whatever happens The tech industry’s attempts to “get green” have been a mixed bag. While some companies have made legitimate moves to reduce their energy usage through greater efficiency, some efforts, like Dell’s plan to plant trees in Second Life in honor of Earth Day, have been little more than publicity stunts. Now a group called the Institute for Sustainable Communications is urging digital content firms to become aware of their carbon footprint, even to the point of calculating the energy needed to run a banner ad. This is pretty silly, if for no other reason than the fact that electronic content is a substitute for other forms of media (like print), which have a much greater impact on the environment. Although the servers needed to run a website do consume electricity, an assessment that takes the bigger picture into account would likely conclude that electronic media has a positive environmental impact. Somthing like that beat-Fingerprint-Security-By-Cutting-Off-Finger Trick No Longer Viable, Thanks To Sony It’s becoming less unusual for devices like laptops, and even mobile phones, to feature fingerprint scanners for secure access. The idea is that only the owner’s fingerprint can unlock the device, so if it’s stolen, it will be useless to a thief. This tends to help with most of your garden-variety theft, but as anybody who’s watched a few action movies knows, fingerprint-based systems don’t pose a problem for the really motivated thief, who can simply cut off their victim’s finger and use it to access the device or secret lair or whatever. Cue some researchers from Sony, who will have screenwriters scrambling for a rewrite: they’ve come up with a system doesn’t use fingerprints, but rather an image of the capillaries (via Network Computing) beneath the skin of a person’s finger. The pattern in the image can only be captured when blood is pumping through the finger in question, so severing it from the rest of the victim would render it useless. Of course, this does little to stop thieves from beating their victims senseless, or otherwise “motivating” them to unlock the system with their finger, but hey, at least they get to keep their digits.Did you know that Trick means a deceptive or illusive appearance; an illusion: a trick of sunlight.. This will be worth your time summit: Technology opens world to Montana Independent Record - BUTTE — Location used to be everything in business. But the Internet and other technology is shrinking the world marketplace, opening up opportunities for Montana and other rural, remote states like never before, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates …Did you know that World means the earth. Maybe this could help bill Gates now tackling bridge competition (Moldova.org) Having conquered the global computer industry, multi-bilionaire Bill Gates has entered the North American Bridge Championships in Nashville, Tenn.The Microsoft founder was on hand this weekend for the championship bridge event along with his partner, former world champion Sharon Osberg, attempting to mimic the success he had with computers, The (Nashville) Tennessean said Sunday.I’ve played for … this is worth your time
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