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I think 2008 will be a real year of change for the Security Practitioner and Security field.
2008 Security predictions
I sense a series of changes sweeping through the security world. I read around 75 IT newsletters a week, with a lot of emphasis put on the articles and blogs on this site. What do I see happening? I see a cascade of sorts coming to us.
1. Application, not network security, begins getting actual emphasis and funding. All those firewall and Operating system benchmarks are paying off. Maybe hackers can't access a shell on a UNIX server to go at information? Big deal, many internet apps have junk database security and stored procedures (running as root/DBA) that provide comparable access. Applications are the wiggle room. What do you know about safe coding practices and architectures?
2. The mobile world is here! Several years of Pocket PC's offering a full computing environment, but none of that matters now that the iPhone is here. Wow, I can watch videos and hear music while writing blogs! Ok, I'm done snarling, but I am happy that people are finally realizing the value of the mobile devices. I attended last year's MVP summit, armed with nothing more than my iPAQ. I blogged and did lots and lots without hauling a 50 lbs bag of batteries, manuals, CD's, etc. I want a smart phone. My tablet PC is loads more productive than the 17" boat anchor my daughter uses as a bedroom TV and PC. Expect lots of sales of mobile devices.
3. But what are the security risks of mobile devices? Most people never see them as full functioning PC's, despite these devices carrying company email and often being lost in taxicabs and bars. Seth Fogie did a great review of several apps and their coding practices in the Windows mobile world. Of course, I wonder if the products are significantly more secure in the Palm or Blackberry world (Sorry Seth!). But I think we all agree that significant work must be done in both user security and coding security practices for most mobile architectures?
4. Mobile apps become the opening into corporate systems as other openings are secured better. We're all filtering email and email gateways. We're controlling the admin privilege needed to install apps, often downloaded from the Internet. Some of us have app-layer gateways that recognize and block Java and ActiveX malicious mobile code (or we filter out links to gambling, porn, and p0wn sites that seem to have the worst malicious payloads).
Who's watching for the PalmPilot? You know, the old one that syncs to the company PC that downloads email, while being granted access to send mail to the internet?
Who's got a bluetooth security plan in place that controls bluetooth and its many 'wide-open by design' abilities, often enabled and working as their users walk the public places like restaurants? Can a hacker plant attack code and wait for it to be engaged, via synchronization, once back in the office? Are we able to see the possible puppet master that lurks behind the trusted PC?
Seth Fogie, ya I do respect the guy, showed us all, plainly, the big issues with ancient sync software that is often installed with cheapo, older Pocket PC's bought on eBay. Does your organization have official support and patching for mobile devices? How many are thrown, ad hoc, on your network? If you have no plan, managing your PC's is only part of the battle.
5. Embedded devices and appliance servers get focus--from the wrong crowd. You've heard the story. Brand X infrastructure server is a 'special' version of Linux with a 'custom' kernel that is simply unhackable. In truth, it's RedHat 7.2, without kernel patches, glibc patches, and has all of the old versions of SAMBA and wu-ftpd daemons installed. Rock and Roll Hoochie-Koo!
Also, the kiosk display touch screens you bought and places in malls, the ones that acquaint millions with your products in public settings, these units use a 'special' operating system that needs no patching, right? There's no need to provide secure FTP services to send new content to it?
Indeed, who would ever create a worm that renders your automobile's ECU inoperable? We'll love our IP v6 Refrigerators that track our consumption and order replacement groceries for us. Sure, embed your credit card number in the refrigerator's memory. We know in our heart of hearts that nothing will happen as our devices assume more traditional computing abilities, all the while being increasingly connected to Public networks.
I feel that we didn't learned from the past. UNIX, C, and TCP/IP were the enabling early Internet technologies. As other operating systems (mac OS 7, Windows, etc) hit the Internet, they found themselves victim to lots of attacks tried previously on earlier technologies. Being new though, their patching and other response systems were grossly inadequate to the attacks--logging was tough to come by on the Mac.
I believe we're facing a similar 'Perfect Storm', but with the mobile and embedded devices that increasingly define our modern lives. They have lots of customized designs and applications written in low-level C, using the poorest (security-wise) functions like strcpy.
They're getting on the internet;
the vendors claim their proprietary technologies = actual security; and
everyone's deriving heavily from Open Source libs without insisting on patched, recent versions.
You don't know just what you've bought, but your security scanning tools are reporting that your new security tools are a possible handful of 'magic bean' systems securing your organization's 'cash cows'?
6. Security just isn't important anymore. We in America might feel that we've gone too far with our security responses to 9/11. Americans are cyclical and swing from one extreme to another. Some of us might be a bit uncomfortable with possible abuses to civil liberties, justified by the past threats and attacks. We're ready to go back to 'business as usual' and won't want to hear the same security message. It's no longer necessary to screen travelers and the like. Time to sleep.
And it's that laxity that I believe will set the stage for a security cascade, sadly. Taking out Windows or Mac OS X systems via a worm is more nuisance than political statement. But stopping automobiles or defacing embedded display units, found worldwide, exceeds what might be done by defacing a company's flagship website maybe?
So at a time when we must secure more and more ubiquitous devices, will we want to do the job? We'll see!
7. On the human front, the SuperBugs have found a way to escape the hospitals and laugh off most anti-biotics, often only stopped via a thorough swabbing with of building walls with bleach to kill the contagion.
In response, many organizations neglect Business Resumption Planning and the need to prepare for remote access/work systems being implemented on a massive scale in a few hours. Whether a bout of Avian Flu or a mass quarantining of their building, the neglectful organizations lose days to trying to resume basic business operations. Some poor example organization may have this happen to it in 2008, and we take the topic seriously. Or not--I'm not sure?
Cool articles:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=680830 This one is good at showing the pervasive risks with pervasive computing systems.
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Talk about the application of digital and social media in Brussels-based EU public affairs often centres on the potential for grassroots mobilisation, citing one or more of the following:
- At national level, citizens are politically active online across the EU; given that they're using the same social networks, the advent of the European Citizens' Initiative, and activist sites like Avaaz are uniform and multilingual, pan-European campaigns should be on the up.
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- Likewise, EU policy-making is more consensus-based than at national level; the ability to come with solutions that can form the basis of consensus is valued more highly than public support (again – unless this is considerable).
- On the corporate side – let's be frank – even if there's a public interest angle, players are often on the wrong side of the public debate and thus have no interest in raising volume levels.
Does this make digital and social irrelevant in public affairs? No, but in most instances, focus should be on other elements of the digital/social suite, for instance:
- Basic content and search: successful public affairs requires timely provision of relevant communications material; this needs to be available online (and must be easy to locate) but too often it is not.
- Intelligence: various online intelligence tools and techniques should be applied more broadly e.g. network analysis technology can help map and prioritise relevant networks of influence.
- Social business: a frequent complaint about business lobbyists is that they know the dossiers inside out but not enough about the business they represent; similarly, PA professionals complain that their business counterparts don't value their work. Improved internal collaboration networks, one of the hallmarks of social business, could help both ways.
- And…. the digital & social ethos: given the complexity of the subject matter and the background of most public affairs professionals (i.e. policy/politics not strategic communications), PA is too often knowledge – not strategy and outcome – focussed, making too much PA output dull and ineffective. In digital and social, given online information overload, highly discerning audiences and greater internal scrutiny, output must be strategy based, creatively executed, social by design and measurable – or it just won't work.
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The full-service communications agency – and the generalist communicator – face a number of challenges.
The communications landscape
Media complexity: it goes without saying that channel proliferation, low barriers to entry and information overload conspire to make reach, engagement and persuasion more difficult.
Evolving service offering: media complexity, coupled with the continuing commoditisation or insourcing of previously lucrative activities (from monitoring a few years back to the likes of community management now) means that the service offering needs to constantly adapt and expand.
The nature of opinion formation: communications alone cannot dictate opinion formation (which then shapes reputation, purchasing decisions etc.) Peer recommendations matter, so product quality needs to be optimal, obviously. In addition, an organisation's behaviour can dictate opinion, and communicators are often powerless to affect areas that shape it, like culture, leadership, structure and business model, either because they don't have the skill-set or a seat at the right table (usually both).
Specialisms: scores of agencies specialise in individual elements of the communications landscape; their ability to focus means they'll invariably be best at what they do. Do-all agencies and generalists struggle, given the sheer number of specialisms. In the "beyond communications" space, dedicated digital transformation and change management players, as well as professional services companies moving into the intersection of their traditional offering and communications, present a real threat.
Enduring paradigms: in my previous stomping ground, Brussels, the government relations paradigm was seemingly shatterproof; in London, media relations still rules the roost (get a headline in a paper and self-satisfied back-patting ensues). Unless an organisation truly commits to specialising, focusing on a single component of the communications suite is too narrow given the intricacies of modern-day communications.
Measurement as an afterthought: the metrics for success in PR/PA used to be basic, not much beyond a story in a target publication (PR) or a meeting with a decision-maker (PA), for instance. Now, organisations demand measurement set against real business objectives. Despite some improvement and all manner of models, sophisticated measurement is not yet the norm.
Low bar-setting in execution: possibly due to the simplicity of traditional outputs of communications e.g. the press release, communicators too often fail to raise the bar for elements of our work where the output itself needs to be exceptional e.g. gorgeous creative or highly insightful research.
Rudimentary approach to assessing opinion formation: as a follow-up to the previous point, communicators too frequently fail to adopt a methodical approach to assessing what makes people tick (what makes them support a cause, make a purchasing decision etc.) Pollsters and market researchers have been doing it for decades, yet communicators in the PR/PA space have bizarrely neglected it.
So what do we – agencies, generalist communicators – do about it?
The obvious: hire specialists and pick up tricks from other disciplines (marketing, political campaigning, management consulting etc.)
Genuine commitment to partnering: this should already be rife, especially within the giant marketing and communications conglomerates where scores of agencies supposedly share their specialisms and guarantee economies of scale, but it's not ubiquitous yet. No surprise, given that the prevalent business model still favours keeping work in-house.
Eradicate the junior generalist: not literally, but a young communicator who isn't specialising in a particular discipline of communications is an anachronism, given the complexities described above. Assuming they're talented, experienced counsellors can still be generalists, as their role should centre on translating business problems into strategy. So knowing what the smorgasbord of specialties without actually being an expert in any of them can suffice. But what good is an inexperienced junior whose role is to execute, when they're expected to do so across multiple disciplines, non of which they'll ever master.
Phase out the alpha fixer: too many experienced communicators belong to the school of the alpha fixer – confident, with a quick and irrefutable answer to every concern. Given the complexities of the communications landscape, the alpha fixer cannot know it all, and should change tact. Their role should be to ask the right questions, translate business problems into strategy, then point to the experts within specialisms.
Public Affairs London vs. Brussels: 3 observations
March 15, 2014
I've been mostly London-based for just over 6 months now. Three divergences in the practice of Public Affairs have stood out for me so far (although there are many more):
1. Media matters
Few truly pan-European publications exist (the FT and the Economist to some extent), while Brussels-EU media are information aggregators or news sources more than reflections of – or shapers of – public opinion. So when trying to influence an EU-level decision-maker via media, the PA professional either has to target pan-European publications (difficult – story needs to be bloody good) or go via national press (virtually impossible at scale – trying to do media in up to +20 markets requires more resource than PA teams tend to have). There's a place for media in Brussels, but in a single national market with a concentrated, established suite of leading media outlets, media relations is easier (although by no means easy) and more impactful.
2. Sheer number of stakeholders
The bane of Brussels: finding someone who cares. Stakeholders i.e. people or organisations with a stake in your issue, largely only exist at national level. Obviously. This leaves Brussels PA folk with a variety of challenges. How to get national level stakeholders to take a real interest in Brussels? How to not offend by using too many stakeholders from a single member state, or only large member states, or only rich member states? In the UK, most stakeholders you're interested in tend to care about the issue, and to boot, they're usually not too far away.
3. Polling as a PA tool
Most issues in Brussels don't have much of a public angle: they're often too technical or niche for a wider audience to take any real interest. This almost always makes polling an irrelevance as a PA tool: why poll people, ostensibly in the hope of showing that you have public support, when the public knows nothing about your issue? Alternatively, there may be a public interest angle, but how are you going to poll across multiple member states without breaking the bank? In a national market, there's almost always a public interest angle, plus polling is more economical to carry out, making it a far likelier PA tool (assuming you have a fair share of public support, clearly).
I suppose the overarching theme is that shaping the environment in which policy making happens is more prevalent in London – and other national markets no doubt – than in Brussels. Effective government relations alone tends to not be enough to win, making the practice of Public Affairs a broader – and I'd argue, interesting – exercise.
Next phase of digital in corporate communications
February 15, 2014
For the communicator whose focus has been applying digital and social to corporate communications, efforts have tended to centre on building foundations:
- Evangelism – continually proving the value to internal audiences, given the peculiarities of corporate communications (smaller audiences and a – supposedly – more cerebral message)
- Channel strategy – given the niches, channel strategy has been front of mind as the corporate communicator has tended to be unsure of the value of most channels and usually wants to only be present on one or two
- Operations – corporate communications teams tend to be small; how can they, operationally, manage online content and engagement given the stress it places on resources
- Governance – corporate communicators are the guardians of reputation and their remit covers crisis, so clear governance has always been imperative
Although many organisations are still grappling with the foundations, others have got those boxes ticked. So the token digital and social person in the room now frequently needs to address other needs which represent the next phase of digital in corporate communications: doing it bloody well. Most of all, this involves:
- Planning – the insights and ideas piece. We're producing content, but so is everyone else. What's the target audience insight that matters most, and what's a smart idea for getting their attention and influencing their views?
- Creative – how can the smart idea best be presented?
- Subject matter knowledge – whereas knowing the channels and the principles has usually been enough, the person wearing the digital hat is also expected to understand the issue and/or sector in question more than has previously been the case
In effect, in the latter scenario, the digital person in corporate communications is no more. Basic planning, creative and subject matter knowledge don't stem from knowledge of digital; they're the hallmarks of a competent communications generalist. Purely "digital" people tend now to be experts in a single element of digital (a single component of social, user experience, listening etc.) As for the generalists, they should be removing "digital" from their job titles.
Questions corporate communicators fail to ask
January 26, 2014
There are staple questions in corporate communications, such as:
- What's the broader business imperative?
- What's the communications goal that will support the business imperative?
- What's the audience (implicitly meaning, who should we be trying to ultimately reach, or influence in order to gain their support?)
All very well, but we too often fail to flesh out the audience questions; we should also be asking:
- An audience is never entirely uniform: what are the audience segments?
- What are the values, traits and habits of each audience segment?
- Can each audience segment be influenced at all?
- If so, based on their values, traits and habits, what is likely to influence each segment?
- How do they consume information?
- How will our opponents target the same audiences?
The inadequacy of fact-based argumentation in corporate communications
December 19, 2013
A lot has been written recently on how political bias defines prevalent viewpoints on two of the most scrutinised issues of the day: climate change and GMOs.
In particular, this question is posed: why do people who define themselves as left of centre believe that climate change is real, citing good science, while being almost universally anti-GMO, despite the overwhelming scientific consensus being that GMOs are safe and beneficial?
Probably because a more dominant component of the traditional left of centre worldview takes over i.e. mistrust of big business. Given that GMOs are seen as a product of big business, and contribute to their profits, the science is overridden.
What's the communications slant on this?
The GMO case is one of many where companies ignore human nature in favour of rationality. In that industry, and countless others, when looking to defend themselves against attack or, more broadly, to manage their reputations, they argue at the wrong level, basing argumentation on fact, ideally backed by science.
But what's really under attack is often not the facts themselves, but the legitimacy of a profit-making organisation. So what should companies do? Grossly oversimplified, the following: foster a culture where being nice, honest and engaged trumps all; then communicate that culture through real people, not highly polished corporate speak.
Three angles favoured by corporate communicators (which don't work)
December 1, 2013
I've often heard corporate communicators representing organisations under attack cite one of these three approaches and declare that they'll turn a corner as long as they aggressively pursue it:
- No one understands what we do. "We've been too quiet and have not explained exactly what we do – when people understand how we operate, they'll be supportive."
- Fact vs. fiction. "There are too many falsehoods being perpetuated by critics. We need to rebut these far more actively, ideally using 3rd parties."
- Draw a line the sand. "By being too quiet, we've let critics get away with murder. Enough is enough. Let's send in the artillery and attack the opposition."
The truth:
- 3 is unlikely to work: belligerence makes things worse.
- There's nothing inherently wrong with 1 and 2, but they don't work in isolation. If both are practiced simultaneously, and with great skill, they'll buy some time.
So what does work?
- If 1 really is true i.e. "no one understands what we do", a campaign outlining how the organisation operates is not enough. There are probably deeper cultural realities that need addressing: why does no one know what it does? Presumably, they've appeared secretive, conceited or combative over the years (possibly all 3). Beyond information provision, a more deep-rooted change in tone and manner is vital: transparency, humility and a willingness to answer questions need to be palpable, with real people at the forefront, not just the polished spokesperson.
- If there is no truth at all in 1 i.e. if the organisation in question operates in a space in which no amount of cultural change and information provision can improve a damaged reputation, the communicator is fairly powerless. Reputational enhancement can only come about through significant business change i.e. dropping an unpopular product or service, or adapting the operating model or parts of the supply chain. Clearly, these sorts of big decision are C-suite remit and thus (usually) beyond the communicator's jurisdiction. Unless real change is likely, the communicator is left fighting fires and attempting to stall the inevitable.


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FDA Issues Final Rule for UDI System
On Friday, Sept. 20, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a
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for the long-awaited unique device identification (UDI) system.
Once implemented, according to the agency, the system will provide a consistent way to identify medical devices.
The UDI system is designed to improve the quality of information in medical device adverse events reports, which will help industry and the FDA identify product problems more quickly, better target recalls and improve patient safety. Years in the making, the development of the UDI system involved collaboration among FDA, the medical device industry, the clinical community, as well as patient and consumer groups.
"UDI represents a landmark step in improving patient safety, modernizing our post-market surveillance system for medical devices, and facilitating medical device innovation," said Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., J.D., director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
The UDI system consists of two core items. The first is a unique number assigned by the device manufacturer to the version or model of a device, called a unique device identifier. This identifier also will include production-specific information such as the product's lot or batch number, expiration date and manufacturing date when that information appears on the label.
The second component is a publicly searchable FDA database called the Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID) that will serve as a reference catalogue for every device with an identifier. No identifying patient information will be stored in this device information center, according to the agency.
The FDA plans to phase in the UDI system, focusing first on high-risk medical devices. Many low-risk devices will be exempt from some or all of the requirements in the final rule.
Once fully implemented, the UDI system rule is expected to have many benefits for patients, the health care system and the device industry. It will enhance the ability to quickly and efficiently identify marketed devices when recalled, improve the accuracy and specificity of adverse event reports and provide a foundation for a global, secure distribution chain, helping to address counterfeiting and diversion. It will also offer a clear way of documenting device use in electronic health records and clinical information systems.
"A consistent and clear way to identify medical devices will result in more reliable data on how medical devices are used. In turn, this can promote safe device use by providers and patients as well as faster, more innovative, and less costly device development," said Shuren.
The FDA issued the proposed rule requesting input from industry, the clinical community and patient and consumer groups in July last year.
According to FDA officials, the agency tried reduce the burden on industry by building upon systems already in place. The UDI system is a key component of the National Medical Device PostMarket Surveillance System proposed in September 2012.
In general, high-risk medical devices (Class III) will be required to carry unique device identifiers on their label and packaging within one year, and this number and corresponding device information must be submitted to the new database. Manufacturers will have three years to act for most Class II (moderate risk) devices. Manufacturers of Class I devices not exempt from UDI requirements will have five years to act.
Included the announcement is the publication of a
draft guidance
for manufacturers outlining how to submit information to the database.
The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the industry's largest trade group, was quick to respond to the announcement.
Janet Trunzo, senior executive vice president of technology and regulatory affairs for AdvaMed said the group was still reviewing the rule's final rule, but commended the FDA for addressing many of the issues that industry raised in the proposed rule.
"We have long supported a UDI system for medical devices that, if appropriately implemented, holds the promise of more accurate and useful post-market surveillance and more rapid medical technology improvements. And this rule is a good step toward achieving that goal," Trunzo said. "We are pleased that FDA recognizes the difficulty and limited benefit of direct marking of implants and has eliminated this requirement. Similarly, we commend FDA for concluding that multiple single-use devices within multi-packs only need the UDI on the multi-pack and not the individual device."
One of the industry's concerns was that many manufacturers will have extensive inventories of product when the UDI rule goes into effect. Trunzo said she was "encouraged" that FDA understands this issue and will allow an additional three years for inventories to be depleted.
"Also, in line with industry recommendations, FDA acknowledges that one year may not be enough time to implement a UDI system for all Class III devices and will allow firms to petition to extend the implementation period based on public health and supply disruption issues," Trunzo added. "Finally, while FDA recognizes the ISO date format is more appropriate than their proposed American format, we are puzzled that the final rule includes the day of the month for expiration dates when expiration date testing generally does not include the day of the month."
Implementation of the UDI system will be a "costly and challenging endeavor, Trunzo said.
"It is imperative that it is implemented correctly the first time, and that its ongoing use is practical, economical, and of value to patients, healthcare providers, industry and FDA," she said.
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British music producer Adam Kidron says he crafted a Spanish language version of the U.S. national anthem to inspire millions of Latin American immigrants to share in our devotion to our star-spangled banner.
More likely, Kidron and the various artists who worked on the project were seeking another avenue to shape the political debate over immigration reform (and sell some records along the way).
The attempt appears to have backfired, as "Nuestro Himno" has been criticized by none other than President Bush, who speaks a fair amount of Spanish himself and who has been consistently sympathetic to a future role for illegal immigrants already in U.S.
The significant criticism since "Nuestro Himno" was released last week might not have been so strong if Kidron had attempted a literal translation of the original tribute to Old Glory. The U.S. Department of Education first commissioned a Spanish version of the song in 1919 called "La Bandera de Estrellas," according to the Library of Congress. And the U.S. State Department lists three other Spanish versions as well, which are intended to help foreign dignitaries understand what is sung when they attend U.S. ceremonies.
But Kidron and company provided their own interpretation of the poem by Francis Scott Key, not a translated version of the song declared our national anthem in 1931. Note the broad differences in the second verse of the "Nuestro Himno" with such phrases as "We are brothers in our anthem" and "The time has come to break the chains."
Some commentators have defended these differences as necessary for the song to retain its lyrical quality in Spanish. But consider this little item included in the Washington Post's reporting on the song's release.
"An alternate version to be released (in May) includes a rap in English that never occurred to Francis Scott Key: Let's not start a war/With all these hard workers/They can't help where they were born."
Many U.S. residents, of all ethnic backgrounds, are deeply concerned that immigrants who enter this country illegally have less interest in embracing the culture and values that unite this country and make it great. Kidron's version of the "Star-Spangled Banner" has inflamed those concerns while trying to use our national anthem to make a political point.
"The Star Spangled Banner"
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say does that star spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
Source: nationalanthemproject.org
"Nuestro Himno"
It's sunrise. Do you see by the light of the dawn What we proudly hailed last nightfall? Its stars, its stripes yesterday streamed above fierce combat a symbol of victory the glory of battle, the march toward liberty. Throughout the night, they proclaimed: "We will defend it!" Chorus Tell me! Does its starry beauty still wave above the land of the free, the sacred flag?
Its stars, its stripes, liberty, we are equals. We are brothers in our anthem. In fierce combat, a symbol of victory the glory of battle, (My people fight on) the march toward liberty. (The time has come to break the chains.) Throughout the night they proclaimed: "We will defend it!" Tell me! Does its starry beauty still wave above the land of the free, the sacred flag?
English translation as provided by National Public Radio


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Father of LCD dies at 74
French Nobel laureate Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, a pioneer of the liquid crystal display (LCD), died last week at the age of 74. De Gennes, dubbed the Isaac Newton of our time, won the 1991 Nobel Prize for Physics for his groundbreaking work in liquid crystals and polymers. After graduating from the Ecole Normale Superieure, he …
The Isaac Newton of our time?
/de mortuis nil nisi bonum/, but surely "the modern Newton" is a bit overstated? Newton revolutionised our thinking in optics, mechanics and gravitation as well as (co-)discovering the calculus. Alongside which "contributed to the development of the LCD" (plus a walk-on part in a biopic, which unaccountably Newton never managed) looks a little weak to me.
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a 74" coffin or go smaller with Bose speakers?
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All respect to prof. De Gennes, but surely calling him a modern day Isaac Newton is a bit excessive. After all, ground breaking work on liquid crystals is not quite the same as inventing Calculus and developing a model of force and motion that dominated scientific thinking for over 200 years!
It is SUPERCONDUCTORS not supraconductors
Supraconductors isn't even correct in French, where the french word for superconductors is "supraconducteurs".
Not so sure
If Newton were alive today, I frankly doubt that he would have accomplished anything that would keep his name in the public mind for hundreds of years. As science gets more specific and esoteric, it becomes dramatically harder to make vast public discoveries that sound wowee-zing to the layman.
The alternative to calling people like him a modern day Isaac Newton is saying that we don't have any, and will, most likely, never have one again. Name one living scientist that more than, say, 5% of the US population can actually name off the top of their heads. And that's while they're alive!
Your alternatives are:
1) people are stupider today, universally. Or,
2) It's so much harder to make a useful discovery today that the people who are as smart as Newton, or nearly so, are reduced to nibbling at the fringe of knowledge.
If Newton were alive today ...
... he'd be working on financial derivatives in the City, making a mint (sorry!)
The point is Newton was a genius who towered above his contemporaries. Now if someone called Roger Penrose "the modern Newton", they might have more of a point.
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But then again, less than 5% of the US population can correctly name the capital of China despite having bought hugh quantities of Chinese-made goods from their Wal-Marts, etc. !!
So I believe that your alternative 1) is correct when applied to the US !!
Penrose the new Newton?
Hardly. Maybe Dawkins - he seems paranoid enough about religion to be the equivalent (by the way, I'm an atheist).
"Supraconductors" is fine
Although largely replaced by the newer term "superconductor", materials with superconducting properties were referred to as supraconductors in all the early research, and the tem is still used interchngeably in some circles.
Where was STN LCD invented?
STN LCD made the commodity LCD market possible, didn't it? Prior to that LCDs weren't ever going to be affordable?
STN LCD was invented at RSRE Malvern, wasn't it? (And then in the usual British way commoditised elsewhere)
What kind of contributor doesn't mention Malvern/STN in an LCD-history-related article?
Stephen Hawking
There's your scientist more than 5% of the American public can name. But even Hawking shouldn't lay claim to being a modern Newton.
Missing from any article on the History of LCD
Pioneering work on liquid crystals was undertaken in the late 1960s by the UK's Royal Radar Establishment at Malvern. The team at RRE supported ongoing work by George Gray and his team at the University of Hull who ultimately discovered the cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals (which had correct stability and temperature properties for application in LCDs).
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_crystal_display
> Now if someone called Roger Penrose "the modern Newton", they might have more of a point.
He fits the criteria - brilliant but a bit of a crank as a sideline.
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