Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Apple’s iPhone of Mass Destruction Nonsense
July 29th, 2009If it’s not a locked down vending machine, 100% controlled by Apple, it’s a weapon of mass destruction. HAHAHA I’m very glad to have an excuse to post this Onion piece to go along with this: Apple Claims New iPhone Only Visible To Most Loyal Of Customers. Via: Threat Level: The nation’s cellphone networks could […]
Yahoo Gives In to Microsoft, Gives Up on Search
July 29th, 2009Via: Business Week: Ever since Microsoft (MSFT) made its $45 billion bid for Yahoo (YHOO) in early 2008, it was clear the software giant was serious about taking on arch-rival Google (GOOG) in the lucrative Internet search business. And now, after more than a year of more limited talks after Yahoo denied that bid, it […]
Commando Subs Sending Drones, Robo-Torpedos Into Combat
July 28th, 2009Via: Wired: The U.S. Navy’s four Special Forces-optimized submarines are using a wide range of robots in combat in coastal areas, the Navy’s top officer for irregular warfare said in a surprisingly candid interview. The Ohio-class guided-missile subs, modified from surplus ballistic-missile boats, have been outfitted with robotic mini-subs and at least two types of […]
LEAKED PHONE CONVERSATION: DICK WEIR, CEO OF EESTOR, WORKED FOR CIA ON A “CHIP THAT WENT INTO DEEP SPACE”; “THEY CAME AND RECRUITED ME”; CIA TOLD HIM TO GO TO LOCKHEED MARTIN WITH ULTRA CAPACITOR TECHNOLOGY; DARPA HAS BEEN INVOLVED
July 27th, 2009EEstor is a “connected” front for the release of military technology into the private sector. —EEstor: More Clues Emerge I first theorized that EEstor was connected to the Black World in 2006. Now, thanks to an astonishing leak of a private telephone conversation, you can hear Dick Weir, the CEO of EEstor, talking about how […]
Microwave Weapon Will Rain Pain from the Sky
July 24th, 2009Even More Change We Can Believe In: The directed energy pain weapons will now be mounted on helicopters and generate multiple beams. Via: New Scientist: THE Pentagon’s enthusiasm for non-lethal crowd-control weapons appears to have stepped up a gear with its decision to develop a microwave pain-infliction system that can be fired from an aircraft. […]
Chinese Experts Grow Live Mice from Skin Cells
July 24th, 2009Via: Reuters: Chinese researchers have managed to create powerful stem cells from mouse skin and used these to generate fertile live mouse pups. They used induced pluripotent skin cells, or iPS cells — cells that have been reprogrammed to look and act like embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells, taken from days-old embryos, have the […]
NSA Using Cloud Model for Intelligence Sharing; Open Source Software; Commodity Hardware
July 22nd, 2009Whooooo weeeee, a lot of bozos are going to draw salary for years off of this boondoggle. (Assuming the whole damn show doesn’t go up in flames before then.) Via: Information Week: The National Security Agency is taking a cloud computing approach in developing a new collaborative intelligence gathering system that will link disparate intelligence […]
The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted
July 18th, 2009Full text backup below. Via: ComputerWorld: The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted Whistleblower Mark Klein tells in his new book of how he was ignored. He spoke with IDG News. By Robert McMillan July 17, 2009 07:35 PM ET They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you’re dead. […]
Amazon Deletes Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle Ebook Readers
July 18th, 2009I don’t understand why anyone would buy a Kindle. Then again, I don’t understand the popularity of many things. Via: New York Times: This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and […]
South Africa: ATMs Armed with Pepper Spray; Thieves Using Explosives
July 16th, 2009The video below isn’t real, but give it another ten years. Via: Guardian: Cash machines offer an ever-growing menu of services beyond merely dispensing money. For tampering criminals, this now includes a squirt of pepper spray in the face . The extreme measure is the latest in South Africa’s escalating war against armed robbers who […]
