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| Your tax dollars at work. |
[Thu, 17-Dec-2009 1:48 AM] |
Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes' systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet -- to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter. The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control. The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said. Today, the Air Force is buying hundreds of Reaper drones, a newer model, whose video feeds could be intercepted in much the same way as with the Predators, according to people familiar with the matter. A Reaper costs between $10 million and $12 million each and is faster and better armed than the Predator. General Atomics expects the Air Force to buy as many as 375 Reapers. |
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| Samson and Delilah |
[Wed, 9-Dec-2009 7:16 PM] |
I find that this song has been on repeat for several hours now. I am compelled to force it on you as well. I also like the pacing of this scene with the music. The previous episode was nicely done as well. |
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| Big Daddy 2 |
[Wed, 25-Nov-2009 10:55 AM] |
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| | The Hope Blister -- The Outer Skin | ] |
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| Big Daddy |
[Thu, 29-Oct-2009 6:09 PM] |
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| | Danielle Dax -- Touch Piggy's Eyes | ] |
Hell yeah the drill spins.  |  | | My favorite part about Bioshock is how it functions as an innoculation for the virus known as Objectivism. What group is most suspeptible to that disease? Fourteen year old boys. Who's the target audience of most video games? Exactly. So now there will be an entire generation of guys encountering Objectivism for the first time, and they will already have the necessary antibodies. "Oh, Ayn Rand? Right, I remember that, the ruined, drowning city full of junkies and mutants." Some people never recover. | |
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| Delaunay Tesselations of Pretty Girls. |
[Fri, 23-Oct-2009 6:26 PM] |
This is pretty cool. Delaunay is the inverse of Voronoi, so this is the same family of tesselations that the Voronoi XScreenSaver does. He did it manually, though, which is kind of weird. Would have been cooler to automatically pick the control points by the first derivative of the image. Animation: |
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| shiny. |
[Fri, 23-Oct-2009 6:15 PM] |
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| | Gary Numan -- My Brother's Time | ] |
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| Today in Skynet news |
[Sun, 18-Oct-2009 3:32 PM] |
The maps that it builds at around 1:09 and 1:54 are pretty sweet. |
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