"The institute has a remit to produce fabrics that can morph to improve camouflage, stiffen to provide splints for broken limbs and store energy that can be tapped later to increase the wearer's strength."

MIT nanotech suits

"But NDS had one important rival, an encryption technology developed in France by the local broadcaster Canal Plus which had been adopted by just about all News Corporation's rival broadcasters.

The NDS team in Haifi, according to a lawsuit filed in the US district court for the Nothern District of California, set out to "sabotage Canal Plus technological security measures engineered into its smart cards."

Breaking the encryption alone would cost up to $5m. The process demanded the use of ultra-expensive electron-scanning microscopes, with the team probing wafer-thin chips no bigger than a thumbnail. Each chip contained up to 50 layers, with each layer in turn carrying up to 1,000 transistors, every one of which had to be pulled apart and analysed."

Sounds like they spent too much money. :)

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | How codebreakers cracked the secrets of the smart card

"RINGGOLD, Ga., March 14 — A major freeway in northwest Georgia was closed Thursday following a chain-reaction accident in heavy fog that left at least 120 vehicles scattered around the roadway like discarded toys. The chaos at the crash scene on Interstate 75 near the Tennessee border led authorities to adjust the casualty toll several times in the initial hours, but by midday they were reporting that four people were dead and 39 others injured in the horrific crash."

Well, I guess I'm not going to Atlanta tommorow. :)

At least 4 die in huge Georgia pileup

"Internet use is increasing for people regardless of income, education, age, races, ethnicity, or gender."

There will be no "digital divide," just as there is no "television divide." Just FYI...

A Nation Online

Microsoft does something cool:

"The company is building new file organization software that will begin to form the underpinnings of the next major version of its Windows operating system. The complex data software is meant to address a conundrum as old as the computer industry itself: how to quickly find and work with a piece of information, no matter what its format, from any location.
For those using Windows, this will mean easier, faster and more reliable searches for information. Replacing its antiquated file system with modern database technology should also mean a more reliable Windows that's less likely to break and easier to fix when it does, said analysts and software developers familiar with the company's plans. "

MS to replace FAT with SQL

In fact, the seemingly cumbersome decision-making process is exactly the type of situation the performance is intended to provoke. "

DNA Plus Bacteria Equals Art

Many people at NASA beleive that further space exploration is basically unreasonable without using nuclear rockets. Of course, on the other side of this table is a public that has been taught to fear nuclear technology. With the Cassini probe, honestly, I couldn't tell who was right. Both groups were sure they were right, but neither group could convincingly counter the opposition, IMHO. However, I heard a lot more volume from the anti-nuke crowd then from Nasa, so I thought I'd "meme" this.

To the Moon on Nukes

This post is a little rambly... Basically you can get a standard DNA paternity test and then line it up with databases that are developing on the net... if everyone got a paternity test done you could track your genetic degrees of separation from anyone else. If you're one of those people who has no idea where the hell your ancestors lived you might get a good general idea through this database. (I had the good fortune of having a cousin who became obsessed with geneology in retirement and figured out exactly where my ancestors lived and all kinds of other neat information about them... ) I'm glad we're fairly well along the way toward seperating the concept of blood heredity and legal power prior to the invention of this sort of technology, but I agree with the poster that this sort of thing is going to cause some static in some of the older cultures.

kuro5hin.org || technology and culture, from the trenches

"[Berkshire Vice Chairman] Charlie [Munger] and I are disgusted by the situation, so common in the last few years, in which shareholders have suffered billions in losses while the CEOs, promoters and other higher-ups who fathered these disasters have walked away with extraordinary wealth."

Buffett rates his 2001 performance as 'poor'

"A bug exists in the channel code of OpenSSH versions 2.0 -3.0.2. Users with an existing user account can abuse this bug to gain root privileges. Exploitability without an existing user account has not been proven but is not considered impossible. A malicious ssh server could also use this bug to exploit a connecting vulnerable client."

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