This is how the U.S. Navy repays Iran’s bluster about attacking its ships: it saves Iranian fishermen from Somali pirates. Any time the Iranians want to thank the Navy, it’s cool.
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Wave Glider robots set out to explore the seven seas, break the Guinness record
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, nope, it’s Liquid Robotic’s four Wave Gliders on a mission to snag the Guinness World Record for longest distance traveled on Earth by an automaton. Setting out today from the San Francisco Bay, the autonomous sea-faring crafts will travel far and wide to gather data about the world’s oceans. Powered by the water’s movement, the vessels are fuel-free, using “flapping” wings to move forward without human command. Tricked out with various solar-powered sensors, the robots can capture location, weather, temperature, wave height, barometric pressure and more throughout their travels. The 198.4 pound machines cost between 0,000 and 0,000 each depending on how many sensors are built-in — a small price for scientists or commandeering pirates hoping to learn more about the 95 percent of ocean that has yet to be explored. Let’s just hope they don’t run into one of these guys.
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Hurt Locker lawsuit targets a record-breaking 24,583 IP addresses
It’s been almost a year since the producers of The Hurt Locker filed a lawsuit against 5,000 alleged pirates suspected of distributing the film via BitTorrent. Now Voltage Pictures has updated its complaint, adding almost 20,000 IP addresses to the list of defendants. That makes it the largest file-sharing lawsuit of all time – a crown previously held by the company behind The Expendables, according to Wired. The plaintiff has already reached agreements with Charter and Verizon to identify individual users, but no such deal with Comcast, who owns nearly half the supposedly infringing addresses. Linking those addresses with user accounts would let Voltage manage individual settlements — probably somewhere between ,000-,000 — rather than continue legal action. All of this eerily echoes the Oscar-winning film’s plot, about an adrenaline junkie who couldn’t resist downloading just one more movie. Or defusing one more bomb. We’re a little fuzzy on the details, but venture into TorrentFreak to scan for familiar IP addresses.
Hurt Locker lawsuit targets a record-breaking 24,583 IP addresses originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 May 2011 15:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Studio Suing BitTorrent Pirates Doesn’t Own the Movie
A film company suing 5,865 BitTorrent downloaders over the flick Nude Nuns with Big Guns doesn’t even own the rights to the movie, according to court documents and interviews.
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A Quick EVE Online Guide: Gaining The Biggest Profit From Your Mining
In EVE Online, you can’t build things out of nothing. Effort must be given with regard to gathering resources in order to fortify a fleet. Gathering resources can be attained thru the process of mining. EVE Online mining involves a procedure of extracting raw materials known as ore from asteroids found in asteroid belts or ice in ice belts. Mining is all about employing your mining laser modules to these asteroids and filling up your cargo with ore. This ore can be refined into minerals that are mandatory in building equipment for your fleet or can be sold at the market for profit. However , there are a few EVE Online mining tips that you ought to know to make every mining session count. This EVE Online guide will give you some ideas.
Starting Low-Grade
If you are mining for the first time, know that you’ll start with a low-quality mining laser and like most other mining lasers, a single mining cycle takes only a minute. Since your current mining laser won’t get you any good quality resources, let quantity matter for the meantime and start stocking up some common ores at the low-grade asteroids. This is the safest route to go as well as valuable ore spots tend to be guarded by vicious pirates that may make short work of your puny ship.
A Little Spending
The money that you made from the tutorial mode can turn out to be awfully useful when it comes to EVE Online mining. You can buy a Miner I which can gather more ore units while using up less CPU at the same time. You may also opt in purchasing a survey scanner if you happen to feel you need better chances in finding the ore that you wish to mine. What’s critical is that you spend that cash on mining to make things easier.
Security Precautions
EVE Online Mining is unquestionably no walk in the park so for safety, make sure you look for systems with a variety of around 1.0 to 0.8. It should additionally have no more than 30 pilots in it. If you find that the current system that you’re in has been drained from other players, you’ll have no option but to travel. When carrying out your mining expedition, try and keep it less than 5 gate jumps away from your original location.
Remember to bookmark any good asteroids that you find particularly if the place is far so you can travel back easily. From there you should be stocking up plenty of ore that you can put to some serious use. Hopefully this EVE Online guide has given you some useful ideas to kickstart your mining career.