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Human error still the most prolific problem in IT provision, not purely security, which this report focuses upon.
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Human error still the most prolific problem in IT provision, not purely security, which this report focuses upon.
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In a minor triumph for common sense Skype has been slapped down by the UK's ad regulator for running a TV ad which showed video and sound quality in excess of what viewers believed the VoiP service could manage in the real world.
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Care about civil liberties in the UK? Then you should support this. In a world where Google can take photographs of seemingly ever street in Britain, the individual deserves the right to photograph the world and events around them.
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Well put together article on Google's rise into the ranks of the World's Monopolies and the senior bureaucrats and staff of the US Government and DOJ who have had run ins with them.
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The five attributes of cloud computing according to Gartner are (1) Service-Based, (2) Scalable and Elastic, (3) Shared, (4) Metered by Use, and (5) Uses Internet Technologies.
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Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim gives an ultra short, sweet and to the point interview with the online Chicago Tribune.
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From health to hip hop, the Times (Bryan Appleyard) guide to the blogosphere unearths the gems of the net and where to find them. But what's this no BoingBoing? No Mashable? Surely not...
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...ah, here they are, in the 'Technology' section.
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Karl Schulz, Associate Director, High Performance Computing, Texas Advanced Computing Center, speaks at Sun's HPC Consortium in Dresden, Germany, June 2008.
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There's mounting evidence that Facebooking, Twittering, and other "social networking" activities can kill you (or at least impact your health adversely). A study (PDF) published in Biologist, the journal of the British Institute of Biology, details how face-to-face contacts with friends and family are being replaced by face-to-screen isolation, and how the lack of real-world social interaction can increase your susceptibility to a variety of ailments.
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Ebay surrenders to French extremist; it seems that Ebay is so terrified of being branded anti-Semitic it has forgotten that there will always be someone who thinks something daft, and that that is no reason to do what they tell you.
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Le Corbusier is thought of by many in the world of architecture as the leading mind of the 20th Century, whose work preceded and defined the wholesale use of concrete in architecture, but as a new exhibition celebrates his work, architect and writer Guy Booth argues that his legacy was monstrous.
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The FBI "do a deal" with a convicted paedophile for his help in bringing down his botnet contacts; but have the FBI gone too far by dealing with the 'enemy'? My opinion; of course they have.
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"Is it heartbreaking for Iggy Pop to sell insurance?", perhaps, but just as heartbreaking to see John Lydon sell butter. Bill Hicks said "If you do an advert then you are off the artistic register forever", perhaps Iggy and John 'jumped the shark' some time ago and we should remember them through their work rather than their advertising endorsements. Or should we even go so far as to consider the quality of the adverts they produce and the revenues they help to generate. Personally I'm with Bill.
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"What we have shown is that the English navy and its gun founders were almost 50 years ahead of their time technologically" concludes Marine archaeologist Mensun Bound of Oxford University; making Elizabeth I the mother of British naval dominance which lasted for over three centuries.
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Women are prouder than men, but men are more lustful, according to a Vatican report which states that the two sexes sin differently.
The Seven Deadly Sins - delineated by gender according to Vatican research:
Men: 1. Lust, 2. Gluttony, 3. Sloth, 4. Anger, 5. Pride, 6. Envy, 7. Greed.
Women: 1. Pride, 2. Envy, 3. Anger, 4. Lust, 5. Gluttony, 6. Avarice, 7. Sloth.
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Some of the key facts and figures behind the turmoil in the global financial markets; in easy to consume graphical formats.
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Harrowing news that number of home repossessed in the UK by lenders rose by 54% to 40,000, thankfully this is less than predicted by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), however they still expect that repossessions this year will reach about 75,000.
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Another collaboration with Google Maps, showing updated data about approximately 2,500 endangered languages around the world. Out of circa 6,000 existing languages, more than 200 have become extinct during the last three generations, 538 critically endangered, 502 severely endangered, 632 definitely endangered and 607 unsafe. The Atlas shows that 199 languages have fewer than ten speakers and 178 others have 10 to 50. Recently extinct include Manx (Isle of Man, 1974), Aasax (Tanzania, 1976), Ubykh (Turkey, 1992) and Eyak (Alaska, USA, 2008). UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura stressed, “The death of a language leads to the disappearance of many forms of intangible cultural heritage, especially the invaluable heritage of traditions and oral expressions of the community that spoke it – from poems and legends to proverbs and jokes. The loss of languages is also detrimental to humanity’s grasp of biodiversity, as they transmit much knowledge about the nature and the universe.”
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A top Florida fish boffin says that the global recession is causing a massive decrease in the number of shark attacks; "I've yet to find a surfer who says he or she won't go back into the water after a bite or a nip," says George Burgess, "They understand where humans fall in the grand order of things," adds the ichthyologist, evidently something of a species traitor.
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Great, just what the world needs right now, another right-wing Israeli Government; Not.
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The future of distribution is in giving people what they want; immediate access to high quality content. Stewart Meagher of the Inquirer reports "Gaming portal steam is making wads of cash by giving gamers exactly what they want, when they want it, and copying content delivery models from the pirates and beating them at their own game, according to head steamer Gabe Newell.".
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US Scientists from Purdue University have created an interactive Google Earth map showing carbon dioxide emissions across the United States, the high-resolution map shows carbon dioxide emissions in metric tons and took three years to complete. Currently showing data from 2002 only, the next stage will be to narrow down the readings with more information being fed into the system. The United States accounts for some 25 per cent of global emissions of carbon dioxide, despite consistently denying that it significantly contributes to global warming.
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With Facebook still yet to find a genuine revenue generating business model, there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable not knowing what Facebook might do to achieve profitability and what implication this will have legally. This isn't helped when the Social Networking giant surreptitiously changes it's terms and conditions to have even more control over the content it's users submit without informing them in a way they can easily consume.
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Popular beat combo, U2's new album, No Line On The Horizon, has been leaked on the web after someone stuck it on their online music store two weeks early, so I'm sure you'll be able to get a link to it at the Pirate Bay or some such. Sadly I won't be downloading it because I agree with the chap out of Mongrel who reckons that they are bloated pop dinosaurs who should generally get out of the way, rather than continually billing themselves as 'the Worlds Greatest Band' (tm).
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One of the UK's favourite comedians and Black Countrymen, Lenny Henry, dazzles critics and audiences with his portrayal of Othello in Shakespeare's play of the same name.
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Competition is healthy for both Europe and the US, says Professor Lyn Evans, project leader of the European Large Hadron Collider (LHC), though missing out on the Higgs would be "sour consolation". "The trouble is, the LHC has been sold on being built for the Higgs" said Professor Evans, adding "but don't forget, there is also a whole spectrum of physics to be investigated at the LHC which the Tevatron can never do.".
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Peter Reiser, web2.0 guru @ Sun, explains about a variety of functionality enabled as part of the SunSpace project, Sun's internal knowledge sharing and collaboration platform, answers "How do we visualize Community Equity?". Peter shares lots of screen shots and examples of the widgets used too.
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They walk among us, or at least they might, according to Professor Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State University.
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A helpful, handy, real-time, mash-up of Google maps and 'The Pirate Bay' (TPB) web logs, showing number of users on the site by country. Biggest offenders, er, users, are China (circa 25%), the USA (10% to 15%), Spain (circa 7%), followed by Canada, Taiwan and the UK (all at just under 5%). This might worry some users especially if more localised information is released than just Country, but it is interesting to see who is on the TPB site the most.
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