Archive for June, 2007
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No commentsI would be remiss if I did not mention the iPhone
But seeing it will probbaly not do well any of the things its claims I will have to wait for version two - thou I have heard they are already testing version three within ATT labs…
We will see - if it does it all and becomes Truly High speed capable it might be worth the purchase… Here is a quick blurb from engadget and also a link to the new tour from Apple:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/ - Apple’s iPhone Site
New Downloadable Hi-ResGuided Tour:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/guidedtour.html
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The Apple iPhone
Capping literally years of speculation on perhaps the most intensely followed unconfirmed product in Apple’s history — and that’s saying a lot — the iPhone has been announced today. Yeah, we said it: “iPhone,” the name the entire free world had all but unanimously christened it from the time it’d been nothing more than a twinkle in Stevie J’s eye (comments, Cisco?). Sweet, glorious specs of the 11.6 millimeter device (that’s frickin’ thin, by the way) include a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen display with multi-touch support and a proximity sensor to turn off the screen when it’s close to your face, 2 megapixel cam, 4GB or 8 GB of storage, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP, WiFi that automatically engages when in range, and quad-band GSM radio with EDGE. Perhaps most amazingly, though, it somehow runs OS X with support for Widgets, Google Maps, and Safari, and iTunes (of course) with CoverFlow out of the gate. A partnership with Yahoo will allow all iPhone customers to hook up with free push IMAP email. Apple quotes 5 hours of battery life for talk or video, with a full 16 hours in music mode — no word on standby time yet. In a twisted way, this is one rumor mill we’re almost sad to see grind to a halt; after all, when is the next time we’re going to have an opportunity to run this picture? The 4GB iPhone will go out the door in the US as a Cingular exclusive for $499 on a two-year contract, 8GB for $599. Ships Stateside in June, Europe in fourth quarter, Asia in 2008.
No commentsSecurity Now 97: Operation Bot Roast - sponsored by Astaro Corp
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
The FBI says it has uncovered one million computers that are being used by hackers without their owners' knowledge. Today Steve talks about BotNets and the FBI's Operation Bot Roast.
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Running time: 46:23
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And you say the sun is not cool……
Welcome to SOHO:
SOHO, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, is a project of international collaboration between ESA and NASA to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind.
SOHO was launched on December 2, 1995. The SOHO spacecraft was built in Europe by an industry team led by prime contractor Matra Marconi Space (now EADS Astrium) under overall management by ESA. The twelve instruments on board SOHO were provided by European and American scientists. Nine of the international instrument consortia are led by European Principal Investigators (PI’s), three by PI’s from the US. Large engineering teams and more than 200 co-investigators from many institutions supported the PI’s in the development of the instruments and in the preparation of their operations and data analysis. NASA was responsible for the launch and is now responsible for mission operations. Large radio dishes around the world which form NASA’s Deep Space Network are used for data downlink and commanding. Mission control is based at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
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No commentsEpisode 41: The Rise of the Supertelescopes
Episode 41: The Rise of the Supertelescopes
Episode 41: The Rise of the Supertelescopes
Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill!
June 09th 2007
http://www.coptalk.info/2007/06/09/stop-teaching-our-kids-to-kill/
I saw the television news and newspaper headlines the other day, “Crime Rates are up Everywhere”! To many, this might be a shock. To cops all over, it’s just old news. Cops on the streets see the crime trends and crime rates EVERYDAY they work. They don’t sit behind a desk; compiling data and then one day take a look at the charts and realize crime is up. And cops on the streets don’t manipulate stats to make their cities look safer. Cops on the streets are the ones rushing from call to call to call, from victim to victim, writing their reports of all the thefts, robberies, accidents, shootings, homicides, rapes, identity thefts, etc etc etc. And cops on the street everywhere will tell you that juvenile violence is on the increase.
So it’s no news to street cops that crime rates are up. Especially violent crime, which is up everywhere. What do we expect when society lets our kids play violent video games everyday and parents have no idea of the content of the games their children are playing? Some of the video games teach kids nothing more than shooting, beating and killing other human beings. Some games let the player take on a police SWAT team to try and hunt down and kill police officers. Other games let kids beat victims with fists and weapons, stab and shoot people, and even rape women. One game even had hidden sex scenes in it that kids figured how to get into. And parents don’t have a clue, they just buy the video game that little Johnnie wants to keep him occupied while they are at work or away.
I’ve asked parents to watch the games their children are playing and they are shocked. They can not believe how violent and realistic the video games are. They have no idea the games are so violent when they buy them for their kids. WAKE UP PARENTS! Video games aren’t like the old Pac-man and Atari games you used to play! Parents have no idea that their kids are getting more and more desensitized to violence. So it should be no wonder when kids beat, stab and shoot each other when their anger flashes on the street or in schools. We are teaching our kids to kill.
Muscle memory. That’s when you do something so many times that it almost becomes natural instinct. Cops practice drawing their weapon or self defense moves regularly so it becomes natural, or muscle memory. After doing something so many times it becomes instinct instead of having to think of what to do. It becomes automatic. I believe it’s around 2500 times that you have to do something for it to become muscle memory…………………………………………..
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