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Large Hadron Collider will put academic networks to the test

Large Hadron Collider will put academic networks to the testLHC Safety Assessment Group ReportHas any information been release about the status of the promised LHC Safety Assessment Group study?I would like to know that before micro black holes may be created at a rate of up to 1 per second,...

Tags: network, Large Hadron Collider, safety study

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

Critics rap Microsoft safety study of IE, Firefox

Critics rap Microsoft safety study of IE, FirefoxCritics rap Microsoft safety study of IE, FirefoxOf course the critics are going to say Microsoft's study is flawed because those same critics are Microsoft's competition. They feel they need to say bad things about anything good Microsoft may say. But...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, safety study, Microsoft Corp., IE Firefox

Discussion threads 2007-12-04

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Don't tase me in the chest, bro

Seems like a legal memo to me...It seems to me that when a person receives an electric shock, it doesn't matter where it enters the body, chest, legs, shoulder, neck etc. All the same.Taser is starting to cover it's behind, now that a Canadian judicial enquiry has determined that in...

Tags: What-if IT, NOW IT, TASER, aspirin, chest, cop, risk

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Coin-sized nuclear batteries to revolutionise electronics

.. Nice post for a change. Good job. ntntA beautiful dream...and then reality hitspeople have been so indoctrinated that nuclear material is the most toxic substance on the planet and even saying the word will give you cancer, that this has about as much chance as a snowball in hell...

Tags: Engineering, nuclear-battery, Coin-sized nuclear-battery, alpha, cell, electronics

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Open source can save your life

Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...

Tags: Hospital, Open Source, Health Care, VA, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-23

Albert Gonzalez was hacking in high school...where were the safety nets?

I agree.....Most of our schools are not equipt for the new age of computers and programming. Most of our schools but not all are still stuck in the liberal arts mode of teaching and not letting students focus on their strengths. Its all about well rounded B-S. ...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, hacking, Albert Gonzalez

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Placing blame for the XTent failure

Science, Research, and Data Are Not To Blamefor these rest on the scientific method. Instead, other social factors are to blame:The irresponsibility of our public media in chronically sensationalizing news for the sake of entertaining rather than informing the public;The caution practicing physicians must exercise to avoid liability in...

Tags: comparative effectiveness, Paxil, XTent, stent

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with it

I have mentioned a few times before my somewhat controversial view on Internet piracy - the end-user downloading (and uploading, to some extent) of mostly videos, music files, software - and the issues which surround it. As this generation of students are the forerunners of the technological age, born into...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., RIAA, Licence, RapidShare, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacy

Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacyWow. No real surprise there[i]it certainly doesn?t seem that scary to me[/i]Of course not, you've proclaimed that you "Love everything Google does" and think the world of them (but would you fall on your sword, too?)[i]subscribe to the idea that Google collects information to make...

Tags: Government, E-mail, Google Inc., privacy, Consumer Watchdog

Discussion threads 2009-07-11

Ban Mobile Devices and Driving

Should you be allowed to talk on a cell phone and drive at the same time? Perhaps not. A debate ignited by Verizon Wireless's recent backing of a ban on texting and driving underscores the dangers all mobile activities pose while driving a car. According to the...

Tags: Car, Mobile, Mobile Device, Verizon Wireless, Mobile Activity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Using open source to reduce business risk

Using open source to reduce business riskWhat the bottom line?The bottom line is that with Suns failure the open source argument is in trouble. As is two of the products you mention a business should consider switching to:OpenOffice is maintained by Sun. It has been maintained is such a way...

Tags: OpenOffice, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-04-11

BibleTech 2009; reaching eternity through technology

BibleTech 2009; reaching eternity through technologyIt's really too badthat when we we really need guidance about what to do about Climate Change, that there is no divine writing we can rely on.Of course, the bible lovers among us may insist that the world is flat or 10,000 years old.Anyway, historically...

Tags: Radioactivity, Bible, BibleTech 2009

Discussion threads 2009-03-29

Mosquitoes in schools

I'm not talking about the biting, parasite-carrying bugs here. Rather, I'm talking about the device invented by Howard Stapleton a few years ago, designed to prevent young people from loitering, congregating, or otherwise gathering due to the high-frequency noise it emits. Lafayette Jefferson High School in...

Tags: Student, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-15

The Second CDISC Pilot Project: A Metastandard for Integrating Databases

The first CDISC SDTM/ADaM pilot project created a test submission of one study to the FDA using CDISC data and metadata standards, in order to test that these standards meet FDA requirements (described in a paper Greg Steffens presented at SUGI 2007). The second CDISC pilot project objectives are to...

Tags: FDA, Database, SAS Institute, Standards, Federal Government, Quality, Government, Business Operations

White papers 2009-02-27

Can our online worlds bring our offline world into jeopardy?

Our lives seem to be concentrated on the online world at the moment. With the technology age booming, we are spreading our lives across different domains, social networks, and for some, even our work lives online. I have a Facebook profile and I work online. You see me every day;...

Tags: Facebook, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Blogging, Financial Services, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-28

3Com Case Study: St Michaels Collegiate College (Australia)

St Michaels Collegiate College is the only Tasmanian school that services students with a PC-based curriculum. The existing school's structure could only connect two notebooks per classroom. If a lesson required Internet usage, the only options were to book the Computer Lab or physically cable a maximum of seven laptops...

Tags: 3Com Corp., St Michaels Collegiate College, LANs, Wireless LANs, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi, Network Technology, Marketing Research, Networking, Marketing

Case studies 2009-01-01

Speed camera 'pimping' attack highlights public identity weaknesses

Speed camera 'pimping' attack highlights public identity weaknessesCar Licence PlatesThe plates could be fitted with transponders to report their public key when scanned by a speed camera.Hey, then you could put sensors in red light cameras, and intersections, and motorway monitoring systems. This would make it much easier for the...

Tags: public identity weakness, identity weakness, car, camera, attack

Discussion threads 2008-12-22

Performance Evaluation of a Deployed WiMAX System Operating in the 4.9GHz Public Safety Band

This paper presents an evaluation of a deployed WiMAX system operating in the 4.9GHz Public Safety Band in the City of Tulsa. The study includes propagation analysis for the coverage and network performance tests to demonstrate the viability of a WiMAX system as a medium for public safety. The paper...

Tags: Performance, Performance Evaluation, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Performance Management, Wireless And Mobility, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-12-16

Study: Cell phones distract drivers more than passengers do

Study: Cell phones distract drivers more than passengers doThis study proves nothingOther than people are inheriently stupid. It would then become the responsibility (yes, responsibility..something we all dont want to take on these days) to know when to hang up/disconnect the call depending on driving conditions. All this does is...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, phone, cell phone, car

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

Emerging Technologies: RFID and the Asynchronous Student

Many learners within the VET system learn on-the-job or through distance education, but occasionally learners need to physically attend a Registered Training Organisation RTO for block release to study the theory behind their chosen vocation. This is the case for the cabinet making apprentices at Wodonga TAFE. However, Wodonga TAFE...

Tags: Induction, Student, Training, Commonwealth Of Australia, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, E-learning, RFID, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2008-12-01