OpenWarfare.org

Slashdot had a good post about an this interview with the author the book Wired For War.  It is a good interview although they only briefly touch on the topic of open source weapon systems and then in a pretty negative way.  My main problem with these sorts of negative dialogs is that people immediatly look for ways to put the genie back in the bottle instead of dealing with the real issues at hand.  I just hope we don’t see a bunch of bad legislation as the concept of open source DIY weapon systems becomes part of the public conciouisness.  Openwarfare.org is not a huge community yet but I would like to start thinking about what we could do to start raising this issue in a positive and thoughtful way before someone raises it for us.

Soaring

This is a really interesting group that is attempting to make a UAV that can use thermals to stay aloft.  Their ultimate goal is a cross country unmanned flight.  So far they have made pretty good progress.  I wonder how far you could go my mixing solar and soaring modes.

A pretty interesting talk on the mathematics of insugent warfare.  The two things I thought were particularly interstign where how they collected the data from normal news streams and the idea that asemmetric warfare has a set mathematical distrobution.

Wow. As a taxpayer I wonder from time to time where all the money goes.  I’m guessign DAS took a fair chunk of it.  I think we sometimes forget just how far ahead we are in the arms race.  I see something like that and the size of that gap quickly becomes apparent.  What a cool system, I’d hate to go up against an F-35 with a 4G fighter.  I wonder how feasable it would be to create a DIY system that merges the output from 6 cheap CMOS cameras into a 360 degree view of the world…