Archive for January, 2012


Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data — and only two are considered crimes.

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NEW DELHI: In almost the last three years, 117 government websites have been hacked by various groups, parliament was informed on Wednesday. “As per the information tracked and reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team a total of 90,119,252 and 117 government websites were hacked in the year 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 (till June) by various hacker groups,” Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora said.


BIO: Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer for F-Secure. He has worked with F-Secure in Finland since 1991. Mr. Hypponen, born in 1969, was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine. He also received the Virus Bulletin Award, awarded every ten years, as “Best in industry”.

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Technophilanthropist:

Today there are more than 1,400 billionaires and 93,000 “ultra-high-net-worth” individuals. Many of these are young, entrepreneurs who have made their money in technology and are interested in using that wealth to slay some of the world’s grand challenges. We call these individuals Technophilanthropists.

ORDER ABUNDANCE – THE FUTURE IS BETTER THAN YOU THINK


Part 1: Perspective

Chapter 1: Our Grandest Challenge
Our Grandest Challenge – We open with the history of aluminum and the idea of technology as a resource-liberating mechanism, freeing us from the threat of scarcity. Visit Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s energy city of the future. Learn about the Limits to Growth, a pessimistic vision of the future which set expectations for many generations, and drove efforts to control population growth. The Chapter closes outlining the possibility of Abundance and outlining the four forces conspiring to transform our planet.

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The Slingshot: Purified Clean Drinking Water

The inventor of the segway has come up with a distiller that can run on aprox the same amount of energy as a hair dryer.


Today more than 1 billion people face the daily crisis trying of trying to find clean drinking water. Environmentalists predict that water as a commodity will become very valuable and increasingly expensive in years to come. In fact, some believe that in 30 years a gallon of clean water will cost more than a gallon of oil. Considering that only 3% of the world’s water is fresh water, this idea might not be so far fetched.

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The Story Behind Romney, Medicare Fraud, and the Latest SuperPAC
Source: ABC News and Yahoo News



Mitt Romney denied that Bain did “any work with the government like Medicaid and Medicare”. Now we learn that Bain, under Romney’s “supervision”, purchased and ran the Damon Corporation, who pled guilty to Federal conspiracy charges as a result of tens of millions of dollars in systemic Medicare fraud committed under Romney’s and Bain’s control. Damon was fined over $119-million which was, at the time, the largest criminal healthcare fine in Massachusetts history…

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