Dr MacKay and Dr Ward are not the first to try to replace the conventional keyboard, but they are perhaps the first to find a solution that is so much fun to use. The letters line up on the right-hand side of the screen in alphabetical order, top to bottom. Move the cursor towards them and they start to stream forwards, jostling and crowding. A letter is selected by steering the cursor into the coloured box that contains it. Within that box another set of letters then appears. The cursor moves ever deeper into the nesting boxes as letters are strung together.
U.S. Military Uses the Force. Troops in worldwide danger zones may have a defense against the primitive $10 rocket launchers favored by terrorists: a multimillion-dollar electrical force field. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]
[..] people who are serious about security insist that, on principle, you shouldn't give people a false sense of security by creating products that protect information with a veneer that can trivially be stripped away by a competent programmer, engineer, or rocket scientist. The simple rule of thumb is as follows: if the data is on your PC and can be consumed even once, it's ultimately uncontrollable. Why? Because then it's just a matter of cleverness and time and cost before someone can "liberate" it from its controls
Matt Particle Phisics Columns. Four articles on Particle Phisics. Well, I can't say I have understood all. But for now I have only skimmed them. Surely I will understand later. Maybe.
