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- The LA earthquake
- The LA earthquakeThe quake was downright puny5.4 is hardly even noteworthy. I couldn't believe all of the news coverage it garnered. Must have been a slow news day.RE: The LA earthquakenah. not just a slow news day. but it is an earthquake and in LA. if that hit east of...
- Tags: Katrina, earthquake
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Recalling the Loma Prieta earthquake and Mac advantages
- Recalling the Loma Prieta earthquake and Mac advantagesTypoI think you mean October 17, 1989, not 1998. ;)As for the use of AppleTalk to set up a fast-deploy network, back in those days, there was no denying that, what AppleTalk lacked in bandwidth, it more than made up in with...
- Tags: Desktops, NETWORKING, Peer to peer (P2P), Wi-Fi, Loma Prieta, AppleTalk, network, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- Locating an earthquake in 5 minutes
- When a powerful earthquake hit Indonesia's West Java on August 8, 2007, it took exactly 4 minutes and 38 seconds to be detected, located and sized by the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System GITEWS currently under construction in Indonesia. Even more remarkable, the location of the earthquake was found after...
- Tags: Tsunami, Sensor, Indonesia, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Big quakes effects on big buildings
- Researchers from California and France have used 3-D supercomputer simulation tools to evaluate the damages that strong earthquakes along the San Andreas faults would cause to earthquake-resistant buildings in Southern California. For this simulation, they've put two 18-story buildings designed according respectively to the 1982 and 1997 Uniform Building Code...
- Tags: rupture
- Blog posts 2006-08-13
- Asia tsunami warning system feasible
- Asia tsunami warning system feasibleForget OS's and "who's the best"...How about major software companies banding together (and DONATING $$$) to bring about some sort of warning system to the poorer countries that don't already have a system in place. After all, I'd much rather see all countries (which could...
- Tags: Tesla, earthquake
- Discussion threads 2004-12-27
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- Citizen journalism might try to kill you
- Citizen journalism might try to kill youDouble edged swordCitizen journalism almost sounds like a contradiction. One one hand, so many people nowadays carry a device that can at least take snapshots, but more are taking video. Real journalists can't get to where a story is very fast so it takes...
- Tags: Citizen Journalism
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Photos: Academy of Sciences rebirth
- Long a San Francisco tradition, the California Academy of Sciences, which was badly damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, was closed for major renovations in 2005. On September 27, it is scheduled to re-open, an almost entirely new set of buildings, and one of the world's most innovative...
- Tags: Museum, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-09-19
- The real life cost of trying to ignore nature
- The real life cost of trying to ignore natureLet people decide what to do with their property... and then, when Mother Nature disagrees, give them the choice of letting Uncle Sugar have the title in return for emergency aid, or else toughing it out like the rugged individualists that they...
- Tags: Policies and procedures, accident, bill people, real life cost, life cost, tax payer, insurance, rescue
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Gong Online (exe)
- Gong is the hilarious new casual game from mobiusgames and TOSE Shanghai. Experience wacky soccer like it's never been played. Outrageous outfits, crazy skills, quirky items. Dress up like an Arabian princess or a hip-hopping skaterboy; drop banana peels, start up a dancing frenzy, or use an ice cube to...
- Tags: Opponent, Digital Media Exchange, Gong, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-08-04
- Tech 'tips' for Beijing visitors
- It looks like foreign tourists are avoiding Beijing in droves. China originally expected 1.5 million visitors. Now that's down to 450,000. Still, that's nearly 450,000 journalists coming to town. Everyone's a reporter now, thanks to tiny electronics and the Web. Even tourists should regard themselves as such....
- Tags: China, Journalist, Beijing, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- The LA earthquake
- The quake in Los Angeles wasn't that big a deal, proof of which comes from the fact that, within an hour, I fired up my webcam and posted my thoughts, in video form, to CNN. Don't you just love the Internet? by John Carroll
- Tags: Los Angeles, CNN, Blogging, Internet, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Hello World! Welcome to my world
- If you haven't noticed, the Internet is shaking things up. Anyone can spread a message to the whole world in a matter of milliseconds. Take today's earthquake in Los Angeles. Before anyone at any news organization could...
- Tags: Web, Blog, Blogging, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Kaspersky's Malaysian site hacked by Turkish hacker
- According to Zone-h.org, Kaspersky's Malaysian site has been defaced by a Turkish hacker during the weekend, through a SQL injection, leaving the following message - "hacked by m0sted And Amen Kaspersky Shop Hax0red No War Turkish Hacker Thanx to Terrorist Crew all team members". "The official Malaysian Kaspersky Antivirus's...
- Tags: Web, Malware, Web Site, Site, Hacker, Kaspersky, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- China detains web site defacer spreading earthquake rumors
- The Xinhua news agency is reporting that the web site defacer which I mentioned in a previous post regarding the use of web site defacements as tools for psychological operations, has been located and detained in less than a week after he defaced the Seismic Emergency and Public Center of...
- Tags: China, Web, Xinhua News Agency, Malware, Web Site, Web Site Defacer, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Channel Management, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Phoenix Mars Lander's mission site hacked
- With the world's eyes on the latest multimedia streaming straight from Mars, during the weekend the Phoenix Mars Mission's site got hit twice, first by an Ukrainian web site defacer who posted a message at the site's blog, and hours later, the Turkish "sql loverz crew 2008" redirected the official...
- Tags: Web, Phoenix Technologies, Web Site, Site, Phoenix Mars Lander Mission, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud
- On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Mobile, Google OpenSocial, Web Browser, Google Web Toolkit, Connectivity, Client, App Engine, AJAX, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Big earthquakes trigger tremors worldwide
- U.S. researchers who have studied 15 earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 7 since 1990 have found that at least 12 of them triggered smaller quakes thousands of miles away. Their study shows that large earthquakes routinely spark jolts worldwide, 'including on the opposite side of the planet and in areas...
- Tags: Researcher, Wave, University Of Utah, Velasco, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Senate hearing refocuses on China
- Well it's not nice to pick on China these days, what with the earthquake and all. But that didn't stop Dick Durbin from picking on Google, Cisco and Yahoo about their business dealings in China, as Anne Broache reports on News.com. In interesting part, the hearing focused...
- Tags: China, Cisco Systems Inc., U.S. Senate, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Developers snub Vista in favor of XP
- Developers snub Vista in favor of XPSlight misinformationIts very standard to target previous versions of OSs. In fact, 2000 was the last time I saw the majority of programmers target a recent OS, and that was just because 2k was so good.Dumb!To believe that Vista won't be accepted by...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Corporate America, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, developer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer
- The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...
- Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
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