Different News Stories You Need to Know

Hello dear readers. It has been a rough five days; but, I am now back. I thought I might provide you with some news and analysis. Before I do, my thoughts go out to my friends in Oregon, it seems that some fool began shooting people at a mall up there.

First article. CBS - New York - Jersey City Unveils 3-Story High ‘Eye In The Sky’ Surveillance Tower To Fight Crime.

Caltech - News - A New Tool for Secret Agents—And the Rest of Us. Basically, they are saying that a small chip added to your cell phone would allow you to see through walls and inside of things just like with an x-ray except it would not use x-rays so no damage done, right? Now as an interesting side note, here is another article. Design News - Mystery Signals Show Up in Neurological Amplifiers. The article is a tough read unless you are an electrical scientist; but, let me give the gist of it.

There was this scientist working three stories underground using electrical amplifiers to read and effect the brainwaves of monkeys. Now that in and of itself is really creepy if you think about how it could be used. The scientist begins picking up a very special type of wave, the kind that could penetrate anything. You see, the laboratory was three feet underground and surrounded by things to prevent it from being seen. The electric guy discovers that the waves are coming from a nearby airport (what do you want to bet it was a military airport). He brings this to the attention of the airport and it immediately stops. Guess nobody was supposed to notice.

On another note, the Federal Reserve is going to buy even more bad debt in order to help the economy. It will now hold $4 trillion in assets although much of those assets are in bad mortgages. Makes perfects sense doesn't it. Bloomberg - Fed Seen Pumping Up Assets to $4 Trillion in New Buying.

Wired - Getting Your DNA Scanned Now Costs Less Than an iPhone 5. A company that is owned by Google has can now scan your DNA for only $99. What a perfect gift for Christmas, according to the article. Heck, if we can get everyone's DNA scanned wouldn't that be the perfect way to verify your identity? Now, why would you need to put a chip into people when a simple DNA and biometric scan will do?

Wired - Google Accidentally Transmits Self-Destruct Code to Army of Chrome Browsers. The program that apparently caused this was a program that works with the cloud called Sync. It allows a Google Chrome user to use any computer or phone and have it automatically configure itself to the users preferred settings. I think I wrote about that before. What is interesting about this article is that apparently Google has a kill switch on all of their products.

People retain very little information because they work basically the same. A person hears something, their first response is to wonder how it may or may not effect them directly. If it does not effect them, they accept whatever lame excuse was given and forget about it. If later the issue comes up again they will say that they had heard something about it and parrot back the excuse they heard and not look at the issue any further. At that point in time you can tell them how there is more at stake; but, they have already decided they are safe and will gleefully remain ignorant.

The Pimpernel is in a weird mood, too much has happened in the last few days and I am not sure what to think. Have a great week.