Oct 6, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Discover: NASA has chosen the final destination for the LCROSS lunar impacting probe: the crater Cabeus A, near the Moon’s south pole. So why is NASA smacking a probe into the Moon at high speed, and why there? The idea is that over millions and billions of years, a lot of comets have hit the Moon. The ...
Continue ReadingOct 5, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Fox News: The Federal Trade Commission will try to regulate blogging for the first time, requiring writers on the Web to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products. The FTC said Monday its commissioners voted 4-0 to approve the final Web guidelines, which had been expected. Violating the rules, which ...
Continue ReadingOct 5, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Yahoo: Women who are sexually satisfied are also happier, no matter their age, a new study suggests. It's not clear which causes the other, however. You might be thinking, "Duh, better sex makes for a better mood." But in science, thinking something is true doesn't make it so. "A lot of the things we make assumptions about ...
Continue ReadingOct 4, 2009 13 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Times Online: United Nations nuclear experts believe that Iran has sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable atom bomb, according to newly published excerpts of a confidential official analysis. The prognosis, which matches British and French estimates of Iran’s weaponisation work, is contained in an unpublished annexe to this year’s International Atomic Energy ...
Continue ReadingOct 2, 2009 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Guardian: After complaints about American dominance of the internet and growing disquiet in some parts of the world, Washington has said it will relinquish some control over the way the network is run and allow foreign governments more of a say in the future of the system. Icann – the official body that ultimately controls the ...
Continue ReadingOct 2, 2009 15 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Pop Sci: In a recent test at the White Sands Missile Range, a specially equipped C-130 plane fried a parked truck with a powerful laser. And while we still haven't seen evidence of the laser "defeating" a ground target, as Boeing puts it, a video of it scorching a direct hit on the hood of a ...
Continue ReadingOct 1, 2009 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Tech News World: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski stirred up the Net neutrality pot last week with his speech at the Brookings Institution where he pledged to create new rules for governing the Internet . While the chairman's comments were delivered eloquently, they were problematic for a number of reasons. The FCC boss implied ...
Continue ReadingSep 30, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Guardian: The UN's chief weapons inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, said today he had seen "no credible evidence" that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, rejecting British intelligence allegations that a weapons programme has been going on for at least four years. The claims and counter-claims came on the eve of a potentially decisive meeting in Geneva between diplomats ...
Continue ReadingSep 29, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - In an unusually frank disclosure, Iran's nuclear chief said Tuesday the country's new uranium enrichment site was built for maximum protection from aerial attack: carved into a mountain and near a military compound of the powerful Revolutionary Guard. Iran's revelation that it covertly built a second uranium enrichment plant has raised international ...
Continue ReadingSep 29, 2009 27 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Report On Annakis: Congress has quietly approved to fast track the deployment of the BGU-57A/B or Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). The Pentagon plans to rush the deployment of 10 BGU-57A/B "bunker buster" bombs by June 2010. The MOP is so enormous that it can only be delivered by a B-52 or a B-2A. In fact, the ...
Continue ReadingSep 25, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
The Independent: The crisis in relations with Iran escalated ominously yesterday after the leaders of the US, Britain and France accused the regime in Tehran of operating a secret uranium enrichment facility buried deep in a mountain bunker near the ancient religious city of Qom. Barack Obama called Iran's activity "a direct challenge" to the international ...
Continue ReadingSep 25, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: Lawmakers in Washington are calling on the National Institutes of Health to explain why millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on seemingly ridiculous research projects, including: -- how dragon boating can help cancer survivors; -- how canoes can help cultural identity; -- how snorting cocaine creates anxiety. Click here for photos. In a letter to NIH director Francis ...
Continue ReadingSep 23, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Times Online: Dreams of establishing a manned Moon base could become reality within two decades after India’s first lunar mission found evidence of large quantities of water on its surface. Data from Chandrayaan-1 also suggests that water is still being formed on the Moon. Scientists said the breakthrough — to be announced by Nasa at a press ...
Continue ReadingSep 23, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
Mashable: Starbucks and the iPhone are sort of the perfect combination. You can browse the web for free on the AT&T hotspots, you can buy in-store songs from iTunes right from your phone, and now you can use two new official iPhone apps. Now available in the App Store, myStarbucks (iTunes Link) and Starbucks Card Mobile (iTunes ...
Continue ReadingSep 18, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Wall Street Journal: The head of the Federal Communications Commission will propose new rules to prevent Internet providers from selectively blocking or slowing Web traffic, a move that could set off a battle with phone and cable companies that don't want the government telling them how to run their networks. In a speech Monday, FCC Chairman Julius ...
Continue ReadingSep 18, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
No cuts are repeated. Trendy Apple morons are more then good... THEY'RE GGGGGREAT!
Continue ReadingSep 17, 2009 13 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Financial Times: Barack Obama’s decision to scrap Bush-era plans for a missile defence shield on Thursday triggered dismay in central Europe and among Republicans on Capitol Hill, amid claims that it amounted to a major security concession to Russia. Unveiling one of the biggest reversals on national security since coming to office, the US president said that ...
Continue ReadingSep 16, 2009 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Washington Times: The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the ...
Continue ReadingSep 10, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Ars Technica: Hugely popular conservative talker Glenn Beck has sicced his lawyers on a satirical website that's been up for a week, but the attorneys may have a point on this one. The site, called glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com, toes the line on defamation—and may have stepped across it. When someone registers a domain like glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com, they probably expect to ...
Continue ReadingSep 10, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country's leading internet service provider. Internet speed and connectivity in Africa's largest economy are poor because of a bandwidth shortage. It is also expensive. Local ...
Continue ReadingAug 23, 2009 27 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Hard Truth: Device captures everything you type and sends it via your ethernet card to the Dept. of Homeland Security without your knowledge, consent or a search warrant - every time you log on to the internet! I was opening up my almost brand new laptop, to replace a broken PCMCIA slot riser on the motherboard. As ...
Continue ReadingAug 21, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Weekly Standard: The New York Times reveals the awful truth about the secret air war against high value al Qaeda targets in Pakistan -- the drones are being armed by evil government contractors. And while the paper felt comfortable suppressing any news of the capture and confinement of one of its own reporters earlier this ...
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