Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
The New York Times reports that the Stuxnet worm, destroyer of Iranian centrifuges, may well have come, as many (including this writer) thought, from a nation-state. NYT describes the worm's breeding as an joint American-Israeli venture, one specifically aimed at crippling the type of centrifuges Iran uses to enrich uranium. ...
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
The Army may start issuing iPhones or Droids (their choice) to all soldiers. The rationale is that they will help integrate soldiers into the information age, among other things. American GIs are great at improvising, as they always have been, and they have been finding ways to use hand-held technology ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Matt Drudge reports (August 4, 2010) that TSA does store your imagies - like this one below. (So, do you still think 'Homeland Secirity is keeping you safe? Who keeps you safe from them? And where does your daughter's inage end up next? care to guess?)
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Several months ago, this writer described his experiences in using two alternatioves to Windows - Mac OS and Ubuntu Linux. At the time, the 13 months' experiment with Ubuntu looked very promising. Free software, no license restrictions, literally thousands of programs available for download ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
How much of current society and culture would stop if we lost our current, know all/talk to all technology? Does the instant news cycle change the political and social dynamic of our culture?
An interesting article explores our youth's addiction to their gadgets. How they make decisions based on access to ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
Will it kill Google? I doubt it and I care less.
It sure is fun to play with. I have to be careful I don't waste 3 days on it.
An "answer" engine called WolframAlpha. Try it!
Let us know what you think of it.
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
As I sit in a certification "Review" Seminar (long boring talking) I appreciate the earnestness of the trainer and wonder at the cost to productivity and in dollars to the companies using it.
As an Information Engineer across many technology platforms "certification" is necessary to be considered for work. That is ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
The constant drumbeat of the left (and some of the right) of panicked squealing about the Patriot Act's threat to freedom and privacy is strangely missing on this new proposed law. So is big brother only bad if it is proposed by a marginally less collectivist government? The hypocrisy of ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Here is economist Juan Enriquez's recent presentation at TED, juxtaposes the scary world financial crisis against the backdrop of the optimism of the much longer term, involving far more profound changes in robotics, computers, biology and genetics than any of us can imagine.
He makes a number of very pointed ...
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