Odds ‘n Sods:

Reader B.B. sent in this link. We have been discussing the danger of computer algorithms determining everything about you from your credit worthiness to how “good” a citizen you are, now comes the “threat” score: The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’ This should be yet one more wake-up-call for those who are active on social media. Data mining of information that you just “throw out there” is big business.

o o o

Continuing the ongoing bluster coming out of North Korea is a video of a ‘new’ submarine-launched missile test. There is some considerable question about the validity of this video, but the fact that they are actively working on a delivery system for their nukes is most disturbing.

o o o

SurvivalBlog reader D.S. sent in this link on how to use ice to survive. Survive With Ice.

o o o

Wondering why you should carry? Woman raped by five men in New York City park. How different would this have turned out if the father had been carrying and had known how to use it? – Sent in by GJM

o o o

Texas armed standoff ends after 15 years