Tuesday, February 21, 2006

More progress on recreating identification Although it is primitive, this is a very cool example of where research is taking things with respect to identity, identifying, and self-recognition. Robot Demonstrates Self-awareness. [Slashdot] [tags: indentity robots brain recognition future singularity] 11:41:01 AM      Realizing where you stand In each day of our lives, it's very easy to fall prey to the normal complaining about our lives.  Oh me, oh my ... what I don't have in my life ... what I should have!  :-) Miguel posted this link and it's an amazing presentation to remind you of where you stand in life ... the majority of people on earth live on less than the equivilent of $10/day. Human Development Trends. Various statistics of human development trends in flash-tutorial form here http://gapminder.org/. By Miguel de Icaza (miguel@gnome.org). [Miguel de Icaza] [tags: poverty wealth future gap income future] 11:10:32 AM      Botnets ... the unknown reality I find it hard to believe that many people are not aware of botnets, and what they are doing.  Of course, I'm so deep in technology and the Internet that my "common sense" is now severely distorted.  For those people who have not heard about botnets, this Washington Post botnet article is a great place to start.  It's an eye opener. When you read this article, just realize that this is about the botnets that have been discovered and are known.  There are more out there that are unknown, and the sizes of some of these botnets is staggering.  Read here, here, or here, about the FBI arrest of a many running a 400,000+ node botnet!  Oh yeah ... and he was 20 years old. [tags: botnets trojans hacks cracks future technology software internet] 10:27:07 AM

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