‘You can say I’m paranoid about it but they will kill me, there is no question. They’ve been trying to get me for months.’ – John McAfee in Wired interview MILLIONAIRE ANTIVIRUS creator John McAfee believes his life is in danger after his neighbor was found with a shotgun blast to the back of his [...]
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Nominee for Supreme Allied Commander of Europe Allen’s “Bizarre” Behavior and 20-30,000 Emails to Hostess Kelley
THE TOP commander in Afghanistan is now ensnared in the Petraeus – Broadwell – Shirtless FBI Agent – Kelley sex scandal and just might lose his promotion. “At the request of the Secretary of Defense, the President has put on hold his nomination of Gen. Allen as SACEUR pending the investigation of Gen. Allen’s conduct [...]
The Power, the Protégé and the Dutiful Wife
Yet more studies with sweat have explored the strongest isolated candidate so far for a human pheromone, known as androstadienone, which derives from the male hormone testosterone. The presence of this compound has been reported to make women feel more relaxed. Wysocki and his colleagues are currently seeking National Institutes of Health grants to find [...]
News Desk: Samsung Muscles Ahead of Apple
‘Uncool’ Samsung muscles ahead of Apple (via AFP) Its products may not, as one British judge put it, be as “cool” as bitter rival Apple’s, but Samsung Electronics is speeding away from the iconic iPhone maker in the race for the global smartphone market. The South Korean giant first took Apple’s smartphone top spot in [...]
News Desk: Oprah Brings OWN to Huffington Post
OWN HAS struggled since its inception. Now Oprah Winfrey has partnered with Huffington Post in what is nothing short of a earthquake shift in Ms. Winfrey’s business model. Oprah joining Huffington Post joins two of the most powerful women, one from TV, the other from new-media, in a mega-partnership that deserves to draw coverage to [...]
Top Story: Nor’Easter Sandy Takes Down Huffington Post, Gawker and Other New Media Megasites
WE’VE GOT big bombs and big Pentagon bloat, but our technical infrastructure remains vulnerable to all sorts of attacks, including extreme storms. From CBS News: In addition to cutting power to millions and causing massive flooding in New York City, Superstorm Sandy also brought down several high-profile websites, including Huffington Post and Gawker. Those sites, [...]
News Desk: China Blocks Web Access to New York Times Over PM Wen Jiabao Profile
AFTER BLOOMBERG ran a story about the wealth of Vice President Xi Jinping, who is to become the next general secretary of the Communist Party, their website was blocked in mainland China. Now, after the New York Times ran an article titled “Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader,” China blocked all access [...]
News Desk: Google Shares Plummet on Early Notice of 20% Earnings Fall
FINGERS POINT to R.R. Donnelley, Google’s financial printer, after numbers were prematurely released. Trading on Google ceased on Nasdaq, but will resume when the issue is reconciled. From the Wall Street Journal: Google Inc. GOOG -9.82% prematurely released its quarterly earnings midday Thursday, reporting that profit declined 20% as total costs jumped and advertising prices [...]
The Ultimate Christmas Tablet Battle Begins
THE HOLIDAY super season of tech toys is being teased in October and it’s exciting. From CNET: Apple has already announced and sent out invitations for a media event on October 23 (“We’ve got a little more to show you”), and it’s widely expected to be centered on a new iPad with a 7.8-inch display [...]
News Desk: House Intelligence Committee Urges Ban of Huawei, Citing Espionage, Privacy, Intellectual Property Rights [Video]
THE REPORT last night on “60 Minutes” was foreshadowing for the House report dropping today. The House report is now online. House intelligence committee chairman Mike Rogers and ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Dutch Ruppersberger, delivered the report. The U.S. once dominated the tech field, but we don’t anymore. This report on Huawei, [...]
News Desk: Bambuser Streams Live from Syria and the World
THE LITTLE start-up that’s broadcasting the Syrian unraveling is getting big time press today. “Foreign correspondents” gets redefined in the new-media era. Syria’s civil war has made Friday afternoons a busy time at Bambuser, a tiny Swedish IT startup in an old bicycle factory which streams live video from the latest uprisings. The Muslim day [...]
iPhone 5 Lands
THE ANTICIPATED announcement comes with questions, because Apple is no longer making the phone on tech earth. From CNET: Apple made the case today that its newly unveiled iPhone 5 should take its rightful spot atop the smartphone food chain. But for seemingly the first time, it’s not exactly a slam dunk that Apple’s device [...]
Murdered in Benghazi Commando Raid, “Vile Rat,” aka Sean Smith
Vile Rat was a spy for the Goonfleet Intelligence Agency. He infiltrated Lotka Volterra; he and I cooked up a scheme where we faked VR blowing up one of Sorenson’s haulers full of zydrine in Syndicate – this was back in 06 when zydrine mattered – and that proved to Lotka Volterra that he had [...]
9/11 Legacy: No More Privacy
“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.” – Benjamin Franklin EISENHOWER WARNED us and now as a reaction and an excuse born out of the attacks on September 11, both Democratic and Republican parties have vanquished individual freedom on the altar of protection. From Salon.com, an article that first appeared on [...]
“Bain Of Our Existence” Website Launches
IT’S ALL things Bain and Bain Of Our Existence is now live.
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