2021-04-26

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Reliability of police mobile phone evidence questioned after hack
Is there an antidote to 'digital intensity'? - BBC Worklife
The search to make a perfect condom
What Doomed a Sprawling City Near St. Louis 1k Years Ago?
The Mother of All Accidents - Issue 99: Universality - Nautilus

it turns out that, even with a large asteroid, the location of the impact also matters. The rocks around the Yucatan target site are rich in hydrocarbons and sulfur, which resulted in the production of enormous quantities of soot and sunlight-deflecting aerosols. Geologists figure that as little as 1 to 13 percent of the Earth’s surface contains rocks that could have yielded a comparable stew of destructive materials.

This small target means that with the Earth rotating at about 1,000 miles per hour, had the asteroid arrived just 30 minutes sooner, it would have landed in the Atlantic Ocean; 30 minutes later, in the Pacific Ocean. Just 30 minutes either way and the dinosaurs would probably be here, and there would be no Ted and, God forbid, no Ted 2.

Cheerleader’s Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme Court case on speech
Biden’s capital-gains rate of 43.4% would reduce federal revenue
Trump Expects "Startling Results" As Arizona Legislators Take Possession Of All Ballots, Voting Machines From Maricopa County | ZeroHedge
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Carrying Guns in Public
- Supreme Court to Decide First-Ever Gun-Carry Case
The Court agreed to hear a case challenging New York’s restrictive gun-carry law. The case, filed by New York State Rifle & Pistol Association and backed by the NRA, argues New York’s refusal to grant gun-carry permits to law-abiding residents on the basis of self-defense violates the Second Amendment. It is the first case dealing with gun carry outside the home to be considered by the Court.

Secret Court Reveals: FBI Hunted for Domestic Terrorists Without a Warrant

In other words, the FBI continues to perform warrantless searches through the NSA’s most sensitive databases—the ones the NSA is not required to get warrants before filling with communications information—for routine criminal investigations that are supposed to require warrants.
The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved

What a Pentagon spokesman could not explain Saturday is why the Defense Department chose Global Resource Systems LLC, a company with no record of government contracts, to manage the address space. “As to why the DoD would have done that I’m a little mystified, same as you,” said Paul Vixie, an internet pioneer credited with designing its naming system and the CEO of Farsight Security.
Iran's foreign minister says John Kerry told him about Israeli covert operations in Syria | Fox News