Category Archives: Technology

It’s Black Tuesday, tomorrow the Cyberjihad starts

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Thanos

Participants on key Arabic-language Al-Qaida chat forums on the Internet have announced their intent to launch collective cyberterrorist attacks tomorrow… I will remind everyone that today was Black Tuesday, Microsoft released 11 new patches. Continue reading →

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India Reopens Blogging

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Thanos

Indian security officials are declaring that their blocking of blogs has proven counterproductive, and they have reopened many blocked sites in India. I am curious if you can get to The Jawa Report and others now from there. CAUTION: You … Continue reading →

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Space Shuttle, STS-121 Returns SAFELY!

Posted on July 17, 2006 by Thanos

The Space Shuttle took the first window of opportunity and fired a burn to de-orbit about fifty minutes ago. STS-121 is on a re-entry path to Florida and Kennedy Space Center atd the Cape, and should touch down about 8:16 CDT. Update: Shuttle lands safely.
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Breaking: C-802 Missle hit Israeli Ship, not a UAV drone

Posted on July 15, 2006 by Thanos

Fox news has just reported that it was a Chinese C-802 missle that hit the Israeli warship killing two sailors, while it was on-duty blockading the harbor in Lebanon. The two other missing sailors have not yet been found. The Israeli ship was partly towed to it’s harbor after the hit, but halfway through the trip managed enough repairs to start moving on its own engines. Continue reading →

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Black Tuesday comes next week

Posted on July 9, 2006 by Thanos

The folks at ISC remind us that Black Tuesday comes next week with new security bulletins and patches coming from Microsoft. If you have Gates Gear remember to patch next week. Published: 2006-07-07, Last Updated: 2006-07-07 22:56:04 UTC by John … Continue reading →

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Great Recovery 1stcom!

Posted on July 4, 2006 by Thanos

I wanted to take a moment and thank my Hosting Company, 1stcom.com for a great recovery effort over a holiday weekend. They had a catastrophic failure of some drives but were able to get me back up, running and fully recovered. Just wanted to take a moment to thank them for the great effort, it’s well-appreciated Continue reading →

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Weekend Nuclear Energy Roundup

Posted on June 24, 2006 by Thanos

In an interesting twist on some of Atomic Rod’s ideas, the Russians now plan to build portable floating nuclear reactors as reported by Der Spiegel. It’s workable, since these are reactors just like the ones Russian Subs and Icebreakers currently use. Continue reading →

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Nuclear power in layman’s terms

Posted on June 23, 2006 by Thanos

There’s a great article on energy, energy sources, and why we should build more nuclear energy plants in the US over at Kuro5hin, check it out. You’ll also hear people moan about a fuel shortage with nuclear: except that there … Continue reading →

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Missile Defense Agency

Posted on June 21, 2006 by Thanos

it’s our right to protect ourselves, our allies, their neighbors, ships and aircraft in the area, or even endangered species it might pass near. In other words, we should shoot it down with any path near Japan, or any other allies. Continue reading →

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Democratic Strategy Underwhelmingly Embarrassing

Posted on June 18, 2006 by Thanos

So it’s quite telling that the Democratic Leadership dropped their election strategy for ’06 late on a Friday afternoon at the beginning of silly season. Continue reading →

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