The best of British blogging
The Guardian's second British blog awards found the country's webloggers in fine form, with last year's high standards maintained. Simon Waldman, chair of the judges, hands out the accolades.
Sony's humanoid robot learns how to jog - Sony Corp.'s child-shaped walking robot already knows a few hip dance steps and can kick a miniature soccer ball. Now, it can jog - a new trick developers say is ingenious because it requires the machine to jump off the ground, even fora fraction of a second.The new skills of the humanoid, developed by the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant's robot unit that makes the dog-like Aibo, was demonstrated to reporters at a Tokyo hall Thursday.
PRIVACY RIGHTS:Online maps, real-life worries. FEAR OF STALKERS HAVE SOME TRYING TO ERASE THEIR DATA FROM THE WEB. Serial killer Maury Travis used an online mappingservice to show a newspaper reporter where he dumped a body. A former Las Vegas exotic dancer convicted of stalking and harassing an ex-lover posted a map on the Web with directions to the married man's home.
A political scientist at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico has devised a
mathematical method that could help civil-war negotiators to find the most stable peace treaties. Elisabeth Wood calculates that a settlement will be stronger and more likely to last if it finds the ideal way to apportion the stakes. For example, if two warring factions each want control of some part of a disputed region, negotiators need to divide the territory in a way that comes closest to satisfying them.
Johan Galtung has followed this principle for decades, without the help of any mathematical methods. You can meet Galtung eg. here :
Transcend Peace University (TPU) and here :
Books by JG
In a further boost to its image as a healthy elixir,
red wine has been identified as a potential source of new anti-cancer agents. A group of French chemists has found that red wine contains a chemical compound called acutissimin A. The molecule has previously shown promise as an anti-cancer drug.
As an exercise, try this. Create a text file with notepad orsimilar and type the line of garbage text below exactly as it appears. Save and then run your virus scanner over it. Does it work? If not, get a new virus scanner. This is the EICAR test virus. It is quite harmless yet is a good test to see if your AV software is up to scratch. You may need to rename your .txt file to a .com, .exe or .bat extension for your scanner to grab it.
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
I copied this from someone's blog but unfortunately I lost the source. All the credit to EICAR creator!!!
Product of the year Basex Inc., a New York research and consulting firm, on Monday (22.12) will announce that spam is its product of the year."Nothing has been more disruptive than spam," says Jonathan Spira, CEO and chief analyst of Basex. He says the impact on IT from both a cost and productivity standpoint makes spam the most disruptive force in corporate America. "It seems that spam could hold the distinction of product of the year for a while. We looked at a bunch of technology but everything paled in terms of mass recognition."
Swiss are European champions in innovation A Lausanne-based start-up, which specialises in medical technology, has won the Wall Street Journal's top award for technological innovation in Europe. A Zurich-based researcher also won a prize, and the University of Fribourg was commended.
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