Cooper Griggs
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Australian bill would jail those who report on leaked spying operations
Cooper GriggsSucks not to have a Constitution like we have here, as shredded as it has become.
Yet another TSA screener doesn't know that DC is part of America
Cooper Griggs*sigh*
via Bewarethewumpus
An Orlando TSA screener told a DC-based reporter that he'd need a passport to fly, because DC isn't a state, so a DC driver's license wasn't valid ID.
This isn't the first time we've written about this here, and it's not an isolated incident, according to the TSA.
The real problem with this kind of dunderheadedness is that it makes it clear that the whole TSA rigmarole is just a pointless, humiliating, expensive dumbshow. If a TSA screener doesn't have the basic smarts to know that DC is part of the USA, it calls into question his ability to make good judgments about anything. Either terrorism is an existential threat to America, in which case the TSA checkpoints should be staffed by highly skilled crackerjacks, or it's not a big deal, in which case, we should be keeping our shoes on and flying with as much hair gel as we can carry. But saying that a single aviation attack is the end of America as we know it, and acting like it's a small enough risk that we can staff checkpoints with dimbulbs makes you wonder if this isn't about civil service empire-building, government contractor pork, and a general contempt for the American public, and not about terrorism at all.
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Generating power from heat will soon be dirt cheap
Cooper GriggsNeat!
Former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega is suing Activision for putting him in Call of Duty
Cooper GriggsLMAO!!!!
FBI sees self-driving cars as 'lethal weapons' for criminal 'multitasking'
Cooper GriggsI'm sure LEO's will have the ability to disable these cars in some way with a few keystrokes.
Senate passes a bill that legalizes cellphone unlocking
Dramatic Stainless Steel Wire Fairies by Robin Wight
Cooper GriggsFantastic!
UK sculptor Robin Wight creates dramatic scenes of wind-blown fairies clutching dandelions, clinging to trees, and seemingly suspended in midair, all with densely wrapped forms of stainless steel wire. The artist currently has several pieces on view at the Trentham Gardens and sells a number of DIY wire sculpting kits from his website where he also discusses in great detail how each piece is built. See more over on Facebook. (via Reddit).
Tesla's $35,000 car will be called the Model 3
Cooper GriggsVery interested in this one
Gif of the Day: Airplane Drops Fish to Repopulate Lake
Remarkable Macro Photograph of a Hummingbird by Chris Morgan
Cooper GriggsEff'ing amazing
Photographer Chris Morgan snapped these great macro shots of hummingbirds in 2011 at Bosque De Paz, a 3,000 acre privately-owned biological reserve in the middle of Costa Rica. The top photo is a Green-Crowned Brilliant, a bird that only grows to a length of 13cm and is not known for its ability to sit for portraits. You can see more of Morgan’s bird photos here. (via Lost at E Minor)
This elephant has a cat on its butt. [x]
Cooper GriggsAll of these via David :)
"I paused ‘Orange is the New Black’ at the reich...
insanity-and-vanity: "I don’t think i’ll ever take a better...
"I don’t think i’ll ever take a better photo than this in my entire life. I have the love of my life swimming under a wave and one of my best friends on a wave."
- Will Skudin
High-tech cat feeder uses facial recognition to save all nine lives
Cooper Griggspretty good price
Weird Al's New Video Is A Brilliant Grammatical Smackdown
Cooper Griggsvia Bewarethewumpus
Al "Weird Al" Yankovic has been making music for 38 years. His newest CD—and probably his last traditional album—drops today. Here's Word Crimes, the wonderful video for his great send-up of Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines.
"You should never / write words using numbers / unless you're seven / or your name is Prince."
Hear that, video game title writers everywhere?
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Watch an AlphaDog robot venture into (simulated) battle for the first time
Cooper GriggsYet another step toward Skynet. What's your guess for how many years until it is sentient?
07.15.2014
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The United Kingdom can manipulate major communication services, from Facebook to phone calls
Cooper GriggsFrom the article:
One program, "WARPATH," enables, "mass delivery of SMS [text] messages to support an information operations campaign." Another, "BURLESQUE," offers "the capability to send spoofed SMS [text] messages." Used in conjunction, and that's a pretty powerful way to spread misinformation: mass text messages from spoofed (read: falsified) senders could massively disrupt a modern protest movement.
US government says online storage isn't protected by the Fourth Amendment
Cooper GriggsIn other words, don't expect to keep your unencrypted data secured overseas.
Seattle votes to legalize ridesharing services like Lyft and Uber
Cooper Griggsyay!