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2 U.S. Army vets accused of plot to kill DEA agent. Two former U.S.

2 U.S. Army vets accused of plot to kill DEA agent

Army snipers, including a 20-year veteran labeled a "contract killer," and a retired German sharpshooter have been charged with plotting the murders-for-hire of an American drug agent and an informant in Africa, the Justice Department announced Friday. The planned assassinations, which were never carried out, were part of a conspiracy to fly hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the United States from Colombian drug traffickers who were actually confidential sources for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Two other ex-military snipers, one from Germany and the other from Poland, were arrested in Estonia and charged only with drug crimes as part of the scheme, which stretched from Asia to Africa and to the Caribbean. The plot leaders decided the pair would "not be able to handle" the killings, which were called "bonus jobs," the indictment states. Prosecutors portrayed the five as ruthless mercenaries. The other American defendant, Timothy Vamvakias, served in the U.S. Disposable Phone Number App Burner Grabs $2 Million In Seed Funding. Before the world was informed of the massive and invasive government spying programs run by the NSA and other countries, a mobile app called Burner appeared on the scene offering users disposable phone numbers which they could use to protect their privacy, or for other purposes.

Disposable Phone Number App Burner Grabs $2 Million In Seed Funding

Charge It With Fire! FlameStower Turns Your Campfire Into A USB Phone-Charger. Charge your gadgets with fire!

Charge It With Fire! FlameStower Turns Your Campfire Into A USB Phone-Charger

FlameStower, a startup that came out of Stanford’s StartX Summer 2013 class, has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to get its alternative charger to market. Survival after cancer diagnosis strongly associated with governments spending on health care. The more an EU (European Union) national government spends on health, the fewer the deaths after a cancer diagnosis in that country, according to new research to be presented to the 2013 European Cancer Congress (ECC2013) and published simultaneously in the leading cancer journal Annals of Oncology.

Survival after cancer diagnosis strongly associated with governments spending on health care

Researchers will tell the meeting that higher wealth and higher health expenditure are strongly associated both with increased cancer incidence and decreased cancer mortality. In the case of breast cancer, increased health expenditure appears to be even more strongly associated with better outcomes. Dr Felipe Ades, MD, a medical oncologist at the Breast European Adjuvant Studies Team (BrEAST), a clinical trials unit and data centre in Belgium, will say: “We have observed that the more spent on health, the fewer the deaths after a cancer diagnosis and this is specially marked in breast cancer. Maintenance page : Wiley Online Library. Software For Auto Repair: With New Funding In Tow, Estify Sees Big Opportunity In An Unsexy Market. The collision industry probably doesn’t rank at the top of the “Sexy Markets” list for startups, but sometimes the most obscure, fragmented and pulchritudinously challenged industries can offer the most opportunity to those willing to grit their teeth and immerse themselves in the mess.

Software For Auto Repair: With New Funding In Tow, Estify Sees Big Opportunity In An Unsexy Market

Estify, a graduate of Amplify LA’s business accelerator, is doing just that. Co-founders Jordan Furniss, Derek Carr and Taylor Moss went looking for the most unsexy market they could find, with bonus points awarded for both size and level of inefficiency. NASA Mars rover Curiosity finds water in first sample of planet surface. The first scoop of soil analyzed by the analytical suite in the belly of NASA's Curiosity rover reveals that fine materials on the surface of the planet contain several percent water by weight.

NASA Mars rover Curiosity finds water in first sample of planet surface

The results were published today in Science as one article in a five-paper special section on the Curiosity mission. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dean of Science Laurie Leshin is the study's lead author. Monkeys Whisper When Talking About Someone They Don't Like. Image: Ltshears/Wikipedia.

Monkeys Whisper When Talking About Someone They Don't Like

Coworking: Less chaotic than a coffee shop, more inspiring than a cubicle - Cincinnati Business Courier. Courtesy Platform 53 Platform 53 is hoping to open a coworking space in the region and has conducted two coworking experiments, along with a number of "jellies," or casual pop-up coworking events.

Coworking: Less chaotic than a coffee shop, more inspiring than a cubicle - Cincinnati Business Courier

Matthew Dooley had been working from coffee shops and home before coming to Cintrifuse. “I could probably tell you details of every coffee shop around Greater Cincinnati. How to Pipe Like a Pirate with Jack Sparrow. Zuckerberg: PRISM Made Users Trust Facebook Less. Facebook has been criticized by the media and users many times over the years for privacy concerns, but Mark Zuckerberg suggested that nothing has had as much of an impact on user trust as the uproar over reports of the NSA's access to Facebook data.

Zuckerberg: PRISM Made Users Trust Facebook Less

"That stuff tends to not move the needle much around the brand perception of trust," Zuckerberg said during an interview with The Atlantic in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, referring to previous criticisms about how Facebook handles user privacy. "The NSA stuff did. " Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook tracks "brand trust metrics" for a number of Internet companies and found that each took a hit following the NSA controversy. Dangerous Vine Stunt Proves Internet Fame Isn't Worth It. Camera Lens Adjusts Focus Like a Human Eye. Human eyes are an ideal lens.

Camera Lens Adjusts Focus Like a Human Eye

They can easily shift focus between several objects in a given scene, even if those objects are located at different distances. Attempting a similar ability with a camera may require the photographer to change lenses. Most Influential Emotions on Social Networks Revealed. One well-known feature of social networks is that similar people tend to attract each other: birds of a feather flock together. So an interesting question is whether these similarities cause people to behave in the same way online, whether it might lead to flocking or herding behaviour, for example. Today, we get an interesting insight into this phenomena thanks to the work of Rui Fan and pals at Beihang University in China. These guys have compared the way that tweets labelled with specific emotions influence other people on the network. NY art dealer admits to multi-million dollar art fraud. 17 September 2013Last updated at 05:09 ET Fake Rothko paintings were included - these originals are at the Mark Rothko museum in Latvia A New York art dealer has pleaded guilty to being involved in a 15-year multi-million dollar art fraud.

How Wi-Fi Direct Works As A Gateway To The Internet Of Things. Wi-Fi Direct is an emerging wireless standard that allows you to create a create a connection between any two devices without going through a wireless router. Want to create a Wi-Fi hotspot, connect your computer or smartphone to your printer or stream movies from your tablet to your television? There is a good chance that Wi-Fi Direct is doing the heavy lifting.

Americans Losing Faith In Technology, But Can't Break The Addiction. Americans have a very conflicted relationship with technology. According to a new Harris Interactive poll, 71% of Americans believe that technology has improved their overall quality of life, with 65% believing that technology helps them be more creative. That's good, right? Well, it would be, except these numbers are down from last year. Google Waves Goodbye To MySQL In Favor Of MariaDB. In physics, the law of conservation of energy holds that energy can neither be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred from one form to another. In business terms, this natural law can also apply: do a company wrong and someday that company may come back to bite you on the butt later.

That will never be the official reason why search engine Google is moving all of its Oracle MySQL relational database systems to MySQL's forked descendant MariaDB, but even the unintentional, karmic implications against Oracle are blindingly obvious. Beer chugging babe. Websites. How Tech Companies Boost Creativity. Tesla CTO JB Straubel Says His Company Can Charge Electric Vehicles, With No Battery Swapping, in Five Minutes. Electric vehicles take too long to recharge.

To charge a Tesla Model S just halfway takes five hours at a typical home or public charging station. But in its effort to make electric vehicles more practical, Tesla Motors is quickly reducing the charging times. How to plan for and mitigate a Barracuda vulnerability. 2013 Black Hat conference: Feds welcome! Armazenamento. What Magneto's Helmet and Non-ICFR SSAE 16 Controls have in Common.

Snapchat rolls out ‘SnapKidz,’ a child-friendly version of its picture service. Giving children non-verbal clues about words boosts vocabularies. US law enforcers want to see a kill switch on our mobile phones. Hey board directors, help your companies fight cybercrime – and yes, it matters. Anatomy of a cryptoglitch – Apple’s iOS hotspot passphrases crackable in 50 seconds. A posse of computer scientists at the University of Erlangen in Germany has published a well-worth-reading paper about Wi-Fi security on Apple's iOS.

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