Sign along the dotted line and work for 50 year
Hey-ho. Britons will have to work until the age of 70, at least five years beyond the current retirement age, if the Government is to stand any hope of bringing public debt under control over the next decade, a report claims. What if folks decided they didn’t care about bringing public debt under control? What [...]
The urge to save humanity
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H.L. Mencken The same point was made by Ayn Rand in both her fiction and non-fiction, but I found it hard to accept. Where is the evidence, I wanted to know. Well, today, I found it, on Austrian [...]
Symantec to identify safe software by ‘reputation’
This article on ZDNet (Oct. 24th, 2008) says that Symantec will soon introduce a “reputation-based” software-rating technology that it has claimed can accurately differentiate malicious malware from legitimate programs. “Reputation-based security is the latest and greatest technology in malware detection,” said Basant Rajan, chief technology officer of the IT security vendor’s India office… “When seeking [...]
Japan’s food statistics
A friend’s shared Google Reader feed alerted me to this video created for the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). It contains some interesting statistics, and begs some interesting questions. E.g.: Japan only produces about 40% of the food it consumes. This is the lowest among all major developed nations. This is the [...]
The wonders of modern science
Darpa wants to see inside your house, from Wired. Your tax dollars at work.
