The USAF and DARPA are working on a new flying craft. The payload that this vehicle would carry would be a measly six tons. It seems that the payload would primarily be UAVs and cruise missiles, yet they speak of the UAVs as being "highly maneuverable," yet they will not have a separate power-plant ( Read more... )

I am going to endeavour to get some networked-attached storage up and running by the end of the year. Found a sweet deal--1TB NAS for $429--and now it will just come down to pestering my parents enough so I can get them to setup a checking account in trust for me. I've only been waiting for that to happen since August, btw ( Read more... )

I stumbled across this nice hybrid HDTV/Monitor and I want it ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7123582.stm

All I have to say is P.U ( Read more... )

Take a look at isohunt.com for some rather interesting developments re: trent Reznor and Radiohead.

Makes me want to cry. 400 GBs of data and I cannot access at. The problem began last night with Windows sometimes recognizing the drive, sometimes not and seek time was seriously laggy. I could read from the drive, but not write to it. I ran all the diagnostics that I could, hoping that they would straighten things out. Now I cannot access it ( Read more... )

The health of the parental units is quite a cause of concern for me. I'm feeling stellar mentally and physically ( Read more... )

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I have decided to rant about the nonsense surrounding the "theory of the Democratic peace"--this notion that Democracies do not go to war with each other. This theory is at the heart of 20th and 21st century American foreign policy ( Read more... )