Drones

WASHINGTON: The US and Pakistani governments have reached a tacit agreement on Predator (drone) strikes into Pakistani territory, under which Islamabad allows them while continuing to complain about them and Washington never acknowledges them, The Washington Post revealed in a report Sunday.Read the rest of this entry »

American drone planes continued their bombing inside Pakistan in the never ending search to find al-Qaeda leaders who can be killed. The latest drone attack killed twelve people, five of whom were identified as “foreigners” which usually means members of al-Qaeda. The drones are trying to kill Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the Pakistan Taliban. [...]

CBC News August 7, 2008 The Canadian military is bolstering its troops by purchasing and leasing new helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Thursday. “Our government is determined to give the Canadian Forces the tools that they need to do the important work that we ask of them,” MacKay said, speaking to reporters in [...]

In an interview on CBR last week, J. Michael Straczynski defended Joe Quesada, but it all seems just tired by now: [interviewer]We hit the high points, now why don’t we talk about the low points. [JMS]When I’m left to my own devices, I can do what I feel is a competent job. When I start to get mandates and edicts written into my ear and am suddenly being pulled into events and crossovers and

This time we're presenting a drone mix made by a friend, Chris Dooks, he runs The Bovine Life Support System. It's very good, highly recommended. Better check it ASAP [and his other mixes as well]! The International Day of Drones was an eight hour musical live mix of drone-based music in all it's forms - from all over the world, mixed with an environmental soundscape from www.dooks.org (Chris

You've got to admit, the iPhone's relatively versatile. Over at the University of California, Berkeley, a group of researchers at the Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned vehicles has submitted a video show in which the crew uses an iPhone to pick tasks for a drone squadron, input coordinates for a recon mission and send additional orders.

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Irish elections are usually something that can be safely ignored by the rest of Europe. Not tomorrow. Ireland will be the only one of the European Union's 27 members to put the new governing treaty to a popular vote.The decision is on a knife's edge. One poll last week showed a majority in the ``no'' camp, though it looks as if many Irish are undecided. One thing is certain:

The Jerusalem Post - Hamas is trying to assemble bomb-carrying drones, Al-Aharam reported Saturday. The Egyptian newspaper said that the revelation was made by Egyptian security forces during their interrogation of a Muslim Brotherhood terror cell.The interrogators reportedly discovered that the operatives were working with Hamas on the project.Al-Aharam said the security forces learned that as result of the cooperation between the two terror groups, know-how and equipment were acquired to assemble the unmanned planes and were transferred to the Gaza Strip.

Well we know how Miami Dade police get all the best gadgets, just watch an episode of CSI Miami and you will see what I mean. Well it now looks as if this U.S. police force is about to take pocession of these Spy Drones. These Honeywell Micro Air Vehicles has forward and downward looking cameras [...]

(NaturalNews) Drones are now on the rise in the US for local, federal and private use. Taser International, the company that supplies American police and military forces nationwide and is being funded by our taxes, has announced development of a flying drone version of their hand-held electric shock Taser gun which administers 50,000 volts via [...]

My experience on Monster.com, and other internet based resume systems is that employers are looking for people with no brains. They want people that will do anything, and question nothing. They want drones. They want slaves. For $25,000 a year for an entry level position, getting someone coffee, or doing some rudimentary tasks. Speaking for all Engineering graduates of the past several years, we want to show employers how smart we are. We want to be professionals, and this is the very reason we became engineers. We do not want to be a lackys, we want to express our business desires, and concepts in an effort to better ourselves and achieve economic profit. Shouldn’t a company want its employees to express their ideas? Having more perspectives should promote better projects, and avoid errors; but when an entry level employee has a professional idea they are shot down being rejected prior or subsequent to the interview process. These are the jobs that are most available to recent B

“Help your team to victory by letting Tony Romo know the love of his life is in the stands!!!“, RuinRomo.com LOL this is hilarious. A website called Ruin Romo hatched this genius idea to, well … ruin Tony Romo. I bet most of you guys already know that Tony Romo is the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, also the current boyfriend of Jessica Simpson. Fans of the Cowboys can’t stand her. So the next time you go to a Dallas game and you’re rooting for the other team, cut out this picture and wear it! It would be super hilarious if a lot of people do this.

¿Queréis saber más cosas sobre la función de la tecnología de unidades no tripuladas de Frontlines: Fuel of War? Dennis Crow, del equipo de desarrollo de Frontlines, nos explica en que consiste. Para los no iniciados, las unidades no tripuladas representan uno de los múltiples aspectos de juego verdaderamente únicos de Frontlines: Fuel of War. Las unidades no tripuladas pueden destruir tanques, derribar helicópteros, diezmar las defensas enemigas y acabar con esos molestos francotiradores apostados en los tejados. Permitan al jugador estar en dos, tres o incluso cuatro lugares al mismo tiempo. Si estás reuniendo un escuadrón para realizar actividades multijugador, tener un técnico de unidades no tripuladas siempre es buena idea.Vamos a detallar el letal arsenal de unidades no tripuladas disponible en Frontlines: Fuel of War. No olvides echar un vistazo a nuestro último vídeo, que muestra las unidades no tripuladas en pleno combate.Coalición OccidentalUnidad no tripul

The DronesGenre: Psychedelic / Punk / 2-stepFrom: Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaAustralian band the Drones (not to be confused with the obscure Manchester based punk band of the late 1970s of the same name click here for more) have been delivering their devastating brand of multi-faceted swampish psych rock since the early 2000s. Influenced by an eclectic bunch of bands including Neil Young, The Velvet Underground, Bad Brains, Green On Red and The Birthday Party , they sound like The Triffids being mugged by Roky Erickson in Nick Cave's cave. To date they have produced three critically acclaimed albums the latest of which, Gala Mill, was released last year. The band are about to kick of a US tour with Band of Horses and they are also the first band to kick off ATP-Recordings new series of limited edition gatefold double 7" vinyl called Custom Made in which contributing artists are asked to include something new ('I Don't Ever Want to Change'), something old ('Cockeyed Lowlife of t

If you are unfamiliar with Aussie rockers The Drones, then it is time to start catching up. The band is already pretty important in their homeland, and are slowly making waves here in the states as well. Just a little evidence of this is the recent pairing with indie superstars Band Of Horses, who just recently released their sophomore album, Cease To Begin. The Drones will join BOH on tour next week in Charlottesville Virginia and continue on the road with them all the way until the end of November. And also, this is pretty exciting, The Drones will be the first band to kick off the ATP Recordings series of double 7″ vinyl called Custom Made. Custom Made invites artists to submit 4 songs which will be released on limited edition 7″ and also made available as a digital download. The Drones version will sport the following tracklisting….. 01 Cockeyed Lowlife of the Highlands 02 I Don’t Ever Want to Change 03 I Drink 04 Shark Fin Blues The 7″ will be a

El último concepto de BAE Systems se llama UXV Combatant. Es un buque de combate diseñado para las guerras con drones. Este barco será algo así como la nave nodriza de un montón de pequeños robots inteligentes que podrán realizar misiones que se prolonguen en el tiempo operando en tierra, mar y aire. Este buque de combate transmitirá ordenes y rutas a los drones que se encargarán de combatir al enemigo de manera automática. Los drones se almacenarán en un hangar en el que también se llevará todo el mantenimiento necesario. Las dos cubiertas de vuelo tendrán una rampa preparada para aumentar la velocidad de los robots de combate durante su lanzamiento. Este barco también llevará vehículos no tripulados terrestres y aéreos. El UXV Combatant tendrá propulsión eléctrica con dos motores apoyados por una turbina de gas y varios alternadores di

En otro caso de ciencia ficción anticipando la realidad, te presentamos los drones espias voladores. Technorati: drones robots robotica ciencia+ficcion vigilanciaBlogalaxia: drones robots robotica ciencia+ficcion vigilancia

A chum of mine, [translation = British] refers to her daily life with her autistic child as ‘Groundhog days.’ This refers to the film where the actor repeats the same day of his life, again and again without apparent end. Parents of young children often repeat the same life lessons until they are acquired, but for autistic children the process may take longer.Last summer one of my boys had a chance encounter with a bee. The bee and my son were outside the house, in the garden at the time. [ translation = a rare event, now sadly, all the more rare as a consequence] The bee did not attack him. As my son floated in the pool so did the bee. The bee was in it’s last death throes when they happened to come in contact and it stung him. My usually silent son, made known his condition. Fortunately he removed himself from the pool prior to his quite reasonable meltdown. [translation = otherwise he and the bee might have come to the same untimely end]He survived, the bee did not.