Al-Qaeda may have trained and licensed pilots in their ranks

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Officials: al-Qaida operatives may be
fully trained airline pilots

Officials: al-Qaida operatives may be
fully trained airline pilots 12/24/2003 05:27 AM
MSNBC - NBC: Terror threat to extend through January .. Can you spot the knife, gun, or explosives? .. Jihadists currently flying commercial jets

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Morocco Loses 400 al-Qaeda-Trained
Militants

Morocco Loses 400 al-Qaeda-Trained
Militants 07/25/2004 07:20 PM
Free Internet Press Jul 25 2004 10:10PM GMT

"Leader of Saudi Terrorist Attack Was
Al-Qaeda Trained, BBC Says"

"Leader of Saudi Terrorist Attack Was
Al-Qaeda Trained, BBC Says" 06/03/2004 05:04 AM

al-Qaeda operative: Montreal man who
trained with 9/11 hijackers brought down
American Airlines flight in New York
three years ago

al-Qaeda operative: Montreal man who
trained with 9/11 hijackers brought down
American Airlines flight in New York
three years ago 08/28/2004 09:39 AM
Montreal man downed U.S. Plane, CSIS told .. National Post, Canada

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Wasn't Trained? Wasn't Trained?

Wasn't Trained? Wasn't Trained? 05/19/2004 04:48 AM
One of the comments on the Iraq prionser abuse that I hear often on BBC World Service is that the prison guards wasn't trained for their role, as if this will lessen the guards' alleged crimes.
I, on the other hand, find this justification somehow absurd. If, say, the guards aren't performing in their job capacity -- maybe some prisoners escaped, for example -- then, yeah, one can use the excuse that they aren't properly trained. But, to abuse prisoners (allegedly)? Does one need training in order to know that you are not supposed to stack naked prisoners as a human pyramid?

And they say cats can't be trained!

And they say cats can't be trained! 01/11/2004 06:02 PM
My Cat Annie is a website with several quick adorable videos (in Flash format) of the owner's cat doing ridiculous cat tricks.

Dog Trained on 200 Word Vocabulary

Dog Trained on 200 Word Vocabulary 06/12/2004 08:24 PM

Taiwanese Cat Is Toilet Trained (AP)

Taiwanese Cat Is Toilet Trained (AP) 04/14/2004 07:52 AM
AP - A white and tan Taiwanese cat made his successful television debut — on the toilet.

U.S.: Padilla Trained to Kill Hundreds
(AP)

U.S.: Padilla Trained to Kill Hundreds
(AP) 06/01/2004 08:08 PM
AP - Former Chicago gang member Jose Padilla is a trained terrorist who met with top al-Qaida leaders, discussed detonating a nuclear bomb in the United States and accepted an assignment to use natural gas to blow up high-rise apartment buildings, the Justice Department alleged Tuesday.

Shark Tank: C'mon, who really needs
trained staff anyway?

Shark Tank: C'mon, who really needs
trained staff anyway? 11/14/2003 12:08 AM
Money is tight in this data center, and that translates into a policy of getting rid of experienced computer operators. Then one night a big disk drive begins to make noise.

Shark Tank: Must have been trained as an
engineer

Shark Tank: Must have been trained as an
engineer 02/05/2005 10:09 PM
The buildingwide backup power system at this government agency is getting old, and everyone knows it. The obvious solution is to add extra UPSs to servers. But who needs that?

"appears to have trained Muhammad Atta"

"appears to have trained Muhammad Atta" 12/16/2003 08:48 PM

Trained Rats for Mine Detection

Trained Rats for Mine Detection 05/18/2004 01:33 PM

Cops Trained To 'Net' Child Porn

Cops Trained To 'Net' Child Porn 04/22/2004 01:30 PM
CBS News Apr 22 2004 5:31PM GMT

One third of Iraq's new army (which we
trained to take over our duties) quit

One third of Iraq's new army (which we
trained to take over our duties) quit 12/12/2003 07:59 AM
deserting

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Specialists Trained To Combat
Exploitation of Children

Specialists Trained To Combat
Exploitation of Children 12/02/2003 01:39 AM

"Telegraph: Terrorist behind September
11 strike trained in Baghdad"

"Telegraph: Terrorist behind September
11 strike trained in Baghdad" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

Bush Says Trained Iraqi Troops Now
Outnumber U.S. (Reuters)

Bush Says Trained Iraqi Troops Now
Outnumber U.S. (Reuters) 04/12/2005 01:52 PM
Reuters - President Bush said on Tuesday trained Iraqi security forces now outnumber U.S. troops in Iraq and are playing a greater role in fighting insurgents.

Gene treatment turns trained monkeys
into workaholics

Gene treatment turns trained monkeys
into workaholics 08/13/2004 02:02 AM
Blocking a set of dopamine receptors turns trained monkeys into workaholics. Finding can help with understanding a variety of mental disorders.

Telegraph | News | Terrorist behind
September 11 strike was trained by
Saddam

Telegraph | News | Terrorist behind
September 11 strike was trained by
Saddam 12/14/2003 04:35 AM
"Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam." .. smoking gun: Atta was in Iraq in Summer of 2001 .. interesting little tidbit .. If it pans out as real .. THIS IS BIG NEWS

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Police Chief Sells Trained K-9 Dog on
Online Auction Site

Police Chief Sells Trained K-9 Dog on
Online Auction Site 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
Auctionbytes.com Jan 21 2004 11:09PM GMT

Marines in Falluja Face Rebels Who Are
Increasingly Trained and Armed

Marines in Falluja Face Rebels Who Are
Increasingly Trained and Armed 04/24/2004 03:56 PM
Marines are preparing for an all-out assault on Falluja, where they face rebels who are increasingly trained and armed.

Dogs Trained to Smell Bladder Cancer in
Urine (Reuters)

Dogs Trained to Smell Bladder Cancer in
Urine (Reuters) 09/24/2004 11:07 AM
Reuters - Man's best friend could also be a lifesaver in the fight against cancer.

Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained at
U.S. Bases - Forums powered by Reason
and Principle

Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained at
U.S. Bases - Forums powered by Reason
and Principle 01/06/2004 02:05 AM
from Newsweek via MSNBC [cache]

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Licensed to clone

Licensed to clone 08/12/2004 02:38 AM
USA Today Aug 12 2004 6:21AM GMT

But Is It Licensed for Mars?

But Is It Licensed for Mars? 01/17/2004 11:07 PM
Tropos's equipment tested by NASA as an idea for manned Mars missions: Next thing you know, there will be a Mars Communications Commission (MCC) insisting that a single newspaper and television station could provide all the news on the Red Planet. Mesh wireless equipment makes sense for the terrain and goals of the mission. Will the low pressures affect signal transmission? And then there's hardening against radiation and temperature. I guess we have 20 to 40 years to figure it all out....

Human Pilots: Who Needs 'Em?

Human Pilots: Who Needs 'Em? 12/02/2003 12:24 AM
Wired is carrying a new Reuter's story discussing the prospect of Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) displacing piloted planes in more cases. It mentions the oft-repeated prediction that the F-35 will likely be the last piloted fighter jet built. The overview covers both fully autonmous robot planes like the Global Hawk and X-45 as well as remotely piloted vehicles like the Dragon Eye and Predator.

World Live (and Licensed) Web

World Live (and Licensed) Web 02/01/2005 08:39 PM

Kevin Marks mentioned on the cc-metadata list that you can query Technorati for a list of recently syndicated content, grouped by Creative Commons license.

You can also drill down and get a list of recently syndicated content under a specific Creative Commons license.

The results are a bit rough now, but one can easily imagine combining license searches with keyword and other search filters to effect an ongoing search for specific licensed content. For example, tell me whenever a Creative Commons licensed image of horses is syndicated.

Marks, who works at Technorati, indicates this sort of capability is "an important future direction." Other blog and search outfits take note.

(Glenn found the beautiful horse image linked above via the Creative Commons search engine.)

CC-licensed prose: "Always Be Closing"

CC-licensed prose: "Always Be Closing" 05/04/2004 08:10 AM
Casey Childers has produced a chunk of Creative Commons-licensed prose called "Always Be Closing." It's the same scene, told thirteen times, with (often NSFW) variations, a remix of something that has no original, a kind of simulacra. He's chosen a license that allows for noncommercial remixing -- I'm curious as to what new works can be made out of these often disturbing scenes.

The waitress interrupted, "You boys need anything?"

The old man grinned, his mouth full. He made a quick effort to swallow, but didn't hesitate to speak around the mess of potatoes that remained. "The name of the man that cooked my lunch, miss. This is heaven on a goddamn plate."

She returned a grin of her own. "His name's Merv, hon, and I'll be sure to pass that along. Now how 'bout a warm-up on your coffee?"

"I served with a commie sympathizer who went by the name of Merv. He had weak stomach, you know, loved to recite the poems he wrote about his wife. He got his head blown off in a French whorehouse."

Link (Thanks, CA!)

CC licensed Microsoft site

CC licensed Microsoft site 03/14/2005 06:06 PM

The Microsoft-hosted PatternShare community brings together information on software patterns organized by wiki inventor and now Microsoft employee Ward Cunningham.

PatternShare uses the liberal Creative Commons Attribution License.

Thanks Ward Cunningham and thanks Microsoft!

Although it predates the availability of Creative Commons licensing by many years, I would be remiss to not recommend Cunningham's still active Portland Pattern Repository Wiki, which I suppose could be characterized as the wild and woolly counterpart of PatternShare.

3G Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum

3G Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum 06/23/2004 02:51 AM
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Democratizing Innovation as CC-licensed
PDF

Democratizing Innovation as CC-licensed
PDF 04/04/2005 03:44 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: I've been reading the print version of Eric von Hippel's Democratizing Innovation, an interesting book about the way that "lead users" are making significant contributions to the development of products and services. Von Hippel is a professor of management of innovation and entrepreneurship, at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

In this traditional model, a user’s only role is to have needs, which manufacturers then identify and fill by designing and producing new products. The manufacturer-centric model does fit some fields and conditions. However, a growing body of empirical work shows that users are the first to develop many and perhaps most new industrial and consumer products. Further, the contribution of users is growing steadily larger as a result of continuing advances in computer and communications capabilities.

You can download the entire book at no charge from von Hippel's site.
Link

UPDATE: Peggy Salz of TheFeature interviewed Eric von Hippel today.

TheFeature: In your book, you talk mostly about product development. How do you know the lead-user approach can also create breakthrough services?

Von Hippel: A field study involving a major Swedish mobile telecoms company recently tested this and produced some surprising results. These researchers adopted the "toolkit innovation method" and supplied a sample of university students tools to develop their own services. Compared to the services generated by professional developers the students' services were by far more novel, creative and cutting-edge.

For example, one girl was frustrated because she was unable to find an apartment. She cleverly developed a mobile alert service that would contact her phone every time the university web site posted an ad for an apartment that fit her requirements. This insight can obviously become the basis for a suite of mobile alert services.
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More CC-licensed banjo manuals

More CC-licensed banjo manuals 12/29/2004 11:27 AM
Cory Doctorow: Patrick sez, "'A Book Of Five Strings' is another Creative Commons banjo book- you guys posted a link to my first CC project, 'The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo' back in September. 'Five Strings' was released a few weeks ago and it's already selling pretty well. Going CC actually boosted sales for my first book so I figured I might as well do it again." Link (Thanks, Patrick!)

UPS pilots an RFID rollout

UPS pilots an RFID rollout 04/09/2004 06:46 PM
How is UPS, one of the world?s largest logistics companies, approaching RFID? Like many companies, it?s launching pilot deployments to better understand the business case for a wider rollout.

Exclusive Pilots OTC 2-Pack

Exclusive Pilots OTC 2-Pack 06/24/2004 02:32 PM
French website Mintinb ox.net reports that an exclusive 2-pack is expected soon in the Original Trilogy collection. It will consist in an Imperial TIE Fighter pilot and a X-Wing Fighter pilot.

Watches watch pilots

Watches watch pilots 06/30/2004 12:56 PM
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Orange pilots 3G in France

Orange pilots 3G in France 04/30/2004 04:17 PM
infoSync Apr 30 2004 7:53PM GMT

Pilots can 'see' through clouds

Pilots can 'see' through clouds 12/04/2003 12:10 AM
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The first few WiMax pilots in India

The first few WiMax pilots in India 09/25/2004 04:08 AM
Express Computer India Sep 25 2004 8:44AM GMT
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The Mother of All Potato Guns

The Mother of All Potato Guns 06/22/2005 01:56 AM

Potato Gun Shoots Through Brick Wall: This video shows a seriously powerful potato gun. When you're shooting projectiles through brick walls, it's time to reconsider whether or not this is a hobby. Reminds me of the home-mad e flamethrower guy.

(And if you think potato guns are just fun and games, ask this guy. A potato gun, a frog, and some bad judgement left him blind.)

Sex toys still banned in Alabama, guns
okay

Sex toys still banned in Alabama, guns
okay 07/29/2004 09:55 AM
A decision issued yesterday by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says Alabama doesn't have to lift its silly, arcane 1998 law banning the sale of sex toys. The Constitution does not include a right to sexual privacy, the panel of three judges ruled. Many Americans would disagree, including this one. To paraphrase Andre w Orlowski's brilliant quip about the INDUCE Act, under this law one could stroll down Alabama's southern streets selling semiautomatic rifles and dildos, and be arrested for the dildos.

"In this case, the American Civil Liberties Union ('ACLU') invites us to add a new right to the current catalogue of fundamental rights under the Constitution: a right to sexual privacy. It further asks us to declare Alabama's statute prohibiting the sale of 'sex toys' to be an impermissible burden on this right. Alabama responds that the statute exercises a time-honored use of state police power -- restricting the sale of sex. We are compelled to agree with Alabama and must decline the ACLU's invitation. (...)

"Alabama's Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act prohibits, among other things, the commercial distribution of 'any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for any thing of pecuniary value.'"

This calls for massive civil disobedience. FreeTheAlabamaVibrator.com is still available, people -- it's time to stick it to the Man. Here's the decision in PDF. More on the story here, in a Seattle P-I piece. And during National Orgasm Week, no less. Is nothing sacred? H ere's a PDF summarizing the state's gun laws (Alabama's congresscritters are against renewing the Assault Weapons Ban, which expires on September 13 -- evidently the state's pro-gun lobby is much more powerful than its pro-vibrator lobby). (Thanks, Baptiste Coulmont)

Boing Boing: Sex toys still banned in
Alabama, guns okay

Boing Boing: Sex toys still banned in
Alabama, guns okay 07/29/2004 03:30 PM
Sex toys still banned in Alabama, guns okay .. BoingBoing points out .. Read the rant here

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from guns to art

from guns to art 12/25/2004 11:14 PM
Peace Art Project Cambodia --turning the detrius of war into art, in hopes of a more peaceful future. More info here, and here. "You can't help but think about what this machine has done to affect so many lives." And that is really the point. These sculptures are political art at its most powerful - relics of a violent past transformed into expressions of hope for a more peaceful future.

Staples Guns It

Staples Guns It 05/18/2004 02:49 PM
The office supplier reports a sharp quarter.

Gung-Ho Guns No. 10^100

Gung-Ho Guns No. 10^100 02/19/2003 07:06 PM
Heya Google. I'm about to graduate highschool and am currently looking at colleges. Now I figured video game guru that you are you might be able to help me ...

Guns and jets

Guns and jets 03/08/2004 11:03 PM

My friend Brad, a jet pilot with heroic flying skills, graciously agreed to help me with the Commercial maneuvers and precision landings today.  We hauled N505WT out of its hangar and headed out to Worcester with the GPS turned off and the gyro-stabilized compass covered up.  Flying along at 2500' it was actually a bit tough to pick out landmarks from the VFR chart.  After 10 landings we decided it was time for some of the free cookies that they bake at the Worcester FBO (airplane gas station) so we taxied into the ramp.  The scene was one of utter desolation.  The main terminal building looked empty.  The last scheduled airline flights from Worcester ceased about one year ago.  The general aviation area contained a small collection of cheap piston-powered airplanes (like mine!).  At Bedford, N505WT's home airport, there is always at least $300 million of private jets on the ramp, waiting to take hard-working public corporation executives from golf game to weekend house.  The woman behind the desk confirmed that not a single jet had landed at Worcester all day.

As we were starting up N505WT a good-sized business jet was taxiing in.  A van drove up to meet the passengers at the side of the $10 million twin-turbojet-powered plane.  "What luxury!" we thought.  "This is the only way to travel.  They're probably just back from a resort in Mexico."  A couple of guys got out of the van and walked around the plane wearing guns.  Security for someone important!  The one passenger got out, a teenager wearing a rather plain jumpsuit.  Then we noticed that his legs were chained together...

Yet another thing that America's richest and poorest citizens share:  traveling by private jet.

Oh yes, speaking of guns.  A friend from the MIT Media Lab sent around a home video yesterday.  It seems that he has put the filmmaking skills that he learned there to good use and has made effective use of the Internet in distributing his creation.  Click right on the following link and then "Save Target As" before playing from your own hard disk in a separate player window (100 or 200% size is best): boyhood dream.

Twenty years ago people talked about Arpanet/Internet leading to an explosion in video creativity and distribution but it just wasn't practical with the available bandwidth and percentage of consumers hooked up.  Today all the pieces are in place.

Oil, guns and money

Oil, guns and money 09/02/2004 10:09 AM
What's really behind the recent redeployment of U.S. military forces? Making sure no one messes with American access to global energy resources. An excerpt from "Oil: Anatomy of an Industry."

Bringing out the big guns for SOA

Bringing out the big guns for SOA 04/17/2005 10:34 AM
ZDNet Apr 17 2005 2:17PM GMT

More cellphone guns

More cellphone guns 01/26/2004 11:29 AM
I swear we covered this almost exactly a year ago, so we're not sure why it's just become news again, but Time magazine has a...

Sci-Fi Museum Is About More Than Ray
Guns

Sci-Fi Museum Is About More Than Ray
Guns 06/13/2004 04:49 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jun 13 2004 8:05PM GMT

MTV guns for iTunes

MTV guns for iTunes 11/04/2003 09:23 PM
CNET Nov 4 2003 8:35PM ET

Real ray-guns

Real ray-guns 06/17/2004 11:36 AM
Following up on our previous post about the Pentagon's new Active Denial System (energy beam) and other "non-let hal" weapons, here's a New Scientist feature about the state-of-the-art in ray guns:

"...the $9000 Close Quarters Shock Rifle projects an ionised gas, or plasma, towards the target, producing a conducting channel. It will also interfere with electronic ignition systems and stop vehicles.

'We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like water out of a hose at one or many targets in a single sweep,' claims XADS (Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems) president Peter Bitar."

Amnesty International and other human rights groups are none too thrilled. Link

Will Democrats give up on guns?

Will Democrats give up on guns? 04/13/2005 02:50 PM
If the South is a lost cause, the road to the White House must run through the West. Will going easy on gun control make it easier to travel?

Guns, Games, and Style

Guns, Games, and Style 06/05/2005 10:59 PM

What do they have in common?

Find out in my new column for BusinessWeek Online.

LCDs + Guns = Broken LCD

LCDs + Guns = Broken LCD 09/24/2004 07:55 AM

I'm sure when most of you buy a monitor you're thinking, "Sure, it looks great, but can it withstand being pelted with tiny metal plastic balls shot from a gun?" I usually just check the "Gunfire Resistance" rating on the little placard they keep on the shelf, but some people feel like they need to go hands on. Those people also feel like they need to video tape the results, which were, by the way, pretty much what you'd expect.

Shuttle XP17 LCD Monitor - Extreme Impact Test [not5150]

Update: Airsoft rounds aren't metal? They were when they shot them at me, those bastards.

Microsoft brings out the big guns

Microsoft brings out the big guns 11/13/2003 06:33 AM
Daily Mail & Guardian Nov 13 2003 5:41AM ET

Cell Phone Guns

Cell Phone Guns 01/27/2004 05:19 PM

Press M for Murder: Cell Phones That Kill: Can you program the phone to shoot the owner if it's answered in a movie theater?

Though heavier than normal phones, the lethal ones look nearly identical. The hollowed-out devices, made in Croatia, are fired by punching buttons on the keypad and can shoot four .22-cal. bullets in rapid succession.

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Next Generation Stun Guns?

Next Generation Stun Guns? 06/17/2004 08:40 AM

Big guns await FA Cup draw

Big guns await FA Cup draw 02/16/2004 05:09 AM
Arsenal and Man Utd are among the teams in Monday's FA Cup quarter-final draw.

Microsoft guns for Google

Microsoft guns for Google 07/30/2004 01:58 PM
p2pnet.net Jul 30 2004 6:43PM GMT

Big guns line up against Microsoft

Big guns line up against Microsoft 04/07/2005 05:24 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 7 2005 9:23AM GMT

Small Shooters, Big Guns

Small Shooters, Big Guns 01/27/2004 08:39 PM
Popular Mechanics Jan 28 2004 0:52AM GMT

Putin' their money where their guns are

Putin' their money where their guns are 09/14/2004 06:58 AM
Vladimir Putin, wanted, alive.
Chechen Rebels responding to the 10 million dollar bounty placed by the Russian secret services on rebel leaders Basayev and Mashkadov, have upped the ante offering 20 million dollars for the detention of "the war criminal Putin"...
This is the sort of war crimes they are referring to.

US women to march against guns

US women to march against guns 05/09/2004 01:42 AM
The 2004 Million Mom March aims to remind George Bush of his promise to renew a ban on assault weapons.

IBM Guns For Bengal E-gov Plans

IBM Guns For Bengal E-gov Plans 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
Financial Express Apr 9 2004 0:05AM GMT

" Why People Fear Guns"

" Why People Fear Guns" 01/04/2004 03:53 AM

Learn from young guns

Learn from young guns 06/15/2002 12:22 AM
CNET Jun 14 2002 11:13PM ET

Flip-flopping on guns

Flip-flopping on guns 09/13/2004 02:54 PM
George W. Bush supported the assault weapons ban before he let it expire. From the Progress Report:

Shooting for RFID in guns

Shooting for RFID in guns 04/15/2004 05:02 PM
Verichip announced the development of a gun safety system based on radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. The aim is to prevent a gun from being fired by anyone other than its owner. Here's how it works: A gun is outfitted with an RFID reader. An RFID tag is implanted in the gun owner's hand. Only in the presence of that tag will the handgun allow its trigger to be unlocked. Link

Al-Qaeda may have trained and licensed pilots in their ranks

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