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Better attack technology doesn’t shorten wars

This means that the improved military technology has not resulted in any advantages for the attacking force, at least not in terms of war duration,’ says Marco Nilsson

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The caveat on this is he’s discussing State-State conflicts, which doesn’t account for the rise of open source warfare, primarily initiated by non-state actors.

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Open Source GIS modeling

Nifty stuff if you’re planning based on regions or watersheds, or..

“Integrated Land and Water Information System, ILWIS, the world’s most user-friendly integrated software with raster processing capabilities to work on remotely sensed satellite images and vector processing capabilities for making vector maps and countless spacial modeling abilities. Its fully integrated raster and vector approach and user-friendlyness make it particularly suitable for natural resources managers, field scientists, biologists, ecologists, etc., as well as for educators.

http://www.ilwis.org/

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California to allow personal vehicle sharing services?

City CarShare is trying to pioneer personal vehicle sharing, where car owners would make their vehicles available to a pre-screened pool of personal vehicle sharing participants during the periods of the day when their car is not in use, which for many vehicles is upwards of 90 percent of the time.

very interesting idea, if they can work out the insurance issues.

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There’s an Urban App for That

Hopefully the loitering youth return fire with their own iPhones, en masse, sending these doddering busybodies into some kind of Facebook doghouse.

actually the idea is good…. but love the snark

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‘Decon green’ isn’t a color

The main ingredients in each Decon Green formula are peroxides, the same substances that are in many household cleaners and whitening toothpaste. To bolster their effectiveness, the peroxides are mixed with bicarbonates or other non-toxic bases.

via Military develops multi-purpose ‘green’ decontaminants for terrorist attack sites.

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