Arms Dealing Company Was Listed As ‘Minority-Owned’
Questions grow about how a tiny Miami Beach firm became major supplier to Afghan army and police.
Efraim Diveroli, seen here on his MySpace page, is an ex-yeshiva student who “knows everything about weaponry,” says his grandfather. Diveroli is the president of AEY Inc., subject of a New York Times probe into arms trafficking.
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In Cern, Zwitserland, zijn ze goed bezig. Ooit werd daar de basis gelegd voor het WWW, HTML, XML en meer protocollen voor ons huidige internet. Nieuw -en direct klaar voor verfilming- is: The Grid.
The Grid? Een initiatief van Cern(waar ook het W3C.org huist) met onder andere professor Tony Doyle die het project technisch leidt. The Grid? Heel simpel het initiatief om het huidige internet 10.000 maal sneller te maken dan de huidige verbindingen.
Hoe?
Er wordt beter gebruik gemaakt van fibre(glasvezel)-verbindingen. Op dit moment zijn er zo een 55.000 servers verbonden met dedicated fibre. Dit zou de komende jaren tot 200.000 moeten uitgroeien. Deze zomer moet het snelle netwerk -dat in principe evenwijdig ligt aan het huidige ‘trage’ internet- een boost krijgen.
Het parallele internetnetwerk loopt van Cern naar elf knooppunten VS, Canada, Azie, Europa en wat verspreiding over de wereld.
Een probleem kan zijn de enorme stijging in energieverbruik.
Many of you have heard of the Viera Link, AQUOS (Sharp), and REGZA (Toshiba) system that allows you to control any of these devices with one remote…
Things are a little different today as these manufacturers understand the importance of being open. Behold the very first fully compatible Viera Link (or AQUOS/REGZA equivalent) Onkyo AV amplifier on the market!
Our AV amplifier is of course compatible with Dolby NRs True HD and DTS-HD Master Audio, supports x.v.Color, has a 1.3a HDMI port, and offers a generous 185Wx7ch at 6Ω.
Did it take you more than 20 minutes to finish Mario Galaxy? Was it difficult getting through Halo 3’s first level? Relax, the Japanese company Cyber Gadget has the pill for you, the “Game Suppli” vitamin suppliment! If you require endurance for long gaming periods try Blueberry, for extreme concentration drop a DHA.
I almost forgot… These are some of the same nutrients Grandma grew in her garden for years… But hey… Now you can buy them as pills!
Seagate drive in orbit, why not?
Seagate has begun shipping what it says is the world’s first 1TB SAS hard drives, as well as the first self-encrypting enterprise-oriented hard drives.
The 3.5-inch Barracuda ES.2 HDD series now comes in a serial-attached SCSI interface and 1TB capacity. Seagate estimates the speedier SAS data transfer rate offers an average 135 per cent performance boost over the SATA interface. The 1TB SATA version of Barracuda began shipping last year.
Today’s “official” introduction of 1TB SAS hard drives should offer a tempting combination of capacity and performance for high-end storage operators armed with an enlarged coin purse. Seagate is pitching the whole ordeal as a value from a cost-per-GB basis.
The Barracuda ES.2 series of SAS drives spin at 7200 rpm, and advertise a 1.2 million hours mean time between failure. The drive uses a 16MB cache and has an average latency of 4.16ms. Average random seek time is 8.5ms and random write speed is 9.5ms. Models are also available in 500GB and 750GB capacity with both SAS and SATA interfaces.
Seagate doesn’t list a price for the 1TB whopper, although our internet window shopping suggests around $350 per drive. That’s about a $50 premium over the similar SATA model.
Seagate has also announced a new version of its Cheetah HDD lineup for data centers that features automatic encryption technology baked into the drive’s controller.
The 3.5-inch Cheetah 15k.6 FDE (Full Disk Encryption) comes in 450GB, 300GB, and 147GB flavors with both SAS and Fibre Channel interfaces.
Earlier this year, the company began putting automatic data encryption into laptop drives. Seagate has stated it expects the technology to become standard for all hard drives.
The drives will ship to OEM suppliers this quarter. They should start popping up in vendor arrays later this year. ®
Folks may be tightening their wallets under gray economical times, but the need to keep close tabs on our fellow man is in as great of demand as ever.
That’s why EMC rolling out a handful of new services to assist customers in linking storage systems to the video surveillance units, card readers, alarms, intrusion detection systems, and so on that keep humanity from reverting to a pack of wild, rampaging animals.
The storage vendor is teaming up with video security specialist and domestic spying technology supplier, Verint Systems to implement the services, which are available now. EMC will target customers in retail, financial services, gaming, transportation, air travel, correctional facilities, education, border control — you name it — who have heaps of digital surveillance devices that are disconnected from each another, and no storage plan to sift through the data.
EMC’s new security service assessment is a three-parter:
1) Assessment for Physical Security: where EMC and Verint, (as well as partners such as Unisys, British Telecom, Orion Systems Group and others) identify a customer’s security requirements.
2) Design for Physical Security: uses the information collected in the assessment plan to design a customer’s physical security environment to include any available connectivity between items such as cameras, alarms, video archiving, encoders, video software and network services.
3) Implementation for Physical Security: is all about selling a bundle that includes Verint IP video software and EMC Clariion-based storage. EMC says it will also install everything, including cameras and other physical security devices.
There’s nothing wrong in theory with a vendor that caters to large corporations having a crack at the consumer market.
Yet perhaps in being so dependent on the colossal proportions of Brobdingnag, one loses a true sense of scale for the outside world. Ditching metaphors: data centers are willing to spend a lot on hardware. Your average household, not so much.
So here’s EMC’s first product designed, tested, manufactured and sold in a single country outside of the US. It’s the 4TB network storage box, the StorageCredenza, today being introduced for Chinese — and at the moment only Chinese —consumers.
EMC says a household can get their hands on the basic model with one terabyte capacity (4x 250GB SATA drives) for only 8,980 yuan.
A £1,000 reward has been posted for the fingerprints of Prime Minster Gordon Brown and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, both of whom, claim perpetrators No2ID and Privacy International, are “wanted identity felons”. In a campaign Wanted Poster the campaign groups claim that their plan to “steal the fingerprints of the entire British population… will be the identity theft crime of the century.”
Having more than one monitor is undoubtedly cool, but, if you play video games or watch movies, then you know that the gap between displays — formed by the casing that borders each monitor — can really take you out of what you’re watching, as there’s an inch or two of nothing between the pictures.
Thought up by design firm Witid out of Beijing, China, this monitor eliminates that unsightly gap between two displays by extending the screens all the way to the edges. “But DVICE,” you cry, “isn’t that just a widescreen?” Why yes, but an extra wide one. Also, the second half of the monitor can be swung around the back of the unit, so two people on opposite sides of the display can view images from one computer — kind of like a cubicle buddy system.
The monitor is still just a concept at this time, and may stay that way if it tries to use traditional LCD technology, which might have some shielding issues without a proper enclosure.
For those of us propelling ourselves courtesy of our two feet, the Rhodes Car is the fancy way to get around. This four-wheeled human powered-vehicle is about as luxurious as it gets. You can make it even more versatile with a surry-like roof attachment.
It’s built like a bicycle, but since it has four wheels, let’s call it a quadracycle. Got a family? You can even get a four-seater. Sure, the neighbors might laugh now, but when the oil runs out, you’ll be sitting pretty while they hoof it.
You may recall Surface, the interactive-table thingie that Microsoft showed off last year. Surface is basically a table-size computer with a 30-inch touchscreen as a tabletop. The screen actually does some cool stuff when you put certain things on it, like wirelessly downloading pictures from phones put on top of it or creating virtual coasters for drinks.
Awesome? Amusing? Useless? You’ll be able to judge for yourself come April 17 if you live in New York City, Atlanta, San Antonio or San Francisco. That’s when some AT&T stores will begin showing off Surface, letting customers experience Microsoft’s monolithic table PC for themselves, which will do things like download ringtones to customers’ phones and giving info on AT&T phones put on top of it. If response is positive, Surface may spread to all of AT&T’s stores. Although we think this Surface spoof video really pegged Surface, we’re looking forward to playing with the real thing and hoping (believe it or not) it blows us away.
This XO Movie scooter looks like an extra from the Transformers movie, able to fold down and lock itself up when not in use and featuring all of the curves and angles of our favorite robots in disguise. It can carry one or two people and has a variable wheel base to make it more stable while you’re cruising down the highway.
I’d like to see more products inspired by the Transformers. I mean, why can’t my cellphone transform? Or my MP3 player? Sure, you could just build a camera into a phone, but wouldn’t it be more fun to have your phone transform into a camera? Let’s make this happen, designers.
How tall is too tall? I guess we’ll know once one of these crazy building concepts ends up getting built — if it subsequently falls down, that is.
The Ultima Tower is a conceptualization by designer Eugene Tsui and it’s built around alleviating city congestion in this increasingly congested world. It’s debatably attractive shape is inspired by termite mounds and, instead of trying to brave the winds as your ordinary block-like skyscraper, it slopes gracefully to a point from a 7,000-foot-in-diameter base. The Ultima Tower is designed to provide good ol’ self contained arcology living, takes advantage of renewable wind energy, has its own water supply at its base and throughout the tower, and uses reflecting mirrors to boost the amount of natural light throughout.
I wonder what construction firms think when they look at concepts like this? At least Tsui made it aerodynamic — it’d be a pain if it created some drag against the Earth’s orbit.
Samsung has decided to boldly go where no other touch-sensitive phone manufacturer has dared to go: doors. During the ISC West show in Las Vegas, Samsung unveiled Luce, a touch-sensitive door security system. The big seller here is that the Luce has replaced the traditional security keypad with a touch-sensitive display.
The touch-sensitive nature of Luce also makes it the most slim door security product available at 2.1 cm thick. The Luce just shows a glossy black finish when the door security is not in use, which can slightly minimize security problems. Also included in the system is a fire detector. If it sense temperatures above 131 degree Fahrenheit, it will automatically unlock so all individuals can escape.
We’ve seen some pretty wierd places to print things before, but this one is new to me. A team headed by Dr Ray LaPierre at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario, used a focus ion beam microscope to etch the school’s crest into a human hair. Apart from the little matter of needing your own Gallium Ion shooting device, I can see tons of future fashion trend possibilities with this one. And the best thing is, unlike with ink tattoos, your loyalty can be ended with a quick trip to the nearest hair salon for a trim.
Spinal injuries that leave people paralyzed are currently incurable, one of the most feared and rehabilitating things that can happen to you. But researchers at Northwestern University are looking to change that for good, as they’re hard at work on a new nanotechnology that could enable us to completely heal cut and severed spinal cords, allowing the previously paralyzed to walk again.
The tech takes the form of a gel that, when injected into mice with spinal cord injuries, allowed them use of their hind legs again after a mere 6 weeks. The procedure hasn’t been tested on humans yet, but it’s certainly a promising step forward towards a time where spinal cord injuries won’t necessarily mean a life confined to a wheelchair.
Ladies and babies alike should be able to appreciate a fine set of wheels with strollers like these. Each Roddler is styled with old-school lead-sled flourish, with sleek over-the-wheel fenders and customization options including various shapes, colors, classic trims, decals and paint jobs (including flames, of course).
Really, it’s probably a lot more than any baby needs, especially since it’ll set you back $2,000 to $3,500 depending on how much you deck it out. Only the best for , right?
Check out the gallery below for more posh shots of Kid Kustoms strollers.
The former SAS officer accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea says Sir Mark Thatcher was involved in the plan.
Simon Mann was arrested along with 67 others in Harare, Zimbabwe, in March 2004, charged with conspiring to depose the government of president Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to pay up to £100,000 for tip-offs leading to action against price fixing and other anti-competitive behaviour.
The new policy of financial incentives for information will initially run for 18 months and is similar to a scheme in South Korea.
A business found to be part of a cartel can be fined up to 10% of its turnover.
The move follows an OFT campaign offering immunity for UK firms that blow the whistle on cartels.
You need green power offcourse to power your prison…. add extra wind power for torture center.
Although NetApp fired the first volley in its ZFS lawsuit against Sun Microsystems, Sun has been the aggressor since NetApp’s initial strike. Following NetApp’s lawsuit last September charging that Sun violated several of its patents regarding ZFS, Sun countersued and accused NetApp of violating Sun’s patents. Sun has also asked the U.S. Patents Office to re-examine several NetApp patents.
Sun filed yet another lawsuit Wednesday, alleging patent infringement related to storage management technology NetApp acquired when it bought Onaro in January.
“As NetApp attempts to extend its product line, it also expands its exposure to Sun patents,” Dana Lengkeek of Sun’s Corporate Communications office wrote in an emailed statement.
The latest lawsuit filed in U.S. Discrict Court in the northern district of California claims that software NetApp gained from Onaro uses Sun’s patented technology. Sun seeks compensation from NetApp for patent infringement and an injunction preventing NetApp from using Sun’s technology.
Sun also revealed the U.S. Patent Office granted its request to re-examine NetApp’s patent related to its “copy on write” technology.
US aerospace colossus Boeing has revealed plans for its unmanned whisper-mode stealth helicopter, the A160T, to return to flight following a recent crash. The revolutionary, groundbreaking aircraft (cough) pranged itself during test flights last year, but Boeing believes that the software problems leading to the crash have been rectified.
The A160T robot whisper-copter
The secret, stealthy whisper-mode droid supercopter.
Marketing have had a word about the colour, apparently.
In other programme developments, the company announced that the A160T – intended for service with a variety of secretive US government organisations – would soon adopt a new colour scheme. Thus far, the stealthy crewless superchopper has been available only in white, which would clearly limit sales among the traditionally sombrely-clad operatives of the clandestine services. In a doubtless marketing-driven move, Boeing have now announced that the A160T will soon be available in black.
Shoe purveyor Nike dipping into the auto industry may sound disastrous, but the Nike ONE is an undeniably sexy single seater. The Nike ONE design team was led by legendary car designer Phil Frank, who designed classics such as the Saleen S7 and the new Mustangs. The Nike ONE was made to coincide with the release of racing game Gran Turismo 4, and looks a bit like what might happen if the monstrosity from Alien and one of the bikes from Tron had a baby.
Check out the gallery below for more sexy Nike ONE shots. Just do it.
