Jonathan Lee Riches© Sues Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla

Jonathan Lee Riches© (known as the JLR on Dreadnaught) the litigious inmate from Florida has reappeared in the news.  The JLR has sued venture capitalist Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures:
“Khosla’s fund invests in prison buildings. I’m suffering from no medical treatment. This is a conspiracy. Bhutto was killed on my birthday. I can’t see outside, [...]

Taser Gun Integrated With Glove = Taser Glove

From the ultimate military-technology blog Danger Room, comes video of the “taser glove,” a taser gun integrated with a cool-looking black glove.  Now if they would only come out with a Michael Jackson version.
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How To: Fix TiVo Error S03

How to fix error “S03″ on your TiVo.

Marine Corps Joint Strike Fighter F-35B Makes First Flight

Marine Corps Joint Strike Fighter makes first flight.

Al Gore Makes Home More Energy Efficient: Now It Consumes Enough Power for 232 Homes

Al Gore’s home consumes as much power as 232 average American homes.

SecDef Sends More Prdator and Reaper Drone Aircraft To Iraq

SecDef Gates orders more UAV to Iraq.

Video: Test Of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

This video is of the Marine Corps’s version of the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35B.

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Who Will Build The Drone That Flies Forever

From Danger Room, the competition is on between Lockheed, Boeing, and Aurora to build the future drone, which may stay aloft for up to five years.
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Secretary of Defense Gates to Air Force: Get More UAV In The War

SecDef Gates, according to Aviation Week, continues to bemoan the lack of UAV in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is doing something about it though, including directing the Air Force to,

rethinking long-standing service assumptions and priorities about which missions require certified pilots and which do not.

Could this signal an end to the Air Force requirement [...]

Upgrades To Air Force AC-130: With Video From Afghanistan

Over at the always-informative zerohostel, there is a post about the continuing evolution of the Air Force’s close-air-support gunship the AC-130:

the biggest change to the AC-130 airframe was in it’s electronics and avionics. AN AN/APG-180 radar (derived from the same ground and air radar that the Air Forces F-15E uses) was added to allow tracking [...]

Current Winter: Coldest Since 2001

Accouding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the 2007-2008 winter is the coolest since 2001. The complete analysis is available here, but here are some highlights:

In the contiguous United States, the average winter temperature was 33.2°F (0.6°C), which was 0.2°F (0.1°C) above the 20th century average – yet still ranks as the [...]

Cost of President’s Helicopter Continues To Rise

As previously reported on Dreadnaught, the cost of the president’s new helicopter was increasing. The Pentagon is now reporting the coast has almost doubled, from an original cost of $6.1 billion to $11.2 billion. Now, each Marine One will cost $400 million.
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