TCS ^ | 09/16/2005 | By James Pinkerton Posted on 09/16/2005 9:22:06 AM PDT by .cnI redruM Source NEW YORK - Kyoto Treaty RIP. That's not the headline in any newspaper this morning emerging from the first day of the Clinton Global Initiative, but it could have been -- and should have been. Onstage with former president Bill Clinton at a midtown Manhattan hotel ballroom, British Prime Minisby archive - Archive
By Robert L. Mitchell Sep 19 2005 - 5:20pm Source If Peter Wallace’s recent experience with hotel access cards is an indicator, leaving your electronic hotel room key behind when you check out could leave you open to identity theft. Wallace, IT director at AAA Reading-Berks in Wyomissing, Penn. has been bringing a card reader with him on business trips to see what's on the magnetic stripsby archive - Archive
By Jan Stafford 19 Sep 2005 | SearchEnterpriseLinux.com Source Stroll around a Linux business conference with John H. Terpstra and you'll hear him greeted as "Mr. Samba." Terpstra, co-founder of the Samba team, is indeed a Samba guru, but he's also got strong Linux and open source implementation chops, gained from his grass-roots work as an IT consultant. In this SearchEnterpby archive - Archive
19 September 2005 BBC News Source The US space agency Nasa has announced plans to return to the Moon by 2020. Nasa administrator Dr Michael Griffin said four astronauts would be sent in a new space vehicle, in a project that would cost $104bn (£58bn). "We will return to the Moon no later than 2020 and extend human presence across the Solar System and beyond," Dr Griffin said on Mondaby archive - Archive
19 September 2005 BBC News Source Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Sir Menzies Campbell has called for an end to the US and UK "occupation" of Iraq. But he stopped short of calling for a date for the withdrawal of troops. He also said Britain needs an ethical foreign policy, stressing human rights and multilateralism. In his speech to the Liberal Democrat annual conferenceby archive - Archive
"...people cannot stand too much reality." -- Carl Jung *** What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle? By JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER Source A few weeks ago, the price of oil ratcheted above fifty-five dollars a barrel, which is about twenty dollars a barrel more than a year ago. The next day, the oil story was buried on page six of the New York Timesby archive - Archive
International Perspective, by Marshall Auerback September 13, 2005 PrudentBear.com Source "What we all do next will determine how well we meet the energy needs of the entire world in this century and beyond. Demand is soaring like never before. As populations grow and economies take off, millions in the developing world are enjoying the benefits of a lifestyle that requires increasing amoby archive - Archive
washingtonpost.com By David S. Broder Sunday, September 11, 2005; B07 Source In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, credible private experts are forecasting a federal budget deficit of $500 billion for this year, a sharp reminder of the government's fiscal folly. For all the deserved criticism the Bush administration has received for its tardy and ragged response to the storm's ravages onby archive - Archive
The Daily Reckoning Paris, France Friday, September 16, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The impulse to ‘do something’ to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina is so great among the masses in the United States, few dare to stand against it. However, Bill Bonner explains why sometimes inactivity preferable way to deal with this type of situation... THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING NOTHING By Bill Bonby archive - Archive
By Jason Brooks September 9, 2005 Source Opinion: The plan to move toward "open" formats isn't foolhardy if Massachusetts thinks it can better serve taxpayers by escaping proprietary lock. We've had two opportunities this week to hear from eWEEK.com's David Coursey on why it's a bad idea for Massachusetts to opt to use only "open" document formats by 200by archive - Archive
8 Sept. 2005 newrowley.com Source On September 9, the Massachusetts Information Technology Division ends it review and public comment period for its Information Domain - Enterprise Technical Reference Model v.3.5 draft, a document that provides guidelines for data and data formats in the Commonwealth, including file formats for office productivity suites (these suites usually comprise word prby archive - Archive
September 16, 2005 Source Mathematics students have cause to celebrate. A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit. What's more, his simple new framework means calculations can be done without trigonometric tables or calculators, yet often with greatby archive - Archive
Stephen Roach (New York) Sept 09, 2005 Source Never in modern history has the world’s leading economic power tried to do so much with so little. A saving-short US economy has long pushed the envelope in drawing on foreign capital to subsidize excess consumption. But now Washington is upping the ante as it opens the fiscal spigot to cope with post-Katrina reconstruction at the same time iby archive - Archive
BusinessWeek Online SEPTEMBER 26, 2005 COVER STORY Source Once the dream workplace of tech's highest achievers, it is suffering key defections to Google and elsewhere. What's behind the losses? When Microsoft Corp. (MFST ) hired computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee away from hardware maker Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI ) in 1998, the move underscored how thoroughly the software giant domby archive - Archive
By Steve Connor, Science Editor Published: 16 September 2005 Source A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has hby archive - Archive
By Brian Berger Space News Staff Writer posted: 14 September 2005 6:43 p.m. ET Source WASHINGTON – NASA briefed senior White House officials Wednesday on its plan to spend $100 billion and the next 12 years building the spacecraft and rockets it needs to put humans back on the Moon by 2018. The U.S. space agency now expects to roll out its lunar exploration plan to key Congressional committeesby archive - Archive
Published: September 13, 2005, 11:18 AM PDT By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com Source Though Pentium 4s can sell for up to $637, Intel's average cost for making a chip comes to $40, according to a report from analysts In-Stat. The report doesn't consider expenses related to design or marketing, or the fact that high-end chips can sell for more because fewer off the producby archive - Archive
Dartmouth College Office of Public Affairs • Press Release Posted 09/14/05 • Contact Sue Knapp (603) 646-3661 Source In a world where "supersize" has entered the lexicon, there are some things getting smaller, like cell phones and laptops. Dartmouth researchers have contributed to the miniaturizing trend by creating the world's smallest untethered, controllable robot. Their extremby archive - Archive
By ROBYN E. BLUMNER, Times Perspective Columnist Published August 28, 2005 Source "The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society" - John F. Kennedy It is axiomatic that secrecy is the handmaiden of mischief, especially by government. When we are facing a foreign threat, the government tends to toss around terms like "national security" as a justiby archive - Archive
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism by Lawrence Britt Spring 2003 Free Inquiry magazine Source Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they aby archive - Archive
by Edd Dumbill 09/12/2005 Source Author's note: Alan Cox needs little introduction--most will know him for his long-standing work on the Linux kernel (not to mention his appreciation and promulgation of the Welsh language among hackers). Cox is one of the keynote speakers at EuroOSCON this October, where he will talk about computer security. According to Alan Cox, we're just at the beby archive - Archive
Posted by Jeremy on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 05:19 Source Hans Reiser formed Namesys and began the development of Reiserfs ten years ago. The first release of the filesystem, Reiser3, is part of the mainline 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels. The more recent Reiser4 is a complete redesign and reimplementation of Reiserfs, aiming to soon be merged into the mainline 2.6 Linux kernel. In thisby archive - Archive
August 25, 2005 By RIVA D. ATLAS Source The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has called a meeting of top Wall Street firms to discuss practices in the booming, if opaque, credit derivatives market. Credit derivatives, which are linked to the probability of a company's paying its debts, represent one of Wall Street's fastest-growing businesses, with $8.4 trillion of these contracts outby archive - Archive
By John Dizard August 19 2005 Source FT.com The recent difficulties settling futures contracts in Chicago have highlighted a growing problem: there are big derivatives markets out there that aren't built to take the strain being put on them.... In June, some large holders of the June 10-year Treasury futures contract, including Pimco, demanded settlement -- taking delivery of actualby archive - Archive
Sep. 12, 2005 Source FSMLabs will demonstrate its real-time Linux operating system delivering single-digit microsecond timing on 64-bit dual-core AMD Opteron processors, at ESC this week in Boston. The company says its RTLinuxPro, Carrier Grade RTLinux, RTCore real-time nano-kernel, and Eclipse-based development tools (currently beta testing) all support "a wide range" of AMD processorby archive - Archive
By Morrisdale Source There's lots of innovation going on in security - we're inundated with a steady stream of new stuff and it all sounds like it works just great. Every couple of months I'm invited to a new computer security conference, or I'm asked to write a foreword for a new computer security book. And, thanks to the fact that it's a topic of public concern and a &by archive - Archive
We laughed, we cried, we learned about statistics ... Ben Goldacre on why writing Bad Science has increased his suspicion of the media by, ooh, a lot of per cents Thursday September 8, 2005 The Guardian Source OK, here's something weird. Every week in Bad Science we either victimise some barking pseudoscientific quack, or a big science story in a national newspaper. Now, tell me, why are tby archive - Archive
The Lancet 2005; 366:868 10 September 2005 DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67292-3 Source Prof Gene Feder and colleagues claim in this week's issue that The Lancet finds “itself connected to the profits of the global arms trade”, a situation that, they say, is “incompatible with The Lancet's guiding principles”. During Sept 13–16, 2005, Spearhead Exhibitions—a part of Reed Elsevier, The Lancby archive - Archive
CBC News Viewpoint By Sara Newham November 2, 2004 Source When Natasha caught her mother disinfecting the dishes at their family home one day, she was instantly hurt. Natasha, 33, is HIV-positive. "My mother started crying. She said she knew nothing about HIV," Natasha recalled. A former alcoholic and injecting drug user, Natasha contracted HIV eight years ago through a contaminatedby archive - Archive
The Lancet 2005; 366:690 27 August 2005 DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67149-8 Source That homoeopathy fares poorly when compared with allopathy in Aijing Shang and colleagues' systematic evaluation is unsurprising. Of greater interest is the fact that this debate continues, despite 150 years of unfavourable findings. The more dilute the evidence for homoeopathy becomes, the greater seems its pby archive - Archive