Ramblings for 2008-06-01

Warplanes: The Last Generation The end of manned fighters Warplanes: MiGs Over Nevada The US had bought 2 squadrons of Migs in the 80s to test them out... Warplanes: Son of SR-71 On The Way SR-72 Warplanes: Cheap Alternatives To Expensive Jets Going back to WW2 designs. LOL. Maybe they should can the B-52 for the B-17s... Warplanes: Global Hawk Survives Engine Failure with Smart Software Evolution of UAV designs... " That Global Hawk had its flight control software modified so that, in the event of engine failure, the UAV could glide down to a dead stick landing. The ground controllers had to tell the UAV where the emergency airstrip was, The 100 Worst Album Covers EVER - Rate Your Music Hilarious BBC NEWS | Europe | Swiss vote on citizenship curbs These guys don't understand that immigration is the lifeblood of new ideas and a hungry generation. And a new tax base... BBC NEWS | South Asia | Baby leopard spotted in house Awwwww Intelligence: China Has the NSA For Lunch Chinese infiltrate NSA Hawaii operation... Interesting Intelligence: Horny Troops Succumb to Chinese Vamps Japanese lose Aegis secrets to China.... "The military geeks are the most sought after by the Chinese spies, as these guys have access to the most valuable military secrets. Geeks tend to be least experienced with women, and most vulnerable to a clever....." Marginal Revolution: The best beef in the world? Lau Pa Sat western stall? Intelligence: The Google In The Basement Google algos are running locally in US intelligence Intelligence: CIA Cracks Indian Defenses Hmmmm.. No surprise... More greedy people Intelligence: Russian Assassins in Iraq "When confronted with terrorist attacks like this, the Russians go in and play by terrorist rules. They terrorize the terrorists. Back in the 1980s, for example, Islamic terrorists in Lebanon kidnapped a Russian diplomat. The Russians quickly found out which faction had their guy, kidnapped a relative of one of the kidnappers, and had a body part delivered to the Islamic kidnappers. The message was, release the Russian diplomat unharmed, or the KGB (Soviet secret police) would keep sending body parts, and grabbing kinfolk of the kidnappers. The Russian diplomat was released. Apparently that lesson has been forgotten, at least in some parts of Iraq." Intelligence: How the CIA Lost It's Middle "You now have a situation where the field ops like a cross between a college fraternity and retirement community. There are few people in the middle, age and experience wise." SAME THINGS IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO MANY IT DIVISIONS IN BANKS. YOU WILL HAVE OLDIES WHO WHLL HAVE ACTUAL EXPERIENCE WRITING AND DELIVERING HIGH-THRUPUT SOFTWARE. AND THEN YOU WILL HAVE NEWBIES WHO CAN ONLY DO "PROJECT MANAGEMENT" OF SOFTWARE THEY DON'T HAVE A CLUE ABOUT. The Education of Bill and Melinda Special Operations: Winged Commandos Fly In One-By-One Jump out of the plane outside hostile airspace, fly using ur wings for 200 km, and then open ur parachute... perfect... Apple Bought Me.com? .Mac's New Name? - Mac Rumors Berkeley Bionics - HULC™ Wartime brings out the wackos Fun with Fuel Subsidies C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wyclef Jean has picked up on the lyrics in his latest single Top 100 Rap Songs - These are the Top 100 Rap Songs that helped shaped Hip-Hop The MacBook Air: Thin Enough To Slice A Cake Idiots like these dont deserve a mac Margarita's Restaurant at Dempsey Hill SG restaurant review by the travelling hungry boy Google's Android: Worth Passing On The 3G iPhone For? (AAPL, GOOG) MAYBE BABY Sears As The Bamboo Hut As Ayn Rand said - these are the looters Wikipedia 3.0: You can now edit any page on Mahalo Mahalo is the next big thing in search. Google might buy them out B'lore: Sewage, worms flow out of taps Yuck.......... To pass to fubu and dev