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Saturday, December 27
American Thinker: Problems with 'green' energy you may not have heard about
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 27 Dec 2008 02:03 AM EST
One major issue with many supposedly "green" energy sources is reliability, and another is maintenance. Both issues are highlighted in a strikingly honest report in today's New York Times by Kate Galbraith. Credit where it is due. Some of the problems reported: More>>> Friday, December 26
Home Generator -Zero Point Energy - Off the Grid
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 26 Dec 2008 12:28 AM EST
Sunday, December 14
Google cranks up the Consensus Engine
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 14 Dec 2008 05:10 PM EST
Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It's a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance. More>>> Monday, December 1
Lawsuits Stop Offshore Drilling in Its Tracks
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 01 Dec 2008 02:51 PM EST
Oil and gas companies appeared to score a victory when congressional Democrats let the offshore drilling moratorium expire after President Bush lifted an executive ban. But those who think nothing stands in the way of offshore drilling are dead wrong More>>> Friday, November 21
Recycling Nuclear Fuel: The French Do It, Why Can't Oui?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 21 Nov 2008 07:38 PM EST
From 2007: Over the past four decades, America’s reactors have produced about 56,000 tons of used fuel. That “waste” contains roughly enough energy to power every U.S. household for 12 years. And it’s just sitting there, piling up at power plant storage facilities. Talk about waste!
The sad thing is, the United States developed the technology to recapture that energy decades ago, then barred its commercial use in 1977. We have practiced a virtual moratorium ever since. More>>> Thursday, November 20
Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 09:54 PM EST
The Pentagon has suffered from a cyber attack so alarming that it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of external hardware devices, such as flash drives and DVD's, FOX News has learned. The attack came in the form of a global virus or worm that is spreading rapidly throughout a number of military networks. More>>> Saturday, October 18
How Obama Would Stifle Drug Innovation
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 18 Oct 2008 01:03 PM EDT
Saturday, August 23
Meet "Emily" - Image Metrics Tech Demo...Yes you read correctly, TECH demo. She's fake
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 23 Aug 2008 09:38 PM EDT
Monday, August 18
A road map to wardriving in these times
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 18 Aug 2008 06:22 PM EDT
Memorize this: a5d1tmI#9DWSFX`/ksbo"RZ"l`SN` ito%b)Bel*B_EiCZ)q-h/`VF"3Gb_CM#TT. Got it? You might want to try because that's the kind of password you'll need if you really want your wireless network to be secure. That's the word from Keith Maynard...Seric is one of the original wardrivers, hobbyists who deck out their cars with computers and sensitive antennas and go cruising the streets looking for wireless networks. More>>> Sunday, August 17
Mystery experts: U.S. on verge of grand-scale blackout
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 17 Aug 2008 12:38 PM EDT
Five years after the worst blackout in North American history, the country’s largest utilities say the U.S. power system faces the prospect of even bigger and more damaging outages. The specific flaws that led to 50 million people losing power in 2003 have largely been addressed, they say, but even bigger problems loom. Excess generating capacity in the system is shrinking, for example, and power-plant construction has slowed as costs to build and operate plants have soared. At the same time, it is estimated that electricity use will increase 29 percent between 2006 to 2030 — much of it driven by residential growth, according to a government report issued in June More>>> Monday, August 11
'Laser jumbo' testing moves ahead
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 11 Aug 2008 03:54 AM EDT
A US military plane equipped with a powerful laser has moved a step closer to becoming a viable weapon. Engineers have started flowing chemical fuel through the laser to test its sequencing and control. This will set up the first test firing of the weapon aboard the aircraft while it is on the ground More>>> Wednesday, August 6
Opinion: Boone Doggle
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 06 Aug 2008 10:30 PM EDT
Boone Pickens may be a fine man, and has played a colorful and useful role on the American stage for decades. But his "energy plan," which he's spending a fortune to promote on cable TV, is not a plan. Asserting that something would be good to do is not "a plan." Saying how to do it is "a plan." More>>> Thursday, July 31
Project to rebuild Internet gets $12M, bandwidth
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 31 Jul 2008 12:24 PM EDT
Many researchers want to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, saying a "clean-slate" approach is the only way to truly address security and other challenges that have cropped up since the Internet's birth in 1969 More>>>
Dell dives into entertainment market with mini desktop
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 31 Jul 2008 04:02 AM EDT
The computer maker today unveiled a mini desktop PC that's 80% smaller than the average desktop minitower and uses 70% less energy. The Dell Studio Hybrid runs Intel's Pentium Dual Core or Core 2 Duo processor and Microsoft's Windows Vista. More>>> Friday, July 25
Hackers get hold of critical Internet flaw
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 25 Jul 2008 01:17 AM EDT
"We are in a lot of trouble," said IOActive security specialist Dan Kaminsky, who stumbled upon the Domain Name System (DNS) vulnerability about six months ago and reached out to industry giants to collaborate on a solution. "This attack is very good. This attack is being weaponized out in the field. Everyone needs to patch, please. This is a big deal." More>>> Monday, July 7
Oil price shock means China is at risk of blowing up
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 07 Jul 2008 06:36 PM EDT
The manufacturing revolution of China and her satellites has been built on cheap transport over the past decade. At a stroke, the trade model looks obsolete. No surprise that Shanghai's bourse is down 56pc since October, one of the world's most spectacular bear markets in half a century. More>>> Thursday, July 3
Ah hah! Plasma, LCDs blamed for accelerating global warming...
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 08:34 PM EDT
A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming. More>>> Sunday, June 29
Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 29 Jun 2008 09:36 PM EDT
Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista. Once computers loaded with XP have been cleared (Snip) consumers who can't live without the old operating system on their new machine will have to buy Vista Ultimate or Vista Business and then legally "downgrade" to XP. More>>> Friday, May 30
Border Security to Become Copyright Police?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 30 May 2008 09:52 PM EDT
A proposed trade agreement could authorize border agents to search the contents of laptops and iPods for copyrighted material More>>>
China’s Cyber-Militia
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 30 May 2008 01:30 PM EDT
Chinese hackers pose a clear and present danger to U.S. government and private-sector computer networks and may be responsible for two major U.S. power blackouts. More>>> Sunday, May 18
Stores secretly track customers via mobile phone
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 18 May 2008 10:06 PM EDT
Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that listens in on the whisperings of their mobile phones. The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route they take as they walked around. More>>> |
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