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New Zealand Government Opens UFO Files 100

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 23, 2010 @05:38AM from the the-truth-is-down-there dept.

astroengine writes "Following hot on the heels of a series of international UFO sighting disclosures, the New Zealand government has joined the party and made public 2,000 pages of UFO eyewitness accounts dating back to 1952. Helpfully, the NZ newspaper The Dominion Post has scanned the documents and has made them available online. Among the accounts of alien encounters and strange lights in the sky is one of New Zealand's most famous UFO mystery: the Kaikoura sighting. But was it aliens? Probably not, but it makes for an entertaining read."

Comment Re:What a suprise (Score 1) 853

by yapplejax on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @11:43AM (#34641632) Attached to: Obama FCC Caves On Net Neutrality

I'm hoping for research into (I forgot what they're called) "honeycomb" networks that are basically internets without a backbone. Sort of an amateur radio internet. I don't really care if I can stream video. I just want to be sure I can get wikileaks and Slashdot.
Mesh. Mesh networks. Basically, your personal device becomes a node and a router. Traffic is distributed and routed by the members of the network itself.

Submission + - Surveillance cameras coming to New York (cnn.com)

Submitted by yapplejax on Friday August 03, 2007 @03:57PM

yapplejax writes: New York City seeks funding for multi-million dollar surveilance system in Lower Manhattan.
Steven Swain from the London Metropolitan Police states "I don't know of a single incident where CCTV has actually been used to spot, apprehend or detain offenders in the act". The statement is countered by New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, stating the unprovable "We don't know acts that may have been planned that — because of the surveillance and deterrence systems that are in place — did not go forward."
And as the story also states, does a terrorist who is about to embark on a suicide mission really care if he gets caught on camera?
Do you have any expectation of privacy in a public area? Do you care if you are being filmed by a network of cameras while you walk around a major city? What if it was your home town?

Comment Re:Why would microsoft bother? (Score 1) 187

by yapplejax on Friday August 11, 2006 @03:39PM (#15890993) Attached to: Windows' Patchguard Hinders Security Vendors

I'm surprised nobody has put a virus on the graphics card. If the PCI is multi-mastered (not uncommon on higher-end machines), then the card could control all the other devices without going through the OS at all, giving a virus that could inhabit that space ABSOLUTE power over the machine.

It's already been done. A lot. Just that no one realizes it yet.

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