~e; Electromagnetic News & Views #86
From
human being <human@electronetwork.org>
Date
Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:56:42 -0600
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Electromagnetic News & Views -- #86
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00) Electronetwork.org Commentary (2/18/2004)
01) Top Stories of Electromagnetism
02) Electromagnetic health & safety
03) Electromagnetic trash & treasure
04) Electromagnetic security & surveillance
05) Electromagnetic power & energy
06) Electromagnetic current & human affairs
07) Electromagnetic transport & communication
08) Electromagnetic matter & information
09) Electromagnetic trends & inventions
10) Electromagnetic weaponry & warfare
11) Electromagnetic business & economics
12) Electromagnetic artworks & artifacts
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00) --commentary--
Located a $5 EMF device: hardware store 50-600VAC
voltage detector, as mentioned in the NY Times article
on stray voltage from lamp posts in the city. It is a
pen-like device that beeps and blinks during detection,
and picks up an electrical field from a few inches away.
A good way to do basic compare-and-constrast experiments
with devices to see if they are still sending electricity
through them, even when off (such as a television, or
anything with a blinking LCD display most likely) as this
'always on' electrical design has been brought up with
regard to conserving energy-- that even when off, the
appliances of today still are using electricity from
the power grid, or many of them do so. An electrical
space heater is unusual in its reading, as it can be
read from farther out than other objects, so can a TV
if remembering correctly. This device starts at 50 volts
and upwardsm, so things with transformer boxes/wall warts
usually drop down the power so these will not register.
In any case, there is reason to believe one could take
this outside and get measurements from overhead lines
if the fields were nearby, and it would go off from a
greater distance. A good tool for learning/teaching.
brian
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01) --top stories--
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Dispute Imperils North Korea Nuke Talks
<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-nkorea-
nuclear-secrets,0,6544875.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines>
'"There is no agreed estimate of anything," said Leon Sigal, a North
Korea expert. "As with Iraq, there is significant disagreement in the
intelligence community about pieces of this."' ... 'Pyongyang might
pursue two tracks: offer to freeze activities at its plutonium-based
site at Yongbyon in exchange for concessions, and persist in denying or
downplaying claims it has a program based on uranium enrichment. It
could also attack the credibility of U.S. intelligence following the
failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.' ... 'Some
security analysts believe the mystery will put pressure on the United
States to be more explicit about what it knows.'
// also possible is sovereignty within an international structure.
// read recently .US president Jimmy Carter was nuclear submariner.
How the World Can Be Saved, Redux // Bohr: Nuclear Diplomacy needed.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/weekinreview/15broa.html>
'Remarkably, the same issues - and the same stark polarizations, with
advocates pushing internationalism on one hand and unilateralism on the
other - lie behind the swirl of recent proposals for dealing with what
experts call a dangerous new phase of nuclear proliferation.' ...
'Analysts say the nuclear black market may turn out to be so extensive,
and its dangers so threatening, that the shock of discovery will help
close the historical gap between the two factions and prompt tough
reforms - new global rules, institutions and methods to limit the
bomb's spread.' .. 'The alternative, they say, could be grim.' ... 'The
current crisis marks a dangerous escalation, experts say. Never before
has the nuclear black market been found to operate with such startling
impunity and thoroughness. This time it offered complete kits - raw
uranium, machines for enriching it and even blueprints for how to turn
nuclear fuel into atom bombs.'
Beyond Fossilized Thinking // Daniel Goodstein LA Times Op-Ed...
The world needs innovative technology now to meet energy needs
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-oe-
goodstein15feb15,1,273801.story?coll=la-headlines-technology>
'If we lived in an orderly, rational world, it might be possible for
some other fossil fuel to fill the gap. But anyone who was alive in
1973 knows that we don't live in such a world, especially when it comes
to a shortage of our precious gasoline. In 1973, a temporary,
artificial shortage immediately caused mile-long lines at gas stations
and panic and despair for the future of our way of life. When worldwide
oil supplies reach their natural peak, the shortages that follow will
be neither temporary nor artificial.' ... 'President Bush has asked us
to think beyond our mundane concerns and dream of placing humans on the
hostile surfaces of the moon and Mars. He would do better to offer a
far more visionary and courageous challenge: to kick the fossil fuel
habit now, before we have made Earth hostile to humans.'
[and] Energy crisis 'will limit births'-- As the world's reserves
of oil and gas run out over the coming decades, the birth-rates of
societies are likely to fall considerably, a US scientist says.**
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3465745.stm>
'"In the modern context, energy use per capita affects economic
activity. So a prolonged decline in energy use per capita will tend to
depress the economy which, in turn, will cause a decline in the
fertility rate." [says Professor Abernathy]'
[and] Oil: The illusion of plenty // Iraq, OPEC, politics, peak oil, *
<http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2004/jf04/jf04cavallo.html>
'Petroleum reserves are limited. Petroleum is not a renewable resource
and production cannot continue to increase indefinitely. A day of
reckoning will come sometime in the future. The point at which
production can no longer keep up with increasing demand will mean a
radical and painful readjustment globally to everyday life.' .. 'In
spite of that indisputable fact, people behave as if the global
petroleum supply is unending. Predictions of the exhaustion of oil
reserves seem to have lost all credibility. The public assumes that
inexpensive oil will be available essentially forever. The idea that
petroleum resources are finite and that petroleum production might peak
in the near future seems to have vanished from all discussions of
energy policy in Congress, in the press, and even among public interest
groups.' ... 'Much as X-ray and nuclear magnetic resonance tomography
examine structures within the human body non-invasively,
three-dimensional seismography now allows potential oil-bearing
formations to be evaluated in great detail. Nuclear magnetic resonance
probes are used to determine porosity and hydrocarbon content as well
as to estimate the permeability of these formations. Petroleum deposits
are being brought into production on the continental shelves off Texas,
Brazil, and West Africa in water up to 8,000 feet deep--areas that
were, until recently, inaccessible. Technological advances like sub-sea
terminals, directional drilling, and floating production, storage, and
offloading ships have been developed to exploit smaller, previously
uneconomic or unreachable deposits. Sophisticated science and
technology coupled with unparalleled profitability has provided the
foundation for the wide availability of oil.' .. 'Yet the same advances
in geology and engineering that have provided consumers with seemingly
limitless petroleum also allow much better estimates to be made of how
much oil may ultimately be recovered....'
// dual-use data grids. note that remote shut-off of appliances
// could also be used, beyond the control of the power company,
// to inject a worm into a system and knock out not only every
// computer but dishwasher, clothesdryer, refrigerator, etc etc.
// an actual 'security' overview should be involved in upgrades.
Researchers Putting I.T. into Electricity
Making the necessary transformation from 20th to 21st century
technology requires widespread deployment of I.T. resources in
order to transform the infrastructure into a "smart, self-healing
grid," says Massoud Amin of the Electric Power Research Institute.
<http://www.newsfactor.com/
story.xhtml?story_title=Researchers_Putting_I_T__into_Electricity&story_
id=23185>
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02-- electromagnetic health & safety
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Knifeless surgery kills cancer with sound // acoustic window required.
<http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040214-063550-3069r>
'"If you can image the tumor with diagnostic ultrasound, you should be
able to treat it," ter Haar told reporters at the annual meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.' .. '"In the same
way as a magnifying glass can be used in bright sunlight to set fire to
dry tinder, sound energy can be focused and used to raise tissue
temperature to the point at which cells die," ter Haar explained.' ..
'Basically the tumors are cooked to death quickly. The focused sound
energy raises the temperature to around 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60
degrees Celsius), killing the cells in about one second. By targeting
cells systematically in this manner, an entire tumor can be destroyed,
she said.'
Blind Can Plot Course With GPS // great.
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/
0,1282,62326,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_9>
'The $2,000 machine, in King's estimation, is a giant step forward in
helping the blind to live full lives. Called the VoiceNote GPS, the
device combines computer technology, including digital voicing, with
the global positioning system device, which allows a person to pinpoint
his or her location. The device, in essence, makes an audio map.' ...
'The VoiceNote comes with a 5-GB hard drive, according to King. It can
store a multitude of GPS coordinates -- for downtown Anchorage, for
example, and other cities and points of interest...'
Scientists to Set Up Chinese Brain Bank
<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-china-brain-
bank,0,3786614.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines>
'Researchers hope to sign up Hong Kong and mainland Chinese willing to
donate their gray matter to science after they die and also willing to
share personal medical and psychological information that will help in
the studies.'
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03-- electromagnetic trash & treasure
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Expert says nuclear waste dump unsafe
<http://salon.com/news/wire/2004/02/18/waste/>
'The nation's nuclear waste dump proposed for Nevada is poorly
designed and could leak highly radioactive waste, a scientist who
recently resigned from a federal panel of experts on Yucca Mountain
told The Associated Press on Wednesday.' .. 'Paul Craig, a physicist
and engineering professor at the University of California-Davis, said
he quit the panel last month so he could speak more freely about the
waste dump's dangers.'
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04-- electromagnetic security & surveillance
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Smart Software Gives Surveillance Eyes a 'Brain'
<http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=1698>
Brain fingerprints under scrutiny // drudgereport.com
A controversial technique for identifying a criminal mind
using involuntary brainwaves that could reveal guilt or
innocence is about to take centre stage in a last-chance
court appeal against a death-row conviction in the US.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3495433.stm>
'Brain Fingerprinting, developed by Dr Larry Farwell, chief scientist
and founder of Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, is a method of
reading the brain's involuntary electrical activity in response to a
subject being shown certain images relating to a crime.' .. 'Unlike the
polygraph or lie detector to which it is often compared, the accuracy
of this technology lies in its ability to pick up the electrical
signal, known as a p300 wave, before the suspect has time to affect the
output.' .. '"It is highly scientific, brain fingerprinting doesn't
have anything to do with the emotions, whether a person is sweating or
not; it simply detects scientifically if that information is stored in
the brain," says Dr Farwell.'
// had wondered if flatbed scanners had brought new clients for
// palm readers who telecommute. in searching, locate some basic
// information in an updated version for the security context.
Biometrics information resource -- Hand Geometry
<http://www.biometricsinfo.org/handgeometry.htm>
'This biometric approach uses the geometric form of the hand
for confirming an individual’s identity. Because human hands are not
unique, specific features must be combined to assure
dynamic verification.' .. 'Hand geometry is occasionally
misunderstood as "palm reading", as the placement of the hand
palm-down on the reader can be confusing to the those unfamiliar with
the technology.'
Workplace data theft runs rampant // and counter-surveillance...
Office technology makes it much easier for workers to steal
important information from their employers, a study has shown.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3486397.stm>
'Research into intellectual property theft found that almost 70% of
people have stolen key information from work.' .. 'The most pilfered
items include e-mail address books, customer databases as well as
proposals and presentations.' ... '"The surprising thing is the level
to which people believe this is acceptable," said Chris Watson of data
forensics firm Ibas, which commissioned the survey.'
// had heard earlier it was possible that neighbors using cable
// modems might be able to snoop on eachother's connections because
// of a shared line, yet had no idea it was 500-1000 households.
// this is the same concern, if not even greater, with powerline
// networks, and the potential for unnecessary vulnerabilities...
Cable modem hackers conquer the co-ax // via Security Scrapbook
<http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7977>
'SecurityFocus asked four U.S. cable modem service providers if they
protected their customers with the encryption option. Comcast,
Adelphia, and CableVision's Optimum Online declined comment; a
spokesman for Time Warner's Road Runner service didn't return repeated
phone calls on the question. Comcast's terms of service, however,
acknowledges a risk of eavesdropping by "other subscribers," and
Optimum Online's bluntly admits the company doesn't utilize encryption:
"All Subscriber's ethernet traffic ... will be reflected by the cable
Modem in an unencrypted form onto the cable network and be subject to
eavesdropping."' .. 'The architecture of cable modem networks likely
prevents eavesdropping of upstream traffic, liked typed passwords and
credit card numbers, and websites using SSL would be immune from
passive monitoring. "But downstream traffic is certainly visible to
lots of people if crypto isn't used," said AT&T security researcher
Steve Bellovin, in an e-mail interview.'
Biology stirs Microsoft monoculture debate
<http://salon.com/tech/wire/2004/02/15/monoculture/>
'Geer and others believe Microsoft's software is so dangerously
pervasive that a virus capable of exploiting even a single flaw in its
operating systems could wreak havoc.'
New York Police Training for Catastrophic Terrorism
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/nyregion/15THRE.html>
'The New York Police Department, working with city health officials,
federal authorities and other agencies, has been preparing for a
possible attack with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, perhaps
the most daunting threat facing municipalities in a post-9/11 world.'
... 'Early detection, experts have long argued, is perhaps the most
important aspect of a response to a biological or chemical attack. And
so for months, New York has been trying to acquire the most
sophisticated detection equipment available.' .. 'To that end, the city
has been working with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
developers of the Autonomous Pathogen Detection System. These devices
not only continuously monitor the air, but also automatically detect
and identify, through multiple simultaneous testing, the presence of
more than 100 different bacteria or viruses - within 45 minutes.' ..
'Fully automated, they operate 24 hours a day for an entire week
without servicing or human intervention, said John M. Dzenitis, a
Livermore engineer in charge of the program.' ... 'The Police
Department has been using more than 700 personal radiation detectors
for more than a year to identify unusual radioactive materials,
checking trucks on the street to cars and garages around the city,
among other areas.' ... 'A critical issue police officials have
agonized over is the question of enforcing a quarantine and isolation
in the event of an epidemic caused by natural or unnatural causes,
like a terrorist attack.'
Hackers for Hire // black and white...
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/32847.html>
TEMPEST 101 // via TSCM-L
<http://www.tscm.com/TSCM101tempest.html>
// it may be possible that there is something broken in the social
// and educational system, in which this is the result. as such,
// it may be that unleashing young persons imaginations so as to
// be able to engage and find a place in the overly mystified and
// encrypted present may do a lot more than only damage control...
Spying appeals to worried parents // via macsurfer.com
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04046/273366.stm>
'Thanks to a proliferation of new software, more and more parents are
finding ways to spy on their children by secretly monitoring their
movements on the Internet or by planting tracking devices in their cell
phones.' .. 'This supply of kid-surveillance devices has grown
alongside concerns about how to keep children safe in a world of school
violence, teen suicides and Internet predators.' ... 'Electronic
snooping on one's children is legal, but, "There's something
fundamentally creepy about covertly monitoring other people, even
children," said Lee Tien, a senior staff lawyer with Electronic
Frontier Foundation, an Internet privacy watchdog group. "We are not
big fans of covert surveillance in any form. We feel it's much better
to talk to your children."'
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05-- electromagnetic power & energy
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Japan, Iran 'near oil deal' // .jp is 2nd biggest oil importer...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3499155.stm>
[and] Official: Iraq Considers Pipeline With Iran
<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-iran-
oil-pipeline,0,154485.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines>
EM-relate quote: US is trying to overthrow me, says Venezuelan leader
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=492395>
'Relations between Venezuela, a top oil supplier, and the US have been
strained over Mr Chavez's friendship with Cuba's Fidel Castro and his
open criticism of Washington-backed free market policies.'
The Oil Field of the Future Is Digital // ** new oil media...
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=8&u=/
ap/20040214/ap_on_hi_te/digital_oil_fields>
'While the petroleum business still depends heavily on burly machinery
and people, the modern oil field is becoming more digital by the day.
Among the gradual yet far-reaching technological advances are drill
bits armed with minicomputers that can relay information from deep
under the ground to scientists around the globe almost
instantaneously.' ... 'Improved mapping software allows geoscientists
to better identify the sweet spots of petroleum reservoirs thousands of
feet below the earth's surface....' .. 'Once the well is drilled and
production begins, subsurface sensors powered by low-voltage batteries
transmit continuous streams of data about pressure, temperature and
flow via high-speed satellite networks. As geoscientists and engineers
at [remote] offices ... can direct oilfield technicians to adjust
remote-controlled valves located in the well to maximize output.'
[and] U.S. Petroleum Engineers Become Rare Commodity
<http://www.reuters.com/
newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=VHMMP1RZMVUNSCRBAEOCFFA?type=ourWorldNews&s
toryID=4373224>
Middle East Electricity expo' opens
Assisting in the rebuilding Iraq 'is a duty', H.E Humaid bin Nasr
Al Owais, Minister for Electricity and Water UAE, said today.
<http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/34821.html>
EM-related quote from: Rare Storm Dumps Snow on Middle East
<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-mideast-
snow,0,2774887.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines>
'A rare storm dumped more than two feet of snow on parts of the Middle
East, breaking power lines in Lebanon, collapsing a wall at a holy site
in Israel and delaying talks between Israelis and Palestinians. At
least one person was killed.'
Schizophrenia link to lead petrol
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3489037.stm>
Biophotonics Research Institute
EM Self-Field Theory - A New Paradigm for Physics
<http://www.biophotonicsresearchinstitute.com/>
'Self-fields are internal electric (E-) and magnetic (H-) fields
that help produce the internal dynamics of electrically neutral objects
as diverse as photons, atoms, solar systems and galaxies, as well as
charged particles such as electrons and protons. Self-fields can be
unified inside a field theory, which collates the four known forces:
strong and weak nuclear, electromagnetic and gravitational forces.
Online access to the seminal paper by Dr. Anthony H. J. Fleming is
provided, EM self-field theory: the electron in hydrogen atom.'
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06-- electromagnetic current & human affairs
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Academics shed stigma of video games
<http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/
technology.bg?articleid=289>
'Rejecting the stigma that computer and video games are just for kids,
academic worldwide are studying them alongside literature, music and
art.' .. 'Their discipline is taking hold. Today there Ph.D. programs,
research centers and online journals devoted to digital games.' ..
'Known as ludology, from the Latin for game, these studies have spawned
a class of academics who analyze how the wildly popular form of
entertainment tells stories - and what it reveals about
self-expression.'
Robots get friendly: Robots are acting more like people. Will
our attachments eventually become too strong? // ~virtual humans
<http://search.csmonitor.com/2004/0205/p17s01-stct.html>
'Some experts worry that attachments may become too strong (see story,
page 18), subjecting people to manipulation by clever programmers or
unnatural reliance on machines for companionship. But those working in
the field agree on one thing: The way we communicate with an onscreen
face (sometimes called a "chatbot") or a fully released robot is
becoming friendlier and friendlier - even fun.'
EM-related quote: Celebrating a Policy Seer and His Cold War Insight
<http://nytimes.com/2004/02/17/books/17KENN.html>
'The [20 foot] Long Telegram, Mr. Kennan's effort to explain Soviet
behavior and goals, has become a symbol of the days when career Foreign
Service officers had a direct impact on American policy.' ... '... the
Long Telegram is a reliable window into Mr. Kennan's personal
frustration at Washington. And this telegraphic essay hit official
Washington like a lightning bolt that illuminated the landscape.'
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07-- electromagnetic transport & communication
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Government considering dismantling BBC // bad news day.
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1537&ncid=1537&e=3&u=/
afp/20040215/wl_uk_afp/britain_politics_media_040215090138>
[and] The Five Sisters // or, total command+control of infrastructure.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/16/opinion/16SAFI.html>
'McCain's plaintive question to Powell — "Where will it all end?" —
is too little, too late. This senatorial apostle of deregulation, who
last week called the world's attention to the media concentration that
helps subvert democracy in Russia, has been blind to the danger of
headlong concentration of media power in America.'
// incredible story about embedded computers versus other types...
Commercial software aided reboot on Mars // via macsurfer.com
<http://www.wvec.com/sharedcontent/nationworld/nationprint/
021504ccktnatmarsreboot.22ebafce.html>
'Tech support for an $820 million mission is a cautious affair.' ...
'"The advantage of using commercial software is it's well-known, and
it's well deployed," said Mike Deliman, an engineer at Alameda- based
Wind River Systems Inc., which made the rovers' operating system. "It
has been used throughout the world in hundreds of thousands of
applications."' .. 'The operating system, VxWorks, has its roots in
software developed to help Francis Ford Coppola gain more control over
a film editing system. But the developers, David Wilner and Jerry
Fiddler, saw a greater potential and eventually formed Wind River,
named for the mountains in Wyoming. VxWorks became a formal product in
1987.' .. 'The operating system is embedded in systems that control
jetliners and atomic colliders, anti-lock braking systems in cars and
even heart pacemakers. It's also been used successfully in the Mars
Pathfinder lander, Mars Odyssey orbiter and Stardust comet probe.' ..
'"These are all things that can't afford to fail," Deliman said.'
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08-- electromagnetic matter & information
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Symmetry and Harmonics
Harmonic Images // Lissajous Figures...*
Arabic ornaments and 'traces regulateurs'
katoptrics, kaleidoscopes and theatrical mirrors
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~rekveld/texts/symhar.html>
[and] Lissajous Figures // Java applet *** (make your own)
<http://www.pianocandy.com/Lissajous/Lissajous.html>
The CURTA Calculator Page
<http://www.vcalc.net/cu.htm>
Projects for Students and Hobbyists
<http://www.bobblick.com/techref/projects/projects.html>
Multi-valued logic
<http://www.fact-index.com/m/mu/multi_valued_logic.html>
Logical programming
<http://www.fact-index.com/l/lo/logical_programming.html>
Email Clock
<http://stage.itp.nyu.edu/~tigoe/emailclock/mailclock1.shtml>
wifiSense
a handbag representing a person's journey through different
wireless networks with sound frequencies and light patterns
<http://www.rednoise.org/~milena/networkedObjects/wifiSense/>
VMW meter // ICs sitting atop a computer, won't they get fried?
<http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/meter/>
Sandwich Printed Circuit Board // ex. of printed circuit board kits
<http://www.robotroom.com/SandwichPCB.html>
Perl's Extreme Makeover
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/23197.html>
'Interoperability with other languages will be a hallmark of Perl 6.
It will run on a new interpreter engine, Parrot , specifically designed
to "support a wide range of languages and allow them to easily
interchange data and share types and functions," Conway said.' ..
'Parrot provides a "software CPU" with register-based architecture
instead of the more common stack-based virtual machine architecture.
"That allows us to tap into several decades' worth of research in
optimization of hardware-based register machines," Conway said.'
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09-- electromagnetic trends & inventions
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Glimpse into Digital Photography's Future
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/wlg/4453>
IBM delivers autonomic tools // open-source self-managing PC toolkit
<http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5159283.html>
New Razor Ground Force Electric Go-Kart
<http://www.i4u.com/article1143.html>
ATI touts low-cost HDTV tuner card // just the beginning...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/35621.html>
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10-- electromagnetic weaponry & warfare
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Pakistan disavows nuclear race -- Pakistan will not try to match
India's nuclear weapons development, although it will soon test
a long range missile, President Pervez Musharraf has said.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3498457.stm>
AP: Nuclear financier has ties to Malaysia
<http://salon.com/news/wire/2004/02/18/malaysia/>
Putin vows to build missile defense system with new strategic weapons
<http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-02/18/content_1320886.htm>
'Russia reserves the right to update its armed forces to maintain its
security, but it has no imperial or hegemonic ambitions, Putin
stressed.'
[and] Russia plans new generation of weapons // Bulava
<http://salon.com/news/wire/2004/02/18/russia/>
'Putin said that Russia was continuing research in missile defense
systems and may build a new missile shield. Russia now has a missile
defense system protecting Moscow that was designed in the 1970s and
modernized in the 1990s.' .. 'Some military analysts said his statement
could indicate the revival of Soviet designs for nuclear warheads that
zigzag on their final approach to a target, confusing missile
defenses.' .. 'Such behavior would make a missile hard to intercept and
destroy.' ... 'He said that the research on zigzagging warheads began
in the 1980s in response to Ronald Reagan's ‘‘Star Wars" program.'
EM-related quote, from: Putin Watches As Missile Launch Fails
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48229-2004Feb17>
'There were differing accounts of what happened.' .. 'The Interfax and
ITAR-Tass news agencies said the Novomoskovsk had been scheduled to
launch two RSM-54 missiles in succession at a practice target on the
Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East.' .. 'They quoted an
unidentified Northern Fleet officer as saying a satellite signal
blocked the missile launch from Novomoskovsk, a Delta IV-class
submarine.' .. 'An online news outlet, gazeta.ru, said the missile
suffered an engine failure and disintegrated immediately after its
launch.' .. 'Despite earlier official statements about the scheduled
launch, the Russian navy's chief, Adm. Vladimir Kuroyedov, was shown
later on NTV television insisting the navy had planned only imitation
"electronic" launches, both of which he said were performed
successfully.'
// the above quote is loose in description so here is a
// more representative version of the 'satellite' issue...
[and] Analysis: Russian missile failure // relay failure.
<http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040218-061813-5869r>
'Russian Navy sources later cited by the official RIA Novosti news
agency and the private, but still respectful, Interfax agency said the
missiles were never actually launched but the exercise was aborted
through an automatic shutdown transmitted by satellite relay.'
AP: Pakistan Nuke Scientist Bought Loyalty
<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-
nuclear-payoffs,0,2233294.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines>
'Abdul Qadeer Khan spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy
loyalty -- writing checks for anything from seminars to friends'
weddings -- in a patronage scheme that allowed him to elude suspicion
as head of the world's most successful nuclear black market, senior
scientists and government officials told The Associated Press on
Monday.'
[and] AQ Khan suffers heart attack, condition critical
<http://www.hindustantimes.com/onlineCDA/PFVersion.jsp?article=http://
10.81.141.122/news/181_573900,00050002.htm>
Libyan Arms Designs Traced Back to China
Pakistanis Resold Chinese-Provided Plans // via drudgereport.com
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42692-2004Feb14>
'The bomb designs and other papers turned over by Libya have yielded
dramatic evidence of China's long-suspected role in transferring
nuclear know-how to Pakistan in the early 1980s, they said. The Chinese
designs were later resold to Libya by a Pakistani-led trading network
that is now the focus of an expanding international probe, added the
officials and experts, who are based in the United States and Europe.'
.. 'The packet of documents, some of which included text in Chinese,
contained detailed, step-by-step instructions for assembling an
implosion-type nuclear bomb that could fit atop a large ballistic
missile. They also included technical instructions for manufacturing
components for the device, the officials and experts said.'
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11-- electromagnetic business & economics
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Googlescape: Are we headed for Bubble II? // billions & billions...
<http://news.com.com/2010-1030_3-5158603.html>
Electronic stores discover women: Marketing survey spurs new tactics
<http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~1958765,00.html>
'"This whole industry has an IQ of about 2 when it comes to females,"
said Dave Williams, vice president of marketing research for
Minneapolis-based Best Buy Stores.'
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12-- electromagnetic artworks & artifacts
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// of all of Johns' works, the one that brings the many
// dimensional aspects of the alphabet and numbers together
// is in 'field painting', which can be related to many things,
// such as LED displays and flipping letters/paradoxical logic.
field painting by Jasper Johns // great story on battery power...
<http://www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/johns/archaeology_8a.htm>
<http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/archives/Kluver/02_FieldPainting.html>
<http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/
images/564.jpg>
wires // 2004 painting by Jennifer Davis
<http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=33388>
[and] other works/details // creative talent.
<http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=6806>
<http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=20747>
<http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=15674>
<http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=16470>
<http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=19426>
<http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=20488>
<http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=20528>
<http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=29236>
HTML Special Characters
Codes 000 to 399 (ISO-8859-1 or Latin-1 )
Here's some history and a chart
<http://www.kenyoung.net/characters-000-399>
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