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Russian Scholar Warns Of US Climate Change Weapon 415

According to Russian political scientist, and conspiracy aficionado Andrei Areshev the high heat, and poor crop yields of Russia, and other Central Asian countries may be the result of a climate weapon created by the US military. From the article: "... Areshev voiced suspicions about the High-Frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP), funded by the US Defense Department and the University of Alaska. HAARP, which has long been the target of conspiracy theorists, analyzes the ionosphere and seeks to develop technologies to improve radio communications, surveillance, and missile detection. Areshev writes, however, that its true aim is to create new weapons of mass destruction 'in order to destabilize environmental and agricultural systems in local countries.'"
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Duke Nukem 3D Ported To Nokia N900 95

andylim writes "It looks as if Duke Nukem isn't completely 'nuked' after all. Someone has ported the 90s classic on to a Nokia N900. As you'll see in the video, you control Duke using the Qwerty keypad and shoot using the touchscreen. I'm wondering how long it will take for this to get on other mobile platforms." In other Duke news, reader Jupix points out that 3D Realms' CEO Scott Miller recently said, "There are numerous other Duke games in various stages of development, several due out this year. We are definitely looking to bring Duke into casual gaming spaces, plus there are other major Duke games in production."

Comment Re:Here is a crazy idea (Score 1) 174

I think the whole "you must use your real name" policy of Facebook is at the heart of this free distribution of personal information. The service is telling people it's both safe and desirable for random people to know who you really are. Then people are shocked by stories of people getting robbed while on vacation after posting an "on vacation" Facebook status. Anonymity is the safest for any public forum. Yes I get that they want to sell this idea of your old friends finding you. But they should allow people to obfuscate their identity if that's not what they are on Facebook for. It's not difficult to find a friend using an alias if that friend wants to be found. Instead they will terminate your account if they believe you are not who you say you are, and will only allow you to restore that account if you can prove your online identity is a real one. The fact that Facebook is often used as a game platform and most online games allow you to choose any name you wish just reinforces the appearance that Facebook is out of touch with Internet/web realities.

Comment Re:Fans are disconnected And should be... (Score 1) 544

I doubt Nurse Chapel would have been so actively pursuing Spock if he and Uhura were involved, and in Amok Time he would have sought out Uhura's comfort. And it was pretty clear in Plato's Stepchildren that by season 3 Uhura was admiring Kirk from afar.

Considering that Spock apparently was in a teaching role at the academy his relationship with a cadet was not professional and should have violated ethics standards, so was not particularly believable. Weakens his moral high ground in the Maru incident. That and Uhura at different times had interest in Kirk and Scotty - do they have to hook her up with everyone? One could say that the timeline was different and Spock and Uhura only hooked up in the new one but it's a bit of a stretch since there's no obvious reason the loss of one starship would change academy romantic hookups much.

Comment Re:Where does it say FIrefox is insecure? (Score 1) 530

"security reasons" can be a catch-all for anything, really.

Yup. In this case job security. The people running the site are not comfortable with that scary open source stuff and are afraid if it catches on then someone else who knows how it works will be hired to do their jobs.

Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. Have run into that attitude in government however.

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