September 2007
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When San Diego Fire and Life Safety Services (SDFLSS) needed a new platform for its life-critical Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, it turned to Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Stratus’s fault-tolerant ftServer 5200. Uncompromised availability was the most important factor in selecting a new platform, as 911 emergency dispatchers rely on the system to track and manage all aspects of San Diego’s emergency fire and medical services. Since deploying the new system 15 months ago, SDFLSS has experienced zero downtime due to operating system or hardware failure - a key requirement for a solution that the city relies upon to keep its emergency response infrastructure running smoothly and provide residents with prompt assistance in times of need.
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Your federal government was handing out money today, millions of US dollars went to a number of green tech ventures. Recipients included giants like Wsetinghouse, Michelin and Caterpillar. But the list was dominated by little companies we’ve never heard of. The grantor is NIST. That’s the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. Their site includes links to all 56 of the projects funded. Many are in health or biotech, but a number involve green tech projects, especially in the area of energy efficiency. Here are a few that caught my eye: Caterpillar gets nearly five million to improve drive train efficiency for internal combustion engines. Westinghouse wants to help build a better wind turbine, over 3 million….
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There are no NASA scientists in this picture (from here)
Because if NASA scientists do science, the terrorists win. Or something.
Over at Culture Kitchen, there’s a good series of posts about the new NASA security procedures that apply to all NASA employees. Parts one and two are worth reading, but the categories of offenses that are part of the “Suitability Matrix.” Here’s the description of the lowest level of offenses, Class A (italics mine):
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We’ve covered this for a couple weeks here on the blog (LINK)… And it turns out we were right to.
Clark Hoyt, the New York Times public editor, today confirmed the suspicions of conservative critics of the newspaper, writing in his column that the newspaper gave MoveOn.org a discounted rate on its "General Betray Us" ad that the antiwar group was not entitled to under Times pricing guidelines.
In his column (LINK) Hoyt writes that the Sept. 10, 2007, MoveOn.org ad "violated The Times’s own written standards, and the paper now says that the advertiser got a price break it was not entitled to."
Hoyt notes that "MoveOn.org paid what is known in the newspaper industry as a standby rate of $64,575 that it should not have received under Times policies." But, Hoyt says, the group "should have paid $142,083. The Times had maintained for a week that the standby rate was appropriate, but a company spokeswoman told me late Thursday afternoon that an advertising sales representative made a mistake."
Moreover, Hoyt says that the "ad appears to fly in the face of an internal advertising acceptability manual that says, ‘We do not accept opinion advertisements that are attacks of a personal nature.’"
Wow.
– jpt
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UD graduate and former Sports Illustrated writer Jeff Pearlman picked up where the News Journal’s Kevin Tresolini left off, slamming the University of Delaware athletics department for refusing to play Delaware State University in football.
In today’s a column for ESPN.com’s Page 2, Pearlman unloads:
The University of Delaware’s persistent refusal to face Delaware State University in football
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Sweet and stylish Hilary Duff was spotted over the weekend making a coffee run while toting the Damier Azur Speedy 30 by Louis Vuitton. The Azur version of LV’s Damier line is made from coated cream/grey damier-patterned canvas with …
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I forgot to mention that I did not know Matt V was doing a Uecker imitation until after he explained it. Oh, the hilarity.
I’m sure glad some people like his foolishness, as it keeps him off the streets. I sure don’t miss that stupidity on Brewers’ broadcasts.
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The Australian Customs Service (Customs) is a government agency that uses high-tech methods to protect Australia’s borders from illegal immigration, drug smuggling, and other security threats. To support its mission critical efforts, the organization relies on a comprehensive IT infrastructure to manage thousands of computers and mobile devices. In addition, Customs recently implemented a complex new IT environment based on Microsoft products and technologies. To meet the security and system management challenges of this infrastructure, Customs has deployed an IT solution based on Microsoft Forefront Client Security and Microsoft System Center IT management solutions. With this integrated solution in place, Customs has improved security and simplified IT infrastructure management.
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Today President George W. Bush’s own special, invitation-only, climate change summit is wrapping up in Washington D.C. Earlier this week the United Nations held a conference of all members on the same suibject. Secretary of State Rice attended on behalf of the U.S. Bush could not allow the hoi polloi of the U.N. to dictate to him, so he called together an elite fifteen nations he considered important enough to decide the fate of the planet. In Washingtonian lingo the conference was liltingly dubbed “Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change.” That’s MEMESCC for all the acronymically-infected. Those attending MEMESCC are Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, South Africa, United…
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Have you ever bought a present for a loved one where you weren’t totally sure that he or she would be enthusiastic about the present, but you figured that you could always keep it if it was a dud?
I have this hunch that a good number of “educational” gifts that parents get for kids fit in this category.
I have a further hypothesis that the gifts that the parents are really secretly hoping that they will get to keep for their very own are the gifts their kids end up liking the most.
A recent data point in support of that hypothesis: The Snap Circuits set we got for the elder Free-Ride offspring’s birthday this past summer.
After the Free-Ride offspring returned from fishing with Uncle Fishy last Sunday, we clamored around the Snap Circuits and took note of some concepts that are not obvious to kids who spend most of their time focused on macroscopic phenomenon.
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