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Draft Report from NIST Details Rfid Risks

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[Of course this is only about risk to management, not to those who might have a medical risk, or who could be located by terrorists via their RFIDs]   A draft report from the National Institute for Standards and technology (NIST) covers some of the security and privacy risks of using radio frequency identification (RFID) […]

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Machine Translation

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We are seeking as much information as possible on the various approaches to Machine Translation. Any brand names or contact information would be greatly appreciated.

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Text To Speech

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Dolphin Producer is a new software package which will convert a text document into a fully synchronized text and audio DTB at the push of a single button. The DTB can then be played back using Dolphin’s EaseReader software player – which is included in Dolphin Producer.   The DTB can also be played back […]

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Free Internet Reference Site

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LivingInternet.com provides a 700-odd page reference about the Internet “to provide living context and perspective to this most technological of human inventions”, and has received input from many people that helped build the Internet. It currently receives about 3 thousand visitors a day, many from educational institutions. Now in its 7th year of operation.   […]

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General Catalog of Old Books and Authors

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http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm which now indexes 24,000 books available free online, including all PG(US) & PG(Aus)’s books, along with some basic date information about them and their authors where you can find more. Plus many books not available on line, a good place to search for books by specific authors who you are interested in. For information […]

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Internet Archive Invitation

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We have been invited to peruse the various eBook collections of the Internet Archive for potential Project Gutenberg eBooks. http://www.archive.org   Don’t worry, many of the numbers listed are out of date, but you should get all the files when you pass through to the original sites. Click on “texts” to get started, feel free […]

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Google and YouTube…the Truth

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While nearly every media outlet is once again filled with press releases from Google and YouTube, you probably have not heard much about the fact that Google tried competing with YouTube and never really got their program running — hence the $1.65 billion takeover of YouTube.   It would appear that Google has been sucked […]

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Electronic Trading Surpasses Mercantile Exchange Pit Trading

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Last Thurs might have been the first day on the CME where there were more commodities traded via electronic trading than on the actual floor of the exchange. CME = Chicago Mercantile Exchange [Various single commodities had done this before, not sure if a grand total of all trade had been a majority electronic before]

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