dmv wrote:
] ] Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no
] ] gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash),
] ] and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that
] ] this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal
] ] projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps
] ] (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely
] ] variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as
] ] 120,000 rounds-per-minute), and were capable of laying
] ] down a 360-degree field of fire. What if you could mount
] ] this weapon on any military Humvee (HMMWV), any
] ] helicopter/gunship, any armored personnel carrier (APC),
] ] and any other vehicle for which the technology were
] ] applicable?
]
] Overhyped in the article, but interesting.

I think a much more interesting idea for revamping firearms can be found at www.metalstorm.com. Just check out the videos and be prepared to be amazed. Too bad your local Wal-Mart doesn't stock these!

RE: Defense Review - World Exclusive Video! DREAD Weapon System: Devastating, Jam-Proof, and Silent.

It seems that gmail accounts were easily able to be owned before a major flaw in how google handles cookies was fixed.

Google Plugs Gmail Hole

] GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses
] your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a
] Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem
] infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and
] libgmail to communicate with Gmail.

This is a fucking brilliant idea! If I was giving out an award for hack of the year this would be in the running. Yes, python is a brain crushingly inefficient way to implement a filesystem, but Gmail is still likely to be the bottleneck. Google probably won't like this because they don't really expect people to use all of the space they have, but they probably can't stop you from doing this either. Got to port this to OSX!

GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem (dot mac for linux for free)

] On Monday, Orion Multisystems, a start-up company based
] in Santa Clara, California, was to announce a desktop
] computer for engineers and scientists who want more
] computing power than is easily available from Fry's, the
] local retail chain for personal computers. Orion is
] building a computer the size of a pizza box, intended for
] a single engineer or scientist, that will have 12
] processors yet consume about the same amount of power as
] a standard desktop personal computer.

[ Presumably a 12 node transmeta box... seems like a neat idea, if it can find a market... that's a hell of a workstation. -k]

IHT: PC maker bets on personal power