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Choose the New PBS Science Show 143

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 08, 2007 @06:51PM from the new-nova dept.

chinmay7 writes "PBS has posted three different pilots for a new science show, and they want viewers to weigh in and help choose one as the regular science feature. All three pilots are viewable as vodcasts. Wired Science aired on January 3rd. The pilot certainly is polished, as one might expect from Wired Magazine, and deals with interesting topics: 'Meet rocket-belt inventors, stem cell explorers and meteorite hunters.' Science Investigators (air date: January 10) seems to be the most 'science' show: 'The investigators examine 30,000-year-old Neanderthal DNA, vanishing frogs, mind-boggling baseball pitches and more.' 22nd Century (air date: January 17) is pretty gimmicky and loud for my taste, but delivers interesting content — 'In the coming decades will all our brains be wired together like networked computers?' So watch and vote."

Submission + - Top 10 spyware of 2006

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08, 2007 @04:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: The top ranking spyware is Gator. A significant aspect of 2006 has been the appearance of a new category of malware. Rogue antispyware claims to detect spyware or to repair errors. This increasingly prevalent malware detects flaws or malicious code on computers but then demands that users pay for a registered version of the program if they want to delete these threats.

Submission + - Information Technology and Voting

Submitted by

ChelleChelle

on Tuesday November 07, 2006 @02:52PM

ChelleChelle writes: " In this interview from ACM Queue, Douglas W. Jones and Peter G. Neumann attempt to answer the question: Does technology help or hinder election integrity? Focusing on the issues related to the use of computer systems in elections, they discuss some of the most basic problems and potential solutions. This article is both timely and informative!"

Voting Machine Glitches Already Being Reported 742

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 07, 2006 @02:38PM from the go-vote dept.

Neovanglist writes "CNN, FOX, and MSNBC are reporting that voting machines in three states (Ohio, Indiana, and Florida) have already been showing issues, both in the machines themselves and in the training of poll attendants, causing many districts to switch to paper ballots." From the article: "Voters put the Republican congressional majority and a multitude of new voting equipment to the test Tuesday in an election that defined the balance of power for the rest of George W. Bush's presidency. Both parties hustled to get their supporters out in high-stakes contests across the country, Democrats appealing one more time for change, and appearing confident the mood was on their side. Republicans conceded nothing as their vaunted get-out-the-vote machine swung into motion." If you're in the U.S., and you haven't voted already, go do it!

Submission + - U.S. Senate Candidate Mike Bouchard Website Hacked

Submitted by

laffer1

on Tuesday November 07, 2006 @01:31PM

laffer1 writes: "Detroit's channel 7 (wxyz.com) reported on their webcast that U.S. Senate Candidate Mik Bouchard's website (www.mikeformichigan.com) was "hacked". The site is now down and it is reported that the FBI is investigating. I voted against him, but find this to be quite an unethical attack. The site is still available in google's cache. (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:gSSzk0KkAfkJ :mikeformichigan.com/+mikeformichigan.com&hl=en&gl =us&ct=clnk&cd=2&lr=lang_en)"

IBM Touts Smart Surveillance System 37

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 07, 2006 @12:53PM from the big-blue-watching-you dept.

mikesd81 writes "Reuters reports that IBM hopes to capitalize on the enormous growth in video surveillance. They'll begin selling technology from their research labs that performs real-time analysis on footage captured by security cameras in stores and sensitive locales. IBM contends that it is the first to add advanced search functions, which make use of computers' improving ability to recognize video content. For example, the IBM system would let a user search for all instances of a green car passing by a store on a certain day. It can also incorporate data gathered from audio or chemical sensors. And IBM said S3 includes important privacy enhancements, such as the ability to automatically obscure faces of customers or passers-by. IBM said that S3's target market includes retail outlets, banks, airports, freight terminals and mass transit systems. It is also being sold to public security agencies and other government departments." C|Net reports that the software is so impressive, it may be monitoring border crossings before too long.

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