Author: Vault Keeper
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A game teaches children how to hack?
Saying Watch Dogs teaches children how to hack is like saying Grand Theft Auto teaches them how to hot-wire a car. Seriously folks, if a game really showed you how to hack, do you think it would be released to the general public? Glenn Beck Claims Watch Dogs Is Teaching Children How To Hack The…
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Fox trashes father of returning POW: Find a razor; you ‘look like a member of the Taliban’
Fox trashes father of returning POW: Find a razor; you ‘look like a member of the Taliban’ (via Raw Story ) The hosts of Fox & Friends on Tuesday lashed out at the White House for allowing the family of returning prisoner of war, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, to speak alongside President Barack Obama because the…
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Your face may already be in the database for facial recognition
Facial recognition technology is here and it might have your picture already. One would assume that if you have a twitter account and use your real picture, it has already been scooped up. Not surprising, really. Just another instance where you shouldn’t expect much privacy on the Net. National Security Agency Seal (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)…
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When will the maddness stop?
In the name of protecting the general public, there seems to be a rash of mishaps when it comes to S.W.A.T. raids. How many children, old people, and law-abiding citizens have to be injured, terrorized or killed before we call a halt to the growing rash of police violence that is wracking the country? How…
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New task force created to combat homegrown terrorists.
English: Official portrait of United States Attorney General Eric Holder Español: Retrato oficial de Fiscal General de los Estados Unidos Eric Holder (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Eric H. Holder, Jr. on Mon. announced the creation of a task force within the Justice Department to combat an “escalating danger” from “homegrown” terrorists within the United States. The…
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Pakistan: Pregnant woman killed by own family
Islam is stuck in the dark ages when it comes to some of the laws that are still carried out in some parts of the world. A pregnant woman was stoned to death by her own family in front of a Pakistani high court on Tuesday for marrying the man she loved. English: The stoning…
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Proof that Wikipedia still needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
In July of 2008, Dylan Breves, then a seventeen-year-old student from New York City, made a mundane edit to a Wikipedia entry on the coati. The coati, a member of the raccoon family, is “also known as … a Brazilian aardvark,” Breves wrote. He did not cite a source for this nickname, and with good…
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PEGASUS, the time travel experiment.
time travel (Photo credit: flyzipper) The Time Travel and Teleportation Experiments of Project Pegasus – In 2004, Washington-based attorney Andrew D. Basiago began telling his story of a top-secret organization called Project Pegasus. Although he was only seven years old at the time, Basiago claims he had, from 1968 to 1972, participated in a number…
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Al Franken on media consolidation
English: Al Franken, Senator from Minnesota (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Major developments in recent days could shape the nation’s media landscape for years to come. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission advanced a proposal that critics say threatens net neutrality, the concept of a free and open Internet. The new rules could allow Internet “fast lanes”…