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Science: Water on Mars
No this is not a continuation of or “April’s Fools post”, Nasa today “officially released” information that they found water on Mars.
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Humor: Does Linux make you fat?
To our knowledge the image below is from a presentation last week by Craig Ross, one of the Ottawa Linux Symposium organizers.
Either Linux does make you fat or maybe it has grown up (a bit).
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Politics: The opening statements of the “Constitutional Limits of Executive Power” committee
The House Judiciary Committee yesterday held a hearing titled “Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations”.
While almost every speaker tried to express that this is “not a Bush impeachment hearing” it was setup to examine legal and legislative responses to allegations of misconduct and expansions of executive powers by the Bush administration.
In short there has been at least a committee put into place to speak up on these outrageous things that have deteriorated the standing and reputation of the US around the globe.
While we do understand the anger of the millions of Americans, particularly of those who lost their husbands, wives and children in a “war” for Oil and Trillions of Dollars “for the boys” and all those who have lost their homes, life’s work, pensions or possibility to get looked after when their ill, unfortunately history is telling us a rather crude and sad reality.
Many impeachment movements also of the very few (17) in the history of the US that…
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Gadgets: Glennz Evolution T-Shirt
If you’re looking for a great new Tee for yourself (or for your kids) have a look at Glennz Evolution T-Shirt. One of the best Tees we’ve seen for quite some time.
About USD 20…
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Nice: Two new E-Cars for the UK
Finally two all-electric car that do not look like a gunnysack or costs an arm and a leg.
The first - the Nice MyCar - designed by Italian design house Giugiaro and build in HongKong will be available in the UK from this fall…
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Drawing with OpenStreetMap in 3D
Slovenian blogger and OpenStreetMap contributor Igor Brejc who is also the author of the Kosmos rendering application has described how to turn OpenStreetMap maps into 3D. There is a set of images plus a video (link below) providing a first impression how these maps look like in 3D…
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Today: SysAdminDay
Friday, July 25th, 2008, is the 9th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication…
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Climate Change: Canada we’re coming
Risk advisory firm Maplecroft has published a “Climate Change Risk Report” looking into the vulnerability of 168 countries to the impact of climate change. The study does not review the severity of the threats in general, but instead evaluates the ability of each of the countries to adapt and withstand potential change.
The report includes a vulnerability index and comparable country scorecards with risk indices, risk indicators, maps and graphics.
Not unsurprising the developed nations with…
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Web: Naked Girls for Captcha solving
While reports that online porn sites offering free access when the visitors enter the right response to a Captcha secured entry field have been around for a while (see for example “BoingBoing 2004″ ) with recent rises in spam originating from Google, Yahoo or Hotmail accounts the discussion on that topic is on again.
Captchas or “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” that are within these relay attacks defeated by visitors to the…
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CNCI - A new cybersecurity program
It’s G.W. Bush’s single largest request for funds in the 2009 intelligence budget and its a “highly classified, multiyear, multibillion-dollar project“.
It goes by the name CNCI aka “Cyber Initiative” and the director National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, calls it a pro-active measure to protect the US Government computing infrastructure and in the future potentially also the computing environments of (US) private entities.
While the secrecy surrounding the program does not even provide specific funding figures or a breakdown, the House Intelligence committee in its report on the program “recognizes” that “…it will be imperative that the government also take into account the interest and concerns of private citizens, the US information technology industry, and other elements of the private sector…“.
They call it a public-private partnership and outlined how the oversight should happen by a panel of lawmakers, executive branch officials and some private sector representatives. And the House has already approved 90% of the requested budget.
So far so good, sounds all nice and positive - a fresh start, “unlike any model currently existing“, well, well, well if your memory in that branch of IT goes back long enough (10 years+) then you will say together with us: Nice words but we have heard them before and when we acted within the scheme we got heavily burned and a bunch of gov. crooks around the world filled their pockets with Billions of Dollars.
So if its a “fresh start” back up your words with actions!
Demonstrate that you have learned from the past mistakes and…
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