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Eat the Whistle GPLEat the Whistle GPLEat the Whistle GPL 04/28/2004 11:44 AM Release 3.2 is near... This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Eat the Whistle GPLGrok Headline matches for Eat the Whistle GPLJust whistleJust whistle 02/05/2005 09:26 PM David Pescovitz:  Found in the
Osamanoidea shop
in Shinkuku, Tokyo, this is an object-finder with a whistle interface
. The yellow tag can be attached to your TV remote or keychain. Then
if you lose the object, you blow into the black whistle. The tag
responds with a sound and a flashing LED. Link<
br>UPDATE: Several readers point out that Radio Shack sells a similar device. Of course, the packaging can't compete though. Link Need something? Just whistleNeed something? Just whistle 01/06/2005 12:14 PM David Pescovitz: A group of shepherds on La Gomera in the Canary Islands communicate with each other by whistling. Now, researchers at the University of Washington say that functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals that the shepherds' brains process the whistled language, called the Silbo Gomero, in the same way spoken languages are processed. From a Reuters report: When the whistlers listened to Silbo sentences, regions in the left side of their brain were activated, including areas linked to language production and comprehension, along with a region in the right hemisphere thought to be associated with linguistic processing....Link Whistle While You WorkWhistle While You Work 11/18/2003 03:14 PM Whistle Remote Control FobWhistle Remote Control Fob 02/05/2005 10:16 PM
An Electronics Tag for your remote [RFIDInJapan via WMMNA< /a>] Ooh, Engadget says it's for finding your remote. That makes more sense. Support for Whistle-BlowersSupport for Whistle-Blowers 09/16/2004 09:39 AM If whistle-blowers are supported, the entire stock market can benefit. Whistle-Blowing Said to Be Factor in an
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The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal
inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last
year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly
secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to
the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. Rumsfeld’s decision
embittered the American intelligence community, damaged the
effectiveness of elite combat units, and hurt America’s prospects
in the war on terror.
According to interviews with several past and present American intelligence officials, the Pentagon’s operation, known inside the intelligence community by several code words, including Copper Green, encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq. A senior C.I.A. official, in confirming the details of this account last week, said that the operation stemmed from Rumsfeld’s long-standing desire to wrest control of America’s clandestine and paramilitary operations from the C.I.A. Rumsfeld, during appearances last week before Congress to testify about Abu Ghraib, was precluded by law from explicitly mentioning highly secret matters in an unclassified session. But he conveyed the message that he was telling the public all that he knew about the story. He said, “Any suggestion that there is not a full, deep awareness of what has happened, and the damage it has done, I think, would be a misunderstanding.” The senior C.I.A. official, asked about Rumsfeld’s testimony and that of Stephen Cambone, his Under-Secretary for Intelligence, said, “Some people think you can bullshit anyone.” |
Hersh's report, which seems too detailed and credible for the administration simply to dismiss (though no doubt they will try), suggests that the testimony Rumsfeld offered Congress last week was at best a patchwork of outrageous omissions and at worst a passel of outright lies.
It's also clear that Hersh's sources are intelligence officials who decided to step forward with this tale only after Rumsfeld's testimony. (Otherwise, presumably this material would have appeared in one of the reporter's previous dispatches.) According to Hersh, the "black budget" operations his piece describes were top secret, and Rumsfeld could not have talked about them in public hearings. But clearly, something about the definitive nature of the Defense Secretary's insistence on the "handful of loose cannons" line enraged someone at the CIA who knew a different story -- enraged him enough to spill the beans to Hersh, using words like "bullshit" to describe Rumsfeld's testimony.
It's no secret that the CIA and the Bush administration are fighting their own war with each other, one that dates back at least to the buildup to the Iraq war, when the intelligence service kept telling the Bush team that there was no evidence Saddam still possessed weapons of mass destruction, and the Bush team kept throwing away the CIA's info and seizing anything that looked like an excuse to invade. In each of the two biggest screwups of Bush foreign policy -- the failure to anticipate 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq -- Bush's people have pointed fingers at the CIA and declared the problem to be a "failure of intelligence." (Given this interpretation of history, you'd think Bush would have given George Tenet the boot long ago. But Tenet is loyal, and that's all that seems to matter in this administration.)
Now the CIA is firing back. And that's perfectly understandable.
But you get the depressing feeling that, as all this bureaucratic
crossfire ricochets, the biggest casualty will be the "war on terror"
itself. Which is why the mistreatment and torture of the people we
were supposed to be liberating is not only a moral calamity but a
strategic disaster.
I had assurances from the LoC that they had fixed this personal information disclosure. However, working with the folks at freeculture.org, it appears that their "solution" was to remove my comment document only (instead of a more general solution). Moreover, all the original unredacted files are available in the ZIP file they offer... which hasn't been updated.Link (Thanks, Joe!)Man, doesn't anyone know someone at the LoC who can get things done? Well, I guess that's the price I pay for providing feedback (participation tax, I suppose).
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Why this is necessary I have no idea, but it appears this
device hooks up to one's remote, allowing you to whistle codes into
it, which are then translated into an infrared signal that then
controls your television (or whatever). Or maybe it calls down a
magical bird that pecks at the buttons with its beak, I don't know.
Does it really matter? You'll look like a knob using this no matter
how it works.