Interesting Reading…
Moonlighting engineers design alternative NASA rocket - “Recently, media reports have described a sort of “shadow army” of engineers who – in their spare time – are designing an alternative to NASA’s future Ares rockets. But who are they? And what exactly is the DIRECT project they are proposing?”
NASA Scientists Suggest Planting a Lunar Garden - “Mustard on the moon? NASA scientists are suggesting that before sending humans back to the moon, we should launch plants there and watch them grow…”
Colony Collapse Disorder Debunked: Pesticides Cause Bee Deaths - “The great mystery of bee deaths has been solved. Colony Collapse Disorder is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer, has been clearly linked to die offs in Germany and France…”
Microsoft Deals With Organizational Stupidity - “One of the problems with any complex company is, well, the complexity, which can grow out of hand. In fact the first time I wrote externally about Microsoft as a new Dataquest analyst was to conclude that growing (and it was 1994) complexity would likely be the source of the company’s future problems…”
Microsoft looks to ‘Mojave’ to revive Vista’s image - “Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks, Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a “new” operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that “Mojave” was actually Windows Vista…”
Google Launched Knol to Challenge Wikipedia - “Recently the number one search engine, Google, has unveiled to the public Knol, the company’s website that allows experts to write, express ideas on their fields of expertise. The main difference between Knol and Wikipedia is the authorship. On Knol the public will have the actual names of the authors, whereas Wikipedia allows anyone to edit anonymously, just tracking the IP…”
The Death of HAL –the Evolving Digital Ecosystem - “According to the AI expert from the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, the difference between the Hollywood style intelligence and what we are seeing evolve around us comes in many forms. For example, it is seen in the computers that can beat chess champions, robotic vacuums like the Roomba, and in the immense power being exhibited by the internet…”
Boiling Hot Water Found in Frigid Arctic Sea - “Many miles inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found elusive vents of scalding liquid rising out of the seafloor at temperatures that are more than twice the boiling point of water…”
What if you could own your Internet connection? - “It may sound strange, and it’s certainly not what we’re used to. Today we have a “carrier-centered” model; phone and cable companies spend billions to build, operate, and own the “last-mile” connection — the copper, cable, or fiber wires that come into your house. Individual consumers then pay for particular services, like phone service or Internet access…”
Multithreaded supercomputer seeks software for data-intensive computing - “The difference between the new breed and traditional supercomputers is how they access data, a difference that significantly increases computing power. But old software won’t run on the new hardware any more than a PC program will run on a Mac…”
Speculation over back door in Skype - “According to reports, there may be a back door built into Skype, which allows connections to be bugged. The company has declined to expressly deny the allegations. At a meeting with representatives of ISPs and the Austrian regulator on lawful interception of IP based services held on 25th June, high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior ministry revealed that it is not a problem for them to listen in on Skype conversations…”
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