Archive for the 'GWoT' Category
28 seconds, 1 mile, five kills
6 May 2010Boomerite was made of agricultural-grade AN for years.
3 May 2010The last of it was used this year, though.
Investigators had feared that a final component placed in the cargo area – a metal rifle cabinet packed a fertilizer-like substance and rigged with wires and more fireworks – could have made the device even more devastating. Test results late Sunday showed it was indeed fertilizer, but NYPD bomb experts believe it was not a type volatile enough to explode like the ammonium nitrate grade fertilizer used in previous terror attacks, said police spokesman Paul Browne.
The exact amount of fertilizer was unknown. Police estimated the cabinet weighed 200 to 250 pounds when they pulled it from the vehicle.
200-250 pounds of AN+hydrocarbon would have made for a very bad day; fortunately, they used less volatile AN.
Right, sorry, AN isn’t volatile in any meaningful sense. It is a solid, much like white peppercorns in consistency; I have no idea what they mean when they talk about volatility. Agricultural-grade AN has a clay binder/coating; explosives grade does not.
New sniper record
1 May 2010Trijicon sights have coded Bible verses on them?
18 January 2010“This is probably the best example of violation of the separation of church and state in this country,” said Weinstein. “It’s literally pushing fundamentalist Christianity at the point of a gun against the people that we’re fighting. We’re emboldening an enemy.”
Somehow, I don’t think they knew or cared; I used to own one of these sights and I never noticed it. I thought it was part of the serial number. If this is the best example of failing to keep church and state apart, I think we’re doing fairly well.
INFOSEC, people
16 December 2009Seriously. The video feeds from our drones are unencrypted? The enemy has been watching them all along? Nice.
Sprint hands over GPS data.
1 December 2009Are you a US veteran? Were you scheduled to ETS, but denied due to stop loss post 9/11?
18 November 2009Have some money. Pass the word to veterans of the post-09/11 era; note, you must have had your ETS denied due to a stop-loss order.
I understand downplaying the risk
10 November 2009but, really, only hundreds of bombs from 250 tons of AN? I suspect a lack of imagination somewhere.
The largest target at the shoot is less than five pounds; even with no attempt to weaponize the targets, idiots get injured by flying debris.
I see no way this could end badly
13 October 2009Automated scanning of photos to find criminals; how could facial biometrics go wrong?
I’m interested in what data is stored on my HSPD-12 card; not interested enough to buy a reader, but still interested.
