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RE: Your Own Private Internet - Forbes.com
csima wrote: No but you would say 'Heavens to betsy!' and 'Oh! Lordy'
Acidus wrote:
"We saw what was coming out with HTML 5 and these browsers, and the question was how far can we push this?" says Hoffman, who manages HP's Web security research group. "We started digging in and said, 'Oh my goodness, this might actually be possible.'
I would never say "oh my goodness" ;-)
"Matt and I know, it's not just us presenting something and saying, 'Look how cool this is,' " Hoffman says. "The cool stuff is not going to come from us, it's going to come from everybody taking the idea and running with it."
Schneier on Security: Security, Group Size, and the Human Brain
The smallest, three to five, is a "clique": the number of people from whom you would seek help in times of severe emotional distress. The twelve to 20 group is the "sympathy group": people with which you have special ties. After that, 30 to 50 is the typical size of hunter-gatherer overnight camps, generally drawn from the same pool of 150 people. No matter what size company you work for, there are only about 150 people you consider to be "co-workers." (In small companies, Alice and Bob handle accounting. In larger companies, it's the accounting department -- and maybe you know someone there personally.) The 500-person group is the "megaband," and the 1,500-person group is the "tribe." Fifteen hundred is roughly the number of faces we can put names to, and the typical size of a hunter-gatherer society.
Interesting look at group dynamics, and why I feel most of "the company" are soulless whores whose job is to tell me "no." ;-)
I wish more of these prints were available for sale, or at least in a large format image for printing. I love this style of art.
The final image especially reminds me of Todd McFarlane's animation in Pearl Jam's Do The Evolution Video (which contains one of my favorite guitar riffs of all time).
Plant Would Let Algae Turn Carbon Dioxide to Fuel - NYTimes.com
Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels, a start-up company, are set to announce Monday that they will build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol as a vehicle fuel or an ingredient in plastics. null
NASA says it can get to moon while spending less | Front page | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Like a car salesman pushing a luxury vehicle that the customer no longer can afford, NASA has pulled out of its back pocket a deal for a cheaper ride to the moon.
It won’t be as powerful, and its design is a little dated. Think of it as a base-model Ford station wagon instead of a tricked-out Cadillac Escalade.
Officially, the space agency is still on track with a 4-year-old plan to spend $35 billion to build new rockets and return astronauts to the moon in several years. However, a top NASA manager is floating a cut-rate alternative that costs around $6.6 billion.null
They're calling this "not-shuttle-C." The *worst* possible outcome for the manned space program is if they go forward with Ares 1 and then don't get the money to build Ares 5. Then we're stuck in LEO with far less capability than we ever had with STS.
The Space Review: Constellation and its challengers
The existence of the Augustine committee (officially the Review of US Human Space Flight Plans Committee) has been widely interpreted to be a vote of no confidence in NASA’s current human spaceflight plans, in particular Constellation, by the White House. After all, if everything was going well—or at least perceived to be going well by the new administration—there would be little need for an independent review. The existence of the committee has provided a new opening for those who want to replace the current architecture with any number of alternatives.
GOP's Coleman concedes, sending Franken to Senate | Top AP Stories | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Republican Norm Coleman conceded to Democrat Al Franken in Minnesota's contested Senate race on Tuesday, hours after a unanimous state Supreme Court ruled the former "Saturday Night Live" comedian should be certified the winner.null
RE: Ban Is Advised on 2 Top Pills for Pain Relief - NYTimes.com
janelane wrote:
ADELPHI, Md. — A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription painkillers in the world, because of their effects on the liver.
This is a blow to migraine sufferers like myself, but [b]I'm sure other products will soon fill the gap left by these medicines[/b]. I just wish they had actually addressed the core problem (medicines which are a combination of acetaminophen) instead of two of the culprits.
