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    Blackrock, the Blackwater of the Financial System

    by Publisher2 March 19, 2010 Analysis

    This month’s issue of Vanity Fair has an article on Larry Fink, the CEO of the money management firm Blackrock (which I had never heard of before reading this article) and how their management of $12 trillion in taxpayer cash makes them the single biggest yet also most shadowy financial entity in the country..
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    Darpa Wants Self-Guiding, Storytelling Cameras

    by Publisher2 March 19, 2010 Defense

    The Pentagon’s risk-taking research agency is kicking off a new program to turn everyday cameras into autonomous ‘bots with problem-solving smarts.
    Darpa is already after all kinds of highly intelligent robo-critters. In the past few months, they’ve launched projects to create a real-life C3PO and a surveillance system to pinpoint threats in heaps of visual data. [...]

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    Controlling the waves: FCC shows off spectrum map

    by Publisher2 March 19, 2010 Defense

    The FCC has launched a beta version of its proposed Spectrum Dashboard, showing who owns which airwaves and where in an easy-to-use format.
    The Spectrum Dashboard is part of the FCC’s plan to provide better information about who owns what, and was proposed as part of the National Broadband Plan which went public yesterday – but [...]

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    People in power make better liars, study shows

    by Publisher2 March 15, 2010 Science/Tech

    Findings suggest that dishonesty comes more easily to those on top
    New York Gov. David Paterson is embroiled in a scandal over whether he used his power and influence to intimidate a woman pursuing a domestic violence case against one of his top aides.
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