Day: December 30, 2016

GOP Joe Walsh Claims ‘Many’ Fox People Think Obama’s A Muslim

Deadbeat dad former Congressman Joe Walsh , who has denigrated double-amputee Tammy Duckworth’s war record despite never bothering to serve his country himself, went on quite the Twitter rant today accusing President Obama of being a Muslim.From Walsh’s Twitter feed : For the past week, everybody has been asking again why Obama hates Israel. The answer is simple really: I think Obama is Muslim.

Richmond: Officials working to determine source of rotten-egg smell

Air district and Contra Costa health officials are continuing to work to find the source of a rotten-egg smell reported in both Richmond and San Francisco, officials said Friday. The foul smell has been prevalent in Point Richmond and San Francisco this week and may be connected to flaring incidents at the Chevron refinery that the county says were not properly reported.

The top 10 Army modernization efforts of 2016

The Improved Turbine Engine Program will eventually replace the existing General Electric T700-GE-701C/D engines that now power AH-64 Apache like this one and UH-60 Black Hawk aircraft. The right technology can ensure overmatch against future adversaries in an increasingly complex and dangerous world, where the threat is often “elusive and ambiguous,” according to Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen.

NASA photograph

This artist’s concept of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell aircraft shows the plane’s specially designed wing and 14 electric motors. NASA Aeronautics researchers will use the X-57 to demonstrate that electric propulsion can make planes quieter, more efficient and more environmentally friendly.

Mojave a ” thinking outside the box

Doug Scroggins of Scroggins Aviation works on block buster movies often using old planes from Mojave’s boneyard. His helicopter built for the film Jurassic World, was part of the second highest grossing film until Star Wars bumped it out.

Air Force Test Center

In 2012, Air Force Materiel Command redesignated the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., as the Air Force Test Center. As the AFTC, the center assumed responsibility for the 412th Test Wing at Edwards, the 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and the Arnold Engineering Development Complex at Arnold AFB, Tenn.

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When astronauts set foot on Mars, they may stay for months rather than days as they did during Apollo missions to the moon. The surface of Mars has extreme temperatures and the atmosphere does not provide adequate protection from high-energy radiation.

Year in review: 2016 became a year of a Stranger Thingsa

It’s in that acclaimed Netflix show set in 1983 that a group of average folks in Hawkins, Indiana, confront the existence of “The Upside Down” – a cold, dark, dank parallel dimension. Shockingly, they find it’s been there for years with only a thin veil separating them from the dreadful place.

Year in review: 2016 became a year of a Stranger Thingsa

It’s in that acclaimed Netflix show set in 1983 that a group of average folks in Hawkins, Indiana, confront the existence of “The Upside Down” – a cold, dark, dank parallel dimension. Shockingly, they find it’s been there for years with only a thin veil separating them from the dreadful place.

What’s the diplomatic message behind Kremlin’s largesse?

There appeared to be two separate messages coming out of the Kremlin on Friday, when Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that 31 American diplomats would be expelled as retaliation — and then Russian President Vladimir Putin announced no U.S. diplomats would be ousted. Lavrov’s announcement of a tit-for-tat expulsion — President Obama said on Thursday that 35 Russian diplomats would be expelled from the U.S. — is a common practice that goes back to the Cold War.

What’s the diplomatic message behind Kremlin’s largesse?

There appeared to be two separate messages coming out of the Kremlin on Friday, when Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that 31 American diplomats would be expelled as retaliation — and then Russian President Vladimir Putin announced no U.S. diplomats would be ousted. Lavrov’s announcement of a tit-for-tat expulsion — President Obama said on Thursday that 35 Russian diplomats would be expelled from the U.S. — is a common practice that goes back to the Cold War.

33C3: Works for Me

The Chaos Communication Congress is the largest German hacker convention by a wide margin, and it’s now in its thirty-third year, hence 33C3. The Congress is a techno-utopian-anarchist-rave with a social conscience and a strong underpinning of straight-up hacking.

Kite

Full description=Kite is a programming language designed to minimize as much of the programmer experience as possible. It aims to allow quick development and running time and low CPU and memory usage.

KleanSweep

Full description=KleanSweep allows you to reclaim disk space by finding unneeded files. It can search for files based on several criteria: you can seek for empty files, backup files, broken symbolic links, dead menu entries, duplicated files, orphaned files , and more.

Klep

Full description=Klep is Yet Another virtual flashcard program, which helps in putting information into one’s short term memory. It has many features not commonly found in virtual flashcard programs, including: export to memaid so that material learned in Klep can be retained in the long term; support for images, support for multiple choice questions, and a numerous others.

Knetfilter

Full description=Knetfilter is a KDE frontend to iptables. It is used with Linux 2.4 to manage the functiona…”) Full description=Knetfilter is a KDE frontend to iptables.

WhySoSlow 1.0 checks your PC for performance issues

System utility developer Resplendence Software has released WhySoSlow 1.0 , a “performance and responsiveness analyzer” for Windows 7 and later. The program’s analysis function monitors various performance indicators, including CPU clock speed, temperature and load; memory load; hard page faults; application responsiveness; latencies, BIOS interrupt delays and more.