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Development of Wireless Traffic Monitoring System for ITS Instruction and Research: Transportation engineering has evolved into a broad multidisciplinary field during the last few decades. The multidisciplinary nature of the profession has become more profound and visible since the advent of the Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS early last decade. The remarkable advances in computers, communications, electronics, control, and other related technologies...; Tags: Monitoring System, Wireless, Transportation Engineering, Transportation; White papers 2005-05-06

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Dan Kaminsky breaks DNS, massive multi-vendor patch coming, details at Black Hat Vegas '08: It would seem there's a bigger story to that MS08-037 flaw that came out for Patch Tuesday today. From Dave Lewis over at the Liquid Matrix security blog: Today Dan Kaminsky released a first, as far as I can recall. A coordinated patch was released today...; Tags: Black Hat, DNS, CERT, Flaw, Mogull, Updates, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-08
A Modest Privacy Proposal: The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...; Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-08
$1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithm: $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithmSchneier thought the sameIf you read Bruce Schneier's history on his website, he claim to have discovered the same revelation. He says he used to believe that if he found the perfect encryption, the world would be secure. He later...; Tags: encryption algorithm; Discussion threads 2008-07-07
Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product design: A post by Über Administrator and Wise Segway Elder John Grohol on the SegwayChat message boards reveals that Doug Field is leaving Segway for Apple. Doug Field, the chief technology officer at Segway who heads their entire engineering team (and has since Day 1), is leaving Segway to become...; Tags: Product Design, Segway, Apple Inc., Doug, Product Marketing, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-07

July 4th, 2008: A trip down memory lane: A 1 question civics quiz Today American's celebrate the Declaration of Independence, the legal foundation of the USA and, after the failure of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution of the United States. I revere the Constitution as a magnificent piece of political engineering. But it...; Tags: U.S., President, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-07-04
Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign: A Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign is circulating online using email as propagation vector, attempting to trick users into visiting a Storm Worm infected host, where a multitude of what looks like over five different exploits attempt to automatically infect the visitors next to the malware binary fireworks.exe. Historically, Storm...; Tags: Software, Malware, Worm, Exploit, Storm Worm, Day Vulnerability, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-04
Why tech jobs are beating the employment odds: Why tech jobs are beating the employment oddsCan somebody tell me whenan economist has ever called it right? Every piece of economic news includes the line "more than" or "less than" what economists predicted.Why do we even listen to these folks?I'd have just put it more brutally...US companies have wanted...; Tags: employment odd, tech job; Discussion threads 2008-07-03
Photos: Engineering New Orleans, post-Katrina: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is putting a great deal of money and effort into new hurricane protection systems that it hopes can reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding in the future. by CNET News.com; Tags: Photograph, Strategy, Management, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-07-03
Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers: Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammersIt is impossible to manage...networks the size of Google with technology alone. It takes a real live person. Now we can expect more spam coming from these networks. Spam that will be harder to filter. If these companies can't manage their networks in...; Tags: Spam, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Google Gmail, CAPTCHA, spammer, MSN Hotmail; Discussion threads 2008-07-03
Helpdesks and productivity: Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...; Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC; Discussion threads 2008-07-03
YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose: Updated: The latest battle in Google's ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant's search code and other critical...; Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., IP, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-03
Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency: They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...; Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests: Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests"Pentest"?Was ist das? Ach du lieber, here it is. Found the following using Google:Definitions of pentest on the Web in German:Ein Penetrationstest ist* in der Netzwerktechnik eine Methode, Sicherheitsschwachstellen festzustellen, siehe Penetrationstest Informatik* in ...A "penetration test". Hadn't...; Tags: social engineering, identity; Discussion threads 2008-07-02
Tiller Beauchamp on the Recon 2008 conference: Guest Editorial by Tiller Beauchamp Earlier this month I had the opportunity to present RE:Trace at the Recon conference, a reverse engineering conference held every other year in Montreal, Canada. The conference consisted of three days of training and three days of talks in a single track. Topics...; Tags: Reverse Engineering, Kernel, Conference, Novell NetWare, LDAP, Operating Systems, Servers, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Laser-aided software for tunnel construction: Laser-aided software for tunnel constructionvisualization in civil engineeringi understand importance of visualization in engineering but if i remember surveying principles it all depends on the precision provided by actual devices not the quality of the software putting it all together so it looks niceso if device used provides you with...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, laser; Discussion threads 2008-07-02
Laser-aided software for tunnel construction: If you ever have cruised on California's Highway 1, you know it offers spectacular views of the Pacific ocean. But several areas of this road are potentially dangerous because they can be affected by landslides. This is why the U.S. National Science Foundation NSF is helping the California Department of...; Tags: Software, National Science Foundation, Tunnel, Laser, gVT, Tools & Techniques, Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-07-02
So about that Microsoft licensing: So about that Microsoft licensingpenny wise and pound foolishIts not about giving $20K to Redmond. Its about users/teachers being productive and getting the work done so that they have more time to focus on the students.Saving $100 for a licence over the life of the software is nothing. Office is...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., software; Discussion threads 2008-07-02
News to know: Microsoft; Yahoo; Google; IT contractors: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught. Dennis Howlett: Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain Paul Miller: Powerset really does go to Microsoft... but for how much? Mary Jo Foley: Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language search...; Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Team Management, 3G, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Engineering Measurement and Conversion(EMC) (zip): Engineering Measurement and Conversion calculates Electrical, Magnetism and Testing Tools related quantities. It has a lot of formulas to compute a lot of quantities, related to Basic Electricity, Capacitance, Resistance, Resistor Color Coding, Alternating Current, Conductance, Fuse Size, Oscilloscope, Ammeter, Galvanometer to Ammeter, Electro-Magnetism, Inductance, and Transformer. To calculate each...; Tags: EMC Corp., Quantity, Galaxy, Storage, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-07-02