Blow Whistle, Collect Moola

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Just whistle

Just 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 whistle

Need 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....

The Silbo, which is thought to have been brought to the island by Berbers from North Africa, condenses Spanish into two vowels and four consonants.

Whistled languages are also used in Greece, Turkey, China and Mexico, according to (researcher David) Corina.

Link

Eat the Whistle GPL

Eat the Whistle GPL 04/28/2004 11:44 AM
Release 3.2 is near...

Whistle While You Work

Whistle While You Work 11/18/2003 03:14 PM

Support for Whistle-Blowers

Support for Whistle-Blowers 09/16/2004 09:39 AM
If whistle-blowers are supported, the entire stock market can benefit.

Whistle Remote Control Fob

Whistle Remote Control Fob 02/05/2005 10:16 PM

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.

An Electronics Tag for your remote [RFIDInJapan via WMMNA< /a>]

Ooh, Engadget says it's for finding your remote. That makes more sense.

419 Scam Blow-by-Blow

419 Scam Blow-by-Blow 07/09/2004 03:07 PM

Blow tempests, blow

Blow tempests, blow 06/17/2005 04:29 PM
CARtoday.com Jun 17 2005 7:43PM GMT

CIA blows whistle on Rummy's "bullshit"

CIA blows whistle on Rummy's "bullshit" 05/17/2004 01:39 AM
Seymour Hersh's piece in the new New Yorker, "The Gray Zone," begins thus:

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.

Whistle-Blowing Said to Be Factor in an
F.B.I. Firing

Whistle-Blowing Said to Be Factor in an
F.B.I. Firing 07/28/2004 11:45 PM
A classified investigation has concluded that an F.B.I. translator was dismissed in part because she said that the bureau had poorly translated important terror documents.

Electronic voting critics sue company
under whistle blower law

Electronic voting critics sue company
under whistle blower law 07/11/2004 06:20 PM
San Jose Mercury News Jul 11 2004 9:09PM GMT

Library of Congress deletes
whistle-blower's comments

Library of Congress deletes
whistle-blower's comments 04/01/2005 03:43 AM
Cory Doctorow: Joe discovered that when the Library of Congress posted the comments it got on the "Orphan Works" proceeding, it failed to redact the personal info of the submitters, simply covering them with a white box, which anyone could see through with a simple copy-paste operation. He complained to the Library of Congress, so they deleted his comment.

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.

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).

Link (Thanks, Joe!)

Red Cross Blew Whistle on Abuses (Los
Angeles Times)

Red Cross Blew Whistle on Abuses (Los
Angeles Times) 05/08/2004 05:05 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — The international Red Cross documented cases of severe mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners far more numerous and far earlier than previously was known, U.S. and Red Cross officials said Friday.

9/11 FBI Whistle Blower and Time Person
of the Year Gives Rare Interview

9/11 FBI Whistle Blower and Time Person
of the Year Gives Rare Interview 03/22/2005 03:16 PM
Retired FBI Agent Coleen Rowley who wrote the memo outlining the thwarted attempts to investigate the alleged 20th hijacker in the 9/11 attacks joins host Ember Reichgott Junge, on “Women on the Move” internet talk radio show on the VoiceAmerica™ Channel. [PRWEB Mar 22, 2005]

FBI Agent Who Blew Whistle on Pre-Sept.
11 Actions Retires (Los Angeles Times)

FBI Agent Who Blew Whistle on Pre-Sept.
11 Actions Retires (Los Angeles Times) 01/03/2005 06:23 AM
Los Angeles Times - MINNEAPOLIS — A career FBI agent who rocked official Washington with a blistering memo to the boss alleging bureau bungling before the Sept. 11 attacks has retired from the agency.

Powergen sets legal attack dogs on
security whistle-blower

Powergen sets legal attack dogs on
security whistle-blower 02/10/2004 02:48 AM
Breach of confidence claim

Collect 'Em All!

Collect 'Em All! 06/23/2004 07:00 PM
Here's your c ut-and-fold paper model of the eMac.

FBI may collect juveniles' DNA

FBI may collect juveniles' DNA 11/17/2003 07:48 PM
proposal

usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-11-16-fbi-juvenile-dna_x. htm
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Using WMI to collect event logs

Using WMI to collect event logs 08/15/2004 04:32 AM

Collect 'em, trade 'em, quarantine 'em!

Collect 'em, trade 'em, quarantine 'em! 07/07/2004 02:52 PM
Disease Trading Cards! Here's set two! There's diseases for everyone at the CDC 'kids' page!
[warning; squeam factor, PDF]

Caveat: Several search attempts to verify it's not got the Double Post Syndrome. Does not include bubble gum.

Web helps collect aid donations

Web helps collect aid donations 12/31/2004 06:52 AM
The net is proving useful to agencies seeking to gather resources quickly to help cope with the tsunami aftermath.

"USA TODAY: FBI may collect juveniles'
DNA "

"USA TODAY: FBI may collect juveniles'
DNA " 11/18/2003 03:32 AM

Don't Pass Go - Don't Collect 200
Dollars

Don't Pass Go - Don't Collect 200
Dollars 06/22/2004 09:12 AM

Revenue to collect with data sharing

Revenue to collect with data sharing 05/04/2004 06:25 AM
Personal Computer World May 4 2004 10:55AM GMT

Yahoo execs collect big gains

Yahoo execs collect big gains 05/10/2004 08:37 AM
SiliconValley.com May 10 2004 1:19PM GMT

Collect Call from Cooter Brown

Collect Call from Cooter Brown 12/24/2004 12:58 PM
Next time you get drunk, call (321) 600-1200 and leave a message on SlackerTown. "When you sober up you can check back and see just how drunk you were."

Collect metrics in Java apps

Collect metrics in Java apps 06/03/2002 12:04 PM

EarthLink to collect more subscriber
information

EarthLink to collect more subscriber
information 11/05/2003 11:40 PM
The Internet service provider says it will begin collecting more personal information about its subscribers in an effort to better market to them.

Tessera executives collect gains

Tessera executives collect gains 09/27/2004 06:48 AM
SiliconValley.com Sep 27 2004 10:33AM GMT

Websites collect Apple gripes

Websites collect Apple gripes 01/01/2004 02:11 AM
Boston Globe Jan 1 2004 1:00AM ET

Collect metrics in your Java
applications

Collect metrics in your Java
applications 06/06/2002 06:00 AM
CNET Jun 5 2002 10:13PM ET

Wyo. House Candidates Collect Cash
Online

Wyo. House Candidates Collect Cash
Online 05/03/2004 12:22 PM
San Jose Mercury News May 3 2004 5:13PM GMT

Wyo. House Candidates Collect Cash
Online (AP)

Wyo. House Candidates Collect Cash
Online (AP) 05/03/2004 12:23 PM
AP - Internet fund-raising for political campaigns has made its debut in Wyoming with two U.S. House candidates establishing online donations and others considering it.

Motorola: No Agreement with Telsim,
We'll Try to Collect our Debt

Motorola: No Agreement with Telsim,
We'll Try to Collect our Debt 02/01/2005 09:49 PM
Zaman Jan 28 2005 5:14PM GMT

Twins Collect Rare Victory Over Yankees
(AP)

Twins Collect Rare Victory Over Yankees
(AP) 08/17/2004 11:01 PM
AP - Brad Radke pitched seven solid innings, Corey Koskie drove in three runs and the Minnesota Twins beat the New York Yankees in the regular season for the first time since 2001 with an 8-2 victory Tuesday night.

I'll be using my bl0g to collect notes
for a book on atheism

I'll be using my bl0g to collect notes
for a book on atheism 12/19/2004 03:47 PM
I am going to be using this blog to collect notes for a book, so postings may sometimes seem a...

What If The Phone Company Called Your
Friends To Collect Your Bill?

What If The Phone Company Called Your
Friends To Collect Your Bill? 08/30/2004 03:19 PM
Let's say you're a phone company, and someone has been a bit late in paying their bills. You have all their phone records, and you know who they call. Would it make sense to call some of their frequently called numbers and have these friends, family or colleagues put the pressure on the delinquent subscriber? According to a post at Dave Farber's Interesting People list, that's exactly what one mobile phone company in India just did. As the full story notes, the person that Hutch called up happened to be a potential client -- and that can't look good. While someone in the comments notes another local phone company did the same, you have to wonder if this is common practice, or one collections agent simply going to far. Either way, you have to wonder why a collections agent should have access to the phone numbers you call.

Frequently spat-on bus drivers get DNA
kits to collect evidence

Frequently spat-on bus drivers get DNA
kits to collect evidence 04/21/2004 12:47 PM
About once a week, a bus driver in Edinburgh gets gobbed on. To nab the sickening spitters, the drivers have been given "saliva recovery kits" -- aka "spit kits."

The kits include sterile swabs to pick up any trace of an offender’s DNA. The packs also contain a pair of latex gloves and an evidence collection bag.

Link (via Fark)

Tata Info helps Silicon Valley collect
tax

Tata Info helps Silicon Valley collect
tax 05/18/2004 07:44 PM
Economictimes May 18 2004 11:09PM GMT
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