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Late last year, scientists with the OPERA collaboration in Gran Sasso, Italy reported an incredible finding: neutrinos that appeared to be moving faster than the speed of light. The news spread at a barely slower pace, fascinating the public. One thing everyone knows is that a very famous physicist named Albert Einstein once said that nothing should travel faster than light speed. In February, the OPERA researchers found a couple small problems with their experimental set-up, calling into question the original faster-than-light neutrino result. The event highlighted the difficulty of science at the edge of the unknown -- and neutrinos are especially tricky.
Strange Effects: The Mystifying History of Neutrino Experiments | Wired Science | Wired.com
Russia Plans Moon Base, Mars Network by 2030 | Wired Science | Wired.com
By Mark Brown, Wired UK Russia plans to send probes to Jupiter and Venus, land a network of unmanned stations on Mars and ferry Russian cosmonauts to the surface of the Moon — all by 2030. That’s according to a leaked document from the country’s space agency. The cosmically ambitious plans were submitted to the government by the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) this month, according to a report in the Kommersant , Russia’s business-focused daily newspaper. The document lays out a blueprint for the country’s space industry to follow in the next 18 years, up to 2030.
NASA Unveils New Galactic Atlas | Wired Science | Wired.com
With WISE, scientists discovered Y Dwarf stars, the dimmest stars of the brown dwarf family. By solar standards, they’re exceptionally cold: One discovered in 2011 had a temperature of only 80 degrees Fahrenheit. By comparison, our sun has a scalding surface temperature of about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Seduction of the Knowledge-Based Society : Veracity Voice
The most promising trend in geopolitics is the transition from hydrocarbon-based economies to knowledge-based societies. Leadership for that change is emerging from Arab nations. The appeal of the Knowledge Society is apparent. Who could object to nations preparing their citizens for the 21 st century?The Beijing Wushu Team is Coming!
About the Beijing Wushu Team The world renowned Beijing Wushu Team is touring the San Francisco Bay Area in January. Considered one of the best wushu (moderinzed Chinese martial arts) teams in the world, the team's history is legendary.
[...] you are just tuning in or have been following the saga from the start, The Super PIPA-SOPA Action/Info Flowchart Reference Guide is ready to get you up to speed and lay the whole thing [...] [...] The super PIPA-SOPA Info/Action Flowchart Reference Guide How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation The Day The LOLcats Died – Youtube Protest Song This entry was posted in Allgemein by malaclypse. Bookmark the permalink. [...] [...] blackouts tomorrow in protest of the controversial new bill being discussed in Congress, this flowchart may help answer some of your [...] [...] should you care?
Ape Con Myth › 00227 – Super PIPA-SOPA
Run Away From The CEH Certification
People really should look at the credibility of the people behind an organization before being taken in by them. The man behind EC-Council is a Malaysian businessman with a background in sales and marketing. According to his own description, he is ‘a leading entrepreneur, consultant, columnist and speaker for many local and international companies’. Despite having no apparent background in IT security, Sanjay Bavisi has bluffed his way into an area he knows next to nothing about. Let's go back to the beginning. On his current website, Sanjay writes:
You may be entitled to an award for creative use of Red Hat or JBoss
If your implementation of Red Hat or JBoss was simply brilliant, you may be entitled to official recognition (and other goodies) from Red Hat for it. The company is seeking submissions for its 2011 Red Hat Summit & JBoss Innovation Awards . The deadline for submissions is rapidly approaching: March 11, 2011. Here's a link to the entry form . I implore you, if your project is good, submit it. I'll be a judge this year and I'm looking forward to reading pages upon pages of project nominations that make me say, "Wow!"http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/071511-cisco.html
Sponsored by: LAS VEGAS -- Despite the specter of perhaps the largest layoff in Cisco's history overhanging its annual customer conference , the company last week conducted business pretty much as usual at Cisco Live! The conference, attended physically by 15,000 and virtually by 40,000, was heavy on topics such as data center , cloud - and Cisco's moves to correct the mistakes of recent quarters and recent years.
One goal of database mining is to draw unique and valid perspectives from multiple data sources. Insights that are fashioned from closely-held data stores are likely to possess a high degree of reliability. The degree of information assurance comes into question, however, when external databases are accessed, combined and analyzed to form new perspectives. ISO/IEC 17799, Information technology-Security techniques-Code of practice for information security management, can be used to establish a higher level of information assurance among disparate entities using data mining in the defense, homeland security, commercial and other civilian/commercial domains. Organizations that meet ISO/IEC information security standards have identified and assessed risks, threats and vulnerabilities and have taken significant proactive steps to meet their unique security requirements.
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“Fire up your laptop”!?!?!? I’ve lost count of how many times I have heard this expression and remain baffled by how end-users have become accustomed to and accept the fact that it can take minutes, many minutes in some cases, before a user begins to productively start work. This is nuts! I can’t even begin to fathom how much productivity time is lost or abandoned altogether simply due to how long it takes a system to “fire up.” I get that I may want to warm up my car on a cold morning, but the majority of times I like to get in it, buckle up, turn the key, and go.
Fire Up Your Laptop?
WASHINGTON, March 27, 2012 - The Defense Department needs private-sector cooperation in reporting computer network attacks in real time to stop what has been the “greatest transfer of wealth in history” that U.S. companies lose to foreign hackers, the head of U.S. Cyber Command told a Senate committee today. Story
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BALTIMORE, Oct. 20, 2011 – Ask the top U.S. cyber warrior how to ensure the next generation of Americans is able to confront future security challenges and he’ll tell you: beef up their math, science and technology education today. Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, is on a campaign to boost science, technology, engineering and mathematics education nationwide.
News Article: Cyber Commander Presses for Math, Science Education
Build your own holodeck: the 10 technologies you'll need | DVICE
Star Trek: The Next Generation and Caprica have, for years now, shown us devices that transport the characters who use them to virtual locales, while we the viewers sit and pine over the experience on our couches. Until now! All the components you need to build your own step-in virtual world are here! First, let's settle on a model.Coping with the complexity of today's business environment is not about predicting the future or reducing risk. It's about building the capacity, in yourself, your people, and the organization to adapt continuously and learn speedily, in order to maximize the chances of seizing fleeting opportunities. Three articles in the May/June 2010 issue of Ivey Business Journal are devoted to the tricky issue of managing complexity in today's global business world. The above quote is from "Coping with Complexity" by Niels Billou, Mary Crossan and Gerard Seijts. As business leaders, policy makers, the academic community, the media and an outraged public search the rubble of the global economic crisis for clues as to what went wrong, all fingers point to a common perpetrator, poor risk management.
Description: It is my Read-It Later folder, when ever I am having a cup of coffee or tea. It contains random thoughts, stuff I am researching (have yet to categorize), random articles of interest. etc. by tek_eek Aug 21