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Child Identity Theft Is a Huge Problem. The Solutions Are Simple.
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 2 months ago
“The Social Security Administration and the IRS just need to do their jobs.”
Now the criminals are preying on children. Identity fraud, mostly by foreigners, really is threatening the foundation of our credit dependent economy.
Criminals selling fake identity documents to migrants in Colorado desperate to find work, CBS News Colorado Investigation finds - CBS Colorado
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 5 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 months ago
“Criminals are printing and selling fake identification documents - like social security and permanent resident cards - to migrants who are...”
The documents may be fake but the identity may be real. Even selecting random numbers for a fake Social Security card will likely steal someone's real identity. What happens when an illegal immigrant commits tax fraud using a stolen Social Security number? Or defaults on a loan? Or commits a...
NATO chief warns that Putin wants long-term confrontation with Europe
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 months ago
“"It is time to shift to a wartime mindset," Mark Rutte told security experts and analysts at the Carnegie Europe think-tank in Brussels.”
NATO has pushed up against Russia's borders. So, where is NATO going to expand now? Here in the US, we understand that NATO has been a gravy train for Europe. The US taxpayer has provided the money for almost everything. The US provided the military and nuclear umbrella to cover Europe's...
The Army is too top-heavy
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 3 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 months ago
“Surplus generals, swollen staffs, and excess headquarters drain headcount and resources from warfighting units.”
Modern military planning expends a lot of time covering it's brass. The amount of deadwood has proliferated across all uniformed branches of service except, possibly, the Coast Guard.
The brewing battle over water fluoridation
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 2 months ago
“The HHS makes recommendations about fluoride, but that's all”
A local story (Austin, TX) that will become national as RFK Jr. appointment the head HHS nears. Yes, fluoridating water has been the practice since 1945. But in 1945 other products weren't being adulterated with fluoride compounds and there weren't concerns with PFAS contamination from...
Telescope with world’s largest digital camera will be a ‘game-changer’ for astronomy
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 2 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 months ago
“In 10 years, we’re going to be talking about new fields of science, new classes of objects, new types of discoveries that I can’t even tell you...”
A literal shot in the dark.
"Wild idea:" Could zeppelins really be used to air-ship huge wind turbine parts?
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 3 months ago
“Zeppelins could have an advantage over road transport for wind and solar projects. It's an intriguing vision, but it comes with some big unanswered...”
Gotta love enviro-geeks. When it's pointed out that wind farms tend to be windy, the problem is simply dismissed with future tech miracles. Notice the deflection about aerodynamics of wind turbine blades? Apparently the developers haven't heard of packaging. You know, just wrapping a tarp...
Opinion: Photographers, it's time to boycott Adobe
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 10 Comments • 1 Like • 3 months ago
“The company's AI push shows its naked contempt for the photographers who made it what it is. They won't stop, so we must stop enabling them.”
Has everyone noticed a shift in the language praising the advent of artificial intelligence? Not long ago artificial intelligence was being touted as a tool available to scientists, engineers, and experts to expand human knowledge and usher in a new future. But now the big tech companies have...