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The Future Of Mind Control and Weapons - Google Video

One of the most rediculous pieces of paranoid dillusional scaremongering I have ever seen.

Almost all assumptions are incorrect. Most quotes of physics principles are misunderstood, inaccurate or ‘bent’ to suit the purpose of the video.

I can only see one agenda here: scare people.

There is little to no truth here.

I would be interested to see if there is truly a political reason why these videos and so on pop up. The guys blog only contains one post, another inconsistent copy of his claims. Where does this shit come from?

Techdirt: Daylight Savings Change Could Spell Doom For The World (Well, For An Hour, Anyway)
I’m sure everyone feels this is being overblown due to the ‘overblown’ Y2K issue, however….

Whilst the issue is WELL known in areas where the change is occuring, it is NOT well known in other areas.

The issue will come with international time based billing services, and I can be almost certain that issues will occur, and it will cost people money.

Furthermore, there isn’t such a good fix for this problem - time servers have fixed slotted time zones, they will not be aware of the change, and with many time dependant services out there, one will have to:

- patch the time server, and client
- stop time correction services
- correct all interactions with all other proprietary systems

I know of at least 20 telecommunications networks globally that due to lack of support for the networks (X.25 based paknet, some Smartzone systems and many others) these software issues will not be fixed, and I also know of at least a few areas where major billing mistakes could arise as a product of the time alterations.

The biggest issue will occur in the instances where ‘automatic time correction’ occurs, as it is more like to become ‘automatic time mis-correction’ from now on - leading to a loss of ‘base-truth’ in the logs - which means the billing information cannot be reliably recovered.

In this event the carriers loose legal standing to bill for that usage, as most would require ‘base-truth’ proof that calls occured, which is now no longer held to be reliable.

Life or death issue? I hope not…

Expensive? Most probably.

Oh, and I forgot to mention the dangers occuring with GPS and Time based encryption services. Oh dear.

BBC NEWS | Education | Many degree students ‘cheating’

In my experience this happened years ago. The number of people I re-taught during university is not at all amusing. The lecturers simply don’t care. Most of the students are there as a matter of duty, not love, and the fear is that life ends if you do not finish your degree.

On top of that, I saw people leaving university who would still write java program entry points into EVERY class they wrote. I really would like to challenge - How on earth does someone get a first in a programming course when they don’t understand the meaning of an entry point?