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Disney announces new food guidelines

With obesity rates soaring among the young, the Walt Disney Company has announced promising new guidelines for the way it promotes food to its impressionable clientele.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/opinion/18wed3.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Langalist Newsletter

This is a great technical site offering help as well as great links!
http://www.langa.com/blog/

McGruff Takes a Bite out of Cybercrime

http://www.bytecrime.org/

McGruff the Crime Dog® is fighting one of the largest problems facing homes, schools and businesses across America: cyber crime. Led by the beloved McGruff character, the National Crime Prevention Council, the CMO Council and FAME have joined forces to bring together one of the largest and most influential coalitions of private and public companies whose primary goal is to teach millions of consumers how to identify, report and protect themselves against cyber crime. To combat the growing plague of computer viruses, worms, spam, spyware, phishing, identity theft and online predators, McGruff provides invaluable tips, tools and resources across multiple and diverse channels.

Second New PEW Internet Report Released

A survey of internet leaders, activists, and analysts shows that a majority agree with predictions that by 2020:


A low-cost global network will be thriving and creating new opportunities in a “flattening” world.

Humans will remain in charge of technology, even as more activity is automated and “smart agents” proliferate. However, a significant 42% of survey respondents were pessimistic about humans’ ability to control the technology in the future. This significant majority agreed that dangers and dependencies will grow beyond our ability to stay in charge of technology. This was one of the major surprises in the survey.

Virtual reality will be compelling enough to enhance worker productivity and also spawn new addiction problems.

Tech “refuseniks” will emerge as a cultural group characterized by their choice to live off the network. Some will do this as a benign way to limit information overload, while others will commit acts of violence and terror against technology-inspired change.

People will wittingly and unwittingly disclose more about themselves, gaining some benefits in the process even as they lose some privacy.

English will be a universal language of global communications, but other languages will not be displaced. Indeed, many felt other languages such as Mandarin, would grow in prominence.

http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/188/report_display.asp

Fingerprinting Hackers: Technique Demonstrates Wireless Device Driver Vulnerabilities

The next time you're sipping a latte and surfing the Net at your favorite neighborhood wireless café, someone just a few seats away could be breaking into your laptop and causing irreparable damage to your computer's operating system by secretly tapping into your network card's unique device driver, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in have concluded.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060912214943.htm

Tiny Fuel Cell Might Replace Batteries In Laptop Computers, Portable Electronics

Chemists at Arizona State University in Tempe have created a tiny hydrogen-gas generator that they say can be developed into a compact fuel cell package that can power these and other electronic devices -- from three to five times longer than conventional batteries of the same size and weight.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060913100455.htm

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