03 September 2015
Five months after the OPM theft of federal employee data, our government may have arisen from its snoozing long enough to attempt to do something for the 21.5 million victims of the data breach. They are out-sourcing it! Yes, they are doing the same same thing that no doubt led to the breach, which was outsourcing […]
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02 September 2015
Uber can whine all it wants about how innovative and world-changing it is but that doesn’t negate that under existing tax law, Uber drivers are almost certainly employees not contractors. A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled a class action suit by four driver representing 160,000 Uber drivers can go forward. This is a […]
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01 September 2015
While investigating the Silk Road anonymous marketplace, Secret Service Special Agent Shaun Bridges stole $820,000 in bitcoins. He has pleaded guilty to money laundering and obstruction and now presumably will be going to prison. Bridges clearly didn’t know he should have been a bankster. Then he would have been able to launder money at will, […]
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31 August 2015
Alaska Bulk Water joins the parade of companies with hare-brained schemes to ship water to California, cost be damned. These have included building a pipeline from the Great Lakes, towing icebergs, and their idea to fill tankers with lake water and transport by sea to California. The cost would be extravagant and there is no […]
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30 August 2015
Republican presidential candidates apparently are in a feverish race to show how extreme they can be, and thus somehow grab headlines away from the media vortex that is Donald Trump. Chris Christie is the latest. He proposes to welcome legal immigrants to our country by somehow branding them, then monitoring them like a Fedex package. […]
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28 August 2015
Las Vegas recycles all indoor water, purifying it, then sending it back to Lake Mead to be used again. Although its population is now 2 million, Vegas uses less Colorado River water than it did 15 years ago when the population was less than 1.5 million. (Phoenix and Tucson are doing the same; more people, […]
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27 August 2015
Hawaii, a leader in renewable energy out of necessity, just opened their first Ocean Thermal Conversion Energy Power plant. It is a test plant that will power 120 homes. Much bigger plants are coming, with the potential to power 100,000 homes. OTEC power, unlike other forms of renewable energy is available 24/7. Essentially, it is […]
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25 August 2015
The 3-month precipitation outlook shows above-average probability for much of the American West, including Colorado, source of crucial Colorado River water. Southern California will get more rain, however the rest of the state, where most of the water storage is, will get normal or less. This is a three-month outlook for Oct-Dec, and does not […]
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24 August 2015
The Shanghai Composite got demolished today, dropping 8.5% in one day, triggering selloffs in European markets and here too. (US futures are down 4% before the open.) Chinese officials are calling it Black Monday. Government intervention in their market to boost prices has now failed completely. “I think there is now growing realisation – domestically […]
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23 August 2015
Google’s new router is indeed innovative. It has thirteen antennas, switches constantly to find the best channel, and more. However, it does automatic updates and monitoring from the Google mothership, and apparently quite a bit of seriously creepy snooping around. End users have no control over what Google does, what it looks at, and what […]
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