i reject your reality and substitute my own
Like radar in the last century, the Internet is a radical new tool that is helping to redefine the dimensions of warfare. For al-Qaeda, the shadowy terrorist organization behind 9/11, the Net is helping it to be everywhere … and nowhere.
Can background music make you smarter?
The more you can concentrate with background noise, the more it strengthens the brain. Isaac Asimov used to set his typewriter up in stores and other loud places to work. His claim was that you get really good at writing when you’re in a crowd. You want to be energized by that background noise, rather than distracted.
The military is virtually closing the secretive defense complex carved into Cheyenne Mountain that for decades has monitored North American skies for threats, a newspaper reported.
The Denver Post reported late Thursday that the North American Aerospace Defense Command operations center will be moved to nearby Peterson Air Force Base, which is home to the U.S. Northern Command created after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Funny commercial, honest, I’m her daddy.
As I sit here typing I’m reminded of what happened at roughly 4 p.m. Central Standard time at my office (about an hour ago); especially since my hands still smell like ‘fire extinguisher’. While specifying instrumentation tag names on a flow drawing my attention is turned towards the haze building up on the other side of the engineering area. I started hearing some distant prattle about “fire”, “hmmm… what could this possibly be?” I think to myself. Upon further investigation I’ve come to the conclusion that someone’s Dell laptop just freakin blew up and started a cozy little desktop fire!!!
My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun.
ScatterChat is a HACKTIVIST WEAPON designed to allow non-technical human rights activists and political dissidents to communicate securely and anonymously while operating in hostile territory. It is also useful in corporate settings, or in other situations where privacy is desired.
It is a secure instant messaging client (based upon the Gaim software) that provides end-to-end encryption, integrated onion-routing with Tor, secure file transfers, and easy-to-read documentation.
Its security features include resiliency against partial compromise through perfect forward secrecy, immunity from replay attacks, and limited resistance to traffic analysis… all reinforced through a pro-actively secure design.
The Google phonebook operator allows you to search for phone numbers, as the Google Guide quick reference tells (these operators aren’t new, but just less known):
* phonebook: Disney CA
* bphonebook: Hearst Castle San Simeon CA
* rphonebook: Monty Python Oakland CA
Plug the Artec T14A USB TV Tuner into your laptop, install the software and you’re watching HDTV. All of a sudden you’ve bypassed buying an HDTV, setting up an HD cable box or anything else.
At Mammoth Hot Springs, in Yellowstone National Park, the mineral-rich waters flow over a surreal landscape of stepped terraces and ponds.
Geologists have long been at a loss to explain the rocks’ unusual shapes, but physicists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say they have figured out the answer.