The boffins at Berkley Lab made a tiny tractor beam. They claim that using the quantum effects they expect that eventually light “could in principle drive the motion of really large objects“.
… --> continue reading →The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine. — Benjamin Franklin
In an excellent article about RIM and its BlackBerry Messenger, Andrew Orlowski slashes at the current “bleakly uniform design of today’s smartphone slabs” and rightly so. The good old manufacturers like RIM, Sony, and Nokia had a lot to go for their names and devices. The interfaces, the convenience, the engagement they created were priceless. Hope they come back…… -->
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It was only a matter of time before all those security cameras would supply the images to a central location and become a part of a large surveillance network. It was inevitable from the beginning. Now Wikileaks apparently revealed some documents that shed light on the USA surveillance network that is, indeed, using those surveillance cameras all over the country as this article in io9 reports. Inevitable.… -->
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Well, it is all military at the moment but the military technology has a history of seeping through to the civilian world. US military is developing hypersonic flight at Mach 6 and the decisive test for that particular project is today. Hey, I know it is all about bombs and rockets but I hope we will have the hypersonic intercontinental flights in my time because I missed out on the Concorde!… -->
continue reading →Stob at The Reg shares the latest of word on the buzziness of buzzwords:
Jargon CredibilityIncidentally, one of the latest BOFH is about jargon too. So, am I not the only one tired of jargon?… -->
continue reading →The Reg reports on a recent survey that conclusively shows that “the majority of Americans think the Transportation Security Administration, which handles security screening at US airports, is doing just fine…”
Overcoming the initial shock, my conclusion is that if the government keeps something up long enough, people will just swallow it in the end because they will no more know any better. Duh, the humanity.… -->
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WSJ reports in an article “Police shoot, kill man near NYC Times Square” that a man was shot after a “slow speed pusuit” that lasted 7 blocks and lunging at a police officer with a knife.
What I personally find strange in this story is that the police could not take the knife away from a person allegedly smoking marijuana. He had the knife drawn from the beginning and was wildly swinging it around. Would it not be a part of the police training to know how to take a knife away from someone? Do they really have to shoot dead the guy? And there were many police officers there, mind you. What is next? Will they shoot people wielding sticks? I can tell you, a stick can be more dangerous than a gun if wielded properly.
Why is the police so helpless suddenly that they have to use firearms in a very basic situation? I do not feel comfortable with the police escalating the violence instead of using the techniques, training and their wits that they should have had about them.… -->
continue reading →The news report that in Kazan, Russia, an Islamist sect was found living underground for more than 10 years. The members were forbidden to leavean 8-storey (!) bunker they dug (probably themselves) under the basement of a building. Some children never saw daylight.
The Olympic 2012 is really weird, as I already mentioned some time ago. And now we know why: David Icke explains the Olympic 2012 opening ceremony.… -->
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