These Are Not The Gaddafis You Seek

Remember boys and girls, Obama specifically said we are absolutely NOT targeting Moammer Gaddafi. But hey, Obama never said anything about not blowing up his children and grandchildren. Gadhafi’s youngest son killed in NATO airstrike A NATO airstrike Saturday night killed the youngest son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and three of his grandsons at [...]

Springtime For Taliban

Here we go again. Taliban declares ‘spring offensive’ The Taliban has announced the launch of a spring offensive against foreign troops in Afghanistan as well as Afghan security forces and government officials. Saturday’s declaration comes a day after high-ranking US military officers predicted such a move from the group. Dubbed the “Badar” offensive, the fresh [...]

Whose Side Is NATO On?

With friends like NATO . . . NATO airstrike mistakenly kills 12 Libyan rebels A NATO airstrike in the besieged rebel-held city of Misurata mistakenly killed 12 Libyan rebels, an official with the transitional government confirmed Thursday, while new fighting was reported on Libya’s western border with Tunisia. The strike Wednesday was at least the [...]

E.T. No Phone Home

Now space aliens can call Earth all they want, no one’s listening anymore. SETI Shutters Search For Alien Life Diminished funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the state of California has shut down the SETI Institute’s search for extraterrestrial life. The institute has taken its Allen Telescope Array (ATA) offline while it seeks [...]

Do You Own A Sony HackStation?

You’ve probably already noticed that your Sony PlayStation won’t connect to the online network, but do you know that hackers probably stole all your personal data, including your credit card number, too? User data stolen in Sony PlayStation Network hack attack Sony is warning its millions of PlayStation Network users to watch out for identity-theft [...]

They Got Fooled Again

Much like the United States, Iran seems to have a real problem protecting its computer networks. Someone seems to be obsessed with sabotaging their nuclear program. I wonder who that might be? Second computer virus infiltrates Iran’s computer systems Iran has discovered a second computer virus designed to damage government computer systems. The discovery of [...]

Weekly Watch List

ARUN FOSL SINA AGP BIDU NFLX HS INFA PRGO ILMN CTSH JOYG ORCL Additions: None Subtractions: CXO Last week, the major indices moved higher. The Nasdaq vaulted 2.0%, the S&P 500 and the Dow each added 1.3%, and the NYSE composite tacked on 1.2%. Wednesday’s positive action was enough to change the IBD outlook, once [...]

Easter, Chinese Commie Style

Just a reminder, China is not a free country. China seizes Christians in Easter raid Dozens of Chinese Christians were arrested on Sunday when police prevented an evangelical Protestant church from holding its Easter Sunday service, as the state continued its attack on protests against one-party rule. Security forces clashed with followers of a growing [...]

When The Cloud Bursts

This is why I keep my own local backups and don’t trust my important data storage to some remote server I can’t see, run by someone I don’t know. Amazon’s trouble raises cloud computing doubts The black out at Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing) data centre has cast a shadow over cloud computing, which has [...]

These Are Not The Drones You Seek

Mission creep, what mission creep? Who are you going to believe, Robert Gates and Obama or your own lying eyes? Why, exactly, are we in Libya again? U.S. will deploy Predators in Libya President Barack Obama has given U.S. forces the go-ahead to use armed Predator drones in Libya after forces loyal to Libyan leader [...]