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Vendor Pentagon, Intel Want One Set of Classification Standards

Submitted by OSTG Marketing Dept. on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @09:40PM

Intel is joining the Pentagon and U.S. Defense and intelligence leaders in an initiative to establish one set of classification standards . The initiative will "allow agencies to skip the sometimes-lengthy process used to assign an official classification designation to intelligence data that another agency has already evaluated." "But before the new classification policy is adopted, the defense and Intel communiti

Feed Futuristic Fridge Mimics Tree (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday January 12, 2007 @09:12PM

The Tree House Fridge looks like a Wile E. Coyote prop -- a multi-chambered whatnot box rather than a big, cold rectangle. Separate branches hold meat, cheese, produce and other stuff -- cool! In Gadget Lab.

Submission + - UN offical says org. not taking over internet

Submitted by kaufmanmoore on Friday January 12, 2007 @08:27PM

kaufmanmoore writes: Hamadoun Toure, the new head of the UN's International Telecommunications Union says that he does not plan to take over governance of the internet and leave it up to groups like ICANN. In his statement he says that the ITU will instead focus on bridging the digital divide, internet security and standardize broadband communications. When asked about Chinese censorship Toure said that issue is beyond the mandate of the ITU. The full article is here

Journal Journal: "Scientists prepare to move Doomsday Clock forward"

Journal by flaming error on Friday January 12, 2007 @07:21PM

Reuters reports that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists says conditions are closer to doomsday than the used to be:

When it was created by the magazine's staff in 1947, it was initially set at seven minutes to midnight and has moved 17 times since then.

Journal SPAM: PC World editor slain at California home 1

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday January 11, 2007 @07:48PM

PITTSBURG, California (AP) -- A senior editor for PC World Magazine was fatally shot in his home in what authorities said Wednesday was a drug-related attack.

Rex Farrance, 59, the San Francisco, California-based magazine's senior technical editor, was shot in the chest after four masked men broke into his home Tuesday evening, Pittsburg police said.

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