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- The impact of nuclear attacks on U.S. cities
- Researchers from the Center for Mass Destruction Defense CMADD at the University of Georgia have created a detailed simulation of the catastrophic impact a nuclear attack would have on American cities. Theyve looked at the detailed consequences that such attacks would have on four cities, Atlanta, Chicago, New York and...
- Tags: downtown area, CMADD, nuclear attack, detonation, attack
- Blog posts 2007-03-24
- Register: Fliers stripped of hi-tech, remote detonation a possibility in terror plot
- According to The Register's reporting on this morning's foiled terror plot, passengers looking to fly out of UK airports this morning were not only asked to stow all of their carry-on luggage, they were asked to put any electronics in that luggage. The crackdown on wireless technology apparently included...
- Tags: detonation, plot
- Blog posts 2006-08-10
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- Rethinking explosives to power tools, implode tumors, and clear arteries
- For most, explosive detonations illicit visions of building demolition and Mythbusters-style car bombs. But in a keynote at ETech today, Dr. Christa Hockensmith from the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center EMRTC, explained new creative applications that are, both, in research and "untried, untested, unrealized." "I'm not...
- Tags: Chemicals, Explosion, Diamond, Tool, Research Center, Productivity, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Autodestruct 1.0 (Mobile)
- Autodestruct turns your iPhone or iPod into a self destruct button. Press the big red button to start the countdown and alarm and wait for the white flash as a nuclear detonation destroys your phone. If anyone picks up your phone once the switch is set the self destruct sequence...
- Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Ryan Ziolko, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-02-17
- Asking a paranoid question
- Asking a paranoid questionI don't know...But I'll venture an answer anyway, because this is all in the name of fun...I don't think inserting instructions is possible.Disruption almost certainly is, although I would have to question the economy of targetting specific interconnects between components. The problem is that anything you...
- Tags: Servers, volt, Asking, motherboard
- Discussion threads 2008-12-04
- Photos: Visiting a Nike missile site
- At one time, there were more than 200 Nike missile sites in the U.S., each tasked with protecting a specific city. Today, the only one left is a restored site for tourists in the Marin Headlands, near San Francisco.The mascot of the Army''s Air Defense Artillery program was a bird...
- Tags: Nike Inc., Photograph, Missile, Missile Site, AJAX, Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Manufacturing, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-23
- NASA to test-fly 'Orion' spacecraft next fall
- NASA to test-fly 'Orion' spacecraft next fallMisuse of a proud name for a space-going klugeMaybe it's a petty gripe, but I wish they'd called the thing something else. "Orion" will always be the name of the bold concept authored by Freeman Dyson and Ted Taylor in the late 1950s...
- Tags: ORION, spacecraft, NASA
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- OUTRAGE: Sprint said to cancel nearly 200 military accounts for "excessive roaming"
- OUTRAGE: Sprint said to cancel nearly 200 military accounts for "excessive roaming"Sprint extended my contractafter a deployment last year I discovered that Sprint tried to help me by suspending my service while I was in the Middle East. When i returned home and had it turned back on they...
- Tags: Public relations, Cellular phones, Sprint Communications
- Discussion threads 2007-07-06
- CA plan for campus-wide alert systems, in wake of Va. Tech shootings
- CA plan for campus-wide alert systems, in wake of Va. Tech shootingsAnd then...?While obviously admirable and a good policy at first glance, I'm wondering what students should do AFTER they receive the warning. Do they leave class? Through the door? Window? What if the class doesn't...
- Tags: Transportation, Va. Tech, transportation system, Computer Associates International Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- 50 ways to kill an asteroid
- It is almost certain that a big asteroid will one day land on Earth and provoke a huge catastrophe. This is why hundreds of scientists have attended the Planetary Defense Conference 2007, held this week in Washington, D.C., to try to develop plans to protect the Earth from such an...
- Tags: Space &, Aerospace, Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Company challenges FCC rules on cell phone jamming gear
- Company challenges FCC rules on cell phone jamming gearNot just law enforcementLet's make this technology available to Movie Theaters, Restaraunts, and concert halls...Something Bugs MeIf this cell phone jamming gear can be used to prevent the detonation of bombs, why on earth doesn't our troops in Iraq have them to...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, cell phone, phone, bomb
- Discussion threads 2006-12-01
- Poll: What technology scares you most?
- Poll: What technology scares you most?Everything from MSSorry M$ fanboys.I couldn't resist another fork in the dead-before-it-launches M$ Vista cash cow.now lets move on ...What scares me?Technology that can cause "mass destruction". Bio-Virus-weapons, Nuclear bombs, & SUVs/cars.For more info see:"Planet Under Pressure" a six-part BBC News Online series looking...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Cell phone owner, cell phone, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-31
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcast
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcasta practical addition George.."But we want to avoid bad RFID implementations like the Dutch passport which according to Mahaffey was extremely simple to break because it had an effective entropy of 30 bits in the encryption key."That was already known about 15 months ago here......
- Tags: Government, Palestine, Roma, Bible, RFID Passport, RFID, Babylon, VeriChip, liberty, passport, security, podcast
- Discussion threads 2006-08-22
- Register: Fliers stripped of hi-tech, remote detonation a possibility in terror plot
- Register: Fliers stripped of hi-tech, remote detonation a possibility in terror plotelectronic devices"KNEE-JERK" is the only thing ?'Homeland Security'? understands. The federal government is becoming more proactive yet they refuse to listen to the "litle people". If the companies that did the presentation on the how...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, federal government, terror, Fliers
- Discussion threads 2006-08-10
- Service remotely encrypts or deletes data
- Service remotely encrypts or deletes dataI do not think it is really useful.commonly, the thievies can not access your xp system if you have a password. It will be really useful if someone makes it a hardware on the computer, that maybe workEncrypt after it's stolen?Why bar the door after...
- Tags: Internet, software
- Discussion threads 2006-04-11
- To curb greenhouse gases, put them underground
- To curb greenhouse gases, put them undergroundNit pickingNatural reserves of petroleum and gas are held in the pore spaces of sedimentary rock. Not caves. Yeesh.Of the 25 GT released, 7 GT remain in the atmosphere, per year, and the total will continue to increase steadily.The method has also been tested...
- Tags: greenhouse gase
- Discussion threads 2005-11-21
- Absolute Blue 1.5.2 (Windows)
- Fans of classical shooting games may rejoice. Absolute Blue is the classical horizontal shoot'em'up game of the new millennium. You have to fight your way through 60 sectors of four graphically different worlds with three levels each. You can improve your ship with many upgrades and power-ups to transform it...
- Tags: Intermediaware, Games, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2005-07-28
- Contradiction in prevention of cell-phone controlled bombs?
- Contradiction in prevention of cell-phone controlled bombs?Cellphones Make Terrorism LESS likelyThe ability to dial the transit authorities or 911 in the event that suspicious activity is sighted is far more likely to prevent a terrorist attack than the ability of a terrorist to make a call is likely to set...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, cell phone, bomb
- Discussion threads 2005-07-12
- Contradiction in prevention of cell-phone controlled bombs?
- By now, on the heels of the bombings in London, you've probably picked up on the debate regarding the use of cell phones in tunnels. Immediately after the bombings, cellular phone service was discontinued in the four major tunnels leading into New York City's burrough of Manhattan. ...
- Tags: cell phone
- Blog posts 2005-07-12
- CIA plays cyberwar games
- CIA plays cyberwar gamesIf 50 cyber terrorists attackedIf 50 cyber terrorists attacked, would anyone notice among the 100,000s of kids that attack each day? Whats 50 more?You should continue the practice of keeping critical traffic off the net, if it doesn't have an IP address, its not in the attackable...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, computer, attack, CIA, cyberterrorist, game
- Discussion threads 2005-05-27
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