Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
L'appello del Papa: "C'è bisogno
di governanti credenti e credibili"
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Solo apparentemente, ha ammonito, chi nega Dio e «di conseguenza non rispetta l’uomo, sembra avere vita facile e conseguire un successo materiale». «Ma basta scrostare la superficie - ha detto - per constatare che, in queste persone, c’è tristezza e insoddisfazione».
...
... aspettiamo con pazienza che il dio di spinoza dia il giudizio al vaticano ...
... anche loro sanno che neanche la chiesa onnipotente e onnipresente ...
... puo' dominare le forze della natura ...
... nel frattempo guardatevi lo show:
The Inquisition the Musical
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
How to short-circuit the US power grid
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Wang and colleagues at Dalian University of Technology in the Chinese province of Liaoning modelled the US's west-coast grid using publicly available data on how it, and its subnetworks, are connected (Safety Science, DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2009.02.002).
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The US Department of Homeland Security is reviewing the research, says John Verrico, the department's technology spokesman, who adds that countermeasures are already in the works. "Our engineers are working on a self-limiting, high-temperature superconductor technology which would stop and prevent power surges generated anywhere in the system from spreading to other substations. Pilot tests in New York City may be ready as soon as 2010."
These precautions are well and good, but there are easier ways to bring a grid down, says Ian Fells, an expert in energy conversion at Newcastle University, UK. "A determined attacker would not fool around with the electricity inputs or whatever - they need only a bunch of guys with some Semtex to blow up the grid lines near a power station."
Reference:
(Safety Science, DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2009.02.002).
Saturday, September 12, 2009
... the bill ...
Rockefeller-Snowe: ‘Internet Takeover’ Panic'
The ruckus is over amendments to the proposed Rockefeller-Crowe cybersecurity bill S.773. The earlier version dealt with national cybersecurity, and effectively proposed that responsibilities for such should be concentrated in the White House. This led to calls for what has popularly been characterised as a ‘cyber czar’, and a proposal that the president be able ‘to disconnect a Federal or critical infrastructure network from the Internet if they are found to be at risk of cyber attack.’
... and why the family wants this bill ...
World War II
During the planning of the invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland, IG Farben cooperated closely with Nazi officials and directed which chemical plants should be secured and delivered to IG Farben.[14]
In 1941, an investigation exposed a "marriage" cartel between John D. Rockefeller's United States-based Standard Oil Co. and I.G. Farben.[15][16] (see[17] and[18]) It also brought new evidence concerning complex price and marketing agreements between DuPont, a major investor in and producer of leaded gasoline, U.S. Industrial Alcohol Co. and their subsidiary, Cuba Distilling Co. The investigation was eventually dropped, like dozens of others in many different kinds of industries, due to the need to enlist industry support in the war effort. However, the top directors of many oil companies agreed to resign and oil industry stocks in molasses companies were sold off as part of a compromise worked out.[19][20][21]
IG Farben built a factory (named Buna Chemical Plant) for producing synthetic oil and rubber (from coal) in Auschwitz, which was the beginning of SS activity and camps in this location during the Holocaust. At its peak in 1944, this factory made use of 83,000 slave laborers.[22] The pesticide Zyklon B, for which IG Farben held the patent, was manufactured by Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung), which IG Farben owned 42.2 percent of (in shares) and which had IG Farben managers in its Managing Committee.
Of the 24 directors of IG Farben indicted in the so-called IG Farben Trial (1947-1948) before a U.S. military tribunal at the subsequent Nuremberg Trials, 13 were sentenced to prison terms between one and eight years. Some of those indicted in the trial were subsequently made leaders of the post-war companies that split off from IG Farben, including those who were sentenced at Nuremberg.
... news travel much faster this days ...
... thats a reason to "censor" the Internet ...
... surely their business partners in Germany and Russia ...
... would have agreed on this ...
Rockefeller-Snowe: ‘Internet Takeover’ Panic'
The ruckus is over amendments to the proposed Rockefeller-Crowe cybersecurity bill S.773. The earlier version dealt with national cybersecurity, and effectively proposed that responsibilities for such should be concentrated in the White House. This led to calls for what has popularly been characterised as a ‘cyber czar’, and a proposal that the president be able ‘to disconnect a Federal or critical infrastructure network from the Internet if they are found to be at risk of cyber attack.’
... and why the family wants this bill ...
World War II
During the planning of the invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland, IG Farben cooperated closely with Nazi officials and directed which chemical plants should be secured and delivered to IG Farben.[14]
In 1941, an investigation exposed a "marriage" cartel between John D. Rockefeller's United States-based Standard Oil Co. and I.G. Farben.[15][16] (see[17] and[18]) It also brought new evidence concerning complex price and marketing agreements between DuPont, a major investor in and producer of leaded gasoline, U.S. Industrial Alcohol Co. and their subsidiary, Cuba Distilling Co. The investigation was eventually dropped, like dozens of others in many different kinds of industries, due to the need to enlist industry support in the war effort. However, the top directors of many oil companies agreed to resign and oil industry stocks in molasses companies were sold off as part of a compromise worked out.[19][20][21]
IG Farben built a factory (named Buna Chemical Plant) for producing synthetic oil and rubber (from coal) in Auschwitz, which was the beginning of SS activity and camps in this location during the Holocaust. At its peak in 1944, this factory made use of 83,000 slave laborers.[22] The pesticide Zyklon B, for which IG Farben held the patent, was manufactured by Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung), which IG Farben owned 42.2 percent of (in shares) and which had IG Farben managers in its Managing Committee.
Of the 24 directors of IG Farben indicted in the so-called IG Farben Trial (1947-1948) before a U.S. military tribunal at the subsequent Nuremberg Trials, 13 were sentenced to prison terms between one and eight years. Some of those indicted in the trial were subsequently made leaders of the post-war companies that split off from IG Farben, including those who were sentenced at Nuremberg.
... news travel much faster this days ...
... thats a reason to "censor" the Internet ...
... surely their business partners in Germany and Russia ...
... would have agreed on this ...
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
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Friday, September 04, 2009
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
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