I haven’t posted in quite a while. Been busy with school, but I just took my last final for the quarter. Today was Network Forensics and Discrete Math II. I think I did excellent on both but we’ll see. Tuesday was Cryptography which went well. I’m glad the quarter is over, since it’s been somewhat [...]
Whew! It’s been awhile!
HIV started around 1900
This article says that HIV may have started around 1900, which is much earlier than what was apparently previously suspected as a 1930s start date. That surprised me because I still thought that they assumed a 1970s start time. http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20081001/hl_hsn/hivoutbreakbegandecadesearlierthanthought
Study people to get ahead in a war? – Duh!
Here’s an article I just saw about a woman who got the military to think about the “human problem” (as it’s been expressed elsewhere) and re-adjust accordingly: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/09/controversial-a.html
Google’s Eyes Are Watching You
This is a really interesting article originally published in the August 2008 issue of Discover magazine under the title “Google’s Eyes Are Watching You: No Place to Hide”, written by Sharon Weinberger. For some reason Discover’s website lists the title as “Can You Spot the Chinese Nuclear Sub?”. When I first saw the title on [...]