Spending time reading sources on the internet is something that we do a lot. Even though experience, years of training and more training in between jobs, pr on the job training produces a thick layer of basics on which to draw, there are always new things to learn out there, and no knowledge is useless [...]
Chicago: “Chicago taxpayers spent more than $2 million policing lakefront festivals last year — $1.5 million of it for Taste of Chicago alone — underscoring Mayor Daley’s desire to privatize the events and the difficulty he may have in doing so.” Event security doesn’t come cheap, and that’s why many festival’s around the world rely [...]
For once, something genuinely cool. A team of scientists have discovered a way to make stuff invisible. Now, that’s actually something that both cool and apt to scare the cr*p out of anyone who dares to go down the road of thinking a little too long about this. Invisible cameras, invisible tanks, invisible houses… invisible [...]
It would be interesting to see if these scientists can find a conference call that doesn’t have someone pulling one lie or another in it. Anyway, this uses known interrogation techniques in order to analyse the level of deception in corporate conference calls. If you’ve ever worked for a company that uses conference calls as [...]
Wikileaks has made sure its servers are bulletproof. Strike that. They’re now nuclear strike proof, literally. Wikileaks boss Assange is apparently not taking any chances with the wealth of documents that the site is sitting on. Their servers have been moved to the “Pionen”, a bunker in Stockholm, Sweden, built to withstand a nuclear strike. [...]