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Browsing Posts published on August 12, 2008
Give credit to Russia, they have exercised power brilliantly, and the end game is near. While there are still media reports of sporadic fighting in Russia well after the cease-fire, the objectives of Russia have become clear. The politics will now decide whether the cease-fire holds. Early in the conflict Putin and Bush exchanged words [...]
IBM’s entry into the personal computer business on this date in 1981 was a signal event in the history of business and technology. And since then? Oh, a few items of note. [From Do you remember where you were when this happened?]
So now that Georgia and Russia have officially challenged each other to fisticuffs, how do the two match up? Georgian tanks w/reactive armor roll into South Ossetia Georgia has roughly 30k troops serving in the Georgian Armed Forces, with 2,000 of their best troops serving in Iraq. Though small, the Georgian Army is respected by [...]
Hack attack – The Georgian embassy in the U.K. has accused forces within Russia of launching a coordinated cyberattack against Georgian Web sites, to coincide with military operations in the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Speaking to ZDNet UK on Monday, a Georgian embassy spokesperson said that Web sites had been unavailable over the weekend, [...]
ComputerWorld dispels myths about the history of modern day computers — or, more appropriately, the invention of the first microprocessor. Contrary to popular belief, ‘the [Intel] 8008 was not actually derived from the 4004 — they were separate projects.’ In fact, the 8008 concept didn’t originate from Intel (though they were eventually granted IP rights.) [...]
Bigger, better, faster, more are the driving themes behind the advanced network monitoring technology BBN Technologies is building for the military. The high-tech firm got a $4.4 million contract today from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop novel, scalable attack detection algorithms; a flexible and expandable architecture for implementing and deploying the [...]
