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Today we are treated to another guest post by the brilliant Deana Sidney from the site Lost Past Remembered. Deana is a professional designer by day and an avid food historian and accomplished cook all the time. She writes:
Whenever I see the word Baghdad, a small door in my brain opens to a storybook world where perfumed silks billow over marble floors, scimitars flash and veiled woman have black-lined eyes and perfect beauty.
I guess it's pretty obvious the visuals for the stories in One Thousand and One Nights made a big impression on me as a child when I saw them in Maxfield Parrish's illustrations for Arabian Nights and in Michael Powell's Technicolor masterpiece, The Thief of Baghdad –– the images enchant all these years later. The idea of Baghdad is still tremendously alluring. Now it has a flavor too!
I know –– the truth of Baghdad today is a world of different. But I am going to go back in time to the golden age of Baghdad. The one thing that hasn't changed is food … it is and was spectacular.
Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ (The Book of Dishes) was written by Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi in 1226, at the end of the golden age of the Abbasid Caliphate (an end brought about by the Mongol hoards that destroyed Baghdad in 1258). The Abbasid were incredibly sophisticated and inclusive of many other cultures, including Chinese as well as Persian and Turkish. The Caliphate reached the height of its powers in the 9th century when it stretched all through the Mediterranean to the Arabian Sea. Math, science and literature flourished. One of my favorite books, One Thousand and One Nights, was written during this time … combining tales of many cultures and giving us Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba. There really was a world like the one in my imagination –– once upon a time.
The cookbook was a huge hit and became famous, especially in Turkey where a copy ended up … remarkable since all copies were written by hand. There were originally 160 recipes that were expanded to 260 through the centuries.
I found the book quite by accident, intrigued by an online recipe about the addictive salted sauce called murri that came from a translation of a recipe by Charles Perry (I wrote about murri HERE). That discovery compelled me to get a copy of A Baghdad Cookery Book. Once I opened it, I began cooking my way through it.
I had the good fortune to meet Mr. Perry at the Oxford Food Symposium. He has translated many manuscripts in many languages in addition to being a former LA Times food critic and Rolling Stone writer… what an interesting life he's led! He was accessible and terribly nice.
When I went out to LA for the Lambapalooza dinner (that I wrote about HERE), I couldn't think of a better companion for the meal than Mr. Perry since I made his recipe for Rutabiyya as my offering for the feast. He walked me through preparation of the classic murri and with his help I made another version by rotting barley for weeks! I shared samples of ambergris and manna that I had procured for the dinner with him as a small thank you for his help.
The recipe I am sharing today is called Mudaqqaqat Hamida (which means sour meatballs). I have been on a meatball roll lately (so to speak)… they are all the rage in NYC this year and perfect food for a cold winters night. This recipe is slightly exotic, but easy to make. They are like proto-Swedish meatballs since they are sweet and sour from the natural sweetness of the reduced stock and the lemon, sumac and pomegranate molasses.
One ingredient that I do not use is something called tail fat. It comes from the fat-tailed sheep that I read makes up an astounding 25% of the world's sheep population. I hear it may be available in the US but would be very difficult to come by. Almost every recipe in the book calls for using it. Absent tail fat, I would say using an animal fat like lard or duck fat would be similar to add extra flavor. A vegetable oil will be fine if you are squeamish about animal fat.
I know that mastic is not on every pantry shelf –– it is available online and in most Middle-Eastern markets and looks like a rough yellow diamond (it is a dried resin). You need very little. I learned that the hard way the first time I used it. The amount for the dish wasn't really listed so I put in too much because I love the way it smelled –– it's best when it is delicately used, then it's lovely and haunting. Honestly, there is nothing that remotely tastes like it so I couldn't think of making a substitution. The closest thing would be a splash of Retsina… but that wouldn't be quite right. Sumac is also unusual, but is also available in those markets and online –– use extra lemon if you don't have it. The meat has a wonderful sweetness to it and contrasts beautifully with the sour sauce. As with most dishes that have lots of warm spices, it perfumes your mouth when you eat it and is deeply satisfying. Serve with any flatbread or whole-wheat couscous.
Mudaqqaqat Hamida (sour meatballs) serves 4
1 pound ground lamb
1 t ground coriander
1 t ground pepper
1 t ground cinnamon
¼ t ground mastic (use a mortar and pestle, or roll it between foil with a rolling pin)
2/3 c chickpeas, mashed (I tried both frozen green chickpeas from WF and canned… I don't know which is more authentic but I loved the taste of the green… both are delicious in the lamb)
2 small onions chopped
2 t salt or to taste
oil to brown meat (I used leftover fat from cooking a pheasant for added flavor but duck fat, lard or olive oil is fine)
juice of 1 lemon
1 t sumac (optional)
½ t saffron threads
3 T pomegranate molasses
¼ to ½ cup chopped fresh mint (to your taste)
3 cups unsalted stock
1 – 2 drops Aftelier Rose Chef's Essence or 2-3 T rosewater – to taste
Seeds from 1 pomegranate
Combine the lamb and spices and chickpeas and 1 onion. Roll into balls… small golf ball size is good. Brown in the fat with the rest of the onion and pour off any excess fat.
Add stock or water and lemon juice, sumac, saffron and cook the meatballs till they are done over a medium flame.
Reduce the liquid till it thickens somewhat. Add pomegranate molasses and rose essence/rosewater to taste and cook for another few minutes. The natural sweetness of the reduced stock is perfect with the sour additions. If you don't reduce the sauce the sourness is unbalanced. Toss in some of the chopped mint and stir. Serve with Pomegranate seeds and fresh mint sprinkled on top.
Original recipe:
"Cut red meat into thin slices, then mince fine, adding seasonings, coriander, pepper, cinnamon and mastic together with chickpeas and a little onion. Made into cabobs, smaller than oranges. Melt fresh tail [fat], and throw in the cabobs, stirring until browned then cover with water. Cut up two or three onions and add. When cooked, removed the oils and sprinkle on top a little lemon or grape-juice, or a mixture of both, or sumach-juice, or pomegranate-juice. Rub over the saucepan some sprigs of dry mint, and throw in a little mastic, pepper and cinnamon. If desired, sprinkle in a little wine-vinegar, and color with saffron. Spray the saucepan with a little rose-water, and wipe the sides with a clean rag. Leave over the fire and hour: then remove."
Thanks Deana for another amazing historical food adventure! (Words and photograph of Mudaqqaqat Hamida by Deana Sidney. Illustration of The Thief of Baghdad 1 & 2 by Maxfield Parrish from Wikipedia; illustration from 1429 edition of 1001 Nights from Answers.com; Book of Dishes from the Yale Library; photo of fat-tailed sheep from Wikipedia; and photo of stone bowl from Uruk from FAO.


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The Senate has voted against funding a controversial computer program backed by the Pentagon. A setback for what is now called the Terrorism Information Awareness program, the Senate added a provision to deny funding for the computer surveillance effort in its $369 billion military spending bill, which it passed unanimously. Both the Bush administration and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research arm of the Pentagon that oversees the Terrorism Information Awareness program, called on the Senate to remove the provision to deny $54 million for research and development of the computer surveillance initiative over three years. The Pentagon wants to create a database of credit card bills, airline records, and other health, educational, and personal information that it could comb to identify patterns of terrorist-related activity. The computer surveillance initiative also would include long-distance surveillance technology that could identify someone by their gait, or even by the irises of their eyes. However, bipartisan support in Congress and among privacy groups has grown to check the program, which features an all-seeing eye logo and the slogan "knowledge is power" in Latin. The House, in its defense appropriations bill, gives the Pentagon more leeway to pursue the program, but a provision would prevent it from using the technology on U.S. citizens without congressional permission.
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Steve Wozniak's Wheels of Zeus company has unveiled its first product, a wireless tracking system for personal property, pets, and people. WozNet, as the system is called, involves tags attached to the person or thing to be tracked, base stations that broadcast one or two miles on the unlicensed 900 MHz band, global positioning satellite signals, and a back-end system that can send users email notices about errant dogs or students arriving at school. Wozniak says the idea was an inexpensive system that could keep track of things simply. WozNet data is encrypted for each individual user, but the system can be adjusted to accommodate neighborhood watch-type applications. Wheels of Zeus plans to install multiple base stations connecting to one another, thereby extending WozNet's range and usefulness since chips can communicate with any WozNet base station. Each tracking chip costs less than $25 to make, and the simple 20,000 bits per second signal is meant to cut through crowded radio environments. Those familiar with the development of WozNet say Wozniak was integrally involved in the hardware design. He is known for simple and elegant solutions, such as Apple's early graphics and display innovations and disk controller design. After a serious plane crash in 1981, Wozniak left Apple to start Cloud 9, a technically astute company that failed commercially. Although happy as an elementary school teacher during the 1990s, he admits, "I was itching a little for another startup experience. Also, it was easy to laugh and enjoy the ideas that the first few of us were coming up with, this time."
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New serial technologies are set to replace standard SCSI and ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) interfaces over the next two years, even as hard-disk drive manufacturers prepare for an entirely new form of bit storage. Perpendicular recording will replace longitudinal recording in storage devices, placing bits on end instead of lying them parallel on the disc surface, thus dramatically increasing the possible storage density. Whereas longitudinal recording will max out at about 100- to 200Gbits per square inch, perpendicular recording will enable up to 1Tbit per square inch, according to Seagate Technology's Gary Gentry. Working prototypes for perpendicular recording have been made, but disk-drive makers Seagate and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies continue to invest in longitudinal recording advances. Gentry explains that in the hard-disk industry, reliability is of paramount importance and that technologies are introduced only at a mature stage. Meanwhile, new serial interfaces promise higher transmission speeds for today's hard disks while eliminating some of the electrical interference and bandwidth bottlenecks that had plagued parallel interfaces. In the PC market, Apple's new G5 system uses Serial ATA (SATA) while Intel systems are expected to use the new interface by year's end. Although it got a later start, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology is making faster headway because developers can leverage preliminary work done on SATA. Gentry expects SATA to result in 2.5-inch disk drives in the enterprise market, which will improve performance density and lower the overall cost of ownership.
Larry Wall and Guido van Rossum each created their open source scripting languages, Perl and Python, respectively, in the 1980s and earned the loyalty of users by providing an easy way to write code without extensive computer science expertise. Despite the lack of support among many university computer science programs, Perl and Python--and other scripting languages such as PHP, Ruby, and TCL--still appeal to software developers who are looking for a free-and-easy programming language. Although originally used for smaller tasks, scripting languages are now capable of handling the same robust applications as Java or C, though a graphics-intensive computer game, for example, might run more slowly. The autoexec.bat batch file found in Windows and DOS systems is an example of script code's humble origins. Perl and Python each represent a certain programming mindset, with Perl being more flexible and permissive and Python requiring strict discipline. Wall finds Perl analogous to his evangelical Christian faith, saying, "God doesn't enforce morality on us, but prefers to let us choose it. And if we are created in God's image, we ought to extend the same courtesy." Now looking for a new sponsor after a stint with the nonprofit Perl Foundation, Wall says he is now working a major redesign of Perl to compensate for bad decisions made early on.
Carnegie Mellon University has won a $7 million contract to develop software that will enable computer systems to learn by receiving advice and instruction from human masters. Awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the contract calls for the university's School of Computer Science to develop the Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning (RADAR) system, which will move computers closer to operating as thinking machines, transforming how people interact with them. Carnegie Mellon intends to have RADAR help sort email, plan meetings, allocate resources, maintain Web sites, and write reports. RADAR will be part of DARPA's Perceptive Assistant that Learns (PAL) program, which benefits cognitive information processing research such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. The PAL program will produce technology that will be helpful to the military, businesses, and academia. DARPA, a federal agency, also awarded a $22 million contract to SEI International, which will use the money to develop software that enables computers to apply reason to unexpected circumstances.
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California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is set to issue rules for so-called "Direct Recording Electronic" (DRE) machines that tally election votes digitally. The case represents the on-going battle between eager advocates of updated technology and those that believe more security needs to be built into the system, writes Dan Gillmor. Computer experts have largely come down on the side of slower adoption, saying paper trails need to be created, such as with confirmation tickets issued to the voter immediately after they cast their vote. Meanwhile, groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights have either filed lawsuits or taken an aggressive stance against slow adoption of DRE equipment. Critics of current DRE systems say no technology is completely failsafe and that private companies' assurances should not be trusted blithely. Secretary Shelley commissioned a task force to study DRE machines, which reported that DRE systems did need improved testing and certification processes. However, only three of the panel's nine members insisted on a paper ticket, which could be useful in validating any contested election results, as well as in increasing voter trust. Another critical argument of undocumented DRE voting is that any failure could significantly undermine voter confidence. On the national level, U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) has introduced the "Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003" that would require DRE systems leave a paper trail for the 2004 elections. Gillmor writes that even a hint at the possibility of fraud is justification for proceeding slowly with new voting technology and heeding the warnings of computer experts who argue that deploying untraceable computer-based voting systems could lead to an "electoral train wreck."
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is ready to award funding to a new university consortium that will carry forward nanotechnology research for the next decade. The new National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) will replace the previous consortium, comprised of five schools and led by Cornell and Stanford universities. The NSF is required to seek new contracts every 10 years, and is taking the opportunity to expand the scope of its university nanotechnology research program, focusing more on life sciences and energy fields, for example, and researching social implications. "The nanotech community wants to avoid the huge problems the genetically modified food people got themselves into," says Arizona State professor Trevor Thorton, whose school is part of a bidding group led by MIT. Control and measurement techniques will also be pursued, instead of only the basic creation of nanostructures. So far only two bidding groups have been confirmed--one comprising the original group plus five other universities, and another led by MIT and the University of California, Berkeley. Links to industry are significant factor in consideration, and NSF officials can pick out components of different bids to create a new contract. Funding for the new group will also be doubled, from $5.6 million each year previously to about $14 million per year for the NNIN.
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Corporate technology leaders still have yet to exploit the integration of global positioning system (GPS) technology and the Web, though the technical standards for doing so are emerging. Map applications, for example, could be integrated with GPS through scalable vector graphics (SVG), where doors, walls, escalators, and other features are assigned specific coordinates. The GPSml markup language proposed to the W3C by Charon, Inc. and based on XML would allow developers to assign Web services applications to a specific physical location, so people with a tracking application could get updated directions based on their location, among other things. Because each GPS unit has a unique identifier, there is the potential that Web services tied to GPS could be exploited by marketers, pulling up a customer profile associated with the identifier each time they near a store. An identifier's importance could be better understood by associating it with a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), which could be used to assign applications to specific locations so they will be triggered when those locations are referred to. GPSml would provide the Web Services document for a number of possible context-relevant applications. The Really Simple Schema currently popular in the blogging community could be a way to publish Geeplogs, or GPS-enabled blogs that describe an area, or perhaps a person's travel through an area.
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Tracking the location of people accurately via sensor networks while keeping their identities private is the goal of software designed by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "Our work applies...anonymity or depersonalization on-the-fly to a stream of location data before it can be stored in a database that might be exposed to inside attacks or...inadvertent data disclosures," notes researcher Marco Gruteser, who says the technique could be ready for practical applications in three to six years. The software devised by Gruteser and colleagues allows the accuracy of location data to be automatically adjusted while overt identifiers such as names can be removed thanks to current sensors' computational abilities. "The algorithm monitors the overall number of people and adaptively changes the precision of reported locations--say, from a room level to a building floor level--to maintain the predefined minimum level of privacy," Gruteser explains. Furthermore, data gathered by the network is distributed among multiple sensor nodes, thus thwarting hackers from learning private information even if they compromise individual nodes. However, Gruteser concedes that the scheme is only appropriate for applications that are not dependent on user identification and can accommodate less accurate location information--applications such as facility usage surveillance, vehicular traffic surveillance, monitoring available meeting rooms and offices, and gathering retail store traffic statistics. Gruteser adds that organizations should have sensor networks certified by third-party agencies if they wish to collect data gathered by those networks. Purdue University computer science professor Gene Spafford cautions that the privacy-aware location sensor network approach may be too opaque for numerous applications, and adds that ensuring all sensors are tamper-proof may be an unrealistic expectation.
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Pervasive computing could benefit from research in Australia involving the use of sound to track people as they move around a building. Dr. Arkady Zaslavsky, associate professor at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University, supervised a research project that sought to track and even predict the movements and direction of a person according to their voice. "The main aspect [of the project was] to address some aspects of pervasive computing, namely, use the ability of mobile software agents to track objects of interest, and in this particular case, using sounds those objects make," says Zaslavsky. The Australian researchers used Voice Micro-edition to demonstrate and implement the program, which was done on two IBM computers in different rooms. According to IBM, pervasive computing turns everything from cars, refrigerators, and desk lamps into computing devices, as a result of having computing chips installed in them and a connection to the Internet. In addition to mobile software agents, the research project made use of active microphones for computers. Zaslavsky envisions the technology allowing an email window to follow someone throughout the office. Similarly, a home-based worker who leaves her office to get a snack would have an incoming document delivered to a unit in the kitchen as a result of the technology.
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Grid computing allows the Internet to fulfill its full potential, turning the network itself into a powerful computing platform available anytime, anywhere. On its 30th anniversary, the Internet allows collaboration and sharing throughout the world through the Web and email, and is becoming an efficient platform for other older communication systems, such as the radio, television, and telephone. All of these innovations are contingent upon the open standards and collaborative culture that continues to drive Internet development. Now, the increase of processing and bandwidth capacity, together with open standards and collaboration, are making grid computing a reality. With grid computing, the Internet makes available the idle capacity, applications, and data on connected machines to the entire network. As with the creation of the Internet itself, grid computing technology began in academic circles for high-end applications such as physics and life sciences modeling. And in the same way businesses caught onto the promise of the Internet, commercial applications for grid computing are emerging in the financial services, manufacturing engineering, and even gaming sectors. Butterfly.net, for instance, utilizes a grid infrastructure to provide a platform for massive multiplayer online games. Key to the maturation of grid computing, however, are open standards and autonomic infrastructure, one example of which is IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer. In that experiment, researchers are making 8 million discrete computing elements work together autonomously.
Virginia Tech Ph.D. engineering student and Sagem Morpho senior product engineer Creed Jones is developing software involving highly complicated mathematics in order to improve face recognition systems, whose accuracy can be affected by variant lighting conditions, camera angles, or facial expressions. "We need new and better algorithms and theories to focus on the problem, and we need better software," argues Lynn Abbott of Virginia Tech's Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, who acts as Jones' thesis advisor. Abbott explains that the hardware component is relatively easy, but the software needs to meld statistical analysis and artificial intelligence analysis. Jones is working on a face recognition tool that is adapted for color by modifying Gabor filters, which are designed to handle black and white images. "Everyone currently uses black and white images in biometrics and this presents a problem with skin tone," the doctoral student notes. Biometrics technology has become ubiquitous, and comprises a large component of the security push that has thus far characterized the 21st Century. Jones says that legislation on the use and distribution of biometric surveillance data will need to be devised to quell societal concerns.
The Critical Infrastructure Protection Project, a joint venture between James Madison and George Mason universities in Virginia, seeks to shield the United States' critical infrastructure and solve cybersecurity problems through an interdisciplinary research initiative, and former Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office staff member John McCarthy serves as the project's executive director. McCarthy, who also coordinated cybersecurity readiness planning as an auxiliary to the Assistant to the President for Y2K, says the joint university program is unique in that it attempts to meld law, policy, governance, and technology under one banner. Over 30 research projects are being conducted under McCarthy's program, and McCarthy insists that all of them are important, although categorizing their importance is difficult, given that there are several research layers to consider, such as awareness. Among the projects being undertaken is an analysis of Internet infrastructure in order to map out the country's telecommunications framework, which will help researchers understand how the destruction of key facilities would disrupt Internet connectivity and performance. McCarthy is impressed by the cybersecurity movement's progress over the past seven years, from a relatively obscure issue to a leading point of the Clinton and Bush administrations' agendas. "At this point, it would be almost awkward to have a highly centralized White House element with a department trying to build a cyber and physical security structure," McCarthy notes. "We applaud Dick Clarke for getting this agenda moving; now it's time to put it back in a departmental structure and let it grow from there." McCarthy agrees with the national cybersecurity strategy, but says that a vital element is missing--an extensive conceptual architecture that is universally accepted.
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The concept of the networked home--a living space characterized by "ambient intelligence" where digital devices intuit and respond to user needs--is growing in popularity thanks to a surge in broadband adoption, the development of more user-friendly technology, and a shift to more entertainment-oriented PCs concurrent with the rollout of more PC-like consumer electronics. Networking a home extensively is an expensive proposition, and hurdles such as standards incompatibility and navigating through a mire of wires or wireless software codes still need to be overcome. Nokia, Sony, Hewlett-Packard, and other companies founded the Digital Home Working Group in June to deploy guidelines to establish interoperability between networked devices. Digital home residents interviewed by BusinessWeek explained that their desire for technology depends on its ease of use and how it empowers the user. The living room is becoming the hub of the digital home: The growth of DVDs is spurring consumers to upgrade their living room technology to create a more movie theater-like experience; cable and satellite companies and content suppliers hope to make a mint by supplementing this experience with on-demand movies and games delivered via the Internet, while PC makers think that "entertainment PCs" will reenergize sales. Wi-Fi, in conjunction with mobile devices, is allowing Internet access to migrate out of the study and into the bedroom, while automated climate control currently has little appeal for modestly-budgeted consumers. Manufacturers say there has been less enthusiasm for a digital kitchen because women are less willing than men to deal with technology implementation headaches; nevertheless, Sears and other retailers see potential in enhancing kitchen appliances such as ovens and refrigerators with radio-frequency identification tags, remote diagnostic systems, and other technologies. Another trend poised to affect the move toward the digital home is e-health, in which high-tech gadgets and network connections are being tested and used for assisted living: Certain e-health applications may show up in the bathroom, such as toilets that measure sugar levels in urine and transmit the data to physicians over the Net.
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Despite his crushing defeat to Deep Blue six years ago, world chess champion Garry Kasparov insists that computers have given chess new life--indeed, they have effected a radical transformation of the game. The addition of computers and more sophisticated programs has changed the way players can prepare for matches--Kasparov notes, for instance, that the ChessBase program, which he encouraged engineers to design, now features a database of over 2.7 million games, providing players with a wealth of information that can aid them in their strategies. Five years ago Kasparov proposed a new chess concept in which a human player and a computer would team up to combat another man-machine duo. "The way the game is designed we can compare human intuition and computer calculating power," he exclaims. Kasparov believes his tournament with Deep Junior, which ended in a draw, was valuable from a scientific standpoint and a societal standpoint, while demonstrating that humans are still superior to machines, provided they do not make large errors. "The long-term experiment will be whether, on his best day, the best human player assisted by a machine to prepare the game could beat the best machine," Kasparov explains. He says the game of chess helps solidify the debate between whether artificial intelligence should be evaluated by performance or results, and adds that he thinks results are the more important factor. Kasparov acknowledges that machines are starting to exhibit personalities--for example, he is able to immediately recognize the Deep Junior and Deep Fritz programs based on the moves they make.
The 2003 InfoWorld Security Survey of over 500 IT executives and strategists finds that readers' security tactics have changed, with greater emphasis on internal security and less investment in outsourcing. Forty-nine percent of respondents report that their current security solutions are very effective--52 percent say less than 100 intrusions were attempted on their networks in the past 12 months, while 63 percent estimate that fewer than 10 attacks penetrated their security. Readers concur that security does not rely on technology alone, but rather on a mix of technology, corporate policy, and education. Eighty-four percent of respondents list viruses and worms as the No. 1 security threat because of the annoyance factor, while the No. 1 internal security problem is unintentional employee error. The poll indicates that hacking is losing its appeal in the face of tougher penalties for computer crimes, more vigorous law enforcement, and the roster of talent agencies employ to interrupt, track down, and apprehend hackers. Fifty-one percent of respondents report that their firms handle all security matters internally, while just 2 percent have fully outsourced security to third parties. However, 79 percent say the biggest security hurdle they will have to overcome in the next year is the fact that employees generally downplay the importance of complying with corporate security policies, a problem reinforced by a lack of enforcement staff. Author Tom Yager offers several recommendations to establish an effective security strategy: Employees need to be kept apprised of security policies, wireless networks should be thoroughly planned and tested prior to live deployment, and WLAN security must be upheld even at the cost of user convenience; a heavier concentration on qualified security personnel than on software and hardware will reduce accidental security breaches.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Oil futures closed higher on Friday, just short of the $106-a-barrel level, to tally a weekly gain of 2.6%. The Federal Reserve's accommodative monetary policy "coupled with several stronger-than-anticipated earnings reports have pushed investors to bet on additional demand for global energy," said Jonathan Citrin, founder and executive chairman of CitrinGroup. August crude clq3 rose $1.04, or 1%, to settle at $105.95 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices marked their third weekly climb in a row.
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Hey, organ donors! Did you know that cadavers are used for cosmetic procedures?
We were fascinated by a recent article on Wired.com about MMA (mixed martial arts) fighters getting implants from cadavers. They replace their own beaten tissue with a cadaver's to prolong their ability to take and throw punches in the ring.
When I checked that little box at the DMV agreeing to be an organ donor, I imagined that after my tragic death and touching memorial attended by hundreds, my heart or kidney may go to a dying mother-of-three who has been hacking up her lungs in a hospital bed while waiting for good news from the donor agency.
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Officials at University of Maine Farmington are trying to get to the bottom of who's responsible for orchestrating a hoax that had everyone on campus believing the school's president had died.
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Work on a new mutli-storey car park at Farnborough Main railway station is on schedule to be completed by the end of the month.
As part of a £2.8 million project funded through a Department for Transport initiative by Network Rail, a new decked car park, which will provide 243 additional spaces, is being built at the station.
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Kevin Lloyd, of O'Gorman Avenue in Farnborough, said: "When SWT began work on the decked car park they closed off the majority of it for the exclusive use of car park season ticket holders before 10am – a move which was inconvenient but necessary given the reduced capacity whilst the works were carried out.
"Other car park users were urged to use the alternative car park on Union Street as well as parking in the town centre. However, the works on the Fleet Station car park have since overrun, leading SWT to close off their remaining Union Street car park to all but Farnborough and Fleet car park season ticket holders.
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However, Sue O'Hare, from Sandhurst, who uses the station daily to commute to London, said her journeys have not been affected by the works although she has had to leave her home earlier in the morning to allow time to park her car.
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"I hope this will still be the case when the new entrance and exit are completed."
The new decked car park is expected to be completed by March 31 and will open in early April once the site has been cleared of construction equipment and materials.
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By newsroom On December 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Beer, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Drink, Katherine-Claire O'Connor, KRCC News, Text
Hyped as the "Worlds Best Beer" by many, Westvleteren Xll will be available in Colorado Springs at Coaltrain Wine and Spirits tonight for a limited time. But as KRCC's Katherine-Claire O'Connor reports, few people will have the privilege of tasting the Belgian beer.
Around forty people started lining up early in the morning to buy the famous beer. Colorado Springs resident Kenny Rackers strategizes with a friend near the end of the line.
"We hear a lot of different rumors. There might be thirty, there might be thirty-six, there might be thirty-two. And I'm number thirty-three so we are kind of debating if we are gunna wait it out."
The beer is made by monks at the St. Sixtus Abbey, and this is the first and only time it's been exported to the U.S. Jan Dennis of Monument came prepared with chairs, blankets, and a cooler full of adult beverages. Dennis sips on a different beer from stemware and describes the Westvleteren taste he remembers.
"The thing about it is it's very well integrated. All the different styles and tastings that are in there are very well suited to each other. In beer terminology they call it a very well integrated beer."
Coaltrain is one of four retailers in the state receiving a shipment. The distribution is a fundraiser, and all proceeds go toward restorations for the Abby. Coltrain General Manager Austin Sherwood says they've been getting calls from all across the globe about the beer.
"It's been a wild ride, we had no idea it was going to be this insane. We've gotten calls from all over the country and even international call on this, because we are on a very short list, especially in Colorado."
The six-pack of beer costs more than $80.
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Over the weekend, a Tom Petty concert ended early due to overcrowding. Petty told the crowd at the Fonda Theatre that about 100 fans either had to leave or move to the balcony. When nobody heeded Petty's request, he stopped the concert.
On his website, Petty has posted a statement regarding the concert. Petty stated, "the number of tickets sold was NOT above the legal capacity of the building," and also, "the Fire Marshal decided that the number of people on the floor (as opposed to on the upstairs balcony or terrace) was unsafe."
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UK comedy goes "Beyond The Pole" to save planet
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Amid the doom and gloom that has followed the lackluster outcome to last December's U.N. summit to save the planet from global warming, it takes a brave man to make a comedy about climate change.
That is exactly what British director David L. Williams did with the film "Beyond The Pole," which is due for British release on February 12 at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.
The film follows the adventure of two friends who set out to complete the first carbon neutral, vegetarian and organic expedition to the North Pole.
Amateur explorers Mark (Stephen Mangan) and Brian (Rhys Thomas) embark on the expedition, in hopes of attaining a Guinness world record and to draw attention to the issue of global warming. The problem is, they are both totally under-prepared for the trip's challenges.
En route, they tackle vengeful polar bears, encounter a rival homosexual Norwegian expedition team and struggle to cope with Mark's deteriorating psychological state.
With the failure of December's U.N. talks in Copenhagen to draw up a legally binding climate pact still fresh in people's minds, surely poking fun at the potentially devastating issue of climate change is no laughing matter?
Williams disagrees. He insists comedy was necessary to attract a wide cross-section of people to the film and make them think about global warming.
"The comedy route gets more traction. If you have a point of view and send yourself up a bit, you draw people in," Williams told Reuters in an interview. Continued...


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I see your point.
I think the single most important factor is screen resolution.
The test monitor on my bench is 1080p... Not sure what he's got at home.
So what then? Well, most of the problem is a certain "moar is better" culture that surrounds the gaming community, coupled with lots of misinformation and an almost pathological vulnerability to the placebo effect; "I swear I play better at 120 fps than at 80 fps!" (a physiological impossibility).
Especially on a 60hz screen....
Sorry guys I don't care what fram rate you're composing at... y'er still watching 60hz.
I won't deny anyone the pleasure of spending money on something really cool and powerful. Pride is a good thing. But then, for some reason, people try to get all sorts of justifications to this behavior. They shouldn't! It's perfectly fine. But they do anyways. And it's those justifications that create myths and misinformation.
I don't much care how people waste their money either... it's the "being mislead" part that sticks in my craw... I once had a guy ask me --are you ready for this-- which power cord would sound better on his stereo... Yes, I said Power Cord... ROFL...
But up the screen resolution (and the type of games one plays, or the work they do on the computer) and things start to become more justified. At 1920x1080 certain games will simply not run well on low end cards. Gamers want their games to run at the top settings because these do affect the quality (the beauty) of what one sees on the screen. At that resolution they can't do this with modern games on a $100 card and some will still have some troubles with a $200 card.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there isn't a difference... I'm just wondering it it's anywhere nearly as big a difference as is claimed...
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AMD Outlines HSA Roadmap: Unified Memory for CPU/GPU in 2013, HSA GPUs in 2014by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012 12:44 PM EST
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philbotimus - Thursday, February 02, 2012 - link... was ahead of it's time. Reply
tipoo - Thursday, February 02, 2012 - linkThis seems obvious for cost reduction, but it remains to be seen if the unified memory wont constrain performance in some way. For low end integrated chips sure, but for what they are going for with truly hybridized chips its going to require gobs of bandwidth and low latencies. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, February 02, 2012 - linkUnified logically doesn't have to mean unified physically. Think of NUMA with heterogenous nodes. Reply
tipoo - Thursday, February 02, 2012 - linkHmm I see what you mean. That would be interesting. Reply
Morg. - Monday, February 06, 2012 - linkWell I believe main memory systems have been lagging behind for a while now, it would make sense to see DDR5 on the CPU's, especially when moving to APU's and UPU's and shared memory space.
In the end, the GPU will end up inside of the CPU anyway, like all PU's before, and as that drives up the need for non-crappy-memory-bandwidth, fat chance that main memory systems will come closer to what's available for GPU's today - probably in a tiered way such as :
CPU - L0 - L1 - L2 - L3 - DDR5/6 - DDR3/4 - NAND - HDD Reply
Zoomer - Saturday, February 11, 2012 - linkMost apps won't see a huge difference; caching mechanisms hide latency and bw constraints very well. And GDDR5 is very power hungry. Reply
Beenthere - Thursday, February 02, 2012 - linkBeing able to use all available CPU/GPU performance at any time for any needs is likely to improve system performance. This is AMD moving forward with better ideas and use of all available computing power. Reply
Azethoth - Thursday, February 02, 2012 - linkIt seems like going forward the big trend is more and more software implemented in the CPU/gpu and the differences between those two disappear as well.
Gpu led the way by implementing graphics this way. Now intel adds encoding / decoding on chip. Peripheral control and networking crept on board as well. Sensors and wifi are probably not too far behind.
What else makes the on board grade? speech recognition? Maybe high level programming patterns like event handling?
I think multi core just doesn't cut it outside servers and some lucky algorithms that can leverage it. Reply
R3MF - Friday, February 03, 2012 - link2012 - GPU can access CPU memory / 2013 Unified memory for CPU & GPU - which will deliver the holy grail of limitless memory for GPU compute in 3D rendering, i.e. using system memory while rendering 3D scenes on the graphics card via OpenCL? Reply


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At its thickest, the Zenbook UX-31 measures 17mm, and it tapers to a wafer-thin 3mm at the front, as slim as Apple's 13-inch MacBook Air. The UX-31 measures 325 x 224 x 3~17mm, so is easily small enough to slip into small bags. The Zenbook is constructed from a single piece of aluminum for improved stability, and it feels solid, with no flex while we type frantically. The lid deviates from the current fad of brushed metal – this is a spun-metal pattern. The 13.3″ display features a 1600 x 900 resolution, beating the Air's 1400 x 900 resolution for pixel density and producing very sharp images.
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The square island-style keys of Asus UX-31 Zenbook's keyboard are set deep, so a few mistakes at high speed are unavoidable while users adjust to the keyboard. The glass trackpad is a simply enormous expanse of glass, with an integrated clickable lower portion serving as mouse buttons. It gives accurate control across the full extent of the display.
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