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pirates of the linkoriffic: at world's end
It's so hard to say your sorry: Innovation Hall of Fame Adds World Wide Web Inventor
· Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web, apologized for the double slashes in every Web address.
Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web, apologized last night for the double slashes used in every Web address, getting a big laugh when he said the slashes "just felt like a good thing at the time."
Sounds like a Fox show: When Computers Attack
Anyone who follows technology or military affairs has heard the predictions for more than a decade. Cyberwar is coming. Although the long-announced, long-awaited computer-based conflict has yet to occur, the forecast grows more ominous with every telling: an onslaught is brought by a warring nation, backed by its brains and computing resources; banks and other businesses in the enemy states are destroyed; governments grind to a halt; telephones disconnect; the microchip-controlled Tickle Me Elmos will be transformed into unstoppable killing machines.
No, that last item is not part of the scenario, mostly because those microprocessor-controlled toys aren’t connected to the Internet through the industrial remote-control technologies known as Scada systems, for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. The technology allows remote monitoring and control of operations like manufacturing production lines and civil works projects like dams. So security experts envision terrorists at a keyboard remotely shutting down factory floors or opening a dam’s floodgates to devastate cities downstream.
But how bad would a cyberwar really be — especially when compared with the blood-and-guts genuine article? And is there really a chance it would happen at all?
Whatever the answer, governments are readying themselves for the Big One.
From the Department Of Unintentional Funniness: Republicans try to woo youth with blog guide
Worried that their heavy-bombing, hard-wired, stiff-suited image could lose them younger generation votes in next year's elections, US Republicans are trying to reboot their act: they want to blog their way to victory.
The so-called "blogger outreach" programme was launched last week by the National Republican Senatorial Campaign committee. A 39-page internet guide contains handy tips for candidates hoping to plug into the blogosphere in 2008.
Always assume you are being recorded, and record your opponent, the guide states. Forget old-fashioned leaks to newspapers; campaign press secretaries should feed their news to bloggers, to create electronic "buzz". "Every campaign should film their candidate and record his/her every move," it says.
I've always felt virtual communities mimicked real life ones: Social websites expose class divide
Social networking websites are increasingly splitting along class lines, according to one prominent academic.
In recent years networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook have seen remarkable growth and become some of the most popular destinations on the internet. But Danah Boyd, a researcher at the University of California and internet sociologist, said populations of different networks were now divided on a rough class basis.
Typical Facebook users, she said, "tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are primarily white, but not exclusively." MySpace, on the other hand, "is still home for Latino and Hispanic teens, immigrant teens" as well as "other kids who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm".
It's so hard to say your sorry: Innovation Hall of Fame Adds World Wide Web Inventor · Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web, apologized for the double slashes in every Web address.
Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web, apologized last night for the double slashes used in every Web address, getting a big laugh when he said the slashes "just felt like a good thing at the time."
Fatboy Slim: Slash Dot Dash - 5.35MB
Sounds like a Fox show: When Computers AttackAnyone who follows technology or military affairs has heard the predictions for more than a decade. Cyberwar is coming. Although the long-announced, long-awaited computer-based conflict has yet to occur, the forecast grows more ominous with every telling: an onslaught is brought by a warring nation, backed by its brains and computing resources; banks and other businesses in the enemy states are destroyed; governments grind to a halt; telephones disconnect; the microchip-controlled Tickle Me Elmos will be transformed into unstoppable killing machines.
No, that last item is not part of the scenario, mostly because those microprocessor-controlled toys aren’t connected to the Internet through the industrial remote-control technologies known as Scada systems, for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. The technology allows remote monitoring and control of operations like manufacturing production lines and civil works projects like dams. So security experts envision terrorists at a keyboard remotely shutting down factory floors or opening a dam’s floodgates to devastate cities downstream.
But how bad would a cyberwar really be — especially when compared with the blood-and-guts genuine article? And is there really a chance it would happen at all?
Whatever the answer, governments are readying themselves for the Big One.
Sly And Robbie: Computer Malfunction - 9.06MB
From the Department Of Unintentional Funniness: Republicans try to woo youth with blog guideWorried that their heavy-bombing, hard-wired, stiff-suited image could lose them younger generation votes in next year's elections, US Republicans are trying to reboot their act: they want to blog their way to victory.
The so-called "blogger outreach" programme was launched last week by the National Republican Senatorial Campaign committee. A 39-page internet guide contains handy tips for candidates hoping to plug into the blogosphere in 2008.
Always assume you are being recorded, and record your opponent, the guide states. Forget old-fashioned leaks to newspapers; campaign press secretaries should feed their news to bloggers, to create electronic "buzz". "Every campaign should film their candidate and record his/her every move," it says.
The Cramps: Saddle Up A Buzz Buzz - 4.98MB
I've always felt virtual communities mimicked real life ones: Social websites expose class divideSocial networking websites are increasingly splitting along class lines, according to one prominent academic.
In recent years networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook have seen remarkable growth and become some of the most popular destinations on the internet. But Danah Boyd, a researcher at the University of California and internet sociologist, said populations of different networks were now divided on a rough class basis.
Typical Facebook users, she said, "tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are primarily white, but not exclusively." MySpace, on the other hand, "is still home for Latino and Hispanic teens, immigrant teens" as well as "other kids who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm".
DOA: Class War - 2.28MB
