Virtual World Terrorists in World Of Warcraft - Homeland security are linking to a report that quotes articles from Australian High Tech Crimes about terrorists using WoW for training.
LSD has long been a staple of overweight, furry men with ponytails who list their occupation as 'Earth Shaman' on tax forms. The CIA is more typically known for their starched suits than their mind...
Speaking at a London girls' school, Michelle Obama makes a passionate, personal case for each student to take education seriously. It is this new, brilliant generation, she says, that will close the gap between the world as it is and the world as it should be.
Lord Stern, author of the Stern Review and former chief economist with the World Bank, proposed a radical departure from British government policy on climate change. He suggested that the rich nations should bury their differences with China by taking ownership of some of the greenhouse gas emissions that China produces. He was speaking via live weblink to 72 venues screening Franny Armstrongs film The Age of Stupid.
At present, Britain and the other rich nations accept responsibility only for the greenhouse gas emissions produced on their own territory. China says that this is unfair because many of the goods we consume are manufactured there, leaving China with emissions that should by rights belong to us.
If the UK was responsible for the emissions it has offshored to other countries, instead of falling 16% since 1990, our greenhouse gases would have risen by 19%. The British government fiercely rejects Chinas arguments that those offshored emissions should belong to us.
Tonight Stern proposed a compromise solution. In response to a question by the journalist George Monbiot, he told the audience, "My own view is that we probably need something like an average of the two, or a combination of the two."
He continued, "the logical point that China makes that there is a definite responsibility with the consumer and not just with the producer is a sound one."
On April 5, 2009, before a crowd gathered at Hradcany Square in Prague, President Barack Obama declared "America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons." With these words, Obama implicitly endorsed Global Zero--a movement founded…
We live in the Global Location Age. Where am I? is being replaced by, Where am I in relation to everything else?
http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/
Penn State Public Broadcasting is developing the Geospatial Revolution Project, an integrated public media and outreach initiative about the world of digital mapping and how it is changing the way we think, behave, and interact.
The project will feature a web-based serial release of eight video episodes—each telling an intriguing geospatial story. Overarching themes woven throughout the episodes will tie them together, and the episodes will culminate in a 60-minute documentary. The project also will include an outreach initiative in collaboration with our educational partners, a chaptered program DVD, and downloadable outreach materials.
"The multiverse is no longer a model, it is a consequence of our models.” ~Aurelien Barrau, particle physicist at CERN The Hollywood blockbuster, The Golden Compass, adapted from the first volume of Pullman's classic sci-fi trilogy, "His Dark Materials" portrays...
Windows only: If you're a fan of portable thumb drive applications like previously mentioned PortableApps.com Suite, free application CodySafe brings similar portable computing to your thumb drive.
This is where I usual have to pause during these discussion referring to the deterioration of society and simply say, "it is what it is" or "that ship has sailed" There's no turning back so we might was well start figuring it out. We're still in the very early stages of this information revolution. - post by shareski
Live video is a heavily competitive and booming market, with Ustreamustream reviews, Justin.tv, Stickam, and Mogulus being some of the major players in the
This year, cheap headsets which control technology by reading your mind will finally hit the shelves. It will dramatically change the way we use technology
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The Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental groups expressed great disappointment that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar did not act to restore polar bear protections." />
Some of us in the web community really wish Internet Explorer would die. It makes web designers' lives a pain, and it makes users' computers less secure. So
Whether it’s greater security, more reliability, extensions, or something else, it’s clear that more and more people are choosing Firefox, Safari (), and Chrome
IE is a zombie - a walking corpse. - post by scouter
It's too early to judge accomplishment of the young Obama administration, but look at the daily dialogue and the high priority given to IT issues to find cause for both opportunity and challenge. Everyone is talking about cloud computing, visualization, mashups, social networking and virtualization of everything from servers to training programs and running government operations in the virtual world of Second Life.
BlogHer, which bills itself as "the community for women who blog," has gotten $7 million more in a Series C funding, which will bring the total investment in the site to about $15.5 million. The new round includes a return by two existing investors, Venrock and Peacock Equity, a fund run by GE and its NBC Universal unit. Azure Capital is joining as a new investor. In an interview with BoomTown, BlogHer CEO Lisa Stone said the site's recent fast growth was the impetus for the new round, in order to improve tools offered to its 2,500 vetted bloggers as well as investing in better research and advertising technology.
A day of PR for us here. An interview with Orange Island is finally online here and a "5 Questions" episode with yours truly coming up shortly from Stuart Warf and SLPN.
Inventor Ray Kurzweil wants to travel from our era to the future over a border he calls the "singularity." Artificial intelligence will render biological humans obsolete, he says, but will not make human consciousness irrelevant. Kurzweil argues the singularity won't destroy us -- it will immortalize us.
In the next few days President Obama will decide whether he will live up to his campaign promises about dealing seriously with the challenge of cyber security.
Avner Ronen and his friends turned an interest in the XBMC media center into the headline-making, TV-transforming media center Boxee. We rung him up to talk about streaming media, software development, gadgets, and Boxee's future.
What do President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office say about how he will lead the country for the rest of his term? Which promises has he delivered on? Which has he neglected? As news organizations, pundits and political...
When I was in law school, I was cynical about human rights. But that was before I spent time in places where people did not have rights guaranteed by the state, and needed international human rights for their survival. That was…
From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", comes the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently.
