Economic View - The Mortgages of the Future - NYTimes.com
Interesting read and some good ideas for different (or improved) mortgages. Unlike NAB's so called 'thinking mortgage'...
SoftPerfect Scans Networks From A USB Drive - Lifehacker Australia
Windows only: A good network scanner digs deep into any network it's pointed at and opens it up for you to get into. SoftPerfect Network Scanner does those things, can do them from a thumb drive, and is a good deal less intimidating than some other scanner apps out there.
Just make sure you read you're company policy on network and system usage - most organisations take a dim view of their employees scanning the network without permission (even if it is part of their role)!
Slashdot Australian Government Censorship 'Worse Than Iran'
Reminds me of an ad for a softdrink - Drink Sprite and be goodlooking*
* Drinker must be goodlooking first
Live in a free country*
*not Australia
http://www.utwente.nl/nieuws/pers/en/cont_08-044_en.doc/
Great read about using photos for passwords derived from work around getting handguns to recognise users.
"This idea of using biometrics for safe storage and transfer arose from the SecureGrip project. This is a project in which the grip of a policeman’s firearm is biometrically protected, in this case with a ‘personal grip' covered with a network of pressure sensors. These recognize the way in which the user holds the firearm. If someone else holds the weapon, it does not work."
HubbleSite - Entire Collection
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire_collection/
We are just a spec of dust in this enormous universe that we can not even comprehend.
What can Enterprises Learn from Teenagers?
Corporate knowledge management sites lag behind the services that teenagers use - and by considerable distance. Don Rippert, Accenture's Chief Technology Officer, compared the experience of looking for documents and content on an average corporate knowledge management site with the way that teenagers will use interactive and collaborative services...
'Cool Cash' card confusion - News - Manchester Evening News
The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: "On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't.
