HAARP Used to Find Bin Laden

The United States is using its growing expertise in virtual spelunking to search Afghanistan?s maze of caves for Osama bin Laden. Satellite imagery and an experimental underground mapping program hidden away in rural Alaska are just some of the tools at Washington?s disposal.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/663580.asp?0na=x2214140-

Cool Kurzweil Article

Are We Becoming an Endangered Species? Technology and Ethics in the Twenty First Century
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0358.html

SETI@Home Current Progress

Not bad... 111 gaussians matched twice, 4 matched 3 times.
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/process_page/

Excellent Mars Pic

Is this a picture of Mars or Earth? Oddly enough, it is a picture of Mars. What may appear to some as a terrestrial coastline is in fact a formation of ancient layered rocks and wind-blown sand on Mars. The above-pictured region spans about three kilometers in Schiaparelli Crater. What created the layers of sediment is still a topic of research. Viable hypotheses include ancient epochs of deposit either from running water or wind-blown sand. Winds and sandstorms have smoothed and eroded the structures more recently. The "water" that appears near the bottom is actually dark colored sand. The image was taken with the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft that has now returned over 100,000 images.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0111/marslayers_mgs_big.gif

Future of the ISS

The Young panel urged that the highest priority be given to research aimedat enabling humans to survive for long periods in space, a prerequisite formore ambitious space exploration. Meanwhile, four Nobel Prize winners haveurged that the station support potentially "groundbreaking" research inphysics in low gravity. But in truth, it has never been clear just whatscience needs to be done on a permanently manned platform in space asopposed to an unmanned platform or an earthbound facility.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&rnum=1&selm=T1aM7.183409%24ez.24915955%40news1.rdc1.nj.home.com

Java Neural Networks Tutorial

Neural Java is a series of exercises and demos. Each exercise consists of a short introduction, a small demonstration program written in Java (Java Applet), and a series of questions which are intended as an invitation to play with the programs and explore the possibilities of different algorithms.The aim of the applets is to illustrate the dynamics of different artificial neural networks. Emphasis has been put on visualization and interactive interfaces. The Java Applets are not intended for and not useful for large-scale applications! Users interested in application programs should use other simulators.The list below covers standard neural network algorithms like BackProp, Kohonen, and the Hopfield model. It also includes some models that are more biological, and features visualizations of the Hodgkin-Huxley and the integrate-and-fire models.
http://diwww.epfl.ch/mantra/tutorial/english/

DeathClock

nuff said.
http://www.deathclock.com/

Behind the Scenes of Metal Gear Solid 2

For Kojima, the discovery of video games was not just a way to pass his time but the opportunity to learn about a new form of entertainment. Always a fan of movies and entertainment, Kojima spent his teenage years watching TV shows such as Bewitched and I Dream of Genie and movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Taxi Driver. "I really did want to become a film director," he explains. "The people of my generation are visually oriented. Unfortunately we cant go out ourselves and film our own professional films because of the cost."
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/btg_mgs2/index.html

Looking For Gravity Waves

NASA scientists expect to use barely perceptible speed variations in the Cassini spacecraft as it moves toward Saturn to provide the first direct detection of gravitational waves, a basic feature of how the universe behaves.
http://www.cosmiverse.com/space11210102.html

FBIs Keylogger Virus

The FBI is developing software capable of inserting a computer virus onto a suspect?s machine and obtaining encryption keys, a source familiar with the project told MSNBC.com. The software, known as ?Magic Lantern,? enables agents to read data that had been scrambled, a tactic often employed by criminals to hide information and evade law enforcement. The best snooping technology that the FBI currently uses, the controversial software called Carnivore, has been useless against suspects clever enough to encrypt their files.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/660096.asp

"Cyclone" blows computer bugs out of code

A new computer language designed to avoid unforeseen programming errors could prevent many computer security breaches, according to the US researchers behind the project. -- Ill believe it when I see it.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991578

Hidden Dangers of Carnivore

The three primary dangers of Carnivore to innocent people can be called the Backdoor problem, the Rogue Agent problem, and the Mishap problem.
http://www.stopcarnivore.org/threeproblems.htm

Bruce Lee to Star in NEW Film

More than 28 years after Bruce Lees death, CGI technology will resurrect the kung-fu icon to star in the $50 million-budgeted chopsocky actioner "Dragon Warrior."
http://www.dtheatre.com/read.php?sid=1584

EU Anti-Hacking Proposal

This anti-hacking proposal of the EU Commission makes provisions worse than those already in COE Cybercrime Treaty. If this proposal becomes EU law, "illegal access" will be considered a "serious attack against information systems" even if the access was unintentional. As penalty for any indirect damage in course of "illegal access" the maximum sentence must a minimum of four years. The proposal has not been published and is to be presented November 27, 2001, in Brussels.
http://cryptome.org/eu-antihack.htm

Particle physics telescope explodes

One of the worlds leading particle physics instruments has been severely damaged in an accident. The underground Super-Kamiokande Observatory in Japan detects elusive neutrino particles from space by using photomultiplier tubes to register the flashes of light they produce when they pass through a huge tank of water.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1664000/1664447.stm