FBI Has Drones But No Rules
VideoIt is difficult to believe that anyone was genuinely shocked to learn today that the FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance. But if news of FBI drone operations bothers you, you're not going...
View ArticleNow Police Are Shooting Down Drones
VideoFair is fair. If the police can use drones to watch the public, then the public should be able to use drones to watch them. Too bad Turkish riot police don't share those ethics. When a...
View ArticleA Sneak Peek At Europa Universalis IV
I had a chance to play a beta of Europa Universalis IV several weeks ago, in a big multiplayer demo for journalists. My career as ruler of Denmark was so spectacularly abysmal that if Hamlet were still...
View Article'World War Z': The Board Game
As relentless and inevitable as a zombie horde, it is no surprise that World War Z has spawned an official board game. Called "World War Z: The Game", it tasks two to four players with the demanding...
View ArticleDrones Landing On Aircraft Carriers? Don't Cheer Just Yet
VideoCall me an aviation Luddite, but I do have a few questions about the latest Triumph of the Drone. Yes, landing on an airfield that's moving at 35 miles per hour in the middle of the ocean is no...
View ArticleColorado Town Considers License To Kill Drones
Residents of a small Colorado town will be able to buy licenses to shoot down U.S. government drones, if a proposed ordinance is passed by the community of Deer Trail. "Whereas, many Western...
View Article'Tide of Iron' Is A Storm Of Steel
Toy soldiers are a guilty pleasure. We love them as children and are taught to look down on them as adults. And this is a pity, because something that touches us on such a visceral level must have some...
View ArticleCan You Come Up With A Better Name For Drones?
Would a drone by any other name still not spy on you from 5,000 feet, or blow you to pieces with a Hellfire missile? Drone manufacturers seems to think so, which is why they are fighting to erase the...
View ArticleRussia Says Cyberspace is New 'Theater of War'
The next war will be fought in cyberspace, and Russia is arming for battle. “Cyberspace is becoming our priority,” Andrei Grigoryev, head of the Foundation for Advanced Military Research, told Russian...
View ArticleWhy Can't The U.S. Air Force Find Enough Pilots To Fly Its Drones?
Yank and bank, boom and zoom. Many young people join the Air Force to fly supersonic jets. But how many join up to for the thrill of spending years in a Nevada trailer, flying planes by remote...
View ArticleNo, Syrian Thugs And U.S. Marines Are Not Brothers
Screenshot via zerohedge.com U.S. Marines are a prideful lot, sometimes too much so (hell hath no fury like a man who has been called an ex-Marine). But they have every right to be angry when thugs and...
View ArticleHow The U.S. Military Plans To Hijack The Airwaves
If you want to take over a nation, then first take over its airwaves. Broadcast your messages and interdict the enemy's ability to broadcast theirs. When the U.S. attacked Iraq in 1991, or NATO bombed...
View ArticleThis Is What Happens When An H-Bomb Explodes Over North Carolina
What would happen if a 4-megaton hydrogen bomb detonated over North Carolina? On January 24th, 1961, the world almost discovered the answer. It was a brush with Doomsday, a peek into the heart of...
View ArticleIran's Cyberwarfare Chief Gunned Down
Two bullets to the heart have terminated the life of Iran's chief of cyberwarfare, according to the Daily Telegraph. Mojtaba Ahmadi, commander of Iran's Cyber War Headquarters, was found dead in a...
View ArticleRussian Government Demands 'Patriotic' Video Games
Fed up with video games that show Russian soldiers as killers instead of superheroes, the Russian government is going produce its own "patriotic" games, and may also ban foreign video games that...
View ArticleTerrorism Makes People Shop More, Study Finds
People do strange things when bombs fall on their heads. But go shopping? Yet this is exactly what some people are prone to do when living under the threat of terrorism, according to a new study. More...
View ArticleAce Patrol: Pacific Skies - The Flight Sim For The Joystick-Challenged
A man's reach should exceed his grasp, but not when he can't grasp a joystick. For those of us whose talents are other than eye-hand coordination, flight sims are a misery. That is what makes Sid...
View ArticleGerman Company Does Drone Delivery
Two can play the drone delivery game, mein Amazon. Germany's Deutsche Post DHL, the world's largest delivery company, has used a drone to deliver a package less than two weeks after Amazon promised to...
View ArticleYour Very Own Drone-Watching Guide
What's that strange bird flying overhead? Why, it's a gray-breasted Dronus Predatorus, and it must be hungry, because it looks like it's searching for prey. I know this thanks to my handy Drone...
View ArticleIran Says 'Tall, White' Space Aliens Control America
Documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden conclusively prove that the United States has been ruled by a race of tall, white space aliens who also assisted the rise of Nazi Germany in the...
View ArticleDid Iranian Fighters Battle UFOs?
As if the Iran-UFO connection (the Axis of Alien-ness?) couldn't get any weirder, it now appears that the Iranian Air Force attempted to shoot down aircraft that didn't seem very Earth-like. Before I...
View ArticleSurvive The Zombie Apocalypse With This $4,000 Costco Food Stash
Worried that civilization is about to collapse? Do you fear invasion by zombies or aliens? Society might sink into an abyss of savagery and lawlessness, mobs might howl outside your gate, but at least...
View ArticleIsrael Thwarts Al Qaeda Plot to Blow Up U.S. Embassy
Israel says it has thwarted an Al Qaeda plot to destroy the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv with suicide bombs. The Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency, arrested three Palestinians on December 25th...
View ArticlePredator Drone Sends North Dakota Man to Jail
What do you say to a drone that makes an arrest? "Book him, Predator?" This was no joke for a North Dakota family who were arrested with the assistance of a Predator drone. Rodney Brossart was...
View ArticleTaliban Show Video Of Captured U.S. War Dog
VideoPity the poor pooch caught by the Taliban, who have released a video of what they claim is a captured U.S. military dog named "Colonel". The video appeared on the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan"...
View ArticleIran Sends 'Fleet' To U.S. East Coast On Comic Relief Mission
Don't fear the Iranian "fleet" that is sailing toward the U.S. East Coast. You have more to fear from your bathtub boats than from this ostensible armada. "The Iranian Army's naval fleets have already...
View ArticleFire Isn't 'Friendly' When U.S. Jets Bomb American Troops
Video There is no such thing as "friendly" fire when you're the one being shot at, goes the old joke. But it wasn't funny to some U.S. Army riflemen who were accidentally bombed by U.S. planes in...
View ArticleCould The U.S. Military's New Search Engine Replace Google?
When DARPA wants a next-generation search engine, Google had better pay attention. DARPA, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is the cutting-edge Pentagon research organization whose...
View ArticleSarah Palin Was Right About Ukraine?
Sarah Palin may not have been able to see Russia from her house, but she might have been right about Russia invading Ukraine. "After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's...
View Article7 Reasons Why America Will Never Go To War Over Ukraine
America is the mightiest military power in the world. And that fact means absolutely nothing for the Ukraine crisis. Regardless of whether Russia continues to occupy the Crimea region of Ukraine, or...
View ArticleThe City Designed to Keep Drones Out
Tired of government drones spying on you from 20,000 feet up? Are you worried that a Hellfire missile will come through your window? Then move to sunny Shura City, the community purposely designed to...
View ArticleSocial Network Software Lets Government Predict Your Movements
Just how the government can mine social network data for where you have been and where you will go can be seen in a video by defense contractor Raytheon that was obtained by The Guardian. An example of...
View ArticleThe Return of System Shock 2
Update: System Shock 2 is now available for $9.99 here Compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 One of the scariest video games ever made is coming back. System Shock 2 is being rereleased tomorrow by...
View ArticleOriginal Dungeons and Dragons Books Resurrected
Good news if you a) love Dungeons & Dragons b) are feeling nostalgic for the 1970s and c) have a spare $150 burning a hole in your pocket. Wizards of the Coast is reprinting the original D&D...
View ArticleReligious Computer Game Brings Wrath Down on Pentagon
May God have mercy on the Pentagon's soul, for the lawyers may not. A computer game to train Army chaplains may draw a lawsuit from a civil liberties group who fear the game will become a tool for...
View ArticleStalingrad Reborn
Seventy years after Nazi bombs pulverized it to rubble, the legendary city of Stalingrad - perhaps the most ferocious battle of World War II - is reborn. The city government of Volgograd voted to...
View ArticleAl Qaeda's Goofy Video Game Provokes Laughter, Not Terror
If Osama Bin Laden hadn't been killed by Navy SEALs, he would have died of embarrassment at his group's latest exploit. Al Qaeda militants in the African nation of Mali are tired of being blasted by...
View ArticleMoon Rocket Engines Rise From the Ocean Depths
The giant rocket engines that propelled mankind to the moon have been retrieved from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, is responsible for this voyage to...
View ArticleApple Agrees to Accept Syria Wargame if It Doesn't Include Syria
Remember "Endgame: Syria", the iOS newsgame on the ongoing Syrian civil war, that the Apple store rejected because it covered a real war by real nations instead of the usual silly made-up wars in most...
View ArticleDid Anonymous Hack Israel's Mossad Spy Agency?
The hackivists at Anonymous, along with Turkish and other hackers, are claiming they hacked into Israel's Mossad spy agency. More specifically, Turkish group Red Hack claims to have stolen the names,...
View ArticleWhat the Gorn Really Said to Captain Kirk
VideoPoor lizard. First the Gorn was defeated by Captain Kirk and his do-it-yourself bazooka on the original Star Trek. Now 46 years later, the same thing happens again in the ad for the new Star Trek...
View ArticleDoes Jabba the Hut's Palace Really Look Like a Mosque?
Star Wars has always been a Rorschach test for me. Imperial Star Destroyers remind me of cheese wedges or tortilla chips. R2D2 looks like a .38-caliber bullet on wheels. But Star Wars and Islam? I...
View ArticleWhy Did Anonymous Have to Attack Israel on Holocaust Memorial Day?
Yesterday began Holocaust Memorial Day. And six million dead were remembered in very different ways. Israelis held ceremonies to honor the victims of the Holocaust. The hackers at Anonymous splashed...
View ArticleNew Battlestar Galactica Game Announced
Get ready for another wild ride when an expansion to the superb Battlestar Galactica board game arrives this fall. Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak Expansion, from Fantasy Flight Games, adds characters...
View Article5 Weapons of Mass Destruction the U.S. Military Uses Every Day
When most of us think of weapons of mass destruction, we think of nuclear bombs, or nerve gas, or biological agents. So it was surprising to see accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged...
View ArticleGame Review: FTL
Behind you is the Rebel fleet, determined to destroy your ship. Ahead of you is escape,but only through space thick with marauding pirates, trigger-happy aliens and flaring stars. But escape to...
View ArticleWatch A Drone Take Off And Land From An Aircraft Carrier
VideoThe U.S. Navy is thrilled, though its elite fighter pilots probably are not, at the latest successes of its combat drone program. On Tuesday, the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) made its...
View ArticleCaptain Kirk Meets The Settlers of Catan
"Kirk to Enterprise. We need to build to build an outpost on this planet. Beam down a brick, wood, sheep and wheat card." How does someone turn Settlers of Catan, the legendary German board game, into...
View ArticleThe UN May Ban More than Killer Drones
A UN human rights investigator is calling for a moratorium on the testing and use of killer drones. Perhaps even more significant, anti-missile defenses and other weapons that are designed to fire...
View ArticleChina Says Its Navy Is Spying On America
As if massive Chinese cyberespionage wasn't enough, now China is indicating that it will - and already has - send ships and aircraft to spy on U.S. territory. Australian strategic analyst Rory Medcalf...
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