The One Percent
The total wealth of American households is estimated at more than $60 trillion. It is heavily concentrated in very few hands. A conservative estimate given the lifespans of Americans would be that 2 percent...
Author: mike
This Is What A Singularity Looks Like
Too fast, too furious. The people operating these weapons of mass financial destruction are engineering intentional market instabilities by destabilising exchange operations through basically dDOS financial attacks and are simply rent seeking (by camping...
Two Patents Good, Four Patents Better
One week ago, Obama vetoes ITC’s decision to ban Apple products for refusing to pay to licence Samsung’s patents concerning basic radio communication between mobile phones. Apple responds to this action blocking enforcement of...
Obama Poops on Samsung at Apple’s Behest
The Obama administration on Saturday vetoed a U.S. trade body’s ban on the import and sale of some Apple Inc. iPhones and iPads, a rare move that upends a legal victory for smartphone rival...
Matrioshka Singularity
When hundreds of people can get together with matrioshka theremins to play out a rocky version of good old Ludwig Van’s Ninth, last movement, with the slovos all a bit mixed-up razzing thundery litso...
The Shannon Gulag
Dublin High Court rejects US arrest warrant. Snowden may get to stopover in delightful Shannon and see first-hand, earlier than expected, what a gulag looks like. If it is the case that the offences...
Penile Metallic Ring Retraction
Here mainly for the headline possibilities! A case of penile strangulation in a 35 year old male truck driver by profession reported here. Two metallic rings were self introduced up to the base of...
Yet Another ED Call Night:
No complaint of visual hallucinations, no complaint of auditory hallucinations, no complaint of tactile hallucinations, no suicidal ideations, no homicidal ideations, no reported overdose. Pt went to the XXXXXXX and spent $300.00 on a...
Who Are the People in Your Neighbourhood?
Apropos of recent events, how well can you identify individuals from shallow, off-the-shelf and nominally anonymised mobile cellphone metadata without cross-correlation to other large databases? We study fifteen months of human mobility data for...