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Hacking groups also use the outsourcing model

Hyderabad, Sept. 25 Outsourcing is not just confined to software or hardware companies, but is also a business model that exists within the hacking groups with specialised language for communicating.

First Look: Bento 2, personal database

For years, the most popular Mac database has been FileMaker. While FileMaker has a reputation for being powerful and easy to use, it’s also geared more towards commercial developers, cross-platform development, or people who need heavy-duty data processing. If your database needs are much simpler, you could still use FileMaker, but you might find the program a bit more complicated than necessary. You could also use the Address Book, which comes with every Mac, but you might find that too limiting. For an easy database that’s also powerful enough for more than trivial tasks, consider FileMaker’s Bento 2.

New computer model gives particle physics another thumbs-up

The Standard Model of particle physics, that old workhorse of a theory, has dodged another bullet. The model lays out the properties of all known elementary particles and describes three of the four fundamental forces that govern nature (gravity is left out—finding a home for it is one of the most pressing problems in physics). But it also raises some questions—for instance, why should protons and neutrons, which make up atomic nuclei, be so heavy when their constituent parts, quarks and gluons, are so light? (In fact, the Standard Model holds that gluons are massless.)

Yes, You Can Use Copyrighted Material in the Classroom

Newswise - A national magazine tells a professor she needs hundreds of permissions to use its cover photos in her class, when in fact, she could claim fair use, which does not require payment or permission. Many teachers want to use YouTube as a teaching tool but aren't sure if it's legal, while others warn their students not to post their video assignments to YouTube. Under fair use, both actions are legal.

Poll: Do you use an editorial calendar in your Web design work?

Last week, I wrote a short post about editorial calendars and asked how you use editorial calendars. And go no response at all. Is that because you don't know what they are or how to use one? Or is it simply that you don't use them or think they're useful for Web designers? Personally, I couldn't survive without my calendar, but then again I'm a Meyers-Briggs INFJ and a writer as well as a Web designer. So maybe those two things make me want to use an editorial calendar more than the next Web designer.

US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use

gollum123 writes "The US Supreme Court has removed restrictions on the Navy's use of sonar in training exercises near California. The ruling is a defeat for environmental groups who say the sonar can kill whales and other mammals. In its 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court said the Navy needed to conduct realistic training exercises to respond to potential threats. The court did not deal with the merits of the claims put forward by the environmental groups. In reinstating the use of sonar, the top US court rejected a lower federal judge's injunction that had required the US Navy to take various precautions during submarine-hunting exercises. The Bush administration argued that there is little evidence of harm to marine life in more than 40 years of exercises off the California coast.

Groups Demand Transparency For Secret Piracy Trade Agreement - 100 consumer groups demand insight into secret, global deal....

Remember the international trade proposal recently leaked to Wikileaks that aims to "criminalize the non-profit facilitation of unauthorized information exchange on the internet?" That proposal (The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA) already took aim at BitTorrent websites like the Pirate Bay, but also potentially whistleblowers, and even legit distribution systems like Tor. It's also believed that the global proposal, being hashed out in secret between governments and the entertainment industry, includes mandatory ISP piracy filters.

ESA astronauts Kuipers and De Winne use the Microgravity Science Glovebox training model at EAC - Image

ESA astronauts Andre Kuipers (right) and Frank De Winne (left) use the Microgravity Science Glovebox training model at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany. Kuipers and De Winne visited EAC as part of their astronaut training ahead of De Winne's long-duration mission to the International Space Station scheduled for May to November 2009. Kuipers is assigned as back-up for the mission.

TCS Buys Citi's Back Office Operations in India

Some analysts are warning that the sky is falling for Indian outsourcing companies with heavy dependency on the West’s banking industry as clients, but you wouldn’t know it from TCS’ bold move today. It’s paying $505 million in cash for Citigroup’s captive business process outsourcing arm in India. As part of the deal, Citi is guaranteeing TCS $2.5 billion in BPO business over the next 9.5 years. Combine TCS existing IT outsourcing work for Citi with the new contract and the company will be reaping about $450 million a year in revenues from the relationship—making Citi its largest customer. The deal also gives TCS the capability to provide the entire array of transactional business process outsourcing work for the banking industry.

Don't use BR for layout

We have had so many conversations here about using (or not using) tables for layout, that I had forgotten about another layout "tool" that many people like to use - the BR tag. While I wouldn't go as far as Janko who says that the br element sucks, but it is not a good choice for spacing out content. It's better to use padding or margins on your elements to get the spacing you need. It's more precise (every browser can display the br differently) and if you use flexible measures (like em or %) your spacing will flex with your page size.

Orca Whales Use Sonar to Hunt for Their Favorite Fish

Orcas, like most whales, have the innate ability to use high-frequency sounds in order to detect obstacles or food in the water, or for communicating among themselves over long distances. Now, researchers in Hawaii seem to believe that the large animals can also use this ability to spot their favorite types of fish in the oceans. Even when the chinook salmon is scarce and swims among other species of salmon, it can be easily detected by killer whales.

Does teaching computer hacking skills at university boost net security?

QuestionsGet on the website of a budget airline to book yourself a holiday and, while you are at it, fool around with the site code so that you can pick your own price. For tomorrow, show your workings. That is the kind of homework students on a new MSc in ethical hacking at Dundee's University of Abertay might be set. Although, of course, the website they use won't be a real one but a cod version for in-house use set up by a tutor - or even a fellow postgrad. Why teach these quite clearly criminal skills? Surely they could be misused?

AspenTech's Patented aspenONE Master Data Model Delivers Asset Lifecycle Management

BURLINGTON, Mass. - (Business Wire) Aspen Technology, Inc. (OTC: AZPN.PK) today announced a recently issued patent covering key aspects of the aspenONE Master Data Model. The Master Data Model which is integrated within the aspenONE suite of applications makes end-to-end asset lifecycle management a reality. The aspenONE Master Data Model provides one enterprise view of process data associated with Engineering design and Manufacturing Supply Chain operations and is integrated with DCS and ERP systems through a vendor neutral interface.

AspenTech patents key elements of its Master Data Model

Burlington, Mass., Oct. 14 – Aspen Technology today announced a recently issued patent covering key aspects of the aspenONE Master Data Model. The Master Data Model, which is integrated within the aspenONE suite of applications, makes end-to-end asset life-cycle management a reality. The aspenONE Master Data Model provides one enterprise view of process data associated with engineering design and manufacturing supply chain operations and is integrated with DCS and ERP systems through a vendor neutral interface.

Rain Bird Crowns Winners of the 2008 Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition

Rain Bird, the leading manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services, tonight announced the winners of the 2008 Intelligent Use of Water(TM) Film Competition (http://www.iuowfilm.com), an environmentally focused film competition that gave both amateur and experienced filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their talents and use the power of film to bring about a greater awareness of the need for responsible water use. Following this evening's screening event at The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, in which each of the five finalists' films were viewed by attendees and judges, filmmakers David Sutera and Michael McGuire were presented with the Jury Prize and the Audience Choice Prize respectively for their film entries titled Glass Half Full and Water Thicker Than Oil.

Nissan to halve catalyst precious metal use in Cube

TOKYO, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co said on Friday it would introduce technology that would halve the amount of precious metals used in emission-cleaning catalysts in the new Cube, to be launched next week. Japan's No.3 automaker had said previously it would start employing the technology early next year on all new gasoline models. It plans to share the technology with Renault SA , which owns 44 percent of Nissan, and apply it also in diesel engines, it said in a statement. Using particles as small as a few billionths of a metre, nanotechnology prevents fine metal particles from clustering in catalysts, enabling engineers to use smaller amounts of precious metals to clean exhaust emissions. The new catalyst would cut the use of precious metals to 0.

Model Of James Webb Space Telescope Model Flying To Germany

The model of the James Webb Space Telescope has been making a lot of "orbits" around the world, and is now slated to "land" at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany from October 13-28, 2008.

Moderate use averts failure of type 2 diabetes drugs in animal model

Drugs widely used to treat type 2 diabetes may be more likely to keep working if they are used in moderation, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found in a study using an animal model.

Joe Calzaghe's model girlfriend won't pull any punches in the new I'm A Celebrity Jo-Emma Lavin will also be ringside for the boxer's fight on Saturday

Joe Calzaghe's glamour model girlfriend Jo-Emma won't be pulling any punches in the new I'm A Celebrity

Google SketchUp 7 released

SketchUp is software you can use to build 3D models of anything: your house, killer robots, furniture, trees, abstract art — anything. Architects and engineers use it to design buildings and other structures. Woodworkers use it to plan their projects. And lots of people use it to figure out where to put their furniture.

Bethesda: Fallout 3 uses SecuRom only for disc check

"For Fallout 3's copy protection on PC, we use the same security model as we did for Oblivion - a simple disc check. We only use SecuRom's disc check functionality for copy protection. We do NOT limit the number of installs. We do NOT use online authentication or any other SecuROM functionality except for a disc check when you install the game and when you launch the game. We do not install any other programs and we don't have anything that runs in the background while you're playing the game."

Google shows its frienemy side

Google collects friends easily, but it also turns on them just as fast. It played the white knight to Yahoo, when big, bad Microsoft came knocking uninvited. And it also aided Microsoft arch enemy Sun in its anti-Microsoft crusade, not only by distributing Office competitor StarOffice with the free Google Pack, but also by creating a deal to distribute the Google Toolbar with every Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) download. But things change. It looks like that now both Yahoo and Sun are weakened players in the online marketplace, Google has no further use for them. And Yahoo and Sun, who are both now turning to Microsoft, have to be left wondering: Who's the friend, and who's the enemy?

Konqueror, The Powerful KDE Browser

"Unlike the other two browsers, however, Konqueror also provides a native way to split the current window (Firefox users can use the Split Browser extension to get similar functionality). This method is handy for displaying multiple webpages side by side. If you use Konqueror as a file browser, it can also be handy for displaying local and remote files in the same window. To split the screen vertically, hit Ctrl-Shift-L. To split it horizontally, hit Ctrl-Shift-T. Ctrl-Shift-R closes the selected split."

US capital injection sets up bank consolidations

The US government’s planned $125bn capital injection into nine financial groups is set to unleash a wave of consolidation as banks scramble to use the cash on takeovers and bolt-on acquisitions. Senior bankers say that institutions like JPMorgan, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, are looking to use part of the funds to acquire rivals, assets or people. Others, like Goldman, Wells Fargo and Bank of America are expected use the cash to increase their lending capacity and bolster their balance sheets instead.

Tata Consultancy To Acquire Citigroup Global Services

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, and Citigroup, a global financial services company has reached an agreement for TCS to acquire all of Citi's interest in Citigroup Global Services Limited (CGSL), the India-based captive business processing outsourcing (BPO) arm of Citi for all cash consideration of approximately $505 million, subject to closing adjustments. In addition to the sale, Citi has signed an agreement for TCS to provide, through CGSL, process outsourcing services to Citi and its affiliates in an aggregate amount of US$2.5 billion over a period of 9.5 years. The agreement builds upon the existing relationship between Citi and TCS whereby TCS provides application development, infrastructure support, help desk and other process outsourcing services to Citi.

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