Deception in Conference Calls? You’re kidding.

August 28, 2010

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 [...]

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Bulletproof? Forget It. Next In Line: Nuclear Strike-Proof

August 27, 2010

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. [...]

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“Hands-on” Pat-Downs – There’s Nothing Like Old News, Is There.

August 27, 2010

The so-called “hands-on pat-downs” that the TSA are introducing (much ado about this, as usual) are old news. Very old news, in fact. Most countries use a standardized version of this technique, though extensive testing has revealed that the hand first, wand following is ineffective, and should be flipped around – wand first, hand after, [...]

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Mind Your Bones; Skeletal Scans to Recognize Terrorists

August 25, 2010

This is mildly interesting, although there seem to be more than a few pitfalls in the theory. Government agencies want to be able to identify skeletons (those in living humans, that is) from a distance of 50 meters (a meter is about the same as a yard, by the way), but that is proving to [...]

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Disasters; What NOT To Do When They Strike

August 25, 2010

Here’s a classic; Family wakes up in the middle of the night from what they believe to be thunder. The dad runs around downstairs, doing whatever, and the children are pulled out of their beds, with a panicky dad telling them they have to get out of the house due to a landslide. The paper [...]

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