By Peter Pae, Times Staff Writer September 27, 2005 Source A U.S. engineer faces bankruptcy and arrest in Austria as he questions the safety of a component in the huge Airbus A380 jetliner. VIENNA — Ever since the Mangans gave up their comfortable house in Kansas City, Kan., and moved here a year ago, the family has been living in a kind of suspended animation. It almost looks as if they justby archive - Archive
Buttonwood Credit where credit is due Sep 28th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source When markets don’t price risk properly, weak governments—and their taxpayers—are in even bigger trouble A FRIEND of Buttonwood’s is cross these days. For some months he has had a biggish bet that yields on Italian bonds would rise relative to German ones. It was a no-brainer, one might think. Big-spendby archive - Archive
BBC News 2005/09/28 Source A UK heart surgeon has pioneered a new way to repair damaged hearts after being inspired by artist Leonardo da Vinci's medical drawings. The intricate diagrams of the heart were made by Leonardo 500 years ago. Mr Francis Wells from Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, says Leonardo's observations of the way the heart valves open and close was revelatory. Mr Wellsby archive - Archive
By Julian Bajkowski, Computerworld 29/09/2005 11:33:04 Source The NSW Office of State Revenue (OSR) is taking a tough stance against Microsoft's decision to make an enterprise edition of Windows Vista only available to companies that have signed on to its Software Assurance program. The tax collection agency has declared it would rather switch desktop operating systems than lock itself intoby archive - Archive
By Mike Ricciuti Story last modified Wed Sep 28 08:55:00 PDT 2005 Source CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--A low-cost computer for the masses moved one step closer to reality on Wednesday. Nicholas Negroponte, the co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, detailed specifications for a $100 windup-powered laptop targeted at children in developing nations. Negroponte, who laid ouby archive - Archive
By Ingrid Marson, CNET News.com ZDNet News: September 27, 2005 Source The next version of the General Public License may tackle the issue of Web companies that use free software in commercial Web-based applications but don't distribute the source code. At present, companies that distribute GPL-licensed software must make the source code publicly available, including any modifications they&by archive - Archive
Google Press Center MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - September 28, 2005 - Source NASA Ames Research Center, located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, and Mountain View-based Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced plans to collaborate on a number of technology-focused research-and-development activities that will couple some of Earth's most powerful technology resources. NASA aby archive - Archive
29 September 2005 BBC News Source Web search firm Google has formed a partnership with US space agency Nasa in an effort to harness new technology which could boost the space programme. Google is to build a new office complex on the site of Nasa's research facility in California, close to its own headquarters in Silicon Valley. The two companies will co-operate in a range of areas includiby archive - Archive
Who is Tom DeLay? Read the article The Cathedralmodel Machinery first to answer that question. "If Enron hadn't collapsed, we might still have only circumstantial evidence that energy companies artificially drove up prices during California's electricity crisis. Because of that collapse, we have direct evidence in the form of the now-infamous Enron tapes — although the Federalby archive - Archive
Federico Biancuzzi, 2005-09-27 Source SecurityFocus interviews Greg Hoglund and Jamie Butler on the state of Windows rootkits and how quickly they have evolved. Watch for some detailed Infocus technical articles on the subject of rootkits coming in October. Could you introduce yourselves? Greg Hoglund: I'm well known for starting rootkit.com, but I do other stuff too like run a company caby archive - Archive
By Douglas Kern Source I am an engineering washout. I left a chemical engineering major in shame and disgust to pursue the softer pleasures of a liberal arts education. No, do not pity me, gentle reader; do not assuage your horror and dismay at my degradation by flinging a filthy quarter into my shiny tin cup. Instead, hear my story, and learn why the United States lacks engineers. Not long agoby archive - Archive
Author: IT-Observer Staff Wednesday, 28 September 2005, 14:18 GMT Source Red Hat and IBM announced on Tuesday that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is in evaluation state to meet government security standards for assured information sharing within government agencies. Red Hat officially joined The National Information Assurance Partnership to bring an improved level of security and assurance to Linux.by archive - Archive
By Helen Briggs BBC News science reporter, Moscow Source The European Space Agency (Esa) is proposing joining forces with Russia to develop a new vehicle for human spaceflight, the Clipper. The six-person spaceplane would give European astronauts autonomous access to the space station and the Moon. Esa will ask its member states to fund a 30-40m-euro (£20-27m) preparatory study at its next miby archive - Archive
ESA selects targets for asteroid-deflecting mission Don Quijote 26 September 2005 Source ESA PR 41-2005. Based on the recommendations of asteroid experts, ESA has selected two target asteroids for its Near-Earth Object deflecting mission, Don Quijote. Don Quijote is an asteroid-deflecting mission currently under study by ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team (ACT). Earlier this year the NEO Mission Aby archive - Archive
Sci-Tech Today September 23, 2005 1:33PM Source[/url[ University of Maryland's Frank McDonald, who has worked on the voyager missions from the beginning, said Voyager 1 should reach the heliopause, or end of the solar system in the next eight to ten years. "When we started none of us thought of this mission lasting this long. Now it has gone 28 years, and there is no reason it can'by archive - Archive
Ingrid Marson, 26 September 2005 ZDNet UK Source Linus Torvalds is concerned that the way the Linux production kernel is maintained could cause its cheif maintainer to burn out Andrew Morton has claimed that the development of the Linux kernel is slowing down, with noticeably less features and bug fixes planned for a future version. Morton, the lead maintainer of the Linux production kernel, sby archive - Archive
LiftPort’s balloon-based test marks milestone on long road to orbit By Leonard David Senior space writer Updated: 3:37 p.m. ET Sept. 23, 2005 Source A private group has taken one small step toward the prospect of building a futuristic space elevator. LiftPort Group Inc., of Bremerton, Wash., has successfully tested a robot climber — a novel piece of hardware that reeled itself up and down a leby archive - Archive
24 Sep 2005 Source Harvard University researchers have found that molecular markers indicating the presence of cancer in the body are readily detected in blood scanned by special arrays of silicon nanowires -- even when these cancer markers constitute only one hundred-billionth of the protein present in a drop of blood. In addition to this exceptional accuracy and sensitivity, the minuscule dby archive - Archive
BBC News 25 September 2005 Source Small networks of power generators in "microgrids" could transform the electricity network in the way that the net changed distributed communication. That is one of the conclusions of a Southampton University project scoping out the feasibility of microgrids for power generation and distribution. Microgrids are small community networks that supply elby archive - Archive
A product/business idea by Philip Greenspun in By Philip Greenspun. September 2005 Source What would you call a device that has a screen, a keyboard, storage for personal information such as contacts, email, documents, the ability to play audio and video files, some games, a spreadsheet program, and a communications capability? Sound like a personal computer? How about "mobile phone&quoby archive - Archive
Sun president: PCs are so yesterday By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com Published on ZDNet News: September 23, 2005 Source SAN JOSE, Calif.--Increasingly, the personal computer is a relic. So asserted Jonathan Schwartz, president of server and software maker Sun Microsystems. Instead, what has become important are Web services on the Internet and the mobile phones most will use to access them,by archive - Archive
By Reuben Staines Staff Reporter Source Defense and communications technicians will team up to develop a mobile combat robot to fight alongside human soldiers on the battlefield, the government said Wednesday. Officials heading the project said they have requested 33.4 billion won ($32.4 million) in funding between 2006 and 2011 to develop the horse-like robot for deployment. According to desiby archive - Archive
By ROBERT A. GUTH Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL September 23, 2005; Page A1 Source REDMOND, Wash. -- Jim Allchin, a senior Microsoft Corp. executive, walked into Bill Gates's office here one day in July last year to deliver a bombshell about the next generation of Microsoft Windows. "It's not going to work," Mr. Allchin says he told the Microsoft chairman. The neby archive - Archive
University of Chicago receives $48 million award to manage National TeraGrid scientific computing network Source TeraGrid to enhance access for scientific, engineering research The National Science Foundation has awarded $48 million to the University of Chicago over the next five years to operate and expand TeraGrid, a national-scale system of interconnected computers that scientists and enginby archive - Archive
September 21, 2005 Source By examining how proteins have evolved, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have discovered a set of simple "rules" that nature appears to use to design proteins, rules the scientists have now employed to create artificial proteins that look and function just like their natural counterparts. In two papers appearing in the Sept. 22 issue of the journalby archive - Archive
"...And it has inspired Bob Sutor, IBM's Vice President for Standards and Open Source, to caution vendors against obstinacy in the face of the drive to open standards. Sutor says the Massachusetts decision should be taken as a warning sign for vendors. He says the decision should be seen as emblematic of the fact that consumers, or customers, are beginning to assert much greater controlby archive - Archive
Press Releases NASA September 20, 2005 Source New gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 have appeared on a Martian sand dune. That's just one of the surprising discoveries that have resulted from the extended life of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which this month began its ninth year in orbit around Mars. Boulders tumbling down a Martian slope left tracks that weren't there twby archive - Archive
BBC News 21 September 2005 Source New images of Mars suggest the Red Planet's surface is more active than previously thought, the US space agency (Nasa) reports. Photographs from Nasa's orbiting spacecraft Mars Global Surveyor show recently formed craters and gullies. The agency's scientists also say that deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near the planet's south pole have sby archive - Archive
Source NEW YORK, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Fourteen credit derivative dealers met with the New York Federal Reserve Bank on Thursday and vowed to police the booming market themselves to keep regulators from doing it, a meeting participant said. This will entail dealers eventually refusing to do business with clients, namely hedge funds, that do not adopt standard systems and practices that stop delayby archive - Archive
TCS ^ | 09/16/2005 | Patrick Michaels Posted on 09/16/2005 9:45:17 AM PDT by Source A scientific team led by Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology today published findings in Science magazine. The team claimed to have found evidence in the historical record of both more tropical cyclones, such as Hurricane Katrina, but also a higher percentage of more intense ones. This followsby archive - Archive