Technology
- Internet wiretapping
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A story about impending U.S. legislation has hit the news in the last few days: Senator Patrick Leahy, along with ten co-sponsors that include Dianne Feinstein and my own senator, Chuck Schumer), has introduced S. 3804, the Combating Online Infringement a ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Oct 1 2010 - 6:00am
- A couple of things about Stuxnet
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There’s a relatively newly discovered (within the last few months) computer worm called Stuxnet, which exploits several Windows vulnerabilities (some of which were patched some time ago) as it installs itself on people’s computers. It largely replicates t ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Oct 5 2010 - 6:02am
- History Of A War Against Software Complexity
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In 1995 the physicist HvL was employee of an internal software house of a large electronics company. His speciality was the creation of scientific software. Then he got the invitation from a software strategist HdV to join the semiconductor department in o ...
Article - Hans van Leunen - Oct 4 2010 - 3:15pm
- A More Rational Way To Program Storage And Communication Of Objects
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Software uses many kinds of data. Sometimes it concerns worksheet data and sometimes it is data that is retrieved or generated in some way or it are results of actions. Often these data are interrelated. In that case the ensemble forms a complex object. Wh ...
Article - Hans van Leunen - Oct 5 2010 - 2:37pm
- Poo Power
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When I was a lad (a little bit later than when Sarahsaurus was around), there was a common misunderstanding among schoolboys that methane was responsible for the foul smell of flatulence. A story was told of a boy who used to set fire to his farts with a ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 6 2010 - 1:27pm
- Biometrics: Identifying People By Their Ears
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Biometric scientists at the University of Southampton say they can identify ears with a 100% success rate. In a new paper, scientists from the University’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) described how a technique called the image ray tra ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2010 - 6:03pm
- Search engines and their responsibility
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A French court has just decided a case that will likely have a great deal of effect on online search engines if the decision is upheld after appeals. A French man had been accused of “crimes relating to the corruption of a minor,” ultimately resulting in ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Oct 11 2010 - 1:00pm
- You’re Not Sustainable, PET
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Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the third most common synthetic polymer and accounts for about 18% of world polymer production. It is an aromatic/aliphatic polyester which possesses very practical thermal properties that are not found in the all alipha ...
Article - Robert H Olley - Oct 13 2010 - 11:47am
- ScienceURLs gets some new additions
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People sometimes ask me how I have access to so much great stuff. Well, I am somewhat plugged in to other people who find good stuff, like Andrea Kuszewski and Guy Kawasaki on Twitter for things I might otherwise never notice, but for science I have alwa ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 13 2010 - 12:13pm
- New Malware Could Steal More Than Data- It Could Steal Your Behavior
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Malware- malicious software written for purposes like identity theft- could get a lot more dangerous. With so much information stored, and advancements in programming, malware programs could soon not only engage in traditional data theft or taking over a c ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2010 - 10:09am
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