Fighter pilots face a dismal future

The U.S. Air Force has a morale problem with its combat pilots. The issue is lack of action for the pilots. That, plus the increased use of unmanned aircraft, and the very real prospect that the age of the manned combat aircraft may be coming to an end. http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmoral/articles/20091102.aspx

US Navy Swarm UAVs

The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) recently demonstrated autonomous operations by multiple “swarms” of unmanned air and ground vehicles, unattended ground sensors, video cameras and other devices linked together in an intelligent network powered by EdgeFrontier platform technologies from Augusta Systems, Inc. via NAVAIR And Augusta Demo Operations Of Multiple Swarms Of UAVs And Read more about US Navy Swarm UAVs[…]

Booming business, steal and sell to governments

An interesting article – if you have bank customer information, which you’ve stolen from a bank, governments will pay you for that information. If you’re a spy you’d be shot for it. It’s not right that the Dutch government is using tax payers money on criminally attained information to find people who have foreign cash Read more about Booming business, steal and sell to governments[…]

Why computers suck at maths

This article explores why computers can’t do floating point maths, which is what makes Excel and all those online calculators such lousy mathematicians – basically because computers are binary, they can’t calculate anything after a decimal point, so the workaround is to put the number including the decimal point in a register of a certain Read more about Why computers suck at maths[…]

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Dutch Hacker informs Jailbroken iPhones that they’re insecure

Fantastic – this guy port scans the T-Mobile range and finds the jailbroken iphones on the network, then SSH’s in using the default password and blips a message to the iphone telling the user the iphone has been hacked. Users can find out how to close the hole by visiting a website and paying EUR. Read more about Dutch Hacker informs Jailbroken iPhones that they’re insecure[…]

Airport 3D scanners may rip your DNA to shreds

Terraherz waves, used to make x-ray type machines that can look through clothes and walls and more are also being deployed in airport scanners that look through your clothes. It turns out that under certain circumstances, they can resonate with your DNA, thus destroying it. Lovely. Slashdot Science Story | How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart Read more about Airport 3D scanners may rip your DNA to shreds[…]