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- Pentagon management ignores Marine requests for tech weapons
- Send in the drones. It appears that important surveillance equipment that takes up the slack when soldiers are in short supply, is also in short supply, reports Wired News.In Iraq, there are not enough soldiers to cover thousands of square miles, so having enough aerial drones to take up the...
- Tags: Defense
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Luke's Binoculars hard-wire spyglasses right into soldiers' brains
- Science fiction and military reality have seemingly merged now that U.S. Special Forces have developed powerful high-tech binoculars that connects a soldiers prefrontal cortex to hardware that detect threats by the soldiers subconscious, reports Wired.com. The Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System, dubbed "Lukes Binoculars," after the binoculars Luke Skywalker...
- Tags: Government technology, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- The death of milblogs
- For soldiers, the Armys hands-off attitude towards blogging must have been like that period in the 1960s before LSD was criminalized was for hippies. Jerry Garcia once said of that period, "They didnt know and it wasnt illegal and it was like, that was a really good year." All good...
- Tags: Government technology, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
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- Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit?
- Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit?AppleIf Apple wants to grow they need to open up their OS. After using Apple computer for few weeks I realize why people choose Windows over Apple inspite of the issues like system-hang, slower wakeup/sleep, etc. Opening up would resolve such issues...
- Tags: Apple Inc., EULA, legit argument, Psystar, Does Psystar
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Does TraceMonkey kick Firefox into turbo mode?
- Does TraceMonkey kick Firefox into turbo mode?Wow, we are breaking down the barriers to web application adoption for allof our every day applications. The speed here will be so close to natively compiled code that it will not matter any more. But, we still need some kind of a sandboxed...
- Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., security, Apple Safari
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Better networked soldiers
- The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has recently given a US$500K award to a computer scientist of the Washington University in St. Louis WUSTL. His research project is called 'Revolutionizing Defense Communications with a Diversified Internet Infrastructure.' Crowley will design a new kind of network for the U.S....
- Tags: Network, DARPA, U.S. Department Of Defense, Computer, Productivity, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Suit over baby vid with Prince song goes forward
- Everybody agrees. Stephanie Lenz' video of her young son with Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" playing in the background was a fair use of a copyrighted work. But Universal submitted a DMCA takedown notice on the video and YouTube took it down for a month until Lenz was able to get...
- Tags: Use, DMCA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- 2008 BMW M6 Coupe
- Photo gallery:2008 BMW M6As in other current M models from BMW, the 2008 BMW M6 is afflicted with a dual personality. It masquerades as a big luxury coupe around town, but when the roads open up, the M6 can transform into a superhero. At a push of the M button...
- Tags: BMW M6, BMW AG, Crissy Field
- Product reviews 2008-08-19
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway
- There's a brewing backlash among software customers as big vendors raise their support and maintenance prices. Dennis Howlett has captured an emerging backlash among SAP customers over an enhanced support and its costs. Oracle is doing the same drill. And Mary Jo Foley detailed a "proactive" support...
- Tags: Software, Software Company, SAP AG, Inflation, Dennis Howlett, Dennis, Tools & Techniques, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- A fresh model for software maintenance
- It is clear that the homogeneous application of round sum percentages applied to software maintenance pricing is a dead business model. Nowhere is that more clearly illustrated in the recent kerfuffle over SAP's forced price rise for its maintenance services. SAP has put up a spirited defense but on the...
- Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- PLX Kiwi
- Among the many new devices promising to boost fuel economy during these times of high gas prices, the PLX Kiwi tries to improve the driver rather than the car. The PLX Kiwi is a training device that monitors driving habits and assigns the driver a rating based on how "green"...
- Tags: Workforce management, PLX Kiwi
- Product reviews 2008-08-18
- Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack
- Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack.....Well, good think I have Ad Block, Flash Killer and Flash Block along with No Script installed! ]:)woahDamn that sucks, Adobe needs to jump on this.So much for "Linux == security"or "FireFox == security" for that matter.RE: Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attackWhoa,...
- Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Adobe Flash, advertisement, Adobe Systems Inc., attack, NoScript
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- From Metasploit to Microsoft: Skape goes to Redmond
- Metasploit developer Matt Miller, who for years frustrated Microsoft officials with the public release of Windows exploits, is heading to Redmond to join Microsoft's Security Science team. Miller, who uses the hacker moniker Skape,will work on improved ways to find security vulnerabilities and better software defenses through...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Corp., Matt Miller, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Psystar requires Acknowledgement of Sale letter to receive restore media (updated 3x)
- Psystar sent an email late yesterday to all customers of their Mac-compatible Open Computer with a subject of "Open Computing Restore Delivery" or "Open Computing Restore Media." The email says, in part: Thank you for purchasing one of our Open Computing products. We at Psystar are...
- Tags: Credit Card, Media, Product, Apple Inc., Credit Card Information, Psystar, Service Console, E-mail, Apple Mac OS, Sales Channel, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Services, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- News to know: Open source court victory; Surveillance; SAP; VMware
- Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTube Lessig blog: Huge and important news: free licenses upheld NYT: Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Open Source, SAP AG, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Defcon, 3G, Notebooks, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Best Buy plays defense with Apple, iPhone
- Update: Best Buy will begin selling Apple's iPhones in its store and the relationship between the two parties has become quite symbiotic. According to various reports, Best Buy (all resources, BNET profile) will start selling Apple's iPhone in its stores beginning Sept. 7. For Apple, Best Buy...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Best Buy Co. Inc., Apple Inc., Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Business Structures, Personal Technology, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- The Unix sysadmin salary premium
- The Unix sysadmin salary premiumThe non-obviously conclusions I draw...The non-obviously conclusions I draw from this is that organisations looking fron Windows admins could do well by bring in guys with Unix experience.(I can hear someone say "No self respecting unix guy would take the job", to which the answer is...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix skill, Unix, salary, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
- In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Alania TV, RIA Novosti, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactly
- Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactlyOh no!!Another Bott post!!!! I glad there is no more nonsense comparison between two different things.Um, Ed ...... I know you read the paper because I sent you the PDF, but it seems you failed to notice a few things.You accuse me of "alarming...
- Tags: Web browsers, Defense-in-Depth, exploitation, Microsoft Windows, memory corruption vulnerability, Web browser, security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Chinese censorship: to protect 'healthy growth of our youth'
- In the U.S., the notion of censoring information broadly in order to protect has been out of fashion since the early 1960s. So we can position China's ethical development on this spectrum as at least 50 years behind the times, right? Here's China's defense of its Internet censorship during the...
- Tags: china, international olympic committee, youth, censorship, games, internet, personal technology, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
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