Tuesday, June 26, 2012

GET READY TO DUCK: FAA Forecasts 10,000 Unmanned Aircraft Could Be Active Within Five Years. And turn your privacy shields on....
HEH: Orbitz steers Mac users to pricier hotels after tracking software shows they spend more than Windows users. Windows users are thriftier.
ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW: It looks like the conservative position did in fact win.
HIGH TECHNOLOGY need not be electro-mechanical.
BACK TO THE PAST: 'Cloud computing' is nothing more than a sophisticated version of the 1970's technology of a single central computer (server in today's techno-speak) connected by a time-shared communication system (intranet/internet in today's techno-speak) to hundreds of dumb terminals (PC's in today's technospeak), so the 'inevitable answer' is nothing more than a return to past practice.
POSSIBLE ALIEN MESSAGE to get reply from humanity -- via Twitter, thus guaranteeing an intergalactic 'fence' to keep the twits isolated.
UPDATE TO this June 22nd post on presidential election trends.

The Rasmussen poll data from today shows that 'strong disapprovals' upward trend is accelerating slightly; 'strong approvals' are continuing their downward trend; and more significantly, the 'mixed reaction' upward trend is flattening as more of the polled seem to be making a decision.
RUNNING ON EMPTY: The Contents of Obama's Character.
IT PROBABLY HELPED: Did Obama's arrogance sink ObamaCare?
FOOLS WALK IN where angels fear to tread.
HEH: "The fact that someone is a preening buffoon provides absolutely no assurance that he is not also a grasping egomaniac." Three guesses as to who; the first two don't count.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Is the Country Unraveling? I'm cautiously optimistic the answer is "No."
'FAECIES EVENIO' isn't a legal excuse.