Administration Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of US Trade Secrets (Whitehouse, PDF) — the Chinese attacks on Facebook, NYT, and other large organisations are provoking policy responses. WSJ covers it nicely. What is this starting? (via Alex Howard) BodyMedia FitLink … View full post on O’Reilly News and Commentary For…
Four short links: 12 February 2013
Your USB Sticks Are Made With Chopsticks (Bunnie Huang) — behind-the-scenes on how USB sticks are made. mutetab — find and kill the Chrome tab making all the damn noise! (via Nelson Minar) Visualization, Modeling, and Surprises (John D Cook) … View full post on O’Reilly News and Commentary For…
Four Online Dating Red Flags
When it comes to online dating red flags, there’s never a shortage of advice. In the video below, dating coach Joann Cohen shares her four red flags to look out for with The List TV show. In the video, the four things Cohen warns to look out for are: 1) If…
Four short links: 24 December 2012
Creating The Next Big Thing (Wired) — excellent piece showing Tim’s thinking. Apple. They’re clearly on the wrong path. They file patent suits that claim that nobody else can make a device with multitouch. But they didn’t invent multitouch. They … View full post on O’Reilly News and Commentary For…
Four short links: 7 December 2012
AR Drone That Infects Other Drones With Virus Wins DroneGames (IEEE) — how awesome is a contest where a group who taught a drone to behave itself on the end of a leash, constantly taking pictures and performing facial recognition, … View full post on O’Reilly News and Commentary For…
Four southern California men charged in terror conspiracy
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption: Anwar Awlaki Dead terrorist recruiter/cleric Anwar Awlaki still retains his charm. Four men, whose leader was apparently swayed by Awlaki’s words, have been charged with planning to join Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan to kill Americans and attack U.S. interests,…
Four short links: 16 November 2012
Under the Hood of Team Obama’s Tech Operation (Mother Jones) — The new platform allowed OFA to collect feedback from the ground on an enormous scale, and respond accordingly. In short, it made the flow of information bidirectional. “What it … View full post on O’Reilly News and Commentary For…
Hazmat decontamination market will grow to $5.4 billion in next four years, says HSRC
Top Priority Sector: cbrne_detection Image Caption: Fukushima plant The Homeland Security Research Corp. forecasts that the global market for CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) terror and HAZMAT decontamination systems and equipment maintenance will reach $5.4 billion by 2016. Homepage position: 10 read more View full post on Government Security…
Four new full HD IP security cameras unveiled by Canon U.S.A.
Top Priority Sector: video_surveillance_cctv Image Caption: VB-H41 IP camerafrom Canon U.S.A. Canon U.S.A., Inc., a supplier of digital imaging solutions, has introduced its first-ever line of full HD IP security cameras. Integrating sophisticated technologies derived from Canon’s digital cameras and HD lenses, the four new products include: Homepage position: 10…
Secret Service to buy four video borescopes
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: access_control_identification Image Caption: XL Go+ VideoProbeborescope from GE The U.S. Secret Service plans to procure four XL Go+ video borescopes from GE’s Measurement and Control business unit, or an equivalent product from another supplier, which would help the agency spot defects and examine hard-to-reach spaces….
