Facebook's Lame Attempt To Force Its Email Service On You [Forbes]

Geckos have evolved sticky feet many times [Discover]

The 2010 Kalamazoo river oil spill two years later [Detroit Metro-Times]

U of Texas student team successfully hijacks a US gov drone in mid-air [Popular Science]
U of T Team exploited un-encrypted GPS signal, $1000 worth of gear to capture drone

The Limits of Libertarian Binaries [American Conservative]

Ex-mobster turned FBI informant, low-life crook, and cultural icon Henry Hill's obit [Breitbart]

There are 64 drone bases on American soil. That includes 12 locations housing Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles, which can be armed. [Wired]

" 'Do what you love; the money will follow.' I doubt that." [Hooligan Libertarian]

The love affair teenagers and young adults have with technology doesn’t necessarily translate into interest in a career in IT [CompTIA]

Data brokers aren't keen to delete your personal data but they will happily sell it to anyone [Technology Review]

Thursday's tidbits from the web

The story of students being harassed by Gay sex predators teaching at an elite NYC prep school over the years [NY Times Magazine]

What to do about budding psychopaths? [NY Times]

Failed recall effort in Wisconsin a victory for Gov. Snyder in Michigan [Detroit News, AnnArbor.com]

U of Washington researcher posits that crows have cognitive abilities equal to apes and dolphins. [Popular Science, Amazon.com ]

Where Is The Outrage Over the Domestic Use of Drones? [reason.com/]

The actual reason that mediocre but attractive talking heads continue appearing on cable news channels is: "...because however hard [they] try, they cannot outsmart their hosts (O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Dylan Ratigan, and Martin Bashir)."[Taki Mag]

Our new enemy: The UAV (spy drones)

The under $300 UAV

Alex Jones at InfoWars has started a new sport; shooting down UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles AKA "drones") for target practice. Expensive fun too considering what drones cost but I take Jones' point. I don't want those fucking things flying over or around my house either. However a better way to take them down (besides the 12 gauge 00 buckshot Jones used in the vid)  needs to be developed. Those .33 caliber lead balls have got to come down somewhere after all and which is a real problem especially if you live in a city or suburban neighborhood. Maybe a DIY type of EMP weapon or some anti-aircraft "chaff" technology can be developed perhaps?

In any event it is probably prudent to start thinking about how to cheaply and permanently ground those things now, before the feds and local LEO types start wide scale deployment of these aerial snoopers. And look for non-government sorts like the paparazzi, bill collectors, lawyers, political operatives, pissed-off ex-spouses, unscrupulous business rivals, miscellaneous creepy weirdos, and other low-lifes to try their  hand at UAV spying as well.

Facial recognition software for drones being developed by the US Army

So that the drones can track your every move. They already have the capability to kill you. The Terminators can't be too far behind can they? I guess we potential prey for these things need to develop and stock up on DIY counter-measures like EMP technology and homemade RPGs. Hiding out isn't gonna be an option much longer. And as we learned from the movie you can't kill Terminators or drones with simple small arms fire.
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Ann Arbor school board considering ending bus service for high school students (Kevin Feldschur, annarbor.com)
Isn't that what they always do? Cut the stuff people depend on and let the real reforms and cuts slide? 2/3 highschoolers handle transportation themselves and blow off the bus, says the post, but for the ones who need it it's critical. I know it was for me back in the day.

Psy-Op terror strike directed against Michigan governor (Sara Scott, MLive/Jackson Citizen-Patriot)
Somebody mailed in an evelope of suspicious white powder that burned the hands of a mail room guy. Trying to spread terror. Whoever did this is looking at some time.

Ilyas Kashmiri an AQ big-shot has been confirmed as killed by a drone strike  (Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal)
I wonder how long it'll be before the local PDs replace their SWAT teams with armed drones? Too bad about the collateral damage and such, but a big improvement for officer safety, no?

Affordable single-person rocket launched (Chris Matyszczyk, Cnet)
Around $70k. Hmm..that ain't cheap but it ain't that bad either. 

Where Are Libya's Anti-Aircraft Missiles? (Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics)
As the Libyan army's weapons stores were liberated by the rebels back in January and February their stash of man-portable anti-aircraft missiles were taken along with all the other stuff. Where will those missiles end up? Hmm...that could be a problem.

Pranksters Post Giant Windows Logo On Hamburg Apple Store (Todd Bishop, GeekWire)
Heh.

Antimatter Atoms Trapped for More Than 15 Minutes (John Matson, Scientific American)
Cool.