It’s a skill that anyone who’s played a first-person shooter like Halo: Reach or Call of Duty: Black Ops relies on: the ability to know where the bullets heading your way originated. Knowing whether an assailant’s above you, behind you, to your right or left can literally save your life. When you’ve got that vital info, you know where to …
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U.S. Military Blocks Websites to Focus on Japan Efforts
The U.S. military personnel will be getting a dose on what it feels like to be in China, but not for entirely the same reasons. They’ve blocked 13 websites, including YouTube, to free up bandwidth for the Japan recovery effort.
The sites most proven to suck up bandwidth have been excluded from staff, and not because of their …
The U.S. Army Considers Making iPhones Standard Issue
The U.S. army is considering a proposal to arm its soldiers with a new weapon for the 21st century battlefield: smartphones.
The Army Times is reporting that early next year, iPhones, Androids and even Blackberries could potentially become standard issue next to fatigues, tactical knives and M4 rifles. (More on TIME.com: Military …
Military Outlaws Blank CDs and Thumb Drives to Prevent Leaks
The Air Force recently issued an order prohibiting personnel from using “removable media on all systems, servers, and stand alone machines residing on SIPRNET,” according to a document obtained by Wired. The penalty for not complying with the order is a court-martial.
You may recall that SIPRNET is the same computer network from which …
Air Force Builds Supercomputer Out of PlayStation 3’s
Someone in the Air Force got the bright idea of getting a bunch of PS3s together – 1,700 to be exact – and creating one of the world’s largest computers. The Condor Cluster is the 33rd largest computer in the world and is used to run the classified satellite images and information. If you that Xbox Live user AirForceDelta is making your …
Cryptids: Project Serpo
Project Serpo details what apparently happened after the famous Roswell crash in 1947. Ever see Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Apparently that’s similar to what happened in the Serpo case, which details a story of an exchange program set up to send 12 of our people to the home planet of the aliens who crashed in the New Mexico …