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POPSOnce More From The Top, Barack! by Mark Steyn
“There are those who say there is no evil in the world. There are others who argue that pink fluffy bunnies are the spawn of Satan and conspiring to overthrow civilization. Let me be clear: I believe people of goodwill on all sides can find common ground between the absurdly implausible caricatures I attribute to them on a daily basis. We must begin by finding the courage to acknowledge the hard truth that I am living testimony to the power of nuance to triumph over hard truth and come to the end of the sentence on a note of sonorous, polysyllabic, if somewhat hollow, uplift. Pause for applause.” It didn’t come but once at Oslo last week, where Obama got a bad press for blowing off the King of Norway’s luncheon. In Obama’s honor. Can you believe this line made it into the speech? “I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war.” Well, there’s a surprise. When you consider all the White House eyeballs that approve a presidential speech,
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POPSMind-Reading Technology Development Primitive, but intriguing. Maybe if we survive 2012 we will just plug our brains into the computer and bypass the keyboard. I have suspected for some time that some clippers are ghostly autopoetic entities emerging from the mesh of internet complexity.
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POPSPostcard From Canada: Why I Missed Obama's Speech 
I doubled over on the counter, breathing through the pain (those long-ago Bradley childbirth classes are still paying off). Moments later, a nurse appeared to check me in. With a quick swipe of my BC provincial care card, my complete medical files glimmered onto his computer screen. He put a thermometer in my mouth, then confirmed the basic data while a printer spit out my wristband. The whole check-in process took under three minutes. Second: You don't realize how much politics -- in this case, the war on drugs -- has warped medical care until you see how differently non-American doctors and nurses deal with pain management. Since Canada sees drug abuse as a social problem, not a law enforcement one, it's stubbornly resisted several ham-handed attempts by the American government to get it to crack down on doctors who persist in seeing codeine and morphine as useful medications. While Health Canada does keeps tabs on individual doctors' prescribing habits, docs are given vastly more
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POPSAfter President Obama's Speech On 09/09/09 After viewing President Obama's speech last night. I went to my computer to click on the video I did after Obama was elected. I wanted to feel the pride I had felt on election night once again. I am so proud of this president. He is eloquent, intelligent, graceful and STREETWISE to boot. He is human, so mistakes will be made but he is not afraid to admit his faults and I believe we are truly a lucky nation to have such a man as our leader. Also at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLzVkxSqULs
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POPSThis company may harm your Internet - Google intercepts this link
Mid sized article at source. It is well worth a read as it offers an insight into Google and its (mal)practices. "Google accidentally labeled every single link as "harmful" for nearly an hour" When and how did a private manage get such absolute control over our internet? Google is one of the biggest threats to our Freedom Of Speech and Freedom of Choice online. All under the pretense of protecting peoples computers... What a joke, the fact that a website may or may not contain malware will not stop me from wanting to use such a site. After all, why else would you use Anti-Malware if not to protect from such things? It is Glaringly obvious that the real buisness of this "service" is to restrict the internet to those sites that only Google approves of. Please if you value your internet, your free speech and freedom of choice then BOYCOTT GOOGLE on a mass scale by removing all programs and search engines and toolbars that relate to it.
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POPSMilitary Plans To Control Internet Revealed PLEASE go& READ the original BBC article that has exposed plans of the U.S military to "provide maximum control"of the Internet as detailed in a declassified secret Pentagon document signed by the U.S. Secretary of Defense for "electronic war",including the military forces planting information in the net-media!.didn't want to clip it,cause the whole aricle is precious!!couldn't believe in my eyes what i was reading,still can't!!in the BBC article,you can even read the original declassified secret Pentagon document for military project"Operation Roadmap"(pdf document).that is,IF you can read it,cause most of the contents are censored,filled with black lines covering almost the whole document!!!obviously the military forces are determined to invade&into the internet territories as well...
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POPSThe smile says it all more: Neil Armstrong was a civilian Astronaut, not a member of the Air Force. He had been a Naval combat pilot, and then became a civilian test pilot for the X-15. 3. Though Neil Armstrong was the first to walk on the moon, Michael Collins was the Command Module pilot, and Buzz Aldrin was the Lunar Module pilot. 4. As the Lunar Module made its descent, alarm bells went off signalling program problems, which could have led to aborting the mission. Back at Mission Control, Flight Controller Steve Bales identified the alarms as resulting from computer overload, and okayed the landing. Bales would later receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role. 5. The Lunar Module landing site was improvised after finding the planned site too rocky for safety. For a while Mission Control had no idea of the location of the module or the astronauts, and Astronaut Mike Collins who was orbiting the moon in the command module never saw the landin
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POPSTexas blogger jailed after failing to turn PC over to judge
The first question that comes to mind is why would the judge need the computer as evidence? The object of the suit is what was written on her blog and the judge can certainly access that bit of evidence from any computer. The second and most pressing question is why was Harrington brought before a judge in the first place? It is an obvious First Amendment violation for charges to be brought against her for voicing her opinion. I am reminded of Bill O’Reilly exercising his First Amendment right (to the point of abuse) to spew his hatred toward Dr Tillman that lead to his murder. Ms. Harrington’s remarks did not lead to a murder. I don’t see O’Reilly being hauled into court. Is this a case of double standard? The author insinuates that Smith’s pending inheritance has something to do with this. I don’t think it does unless the judge stands to collect some of it. In which case he should recuse himself. Either way he his abusing his power by allowing Harrington to be brought before
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POPS7 Incredibly Speedy Ways to Read Web Pages Faster 6. How to avoid squinting so you can read faster Rather than reaching for your reading glasses or struggling to read small fonts on a webpage simply hold down CTRL and use your mouse scrollwheel in order to zoom in and out of a web page. This tip works for both IE and Firefox. 7. How to convert text to speech so you DON’T have to read faster OK, maybe you’ve just given up reading faster :) For those people in this category, you can always try out Text to Speech so you can turn catch up on your reading in your car, or on your iPod by turning text into a sound file. Here’s an excellent resource for this. * *6 Online Tools for Text to Speech you would not want to miss http://www.dancewithshadows.com/tech/text-to-speech.asp
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POPSBush Admin vs US Magistrate "...President Bush often talks about how history will judge his administration. In a 2003 speech to the United Nations, President Bush talked about earning the "favorable judgment of history." Unfortunately, without all the email records from his administration, Mr. Bush's true history may never get written."
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POPSParalyzed Man Speaks Again Using Brain Implant So they knew his brain's speech centers were still functioning. They just needed a way to connect those speech centers to a speech synthesizer - an artificial mouth if you will. Researchers implanted a special kind of electrode in his brain, one that's "impregnated with neurotrophic factors" that encourage brain neurons to grow into and around the electrode. Essentially this electrode forms a very strong connection with brain neurons, which results in a strong signal that reliably comes from the same part of the patient's brain over time. Over a period of weeks, Guenther and his team worked to decode the signals coming from the man's brain. Eventually, he was able "to produce three vowel sounds with good accuracy," said Guenther. The man produces these sounds as quickly as he would normal speech, and Guenther added, "The long-term goal within five years is to have him use the speech brain–computer interface to produce words directly."
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POPSTireless Tongue to Help Disabled The tireless tongue already controls taste and speech, swallow and fights germs. Now scientists hope to add one more ability to the mouthy muscle, by turning it into a computer control pad.
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POPSScientists to study synthetic telepathy The brain-computer interface would use a noninvasive brain imaging technology like electroencephalography to let people communicate thoughts to each other. For example, a soldier would “think” a message to be transmitted and a computer-based speech recognition system would decode the EEG signals. The decoded thoughts, in essence translated brain waves, are transmitted using a system that points in the direction of the intended target. “Such a system would require extensive training for anyone using it to send and receive messages,” D’Zmura says. “Initially, communication would be based on a limited set of words or phrases that are recognized by the system; it would involve more complex language and speech as the technology is developed further.”
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POPSScientists to study synthetic telepathy “Such a system would require extensive training for anyone using it to send and receive messages,” D’Zmura says. “Initially, communication would be based on a limited set of words or phrases that are recognized by the system; it would involve more complex language and speech as the technology is developed further.”
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