~e; Electromagnetic News & Views #17
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human being <human@electronetwork.org>
Date
Sat, 8 Mar 2003 21:14:38 -0600
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Electromagnetic News & Views -- #17
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00) Electronetwork.org Commentary (3/8/2003)
01) Top Stories of Electromagnetism
02) Electromagnetic health & medicine
03) Electromagnetic trash & treasure
04) Electromagnetic security & surveillance
05) Electromagnetic power & energy
06) Electromagnetic current & human affairs
07) Electromagnetic transportation & communication
08) Electromagnetic matter & information
09) Electromagnetic trends & inventions
10) Electromagnetic weaponry & warfare
11) Electromagnetic business & economics
12) Electromagnetic art & artifacts
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00) --commentary--
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no comments this week.
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01) --top stories--
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The Real Scientific Hero of 1953 // a beautiful story...
By STEVEN STROGATZ // Fermi & John Pasta and Stanislaw Ulam
// and the "computer experiment" known as MANIAC
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/opinion/04STRO.html?th>
"... perhaps the most important lesson of Fermi's study is how feeble
even the best minds are at grasping the dynamics of large, nonlinear
systems."
Media make-up is enhanced by the 'lipstick cam'
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-602210,00.html>
"War coverage, it seems, will always reflect the media fad of the age:
if Gulf War I was a video game, Gulf War II will be a reality TV show."
// hacking websites via search engines seemed a possibility,
// as if one does not know how cgi-perl or another programming
// language deals with passwords in web files, or with mySQL
// and PHP, a simple search for common phrases embedded in one's
// webpages would open up the backend of one's website with ease.
// therefore, while this article refers to Filemaker DB by Apple,
// it is not unlikely that mySQL/PHP and cgi/perl applications are
// also vulnerable. then, there are those who develop applications
// (or so it's been said) for the purpose of getting such info
// from those who use these lesser-known freeware web-applications...
Net Hacker Tool du Jour: Google
<http://wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57897,00.html>
Silent But Deadly // well-worth reading...
Skunk Works quietly created killer tech.
And paved the way for Enron. By Bruce Sterling
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/view.html?pg=4>
Net speed record smashed
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2822333.stm>
"Scientists have set a new internet speed record by transferring 6.7
gigabytes of data across 10,978 kilometres (6,800 miles), from
Sunnyvale in the US to Amsterdam in Holland, in less than one minute.
...
"The motivation for the record was the need to transfer and analyse the
vast amounts of data produced by particle physicists studying the
fundamental building blocks of matter."
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02-- electromagnetic health & medicine
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Un-blinded by the light // infrared...
Red light rescues retinas from methanol poisoning.
<http://www.nature.com/nsu/030303/030303-1.html>
EU Ministers Urge Russia to Ratify Climate Protocol
<http://ens-news.com/ens/mar2003/2003-03-05-01.asp>
"Ratification by Russia is essential, as Russia is responsible for 17.4
percent of the 1990 emissions. Russian ratification would push the
total percentage of the greenhouse gas over the 55 percent that
triggers the protocol's entry into force."
// cancer lawsuits and mobile phone companies... not over...
Judge Rejects Suits That Sought Headsets for All Cellphone Users
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/technology/08CELL.html?th>
"The class-action suits contended wireless hand-held phones exposed
users to the risk of brain or eye cancer and demanded that the phone
companies provide every phone user with a headset to reduce exposure to
radio frequency emissions..."
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03-- electromagnetic trash & treasure
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Call 'em futility poles // utility poles left in street...
<http://nydailynews.com/front/story/64340p-59959c.html>
Standards group takes aim at spam
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032-991305.html?part=dtx&tag=ntop>
"An influential Internet standards-setting body has begun a close
scrutiny of the mounting problem of e-mail spam, in an effort that
could have broad-ranging implications for future e-mail use and
security."
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04-- electromagnetic security & surveillance
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How to block spambots, ban spybots, and tell unwanted robots
to go to hell [dive into mark] // mod_rewrite required...
<http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/02/26/
how_to_block_spambots_ban_spybots_and_tell_unwanted_robots_to_go_to_hell
.html>
Obscure U.S. Agency Seeks Gizmos to Combat Terrorism
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB104672941535189440,00.html>
"The 70 employees of the Technical Support Working Group are the
nation's talent scouts for antiterrorism gadgets. Their job is not to
build the stuff but to fund it and ensure that gizmos find their way
out of the laboratory, onto the market and into the hands of those who
may need them."
Critical flaw exposes Internet e-mail // Sendmail...
Servers that process most e-mail messages at risk
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/880094.asp?0si=-&cp1=1>
Smart card use grows with security concerns
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/789/3726708.html>
Wi-Fi Watchdog Bares Teeth
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20887.html>
"Boston-based startup Newbury Networks does claim that its Wi-Fi
Watchdog application can handle intruders. But the company wants to
carve out a piece of the 802.11 market for itself by specializing in
applications that also enable hot-spot management, mobile monitoring
and analysis, and digital tours."
Computer crackers steal students social security numbers
<http://salon.com/tech/wire/2003/03/06/crackers/index.html>
& Hackers Access University's Database
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20930.html>
EarthLink calls the cops : EarthLink said Wednesday that it has a new
strategy for its wireless division: selling to law enforcement and
other emergency-services agencies.
<http://news.com.com/2100-1039-991409.html?part=dtx&tag=ntop>
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05-- electromagnetic power & energy
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// if a gas-tax is proposed: the situation is extreme.
Lawmakers say [U.S.] gas tax may be needed
<http://salon.com/news/wire/2003/03/08/gas_tax/>
[U.S.] Gov't predicts record gas prices in April
<http://salon.com/news/wire/2003/03/07/gas_prices/>
Toshiba Unveils Innovative Fuel Cell // for laptop...
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20920.html>
"In its current configuration, the direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC)
delivers from 12 to 20 watts of power and provides up to five hours of
notebook PC operation with a single cartridge of fuel. Commercial
availability is slated for next year."
Superconductors : New research is unlocking the amazing potential of
high-temperature superconductors.
<http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/superconductors.asp>
"The NASA-funded Texas Centre for Superconductivity and Advanced
Materials (TcSAM) at the University of Houston is teaming with MetOx to
produce the "smash hit" that scientists have been seeking since the
'80s: a "second generation" HTS wire that realizes the full 100-fold
improvement in current capacity over copper yet costs about the same as
copper to produce."
How Gas Prices Work -
<http://travel.howstuffworks.com/gas-price.htm>
Silicon offers double the battery life, lab says
<http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1775/030307silicondoubles/>
"Adding a controlled amount of silicon to the graphite normally used in
the anode of a lithium-ion battery may double the energy storage
capacity of that battery, researchers at the U.S. Department of
Energy's Sandia National Laboratories said Thursday."
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06-- electromagnetic current & human affairs
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Enraged Computer Owner Shoots Up Machine // there will be copycats...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46611-2003Mar5.html>
Girl baffles teacher with SMS essay
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=856&ncid=856&e=2&u=/
nm/20030303/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_britain_texting>
"An English essay written by a teenager in text messaging short-hand
has reignited concern among teachers that literacy standards are under
threat."
HEADLINES directly related to electromagnetism
- Agents search terror suspects computers // data-mining, networks
- N. Korean jets intercept U.S. spy plane // electronic surveillance
- Broadway goes silent as musicians strike // virtual orchestras
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07-- electromagnetic transportation & communication
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Beaming Video at Speed of Light // LEDs & free-space optics (FSO)...
<http://wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57860,00.html>
'...the first live broadcast of high-quality television images over
visible light spectrum.'
How Digital Cinema Works
<http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/digital-cinema.htm>
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08-- electromagnetic matter & information
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Sony shines light on Blu-ray DVD plans
<http://news.com.com/2100-1041-990826.html?part=dtx&tag=nhl>
"Sony says it's ready to deliver its first blue-laser DVD recorder,
which the company promises will let discs hold up to five times more
data than current red-laser DVD models."
Digicam memory cards crack 4 gigabytes // Compact Flash...
<http://news.com.com./2100-1041-990837.html?tag=fd_top>
// Alternate Reality Gaming via websites, e-mail, phonecalls...
It's Just a Fantasy, but Real Life Is Always in Play
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/technology/circuits/06game.html>
How GPS Receivers Work -
<http://travel.howstuffworks.com/gps.htm>
Book Review: 'A SHORTCUT THROUGH TIME'
Harnessing Atoms to Create Superfast Computers
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/books/07BOOK.html?th>
Handheld Sales Drop // 4 reasons for extinction...
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20938.html>
Future PDAs: Savvier Tour Guides? // this and much more...
<http://wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,57968,00.html>
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09-- electromagnetic trends & inventions
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Intel's Most Unwired Cities Survey // or, most wireless cities...
<http://intel.com/products/mobiletechnology/
unwiredcities.htm?iid=Homepage+Highlight_030304a&>
"The Intel "Most Unwired Cities" survey ranks the top 100 U.S. cities
and regions with the greatest wireless Internet accessibility. The
survey reveals a growing number of metropolitan areas across the
country where people have greater freedom to access information and
entertainment on notebook PCs and wireless Internet connections. Today,
there are more than 3,700 1hotspots in the United States in locations
such as cafes, airports, public parks and hotels."
Making robots more like us
<http://news.com.com/2100-1041-991336.html?part=dtx&tag=nhl>
How Refrigerators Work
<http://home.howstuffworks.com/refrigerator.htm>
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10-- electromagnetic weaponry & warfare
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Infiltrators of North Korea: Tiny Radios
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/international/asia/03RADI.html>
"The radio smuggling is part of a growing public and private effort,
including foreign radio broadcasts, to crack an information monopoly in
the North that has helped keep the Kim family in power for nearly 60
years. So tight is the information blackout that defectors report that
they believed that their country — one of the world's poorest — was
wealthier than South Korea and that the United States donated rice as a
form of tribute to the powerful Communist state."
Iraqi drone 'could drop chemicals on troops'
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-603370,00.html>
Mike Davis, "Slouching Toward Baghdad" // "network centric warfare"
<http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/01/
1951255&mode=nested>
// of note, most RD&D below is electromagnetic. then, also
// the NEMs (nano) instead of MEMs (micro) is of interest...
Director of Central Intelligence
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program
<http://cryptome.org/DCI-postdoc.htm>
"8. SPECIFIC RESEARCH TOPICS FOR FY03 DCI Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship Program
8.1. Micro- and Nano-scale High Performance Rechargeable Battery
Technology
8.2. Software Radio Research
8.3. Lithium-Ion Battery Technology
8.4. 3-D Face Modeling and Display
8.5. Cold Atom Optics
8.6. Data analysis from Passive Hyperspectral and LIDAR sensors
8.7. Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks
8.8. Unconstrained, Goal-based Visual Scene Analysis
8.9. Modeling Spatial Spread of Infectious Diseases
8.10. Comparison of Numerical Algorithms for Assessing the Usefulness
of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows
8.11. Sensemaking: Improving the Shared Creation of Knowledge
8.12. Investigating Various Empirical and Linguistic Methods in Pursuit
of Automated Analysis, Data Mining, Collaboration and Inference
Processes
8.13. Color Appearance Models and Improved Visual Analysis
8.14. Separation, Functionalization, and Self-Assembly Chemistry of
Carbon Nanotubes
8.15. Earthquake Pre-cursor Propagation Model and Signal Analysis
Techniques
8.16. Nano-Electromechanical systems (NEMS) for Advanced Sensor Concepts
8.17. Bio-Nano Electronic Circuitry
8.18. Multi-User Detection: Algorithm Evaluation
8.19. Smart Materials for Components of Mobile Robots
8.20. Terahertz Imaging
8.21. Probabilistic Evidence Marshalling
8.22. Improving the Security of Future Biometric Systems"
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11-- electromagnetic business & economics
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Apocalypse is nigh, Buffett tells Berkshire faithful // .com &
derivatives...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/03/04/
cnbuff04.xml&sSheet=/money/2003/03/04/ixcity.html>
Amazon enters domain-name game // blogs, now domain-names...
<http://news.com.com/2100-1024-990738.html?part=dtx&tag=nhl>
"Add domain names to the list of things that online retailer
Amazon.com can now offer to consumers."
What IT Can Learn from the Serious Business of Online Gaming
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20937.html>
"The gaming industry has done several things right: developing a loyal
customer base, focusing on high-profit sectors, cultivating several
revenue streams, listening to customers, evaluating failures to
determine what went wrong, and embracing change."
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12-- electromagnetic art & artifacts
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Take That, Monica! Kapow, Chandler! // Quake peformance art...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/arts/design/03MATT.html>
"The actors will appear on the computer screen as typical "Quake"
gladiators, but each will have assumed the role and identity of a
"Friends" character. Then, using the game's instant-message system,
they will re-enact the real show's 1994 pilot episode in the "Quake"
space by typing and transmitting dialogue to other players' screens."
BOOK DISPLAY : The Magnetic Age: Video Art in the Netherlands 1970-1985
NAi Publishers English / Dutch (two separate volumes) 200 pages. Edited
by: edited by Jeroen Boomgaard and Bart Rutten. Articles by: Sebastián
López, Marga van Mechelen, Rob Perrée, others.
http://www.base.nl/gate
A SHORT HISTORY OF DUTCH VIDEO ART 30 YEARS IN 30 WORKS OF 30 ARTISTS
An exhibition of Single-Channel Works. Flavio Pons, Annie Wright,
Heiner Holtappels, Christina Linaris-Corridou, Michal Shabtay, Lawrence
Wiener & others. Gate Foundation
Lijnbaansgracht 322-323 1017 XA Amsterdam
T: +31 (0)20-6208057 F: +31 (0)20-6390762
www.gatefoundation.nl
info@gatefoundation.nl
GALLERY TOUR : 30 YEARS OF DUTCH VIDEO ART
Netherlands Media Institute
Last day March 8 2003
Ben d' Armagnac, Daniel Brun, Ulises Carrion, David Garcia, Caudio
Goulart, Nan Hoover, Misha Klein, Raul Marroquin, Sef Peeters, Lydia
Schouten & others.
A survey of video art 1970 to 2000.
Single Channel Works & Installations.
http://www.montevideo.nl
info@montevideo.nl
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