Read it. And take a nap already.
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23rd October 2007
Read it. Shopping for God in all the wrong places.
Mr. Twitchell manages to reduce this profound idea to the dictates of basic consumer theory. Sacrifice, he says–not least, tithing–signifies value. The more you sacrifice, the more you visibly value the product for which you are giving something up, and the more you show other people that you value it, too. “Why do true believers sometimes puncture themselves, walk on their knees until they bleed, fast until they are skeletal or join a monastery and go mum?” Mr. Twitchell asks. “Brand allegiance.”
This is obviously someone who knows as much about religion as Hillary Clinton knows about life in Omaha.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on A Congregation of Customers
23rd October 2007
What do you call people who want to kill you? (Hint: Enemies.)
What do you call people in your group who favor your enemies? (Hint: Traitors.)
What is so hard to understand about this?
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week Begins
23rd October 2007
Read it. Ask yourself: Why this particular legislation at this particular time?
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Native Hawaiians’ status set for vote
22nd October 2007
Christopher Hitchens explains, “It’s a valid term. Here’s why.”
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22nd October 2007
Jonathan Clements, personal-finance columnist, in today’s Wall Street Journal:
We all tend to sit up and take notice when we come across people with fancy titles, hefty incomes and immense riches. Yet these aren’t signs of genius or virtue. Want proof? All it takes is two words: Paris Hilton.
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on Perspective
22nd October 2007
Read it. Very nice. The TV looks good, too.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Samsung’s 40-inch 1080p LCD TV panel — just 0.39-inches thin
22nd October 2007
Read it. Of course, they’d get a lot farther if they could find some way to include ethanol in the manufacturing process.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on GE Engineer Sees Competitive Photovoltaics In Under 10 Years
21st October 2007
Read it. Sow the wind of unrestricted immigration, reap the whirlwind of social chaos.
But that could never happen in America. Nope. Of course not.
Posted in Living with Islam. | Comments Off on The Dutch Intifada, Night 6
21st October 2007
Read it. The telphone — modern convenience, or agent of social disintegration?
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on Turn-taking etiquettes
21st October 2007
Read it. Funny, I thought that was NASA’s job.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Chinese astronauts want space-based communist party branch
21st October 2007
Read it. As AlGore has conclusively demonstrated, Politics wins over Science every time.
Posted in Axis of Drivel -- Adventures in Narrative Media | Comments Off on Science as Politics Occasionally Contaminated by Reason or Truth, but Only Inadvertently
20th October 2007
Read it. Shucks, who doesn’t know that? It’s only when you catch one that your life starts to lengthen,which is why married guys last longer than single guys. (Don’t take my word for it — you can look it up.)
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Chasing females can take years off life
20th October 2007
Read it. It’s getting really silly out there, folks.
Posted in Whose turn is it to be the victim? | Comments Off on Recipes: Shared And Improved On For Years… Now Targeted By Copyright Cops?
20th October 2007
Read it. Gee, I wonder why.
Go, Fred.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Poll finds Thompson appeals to churchgoers
20th October 2007
Read it. The dhimmis at NPR tried to bury it and couldn’t.
Posted in Living with Islam. | Comments Off on Fox to air Islamic documentary
19th October 2007
Read it. Apparently Venezuela isn’t totally lost.
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19th October 2007
Read it. I don’t know what universe left-wing moonbats inhabit but I sure hope they run tours someday.
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19th October 2007
Read it. An interesting concept — if it actually works. I’d love to see some proof that the data on the line don’t go out to the wide world generally. The thought makes home WiFi look like a bank vault.
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on DS2 announces 400Mbps powerline networking
19th October 2007
Read it. Who cares? Left-wing ideas have been failing since the Paris Commune in 1870, and they’re still as popular as ever.
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19th October 2007
Read it. Unfortunately, the size of your dick doesn’t matter if you haven’t the balls to use it.
Posted in Your tax dollars at work - and play. | Comments Off on U.S. Forces Could Attack Iran if Needed
19th October 2007
Read it. Oh, if only Dr Atkins had lived to see this day….
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on A science journalist makes the case for low-carb diets
19th October 2007
Read it. And the hits just keep on coming.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Researchers develop artificial nerve
19th October 2007
Peggy Noonan describes Hillary’s attempts to make an asset of herself.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Sex and the Presidency
19th October 2007
Read it. How about a radio that clips to your ear like an earring? It’s coming.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on UC Irvine researchers tout first nano-scale radio
19th October 2007
Posted in Living with Islam. | Comments Off on Terrorist Shuts Down Islamic Charities for Funding Terrorism
19th October 2007
Read it. Unfortunately, being a fiduciary means never having to say, “It’s the principle of the thing.”
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Democrats tell business to pay up or else.
19th October 2007
Read it. I have to agree.
Posted in Axis of Drivel -- Adventures in Narrative Media | Comments Off on The US is a great place to be anti-American
18th October 2007
Read it. “It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s JIFFYPOP!”
Posted in Is this a great country, or what? | Comments Off on Boeing demonstrates a Hummer-mounted laser weapon
18th October 2007
Read it. You see, you learn something new every day.
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on Neanderthals may have had headline writing gene
18th October 2007
Read it. Me want.
Posted in Is this a great country, or what? | Comments Off on Acme ships a three-screened “portable” computer
18th October 2007
Read it. This guy has balls.
Posted in Living with Islam. | Comments Off on An Artist and His Dog
18th October 2007
Read it. This would be rather handy.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Silicon nanowire could convert light into electrical energy
18th October 2007
Read it. Another fabulous money-making (so to speak) opportunity.
Posted in Living with Islam. | Comments Off on Another Use for the Multi-Purpose Burqa
18th October 2007
Read it. This would seem excessive. After all, it’s not as if they were attempting to enforce immigration laws.
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18th October 2007
Read it. Can’t wait for the DRM and other intellectual property folks to get their lawyers into this one.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Checking Out Tomorrow’s Library
18th October 2007
Read it. How appalling that this guy would dare prosecute Muslims. Doesn’t he know that Islam is a religion of peace? Just look at any car bombing — there’s a piece here, there’s a piece over there….
Posted in Living with Islam. | Comments Off on Albany Muslims Seething
18th October 2007
Read it. That’s modern America for you. It’s okay to break the law to come into America; in fact, if law enforcement officials try to, you know, enforce the law, they’re violating the criminals’ civil rights and will go to jail.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Deputy salute planned by town after prison term