| Toll road rejected
A man in an orange shirt frowned in disgust as he walked passed Malecha, a surfer who recently moved to the county from Oahu, Hawaii.About 30 feet away, toll-road opponent Chris Pearson of San Diego and project supporter Robert Ruiz of Riverside, a construction union representative, were debating the merits of the $875 million project."If you don't address the congestion on the (Interstate) 5 freeway now, we'll pay the price 20 years from now," Ruiz told Pearson. Ruiz said the traffic congestion only will get much worse and, with it, the environment, as more car-belched emissions foul the air and aggravate global warming.But Pearson maintained that congestion is going to get worse in any case."I'd rather have people fighting traffic than ruin the beach," he said.Referring to Trestles Beach, which is just west of where the proposed toll road would tie into I-5, Pearson said: "This is one of the best breaks in all of California."Ruiz said there were economic reasons for supporting the project, as well.
Barnet students to use DNA fingerprinting to solve murder
Students from schools in Barnet and Potters Bar will use DNA fingerprinting to solve a murder on Thursday. A group of GCSE and A-level students from four schools will visit the National Institute for Medical Research to learn the science behind DNA fingerprinting. As part of National Science and Engineering Week, between March 7 and 16, scientists from the institute, in The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, will help the pupils to solve a murder mystery, and will be hosting discussions on the implications of such analysis. .
Woomail Wants To Woo You Away from Spam
The recipient gets an e-mail saying, "I only read secure e-mail" and a link that takes the recipient to a reply page on the Woomail server , so that no part of the communication travels through cyberspace. Putting Users in Control John Halloran, a Puerto Rico-based precious-metals dealer, created Woomail after struggling with the huge amount of spam his brokers and office staff were dealing with. He said that his goal was to put users in charge of their communications, inbound and outbound. "The problem was that anyone in the world can send you communication from anywhere, and I can't stop them from sending it to my servers," he said. "If I can get them to come to me by typing in a URL or Woo to Woo message, then I can control communications on my server and so I can prevent fraudulent use." (A "Woo to Woo" message is one in which both parties have Woomail accounts.) Sending a message from within the site cannot be done without a challenge-and-response question, putting the kibosh on automated spammers.
NASA Solicitation: Lunar Surface Thermal Control Study
The recipient shall perform management functions and establish a management structure to plan, direct, and integrate all activities required for this acquisition to assure compliance with technical, schedule, and financial commitments of the contract. The recipient shall include a process for the timely disposition of issues and provide for the reporting of technical data and financial commitments of the contract. The recipient shall include a process for the timely disposition of issues and provide for the reporting of technical data and financial management data as required. The recipient shall utilize established management structures and assign a Project Manager (PM) with the authority to direct contract activities. The PM shall assure that the technical, schedule and cost requirements of this contract are fully met.
Digital Camera Essentials
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Researchers map China’s underground cybercrime economy
Researchers from Peking University in Beijing and the University of Mannheim in Germany released a paper this week that aims to map the underground cybercrime economy in China. The paper concludes that 1.49 percent of the 145,000 most popular sites in China "contain some kind of malicious content." While the Internet boom in China is impressive, the researchers note that "there is also the other side of the coin: targeting the virtual assets owned by the normal Chinese Internet users, malicious attackers, so called blackhats, discover the Web as a new venue for making money by exploiting innocent users." The researchers outline the most common attack: A common theme is to inject malicious code into a bought or cracked website. The injected code exploits an unpatched client-side vulnerability within the visiting web-browser or related application.
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