McAfee has released a six-part video that gives a highly dramatic look at cyber crime. Apparently there are not enough names already, so they called it H*Commerce.
https://www.stophcommerce.com/
A woman falls prey to an email scam…a security expert tries to help. This takes six-parts? Really? Who does things in sixtal?
Spiegel Online apparently has opened a giant can of worms on itself with a recent cover story on who in Europe might have helped Hitler outside of Germany.
The feature describes how foreigners aided the Germans during World War II in the killing of 6 million Jews. Some of the accomplices — who represented a small minority in each of their countries — were forced into their roles, others denounced Jews in exchange for money. And some shared the Nazi’s anti-Semitic beliefs and joined in out of conviction.
Polish reactions to the story are titled “A Wave of Outrage”
“The article confirms the worst fears about the transformation taking shape in German thinking about World War II,” writes the conservative journalist Piotr Semka. For years, many Poles have seen a gradual change in the way Germany sees its history — a transformation, they say, to a victim mentality.
I agree with this but I would say German sentiment shifted to a victim mentality very quickly after the war, if not during the final stages. I suspect the Poles were less likely to have seen it before the wall came down so it seems gradual to them. I also disagree, however, with Spiegel’s assertion in the original story that “the collusion of other European countries in the Holocaust has received surprisingly little attention until recently”. History is rich in detail of the complicity of Ukranian camp guards under Nazi rule, for example, and the strife between Catholics and Jews in Poland that long pre-dated the German invasion.
The flyingpenguin is excited to find Deep Flight Submersibles has achieved success in artificial underwater flight.
We have evolved the art of underwater flight for its own sake through three generations of pure fliers. The butterfly has finally fully emerged… Deep Flight Super Falcon, the first production underwater flier.
It seems the name falcon has something to do with Tom Perkins’ Maltese Falcon.
Now available for sale to private owners. The first full productionized submersible capable of sub-sea flight. HOT is currently building a Super Falcon for Tom Perkins, founder of Kleiner Perkins Venture Capital. Perkins owns the largest privately-owned sailing yacht, S/Y Maltese Falcon. Deep Flight Super Falcon replaces the experimental prototype Deep Flight Aviator which was sold to another organization as a decommissioned submersible and they are operating the Aviator without any support from Hawkes Ocean Technologies.
The aviator was named for the late, great Steve Fawcett who intended to use it to set a deep-sea diving record. New investor, new functionality, new name…
Imagine flying to shore in rough weather. This could be the best escape path for inclement or emergency sea-state conditions, as well as an awesome interactive experience in regular ship-to-shore travel.
I was already planning to fly above water, but I might just have to enroll in underwater flight school as well.
CNN tries to make a statement about human originality and the usual nonsense.
“It’s not just that they look like airplanes, they actually are,” Hawkes said. “The machines we build underwater should look like airplanes, not submarines. Airplanes don’t look like balloons.”
He won’t take credit for the idea, saying the idea of a submarine with fins and wings has been thought of before. The 1943 French comic book, “Red Rackham’s Treasure,” included a shark-like submarine with dorsal fins and a tail. Hawkes said that although the idea of wings may have been obvious, “The prize goes to he that does.”
Looks like an airplane? Shark-like is more like it because it actually is underwater, but let’s not forget that penguins do actually fly underwater. Let’s give some credit to the little feathered guys who did it first, eh?
Now there’s a graceful image of a flying machine. CNN also provides some stomach-turning marketing speak.
He said Deep Flight submersibles are designed to be more agile than any creature living in the ocean — with the exception of dolphins.
More agile than a penguin? I don’t believe it. Show me some numbers. Dolphins are certainly not the measure, but it makes for nice imagery. I mean I doubt they’d say it’s designed to be more agile than a killer whale, or a colossal squid. That might scare away potential buyers. After all, the Falcon runs at a max speed of just 6 knots, which is slower than many fish (Mahi mahi like to catch squid at 7 knots), and some squid are known to sprint at 20 knots. Like I said, show me some numbers.
One of my favorite bumper stickers is “hummers are for dicks”. Too racy? Then the humor in The Tech Generation might be better.
The hybrid Hummer isn’t expected to appear on the streets until 2011, but apparently 17,000 have already been ordered – probably all by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I understand that people have a really, really hard time accepting change, but making the Hummer H3 electric seems like such a concession to marketing/fashion instead of engineering, that it again begs the question of foresight. Is GM also going to offer a free pair of bell bottom jeans with every purchase? The Hummer might still be in fashion today, but I suspect as new and more efficient (e.g. less boxy) designs are found not only wiser for efficiency but also sexy, then no one will want to be seen pushing air in a big, dare I say dumb, box.