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- Biodegradable surgical implants and surreptitious DNA archival.
After badly breaking a load-bearing part of your body it's not uncommon for an orthopedic surgeon to install a couple of after-market bits of hardware to hold the bones to
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
When I discovered that Spyglass Pictures was bringing G.I. Joe to the big screen a while ago I was nonplussed until I discovered that Christopher Eccleston, who happens to
- Gary McKinnon to be extradited to the US.
Just a few days ago it was made official - eccentric systems cracker Gary McKinnon, known as the UFO Hacker by the news media has lost his final appeal and will be extradi
- What hath the fabulists wrought?
It's long been said that science fiction predicts, or at least inspires some of the things which we take for granted every day. While the exact origins of the genre could
- Peter W. Singer at HacDC.
Forget moblogging. It's too much hassle to be workable because it never works, and it wrecks my formatting. I just got back from HacDC, where tonight Peter Singer, author
- Is a cold net.war going on between the US and China?
Every once in a while a news article about attempts to crack US military and government systems coming out of China or the Middle East hits the 'wires; rumors of groups of
- Improvised explosive device goes off in Times Square. NYC residents nonplussed.
Early today someone threw an improvised bomb at a US military recruiting station, whereupon it went off some time later and caused minimal damage to the structure. Witness
- Even bigger bada boom!
Remember around this time last year when the US Navy started testing railguns as ship-mounted weapons? BAE Systems has developed an even more powerful magnetic linear acce
- Military develops firewall appliance for battlefield networks.
Following battlefield tales that Hezbollah had compromised the IDF communications network during operations in Lebanon last year, defense contractors have developed Meshne
- Practical HERF: No longer an urban legend?
For years, HERF weapons (high energy radio frequency) have been the stuff of science fiction and urban legends of the hacker underground. The underlying premise is simple:
- It's taken years of campaigning, but it's finally happened.
The United States military has finally conceded after all these years - the pentacle has now been approved for the headstones of veterans who are also neopagans. The famil
- Even gamers stationed overseas need dice^wlove.
The troops stationed overseas aren't having a fun time of their hitch in Iraq, let's be honest. They do everything they can to keep their spirits high and burnout rates lo
- Packets... in... SPAAAAAAAACCCEEEE!!!!!
The United States military is planning to launch a communications satellite that is a dedicated Internet router by the year 2009. The way the Net works right now, some com
- Gary, Gary, Gary, you got some 'splainin' to do...
Gary McKinnon, who cracked US government and military networks under the alias 'Solo' in search of information on unidentified flying objects and unusual power sources wil
- Of course, these are illegal for civillians to own...
Remember those bulletproof windbreakers from Snow Crash? They looked good, they wore well, and they could stop a 9mm round? I don't know if you'd call this a windbreaker o
- Big bada boom!
A weapons test at the Naval Surface Warface Centre made the news yesterday because a heretofore novel device was successfully tested: A railgun, more technically referred
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