(AJC) – Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey hopes to stop Pepsi from using aborted fetus cells in soda flavoring research through his proposed legislation. He opposes the use of aborted embryonic cells to create “isolated human taste receptors, and hopes to discourage the research before it becomes common practice.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) – which is seen by critics to be an international version of the controversial SOPA bill – was been signed by the EU and member countries, including Ireland and Poland, at a ceremony in Tokyo today. Despite protests in Warsaw that saw 20,000 people take to the streets, Poland signed the controversial ACTA deal in Tokyo, Poland's ambassador to Japan, Jadwiga Rodowicz-Czechowska, told Polish media. ACTA is a treaty whereby countries agree to deal with intellectual property infringement in a similar fashion, particularly in areas like music, movies, drugs and fashion, where intellectual property theft is common.
(RussiaToday) – Federal agents executed a crackdown on the files sharing website Megaupload on Thursday. The response, you could say, was not minor.
Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA : Special Report on Obama bypassing the senate to sign agreement named Anti-Conterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) bound by International Law NOT U.S law which will have implications for Internet Freedom in United States.ACTA will ruin the Internet as we know it.It's already been signed. We are too late guys... I guess it's over, a new age of censorship is here But of course it is for our own good and because our governments love us that they are invading our privacy... I think this is worse than the Mayans predicted....
A pioneering technique to predict crime before it happens could be imported from the United States to this country, a senior British police chief said yesterday.
Pilots of the scheme – under which officers are dispatched to crime hotspots identified by computer – have had early success in California.
The method of "predictive policing" was outlined at a criminal justice seminar in London by the US police chief, Captain Sean Malinowski, who has introduced it in a Los Angeles suburb.
Chief Constable Nick Gargan, the chief executive of the National Policing Improvement Agency, gave a warm welcome to the "exciting initiative".
He said UK officers were monitoring its effectiveness and could deploy it alongside other methods used by the police.
Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world. We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why.
With those words earlier today, in a blog posting titled “Tweets still must flow” the management of Twitter‘s went over to the dark side and may well have dug their own grave.
In what can only have been a fit corporate insanity, Twitter announced that they have the ability to filter tweets to conform to the demands of various countries.
The Navy’s new drone being tested near Chesapeake Bay stretches the boundaries of technology: It’s designed to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier, one of aviation’s most difficult maneuvers.
What’s even more remarkable is that it will do that not only without a pilot in the cockpit, but without a pilot at all.
The X-47B marks a paradigm shift in warfare, one that is likely to have far-reaching consequences. With the drone’s ability to be flown autonomously by onboard computers, it could usher in an era when death and destruction can be dealt by machines operating semi-independently.
