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Gadget Growing Inside Your Body ? Future of Stem Cells Research
2007-02-20 17:50:04 The next generation of electronic devices could be built based on breakthru in stem cells reasearch. Just imagine the tiniest cell phone as an integral part of your body, inside of your ear canal. If we grow more brain cells, it will not increase our mental abilities anyway ? after all, we hardly use 3% of our ... More About: Body , Research , Future , Cell , Search
What Silicon Valley and Queen of England have in common?
2007-02-20 17:50:04 Today’s discussion on slashot.com, Silicon Valley - Still Important To Tech Advances, kind of touched my nerve and I broke into the following tirade: Yes, Silicon Valley is still important. As a geographical location. The same as Queen is important for England today. Yet it does ... More About: Icon , What , Hat , Common
What Silicon Valley and Queen of England have in common?
2007-02-17 03:28:00 Today’s discussion on slashot.com, Silicon Valley - Still Important To Tech Advances, kind of touched my nerve and I broke into the following tirade: Yes, Silicon Valley is still important. As a geographical location. The same as Queen is important for England today. Yet it does not mean that Silicon Valley location is a panacea, or some sort of passing score. The really successful startups don’t even need venture money. Did you hear that? Some companies are in Chicago, others are in East Coast, and some are in garages. What really important is who in this garage, and not where it is located! Look, many of us like Silicon Valley and are totally Ok with Queen. But should we be Fitzgerald-like with his imputative blind admiration for the rich? This celebrity-like mentality hides the many facts and success stories in Texas, Chicago, East Coast etc. The successful people live in chilly Nebraska, rainy Seattle, and many interesting things take place pretty far fr... More About: Common , Comm
Firefox add-on plugin CookieSafe comes to the rescue
2007-02-16 08:17:00 I like many of Firefox 2.0 plugins, but my favorite is Cookie Safe . While this plugin makes your browsing experience a bit more difficult (a lot of websites are rather cripplied without cookies being activated), yet you can easily block cookies only for the malicious or totally unknown websites, and allow others on the permanent basis or just temporarily. At least gives you some warm feeling of being more protected. Today zdnet.com reports that the new vulnerability in Firefox ver. 2.0.0.1 and prior versions of the browser was detected by Polish researcher Michal Zalewski. As I can see, the Poles become pretty active in such type of researches — think of Joanna Rutkowska, for example, with her analysis of Vista potential vulnerabilities and security design principles. Going back to my point about CookieSafe plugin — it saves me when I test Firefox flaw, and, to be susceptible to potential attack, I have to deliberately activate cookies for the attacker’s domain. See... More About: Plugin , Rescue
Human factor in security vulnerabilities
2007-02-16 05:59:00 Interesting to see that very significant part of vulnerabilities in computer security protection overall is related to so called “human factor”. People just forget to change the default password in wireless routers, or not make low-level formatting of their hard drives before shipping their computers after they sold them on eBay. Nothing new, and yet amazing to see how big the consequences of “de minimis infractions” are. The shining example is in the report on the vulnerability in a large number of common home routers, using some simple javascript on a web page, indicating that attackers could change the configuration of home routers using trivial JavaScript code. Many manufacturers do not want to lose sales by enforcing mandatory password change, and keep the default unified passwords available to everybody without any second guess. Why is that? Many consumers found it is easier to return the newly purchased device back for refund and not to bother RTFM (r... More About: Security , Human , Vulnerabilities , Factor , Actor
Ugly Bettie as Chief Magistrate.Di Caprio is Lenin’s Descend
2007-02-12 12:14:00 Take a look at funny picture stories, and get yourself familiar with a Russian side of things. For example, Russian version of “Ugly Bettie”. There are some differences, though. Bettie’s dental braces do not have a look with the distinctive black eye, big bruise and huge temporal bloody scratch on the top of the head of Mayor of Moscow. Such trifles cannot ruin his show time, and he is on air. The same website makes impossible to disguise anymore the little-known fact that Leo Di Caprio is a great-grandson of Vladimir Lenin . If in doubt, see for yourself! More About: Chief , Rate
Adventures in Telecommunication
2007-02-05 23:47:02 I’m anything but strong beliver that the last changes in telco competitive scene, and especially the recent throwback to dominance of AT&T Allmighty hardly ends up with any great achievements for the long run. Yes, the “new” AT&T lets some customers to spare buck or two via extended network coverage. Still, I’m not sure that they are going to keep their joyful smiles in the long run. By coincidence, shortly before the telecommunication incest between the AT&T family members was unveiled, my 2-year contract with Cingular Wireless came to an end. I was already pre-determined to not prolongate this sexploitation under Cingular for the next 2 years anymore. I never was a happy customer by paying $70 for 5-10 min of montly usage in frames of my most basic family plan. My rollover minutes were huge, but I cannot swap them for ability to send SMS messages without paying extra. The last staw was an increase of rate for very expensive text messaging ev... More About: Venture , Communication , Cat , Adventure , Muni
filtering the useful signal from noise
2007-02-05 11:47:02 Alice Marshall writes in her blog about The Federal Agency Data-Mining Reporting Act and refers to an presentation by James Kasprzak where he said that “one of the ways people defeat data mining is to simply lie, and that excessive personal data collection is therefore self-defeating“. I will try to make my point without discussing whether data mining itself as a tool is good or bad — it is totally irrelevant — because it’s all about how datamining is used. I rather disagree with the opinion that the people providing the false personal data can possibly defeat even very basic (not mentioning more sofisticated and intelligent) data processing. My point would be to say that it is insignificant whether somebody lies in their blog or not, and author has to understand how the datamining as a process and as an algorithm works. The info sources and data content could be of different quality, very poor quality, or of no quality at all. But the volume of data g... More About: Ring , Sign , Filter , Signal , Useful
miraculous commonplace
2007-02-05 11:47:02 Be it known to you that as per Littlewood’s law, the average person expectancy to encounter a miracle is in the ball-park of one miracle per month. But do not let the above fact send shivers down your spine — just look at Littlewood’s definition of miracle itself — he believes that miracles do not exist, and are the examples of impossible, or highly improbable occurences that accidentally and randomly happen on the regular basis. Still, I am afraid it is anything but the end of story. More About: Common , Place , Culo , Comm , Lace
Gadget Growing Inside Your Body ? Future of Stem Cells Research
2007-02-05 11:47:02 The next generation of electronic devices could be built based on breakthru in stem cells reasearch. Just imagine the tiniest cell phone as an integral part of your body, inside of your ear canal. If we grow more brain cells, it will not increase our mental abilities anyway — after all, we hardly use 3% of our brain power. More About: Body , Research , Future , Cell , Search
imminent crisis of bandwidth in USA?
2007-02-05 11:47:02 It is interesting to note that the steady increase and popularity of Internet television catches the existing archaic broadband infrastructure on the wrong foot. In contrast to USA market, with our painfully slow and outrageously expensive broadband here, Europe and Japan are the way ahead. For example, as of August 2006, Britons already had DSL service with a download speed of up to 24 megabits per second, and Norway offered fiber-optic connections as fast as 100 mbps. France, Japan are no different in this regard. Italy and Spain both have much more affordable broadband service and free dial-up. More About: Band , Mine , Bandwidth , Crisis , Isis
Vanilla Uncos
More articles from this author:2007-02-05 11:47:02 Many miracles recur in ordinary, and still remain visually unnoticed or mentally unperceived. Could we change the status quo and not overlook what is going on underfoot and over-head? Stay tuned. More Later? More About: Vanilla 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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