Archive for the 'War' Category
NSA and Army Seeking Quantum Computing Algorithms to Solve “Hard Computational Problems”
October 29th, 2008The word encryption doesn’t appear anywhere below, but that could just be hind titty. How about teleportation? They tell researchers to, “Presuppose the existence of a fully functional quantum computer and consider what algorithmic tasks are particularly well suited to such a machine.” Obviously, people have been thinking about quantum computing issues for years. Wouldn’t […]
U.S. Special Forces Launch Rare Attack Inside Syria
October 27th, 2008Via: AP: U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as “serious aggression.” A U.S. military official said the raid by special forces targeted the network of al-Qaida-linked foreign fighters moving through Syria into […]
Top International Military Officials Meet in Adirondacks?
October 24th, 2008I haven’t been able to find any confirmation of the information presented in this story at all. Maybe someone out there knows more. Via: Adirondack Daily Enterprise: SARANAC LAKE – Powerful generals and admirals from some of the most powerful nations on Earth are reportedly meeting somewhere in the local area this weekend after flying […]
Mutant Seeds for Mesopotamia
October 22nd, 2008Via: Uruknet: One would think that Iraqi farmers, now prospering under “freedom” and “democracy,” would be able to plant the seeds of their choosing, but that choice, under little-known Order 81, would be illegal. … What makes this Order 81 even more outrageous is that Iraqi farmers have been saving wheat and barley seeds since […]
Second Bomb Blast Hits B.C. Pipeline
October 21st, 2008Via: GlobalBC: RCMP are investigating what one politician is calling an act of terrorism after a bomb exploded on a sour gas pipeline in northern British Columbia – the second such incident to be discovered in the area in a week. Police said they believe the attack is meant as a threat intended to drive […]
DARPA Contract Description Hints at Advanced Video Spying
October 20th, 2008More inputs for Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation. Via: Washington Post: Real-time streaming video of Iraqi and Afghan battle areas taken from thousands of feet in the air can follow actions of people on the ground as they dig, shake hands, exchange objects and kiss each other goodbye. The video is sent from unmanned […]
Army Orders Pain Ray Trucks; New Report Shows ‘Potential for Death’
October 13th, 2008Via: Wired: “As a consequence, the ADS provides the technical possibility to produce burns of second and third degree. Because the beam of diameter 2 m and above is wider than human size, such burns would occur over considerable parts of the body, up to 50% of its surface. Second- and third-degree burns covering more […]
XM-25: You’d Better be Hiding Around Two Corners These Days
October 8th, 2008Via: Register: What you put in your big fat .98-calibre** slugs is a small HE-frag warhead – but that’s not the clever bit. The clever bit is the electronic precision time fuse, which is set wirelessly by the gun’s systems at the moment of firing. This means that the slug will explode at exactly the […]
Syrian Troops Gather on Lebanese Border
October 8th, 2008Monitoring… Via: AP: A few tents and trucks dotting a green hill across the river are about all that is visible of a Syrian troop deployment on Lebanon’s northern border — a buildup that has raised concerns of a possible Syrian incursion. There was no sign Wednesday that the Syrian troops were preparing to cross […]
Nasdaq Cancels Late Google Trades
October 2nd, 2008Via: Mercury News: Erroneous trades sent to the Nasdaq Stock Market by another exchange caused Google’s share price to gyrate wildly Tuesday afternoon, soaring as high as $485.13 and falling as low as $25.80. The Nasdaq issued a statement Tuesday afternoon saying that all trades in Google’s shares made at or above $425.29 and at […]
