The Chinese government wants its own Internet

China's plan to use internet for propaganda

The US Creativity Crisis

For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it.
Seems that the production off shoring was the last US creative invention. :)

By 2007 the richest 1 percent were back to where they were in 1928.

—With 23.5 percent of the total wealth.
No immediate recovery.
Crash in both cases came a year later. Recovery started in 1933 and will start in 2012 ! Thus, Obama will not, alas, fix the economy during his mandate. What mandate? First. And most likely,the only one .

3D Blu-Ray Players

Advances in 3D TV technology are growing at a stunning pace, and the first of these breakthrough 3D products - including the initial stereoscopic 3D Blu Ray players and 3D TV models - are slowly becoming more widely available.

Only recently has the media form seen a resurgence in popularity, thanks to films like Avatar and Alice in Wonderland. Movie theaters continue to use polarized anaglyph images, but now there's an even newer technology in 3D Blu Ray Players capable of bringing crystal clear 3D right into your living room. In addition to high quality DVD and Blu Ray playback, these new players will also support such online services as Amazon Video On Demand, and web based video services likeYouTube.

The next advance is likely to come in 3D gaming, with rumours that a straightforward software update will enable 3D imaging on the PS3 consoles.

Microsoft opens Win7 source code to Russian secret service

Gulp, I use Win7.
However, nothing new for KGB. Previously , their spy worked for Microsoft by years.


God help US.

Intel's co-founder: U.S. without its growth engine

Andrew Grove, the co-founder of Intel Corp., doesn't buy the again-fashionable argument that startups, preferably technology startups, are the best way to create new American jobs.

Hopeless search for job

Are we about to see a wave of Americans giving up on the labor market?
What now? Research instead of job search (above)? What else after US automobile industry out sourcing?. One of the growth alternatives in California is grass growth.

Thomas Jefferson's black prediction from 1791 !

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. "

Bad Hardware: Atlanta, did you know that ? I mean that the pessimism bubble was actually predicted in 1791 by founding fathers. The American dream—the idea that children grow up to live better than their parents, now has nothing with reality. The USA are now back 20 years in expectations inflation.

Dollar in free fall

The worsening state of the U.S. economy and the risk of a double-dip recession .
The dollar plunged today following a United Nations report which called for the greenback to be replaced as the global reserve currency by the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights (SDRs).

Sofia, flying infrared telescope

Dell sold computers with 97% failure rate over three years

Nichicon capacitors were expected to have a failure rate of 97 percent over three years.

“They knew millions of computers would be out there causing inevitable damage and were not giving people an opportunity to fix that damage.” 

Curiosity: Why not on Moon ?

NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, is sitting pretty on a set of spiffy new wheels that would be the envy of any car show on Earth.
It would be nice drive it on another celestial body like Moon without imminent half an hour of delay between the next driving command.

Look how Hayabusa did it on Asteriod.
Seems it is pretty hard to land safely. And return back. Anywhere.

100K visitors of BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Not too many, but 100K means 100 000 visitors. Not too bad.
Where? Here.