~e; EM newscloud
From
human being <human@electronetwork.org>
Date
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:46:52 -0500
Title: EM newscloud
1 // if anyone locates this Gartner report, please post the
url...
U.S. vulnerable to data sneak attack (abstract)
By Margaret Kane
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-949605.html?tag=dd.ne.dtx.nl-sty.0
"A group of hackers couldn't single-handedly bring down the
United States' national data infrastructure, but a terrorist team
would be able to do significant localized damage to U.S. systems,
according to a recent war games simulation."
2 // this essay brings up a good point, about seeing the value
in
// subsidizing bandwidth, for other/later gains. i would
add that
// this could also be considered as a
research-design-development
// proposition, where public investment has payoffs in
other areas
// than the infrastructure itself, but its super and
substructures,
// such as potentially better and more integrated data
services,
// a leap in innovation in many sectors at once, due to
surpluses
// in transmission technology. increased efficiencies, et
cetera.
Free Bandwidth,
a discussion paper by Jesse Hirsh
http://news.openflows.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/1711245&mode=nested
3 // in the hard-to-believe category. dual-use
nuclear/garden-cart...
Terrorist Fears Could Prompt Transfer of Nuclear Materials
By Cat Lazaroff
http://ens-news.com/ens/aug2002/2002-08-12-06.asp
"The TA-18 area has failed a number of security tests,
including a mock terrorist attack staged within the last two weeks,
according to sources at Los Alamos. In 1997, Army Special Forces used
a Home Depot garden cart to steal more than 200 pounds of nuclear
materials during a security test."
and...
Fearing Theft, U.S. Plans to Relocate Nuclear Fuel
By MATTHEW L. WALD
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/12/national/12NUKE.html?todaysheadlines
4 // question is, will it become a photoshop plug-in...
Navy Stumbles on Art Restoration Method
By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020715/navyart.html
"The Navy's surprise entry into the world of art occurred
while hired researchers Guillermo Sapiro and Andrea Bertozzi were
designing math algorithms to restore blurry or partial surveillance
images. They were having problems coming up with the necessary
equations until they hit upon a breakthrough - fluid dynamics.
They found that the same principles that govern the movement of
water may also apply to how paint sweeps across a canvas, or how
pixels flow across a printed photograph.
...
The addition of fluid dynamics principles into their equations
allowed for the creation of a computer program that restores missing
visual information in everything from camera spy shots to ripped
Rembrandts."
5 // thanks * for the fwd... tuneable/cascading
laserlight...
Lasers now work at new wavelengths
FROM a human point of view, the terahertz frequencies are a
curiously barren region of the electromagnetic spectrum. They lie,
unexploited, between microwaves at long wavelengths and infra-red at
short. They are neglected because no one has developed a convenient
source of terahertz radiation. Not yet, anyway. But a laser unveiled
by Alessandro Tredicucci of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa,
Italy, at the recent International Conference on the Physics of
Semiconductors, in Edinburgh, lights the way to the future.
6 // computer cracking = possible life in a .US
prison.
Stakes Higher for Hackers After Sept. 11
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20020811/tc_nm/hackers_dc_2
and
Hacker Obtains Shuttle Design Files, Baffling NASA
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/12/technology/12NASA.html?todaysheadlines
7 // public service announcement... (esp. San Francisco Bay
Area...)
Wanted: Web geeks for the disabled
By Rachel Konrad
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 12, 2002, 9:45 AM PT
Calling all do-good developers!
Organizers of a unique technology rally are looking for computer
programmers and designers to build Web sites useful to people with
disabilities. The first Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) California
will be held on Sept. 21 at a San Francisco high school, and
coordinators hope to make it an annual event.
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-949378.html?tag=dd.ne.dtx.nl-sty.0
8 // why not design 14-15+ line barcodes if changing the
standard???
// running out of numbers in 12 lines, then adding
world retailing?
Bigger Bar Code Inches Up on Retailers
By KATE MURPHY
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/12/technology/12CODE.html?todaysheadlines
9 // lots of similar projects in energy r&d. in a sense, it
is similar
// in concept to cogeneration, if steam (waste) is used
for heating...
Researchers combining mining and milling wastes to create
fuel
Friday, August 09, 2002
By Roger Alford, Associated Press
http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/08/08092002/ap_48102.asp
"The U.S. Department of Energy put up $500,000 to fund the
study in which coal particles, retrieved from the bottom of mine
refuse ponds, will be combined with sawdust to form briquettes that
could be burned in electric-generating plants."
10 // spaceweather.... wonderful resource for the imagination.
thanks *.
LISTEN to the INSPIRE VLF radio receiver at NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.
http://spaceweather.com/glossary/inspire.html
"You can hear sferics, tweeks, whistlers and other VLF radio
sounds at any time of the day, but the hours around dawn and dusk are
generally best. Nighttime is also better than daytime. In Huntsville,
AL, where our online receiver is located, dawn happens at about 1200
UT and dusk is ten hours later at 2200 UT. Please read the
Science@NASA story "Earth Songs" to find out what these
strange sounds represent."
11 // electromagnetism and the medical field... also
heard/read/saw
// something recently about soundwaves or sonar
being used to
// heal ulcers without surgery, where the waves
could manipulate
// the inside of the human body to adjust and heal
its wounds...
New Light on Breast Cancer
Laser light and thermal heat could help improve the accuracy of
mammograms
By Kelli A. Miller
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=00049F59-4A54-1D48-90FB809EC5880000
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