November
23, 2002
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- Monster
SUV Fit for James Bond
- Smart
Truck is funded by the Army's TACOM
- Bond-like
countermeasures with TouchScreen activation
- Blinding
Lights, Explosion Suppression, High
Voltage Door Handles
- Lightweight
Armor, Bulletproof
Glass, Oil Slicks,
- Pepper
Spray Dispensers, Smoke Screen, Tack Dispenser
- Biocentric/AuthenTec
Fingerprint Identification, Quad-steering, and Mobile Video
- Solid
state Windows CE touch screen computer
- Satellite
and terrestrial wireless communications with GPS and mapping.
- Weapon
is raised from the cap of the vehicle through sliding doors. Enemy
targets are spotted by the four cameras, for both day and night
operation.
- DARPA
Total Information Awareness Program
- Funded
by DARPA Information
Awareness Office, John
Poindexter, Office Director
- DARPA
(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is home to many innovative
ideas (e.g. the Internet)
- Project
seeks to use data mining techniques to analyze and consolidate a wide
range of intelligence and commercial databases. ACLU
"disturbed" with this new program.
- Other
Programs Information Awareness Office
- Silicon
Retina Vision Update
- Device
made by Second Sight in Santa Clarita, California
- Miniature
camera attached to glasses that sent signal to wireless receiver
behind ear. Signal sent to electronic chip attached to retina
- Two
blind patients have seen a sixteen pixel image
- Increasing
that to 1000 pixels will be like low resolution TV
- Will
be at least five years before devices are widely available
- Internet
Provisions in Homeland Security Bill
- ISP
like AOL or MSN could give government subscriber info without warrant
- Police
would gain added wiretap authority
- Raises
possibility of life imprisonment for hacking, if intent was to kill
or harm.
- Government
given authority to trace e-mail and other traffic during a cyber
attack
- ACLU
expected to file suit
- Papermate
Pendulum Pen
- Automatically
adjust to writing angle
- Tip
rotates to stay vertical
- Only
cost $4
- Asteroid
Threat Reassessed
- Scientist
now estimate the asteroid that hit Siberia in 1908 will only hit
earth once every 1000 years.
- Equivalent
to 10 Megaton of TNT
- In
an inhabited area, would kill millions of people
- Based
on geosynchronous satellite images looking to rocket launches
- Between
1994 and 2002, over 300 impacts have been observed
- Pedal
Power Drives Computers in Laos
- Five
villages are linked to the Internet as part of project funded by
Jhai Foundation
- Custom
built PC features
- Use
flash memory instead of hard drive and operate with 20W
- Are
powered with car battery that is charged with bicycle crank
- Are
connected by 802.11 wireless to solar powered relay that is
beamed to town (30 km away)
- Use
customized Linux OS with Loa script
- Residents
will use computers for crop market timing, selling handicrafts,
using spreadsheets, telephoning relatives.
- How
to Keep Track for Digital Pictures
- First
There was the Digital Camera, Now We have Digital Files
- Windows
XP has build in tools for managing photos
- Users
the file and directory metaphor
- ThumbsPlus5
from Cerius
Software ($79)
- Image
database that uses same metaphor
- Picasa
from Lifescape Solutions ($29)
- Second
generation digital photo management system
- Based
on photographs, including dates subject matter
- Home
Security Tutorial
- Published
by cert.org
- Outlines
what each home computer user must do to protect themselves
- This
30-page report is easy to read and to implement
- Peer-to-Peer
Goes Legit
- RadioFreeVirgin
provides 50 commercial-free streams for $5/month
- Since
there is no file transfer, there is no copyright infringement
- A
service of Virgin Atlantic Airlines
- Internet
Population Jumps
- Users
jump to 655 Million worldwide, up 30% from last year
- Value
of goods purchased $2.3B, up 50% from last year
- About
18% of all purchasing is done over the Web
- Microsoft
News
- Oversight
Committee Takes Shape
- DOJ
and Nine States Nominate Harry Saal to committee
- Microsoft
Nominates Franklin Fite to committee
- Saal
and Fite will select third member
- Microsoft
Warns of Critical Security Flaw
- Affects
Windows 2000, Millennium, and 98, but not XP
- Allows
hackers to change hard drive using MS Data Access Components
(MDAC)
- 65th
security bulletin issued by MS this year
- Hot
Laptop Burns Penis
- New
Pentium 4 Processors Generate Lots of Heat
- Laptop
case is frequently designed to serve as a heat sink and radiator....bottom
gets hot!
- One
man did not heed these warnings.
- Suffered
second degree burns…..in a most private area.
- Rich's
Game Picks for Holiday Gifts
- PC
Games
- X-Box
Games
- PlayStation
II Games
- MailBag
- We
have got lots of letters
- Stratford
News
- Next
start is January 6th
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