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What is the driving force that moves us along through life? What makes us persevere in life despite the hardships and ordeals that beset us each day? Pious people may say that it’s love. The greedy classes can boastfully say it is money and power. But what is it really? It all boils down to one thing. Security. We work our bones to the grind just to have that feeling of security in our lives – security from hunger, from poverty, from death, from the crimes that keeps on permeating our land. Mom and Dad including ourselves are willing to have three to five jobs (or even more) so we don’t have to worry about our stomachs rumbling and whining about. But we cannot deny the fact that there are groups of people that don’t see in these sacrifices we make. Villainous people who want to make easy money through malicious means. Consequently, Banks and other establishments have employed security guards and cutting edge security systems in order to protect their assets. But whoever said business establishments are the only ones worthy of such safekeeping? Check out Security System Reviews and find the ideal security devices that you can use at home to keep yourself from danger.
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Sometimes in school, especially when you are a college student, you are asked to research for audio books for certain topics and then present it to the class the following day. Presenting it might not be much of a problem. But looking for an audio book is a major problem and if you don’t have any major solution to it, you are literally dead in your class. If you can’t find one, then you won’t have anything to present and you will be scolded for that. It is then imperative for you that you should learn about some solutions to this problem. Well, there is actually one solution that we can suggest for you. You can try it and see if it can help you. It never hurts to try and you won’t lose anything from it. Who knows? Upon trying, you might be able to find the solution for your online book problems.
If you are looking for an audio book, a video book or any sort of online book that will be used for a presentation that involves sounds, you can try Netflix for Books. The service that it provides really lives up to its reputation. You can be assured that the quality of sounds that can be produced from these books are indeed of high quality, thus you won’t have a hard time trying to listen to the sound being produced. You can try this out as a solution to your problem. Anyway, what do you have to lose right? Who knows? This might be the solution you are looking for your problem.
Wealth is the prize of your effort, blood and sweat. So it’s just right to secure your wealth against criminals who do nothing but to own and steal all the prizes of your sacrifices. One way of protecting and securing your wealth is to have some modernized gadgets in place. Security camera perfectly fits for you who value all the prizes of being hard working. What is this security camera reviews anyway?
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One of the most talked about issues today in the field of environmental science is one that involves the rights of animals. As we all aware of it, animals should be left the way they are. We must not attempt to artificially change their genetic properties just to produce higher breeds of animals. Today, issues about crossbreeding has reverted the eyes of people who stands as advocate to the animal rights. But it will surely and greatly help us if we first know what is this process all about and let us try to find out why some people go against this one process which is dubbed by some of us as “one of the major advancements made by the use of technology.”
As wikipedia defines it, Crossbreeding refers to the process of breeding such an animal, often with the intention to create offspring that share the traits of both parent lineages, or producing an animal with hybrid vigor. While crossbreeding is used to maintain health and viability of animals, irresponsible crossbreeding can also produce animals of inferior quality or dilute a purebred gene pool to the point of extinction of a given breed of animal.
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If there is one country that manifests the great and warm welcome of people to the game casino, it would be the United States of America or USA. In some of its states particularly in Las Vegas, this game serves as one of the things that people in there would like to do whenever they are free. For them, playing casino is not gambling at all but a good source of fun and enjoyment. Today, this is even made better because of the invention of one concept of playing and that is the online one. If before, in order to play casino, people should travel outside their houses just to go to playing centers, now, all they have to do is to sit in front of their computer, browse the web and play online casino usa. This is such a great development.
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The exciting part in the up-coming 2010 election is the prospect of unscrupulous candidates starting to rely on geeks, aside from their goons, to affect the vote. Like a friend said, cheating attempts may actually give more people throughout the country more incentive to learn techie stuff like programming, network management, etc.
Of course, no one wants to see fraudulent elections. But what if Filipinos in the most remote areas of the Philippines suddenly learn computer programming? That’s a possibility, especially if candidates are willing to pay good money for results. But with all of the positive things that have been said about the automation of the election, there are still risk factors that we have to consider. Such risk factors might include:
- Software – The software used all throughout the process, from ballot reading all the way to returns tallying, must be open for public scrutiny. It may not be proprietary and secret.
- Devices – Ballots and computers used throughout may fail. Backup/contingency plan must exist and be robust. Sabotage could be the way cheating will be introduced, in order to force reverting to manual process.
- Architecture – Transmittal and reporting of results could be susceptible to hacking. Instant public visibility of results as counted at source and as transmitted at receipt will mitigate threats of hacking.
- User – Voting needs to be simple and straightforward. Many Filipinos are not computer literate, and barely literate. PEBKAC errors can lead to many spoiled ballots, which may either be invalidated like in the US, or can be used as a pretense to revert to manual.
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With the advent of the modern technology we are using today, we are given the chance to prove that we can bring this modern technology into one of the most important events that will take place on our country. It will make the election in our country be automated for the first time. That means to say that from voting until counting, we will be aided by computers with special programs intended to fulfill this specific purpose. But what do this automation mean for our country?
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Hackers wanted; P100-million reward
Courtesy of Philstar.com
The issue on the automation of the 2010 national elections have reverted all ears as it creates noise. Billions of pesos will be spent for a strategy that is not proven to eliminate the problem of elections, and so, a test is about to be done.
Opposition Senator Allan Peter Cayetano said in a press conference that he is filling a resolution for COMELEC (Commission on Elections) to appropriate an amount of 100 million pesos out of the 11 billion pesos fund on the automation of elections as a reward for anyone who can show and convince the people that the automated elections is also susceptible to dirty tactics such as fraud and tampering of election paraphernalia. If this goes through (the resolution), this will be a test to the automation process’s invulnerability and probably will make the fear of people for any untoward act regarding the elections vanish.
This is why the Commission on Elections (Comelec) challenged hackers to try to hack into the voting and counting machines that will be used in next year’s elections, but expressed confidence that they would fail.
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After I featured in this site about The First Elevator That Can Ride to Outer Space, in which according to Michael Laine the real critical test was on making a string strong enough. He said that the cable they made was rock solid. This effort was considered a giant leap forward for scientists who are developing the world’s first space elevator.
But today scientists recently discovered that a new form of carbon ribbon that’s ultra-flexible and super-strong could become the infrastructure for the first working space elevator. Such a structure would usher in a new era in easy space travel.
Long-predicted by science fiction authors, and memorably portrayed in Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel Red Mars (where a space elevator crashes to the planet’s surface), a space elevator would pull people out of the atmosphere quickly – without wasting as much energy as rockets do as they escape Earth’s gravity. The elevator would begin at the Earth’s equator and could stretch up to an orbital platform or even a relocated asteroid. People who wanted to travel to space would ride the elevator far out of the atmosphere and catch a ship in orbit.
NASA holds regular competitions to inspire people to come up with materials that would make a space elevator possible, and the team behind the new ribbon material developed it for one of NASA’s competitions. According to the Times Online:
Spurred on by a $4m (2.7m) research prize from Nasa, a team at Cambridge University has created the world’s strongest ribbon: a cylindrical strand of carbon that combines lightweight flexibility with incredible strength and has the potential to stretch vast distances. The development has been seized upon by the space scientists, who believe the technology could allow astronauts to travel into space via a cable thousands of miles long – a space elevator . . .
The Cambridge team is making about 1 gram of the high-tech material per day, enough to stretch to 18 miles in length. “We have Nasa on the phone asking for 144,000 miles of the stuff, but there is a difference between what can be achieved in a lab and on an industrial level,” says Alan Windle, professor of materials science at Cambridge University, who is anxious not to let the work get ahead of itself.
The rest of the Times article is worth checking out – there’s a lot of cool information about space elevators and their potential development over the next few decades.
Gravity is not the same everywhere on Earth. It is influenced by geological formations and varying density of materials beneath the surface. To map these gravitational differences, the ESA (European Space Agency), has built GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer). To be launched in early 2009, this craft will circle 155 miles above the planet to measure the differences in gravitational pull. The technical aspects can be quite mind boggling, but what it will do is determine what lie’s under the Earth’s crust, give an accurate measurement as to how high mountains really are, and more specifically, determine how Earth will react to the melting ice sheets. You might not think this will affect you, but it will.
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Over its lifetime of about 20 months, GOCE will map global variations in the gravity field with extreme detail and provide a unique model of the geoid, which is crucial for understanding ocean circulation, sea-level change and ice dynamics – all of which are affected by climate change.
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