Apps for Apes: Orangutans using iPads to paint and video chat with other apes | The Sideshow – Yahoo! News

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“I wish monkeys could Skype… maybe someday.”

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Why ‘net disruptor?

'net disruptor

Believe it or not, I mulled over the name of this blog for some time. Names are important, as any marketer will tell you. An Englishman by the name of William Shakespeare once wrote:

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet;”

Technically he was correct of course, however I’m going to hazard a guess that the bard never visited Austria and had a Germknödel for dessert. If he had, I’m sure he would have come to the same conclusion as I did – i.e. that names are important. To illustrate this in Shakespeare’s example, giving the special lady in your life 12 red Germknödels on valentine’s day just wouldn’t have quite the same… je ne sais quoi?

So why ‘net disruptor? As an online marketer with an avid interest in the worlds of business, science and technology…

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RIP Steve Jobs

Suzi is rambling

10 years ago the USA had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash ….
Now they have no Jobs, no Hope and no Cash

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China’s Space Advances Worry US Military

CRISISBOOM

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Video still showing China’s Shenzhou 8 spacecraft docked with the Tiangong 1 lab module on Nov. 3, 2011. CREDIT: China Central Television

The rise of China’s space program may pose a potentially serious military threat to the United States down the road, top American intelligence officials contend.

China continues to develop technology designed to destroy or disable satellites, which makes the United States and other nations with considerable on-orbit assets nervous. Even Beijing’s ambitious human spaceflight plans are cause for some concern, since most space-technology advances could have military applications, officials say.

“The space program, including ostensible civil projects, supports China’s growing ability to

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Apple Is Worth $500 Billion Now? – Business-IT Headlines & Perspectives

Anonymous Partners With WikiLeaks, Then Turns On Stratfor

Almond Touchscreen Wireless Router

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Interpol sweep nets 25 suspected ‘Anonymous’ hackers in four countries

The 5150 Report

Interpol has arrested 25 suspected members of the ‘

‘ hackers group in a swoop covering more than a dozen cities in Europe and Latin America, the global police body said on Tuesday.

“Operation Unmask was launched in mid-February following a series of coordinated cyber-attacks originating from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain,” said Interpol, based in the French city of Lyon.

The statement cited attacks on the websites of the Colombian Ministry of Defence and the presidency, as well as on Chile’s Endesa electricity company and its National Library, among others.

The operation was carried out by police from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain, the statement said, with 250 items of computer equipment and mobile phones seized in raids on 40 premises in 15 cities.

Police also seized credit cards and cash from the suspects, aged 17 to 40.

“This operation shows that crime in the virtual world does have…

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What is Anonymous

You Are Never Too Old To Surf

There was an AP story yesterday (see, for example, the version on MSNBC)  that said that 25 suspected members of the group Anonymous had been arrested in Europe and South America.  The story noted that they were hackers, but what does that really mean?

A simple definition of a hacker is one who searches for weaknesses in computer programs and, once found, exploiting the weakness in the program.  Some hackers are nothing more than talented computer students who want to learn more about their craft and so they try to outsmart the designers of the software.  Others are people acting on a challenge from one’s peers.  Sometimes members of these two groups become “white hat” hackers who try to break into systems for the purpose of making those systems stronger.  Still others use hacking as a way of gaining access to financial accounts or to information that can be…

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Compiling the Apache Flex SDK with IntelliJ

QueTwo's Blog

I’ve only been using IntelliJ for a few weeks now, but I love it.  I see myself using this as my primary IDE for all things Apache Flex as time moves forward.

One question that has been asked quite frequently on the Apache Flex Dev mailing list is “How do I compile the Apache Flex SDK with IntelliJ?”  Well, since a picture is worth a thousand words, a video on the subject must be worth… umm.. (11 minute video, at 15 frames a second, times the value of pi… )  9,900,000 words!

1. Grab the Requirements :
   1. Java JDK 1.5, 1.6 or 1.7
   2. Adobe Open Source Flex SDK 4.6 (needed for the compiler at the time of writing)
   3. IntelliJ with ANT, Flex and Java plugins
2. Create a new Project
3. Create a new Java Module.  Name it anything you wish.
4. Create a new Flex Module within that last Module.  It must be…

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