This is soo crazy

via Stereo Describes My Scenario: "Too Sad To Joke About Boy, 11, charged in sexual assault of woman, 76MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- An 11-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting a 76-year-old neighborhood woman in her home as three of his friends stood watch.

Police said that for a week before the attack, the boys had been "terrorizing" the woman in her house, repeatedly breaking in and taking cash and other items.

The woman, who lived alone, told police she was taking a sponge bath in the kitchen Friday when the 11-year-old walked in, demanded money and then ordered her to take off her clothes and go into the bedroom, according to court papers.

The boy's brother, a 13-year-old who was among the three other boys also charged, said he heard the woman say: "I'm just an old, half-crippled lady, I'm not going."

The woman said the 11-year-old put on a condom and tried to rape her, followed by a second boy."

The Cyber Psalm!

The Lord is my programmer, I shall not crash. He installed his software on the hard disk of my heart, all of His commands are user- friendly. His directory guides me to the right choices for his name's sake Even though I scroll through the problems of life, I will fear no virus, for he is my back up. His password protects me. He prepares a menu before me in the presence of my enemies. His help is only a keystroke away. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and my file will be merged with His and saved forever Amen

Computers that care....

Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends: "

'Nurturing' Computers Are Coming
Current computers don't have a clue about what their users feel or think. This is about to change, with ATHEMOS (Automatic THErmal Monitoring System), a device developed by Ioannis Pavlidis, a computer science professor at the University of Houston (UH). This news release from UH says that ATHEMOS is a physiological device which performs touchless measurements of your vital signs, such as blood flow, pulse or breathing rate. During the three days of Wired Magazine�s Nextfest, where ATHEMOS was featured, over 500 people had their vital signs measured at a distance of about 10 feet. So maybe one day, our computers will warn us to get some rest or to go jogging. Read more...
Imagine a day when your computer will be able to let you know if you need a break, alert you to take medication or even go to the doctor.
In some computer science labs at the University of Houston, such human-computer interaction is becoming a reality. Ioannis Pavlidis, associate professor of computer science at UH, and his Infrared Imaging Group at UH�s computer science department in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics are leading the way with ATHEMOS (Automatic THErmal Monitoring System), a system pioneered by Pavlidis and his group that allows a computer to perform touchless physiological monitoring of its human user, including measurements of blood flow, pulse and breathing rate.
ATHEMOS was featured at Wired magazine�s international Nextfest Exposition as one of the novel technologies that is expected to make a major impact in the future."

Who says Teachers don't deserve higher pay?

Now ain't that ironic?

Now that's irony for you..I wonder what my cousin Desta would say about
this!
Indian voices in Bush pitch - Geography error blows lid off campaign
outsourcing

The Texas outfit may have actually got away with its outsourcing exercise if
it had not been for the poor training given to Indian telemarketers who
handled the job. Sources here said the India-based operation was exposed
when one American who received a fund-raising phone call on behalf of the
Republican Victory Committee wanted to know where the call was coming from.

"The Washington DC of Virginia," the caller answered. Washington, the US
capital, is actually in DC, short for District of Columbia, and Virginia is
its neighbour state.

Skynet fantasies anyone?

This post via Smartmobs is really interesting,more fodder for some of the more apocalyptical folk.I tend to agree in part, though i don't think machines will ever take over..... a certain person will  take over a sizeable section  too though, but by then I'll be long gone....

 

"... NASA has been uploading software into the Earth Observing-1 satellite, turning it into a testbed for autonomous agents. The agents -- software programs that are able to learn and can function independently -- are used to manage experiments and operate the spacecraft..."they have "...the potential to become an extraordinarily powerful technology, with the capacity to learn, experiment and act independent of human control. Agents could ultimately improve productivity, increase software reliability and change the operation of markets, particularly supply chains..."

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,95672,00.html

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Land Mine Detecting Flowers

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Land Mine Detecting Flowers: "Land Mine Detecting Flowers
A Newly Electric Green Sustainable Energy, Resources and Design
Reuters reports that the Danish company Aresa Biodetection has developed genetically-modified flowers which change color when their roots come in contact with Nitrogen Dioxide in the soil. Explosives used in mines produce NO2 as the chemicals gradually decay.
Aresa's invention, based on research at the Institute of Molecular Biology at Copenhagen University, uses a plant's normal reaction to turn red or brown when subjected to stressful conditions such as cold or drought, but has genetically coded it to react only to nitrogen-dioxide."

Windows XP SP2 tips and tricks

news: "
Tweak Windows XP SP2 Security to Your Advantage

Fine-tune the settings in Microsoft's recently released Windows XP Service Pack 2.


Scott Dunn
From the October 2004 issue of PC World magazine
Posted Friday, August 27, 2004


Windows XP is a safe and secure operating system. Really, it is--as long as you don't connect it to the Internet. To be fair, other operating systems, including Linux and Mac OS X, are vulnerable to online attacks, too. But Windows gets more attention, and hackers were quick to discover serious flaws in the OS that made possible the Blaster and Sasser worms, along with a legion of other exploits.

Trying to make Windows more secure, Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 1 in 2003, and Service Pack 2 recently. Whereas SP1 focused on remedying antitrust violations with bundled Windows utilities, almost all of SP2 is devoted to beefing up Internet security. SP2 doesn't thoroughly shield you from attacks, but it's definitely worth installing for its firewall improvements, Internet Explorer pop-up blocking, and security-configuration changes. Once you've installed it, you'll probably want to tweak some of SP2's new settings, and to know where--tweaked or not--the reinforced OS remains vulnerable."

What is a blog

What is a blog?.......

The other day , I was at home browsing thru my list of bogs that I'd d/loaded while at work.While reading the eloquently written blog by Avery Tooley I began to reflect on the nature of blogging as I understood it.Is a blog just a smattering of links to kewl sites on the web, or is it a medium by which one expresses thoughts ,beliefs inclinations etc basically opening up his brain for others to appreciate or just sneer at?I think I'll go with number two.Been reading all over the place about how blogs are the future of publishing (many-to-may et al) .I mean look at this!I think its time i actually started doing that ( i.e blogging) and not just linking to sites which catch my fancy.