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- Cloud seeders say: Let it snow
- Cloud seeders say: Let it snowLet me guess...[b]Haliburton[/b] will be given the contract, right?cloud seeding augmentsprecipitation and water in RiversArid Northern Province to Expand Cloud Seeding for More WaterThe moisture in the air may help north China's Shanxi province relieve its acute water shortage, experts said. A group of scientists...
- Tags: province, Shanxi Province
- Discussion threads 2006-03-14
- E-waste: a multi-pronged appoach
- E-waste: a multi-pronged appoachE-Wastein Alberta, Canada the Provincial Gov't has instituted a system of Disposal Fees applied to all electronics sold in the Province. For computers, fees range from $5.00 for laptops to $12.00 for monitors. The fees are collected by the Province to finance and encourage recycling and reprocessing...
- Tags: E-waste, Province
- Discussion threads 2006-01-11
- Saskatchewan: Wheat fields, modern cities.. but no VoIP
- When I think of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, I envision wheat and barley fields as well as the compact, modern cities of Saskatoon and Regina.But no VoIP. Not a one.According to Michael Hennessy, President of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association, this is because SaskTel, the exclusive telephony provider in...
- Tags: SaskTel
- Blog posts 2005-09-26
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- Harvard's Charlie Neeson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigation
- Harvard's Charlie Neeson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigationPoints two and three are dubiousMind you, I tend to take the US Constitution a lot more literally than the US Supreme Court has during my lifetime, but..."Congress has violated the Constitution by putting the prosecution of a criminal statute in the...
- Tags: Charlie Neeson, Constitution, Harvard, RIAA, RIAA litigation, U.S. Congress, litigation
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Canadian pol demands rural Net access as a 'human right'
- Internet access is a human right! So argues Canadian Tory candidate Jack Carr, who has filed a complaint with the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission over the lack of Net in rural parts of the province, the Daily Gleaner reports. "It is...
- Tags: Internet Access, Complaint, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- States bear down on security breaches
- States bear down on security breachesThis makes me sickState and local governments, including the state of Nevada, routinely post all sorts of personal information on the internet in the clear, and without encryption. I just went browsing through the Nevada court system case files, and there is lots of...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, security, security breach
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- OLPC and Intel trumped by small-scale virtualization
- I had planned for my next post to be a followup to my interview with Sun's Joe Hartley, but it's going to have to take a back seat to a story about small-scale virtualization in the 1:1 computing market. Maybe, though, this particular story suggests that Sun is headed...
- Tags: Desktop, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Astroturfing, sockpuppets, and SCO
- Astroturfing, sockpuppets, and SCOMisplaced sympathySeveral years ago, someone where I was working a Unix house was lemanting about how Microsoft had treated poor IBM. At the time IBM's profit was bigger than MSs turnover. As if IBM could not look after itself after 90 years!Many have willingly taken adopted Google...
- Tags: Sort-of, Sarah Palin, Astroturfing, SCO Group Inc., Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Is open source politically attractive?
- Is open source politically attractive?Do you think Canadians are so obsessed with software...... that a reference to open source as software is significant?I suggest the endorsement is a statement of political principle. Though it may not be accurate, open source might be considered an expression of an old principle:...
- Tags: open source, Bloc Quebecois, voter
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- 34% of US Internet users used WiFi away from home/work
- 25% of all adults (or 34% of internet users) have gotten online away from home or work using a laptop and a WiFi wireless connection. However, the practice of using WiFi connections away from home or work for online access is mainly the province of home broadband users. Some 40%...
- Tags: Internet User, Wi-Fi Connection, Home Broadband User, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War
- The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold WarPrivate space transportationInterestingly, the weakening US-Russian relationship may end up being very good for the US private space industry. Even before the latest souring of relations, NASA made contingency plans to limit dependency on Soyuz and avoid relying on the Russian...
- Tags: Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, NASA, COTS, Soyuz, Economic Impact, SpaceX, cargo
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- Smart grid player Trilliant closes $40 million in funding round
- Trilliant, a green tech company that's working with about 100 utilities on various smart grid deployments, has just closed a $40 million round of equity funding from a group of investors including affiliates of MissionPoint Capital Partners and zouk ventures. Trilliant CEO Bill Vogel characterizes the investment...
- Tags: Green Technology, Ontario, Trilliant, Vogel, Government, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...
- Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night
- Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night.....Our arrogance is our own demise. It's that simple. ]:)We already have a crippled two-level systemIt's called Medicare/Medicaid.And once again the author shows his ignorance of economics. In a truly private, competitive health care system, if universal electronic records provided increased profits,...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Strategy, health care, ideology, ideological night, enormous innovation, surcharge, innovation
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Novell as Microsoft's client state
- Novell as Microsoft's client stateEntreeIt's MS who want entree into the Linux world and for Novell, well, it's 'business as usual'.Novell move forward with or without MS and only provide bridging vis a vis Mono and ZENworks and VM Xen API interfaces; all else is not IP infringed unless MS...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- China busts hacking ring, managed to penetrate 10 gov't databases
- If you needed a university certificate in China during the last couple of months, there's a big chance that a group of ten people could have supplied with you such, going a step further and adding your details in more than ten government databases across different provinces in the country,...
- Tags: China, Cybercrime, Hacking, Certificate, Government Database, Shanghai Daily, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- 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
- More big money for work on wind. Yes, that's $1 billion.
- Finavera Renewables which has both wind and wave energy projects around the world has negotiated a deal with an unnamed corporate investor who plans to put up $1 bilion for wind power projects that will create up to 300 megawatts of capacity in British Columbia. The money...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Agreement, mW, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...
- Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past
- To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...
- Tags: Oil, Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuel, Chris Nelder, Nelder, IEA, U235, Corporate Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
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This video provides an overview of Intel's Unit Level Traceability (ULT) system, a technology developed to address the complexities that exist with the introduction of new manufacturing technologies in Assembly/Test in Intel. Video playing time is 4 minutes.
