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Month: April 2012

  • ‘Why the technical stuff?’

    George Rebane I was asked that question recently by a regular RR reader.  He went on to opine that not many of my readers would make the effort to understand all that high falootin’ stuff and just skip over it.  In short, I’m wasting time and effort in offering up such posts.  And, of course,…

  • The Dangerous Sleaze Runneth Over

    George Rebane President Obama is now going after private citizens in a manner not seen since Nixon attempted something that was just a shade of what’s going on right now.  Kimberly Strassel in the 28apr12 WSJ writes in ‘The President has a List’ that  – He’s targeted insurers, oil firms and Wall Street—letting it be…

  • Sacramento vs California (updated 28apr12)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary which was broadcast on 27 April 2012.  I have annotated it with notes and links as appropriate.] One of the nation’s premier demographers Democrat Joel Kotkin was recently interviewed by the WSJ on his study of ‘The Great California Exodus’, that has been vehemently…

  • TechTest welcomes TechTestJr

    George Rebane TechTest2012, the sixth edition of SESF’s annual merit scholarship exam, was held on 14 April 2012 in the Nevada Union High School’s science lecture hall.  As has become tradition, the exam’s solution key has been posted on the SESF website (here), and the upcoming annual ‘Survivor’s Breakfast’, with the obligatory ‘Where the Elite…

  • Courtroom Evidence – the Z/M case (updated 28apr12)

    George Rebane Reason and logic have always had a low survival rate in courtrooms, especially where poorly understood evidence of a technical nature is presented by self-serving lawyers to innumerate juries.  In recent memory, the OJ Simpson murder trial may serve as a nationally prominent Exhibit A for this proposition. Today we have the much…

  • Agenda21 – drones overhead, black boxes in cars, …

    George Rebane Unmanned surveillance aircraft come in a range of sizes that fit in the palm of your hand to big ones the size of airliners.  The 21apr12 WSJ reports that the smaller ones are being snapped up by stateside governmental agencies ranging from federal bureaus to local police.  Their manifold uses should be obvious…

  • Stand Your Ground – Some Thoughts

    George Rebane The shooting of Trayvor Martin has raised a fundamental rights issue that most of us have for long thought was a done deal in a free society – namely, whether a law-abiding citizen is still allowed to defend himself with deadly force should he be the victim of an attack that may leave…

  • More Milestones on our Downward Spiral

    George Rebane This week has seen a lot of dilapidation in our ship of state.  For openers, Peggy Noonan takes an overarching survey of events that reflects on our national character.  From other perspectives we see what it is to be on a careening progressive luge as this administration more fully reveals itself, and what…

  • Making Medical Decisions

    George Rebane [This introduction to modern medical decision making is intended as the first of a series of such essays on RR.  Subsequent pieces will cover simplifying nomograms (to avoid the arithmetic), personal utility (always subjective), and planning sequential diagnostics and treatments.  The aim here is to prepare the intelligent healthcare customer to communicate effectively…

  • Singularity Signposts – The Coming Virtual Cloud

    George Rebane Today it is very difficult to reconfigure networks because you have to deal with hardwired components like routers, switches, and servers which have been manufactured by network suppliers like Cisco and Juniper to handle the stream of data packets in their own specific ways.  Modifying a network is a nightmare of hardware reconfiguration…

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