A great article on how the spooks are finding it difficult to keep up with technology.

These Are Not Your Father's Wiretaps

] The Pentagon calls this new doctrine RMA, for "revolution
] in military affairs," and it's made possible not just by
] fresh thinking in the Pentagon but also by a subtle shift
] in the ranks of U.S. defense contractors. In building its
] new high-tech arsenal, the United States has also created
] a new military-industrial complex.

The New Military Industrial Complex

Gotta read this later.

Ars Technica: Understanding Moore's Law - Page 1 - (2/2003)

History and backgrounder on the development of Windows NT.

Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold, Part One: The Early Years

An extremely rare Apple I -- one of only about 30 still in circulation -- will be auctioned on the Vintage Computer Festival website.

For Sale: A Piece of APPLE History

has anyone noticed that lookups for all of no-ip's domains, including its parent, are not answering?

[skivvy@warsawa skivvy]# dig no-ip.com

; DiG 9.2.1 no-ip.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 16493
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;no-ip.com. IN A

;; Query time: 28 msec
;; SERVER: x.x.x.x#53(x.x.x.x)
;; WHEN: Mon Feb 10 17:58:01 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 27

GE Plastics is so bullish on its potential, though, that the company is already devising ways to make Sollx mimic the odd imperfections of paint, so that a Sollx-coated fender will look indistinguishable from the painted metal body panel next to it. As Margaret Blohm, a research scientist at GE who headed Sollx's development, explains, "We could look better than paint. But right now, we have to look like paint."

Dumb.

While this might have an impact on the automotive market years from now, I don't see this happening any time soon for the following reason:

o The article already points out the cost is 3x. When you already have sunk cost in paint fab, you're not going to pay 3x for ANYTHING.
o As Saturn found out, plastic body panels are nifty for marketing, but actually more expensive in terms of production, assembly, and repair than metal. It's hard to compete with stamping metal, since we've been doing it that way since the 20s.
o Yes it reduces weight and provides for a more resilient finish, but hello? Safety? You ever see a Saturn get broadsided? Not pretty. Even if you reinforce structural integrity in the monocoque, you're still going to have higher repair expenses and definitely more damage per accident.
o It's from GE. GE is not exactly at the top of the list in terms of friends of the automotive business.
o They need to figure out a way to combine this process with carbon fiber, so that we can have strong *AND* pretty materials. Especially for my motorcycles.

A Glint in Detroit's Eyes

Innomedia has launched the MTA 3368 IP Videophone. It's 4-inch TFT color LCD can deliver video up to 768 kpbs and with a Linux based OS it supports video streaming, gaming, IM, HTTP, SNMP, TFTP, FTP and Telnet

Linux Based IP Videophone

All you need is a GPS, a car, and a printout, and it's off to treasure-hunting you go!

Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site

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