June 2008


Andreas M. Antonopoulos from Network World wrote What we don’t seem to have much is communal defense. It is very rare to find a system that is equally concerned with outgoing traffic and the impact it has on others. Actually, research trend in security is going to that direction.

In the past, we cannot do that because resource limitation on network devices. Thus, almost no one think about to empower the devices. But now, with CPU more speedier, memory more spacious, HDD more spacious, we can afford to have that capability. One small effort on that is research on Quarantine Network. Previous effort is an automatic virus reporting capability built in anti virus program installed.

Di artikel halaman satu dan dua (atau lihat dalam satu halaman), dijelaskan mengapa masuknya iPhone akan mengguncang pasar telpon genggam di Jepang.

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LA times highlight another Neocon proposal. This time the proposal came not from The Heritage but from The Washington Institute for Near East Studies.

Their doctrine is: “If the potential risks, challenges and consequences of prevention (as previously outlined) are daunting, the risks and challenges of deterrence are even more so. Deterrence is not an easy, low-risk alternative. The cost/benefit calculus pertaining to prevention versus deterrence as a means of dealing with Iran’s nuclear program may be one of the most complex and difficult policy choices facing U.S. policymakers today, given the uncertainties of the prospects for success and the possible price of failure for each.”

I think they are in the state of one of these three possibilities:

  1. They are very naive and stupid, even though they regard themselves as scholars
  2. They have wrong inputs, thus produce wrong outputs
  3. They have a hidden agenda

I believe in no 3 :) sound like a conspiracy theory??? haha

Please read the above articles with this article. Happy reading…

Time Magazine has quoted a former senior intelligence in Israel.

“I’m worried that by November it’s going to be too late,” to stop Iran from gaining the ability to produce nuclear weapons, said Yossi Kuperwasser, the former senior intelligence officer for the Central Command of the Israeli Defense. On military action against nuclear sites in Iran, he said, “Just do it. For Christ’s sake, do it and solve our problem.”

And something more interesting also:

Following Bush’s visit this month, the Jerusalem Post reported that a senior U.S. advisor on the trip had told Israeli officials that Bush was prepared to attack Iran, but that Gates and Rice were blocking the way.

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The Telegraph has an article about Michelangelo hid secret code in Sistine Chapel. This could lead to another chapter of DaVinci Code. Version 2 anyone?

Although “Dr Arnold Nesselrath, a curator at the Vatican museums said there was no way that Michelangelo could have painted any of the ceiling without the pope’s express consent.”

A button ad in USA election say “If Obama is president … will we still call it The White House?”

If Obama is president ... will we still call it The White House?

McClatchy has a interesting report about Guantanamo. Their conclusion:

An eight-month McClatchy investigation of the detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them of their legal rights and allowed Islamic militants to turn the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into a school for jihad.



the incubator

McClatchy Newspapers describe Hebron as “remains one of the most volatile Israeli-Palestinian flash points because it is home to some of the most ideological Jewish settlers in the West Bank”. Just look at the video below:

These videos is the result of project to ‘arm’ Palestinians in the West Bank with video camera.

Gallery: Satellites Document War, Destruction From Outer Space Reported by Wired, American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences’ Geospatial Technology and Human Rights Project, have a gallery about destruction happening on the world.

This is an example of what happen in Separation Barrier project

Computer Science basically is a teoritical science, compared to computer engineering. As computer expand to color everyone’s life, the talk of ethics is an endless talk. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google talk about good, evil and monopoly fears in Reuters news

“We don’t have an ‘Evilmeter’ we can sort of apply — you know — what is good and what is evil,” Schmidt said before an audience of media industry professionals at an event sponsored by Syracuse University’s Newhouse School in San Francisco. “We don’t yet know how we are going to make significant amounts of money on YouTube,” Schmidt said. “But it seems obvious that we should be able to make some money from this.” His optimism is based on two key facts: “We know people are watching it” and “We have the luxury of time to invest.”

And this is a more interesting part:

Schmidt reaffirmed that the company’s primary goal is not to make money selling ads, whether it is banner ads or ads on Web searches, online video, TV and mobile phones. “The goal of the company is not to monetize everything, the goal is to change the world … We don’t start from monetization. We start from the perspective of what problems do we have,” he said, referring to big, world-class problems. “You have to resolve in your mind the fact that there is competition and collaboration in mature industries.”

Obama said Palestinians, Israelis and their Arab neighbors must also contribute to a solution. He urged Israel to take “appropriate steps — consistent with its security — to ease the freedom of movement for Palestinians, improve economic conditions in the West Bank and to refrain from building new settlements — as it agreed to with the Bush administration” at a conference in Annapolis last November. He said any agreement with the Palestinians “must preserve Israel’s identity as a Jewish state” with “defensible borders” and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital.

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