Saturday, December 28, 2013
NSA Data Collection Program Called "Orwellian" by Federal Judge Stopped a Total of... Zero Terror Attacks
Last week Federal Judge Richard Leon had some harsh words for the NSA's massive data collection programs, including the one that collects all telephone calls in America:I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary invasion’ than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval. Surely such a program infringes on ‘that degree of privacy’ that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment...
[It uses] almost-Orwellian technology.
The irony is rich. As Roger Aranoff observes, "...had [this] happened on George Bush’s watch, they could have been calling our government fascist, expressing hyper-outrage, and demanding impeachment."
An investigation by Michael Isikoff of NBC News found that the NSA's unconstitutional domestic data collection programs helped to stop the following number of terror attacks: none.
A member of the White House review panel on NSA surveillance said he was.. read the rest HERE
Scientists Geek Out, Name Sea Slug After 'Game of Thrones' Character
Forget the Iron Throne, Danaerys Targaryen, this is what your destiny has been leading you toward.
Tritonia khaleesi is a new species of sea slug recently discovered off the coast of northeast Brresearch article:
azil by scientists from the Federal University of Ceará. According to Felipe de Vasconcelos Silva, Victor Manuel De Azevedo, and Helena Matthews-Cascon’s
Tritonia khaleesi is up to 12 mm long, with a slender white body, of which the notum is covered with one broad white band extending from between the eyes and veil to the tail; veil with four velar appendages; retractable white rhinophores; rhinophoral sheath with fleshy extension; seven pairs of branchial plumes; the anus is located between the third and fourth gills on the right side, and the genital opening is under the second gill. Internally, T. khaleesi is distinguished from other tritoniids by jaws with 10 to 14 rows of denticles on the inner lips, absence of stomach plates and the radular formula 32 × 2–5.1.1.1.2–5 teeth. Tritonia khaleesi is the only Tritonia that possesses a unicuspid rachidian tooth as an adult.
Just why did this species come to be named after a Game of Thrones character? Silva explained the geeky decision to Papelpop.com. According to the Google translation, the "silver band on the back of the slug" is reminiscent of the Khaleesi's braids of silver hair.
mashable.com/2013/12/25/game-of-thrones-khaleesi-sea-slug/
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More Game Of Thrones HERE
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