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Castle Fight is a Warcraft III map created by Gex that can support up to twelve players; six on the West team and six on the East one, though I recommend that you play 4 vs 4, because otherwise the game will get pretty laggy. The main purpose of the game is to destroy the opposite team's castle. Each player has ... |
5 March 2009
11:19 GMT |
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The menace of getting struck by an asteroid or a comet has been one of the largest threats that humans have had to live with for countless centuries. Every time people hear that a new celestial body has been discovered, they immediately ask themselves “will it hit us?” This fear comes from the knowledge t... |
7 January 2009
08:55 GMT |
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More and more money is spent on military purposes, while science and health are far from doing well, let alone benefit from similar budgets. While it's hard to argue that national security and defense are crucial tasks, it is also important to know that only the missile defense program that's been going on ... |
8 December 2008
05:08 GMT |
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A troubled American satellite belonging to the U.S. Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) program is slowly but firmly drifting away from its designated place, high up in the orbit. The unwanted movement of the DSP-23 satellite is prone to endanger the integrity of other expensive and important satellites in... |
3 December 2008
09:22 GMT |
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We haven't heard from LiLo in a while, and I was sort of wondering when she'd take us all by storm with another one of her amazing statements. And when I say "amazing", I mean totally unrealistic, self-centered and downright delusional. Well, fear no more - and may I add, sit back in a comfortable chair and... |
24 January 2008
04:52 GMT |
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The United States have been attacked by hackers many times by now. The press has paid a lot of attention to this issue, and there have been many articles written about the Pentagon getting hacked by the Chinese. I really regret saying this, but sometimes, if some bad things do not reach the press, they remain unchang... |
8 October 2007
09:53 GMT |
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Assessing the threat is never an easy thing to do and doing it with promptitude is even harder. Cyber-attacks have been something a lot of countries have been fearing with the Internet advancing at such a high speed. But only recently have a lot of scary possibilities popped up. And I'm saying recently and not p... |
28 September 2007
08:34 GMT |
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Sensitive data protection is a big issue these days. IT experts everywhere try to defend their companies' data as well as they can, still, in some cases, it leaks and hackers get a hold of it.Fidelis Security announced on Tuesday a quick start program for its data-leak prevention product that is bound to help co... |
23 August 2007
05:38 GMT |
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The terrorist attacks have made the whole world see the real threat of international terrorism in a different light. Researchers from many countries have concentrated their efforts on the development of methods and special equipment with which it will be possible to detect explosive objects in advance. Such devices ... |
25 July 2007
10:16 GMT |
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A new solid state laser could provide novel environmentally friendly lighting solutions, by using high-efficiency fluorescent laser dyes in a high temperature co-polymer matrix. Solid state laser use a solid gain medium, like glass or a crystalline host material, but this one uses a new one, plastic.The self-healing... |
23 July 2007
10:29 GMT |
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The US Department of Defense is more and more interested in using near-space balloons for red alert exercises, which can be used to temporarily restore communications in areas affected by natural disaster or industrial accidents.Actually, they don't call them "near-space" anymore, they switched to "high-altitud... |
19 July 2007
03:36 GMT |
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The X-Files are a science fiction television series that deepened the already spreading mistrust of governments, interest in conspiracy theories and spirituality, and the belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life.A well respected author, Gus Russo, published the results of an investigation that may sound like... |
26 June 2007
08:22 GMT |
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As businesses and government facilities using wireless networks struggle to keep their confidential data in and hackers out, it seems that WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) and even WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) is already obsolete.The US Department of Homeland Security admitted in a congressional panel disclosed this w... |
22 June 2007
08:20 GMT |
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Poisonous or distasteful animals are more efficient in defending themselves with their chemical weaponry but they can also warn of this. That's why many insects, poisonous frogs or coral snakes, for example, display their vivid colors. But the method is so efficient with the predators, that many defenseless and ... |
31 May 2007
05:25 GMT |
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Most birds and mammals are intimidated when someone stares at them. When lemurs are in danger, they stare at their enemy with their big, round eyes trying to intimidate it. Generally amongst mammals, a subordinate individual will avoid looking the dominant individual in the eyes. This is valid from rats to carnivores... |
25 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Contrary to the common opinion, animals employ violence very rarely, only when they are cornered or mad of fear. Otherwise, they carefully save their forces, as zoopsychologists noticed. In a chicken group, just one picks and knocks the others. Moved in another group, he will manifest the same tendency, becoming soon... |
17 March 2007
09:34 GMT |
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When it's about rank and power, brute force rarely reaches the goal. In most cases, tactics is more effective. We, people, do know it, but much to our surprise, animals are ruled by the same rules. When two zebra stallions are fighting, you can be sure it's not for the rights over a harem. The mares are so ... |
3 March 2007
08:21 GMT |
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We can be s**t scared. But others might not be. On the contrary, when spooked they barf. And announce you of it with an introductory belch. Some caterpillars will be distasteful for their predators, when they puke a foul brown fluid, after giving a warning. Neuroethologist Jayne Yack at Carleton University in Ottawa ... |
2 March 2007
04:38 GMT |
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