Please do not eliminate my old site – I pay for it and use it a lot.

- gerry

A few articles relevant to my Security & Risk Analysis class:

2 Patriot Act Provisions Ruled Unlawful

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PATRIOT_ACT_LAWSUIT?SITE=NCKIN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

US video shows hacker hit on power grid

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HACKING_THE_GRID?SITE=NYPLA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Please join us for our first Second Life contest:

http://si.ist.psu.edu/secondlife/Members/bpursel/build-your-own-motorcycle/

Be careful about your online identity:

Google reduces online privacy

Do you have a Facebook?

Articles about managing your online profile:

An uneasy proposal:

I did not make this up!

Can anyone say ‘really bad idea…’?  Pentagon plans cyber-insect army :
 

 
And another entry from the ‘really questionable idea’ Dept — Smelly robot eats
flies to generate its own power
 

Sometimes Wikipedia gets it right…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Errors_in_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_that_have_been_corrected_in_Wikipedia

Parallel Planet Earth Being Created

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/07/parallel-planet.html#more

Unknown Species of the Underworld Discovered

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/07/unknown-species.html#more

Physics of Superheroes 3 – Superman’s Blooper

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5132658277347381860&q=superman&total=36876&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5132658277347381860&q=superman&total=36876&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5132658277347381860&q=superman&total=36876&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3

Extinction! The Planet’s Greatest Murder-Mystery Still Unsolved

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/07/extinction-life.html#more

The Manchurian Bot

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/07/if-you-think-go.html#more

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/harvard-universitys-robotic-fly-takes-flight/

SK Telecom develops phone-controlled cleaning bot

plus other robot stuff from engadget

http://robots.engadget.com/

Humans fend off AI challenge in “milestone” poker match

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/humans-fend-off-ai-challenge-in-milestone-poker-match/

U.S. deploying first robotic aerial drone squadron

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/18/u-s-deploying-first-robotic-aerial-drone-squadron/

Record-setting RunBot gains climbing ability

Water-skimming robot will probably attack you

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/13/water-skimming-robot-will-probably-attack-you/

DARPA plans “Crystal Ball” to predict the future

http://www.engadget.com/tag/DARPA/

Here is a link to Penn State resources for making your podcasts.  I am told that all ITS labs have the free audacity program (why not get it for your own computer?)  

Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

You will also need the free LAME MP3 encoder:

LAME – http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php

have fun!

Oh yes – where to borrow a camera:

media services – http://www.libraries.psu.edu/mtss/

Some virus stuff – what was the first virus?  Depends on how you define the virus.

Some folks refer to the first PC/DOS virus (Brain – 1986)

http://www.exn.ca/nerds/20000504-55.cfm

Others look to the Apple IIe (Elk Cloner – 1982) created by a 15-year-old Pittsburgh youth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus

Some look to those developed for mainframe networks (pervading animal and Christmas tree – late 60′s/early70′s)

http://www.virus-scan-software.com/virus-scan-help/answers/the-history-of-computer-viruses.shtml

Of  course there is also the earliest computer ‘worm’ (Xerox PARC in 1978-Shoch and Hupp )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm

- gerry

12 IT skills that Employers want:

   http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9026623&intsrc=hm_ts_head

Top 10 dead (or dying skills)

   http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9020942

A few interesting articles about the possibility of faster-than-light travel.  Please understand that current science prohibits it.  But science is constantly evolving, so (IMHO) it does not make sense to talk about something being forever impossible.

From Scientific American

http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=000657D8-67D9-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7

A google search revealing a number of articles – some pro, some con – but remember that current theories and engineering clearly prohibit it.  It will take a new understanding of physics to make it possible, if it is possible.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=faster+than+light+bells+inequality

- Ol Doc Gerry

Hi all,

I use this blog to post links to interesting science articles.  I do this for use by my students and also because my memory is not perfect (.

Today is resource day …

Universe today is one of my favorite sites – be sure to check out their podcasts.

http://www.universetoday.com/

Another favorite is the NOAA Space Environment Center, which features prominently in Gerry’s podcast this week.

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/

Science @ NASA, is yet another great site

http://science.nasa.gov/

- Ol’ Doc gerry