“Enemy of the State” now a realiality

August 26, 2010

Yes, I mean that movie with Will Smith and Gene Hackman. Sure, anyone who has lived in the real world this past decade knows that we’ve long since developed the technology to do all the fancy things shown in the film. What you may not know, though, is that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals [...]

Nothing is free

August 25, 2010

For anyone wondering why the US Armed Forces went ape shit over removable media last year, the secret is out: apparently, some jackass thought that Chinese official handing out free thumb drives in Afghanistan was legit. The Washington Post: Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a [...]

Kepler: L -5

March 1, 2009

Well, we’re just a few days away from the launch of the Kepler Mission, designed to search out terrestrial and larger planets in or near the habitable zone of a wide variety of stars. Until now, we’ve only been able to detect Jupiter-sized planets orbiting distant stars by measuring the star’s “wobble”, as the gravity [...]