Category Archives: CurrentEvents

E.T. Gets A Callback

Orson Welles would be stoked. Here’s a link to the abstract. The GMRT began observing the FRB field as a ToO (proposal DDT B124) 2 d after the event at 610 MHz at 01:30 UT on May 16. The 3-h observation (including overheads and calibrators) produced an image of the field with 123 μJy rms. via A real-timeContinue reading “E.T. Gets A Callback”

Chinese hack U.S. weather systems, satellite network – The Washington Post

NOAA’s CPC (Climate Prediction Center) issued this statement last week: There is an approximately 50-60% chance of El Niño conditions during the next two months, with ENSO-neutral favored thereafter. If this proves to be inaccurate, it may be because the forecast models are based on bad data. Hackers from China breached the federal weather network recently,Continue reading “Chinese hack U.S. weather systems, satellite network – The Washington Post”

The MPAA is playing politics to help topple Google

This is crazy — the Sony leaks just get more interesting! the MPAA has formed a supergroup of Google-hating companies, including Microsoft, to use their money and influence to attack the world’s largest search engine. via The MPAA is playing politics to help topple Google.

Larry Flynt’s Making ‘The Interview’ Pr0n

“If Kim Jong Un and his henchmen were upset before, wait till they see the movie we’re going to make,” Hustler founder and chairman Larry Flynt said as he announced plans to make a pornographic parody of The Interview. via http://www.wsbtv.com/news/entertainment/hustler-video-announces-porn-parody-interview/njXbT/