‘Full-Pipe’ FBI Internet Monitoring Questionably Legal
CNet is running a piece looking at what they refer to as a ‘questionably legal’ internet surveillance technique being employed by the FBI. In situations where isolating a specific IP address for a suspect is not possible, the FBI has taken to ‘full-pipe’ surveillance: all activity for a bank of IPs is recorded, and then data mining is used to attempt to isolate their target. The questionable …
Source: yro.slashdot.org
Oil Search Drops Papua New Guinea Gas Pipe Project (Update1)
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Oil Search Ltd., Papua New Guinea’s biggest oil producer, dropped plans to build a natural gas pipeline to Australia to work on other more profitable ways of exploiting gas fields in the Pacific nation.
Source: www.bloomberg.com
Trio saves pipe organs one piece at a time
A special type of salvation is going on in the Jubilee Museum at Holy Family Catholic Church on the West Side. Three men up to their elbows in wires, keyboards and metal pipes devote their time to saving pipe organs from abandoned churches, lovingly tending them until new homes are found.
Source: www.dispatch.com
Shell shake down
Word that control of the world’s largest integrated oil and gas project had been wrested from Royal Dutch Shell trickled down to the company’s staff on Russia’s Sakhalin Island in December the same way it reached everyone else: via the newswires.
Source: money.cnn.com
Vane starts drilling northern Arizona
There were gains for Vane Minerals Tuesday after the group said its uranium subsidiary has started drilling at the Miller Pipe in the northern Arizona breccia pipe district.
Source: uk.biz.yahoo.com