SpaceX gets it up

Welcome to the era of commercial space freighters. Also: Scotty's givin' it all he's got (left), Cap'n ..er.. Civilian.

by MstrLance 2012-05-23 08:29:29 | 0 reads | 1 comment

Wind Power Without the Blades

We could like... call it the hair of the Earth.

by Masteryoda 2012-05-05 11:20:44 | 0 reads | 2 comments

Legendary sports car designer Ferdinand Porsche is dead at 76

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, who designed the first 911 sports car and went on to found a consumer products design firm that also carried the Porsche name, died Thursday in Salzburg, Austria. He was 76.

by Crapalicious 2012-04-07 21:34:26 | 0 reads | comment

The Modern Science of the Modern Medical MaryJane

Dusting the buds like a light snow are resin glands full of 80 or more cannabinoids, most notably the psychoactive one, THC. The delicate balance of these resins is an art.

by BeachGoat 2012-03-26 09:11:49 | 0 reads | comment

Iran's High Tech, Low Cost Military: US Headache

Iran's military has a ton of anti-ship missiles, fast attack boats and submarines that could cause great damage to US forces. It seems the media may not be covering this story the way it should:

by DaveyM 2012-01-28 08:56:51 | 0 reads | 1 comment

Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory

Mike Daisey was a self-described "worshipper in the cult of Mac." Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my meep? He traveled to China to find out.

by witty_screen_name 2012-01-23 19:32:39 | 0 reads | comment

Remember Kiddies, the Internets Can Ruin Your Life

So meep like this happened all the time, but only a select few got to experience it. Now, your life gets ruined for 30s of juvenile stupidity via a nice camera vid. I find it funny and sad at the same time. If youth can't get out their stupid via pranks, what hope is there?

by BigDinWaunakee 2012-01-23 00:43:48 | 0 reads | 1 comment

Super Mutant Virus No Longer Being Studied For Fears Of Accidental or Intentional Release

A strain of the "Bird Flu" that has been specially mutated to spread and kill everyone on Earth will no longer be researched...the other dozens of Evil Plagues will continue to brew.

by BeachGoat 2012-01-21 13:37:21 | 0 reads | 1 comment

A Wrinkle In Time

Scientists believe they have created stutters or blips of reverse time during experiments that may lead to actual useful meep. Wouldn't that be fun.

by BeachGoat 2012-01-06 06:09:44 | 0 reads | comment

China's Parallel Online Universe

To the casual eye, China's social media landscape might look diverse and lively. But the social media clones are careful to follow Communist Party censorship.

by DaveyM 2011-12-29 19:54:36 | 0 reads | 4 comments

Forum: I needs a new Puter!

Its time to upgrade the PC Tower. Mostly for media, internet fun and my Kids and there school stuff. My weif and I both have Lappies.

by HOBO 2011-12-12 07:09:47 | 0 reads | 9 comments

Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control.

by middle_age_man 2011-12-07 09:14:02 | 0 reads | 1 comment

HP decides to keep its PC business

Hewlett-Packard announced Thursday that it will continue selling personal computers after all, reversing an earlier decision to exit one of its core business lines.

by middle_age_man 2011-10-28 08:18:26 | 0 reads | comment

Online Gamers May Have Cured AIDS

Finally, video games make medical history

by Pepper 2011-09-19 11:12:19 | 0 reads | comment

My speech to the IAAC | Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent

"the world is currently run by a generation whose upbringing has left them intellectually unable to be deal with modernity"

by LORDKAHUNA 2011-09-12 12:55:01 | 0 reads | 6 comments

Disturbing Conversation Between Chatbots

Via Cornell's Creative Machines Lab, two robots are forced into an uncomfortable conversation that touches on God and other existential matters. (Both are suspicious that the other may have android origins, but neither wants to admit it.) It's even more disconcerting to imagine robots someday having such discussions without human supervision and coming to epiphanies concerning their robotic nature.

by middle_age_man 2011-08-30 09:32:16 | 0 reads | 2 comments

Jobs quits Job.

As CEO, but wants to stay employed.

by dragonstaff 2011-08-24 22:21:00 | 0 reads | 5 comments

HP kills TouchPad, looks to exit PC business

The company said Thursday that it is looking to spin off its industry-leading but struggling personal computer business. HP also killed off the TouchPad tablet it launched last month, as well as its webOS smartphone line.

by middle_age_man 2011-08-19 09:18:26 | 0 reads | comment

Why Isn't America Innovating Like It Used To?

It's easy to imagine that our whiz-bang gadgets have made us more productive than ever. But what if that's simply not the case?

by GrapeApe 2011-08-12 11:37:30 | 0 reads | 2 comments

Three reasons why Google should acquire RIM right now

Interesting op-ed

by middle_age_man 2011-08-06 13:33:45 | 0 reads | 4 comments

Are Internet Explorer users dumb?

AptiQuaint, a Vancouver-based Web consulting company, gave more than 100,000 participants an IQ test, while monitoring which browser they used to take the test.

by middle_age_man 2011-07-29 13:43:52 | 0 reads | 7 comments

Republicans curious obsession with light bulbs

Republicans Set To Repeal Light Bulb Efficiency Standard That Would Save Consumers $12 Billion A Year

by DaveyM 2011-07-10 03:03:32 | 0 reads | 2 comments

South Korea considers redeploying tactical nukes

Fed up with North Korea provoking it, South Korea is considering nuclear weapons.

by DaveyM 2011-07-09 19:18:56 | 0 reads | 1 comment

How to Fly a Zeppelin Airship

Piloting a zeppelin airship is a rare privilege-and harder than it looks.

by MstrLance 2011-06-30 12:20:25 | 0 reads | 1 comment

'Anonymous' hackers declare war on Orlando

Websites to be attacked over arrests of activists handing out food to homeless people

by DaveyM 2011-06-29 00:35:47 | 0 reads | comment

Wrong on China Cyber Assaults

Why an ex-White House cyber security tsar is all wrong about China

by DaveyM 2011-06-22 09:46:10 | 0 reads | 1 comment

U.S. Drones vs China

China's military has been focusing on an area-denial strategy. Could U.S. drones overcome this?

by DaveyM 2011-05-25 21:10:27 | 0 reads | 5 comments

Lost pyramids spotted from space

Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt.

by MstrLance 2011-05-25 19:15:51 | 0 reads | 1 comment

What We've Done to the Mississippi River: An Explainer

A guide to how the modern technologized Mississippi River works

by MstrLance 2011-05-25 14:58:14 | 0 reads | 22 comments

Gas Too Pricy? Wood Burning Cars May Be the Answer

We've done it before, we may need to do it again.

by BeachGoat 2011-05-16 10:23:19 | 0 reads | 2 comments

US Library of Congress Creates Online Jukebox For Rare Recordings

Feast yer' ears

by BigDinWaunakee 2011-05-11 07:41:38 | 0 reads | comment

Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster

Are gun shots a natural disaster? Texas looks like the worst place to be...

by GrapeApe 2011-05-07 16:55:19 | 0 reads | 3 comments

Abbottabad IT Geek Unknowingly TwitterCasts The Raid On Osamaville

Threatened to bring out giant flyswatter to scatter the Navy Seals. If he only knew.

by BigDinWaunakee 2011-05-05 07:34:39 | 0 reads | 1 comment

A peek inside the Google caste system

A fourth class exists at Google that involves strictly data-entry labor, or more appropriately, the labor of digitizing. These workers are identifiable by their yellow badges, and they go by the team name ScanOps. They scan books, page by page, for Google Book Search. The workers wearing yellow badges are not allowed any of the privileges that I was allowed - ride the Google bikes, take the Google luxury limo shuttles home, eat free gourmet Google meals, attend Authors@Google talks and receive free, signed copies of the author's books, or set foot anywhere else on campus except for the building they work in. They also are not given backpacks, mobile devices, thumb drives, or any chance for social interaction with any other Google employees."

by LORDKAHUNA 2011-05-02 09:01:31 | 0 reads | 4 comments

Post Mortem: When Amazon's Cloud Turned On Itself

The snafus in the cloud, it turns out, aren't so different from those occurring in the overworked, under-automated and undomeepented processes of the average data center. According to Amazon's post mortem explanation of its recent hours-long outage, the failure was apparently triggered by a human error.

by middle_age_man 2011-04-30 09:32:26 | 0 reads | 4 comments

Crazy Lady Waxes Crazy on Nuclear Energy

If she is correct on even one point we seem to be meeped. (JoeRoganrape'd)

by meepbox 2011-04-26 08:16:33 | 0 reads | 8 comments

'Suicide Squads' Paid Huge Sums Amid Fresh Fears For Nuclear Site

The radioactive core in one reactor at Fukushima's beleaguered nuclear power plant appeared to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel, an expert warned yesterday. Chile Syndrome, here we come!

by MstrLance 2011-03-30 14:02:47 | 502 reads | 14 comments

Goodnight, Stardust

With the click of a mouse, Sandy Freund Kasper sent a command to NASA's comet-hunting Stardust space probe to burn all its fuel, starting a sequence that would shut the spacecraft down after a 12-year run.

by MstrLance 2011-03-29 09:00:14 | 274 reads | comment

Swiss Watchmaking: The View from 1861

This article originally appeared in the April 1861 issue of Scientific American.

by MstrLance 2011-03-27 08:16:10 | 312 reads | 2 comments

AT&T to buy T-Mobile

Say good bye to the only decent wireless carrier customer service in the US.

by meepbox 2011-03-21 10:59:47 | 157 reads | 3 comments

Jobs has weeks to live?

Supposedly seen outside cancer clinic looking like the walking dead.

by dragonstaff 2011-02-17 08:53:40 | 605 reads | 6 comments

Limey Court confirms: IP addresses aren't people (and P2P lawyers know it)

But what makes the England and Wales Patent County Court ruling particularly interesting is the jurist's obvious skepticism about what has become the central dogma behind these suits-that a torrent share associated with a specific IP address is grounds for legal action against a specific human being.

by meepbox 2011-02-15 08:46:16 | 257 reads | comment

AOL-HuffPo Merger Costs AOL stock $315 Million in Five Days

Guess it wasn't such a good idea after all

by Dismas 2011-02-10 08:47:38 | 244 reads | 1 comment

Restoring American Competitiveness

Decades of outsourcing manufacturing has left U.S. industry without the means to invent the next generation of high-tech products that are key to rebuilding its economy.

by dotcom 2011-02-06 09:07:32 | 371 reads | 1 comment

World runs out of IP addresses

"A pool of more than 4 billion internet addresses has been emptied this morning," ICANN chief Rod Beckstrom said. "It is completely depleted. There are no more."

by MstrLance 2011-02-04 10:47:33 | 524 reads | 7 comments

$15 phone and 3 minutes to eavesdrop on GSM cell phone calls

Using a $15 phone and a 2TB table of pre-computed encryption keys enables anyone with enough savvy to get a phone users location and eavesdrop on their cell phone calls.

by Gethoht 2010-12-30 04:00:46 | 321 reads | 4 comments

$15 phone and 3 minutes to eavesdrop on GSM cell phone calls

Using a $15 phone and a 2TB table of pre-computed encryption keys enables anyone with enough savvy to get a phone users location and eavesdrop on their cell phone calls.

by Gethoht 2010-12-30 04:00:45 | 112 reads | 1 comment