2002 August

Laos, one of the poorest counties in the world, will soon be able to have wireless access to the Web. A car battery charged using a “foot pedal” would supply the power.

By the year 2020, an unmanned army could be occupying some of the fiercest combat zones on the planet. The technology is well underway and could be available much sooner than we think. I personally would like to employ my own robot army to take up the battle against my noisy neighborhood. […]

Slowly rising from the Northwest region of Manitoba, Canada, near a small gold-mining town called Lynn Lake, a massive NASA balloon began a journey on August 25th that took it to the fringes of space. Silently drifting in the rarefied upper edges of our atmosphere, the scientific balloon reached a peak altitude of 161,000 feet […]

Once in the foreground as the tech advancement of the century, Virtual Reality has disappeared into obscurity. Some say the headset made people sick, some say it was to expensive… was it simply a fad?

A group of Turbolinux’s ex-employees has threatened to pursue claims against the company due to over a month of back salary. Turbolinux eventually paid, but apparently the ex-workers are seeking recompense for the delay.

Due to yet another flaw in the Windows products released since 1998, hackers are now able to delete digital certificates. Microsoft said: “Through this vulnerability, an attacker could potentially delete digital certificates on a user’s system, thereby preventing the user from having access to certain functions.” I say, “Great.”

Although I find these trials neat, they fail to take numerous details into account such as keeping a plot of this magnitude a secret for any length of time. The outcome seems to be pure fantasy.

Earlier this week, Motorola, STMicroelectronics and Philips jointly unveiled a design for chips based on 90-nanometer circuitry, compared with the current 130-nanometer standard. Thinner circuitry makes each separate chip cheaper to produce, faster, and more energy-efficient.

Taking into consideration all of the topics I’ve covered thus far, I have come to realize Capital Hill is moving into my home. Can they dictate what I can and can not access from the comforts of my taxable accommodations? Is America the only place were common sense and morality must be legislated? […]

This does not surprise me in the least. The amount of junk I receive daily outweighs business and personal e-mails, 10 to 1. Is there any way to combat it? I think not.

The unique therapy allows a patient to move their paralyzed leg in a natural way without being aware that they are doing it, says Wenwei Yu, who developed the technique at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. But it could be another five years or more before the technology becomes available, he says.
In Yu’s system, muscle […]

If you have ever depended on Shared Drives then you know the headaches that come with managing content and praying that it doesn’t crash. New Space Drives are helping to make indexing and managing content a breeze.

A Slashdot reader reports: “According to MSNBC, web-based e-mail providers such as Yahoo and Hotmail may not be a haven for your private e-mail anymore. At least not while you’re at work. SpectorSoft is introducing eBlaster, which aims to “secretly forward all e-mail coming and going through such Web-based accounts to a spy’s e-mail”. Corporations […]

Consumer electronics maker JVC and games developer Hudson Soft have developed a new copy-protection technology that they claim will prevent CD-ROM discs from being copied, the companies said on Wednesday. The technology, called “Root”, marks the latest effort by the computer industry to control software piracy through technical means.

Researchers say they have found a relatively easy way to extract the clean fuel source hydrogen, from a glucose solution.

The top bidder in the Napster debacle is now being questioned as to why they would want to let the current owners off the hook on their Chapter 11 filings. The German company, Bertelsmann AG, would corner the market using name recognition of the most popular MP3 site in Web history.

After a few days of catching up on Lockergnome housekeeping and a little rest and relaxation, here I am. Gnomedex was an absolutely fantastic time and I am thankful I had the chance to learn more about an industry that I have grown to appreciate and love. For the most part, I […]

Although it might seem as if an online degree is the route to go for people who haven’t time to attend a conventional school, the reality is that most employers frown upon an education received via your modem.

According to recent surveys, AOL Time Warner’s Netscape browser is continually losing ground to IE 6. AOL plans to integrate Netscape into its online services but it could be too late.
IE has now reached 96 percent market penetration, according to StatMarket, up from 87 percent a year ago. Mozilla gained some market share when […]

Microsoft, the world’s biggest software group, on Monday suffered a blow to its most important business, when Hewlett-Packard selected a rival software package for its consumer PCs. The cheaper price and lack of tariffs has made the Canadian made Corel products more cost-effective for the world’s largest personal computer company
Slashdot readers are eating this […]