Business Week published an article on Autonomic Computing: Computer, heal thyself.
His idea was simple. Scientists needed to come up with a new generation of computers, networks, and storage devices that would look after themselves. The name for his manifesto came from a medical term, the autonomic nervous system. The ANS automatically fine-tunes how various organs [...]

I’m about 1/3rd of the way through the picture story. Hold your fucking horses, its coming.
From the typically crappy D&D thread: Universe makes man to understand itself?
chuggasaurus said:
I’ve read through Cosmos, then came accross a certain rip of an updated version of the series from the 70s on TV when Sagan said something interesting.
“It’s as [...]

Here’s some pictures, you fiends. I have 2 more rolls worth, which I will construct into a narrative at some point in the future. But I am too busy to satisfy your voyeuristic gluttony at the moment. Instead, I’ll quote something about computers.
From Science Daily (which I admit is pretty shitty): Researchers Use Brain Scans [...]

I will post about my New York adventures soon enough, once I have all the pictures we took compiled. Gally took some pics that are up on the net somewhere, but I don’t have the link on me at the moment. But patience, you will see pictures soon.
I should point out though, that in my [...]

I’m tellin you baby you’re wonderful.
From Wired: War-Zone Test for Babel-Fish Tool
But even the best computerized translation is still prone to errors. At worst, a single botched translation can spur a string of miscommunications.
“No one in the military would make life or death decisions based on a machine translation,” Benjamin said. But when you [...]

Yes, I’m a fanatic.
From PBS’s I, Cringely: Google-Mart
The same follows for the rumor that Google, as a dark fiber buyer, will turn itself into some kind of super ISP. Won’t happen. And WHY it won’t happen is because ISPs are lousy businesses and building one as anything more than an experiment (as they are doing [...]

Thats right. Uh huh.
From WaPo: Deal Reached on Managing the Internet
TUNIS, Tunisia — A U.N. technology summit opened Wednesday after an 11th-hour agreement that leaves the United States with ultimate oversight of the main computers that direct the Internet’s flow of information, commerce and dissent.
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Although Pakistan and other countries sought a takeover of that system [...]

Biological or atomic?
From Scientific American: Wait a Second
Leap seconds are needed because the earth’s spin is slowing down, gradually and unevenly. The rotational changes arise because of tidal forces exerted by the moon and inertial effects related to the liquid outer core sloshing around and to the cycle of evaporation, in which water at the [...]

Google is just one of the key players in the current battle over centralization over the internet.
NYT: Control the Internet? A Futile Pursuit, Some Say
“Everyone seems to think that the D.N.S. system is a big deal, but it’s not the heartbeat of the Internet,” said Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist at the University of California, [...]

Google is in the news a lot lately. They just opened their Analytics service, The Google Story goes on sale tomorrow, their resident Evangelist has been appearing before congress, and the NYT published this article:
NYT: If Books Are on Google, Who Gains and Who Loses?
But the categories are all wrong. Organized information - information given [...]