South Korean households apparently have more bandwidth than most large American businesses. I knew I was a geek from the beginning!
Computer scientiest in Italy have created 3D forms of some of M.C. Escher's most famous works. here are the pics.
With all the news of hurricanes and such, here's a story about a storm that hit Sweden. Crazy damage.
Why aren't diebold voting machine problems getting more attention? Hopefully this article will help.
Now we've got PC worms that utilize multimedia capabilities of PCs. The web cams were first, and now it looks like audio is being sent with worms.
This just reminds me of the oldschool Solaris microphone vulnerability from back in 1993.
Novell today, has stated that the company is going to pursue a future not based on Open Source standards (they bought SuSe Linux), nor proprietary 'Cathedral' style code development (Novell). Instead, they are going to pursue what they call 'both-source' development. I imagine that this means that Novell is going to code what they need to fill in gaps when Novell NetWare 7 comes out, and release the code for Novell.
Full story here.
Sting says: "They could've used the resources and the energy to really try and get who was responsible for 9/11," Sting said. "It wasn't Saddam Hussein, it's a bunch of long-hairs who are probably in Pakistan right now."
Sting and singer Annie Lennox are staying out of the America Coming Together/MoveOn concert tour because they are British citizens.
Full story here.
A company has come out with handsets for today's generation of cell phones, and you might wonder what kind of sick futuristic handsfree headsets I'm talking about here. The Jawbone headset rests on your cheekbone and actually monitors your cheekbone for vibrations all the while caclculating ambient noise and filtering out ambient noise. The is the same kind of technology that is used in noise cancelling headphones.
On the other hand, a British company has taken a completely different approach to headsets. Pokia offers headsets that you've probably all see before. Adapting old school recievers to work with today's cell phones.
We got an issue in America. Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country.
-- Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Sep. 6, 2004
Audio is here.
To Senator Zell Miller
You seem to have forgotten that loyal Democrats elected you as mayor and as state senator. Loyal Democrats, including members of my family and me, elected you as lieutenant governor and as governor. It was a loyal Democrat, Lester Maddox, who assigned you to high positions in the state government when you were out of office. It was a loyal Democrat, Roy Barnes, who appointed you as U.S. Senator when you were out of office. By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust.
Great Georgia Democrats who served in the past, including Walter George, Richard Russell, Herman Talmadge, and Sam Nunn disagreed strongly with the policies of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and me, but they remained loyal to the party in which they gained their public office. Other Democrats, because of philosophical differences or the race issue, like Bo Callaway and Strom Thurmond, at least had the decency to become Republicans.
Everyone knows that you were chosen to speak at the Republican Convention because of your being a “Democrat,” and it’s quite possible that your rabid and mean-spirited speech damaged our party and paid the Republicans some transient dividends.
Perhaps more troublesome of all is seeing you adopt an established and very effective Republican campaign technique of destroying the character of opponents by wild and false allegations. The Bush campaign’s personal attacks on the character of John McCain in South Carolina in 2000 was a vivid example. The claim that war hero Max Cleland was a disloyal American and an ally of Osama bin Laden should have given you pause, but you have joined in this ploy by your bizarre claims that another war hero, John Kerry, would not defend the security of our nation except with spitballs. (This is the same man whom you described previously as “one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders -- and a good friend.")
I, myself, never claimed to have been a war hero, but I served in the navy from 1942 to 1953, and, as president, greatly strengthened our military forces and protected our nation and its interests in every way. I don’t believe this warrants your referring to me as a pacificist.
Zell, I have known you for forty-two years and have, in the past, respected you as a trustworthy political leader and a personal friend. But now, there are many of us loyal Democrats who feel uncomfortable in seeing that you have chosen the rich over the poor, unilateral preemptive war over a strong nation united with others for peace, lies and obfuscation over the truth, and the political technique of personal character assassination as a way to win elections or to garner a few moments of applause. These are not the characteristics of great Democrats whose legacy you and I have inherited.
Sincerely, and with deepest regrets,
Jimmy Carter
Philadelphia is contemplating making the entire city wirless. Hundreds, maybe thousands of Access Points (probably some relays too) may soon be mounted atop lightposts in Philly creating a 135 square mile hotspot.
Full story here.
An Indian ship, State of Nagaland, dropped it's anchor off the coast of Sri Lanka. The anchor happened to hit the underwater internet pipe and severed the connection to some estimated 800,000 users.
The full story is here.