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Amazing superpowers

Popular computing

I am interested in High-performance computing exploration and research, comparison of algorithms and platforms and tools. Example applications are optimization algorithms are Monte Carlo Simulations of Lattice QCD.

Two-Factor Authentication

For the User

Two easy steps for PhoneFactor™ authentication:Step 1:

Enter your usual username and password.

Step 2:

Instantly, you receive a phone call. Answer and press #.

That’s It!

This simple process provides two separate factors of authentication through two separate channels (your computer and your phone service):

Something you know – your password.
Something you have – your telephone.

Why is Two-Factor Authentication Important?

Linux Tracking

I am “smolten” with Linux!
Jack Wallen: “Linux isn’t sold generally. The majority of Linux users download a copy or get a copy burned from a friend or pick up their copy from the local LUG. You can’t really count those copies among Linux installations because there’s no way to track them. Until now… .”

Small Finland can do

Nokia Corp.’s second-quarter net income more than doubled to 2.83 billion euros, beating analysts’ expectations, as the world’s largest mobile-phone maker took a 38% share of the global phone market. Handset shipments jumped 29% to 100.8 million. Shares rose sharply in European trading.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, please see: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118354409527857284.html?mod=djemalert

BIG bro going RFID

US Government developing RFID implant for soldiers
Sci Fi Tech – New York,NY,USA
The next time some crazy homeless guy comes up to you saying that the government planted a microchip in his brain, he just might be telling the truth. …
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Hospital Manages Thousands of Patient Files with RFID
RFID Update – Alexandria,VA,USA
Each file is tagged with a Gen2 RFID tag from Intermec, allowing it to be tracked from the moment it is created for a new patient all the way until the file …
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RFID now forging ahead in manufacturing and logistics

Meet the cheapest laptop in the world

• Matthew Elliott
• 27 comments

From credit card debt and school loans to rising gas prices and adjustable mortgages, there are plenty of reasons why consumers in the developed world can’t afford a laptop. Not to mention the fact that underfunded schools and underprivileged kids also exist in the developed parts of the world. Enter the Medison Celebrity laptop. It’s a $150 laptop from Swedish company Medison that’s available through the Columbus, Ohio-based online reseller 2Checkout.com.

(Credit: Medison Europe Limited)

With Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC hovering around $175, and Intel’s Classmate PC expected to cost more than $200, the Medison Celebrity laptop can lay claim to being the cheapest laptop in the world. And it boasts an impressive feature set for the money. For starters, it features a large, wide-screen 14-inch WXGA display and weighs a reasonable 4.8 pounds. Powering the Medison Celebrity is a 1.5GHz Intel Celeron M 370 processor and 256MB of memory. You may scoff at such a meager memory allotment considering all the reviews out there that complain whenever a PC serves up less than 1GB these days, but the Medison Celebrity doesn’t have to power Vista or any other flavor of Windows. Instead, it uses Fedora Linux, which requires less muscle to run than a Windows OS and no Microsoft licensing fee. Rounding out the specs are a 40GB hard drive, an integrated Via PN800 graphics chip, and 802.11g Wi-Fi. You also get stereo speakers, three USB 2.0 ports, and a PC Card slot. Medison backs the laptop with a one-year warranty but offers little detail about the terms.

IBM tells employees to behave in Second Life

Big Blue guidelines say don’t discriminate, harass or use inappropriate avatars

By Jon Brodkin, Network World, 07/27/07

 

IEEE News

1. Amended Standards Policy Prevents Patent Stranglehold
In a restatement of its policy, the IEEE Standards Association now
requires that members of IEEE standards development projects reveal
any knowledge they have of patents they or their employer hold on
intellectual property being considered for inclusion in the standards.
To learn more, visit http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/6719/04235081

2. New Search Engine Zeros In on Documents From Scholarly Societies
Need to dig up the latest documents in your field but hate to deal with the
clutter of the Internet? A new search engine eliminates that clutter by not
searching the Internet aimlessly. Scitopia.org can scour more than
3 million documents stored in the digital libraries of the IEEE and 14 other
leading science and technology societies. Read on at
http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/6720/04235081

3. Hacking With Heart
Winner of IEEE Spectrum/Make magazine’s Do-It-Yourself contest, Alan
Nishioka, solved adult engineering problems when he was a child and
improves children’s toys as an adult. Read about the IEEE member’s
winning project, a computerized Etch-A-Sketch that can easily draw
curved lines, at http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/6721/04235081

bullet spin

just so you know, a 30-06 with a 150 grain pointed projectile fired (level) at a muzzle velocity of 2910 ft/sec will drop a total vertical distance of 470 inches at 1000 yds after a flight time of 1.824 seconds.