The Petrodollar & War machine

http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-petrodollar-war-machine.html The Petrodollar & War machine. Ever wondered what the Petrodollar is? Ever wondered why we invaded Iraq? Ever wondered why we ‘helped’ the people in Libya but not Syria? Ever wondered why...

Experts: Hackers will crack election systems

Read More http://newswalls.blogspot.com/2012/10/experts-hackers-will-crack-election.html The result of an election will be changed by hackers, the only question remaining for an online security expert is which election will it be. “I’m somewhat surprised it hasn’t...

Life, the Grand Simulation?

i just finished watching Mission to Mars for the zillionth time. btw, this essay is dedicated to Kristin, Richard, and Alicia. There are many unrealistic scenarios in MtM such as the meteor shower just before they reach Mars or reducing their velocity wrt Mars (this is just...

ACOMA = A COnscious MAchine design

This essay revisits my design for a conscious machine - designed from the systems approach and 'minimal functionalist' perspectives. It tries to answer the question: what is the minimal physical system (what...

Machine washes Muslims & recites Koran

A Malaysian company - AACE Technologies  - has invented a machine it said would help Muslims purify themselves before prayers without excessively wasting water. The ornate machine comes with automatic sensors and basins to curb water usage during "wudu", an Arabic word...

Rotating house follows the sun

An Australian couple, the Evringhams, have built a house that rotates to follow the sun. The whole house is turned by a motor not much bigger than that in a washing machine and enables the house to make the...

Oh crumbs! Hadron Collider breaks down

Of course the conspiracy theorist will now be saying stupid things...Some physicists have said that time-travelling particles from the future could be damaging the machine in an attempt to thwart any experiments....

No such thing as "deleted" on the Internet

Yeah, there is no such thing as "deleted" on the internet. Shocked? So was I when I read the following article on Yahoo Tech. The research has been done by researchers at Cambridge University who have found that...

A vending machine that makes hot pizza upon request

Would you buy 'fresh' pizza from a vending machine? Well a man who was successful selling pasta in California, now wants to return to Italy and start up a vending machine business that will cook pizza with all fresh...

Robotic suit augments farmer strength

" The suit, unveiled on Friday by researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, is a prototype wearable assistance machine equipped with eight motors and 16 sensors. The 55-pound device is designed...

Musicians Complain About Their Songs Being Used for Torture

 Prominent rock bands have joined forces with a legal charity to campaign against the use of music as an instrument of torture by US military interrogators.  According to British organization Reprieve, the...

3D Printing: The future is NOW!

Yes, you can!  Okay, maybe you and i can't afford it but I can see it, in ten years, mattel introduces the "print your own toys" all-in-one household object printer!  "Easy software anyone can use with...

Diebold faces GPL infringement lawsuit over voting machines

"Artifex Software, the company behind the open source Ghostscript PDF processing software, has filed a lawsuit against voting machine vendor Diebold and its subsidiary Premier Election Solutions. Artifex says that Diebold violated the GPL by incorporating Ghostscript into...

West Virginia: Vote Flipping Caught on Tape

Jackson Co. West Virginia clerk inadvertently gives a demonstration of the unreliability of electronic voting machines. The machine was flipping the votes right on camera- even after he recalibrated it. Nearly 360,000 views in 2 days; your vote may not get counted, but you...

Brainy Robots to Put Us Out of Work, on Vacation and in School?

There's the saying, "No machine can do my job, until it learns to drink", but according to author Marshall Brain, computers are eventually going to take over the world and eliminate meaningless, humiliating work...
 

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