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Behind Purdue's computing simulation on the 2001 World Trade Center attack

Behind Purdue's computing simulation on the 2001 World Trade Center attackNIST also did a simulation without the graphicsThe NIST did a simulation of the damage and compared against debris. They took into account a huge amount of information. Turns out that the physical damage just from the...

Tags: WTC, World Trade Center

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

Google creates tools for hurricane relief

Google creates tools for hurricane reliefCan Google create tools for searching ‘the truth as it is’?Before you’ll read the post, try to remember:If you’ll have an excuse to deny the truth in your life, life will definitely have a reason to deny you.If you have excuses for your life, remember...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, tool, Google Inc., WTC

Discussion threads 2005-09-13

Feds test RFID controls at U.S. borders

Feds test RFID controls at U.S. bordersSo far if you lost I-94 then you got another oneYou just needed to get another one when you were departing the USA. It did not matter it was not the same. It mattered that the fact was reported to INS. So now if...

Tags: RFID, Police State, WTC

Discussion threads 2005-08-08

Airbus drops out of Microsoft appeal

Airbus drops out of Microsoft appealSo how would you interpret this?I see it like this, the EU is correct in it's assessment and penalizing of Microsoft. But time will tell, right? After all justice will alway prevail... to the highest bidder!Guess things will go smoother for Airbus nowthat they bowed.They...

Tags: Airbus, Jet Fuel, Microsoft Corp., Osama bin Laden, 9/11 commission, WTC, U.S. Government

Discussion threads 2004-09-24

VMware Software Enables Fast Server Deployment and Management, Effective Disaster Recovery, and Remote Desktop Environment

With the company's rapid growth and commitment to innovation, Wamego Telecommunications Co., WTC began to look for a server consolidation strategy in January 2005. At the same time WTC began looking for a server consolidation solution, it was also looking for a solution to streamline desktop computer deployment. WTC set...

Tags: Software, Remote Desktop, Environment, VMware Inc., Disaster Recovery, VMware Software, WTC, Server Consolidation, Servers, Desktops, Hardware

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(Images: Dubai's skyscraper in motion)

(Images: Dubai's skyscraper in motion)Fast Forward, NYC... where the story of the great PIT continues. It just amazes and saddens me how far the US has fallen.When the rest of the world reads about the insurance lawsuits related to the original WTC, the fear of replacing the building with one...

Tags: skyscraper

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright cops

Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright copsDeclaring war on your customers!Great PR move by big content! Apparently big content is feeling too much love from its customers! (These guys are hopeless!)Woot!Finally someone will be cracking down on all of those GPL violations as they cross the border,...

Tags: NAFTA, Proposed NAFTA, supreme, agreement

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

They died for Reddi-Wip?

They died for Reddi-Wip?No - They died for scienceThis is the first time I have ever been disgusted by an official ZDNet post.Aside from the atrocious use of [b]bold[/b] for the quotes, the post belittles the lives of the astronauts and the worthwhile experiments that take place in space. ...

Tags: Notebooks, NASA, Reddi-Wip, Jason Perlow

Discussion threads 2008-05-11

Another morning hangover for ethanolics

Another morning hangover for ethanolicsI disagree, plenty of funds availableAll we need do is stop spending $8 MILLION per minute in Iraq.that's money well spent!I don't buy into the BS that 130,000 troops are keeping America safe in Iraq, but they are definetly keeping the price of oil down by...

Tags: morning hangover

Discussion threads 2008-05-11

Richard+Clarke+on+recent+Mideast+cable+outages

Richard+Clarke+on+recent+Mideast+cable+outages9/11Think about what would have happened on 9/11 if an airliner would have taken out 60 Hudson Street in Manhattan, rather than the WTC. The 60 Hudson office is one of the most dense international communications hubs in the world. Voice, data including TV network feeds, Internet...

Tags: Hudson

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

NSA coordinates cyberattack response

NSA coordinates cyberattack responseThe NSA bungled the intel on Iraq...and historically have been a lot less than accurate. What makes anyone think they will do a better job trying to police the entire internet?Set aside their incompetence, and you still have a worldwide spying organization with no regard for...

Tags: Hacking, Vertical industries, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Washington Post Co., NSA, cyberattack response, cyberattack, monitoring, government, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-01-28

Oak Ridge attacks linked to China

Oak Ridge attacks linked to ChinaRE: Oak Ridge attacksThere is only one question that [b]needs[/b] to be answered:"How the hell did this happen at a sensitive research laboratory"?????A second question:"When are heads going to roll"?????RE: Oak Ridge attacks linked to Chinait IS Chinese government, and they are attacking with impunity...

Tags: Call centers, SECURITY, Oak Ridge, attack, call-center

Discussion threads 2007-12-12

NY police commissioner: 'Internet is the new Afghanistan'

NY police commissioner: 'Internet is the new Afghanistan'I agreeMan this guy is on top of things! Free expression and individual rights are defiantly problems. When people have the ability to share ideas and express them selfs they sometimes come up with ideas that go against the mainstream. What we really...

Tags: Homeland security, censorship, terrorism, Internet, INTERNET IS, tower, 9/11 commission

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

Canada, Mexico travel cards under privacy attack

Canada, Mexico travel cards under privacy attackRID and CheckoutMy grocery clerk told me that eventually I would be able to pass my basket over the counter and everything in the basket would be itemize and tabulated. It was a reason she was retiring. But I can not wait. I want...

Tags: U.S. Government, RFID, card

Discussion threads 2007-04-23

Wake up to the 'daylight-saving' bug

Wake up to the 'daylight-saving' bugPlenty of people...I for one, still have a Win2k Server. Some of my clients likewise haven't seen the need to get Windows 2003 server.So will companies have a snit every time some politician changes the DST?!*sigh*Y2K seemed more of a hassle than changing when we...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000, Servers, Patches, DST Change, Y2K, DST, server

Discussion threads 2007-02-16

Is Islamist cryptography evil?

Is Islamist cryptography evil?256 bit encryption is in public domainThis is silly. 256 AES and 2048 Public-Key encryption source code is readily available in the public domain, and any one of dozens of general-purpose programs.Any would-be-evil-islamic-bad-person worth worrying about would ALREADY have access to serious encryption. All we...

Tags: SECURITY, encryption, Islamist cryptography, Islamic Jihadists

Discussion threads 2007-01-03

U.S. warns of possible Qaida financial cyber attack

U.S. warns of possible Qaida financial cyber attackal qaida cyber attack . . .say what?Sorry folks. Just can't buy that one. They would if they could, but not likely they can. Meanwhile, we know our govt junkyard dogs have practice with this. The banks & all other tenants at...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Hacking, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, computer, cyberattack, 9/11 commission, al-Qaida, financial

Discussion threads 2006-11-30

Today's Links on 9/11: Bush in NYC, video archives, my personal story

SPECIAL EDITION OF TODAY'S LINKSSeptember 11, 2006: Five Year Anniversary of theAttacks on the World Trade CenterPRESIDENT BUSH Revisits WTC Site on 5th ANNIVERSARYPresident Bush is on a commemorative journey in New York City and as part of his mission he is gving all New Yorkers a big thumbs up,...

Tags: 9/11 commission, 9/11, Bush, New Yorkers

Blog posts 2006-09-11

Intel Haifa staff work among the chaos

Intel Haifa staff work among the chaosStrategic blunder?Nothing against Israel I actually support Israel in its fight to survive against terrorism and rogue nations...but if I were an Intel executive or board member, I'm not sure I could have seen the proposition of opening a design center and fab in...

Tags: Homeland security, Hamas, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-07-17

Ellison reverses $115 million Harvard donation

Ellison reverses $115 million Harvard donationlarry ellison...just one more indication that the guy is one of the world's biggest slimeballs!Ellison is quite a piece of work...That don't impress me much.Why a piece of workSummers essentially gets forced out because he says men and women are different with different aptitudes, and...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Warren Buffet, donation, Larry Ellison, Ellis Abramoff, Harvard

Discussion threads 2006-06-28