A Quantum Leap in Cryptography

"Visionaries are using photons to develop data-security systems that may prove the ultimate defense against eavesdropping hackers"

Eu adoro este tipo de começo em not?cia cient?fica:

"In a dark, quiet room inside the Cambridge (Mass.) labs of Verizon (VZ ) subsidiary BBN Corp., network engineer Chip Elliott is using the laws of physics to build what he hopes will be an unbreakable encryption machine."

Korea's DMZ: 'Scariest place on Earth'

"The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that divides the two Koreas is the most heavily fortified border in the world, bristling with watchtowers, razor wire, landmines, tank-traps and heavy weaponry.

On either side of its 151-mile (248 km) length almost two million troops face each other off ready to go to war at a moment's notice.

They have been on a hair trigger for almost 50 years, ever since the last shot was fired in the Korean War and an uneasy truce came into force.

Officially that war has not yet ended -- no formal peace deal has ever been signed and the war could start again at any moment."

Tarantino film split in half

"Quentin Tarantino's forthcoming martial arts movie Kill Bill is to be divided into two films.

The film, starring Uma Thurman as a female assassin, is being released as two separate 90-minute movies after the early version weighed in at three hours..."

TRON man shuns Gates-like fortune

"...Sakamura estimates that it is used in some three to four billion such appliances around the world, far outnumbering Windows, which controls an estimated 150 million computers..."

"It's not good to charge people for using something which is like a social infrastructure. It also inhibits the development of the computer industry. The very basic infrastructure should be free," he said.

Linux training to enhance membership in global it arena

"This week has seen the commencement of Afghan civil servants trained and certificated in LINUX operating systems to utilize and administer in their respective organizations. This is a great enhancement to ministries and all other departmental institutions in Afghanistan as sets the pace at which the nation can re-engage with the global economy."

Now you're talking...

World's poor to get own search engine
"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a search engine designed for people with a slow net connection.

Someone using the software would e-mail a query to a central server in Boston. The program would search the net, choose the most suitable webpages, compress them and e-mail the results a day later."
A day later? A DAY later!!??

Que idéia mais estúpida!

"The thinking behind the TEK search engine is that people in poor countries are short of money but have time on their hands, whereas people in the West are cash-rich but time-poor.

"The idea is that developing countries are willing to pay in time for knowledge," explained Prof Amarasinghe.

"In the West when we surf we want the information in the next two seconds. We are not willing to wait."

Tratar acesso à tecnologia como "uma coisa nossa e uma coisa deles" não está certo nem aqui nem na Índia. Fuck prof. Amarasinghe.

Manslaughter charges over catapult death
"Bulgarian teenager Kostadin Yankov was killed last November when he was thrown from a replica medieval catapult.

He should have landed in a large safety net during the event at Middlemoor Water Park, Woolavington near Bridgwater, Somerset."
Quem manda ser idiota?

The politics of open-source software

"Wendy, spokesman and policy counsel for the Initiative for Software Choice, says he just wants to make sure government agencies don't unduly favor open-source or free programs over proprietary software.

"We want a process that is not based on automatic preferences," Wendy said..."

Fishy end for feline sleuth

Russia's only sniffer cat, which was taken on to track down sturgeon smugglers, has been run over and killed, Russian media report.

Police believe it was a contract killing, Russian Ren television reported.