The wand developed by an ODU professor looks like a flame, but it isn't hot. Scientists have so far used it to kill E. coli. BY JOY BUCHANAN October 7, 2005 Source NORFOLK -- Physicist Mounir Laroussi walks quickly through the gray, empty space that greets him when the elevators open to the Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics on Southampton Avenue. He enters a hall and unlocks aby archive - Archive
Bloomberg News October 15, 2005 Source Refco Inc., the futures broker under federal investigation for securities fraud, sped toward collapse Friday as regulators barred its owners from taking out money and Standard & Poor's said a debt default may be imminent. Refco Securities Llc, the company's biggest unit, "initiated the process of unwinding proprietary and client positionby archive - Archive
By John C. Dvorak 10.10.05 Source Does Microsoft think it is going to get away with charging real money for any sort of add-on, service, or new product that protects clients against flaws in its own operating system? Does the existence of this not constitute an incredible conflict of interest? Why improve the base code when you can sell "protection"? Is Frank Nitti the new CEO? So wby archive - Archive
By Richard Macey October 13, 2005 Source Fleas use it to perform leaps that would make Olympic high jumpers green with envy. Bees use it to flap their wings without tiring. Now Australian scientists have achieved a world first by copying resilin, the "rubber" insects employ to accomplish such athletic feats. Future versions of the material could be used to make resilient spare partsby archive - Archive
Buttonwood Which side are you on? Oct 11th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source Delphi's bankruptcy highlights the danger of ballooning legacy costs—namely pensions and health care—and is further bad news for its main customer, General Motors. The quicker management and the unions stop singing and start talking, the better THESE are trying times for the Family Buttonwood. Youngeby archive - Archive
By Christian Einfeldt 10-11-2005 Source As we approach the imminent release of the “stable” version of OpenOffice.org 2.0 (OOo 2.0), it is becoming increasingly apparent that OOo 2.0 and it's commercial big brother, StarOffice 8.0, are going shake up the desktop software industry. As this Mad Penguin™ interview with Gary Edwards shows, the “clean” XML standard adopted by the OASIS OpenDocumby archive - Archive
Oct. 11, 2005 Source A NASA institute charged with supporting novel space concepts that push the envelope with existing technology has chosen a University of Colorado at Boulder proposal to image distant planets around other stars for a second round of funding. The $400,000 award will go to CU-Boulder Professor Webster Cash of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy from NASA's Insby archive - Archive
By Jan Stafford 12 Oct 2004 | SearchOpenSource Source Bryan Tidd single-handedly manages an IT system that will be serving four times as many people by 2015 as it is today. However, that rapid growth doesn't worry Tidd, director of technology for the city of Canton, Ga., because he has been moving the city's IT system to Linux. Just 30 miles from Atlanta, Canton is one of the topby archive - Archive
By Jack Loftus, News Writer 12 Oct 2005 | SearchOpenSource.com Source In the realm of open source, what was once all-Linux, all-the-time, has shifted gears to encompass everything from enterprise resource planning applications to Web browsers and CRM. Tiny startup companies and former pet projects of developers well versed in kernels and General Public License (GPL) now find themselves on the rby archive - Archive
By CBR October 2005 Source A new breed of solutions and services companies is bringing a more professional approach to the deployment of open source software. Matthew Aslett reports. A sure sign of a maturing market is when vendors stop talking about products and start talking about services and 'solution stacks'. It can be indicative that the marketing team have taken over from the eby archive - Archive
$88 billion in debt may become junk By CAROLINE SALAS Oct. 9, 2005 Bloomberg News Source More than $88 billion of U.S. corporate debt is teetering on the edge of investment grade and soon may join the record amount of bonds downgraded to junk this year. Hertz Corp., the world's largest car rental firm, and radio broadcaster Clear Channel Communications are among 46 companies that probablyby archive - Archive
The Rude Awakening Wall Street, New York Tuesday, June 28, 2005 STINKY WATER, SWEET OIL, PART II By Dan Denning Source America's oil shale reserves are enormous, totaling at least 1.5 billion barrels of oil. That's five times the reserves of Saudi Arabia! And yet, no one is producing commercial quantities of oil from these vast deposits. All that oil is still sitting right where Godby archive - Archive
Submitted by Christian Einfeldt 10-10-2005 Source We live in a world of false superlatives. Every damn new thing is the latest, greatest, fastest, etc. Then you bring your bright shiny new widget home from the store, and maybe it works great for about 5 minutes before falling apart. Nowhere has this disappoint been greater than in the world of computers. So we have become jaded. Time to loseby archive - Archive
By Geoff Broadwell Oct. 05, 2005 Source Every project has a set of goals that guide it through the meandering path of development. For some projects, these goals are unspoken, seen only in the primary style of the code, or in the size and shape of its APIs. When Autrijus Tang started the Pugs project to create a Perl 6 compiler, he had an explicit goal: optimize for fun. Fondly referred to as -Oby archive - Archive
It could be the start of the Robber Baron Era like in the Gilded Age in the Land of the 'Free'... J. *** America's sense of itself - its pride in its power - has been profoundly damaged. By Dermot Purgavie, Veteran US Correspondent 8 October 2005 Source THIS week Karen Hughes, long-time political adviser to George Bush, began her new mission as the State Department's ofby archive - Archive
(Zbigniew Brzezinski was national security advisor to President Carter.) October 9, 2005 Source Some 60 years ago Arnold Toynbee concluded, in his monumental "Study of History," that the ultimate cause of imperial collapse was "suicidal statecraft." Sadly for George W. Bush's place in history and — much more important — ominously for America's future, that adroit pby archive - Archive
Or, we are all torturers now BY TED RALL OCTOBER 5, 2005 Source NEW YORK--Never miss the Saturday paper. Because it's the skimpiest and least-circulated edition of the week, it's the venue of choice for lowballing the stories the government can't completely cover up. September 24's New York Times, for example, contained the bombshell revelation that the U.S. government contiby archive - Archive
Happy birthday, JK As he turns 97, the 6ft 8ins JK Galbraith remains a giant of economics William Keegan Sunday October 9, 2005 The Observer Source If ever there was a legend in his own lifetime, it is John Kenneth Galbraith, professor emeritus of Harvard University, adviser to Presidents from Roosevelt to Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, author of more than 40 books, and a man due to celebrate hisby archive - Archive
By Erico Guizzo and Harry Goldstein October 2005 Source BIONIC BODY: A powered robotic suit designed to help ederly and disabled people walk and carry things. HAL-5 will be available in Japan in November. PHOTO: YOSHIYUKI SANKAI, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA/CYBERDYNE INC Science-fiction fans have long become accustomed to the idea of steely commandos clad in robotic exoskeletons taking on huge, viby archive - Archive
Losing the Moral High Ground and the War in the hell called Iraq. Where US troops are becoming more and more barbaric. J. *** Iraq Babil Province Friday, 7 October 2005 Source Al-Hillah. Iraqi girl reportedly raped by US Marines. In the first days of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan (which began on 5 October) US Marines reportedly abducted and raped a 16-year-old Iraqi gby archive - Archive
Manufacturers gear up to mass-produce unconventional chips. Roxanne Khamsi 4 October 2005 Source Will computers that require no time to boot up become a reality? One company thinks the answer is yes, thanks to its carbon nanotube memory chips. Nantero presented its achievement at the Emerging Technologies Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It uses rolled-up tubes of carbon to make transisby archive - Archive
Buttonwood Time for a trim Oct 4th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source Hedge funds are headed for a lot more transparency, and not before time FORGET the leadership squabbles at the Labour and Conservative party conferences. The best story in the British press this weekend was of a deal-happy hedge-fund manager who spent £36,000 ($64,000) in a London bar in a single evening, includiby archive - Archive
"The rock on which the West Antarctic ice rests is below sea level - and British Antarctic Survey researchers believe the thinning could be due to the ice sheet melting on its underside." -- BBC News Earth - melting in the heat? By Richard Black Environment Correspondent, BBC News website 7 October 2005 Predictions vary from the catastrophic to the cataclysmic. Glaciers are meltinby archive - Archive
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 Source What's wrong with cutting and running? That's the question asked by retired Army general William Odom about the continued US military presence in Iraq. Odom says, "I'm trying to think like a strategist, and in war, as well as in politics and diplomacy, one has to know when to withdraw and when to attack. This was a misguided act and it requirby archive - Archive
by Gen. (ret.) William E. Odom October 3, 2005 Source If I were a journalist, I would list all the arguments that you hear against pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, the horrible things that people say would happen, and then ask: Aren't they happening already? Would a pullout really make things worse? Maybe it would make things better. Here are some of the arguments against pulling out:by archive - Archive
Retired general: Iraq invasion was 'strategic disaster' The Lowell Sun By Evan Lehmann Source WASHINGTON -- The invasion of Iraq was the “greatest strategic disaster in United States history,” a retired Army general said yesterday, strengthening an effort in Congress to force an American withdrawal beginning next year., Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom, a Vietnam veteran, said the iby archive - Archive
By George Parker in Brussels and Peter Thal Larsen in London Published: October 5 2005 21:52 | Last updated: October 5 2005 21:52 Source European governments are hiring private sector banks to show them how to disguise the scale of their budget deficits, Joaqún Almunia, EU monetary affairs commissioner, claims on Thursday. Mr Almunia says some banks recommend the same budgetary dodges to differby archive - Archive
October 5, 2005 By Ryan Naraine Source Convinced that businesses will use nonmalicious worms to cut down on network security costs, a high-profile security researcher is pushing ahead with a new framework for creating a "controlled worm" that can be used for beneficial purposes. Dave Aitel, vulnerability researcher at New York-based Immunity Inc., unveiled a research-level demo of theby archive - Archive
International Perspective, by Marshall Auerback The Dollar’s Problems Haven’t Gone Away October 3, 2005 Source Five years ago, when the euro broke down to par we argued that it was time to buy the euro. Our reasoning was simple. Europe was an economic bloc with a significant current account surplus equal to roughly 1% of GDP. At that time, the US had a current account deficit equal to 4% ofby archive - Archive
Technology's progress will soon accelerate -- exponentially. You have no idea how much. Ray Kurzweil does. By GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS Special to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 1, 2005; Page P8 Source The Singularity Is Near By Ray Kurzweil Viking, 652 pages, $29.95 The bearded fellow with a sign reading "The End Is Nigh" is a staple of editorial cartoons. The title-phrase of &quoby archive - Archive