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December 20 to 31, 2005
The EFF releases Tor, an anonymous Internet communications
system
. Note it's still in progress...
Antimicrobial products may harm developing nervous
system
s...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
There was a lot of news this week, but the big news was the release of Apple's new
system
upgrade, called "Tiger". I've tested the heck out of it and it seems stable and faster...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Here's the lightest, smallest portable sound
system
any world traveler could want...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A more balanced, scenario-laden view of the U.N.-backed Millenium Eco
system
Assessment, mentioned last week...
Hey developers! Use Ecoglo, non-radioactive, non-toxic, non-battery-using technology for your emergency lighting
system
s...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Obviously, patent
system
s around the world are not doing well at all at moving into the digital era or I would not have had to do this...
Use your cell phone to pay for parking. These
system
s greatly reduce cost, maintenance, and long lines...
March 7 to 13, 2005
The totally customizable Ergodex DX1 Input
system
. Finally, we can design our input devices to fit how we think, instead of the other way around...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Adobe open sources software that can be used to build
system
s with complex dependency graphs...
More on T-Mobile's security - an undocumented backdoor in their
system
s allowed a hacker to gain access to extremely confidential customer information, including people's data from their Sidekicks...
February 21 to 27, 2005
A great article about NASA's programmers and the culture and
system
s that encourage software development as if engineering mattered. Their code is 99.9% bug-free. Their lessons can be applied t...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The Intellifit
system
is a 360-degree body scanner that creates accurate measurements in 10 seconds. Ever seen the 1981 sci-fi movie "Looker"...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
New modular, great looking, eco-friendly rug
system
s...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Scientists have succeeded in turning stem cells into nerve cells. This may allow cures for those with nervous
system
injuries and diseases...
January 17 to 23, 2005
A new solar hot water heater is 30 to 40% more efficient than flat plate solar
system
s...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Remember last year when an onboard Windows
system
crashed, trapping the Finance Minister of Thailand in his BMW...
The new vortex dehydration
system
turns trash into a fine dry powder and can reduce landfill volume by 90%. Those in Hawaii pondering the landfill problem should take note...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Hawaii Transportation
system
s Get Digita...
Technology that helps fight "griefers", or people in online multiplayer games that do nothing but kill and loot, frustrating everyone else. Implications for social
system
s...
December 6 to 12, 2004
The Supreme Court will hear the case on whether P2P service providers are liable for content on their
system
s! This popular item is worth repeating and may change how you experience, purchase, an...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Proper evoting
system
usability means much more than just looking at the voting process alone. Here's the informal usability report I prepared on the eSlate
system
in September 2004...
Dead things are a core part of the eco
system
. But many forests are in trouble due to excessive dead wood removal...
October 11 to 17, 2004
The American health care
system
continues to flounder, with employer insurance increasing 11% in 2004...
September 5 to 12, 2004
"The city of Chicago is about to unveil a city-wide surveillance
system
."...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Disney creates a revolution in fireworks by creating a compressed air launching
system
. Air-launched fireworks are more precise, less polluting, safer, and can be launched higher. How about using thi...
August 15 to 22, 2004
The first invisible barcode
system
, using spray-on DNA-encapsulated inorganic nanomaterial (whew)...
"If the US Wants to Restore Confidence in Its Voting
system
It Must Learn Lessons from the Recent Elections in Venezuela"...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Fearful of viruses, hospitals running Windows-based medical
system
s are applying security patches, which themselves may lead to life-threatening situations...
August 2 to 8, 2004
A new building
system
is making polystyrene homes for the rebuilding effort in Afghanistan...
Although over 80% of the public feels that e-voting is safe (or have no opinion), over 80% of security experts feel that current e-voting
system
s are much less secure than traditional paper-base...
As seen in recent floods in Hawaii, storm drainage
system
s can clog up due to improper use. Could the use of permeable pavement
system
s help alleviate flooding in areas such as Manpunapuna? It'...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
In the meantime, check it out. I've got searching, archives, topic filters, and an RSS feed for syndication. You can search for things like "nytimes 2003 tech", which searches for all technology item...
SecuritySpy - This Mac-based software allows one to install a cheap multi-cam security
system
for many thousands less than traditional
system
s...
June 7 to 13, 2004
"Bringing [wolves] back to Yellowstone has triggered a cascade of unanticipated changes in the park's eco
system
...
May 3 to 9, 2004
...and experts warn of worse to come. Now why banks, airlines, and stock exchanges would open themselves up to being so vulnerable by using unpatched, networked Windows
system
s is completely beyon...
A public library's success story in converting its public access
system
s to Linux...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
The Bose L1 is a revolutionary new PA
system
that points the way to new amplification technology - it eliminates poles, monitors, and bulky equipment, and is causing a stir in the music industry...
April 19 to 25, 2004
4) Endorse the use of lead-free computer
system
s, at least by government: The world's first lead-free motherboard (the main component in personal computers) has been developed...
With five million installed
system
s, the open-source database MySQL is the most popular database in the world. Its corporate site receives more traffic than IBM's, and large companies are migrating t...
Due to a budget crisis in California, the U.C. college
system
is turning away eligible students for the first time in over 40 years...
April 12 to 18, 2004
It's the 10th anniversary of unsolicited commercial email, aka spam. Yay, not. On my servers I got about 1,500 spams daily until I installed a custom filtering
system
. Now it's down to about 20, bu...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
March 22 to 28, 2004
A new
system
for powered saws detects skin contact in 5 milliseconds and stops the blade...
March 1 to 7, 2004
To save money, school
system
s and other organizations are building their own DIY fiber networks and selling off the excess bandwidth instead of paying up the nose to regional operators (such a...
Philips developed a "fluid lens" - a variable-focus lens
system
with no mechanical moving parts that mimics the human eye's focusing mechanism...
Heard of SCO, that company that's suing Linux users? According to an acknowledged memo, Microsoft may be funding them to the tune of $86 million... but it is clear that Microsoft wishes to fund SC...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Apple's Mac OS X has been declared one of the world's safest operating
system
s by London-based security experts, mi2g...
Going through the Frankfurt airport? You may have to look through their new retinal scanning
system
...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A town-wide high-speed net-over-power-line
system
is being pioneered in Canada.....
"A New Kind of Science", a 900-page book on how complex
system
s can rise from the most basic rules, now can be browsed online for free...
December 15 to 21, 2003
Spammers can do what terrorists can't - military hardware turned into spamming machine: Thanks to the US Navy choosing Microsoft as their official operating
system
for vessels, a hacked Microsof...
December 8 to 14, 2003
2) There's no auditing and evoting
system
s are highly insecur...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Unlike the U.S., Australians "do e-voting right" by opening up the software running their voting
system
s to public scrutiny...
October 6, 2003
* It's a $600k project, with $1 million in hardware donated by Sun Micro
system
s...
September 30, 2003
"A prototype digital video
system
producing images of such high quality that the human eye struggles to distinguish them from reality has been developed by Japanese engineers...
September 15, 2003
Computer visionary Stafford Beer coined the term "shareware". He also invented Cybersyn, an Internet-like socialist computer
system
created for the revolutionary Chilean government in the earl...
September 2, 2003
"...it has awakened governments to the need to reduce their dependence on Windows operating
system
s....
August 25, 2003
Here's exactly why Windows
system
s are insecure (and why Apple's and other
system
s are secure) by default: "Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design...
* Air Canada (the reservations, check-in, and call center
system
s shut down, causing canceled flights...