By Sean Yoong Associated Press 06 September 2005 Source KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP)—Neil Armstrong said Tuesday that a manned mission to Mars will not happen for at least 20 years—but the effort might be easier than what it took to send him to the moon in 1969. The first man to walk on the moon noted that scientists must develop better onboard spacecraft technology and stronger protection shielby archive - Archive
By Andy McCue, Special to ZDNet Asia Friday , September 09 2005 11:22 AM Source Open source is still up to five years away from mainstream use in enterprise IT infrastructures, despite the progress made in the commercialisation of the platform, according to analyst Gartner. Gartner's latest Linux 'hype cycle' report shows that open source is halfway to maturity but warns the biggby archive - Archive
washingtonpost.com Rethinking Defenses Against Sea's Power Flood Experts See Lessons in New Orleans By Molly Moore Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, September 8, 2005; A22 Source VROUWENPOLDER, Netherlands -- Each year, thousands of Dutch schoolchildren stand atop the behemoth steel gates that rise above North Sea waters here, listening to the story of the floods that gobbled upby archive - Archive
IBM made a similar move in January by opening up 500 software patents News Story by Todd R. Weiss Source SEPTEMBER 07, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - In move to support open-source software development, Computer Associates International Inc. today announced that technologies covered by 14 of its U.S. patents are being made available to individuals and groups working on open-source projects. The move bby archive - Archive
By Mark Baard Sep. 06, 2005 PT Source Space entrepreneurs eyeing Mars as a hub of some future solar system economy launched a startup on Tuesday to mine the red planet for building materials. The new company, 4Frontiers, plans to mine Mars for building materials and energy sources, and export the planet's mineral wealth to forthcoming space stations on the moon and elsewhere. The companyby archive - Archive
Buttonwood The perfect storm Sep 6th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source It’s not just natural disasters that need preparing for BUTTONWOOD has not been so shocked by anything out of the United States since those photos from the late 1960s that showed tanks dominating the traffic circles of rioting Washington, DC. The images of New Orleans this past week looked like Baghdad on a badby archive - Archive
The myth of China Inc Sep 1st 2005 | HONG KONG From The Economist print edition Source The scare stories—and the chaotic reality AS HU JINTAO, China's president, flies to America this month, commercial ties between the two countries are at a new low. Alongside tensions about China's currency, its growing trade surplus with America and intellectual-property theft, is a new concern: tby archive - Archive
posted 6-SEP-2005 08:46 Source A few months ago Philips Polymer Vision, a company backed by Philips promised a rollable, paper-like display in two years - and took then only a few months to have a prototype ready. Philips Polymer Vision is showing its Concept Readius during an international exhibition in Berlin, Germany. The Philips Concept Readius is a prototype of a connected consumer deviceby archive - Archive
By Edwin Cartlidge 2 September 2005 Source Laser physicists in Europe have put forward plans to build a £500m facility to study a new approach to laser fusion. A panel of scientists from seven European Union countries believes that a "fast ignition" laser facility could make a significant contribution to fusion research, as well as supporting experiments in other areas of physics. Theby archive - Archive
Associated Press 04:40 PM Sep. 04, 2005 PT Source The dead and the desperate of New Orleans now join the farmers of Aceh and the fishermen of Trincomalee, villagers in Iran and the slum dwellers of Haiti in a world being dealt ever more punishing blows by natural disasters. It's a world where Americans can learn from even the poorest nations, experts say, and where they should learn not tby archive - Archive
By Linda Seebach September 3, 2005 Source pictureWhen oil prices last touched record highs - actually, after adjusting for inflation we're not there yet, but given the effects of Hurricane Katrina, we probably will be soon - politicians' response was more hype than hope. Oil shale in Colorado! Tar sands in Alberta! OPEC be damned! Remember the Carter-era Synfuels Corp. debacle? It wasby archive - Archive
Even as millions of dollars worth of Office business hangs in the balance, Microsoft says it will not support the OpenDocument format likely to be adopted by the state of Massachusetts this month as its standard XML format. By Paula Rooney, CRN Sept. 2, 2005 Source Microsoft is lashing out against a revised IT policy planned by Massachusetts that would kill the use of Office in state agenciesby archive - Archive
By Will Knight 02 September 2005 NewScientist.com news service Source Cellphones capable of transmitting data at blistering speeds have been demonstrated by NTT DoCoMo in Japan. In experiments, prototype phones were used to view 32 high definition video streams, while travelling in an automobile at 20 kilometres per hour. Officials from NTT DoCoMo say the phones could receive data at 100 megabiby archive - Archive
Source ARGONNE, Ill. (August 30, 2005) – Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have combined the world's hardest known material – diamond – with the world's strongest structural form – carbon nanotubes. This new process for “growing” diamond and carbon nanotubes together opens the way for its use in a number of energy-related applications. Theby archive - Archive
Sunday, September 04, 2005 REVIEWED BY CECIL JOHNSON Source Adam Smith has to be whirling in his grave because of what dirty money dealing is doing to capitalism, says the author of "Capitalism's Achilles Heel" in his illuminating and disturbing book. "Adam Smith today would be appalled to see that the pursuit of fraudulent transactions and illegal profits has become utterlyby archive - Archive
Tips from Martha Stout, author of The Sociopath Next Door. July 2005 | Page 51 Source [1] Suspect flattery. Sincere compliments from a coworker or a boss are nice, but outrageous flattery is often an attempt to draw you into a psychopath's snare. If you feel your ego is being massaged, you may be dealing with a psychopath. Be careful. [2] Take labels and titles with a grain of salt. Justby archive - Archive
By Lawrence Lessig September/October 2005 Source Within every culture, there is a public domain—a lawyer-free zone, unregulated by the rules of copyright. Throughout history, this part of culture has been vital to the spread and development of creative work. It is the part that gets cultivated without the permission of anyone else. This public domain has always lived alongside a private domainby archive - Archive
Buttonwood Measure for measure Aug 30th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source Investors are mad for risk-appetite indices. What do they actually tell us? IT CAN now be revealed that Buttonwood has not always been a fan of cricket. Brought up in the robust and marginally faster-moving world of baseball, she has long found the appeal of five-day contests involving leg-spinnby archive - Archive
A simple way to think about the New Orleans port complex is that it is where the bulk commodities of agriculture go out to the world and the bulk commodities of industrialism come in. The commodity chain of the global food industry starts here, as does that of American industrialism. If these facilities are gone, more than the price of goods shifts: The very physical structure of the global econoby archive - Archive
**Published on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 by the New York Times** Source W. vacationed so hard in Texas he got bushed. He needed a vacation from his vacation. The most rested president in American history headed West yesterday to get away from his Western getaway - and the mushrooming Crawford Woodstock - and spend a couple of days at the Tamarack Resort in the rural Idaho mountains. "I&by archive - Archive
By PAUL KRUGMAN August 29, 2005 Source Most of what Alan Greenspan said at last week's conference in his honor made very good sense. But his words of wisdom come too late. He's like a man who suggests leaving the barn door ajar, and then - after the horse is gone - delivers a lecture on the importance of keeping your animals properly locked up. Regular readers know that I have never fby archive - Archive
By PAUL KRUGMAN August 26, 2005 Source For the last few months there has been a running debate about the U.S. economy, more or less like this: American families: "We're not doing very well." Washington officials: "You're wrong - you're doing great. Here, look at these statistics!" The administration and some political commentators seem genuinely puzzled by pby archive - Archive
This is a global problem. There is no leadership, no wisdom, no sensing, no common sense, no critical thinking but just a lost elite and wondering people. The Cathedralmodel is broken. J. *** September 1, 2005 New York Times Editorial Source George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of consolaby archive - Archive
"It is so incredible that wherever prime raw material is discovered, systematically the locals die in misery, their sons become soldiers and their daughters are turned into servants and whores". This isn't Darwin's nightmare, it's our own 20 June 2005 Author: Howard Schumann from Vancouver, B.C. Source Slavery, colonization, genocide and civil war have marked the hisby archive - Archive
By Kurt Kleiner 30 August 2005 NewScientist.com news service Source Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis. Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true. John Ioannidis, an epidemiologiby archive - Archive
By Bruce Schneier Special to ZDNet UK September 01, 2005, 13:15 BST Source The Trusted Computing Group is an industry consortium that's trying to build more secure computers. It has a lot of members, although the board of directors consists of Microsoft, Sony, AMD, Intel, IBM, Sun, HP and two smaller companies that are voted in on a rotating basis. The basic idea is that you buby archive - Archive
Two research reports sponsored by IBM argue that Linux is less expensive to buy and operate than Windows or Unix. By Larry Greenemeier, InformationWeek Aug. 31, 2005 Source Just as the debate over whether Linux or Windows is cheaper to deploy and manage was threatening to become old hat, IBM on Wednesday fired the latest salvo by promoting two reports it sponsored that indicate Linux is signifby archive - Archive
Source Cornell University and Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a method for enabling a computer program to scan text in any of a number of languages, including English and Chinese, and autonomously and without previous information infer the underlying rules of grammar. The rules can then be used to generate new and meaningful sentences. The method also works for such data as sheetby archive - Archive
The Rude Awakening Wall Street, New York Wednesday, August 31, 2005 AN OIL PANIC IN PLAIN SIGHT By Sean Brodrick Source Hurricane Katrina delivered a devastating blow to America even before it slammed into Louisiana. The Massive storm smashed through "Energy Alley," a concentrated area of oil rigs off the coast that supply about 35% of America's domestic oil production and 20% oby archive - Archive
The Daily Reckoning Ouzilly, France Wednesday, August 31, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Addison Wiggin wrote this essay in while he was in New Orleans for the annual gold conference in November 2002. We thought with everything that has been going on in the past week with Hurricane Katrina that we should run it again... WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS by Addison Wiggin Source At the height of &quby archive - Archive