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The Northern Fleet has been monitoring the movements and activities of U.S. Marines in the Caribbean since 2008 when the Americans announced their intention to reestablish the Fourth Fleet, which was disbanded in 1950, and that Russia responded a year later, with the Fleet led by the nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great "by starting its first exercises in this region since the end of the Cold War.” Since the end of the decade of the 70's in the last century, the U.S. "advanced a lot" in the state of its earthquake weapons and, according to these reports, they now use equipment with Pulse, Plasma and Tesla Electromagnetic and Sonic technology together with "shock wave bombs." The report also compares the experiences of these two earthquake weapons of the U.S. Navy last week, when the test in the Pacific caused an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 to strike in the area around the town of Eureka, Calif., causing no casualties. But the test in the Caribbean cause...

Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are much larger and heavier than the devices themselves. University of Missouri researchers are developing a nuclear energy source that is smaller, lighter and more efficient. “To provide enough power, we need certain methods with high energy density,” said Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at MU. “The radioisotope battery can provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries.” Kwon and his research team have been working on building a small nuclear battery, currently the size and thickness of a penny, intended to power various micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (M/NEMS). Although nuclear batteries can pose concerns, Kwon said they are safe. “People hear the word ‘nuclear’ and think of something very dangerous,” he said. “However, nuc...

Could powering an iPod or cell phone become as easy as plugging it into your tee shirt or jeans, and then recharging the clothing overnight? Scientists in California are reporting an advance in that direction with an easier way of changing ordinary cotton and polyester into "conductive energy textiles" -- e-Textiles that double as a rechargeable battery. Their report on the research appears in ACS' Nano Letters, a monthly journal. "Wearable electronics represent a developing new class of materials with an array of novel functionalities, such as flexibility, stretchability, and lightweight, which allow for many applications and designs previously impossible with traditional electronics technology," Yi Cui and colleagues note. "High-performance sportswear, wearable displays, new classes of portable power, and embedded health monitoring systems are examples of these novel applications." The report describes a new process for making E-textiles that uses ...

As temperatures drop below freezing and demand for energy soars, engineers at the University of Southampton have launched a new iPhone application to monitor the UK electricity grid. Dr Alex Rogers, Dr. Perukrishnen Vytelingum and Professor Nick Jennings, at the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) have developed an application, named 'GridCarbon', which when downloaded to an iPhone, enables users to monitor the carbon intensity of the grid -- the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere when one unit (1 kWh) of electricity is used by a consumer. "The app shows people how using appliances and machinery at different times of the day can reduce their carbon footprint; for example, at some times of the year, running washing machines and dishwashers overnight rather than at peak times in the evening, can reduce carbon emissions by as much as 40 percent," said Dr Rogers. "While developing this app, we were surprised at how muc...

Children with autism would likely receive better treatment if supporters of the two major teaching methods stopped bickering over theory and focused on a combined approach, a Michigan State University psychologist argues in a new paper. For years, the behavioral and developmental camps have argued over which theory is more effective in teaching communication and other skills to preschool-aged children with autism. Basically, behaviorists believe learning occurs through reinforcement or reward while developmental advocates stress learning through important interactions with caregivers. But while the theories differ, the actual methods the two camps ultimately use to teach children can be strikingly similar, especially when the treatment is naturalistic, or unstructured, said Brooke Ingersoll, MSU assistant professor of psychology. In the January issue of the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, Ingersoll contends that advocates of the behavioral and developmental approaches shoul...

I didn’t know what to call this article because I didn’t know what the article would be about. That’s just a fact of life with we hack writers. Writes write! Anyway, I decided to call it Humor: The Funniest Article Ever Written! That would get me started and I could change the article title later. But isn’t it funny that: You add an “h” to “hug,” you get Hugh. Since the “h” is silent in England you would think you would get “hug” right back again. In England is Hugh Grant called Hug? No! You add an “e” to hop and you get “hope” but if you add an “e” to “to,” you get “toe.” That “e” can change an “ah” sound to “oh” or an “uuh” like in “you” to “oh.” Oh, yes! Add an “e” to “trip” and you get “tripe” and who wants that? I like Spanish where vowels behave themselves. And you can spell “rough” as “ruff” both of which are pronounced “ruhf.” You know what your spell checker will do with “ruhf. “Ruff” is that “stiffly starched frilled or pleated circular collar of lace, muslin, or other fine f...

The two tools below will help you get the six digit color code i.e hexadecimal value. These tools will help you a lot in customizing your Blogger templates and for writing more appealing posts. Kindly Follow the instructions for each tool before using it. Color Code Generator Instructions: First drag the bar on the " Hue " selector to the area of your desired colour palate.  Then click inside the Brightness/Saturation area and drag the cursor until you have achieved your desired colour. The " Swatch " bar shows you the final colour result. The hexadecimal colour code is generated in the " Hex " box. Simply copy the six digit code i.e #000000 That’s it! Color Wheel For Choosing Matching Palate Colors This is a pretty useful tool to achieve matching or cohesive colours for navigation menu, background, hyperlinks, header etc. Instructions: Simply paste the six digit colour code in the form below without the hash (#) sign and the...

1.“Ask not what your twitter can do for you, ask what you can do for your twitter.” -John F. Kennedy 2.“140 characters ought to be enough for anybody..” -Bill Gates 3.“Hey, you! Get off of my twitter.” -Mick Jagger 4.“You can stand under my twitter, twitter, twitter.” -Rihanna 5.“The answer my friend, is twittering in the wind.” -Bob Dylan 6.“My waking thoughts are all of twitter.” -Napoleon 7.“Happiness is a warm twitter.” -John Lennon 8.“There is nothing either good or bad but twittering makes it so.” -William Shakespeare 9.“You should be retweeted and often and by someone who knows how.” -Clark Gable 10.“I twitter my painting, and then I paint my twitter.” -Vincent Van Gogh 11.“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable consonants planted together in twitterations.” -Galileo Galilei 12.“It is true that twitter is precious—so precious that it must be rationed.” -Vladimir Lenin 13.“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all with only 140 characters?” -Marcel ...

When our desire to connect and communicate with one another crashed headlong in to the digital behemoth that is the Internet, we ended up with Twitter : a true 21st Century social phenomenon. Like a chimerical parrot, each head squawking a different one-liner, Twitter can seem odd to the casual observer. Allowing users to post ultra-short updates, a quick tour ’round Twitter will find normal folk, celebrities and even politicians rubbing shoulders and swapping verbs (even TAB is tweeting away). As a frequent tweeter , I decided it was time to identify the ultimate Twitter app for the iPhone. Diving headlong in to the App Store, I emerged from its murky depths with 12 different apps. Read on for the definitive roundup of iPhone Twitter apps available from the iTunes App Store including a comparison table and screenshot gallery. Tweetie ($2.99) Everything in one app, including multiple accounts, favorites, deleting, following, trends, location, re-tweets, photos and more. Notably, Tw...

ATM skimming technology is readily available and easy for criminals to use, said Dan DeFilippi, an expert on identity theft. "If you can plug a camera into a computer and plug a VCR into a TV, you can do ATM skimming. That's as simple as it is. You can buy the hardware--all you have to do is plug it in,” said DeFelippi told the US-based news website 13wham.com. Thieves attach skimmers to ATM's to get people's credit and bank card information. DeFelippi knows what he's talking about, because he used to run scams like this himself. After his arrest in 2003, DeFelippi agreed to help the US Secret Service infiltrate internet networks devoted to identity theft. DeFelippi said people are often distracted at ATM’s and don't look closely at the machine they're using. Thieves exploit this fact. He offered these tips to avoid getting scammed. 1. Look for the flashing LED light where you insert the card. A skimmer sometimes covers that light. 2. Be wary of attached br...

Wave Software will hold demonstrations of Trident Pro in booth 1402 along with pre-scheduled meetings in their suite at The London Hotel which is located across the street from the Hilton New York. ORLANDO, FL - Orlando-based Wave Software, a leading provider of early case assessment, legal holds, litigation support and electronic data discovery technology for global corporations, today announced further details about its participation in the legal technology show of the year, LegalTech New York. LegalTech New York is at the Hilton New York, February 1-3, 2010, and Wave Software will promote its award-winning software, Trident Pro. Wave Software will hold demonstrations of Trident Pro in booth 1402 along with pre-scheduled meetings in their suite at The London Hotel which is located across the street from the Hilton New York. Wave Software will feature product demonstrations of its newly formed Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partnership and integration with kCura. The two companies ...

The usage of free software plays a major part in the IT strategy of large companies, according to a market expert. "Large organisations are perfectly prepared to use free software where possible, and upgrade to a fully paid-for version of the product where it makes sense for them," said Gary Fry, chief executive at Global Graphics. His views came as new figures have revealed that almost 25 per cent of large companies are considering replacing Microsoft Office and 38 per cent are looking to replace Adobe Acrobat in favour of free alternatives. According to the Global Graphics research, more than half of these businesses will start using free software in 2010, following IT budget slashes and freezes. In other news, Google's voice search function, Google Voice, offers new opportunities for software developers, according to Andrew Pouros, chief operations officer for search marketing consultancy Greenlight. Mr Pouros said Google Voice is "more than just speaking your sea...

Long before Apple unveiled its iPad tablet device (officially the worst-kept secret in the history of technology), we had been giving serious thought to whether such a device should be called a computer or not. By some standards, the iPad is essentially a keyboardless laptop, but by others, it's more akin to a portable media player, such as the iPod Touch. Late last year, we outlined the possible arguments for and against each case, saying: There are two schools of thought on this: either the Apple tablet (or iSlate, or whatever it ends up being called) will be a 10-or-so-inch tablet PC with a full Mac OS X operating system; or it will merely be a larger-screen version of the current iPod Touch, which has a closed, limited phonelike OS. The former would mean it could very likely run any software you'd run on a MacBook, from Firefox to Photoshop, and maybe even install Windows 7 via Boot Camp or Parallels. The later points to a hermetically sealed ecosystem, where apps would ha...

Unlike most of the social networking sites like hi5, Facebook doesn't allow you to check who visited your profile. The no-so- popular Orkut queues-up visitors list according to most recent visit. The major chunk of social bees would oppose such undesired intrusion to flout their privacy. For Facebook as they say " privacy is a core component of the products and features we build every day. " They didn't include any such feature, which shows who visited your profile. However, now you have the opportunity to know who visited your Facebook profile. No, I'm not talking about any Facebook hack but a simple app. The app notifies you precisely when someone visits your profile. The Facebook app works on friend-to-friend basis. You will receive a notification everytime someone visits your Facebook profile. Let's see how to you can see who visited your Facebook profile and when. Go through the steps below to use the app that allows you to see who visited your profile. S...

An embarrassing lose-lose situation could possibly mark the end of Google’s adventure in China, and show that the power of the global Internet companies may have been exaggerated. The prospect that Google Inc.’s business in China might not reach its fifth birthday must be particularly difficult for Eric Schmidt. As Google’s chief executive, he claimed to have 5,000 years of patience (as long as Chinese history) for Google’s business in China. But a Blog Post  declared ending of censorship was widely interpreted as a signal of pulling out as a non-filtered search engine is not possible under current regulations in China. Without a final deal, both sides are at the negotiation table, Google and the Chinese government are already under the lime light. the Chinese government is again losing its reputation on human rights issues, but it continues to be the government for over one sixth of world population. Google is merely gaining back some points from its heavily criticised decision to...

Imitation Web sites of both Google and YouTube have emerged in China as the country faces off against the real Google over its local operations. YouTubecn.com offers videos from the real YouTube, which is blocked in China. The Google imitation is called Goojje and includes a plea for the U.S.-based Web giant not to leave China, after it threatened this month to do so in a dispute over Web censorship and cyberattacks. The separate projects went up within a day of each other in mid-January, just after Google's threat to leave. "This should be an issue with Google's intellectual property, also with China censorship," said Xiao Qiang, director of the Berkeley China Internet Project at the University of California-Berkeley. "I cannot see how these sites can survive very long without facing these two issues." Both sites were still working Thursday. It wasn't clear what Chinese authorities would do with them, if anything. China's National Copyright Administ...

Imitation websites emerge in the wake of tensions between Google and China China, a country famous for its imitation products has done it again. Following the recent threats of Google to pull out of China, two remarkable knock-offs have emerged: Goojje and YouTubecn . Xiao Xuan, one of the founders claims that Goojje has existed prior to the China/Google tensions, and points out that a significant amount of time would be required to build a website of Google’s caliber. Additionally, he explains that the name, Goojje, is actually a play on words. The second syllable of "Google" sounds like "older brother" in Mandarin, while the second syllable in "Goojje" sounds like "older sister." Xiao also points out that Goojje is not so much a search engine as it is a "friend finder," and unlike copy-cat site YouTubecn, Goojje does not violate any censorship codes. Many Chinese citizens are receptive to YouTubecn, a website which shows videos block...

LAHORE: A strategic partnership agreement was signed between the Punjab government and a computer software company, Microsoft, at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat here on Friday. Under the agreement signed by additional chief secretary Javed Aslam and Microsoft head in Pakistan Kamal Ahmad, the company will extend all-out cooperation for training and development of the local IT industry in Punjab. It will also set up an innovation centre at the Software Technology Park. Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the three-year agreement would prove to be a milestone in the promotion of information technology in the province. He said the Punjab government had adopted a comprehensive strategy for promoting IT and foundation of a revolution in the education sector had been laid by setting up of IT labs in schools. He said information technology would also be used for evolving a system of accountability for eradication of corruption which was the most serious problem bein...

Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques of 2009! 1. Creating a rogue CA certificate Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, Benne de Weger 2. HTTP Parameter Pollution (HPP) Luca Carettoni, Stefano diPaola 3. Flickr's API Signature Forgery Vulnerability (MD5 extension attack) Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo 4. Cross-domain search timing Chris Evans 5. Slowloris HTTP DoS Robert Hansen, (additional credit for earlier discovery to Adrian Ilarion Ciobanu & Ivan Ristic - “Programming Model Attacks” section of Apache Security for describing the attack, but did not produce a tool) 6. Microsoft IIS 0-Day Vulnerability Parsing Files (semi‐colon bug) Soroush Dalili 7. Exploiting unexploitable XSS Stephen Sclafani 8. Our Favorite XSS Filters and how to Attack them Eduardo Vela (sirdarckcat), David Lindsay (thornmaker) 9. RFC1918 Caching Security Issues Robert Hansen 10. DNS Rebinding (3-part series Persistent Cookies , Scraping & Spammin g ...

This is absolutely brilliant. You can make your own music using a YouTube video! Hit the play button, wait until the video loads in your browser and then click any of the piano keys inside the YouTube video itself to play some music. It’s a very creative use of annotations feature inside YouTube. Update : You got to click inside the video as shown in the following animation. The annotations will appear only when the video has finished loading.

Though we are headed towards an era of paperless offices where all the information would be in strict digital format, the pace is quite slow. That ink-sucking printer is still an indispensable part of your home office because you are frequently required to print invoices, emails, web pages and other documents on paper. Since ink is still the most expensive component in the print workflow, you can reduce printing costs of documents if you can figure out ways that will decrease the consumption of ink while printing. For instance, when printing a document in Microsoft Word, you can switch to “Draft output” and the toner will last much longer. Use a Font with Holes An interesting option to help you save ink is Ecofont . Ecofont is like the popular Arial font but it has these little holes punched in the letters. These holes aren’t really visible in the printed document (that uses standard font sizes like 11px) but will save money as no ink is required when printing these dots. Ecofont is av...

As the author of a blog that’s “All About Microsoft,” I watched yesterday’s Apple iPad unveiling with interest — as many Microsoft employees, partners and customers did, given that Apple is Microsoft’s only viable competitor in the PC operating space. Most interesting to me, after all the Twitter and live blogging dust settled, were the various calls for Microsoft’s response. I read a few blog posts and tweets claiming Apple’s move really boxed in Microsoft and its partners. More than a few Tweeters called for Microsoft to rush out its rumored next-generation slate, codenamed Courier, to blunt the iPad’s impact. And then there was Nick Carr’s “The PC Officially Died Today.” (An odd way to look at things, given that the iPad is being billed as an addition to Apple’s PC line-up, not a replacement for Macs.) Microsoft “response” to the iPad is Windows 7. Windows 7 on slates, tablets and other small form factors created by various PC makers. Like the iPad, many of these devices provide t...

As I drove by Yerba Buena Theater in San Francisco this morning, I couldn't help but be impressed. Apple certainly has the ability to excite people with great products, and with the iPhone they even managed to generate momentum for an entire product category. So it's no surprise that the iPad looks like it's a pretty good new device. It was really exciting to see some of the technologies that Adobe has contributed to, like PDF and ePub support, taking center stage in the launch. Adobe technology is at the center of virtually every print and digital workflow, so undoubtedly a lot of what you¹ll see getting delivered to the iPad will have originated in Adobe creative software. But, as a picture posted on Engadget shows (below), and many others have reported, there's something important missing from Apple's approach to connecting consumers to content. It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consu...

Today, January 27, 2010. Apple announced its latest creation to the world called Apple IPAD. Recently, Google also entered in the world of gadget by introducing “Nexus”. Now lets see the competition of both big companies which company wins the race. Watch Apple IPAD Announcement Event Live - Latest Updates The Apple IPAD was introduced in San Francisco at 10 AM by the CEO of Apple. The Apple Event Live will be held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, CA. Please check your local time for this much awaited Apple Event. 08:00AM – Hawaii 10:00AM – Pacific 11:00AM – Mountain 12:00PM – Central 01:00PM – Eastern 06:00PM – London 07:00PM – Paris 09:00PM – Moscow 02:00PM – Philippines (January 28th) 03:00AM – Tokyo (January 28th) You can watch Live Streaming Video of Apple IPAD on the internet. Now, several blog sites will be blogging live from the Apple Event Live where Apple will probably announce its latest Apple Tablet. If are curious enough, you can visit the foll...