Bear Flag Republic Radio WeblogLiving out on the left coast |
| Last modified: |
|
8/7/04; 2:21:51 PM |
| Feeds: |
|
LIVE webcam Cumbres & Toltec rail yard in Chama, New Mexico.
Current BlogRoll.
[Macro error: The server, api.google.com, returned a SOAP-ENV:Server fault: Exception from service object: Invalid authorization key:]
|
|
Sunday, January 4, 2004
Spirit's First Mars Images [Slashdot]
comments < 9:10:45 AM 
>Spirit returns first images of landing site. The Mars rover Spirit has sent back its first images of its landing site, revealing... [spacetoday.net] comments < 9:10:16 AM
>A report from the UK that the US is planning to spend $3 b to rebuild a secret police force in Iraq. The US hopes to organise the various groups into one force with the local knowledge, motivation and authority to hunt down resistance fighters. According to Washington, the new agency could number 10,000. Initially, salaries will be paid by the CIA, which has 275 officers in Iraq. The force is intended to have a crucial role in post-Saddam Iraq. Vincent Cannistraro, a former chief of CIA counter-terrorism, said: "They're clearly cooking up joint teams to do Phoenix-like things, like they did in Vietnam." He said that small units of US special forces would work with their Iraqi counterparts, including former senior Iraqi intelligence agents, on covert operations. [John Robb's Weblog] comments < 9:08:49 AM
>Susan Kitchens is blogging yesterday's Mars landing. [Scripting News] comments < 9:07:18 AM
>Worker shortage forecast -- in 2010. SiliconValley.com Jan 3 2004 6:36AM ET [Moreover - Silicon Valley news] Predictions of the future almost always turn out wrong. Remember the ITAA's forecast of the need for 1.6 million IT workers? Every forecast they've issued in the past four years was off - in some cases by nearly an order of magnitude too high! Their forecasting ability was so poor as to have the appearance of having literally made up the numbers. I was in a meeting at work yesterday when someone suggested using the ITAA numbers as part of persuasive argument to another group. I pointed out the flaws in the ITAA numbers and warned that relying on those forecasts would likely come back and bite this group, later. At least the linked article points out the many ways that the U.S. Dept of Labor forecast for 2010 could be wrong. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 9:05:02 AM
>"Mad cow" beef recalled but the USDA says it must keep who sold the beef, secret. Say what? Seems hard to recall something if you cannot tell anyone who was selling the beef, as in "Where's the beef?". This one does not pass the common sense test. A lot of "official" statements surrounding "mad cow" issues appear to have drawn a trend line based on a single data point - which is always a fun task because with one data point you draw any trend you want! [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 9:04:43 AM
> |
| Archive: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|