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- Can Technology Meet the Challenge?
- I remember when there were population explosion predictions more than forty years ago: famine and global doom were touted as likely outcomes. Then farmng practics and crop varieties changed and much of the expected disaster fizzled into the continuing run of regional famines that plague poorer parts of the...
- Tags: Global Warming, Famine, Humans, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Contractors tackle feast or famine cycle
- Contractors tackle feast or famine cycleFeast or famine is why I'm not contracting anymoreSure I don't make as much money at least a bank will give me a mortage. Seems kind of odd as I'm making about 50% less but Bank perfer stablitiy. They know I have job 3 weeks...
- Tags: Financial services, famine
- Discussion threads 2004-11-20
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- How do we address the have-nots?
- How do we address the have-nots?It's the NetThe problem is no longer the availability of hardware: many computers are being dumped that can easily be made productive again, by installing a lean Linux on it like Xubuntu. So poor people can have a fine computer for free. That's easy to...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, computer, Internet access
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Will we kill the ocean before the atmosphere kills us?
- Will we kill the ocean before the atmosphere kills us?.....Either way our arrogance will be our undoing. Nature will bounce back once we have been reduced to nothing more than a foot note in history. While I don't believe as a species we will be wiped out, that is not...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, species, denial
- Discussion threads 2008-08-16
- Green light for hacker's extradition
- Green light for hacker's extraditionUS owned server spaceWhen he hacked into our military's network's, he was trespassing on US owned server space.The EU would cry bloody murder if we had a little pasty 16 yr old hack MI6 and do what this guy did, and we didn't extradite him. book...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Green Light, extradition, hacker
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Learning from Walmart
- Learning from WalmartLower cost, much more flexibility- no help desk needed- lets you put sysadmins into user groups, reporting to user managers- eliminates most security and processing failure risks- gives you OS independent access to software - eliminates user impact and costs of evergreen policiesHow would SUN Ray help?ntSmart displays?"put...
- Tags: Keyboards, Operating systems, Sun Ray, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., IT Development, Smart Display, Microsoft Corp., Murph
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Your correspondence so far
- It's been just over a month now since I started writing here, and it's certainly been an interesting one. I've had many emails over the last month asking me this, that and the other, not even a single death threat yet! I'd like to share some questions and my answers...
- Tags: Web Server, Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Q., E-mail, Web Servers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Online Communications, Internet, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Global warming is a security issue say American spies
- Global warming is a security issue say American spiesDead on[i]If global warming is real and it's consequences are as serious as some say which I doubt it will case major instability across the globe[/i]I think we've seen it repeated many times in history: Everyone's content and willing to lend a...
- Tags: security, global warming
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.
- First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.It's the sun, stupid.The earth has been cooling for the last 10 years. If the current low solar activity keeps up, we could be in deep doodoo.RE: First scientist to warn Congress on Global...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Hansen, data set, global warming
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Global warming: a fish story, and your health
- Global warming: a fish story, and your healthSpecies come, species goGlobal warming positivies :Organisms can grow and develop at faster rates, thus bringing us new species more rapidly.Plants will grow more quickly, taking more CO2 from the atmosphere. The warmer it gets, the harder vegetation will work to remove CO2....
- Tags: High-altitude habitat, health care, forest, global warming, species
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- How healthy is John McCain?
- How healthy is John McCain?Doesn't matter anyway.The question you should ask is how cranky are his policies and the viewpoints of his vice president. After all that person will step in if John keels over. Besides you should have blogged on his viewpoints on tech to make it related.The problem...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Obama, John McCain
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Gore Lawsuit Over Inconvenient Untruths?
- Gore Lawsuit Over Inconvenient Untruths?Inconvenient indeed ....I'm 100% in favor of this lawsuit. The movie was nothing more than a self serving political speach and now a bunch of idiots who saw the "movie" think that they know about "global warming".More than 90% of the information presented by the...
- Tags: global warming, movie, Gore Lawsuit, Untruths, inconvenient untruth
- Discussion threads 2008-03-13
- Will diatoms lead to faster computer chips?
- Will diatoms lead to faster computer chips?Just exhaleJust get the world to exhale only 3 times less per minute for a week, and we'll lick this global warming thing.BTW, are humans so arrogant that they think they can 'control' the global climate? Are humans stupid enough to think they...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Semiconductors, computer, computer chip, chip
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- What'll it cost to save the planet? Who's spinning the numbers?
- "Business Week" is not known for its anti-business politics, so it's interesting to see where they go with a piece just published on the costs of controlling carbon emissions. Opponents of that dangerous plot of mandating carbon emission reductions would have us believe that the American economy, and by...
- Tags: U.S., Standards, Global Warming, Carbon Emission, Mortgages, Government, Quality, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Sucking it up: Powerspan tests carbon capture technology
- Sucking it up: Powerspan tests carbon capture technologyPowerspan tests carbon capture technologyThe World Innovation Foundation is the voice of the world's 'INDEPENDENT' scientific community (3,500 eminent scientists, engineers and technologists and counting). It is not dictated too by governments or national academies of science. This independence of mind away from...
- Tags: Vertical industries, World Innovation Foundation, carbon capture, Powerspan, carbon capture technology, capture technology, government
- Discussion threads 2007-11-25
- IPCC: it's hitting the fan right now
- Who suffers the most from global warming? Why, the poorer nations and the helpless creatures and plants that have no say in the matter. It's always thus when the powerful make a massive mistake. Like, how many of the folks who once lived in New Orleans really...
- Tags: India, Ocean, Global Warming, IPCC, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-17
- Report: One-third of businesses to begin Vista deployments by mid-2008
- Report: One-third of businesses to begin Vista deployments by mid-2008This is expectedLarge scale migration of business to next release of Windows takes place after SP1. And the fanfare of MS bashers won't go far.Too optimistic.Nothing is certain about this. Everyone will make their own decisions for their own reasons. But,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), hardware, Microsoft Windows Vista, wide-scale rollout
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- What will we find in the next 50 years of space exploration?
- What will we find in the next 50 years of space exploration?the matter on Earth comprises only 4 percent of... the universeIsn't that just a tiny bit much? Maybe 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004% or a little less?Myself, i hopethey run into the Orion women. ;-)RE: What will we find in...
- Tags: Cable, Shuttle, rocket, space exploration, orbit, shuttle, gravity
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- Church outraged by Sony game set in cathedral
- Church outraged by Sony game set in cathedralChurch gets what it wants..churchgoers get?Seriously...seriously the church is mad over this? Is anyone out there still mad that the church effectively did nothing about priests that molested children? That is somewhat besides the point but this is the ridiculous. Get...
- Tags: Games, Sony Corp., church, game
- Discussion threads 2007-06-11
- Cyberthreat experts to meet at secretive conference
- Cyberthreat experts to meet at secretive conferenceIt's about 8 years overdue...But now is better than never.Methodology Of ContactIt seems that the most reliable way for a hacker to gain access is through email or browsers, since they can't possibly locate a computer unless there's some kind of beacon. Hackers...
- Tags: INTERNET, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Corp., George W. Bush, Cyberthreat, outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
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