Archive for the 'Technology' Category
And the Black World Said: Let There Be Light and PG&E Agreed to Buy Orbit-Generated Electricity from Solaren in 2016
April 14th, 2009Ah yes, large satellites will beam vast amounts of clean energy from the sun to earth, 24/7, base load style. Let’s try to look past the headlines… First of all, this idea isn’t quite as old as the hills, but it’s at least several decades old, depending on what you consider to be the origin […]
Israeli Military’s 60-Tonne Robot Bulldozer Force to Double
April 13th, 2009Via: Jerusalem Post: The IDF Ground Forces Command plans to double the number of unmanned D9 armored bulldozers in the Engineering Corps arsenal after the vehicle provided exceptional results during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip in January. The unmanned version of the D9 bulldozer – called “Black Thunder” – was developed several years […]
Obama Looks at Climate Engineering
April 9th, 2009Related: Council on Foreign Relations on Planetary Geoengineering The best way to deal with the fascist fart taxers and Dr. Strangelove geoingineering maniacs is to simply let them talk about their alleged “solutions.” The masks that fake environmentalists are wearing come off at that point, revealing the diabolical element underneath. You don’t hear much about […]
White House Approves Costly, New Spy Satellites
April 8th, 2009Via: Houston Chronicle: The Obama administration on Tuesday approved the purchase of pricey new spy satellites and will buy more commercial imagery from the private sector to plug immediate gaps in satellite coverage. … Defense giant Lockheed Martin, of Bethesda, Md., is almost certain to win the secret multibillion-dollar contract for the two new high-altitude […]
150,000 People in the U.S. Have Been Implanted with Defective Medtronic Defibrillator Cables
April 7th, 2009If you think that Medtronic is going to get nailed to the wall with endless lawsuits over this… Guess again! Via: New York Times: Consider the Sprint Fidelis, a heart defibrillator cable. In 2007 its maker, Medtronic, stopped selling it after five patients who had the cables died. But only now is the full scope […]
Italy Muzzled Scientist Who Foresaw Quake
April 6th, 2009Via: Reuters: An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L’Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population. The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at regular intervals, creating mounting alarm in the medieval […]
FBI Shuts Down Entire Hosting Provider Because of Alleged Activity of a Single Customer
April 4th, 2009Via: PCWorld: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have raided a Dallas ISP, knocking the company and almost 50 of its clients offline. The early morning Thursday raid closed down the operations of Core IP Networks, which operated out of two floors of a Telx collocation facility at 2323 Bryan Street in Dallas. The raid […]
Residents Challenge Google Camera
April 3rd, 2009Rather than stopping the car, people should have held up signs that said adblockplus.org as it drove past. That way, Google would go on to blindly promote its own destruction. Sixty foot long penis optional. Via: BBC: Angry residents in Milton Keynes blocked the driver of a Google Street View car when he started taking […]
Professor Paul Callaghan and Wool to Weta: Transforming New Zealand’s Culture and Economy
April 1st, 2009I hold back a lot about the problems I see in New Zealand. I love it here. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. But there are serious and uncomfortable issues that most Kiwis, including those in government, don’t want to face. And the last person they would want to hear about these things from […]
IBM: Another Public Menace
April 1st, 2009Via: Times Herald Record: As IBM was firing thousands of American workers last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published Big Blue’s application to copyright a computerized system that calculates how to offshore jobs while maximizing government tax breaks. Update: IBM withdraws its application, calling it an error.
