Jan 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from My SA: The nation's first bookless library is on its way to the South Side. County officials recently approved a pilot program to establish BiblioTech, an e-library where e-books can be directly downloaded to tablets, smart phones, PCs and e-readers in place of physical books. BiblioTech is set to be located in the existing County-owned ...
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Jan 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
The CIA wouldn't do it, but people with Soros-type money, means, and motive might. Beyond them to kill innocent people to meet their revolutionary ends? Excerpted from The Science Channel: Inside Mind Control - It was the 1950s, a time of doo-wop, sock hops and Bobby Rydell, when Americans dusted off the remnants of WWII ...
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Jan 14, 2013 No Comments ›› spratico
NationalPost-Q: Are there really microwave missiles? A: Yes. A three-year, US$40-million project to launch Boeing Phantom Works’ Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) became reality in the Utah desert last October. The missile — launched from an aircraft before flying over its target — sends out electromagnetic pulses that are designed to disable any electronics ...
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Jan 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Aaron Schwartz — Internet activist, RSS co-author and Reddit co-founder — committed suicide in New York on Friday, reported The Tech, MIT’s newspaper. Schwartz’s uncle and attorney both confirmed the news to the publication. “The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is, regrettably, true,” said Elliot R. Peters of Kecker and Van ...
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Jan 9, 2013 No Comments ›› iResist
Yahoo News (Reuters) - A public school district in Texas can require students to wear locator chips when they are on school property, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday in a case raising technology-driven privacy concerns among liberal and conservative groups alike. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia said the San Antonio Northside School District had the ...
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Dec 5, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Verizon has filed a patent for targeting ads that collect information from infrared cameras and microphones that can detect the amount of people and types of conversations happening in customers’ living rooms. Verizon filed for the application in May 2011, but the report was published last week due to laws stating that ...
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Dec 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from Fox News: The Pentagon plans to bring warfare into the 22nd century, creating a new system to "map" the digital battlefield of cyberspace, defining a playbook for deploying cyberweapons and designating a management facility in Arlington, Va. to bring it all together. It’s called Plan X, and it makes one thing very clear: Cyberwar ...
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Dec 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from New York Daily News: For twins, sibling rivalry starts before they’re even born. Strikingly clear video appears to show identical twins kicking each other and fighting for space inside their mother’s womb. The images are from an MRI scan taken at London’s Center for Fetal Care, Reuters reported. “What this ...
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Nov 24, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Fox News: Remember that Mattel hooverboard Marty McFly rode in "Back to the Future Part 2?" We’ll, they’ve managed to come up with something even crazier, but this time it’s real. Hot Wheels has unveiled the Urban Shredder, an electric scooter/skateboard mashup that you ride on your knees. Head first. Because your parents didn’t have enough to ...
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Nov 23, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: A nonprofit devoted to election reform says a video released by hacktivist collective Anonymous days prior to the election corroborates claims from a mysterious hacktivist group that it is behind the Election Day failures of the Romney campaign’s Project ORCA. The left-wing Velvet Revolution, which works to investigate and prove ...
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Nov 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from Fox News: Let's hope Star Fleet perfects the technology before the Romulans get their hands on it. Scientists have made the impossible possible, disappearing a cylinder by guiding light around it before putting those photons back on their original path -- essentially bending light around the object. This new approach achieves invisibility where ...
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Nov 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from MSNBC: As the next secretive flight of the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B mini-shuttle draws closer, analysts are keeping a close eye on China’s own potential space plane, the Shenlong. Last year several Chinese media outlets reported a test flight of the Shenlong space plane that apparently included its airdrop from an H-6 ...
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Oct 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from WND: The result of an election will be changed by hackers, the only question remaining for an online security expert is which election will it be. “I’m somewhat surprised it hasn’t happened yet,” said Stephen Cobb, a security evangelist for ESET-North America, an IT security company, in a recent article by Dark Reading, a ...
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Oct 25, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via Boeing Mediaroom: HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah, Oct. 22, 2012 -- A recent weapons flight test in the Utah desert may change future warfare after the missile successfully defeated electronic targets with little to no collateral damage. Computers inside CHAMP’s target building before it was blasted with high-energy microwaves. (Image: Boeing) Computers were knocked offline after the ...
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Oct 23, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CBS DC)— Expect to see the Navy using lasers on ships within the next couple of years. Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, chief of the Office of Naval Research, tells Wired that they have pushed up the timetable from four years to two to install laser weapons on board ships. “We’re well past physics,” Klunder told the magazine. ...
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Oct 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
Excerpted from CNBC: Google may be on its way out as the dominant player in search, according to one analyst — and could even "disappear" in as little as five to eight years if the competitive pressures that ultimately claimed other search giants start to take root. In the wake of a surprisingly weak earnings ...
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Oct 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com ROSWELL, N.M. – Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner landed gracefully on Earth after a 24-mile jump Sunday from the stratosphere in a daring, dramatic feat that officials said made him the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound. Baumgartner came down safely in the eastern New Mexico ...
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Oct 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from THE HILL: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he will try and revive stalled cybersecurity legislation on the heels of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s warning that the U.S. is at risk of a devastating cyber-attack. Panetta, in a speech Thursday, said the country could face a “cyber Pearl Harbor,” with attacks targeting ...
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Oct 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE HILL) U.S. Ambassador Terry Kramer warned on Friday that a proposal to give a United Nations agency more control over the Internet is gaining momentum in other countries. Proposals to expand the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union's (ITU) authority over the Internet could come up at a treaty conference in Dubai in December. European ...
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