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Terrorist Tactics and Blackberry Battles
Very interesting piece looking at how slow intelligence agencies can be at adapting to new and emerging technologies. Here they highlight how the LeT terrorists, which undertook the Mumbai attacks in 2008, built a global battlefield communication system from a few mobile phones and some commercial software. Yet the knee-jerk reaction of simply demanding access…
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Brammo Empulse: 100miles@100mph on Electric Motorcycle
Brammo has been impressing with their electric motorcycle range and since they first released the Enertia and then decided to ride two of these electric motorcycles along the route of the automotive CEOs who went to Washington DC asking for government loans. Now they have raised the bar for all the other electric motorcycle manufactures,…
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Some Links: Killer Monkeys, Norway and Pundits
The Taliban and Killer Monkeys: It would seem that “monkey terrorists” are being trained by the Taliban in the Waziristan tribal region. They are being shown how to use AK-47s and Bren machine-guns. Though many armed forces utilize animals in various roles, it was the USA in Vietnam who first used trained monkeys to attack enemy troops,…
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Some Interesting Links…
Image via Wikipedia No More Pilots: The UK Ministry of Defence have unveiled a unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV), named Taranis, designed to penetrate into enemy controlled air-space, something the current generation of UAVs are not able to do. Lebron and Poli Sci: Here in Ohio LeBron James is all over the news, here the Monkey…
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Secret Treaties, Oppressive Laws and Killing the Internet
From John Robb, a series of links that highlight the world we live in as states attempt reassert their dominance in the global system. The methods being employed are likely to end in failure, but using the methods employed below can not be good for anyone. The ‘state’ is currently an injured animal and is…
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Space Nazi’s Coming in 2018?
From Blogger Pictures Hopefully they will arrive sooner then that, probably within the next 18 months if I was to hazard a guess, all thanks to the indie movie studio Energia Productions Ltd. Their previous Sci-Fi effort has become something of a cult classic, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, and building on the success of…
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Kindling Interest: Amazon Kindle 2 in Ireland
I will put my hands up and admit that I was highly sceptical of the recent explosion of ebook reading devices. Amazon and Sony seem to be leading the way, with Apple’s new iPad also being marketed as being suitable for this role, and it was an introduction to the Sony reader that really peaked…
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Buell is Gone…Long Live Motus
With the demise of Buell motorcycles at the hands of Harley-Davidson part of me began to wonder what could ever replace my Ulysses XB12XT? At first glance nothing out there stirs the senses or gets me as excited in anticipation of jumping on the big v-twin sports tourer and going for a ride, be it…
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Karmic Compaq: Installing Ubuntu 9.10 on a Presario PC
Image via Wikipedia The Compaq Presario SR5109UK is my first desktop PC, since the late 90s all I have owned are laptops and now netbooks. I really do prefer the mobile nature of a laptop and sitting/going virtually anywhere you like with it, but when my sister offered up this desktop that had been hidden…
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Going Green the Brammo Way
How would you like to save at least $2000 a year in fuel (estimated at the average US car making 17mpg and the average commute of 32 miles)? While using a vehicle that costs only $10 a year to travel the same distance! You could also reduce your carbon footprint by 27% and your transportation…
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