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- Police agencies push for drone sky patrols
- Police agencies push for drone sky patrolsThey want to rush it, until......someone gets killed. When will they realize that a drone is not a model plane with a range of a few hundred feet. Will be all happy until a drone wanders away, crashes into an airliner and...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Drone, sky patrol, Police Agencies
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Pentagon management ignores Marine requests for tech weapons
- Send in the drones. It appears that important surveillance equipment that takes up the slack when soldiers are in short supply, is also in short supply, reports Wired News.In Iraq, there are not enough soldiers to cover thousands of square miles, so having enough aerial drones to take up the...
- Tags: Defense
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- A drone as wide as a Boeing 737
- According to a short report by AFP, Israel is developing a killer robot plane. This drone is designed for long-range operations -- more than 50 hours and several thousand miles -- while weighing 4 tons during takeoff. This unmanned combat aerial vehicle UCAV, dubbed Eitan Steadfast will have a wing...
- Tags: Defense &, Security, Space &, Aerospace, Robotics, Engineering &, Innovation, span, Eitan, Heron UAV
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- Drones over Los Angeles
- Drones over Los Angelesprison planetThe neo-cons are taking over. They staged the biggest terrorists attack in history. They listen in patriot act, they lie, they steal, and now they will watch from the sky like birds of the NEW WORLD ORDER!!drone safariHey these things will be more fun...
- Tags: neo-con, Drone, voter registration
- Discussion threads 2006-06-18
- Drones over Los Angeles
- The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has started last week to test unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs. These small drones, which look like toys, weigh about 5 pounds and are equipped with a GPS device and a camera. They'll complement the helicopters of the department where it's too dangerous to go....
- Tags: drone
- Blog posts 2006-06-17
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- Lifehacker are gods: the ideal student solutions
- As you can imagine with universities breaking up for the summer, it's been a slow news week. I subscribe to Lifehacker on my list of favourites (as well as many others as you'd imagine) because it has some mindblowingly good tricks, tips and technology news. I would like to show...
- Tags: IM, Music, Lifehacker, SonaFM, Linux, Instant Messaging, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Samsung HT-X810T
- If the primary appeal of soundbar speakers is based on their significant reduction of wires and clutter--as compared with 5.1-channel home theater-in-a-box systems--then Samsung's new HT-X810T soundbar should be a winner. While it's not the first single-speaker system with a built-in DVD player or a wireless subwoofer--that'd be the Philips...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, Wi-Fi, subwoofer, Samsung HT-X810T, speaker, sub, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., TV
- Product reviews 2008-06-23
- Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 discovered
- Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 discoveredSurprise surpriseSo many of these, they are dime a dozen for all the operating system out there. Just do a little digging on the IRC channels if you want to see for yourself.RE: Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, System 9, Apple Macintosh, X-WINDOWS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X 10.4
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- The hands-free Etch-A-Sketch
- New Scientist is reporting on something it calls the "Moanstick," an alternative joystick technology designed for people with motor impairments. With Moanstick, you can move the mouse smoothly in two dimensions, click, and double click–hands-free. How, you ask? By moaning dolefully with varied pitch, energy and vowel sounds. (The video...
- Tags: Mouse, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Why Apple TV is important to Apple
- Why Apple TV is important to Applewhat of the issue of net neutralityand the monopoly that network owners have over providing content... Apple will now find itself competing against the Cable Companies and Telcos who are also content providers. i think this is the real battle. i think this...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Even Jobs, Apple Inc., Apple TV, cable, TV, DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- Military robots from 2007 to 2032
- A new report from the U.S. Department of Defense DoD looks at the future of military's unmanned systems over the next 25 years. This 188-page report covers air-, land- and sea-based unmanned technology from 2007 to 2032. The long document notes that drone aircraft and ground-based robots have already proved...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Robot, U.S. Department Of Defense, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-24
- Apple delivers hefty patch haul; Addresses Leopard flaws and Safari
- Apple delivers hefty patch haul; Addresses Leopard flaws and SafariEntourageThese patches couldn't have made Entourage any worse than it already is. ;) It was the world's worst email client going in.Nor mine...Sounds like you might have bigger problems. I applied the patch last night, fired up Word 2004 without difficulty...
- Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Operating systems, Digital music, Apple Inc., Addresses Leopard, Addresses Leopard flaw, Apple Safari, flaw, patch management, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- Microsoft hones its internal sales pitch for Vista Service Pack 1
- Microsoft hones its internal sales pitch for Vista Service Pack 1Terms of being a participant ....... prevent making such claims. Mary Jo you should know that!RE: Microsoft hones its internal sales pitch for Vista Service Pack 1I have SP1 and have noted great performance boost.RE: Microsoft hones its internal...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), sales, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., internal sale, Vista Service Pack 1, Vista Service Pack, Vista Service, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-11-28
- Asteroid Mining Base Screensaver (exe)
- This screensaver is entirely modeled with lingo code and it features a Blade Runner-esque ambient electronic soundscape. Watch mining transport spacecraft run supply routes across ancient alien terrain. See drone saucers fly over the refining facilities and transport craft carry cargo to the mothership. This screensaver is entirely modeled with...
- Tags: Screensaver, Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-11-28
- Ireland: Where the soul of the developer can be found
- After a blur of a long weekend in Dublin, Ireland, I'm replaying in my mind the course of events that took place at Mashup Camp Dublin and the great many new and old friendships that I and the rest of the Mashup Camp team either started fresh or nurtured. ...
- Tags: Developer, Ireland, Event, Europe, Mashup, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Testimony closes in first RIAA trial
- Testimony ended Wednesday in the first trial of a computer user accused of copyright infringement by the Recording Industry Association of America. Defendant Jammie Thomas took the stand but her attorney called no other witnesses. While the RIAA lined up a fairly hefty heap of evidence, Thomas's defense was essentially...
- Tags: RIAA, Juror, Productivity, Wi-Fi, Wireless, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Apple to give $100 credit to iPhone buyers
- Apple to give $100 credit to iPhone buyersAnother Microsoft DroneThe thing that gets me is this guy actually believes he's doing well. Vista is one bad joke, is an inexorable CPU hog, can't run a game worth a damn, and has essentially extended XP's shelf life for at least another...
- Tags: Smart phones, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital music, Noone, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iPhone buyer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Open source is apolitical
- This week a number of thinkers tried to pigeonhole open source inside political philosophy.Thankfully they all failed. (The plane? Read on and it will be explained.)Turning open source into a political issue is worse than turning science into one, although I know people do it. People do lots of stupid things.Open...
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Dell: Fancy laptop colors are harder than they look
- Dell: Fancy laptop colors are harder than they lookNo surpriseDell isn't using dyed plastics for the casing, they're spray painting the lids. What is it about PC makers that they think color casing means the front bezel on a tower or the lid on a laptop?Wait. Nevermind. PCs are designed...
- Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PC, Apple Inc., Dell Computer Corp., laptop computer, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- News to know: Vista vulnerabilities; Apple patent; Google paid storage; Linux
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel to attackers.On deck: Critical Windows, Office, IE patches. Cisco.com goes dark on patch day. Cisco blog.Jason O'Grady: Apple's multi-touch trackpad patent.Techmeme: Google goes with paid storage. Garett Rogers: Google may be preparing for GDrive with paid storage.George Ou: LinuxWorld 2007 goes...
- Tags: Google Inc., Linux, LinuxWorld, Patent, Vulnerability, Storage, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
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