Police were called to the hotel room after a man thought to be a memorabilia dealer reported being robbed by five people, one of whom he said was OJ Simpson.
Police captain James Dillon said: “We have a report from the victim that there were weapons involved. We have not determined that at this time and have not recovered any weapons.”
“The items taken were various sports-related products,” he said.
Detectives were arranging to interview Mr Simpson again, Capt Dillon said, adding that police were studying video surveillance tapes from the casino.
“There was no hesitation on his part to co-operate, and to immediately meet with police and that is ongoing at this time,” he said.
Welcome to a special edition of Nobel Intent. Beyond keeping you familiar with the comings and goings of modern science, we have consistently expressed concern regarding science education and the public understanding of science. Key to that understanding are the basic features of science, such as how scientific concepts are formulated and tested and why they typically produce a better understanding of the natural world than alternative approaches.
But science can be a tricky thing to define, and it’s sometimes easier to contrast it with some of the arguments that pose as science. Unfortunately, most of those issues are entangled with implications that keep the basic question—is this science?—obscured by emotional responses. Thus, the science of climatology has become entwined with political, economic, and policy issues. The science of evolution conflicts with the political and religious goals of some individuals. Even basic scientific questions about the nervous system get embroiled in family and personal health issues when topics like autism and radio frequency radiation are broached.
That’s why a special edition of the journal Homeopathy appears to be a gift, allowing us to look at science and psuedoscience without getting entangled with politics and religion. Homeopathy claims to be a form of medical practice that’s based on the principle that “like cures like.” Given a set of symptoms, a homeopath will identify an herb or chemical that causes similar symptoms. Following a predefined ritual, the homeopath performs a series of dilutions of that chemical that continue well beyond the point where there should be no molecules of it left—the final solution is essentially well-shaken water.
Totally cool - these folks usually review computing gear.
Creation Science Evangelism has submitted many copyright violations on youtube in the past few days. The owner of the ministries is Kent Hovind who over the last 20 years has been seen as a public liar. He has held many lectures where he spends hours making people more ignorant as to how evolution works. He now sits in a jail cell for having refused to pay $840,000 in taxes. His defense the whole time was that his money belonged to God and nobody else.
He has stated that none of his material is copyrighted, and so far all of the instances of videos that have been pulled would have fallen within the boundaries of fair use.
Short version: Creation Science Evangelism uses false copyright notices to trick YouTube into deleting certain accounts.
“Windows Update is a service that primarily delivers updates to Windows,” said Nate Clinton, program manager in the WU group on the team’s blog Thursday. “To ensure ongoing service reliability and operation, we must also update and enhance the Windows Update service itself, including its client-side software.”
Microsoft was moved to respond after the popular “Windows Secrets” newsletter looked into complaints that WU had modified numerous files in both XP and Vista, even though users had set the operating system to not install updates without their permission. In many cases, users who dug into Windows’ event logs found that the updates had been done in the middle of the night.
The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage – a long-sought short cut between Europe and Asia that has been historically impassable.
The thing that sets the iPod touch apart from other iPod models is its touch-screen interface. When you touch the screen, the iPod’s circuitry detects the presence of your finger. It keeps track of how many fingers you have on the screen and where you move them.
The iPod touch does this using a layer of capacitive material under a protective covering. You can read How Capacitors Work to learn more about them, but the basic idea involves taking advantage of the electrical properties of the human body. When you touch a capacitive surface, the amount of charge it holds changes. This is why devices like the iPod touch require you to touch them with your bare skin — insulating materials like gloves, pens and styluses don’t cause the same changes in the capacitive circuitry.
The Google Lunar X PRIZE seeks to create a global private race to the Moon that excites and involves people around the world and, accelerates space exploration for the benefit of all humanity. The use of space has dramatically enhanced the quality of life and may ultimately lead to solutions to some of the most pressing environmental problems that we face on earth — energy independence and climate change. For more information, please visit www.googlelunarxprize.org
WATCH THIS VIDEO. It is destined to become an artifact of speculative futurism. This video is overflowing with optimism stolen directly from the 1950s flying car. Add a generous helping of cheesy geek-actors, crowds of shining happy people, and a laptop on every kid’s desk, and the experience of watching leaves you simultaneously inspired and helplessly cynical.
At the same time, this video presents a compelling vision of the future, broken down into dead-simple goals that are so easy to understand, they are bound to be ingested by pop media. For example, the first team to locate ice on the moon gets a bonus. It’s goofy-fun. It’s great science fiction. If you drink the kool-aid and become a dreamer, it’s also stunningly beautiful.
The Google Lunar X PRIZE seeks to create a global private race to the Moon that excites and involves people around the world and, accelerates space exploration for the benefit of all humanity. The use of space has dramatically enhanced the quality of life and may ultimately lead to solutions to some of the most pressing environmental problems that we face on earth – energy independence and climate change.
Shor’s algorithm is a quantum algorithm for factoring an integer N in O((log N)3) time and O(log N) space, named after Peter Shor.
A common public-key cryptography method known as RSA is based on the assumption that it is computationally infeasible to factor a large integer. For this reason a quantum computer with sufficiently many quantum bits could “break” RSA. RSA uses a public key, N, which is the product of two large prime numbers. One way to crack RSA encryption is by factoring N, but with classical algorithms, factoring becomes increasingly time-consuming as N grows large; more specifically, no classical algorithm is known that can factor in time which is polynomial in log N.
Like many quantum computer algorithms, Shor’s algorithm is probabilistic. Furthermore, it gives the correct answer with constant bounded probability. A proposed answer can be easily verified by dividing the RSA key by the alleged factor and looking for a remainder. By running the algorithm multiple times a correct answer can be obtained with exponentially small error.
Shor’s algorithm was discovered in 1994 by Peter Shor, but the classical part was known before; it is credited to G. L. Miller. Seven years later, in 2001, it was demonstrated by a group at IBM, which factored 15 into 3 and 5, using a quantum computer with 7 qubits. [1]
Well, at least there aren’t too many groups who can implement this in the next decade…
Totally sweet. I use Ubuntu, which is derived from and roughly parallels Debian. However, you really can’t lower the barrier to entry any more, at this point. There isn’t a one-click, browser-delivered installer for Windows XP or Mac OS X. Try Linux.
This stunning close-up view shows mountainous terrain that reaches about 10 kilometers (6 miles) high along the unique equatorial ridge of Iapetus. The view was acquired during Cassini’s only close flyby of the two-toned Saturn moon.
Above the middle of the image can be seen a place where an impact has exposed the bright ice beneath the dark overlying material.
The image was taken on Sept. 10, 2007 with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 3,870 kilometers (2,400 miles) from Iapetus. Image scale is 23 meters (75 feet) per pixel.
Channel One television said the new weapon, nicknamed the “dad of all bombs” is four times more powerful than the U.S. “mother of all bombs.”
“The tests have shown that the new air-delivered ordnance is comparable to a nuclear weapon in its efficiency and capability,” said Col.-Gen. Alexander Rukshin, a deputy chief of the Russian military’s General Staff, said in televised remarks.
Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn’t hurt the environment, he added.
The statement reflected the Kremlin’s efforts to restore Russia’s global clout and rebuild the nation’s military might while the ties with Washington have been strained over U.S. criticism of Russia’s backsliding on democracy, Moscow’s vociferous protests of U.S. missile defense plans, and rifts over global crises.
The U.S. Massive Ordnance Air Blast, nicknamed the Mother Of All Bombs, is a large-yield satellite-guided, air-delivered bomb described as the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in history.
maintain… must not forget cold war… must maintain supremacy in bomb title over the reds…
“Much of the unprecedented economic growth of the past 10 years can actually be credited to the doctrine of fair use, as the Internet itself depends on the ability to use content in a limited and nonlicensed manner,” CCIA president and CEO Ed Black said in a statement. “To stay on the edge of innovation and productivity, we must keep fair use as one of the cornerstones for creativity, innovation, and, as today’s study indicates, an engine for growth for our country.”
By one measure — “value added,” which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs” — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy.
Recent studies indicate that the value added to the U.S. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3 trillion, said Black. The value added to the U.S. economy by the fair use amounts to $2.2 trillion.
The fair use economy’s “value added” is thus almost 70% larger than that of the copyright industries.
The $4.5 trillion in annual revenue attributable to fair use represents a 31% increase since 2002, according to the report, which claims that fair use industries are responsible for 18% of U.S. economic growth and almost 11 million American jobs.
Kindof like how I just pasted a chunk of this article on RTFA.
Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, these first annual Bossies celebrate the best open source software available for the enterprise. From CRM and ERP to OSes and middleware to networking, storage, and security software, our 36 winners prove that if your business is willing and your IT staff is ready, there’s an open source solution that’s able.
Azureus Inc. is the provider of the most popular P2P application for the transfer of large media files. With more than three years of technology innovation, proven robustness, and more than 140 million downloads of its application, Azureus users connect with one another from more than 100 countries and 40 languages.
Today, Azureus operates a leading global video aggregation and distribution platform driven by the exchange of long-form, High Definition or DVD quality videos, as well as niche, licensed digital content from leading media companies. The company has recently announced content partnerships with Showtime Networks, BBC Worldwide, Bennett Media Worldwide, G4, A&E Networks (including A&E, History, and Biography channels), National Geographic, and Starz Media.
The new commercial-grade platform is supported by powerful peer-sharing technology, enabling its vast global community the ability to browse, share, search and discover unique multimedia entertainment in a high-resolution format.
When you set up an ajaxWindows
computer you’ll have the ability to sync essential data from your
existing computer to create your virtual PC in its likeness.
Core information like documents, bookmarks, contacts, wallpaper, and
even your music can be copied to your ajaxWindow’s computer. This is a
handy way to backup your files even if you’re not interested in a
virtual computer.
You will also be able to completely customize ajaxWindows.
For instance you can select the default search engine, homepage, and
webmail you prefer. My goal is to have a desktop experience that lets
you combine the best of all net resources into one seamless experience.
Free advertising for these folks. I tested it, and I must say it’s a compelling alternative to XP/Vista. Seriously. However, it’s obviously not suitable for any level of power-use.
Last week a CSIRO telescope near Coonabarabran NSW was used simultaneously with one near Shanghai, China, and five in Europe to observe a distant galaxy called 3C273. “This is the first time we’ve been able to instantaneously connect telescopes half a world apart,” Dr Tasso Tzioumis, VLBI operations and development manager at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility said. “It’s a fantastic technical achievement, and a tribute to the ability of the network providers to work together.” Data from the telescopes was streamed around the world at a rate of 256 Mb per second - about ten times faster than the fastest broadband speeds available to Australian households - to a research centre in Europe, where it was processed with a special-purpose digital processor. The results were then transmitted to Xi’an, China, where they were watched live by experts in advanced networking at the 24th APAN (Asia-Pacific Advanced Network) Meeting.
In short: previous, very long “exposure” snapshots can be taken in real-time.
The Storm worm botnet has grown so massive and far-reaching that it easily overpowers the world’s top supercomputers.
That’s the latest word from security researchers who are tracking the burgeoning network of Microsoft Windows machines that have been compromised by the virulent Storm worm, which has pounded the Internet non-stop for the past three months. Despite the wide ranging estimates as to the size of the botnet, researchers tend to agree that it’s one of the largest zombie grids they’ve ever seen — one capable of doing great damage. “In terms of power, the botnet utterly blows the supercomputers away,” said Matt Sergeant, chief anti-spam technologist with MessageLabs, in an interview. “If you add up all 500 of the top supercomputers, it blows them all away with just 2 million of its machines. It’s very frightening that criminals have access to that much computing power, but there’s not much we can do about it.”
Los Angeles (CA) The inventor of the KillaCycle electric motorcycle almost killed himself during a demonstration at the Wired NextFest conference. Bill Dube, a government scientist during the day and electric bike builder at night, did a burn out in front of the Los Angeles Convention Center, but accidentally accelerated too much and crashed into a Minivan.
Freaky video. It’s totally shocking how quickly this motorcycle accelerates. I’m glad the guy was conscious and talking at the end of it, but shit. The worst part is that I can see this happening to myself - killed by my own invention… classic.
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