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  • Missouri University of Science and Technology attempts to paint file-sharers as mentally ill, recommends snooping software be deployed

    Dr. Sriram Chellappan of Missouri University of Science and Technology recommends monitoring students’ file sharing behavior with spyware to identify signs of “mental disorders.”

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/93950152/12-Tech-soc-Kcmwl-1

    Proactively discovering depressive symptoms from passive and unobtrusive Internet usage monitoring:

    Using the correlating Internet usage features derived in our study, we are currently attempting to build a classifier to proactively discover depressive symptoms among students by passive, unobtrusive and run-time monitoring of their Internet usage. The classifier can be readily deployed at campus settings to discover depressive symptoms among students. If privacy is a concern, it is straightforward to deploy the classifier into students’ personal computers also. Privacy is implicit,and the student can voluntarily seek support services. We believe that such an approach will significantly improve both the quality and timeliness of detection and treatment of mental disorders today.

    According to the paper, if use p2p file sharing networks you may be mentally ill and need treatment.  Let me guess what this treatment would involve: Anti-depressants, amphetamines, and therapy by one of the school’s commie social worker therapists? After all, they wouldn’t want any brainwashed slaves-in-training to have access to unapproved information from the underground p2p networks that might interfere with their “education.”

    The Internet usage monitoring spyware they have developed represents a fusion of medical nanny state surveillance with copyright enforcement.  I’d bet money that government, copyright lobby, elite foundations, or some combination thereof funded this abomination.

    Remember, every time you download a copyrighted file, God kills a kitten, because file sharing is terrorism.

  • Versatile new robotic mower/trimmer/scrubber

    This is the kind of technology we can use.

  • Taxes at work: Government to use hundreds of quail carcasses as love nests for endangered beetles

    Faux academic propaganda journal PhysOrg put out this little gem:

    First-ever release of endangered burying beetles in Missouri

    Beetles slated for release will be paired and marked by notching the elytra—the hard, modified forewings that encase the thin hind wings used in flight.

    Sounds time consuming.

    The beetle release process involves digging holes, or plugs, at specially selected sites, placing the carcass of a quail and a pair of notched beetles in each cavity and replacing the plugs. This process simulates a natural underground setting for the beetles’ life cycle.

    Now that’s touching.  Who’s paying for this?  Oh, right. TAXPAYERS.  The IRS has to seize your property so the Dept of Fish and Wildlife can bury beetles with bird carcasses.

    If the FDA would immediately de-approve the use of pesticidal GMOs, and aerial crop dusting with synthetic pesticides, that would go a long way toward preserving insect populations.  Instead the government automatically approves whatever Monsanto comes up with, and flies around spraying entire towns with pesticide without public consent, then acts surprised when insects die.  This is a pathetic band-aid fix to a problem of corruption and legislative failure.

    The beetles died for a reason the first time, and it’s not like beetle farming is going to rid the environment of pesticides, or whatever caused them to die in the first place.  If we control the use of dangerous pesticides, then we can ALL benefit, not just some beetles.  Save the Humans!

    Related: 3 New Studies Link Bee Decline to Bayer Pesticide

    Also related: $205,075 to ‘Translocate’ One Shrub from Path of Stimulus Project

     

  • PETMAN’s comin for ya

    Coming up the stairs …

    In a few years DARPA will have automated factories cranking out these things 24/7 (along with the Reapers, Predators,  Big Dogs, SWORDs, etc).

    Why do the elite need a bunch fleshlings to bag groceries and pull levers (or triggers)?  Simple, they don’t.  You’re just about obsolete, so you should make yourself useful in other ways, like preparing to defend your species against what you know is coming.

     

     

     

  • Acquisitions of Organic Food Companies visualized, 1995 to 2007

    Philip H. Howard Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

    (watch in full screen mode a few times)

    This movie depicts organic processing industry changes from 1995 to 2007. The small green circles indicate organic brands, the medium blue circles indicate investment firms, the large yellow circles indicate multinational food processors, and the small red circles indicate introductions of organic versions of mainstream brands. Gray lines denote ownership ties. The gray text in the upper left displays the year, which advances as the animation is played.

  • A Marijuana Bud A Day Keeps The Stroke Away

    Fox is predictably deceptive on this issue.  Throwing the apple in the garbage can was very dramatic, but I don’t hear the doctor saying to throw apples away.   If indeed he did then please produce some kind of evidence of him saying this.

  • TSA naked body scanners fail to detect metal in side pockets

  • Boston Dynamics Cheetah running at 18mph