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In the McAfee Labs 2016 Threats Predictions report, we developed two distinct views of the future.
For the first section of the report, we interviewed 21 key people within McAfee Labs, office of the CTO, Foundstone Professional Services, and advanced threat research teams. They were asked to look over the horizon and predict how the types of threat actors will change, how attackers' behaviors and targets will evolve, and how the industry will respond between now and 2020. They shared unique insights into the expected threat landscape and the security industry's likely response.
The second section drills down and makes specific predictions about expected threat activity in 2016. Predictions for next year run the gamut from ransomware to attacks on automobiles, and from critical infrastructure attacks to the warehousing and sale of stolen data. Among other things, we:
- Discuss a subtle yet equally impactful form of attack—integrity attacks—that will become more prominent in 2016.
- Explain why better security in the enterprise will lead to more attacks on employees as they work from home.
- Describe changes in the way we pay for things, and the implications.
- Outline why wearables, integrated with smartphones, are an attractive attack vector.
- Highlight positive changes in the sharing of threat intelligence within the private sector and between the private sector and governments.
The report illustrates an ever-evolving threat landscape, where applications and prominent operating systems are hardened to attacks, but attackers shift their crosshairs to less prominent but critical attack surfaces, innovative attack styles, and new device types. Researchers depict enterprises building out their complex security defenses and comprehensive policies, while attackers target the weak security of employees working remotely. Nation-state actors continue to drive development of the most sophisticated attacks through firmware, espionage malware, and detection evasion.
The cybercrime-as-a-service ecosystem discovers, mutates and sells these advanced capabilities and support infrastructure down to the least sophisticated malicious actors in cyberspace in the burgeoning dark web. And, while courts and legislatures continue to move slowly to protect individuals and organizations, there are the positive prospects of threat intelligence collaboration that provides organizations real advantages versus their adversaries.
The collective perspective view reveals short- and long-term implications for organizations and an IT security industry working to keep pace with business opportunities and technology challenges, while fighting off threats attackers launch to take advantage of them.
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On Fox, Lars Larson Accuses Obama White House Of Watching Americans Die In Libya
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Frequent Fox guest and conservative radio talk host Lars Larson accused the Obama White House of sitting by and watching a live feed of the September 11 attack at the U.S. consulate in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. Larson went on to claim that the White House was aware through email alerts during the attack that terrorists were indeed responsible but made the political decision not to try to mobilize nearby U.S. forces for help.
In fact, Larson's wild claims are all based on assertions that have not only been widely discredited but are contradicted by evidence.
In an October 24 article, CBS News reported that an audio feed of the attack -- not a video feed as Larson charged -- was being monitored live by diplomatic security official Charlene Lamb, not the White House. CBS added that actual video footage of the attack from security cameras around the compound wasn't recovered until 20 days later.
In a separate article on October 23, CBS described a series of three email alerts the State Department sent to a number of government agencies as the attack was unfolding. One of the emails reported that militia group Ansar al-Sharia had posted messages on Facebook and Twitter claiming responsibility for the attack. The email stated that the U.S. embassy in Tripoli reported that the Islamic group "Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibilty [sic] for Benghazi Attack ... on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli."
However, the information in that email alert turned out to be inaccurate. Ansar al-Sharia, in fact, didn't post any messages on their social media accounts until the day after the attack and expressed only approval of the incident. It did not take credit for it.
But on Fox News' America Live, Larson condemned the White House for supposedly standing by as terrorists attacked the consulate.
He stated: "We've got the scandal of an American president, whose people -- I don't know if he personally sat there and watched that video -- but his people sat there and watched as this happened, and did nothing. Didn't even try to call in, you know, the assets that were available."
Host Megyn Kelly replied that military officials have cautioned not to "second-guess the military," but agreed that "we haven't really been told exactly what went through the minds now since we've learned they watched it unfold in real time, you know, in the Situation Room." Kelly did cast doubt, however, on Larson's outrageous theory that the Obama White House let Americans die in a terrorist attack because of politics.
Kelly went on to question why U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice told the American people in national interviews on September 16 that the attack "was all about a video." She stated:
KELLY: We know from these cables we saw this week, Lars, that she was told as it was happening, moments after, that this Islamic jihadist group, Ansar al-Sharia, was claiming responsibility for it and she knew that 20 guys with weapons, including RPGs and others, weapons were bombing the consulate and unleashing hell.
Larson replied: "Megyn, this is why I think it was a political decision" since "we know the film had nothing to do with this particular attack on this consulate."
The anti-Islam video has served as the smoking gun behind Fox News' campaign of a supposed administration cover-up, though evidence has continually undermined the network's narrative. Indeed, the video was linked to protests in at least 20 Muslim countries, and the attackers at the Benghazi compound have reportedly said they were motivated by the video. The New York Times reported on September 17:
[T]he attackers, recognized as members of a local militant group called Ansar al-Shariah, did tell bystanders that they were attacking the compound because they were angry about the video. They did not mention the Sept. 11 anniversary. Intelligence officials believe that planning for the attack probably began only a few hours before it took place.
In an October 24 article, National Journal quoted an intelligence official as saying, "The bulk of available information still supports the early assessment that extremists -- many with ties to Ansar al-Sharia, AQIM [Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb], or other groups -- didn't preplan the attack days or weeks in advance, but launched their assault opportunistically after they learned about the violence at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo."
Other Fox News personalities have also made the outrageous claim that President Obama made the political calculation to let Americans die in Libya during the attack: K.T. McFarland claimed that "it was probably a political decision not to rescue" the Americans in Benghazi, and Peter Johnson Jr., on Fox & Friends, accused the administration of "sacrific[ing] Americans" as a "political calculation."
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Smart City Frameworks: A Systematic Process for Enabling Smart+Connected Communities
Interest in Smart Cities has triggered plenty of theoretical and technology-led discussions, but not enough progress has been made in implementing related initiatives. In addition, there are a number of factors hindering adoption of Smart City solutions: scaling of newer technologies is unproven; technology challenges the existing status quo in how cities are run; and technology is not well-understood across city sectors.
However, the main barrier to adopting such solutions is the complexity of how cities are operated, financed, regulated, and planned. For instance, city operations are multidimensional and comprised of multiple stakeholders whose dependencies and interdependencies affect and ultimately determine the built environment. Smart Cities, however, present an opportunity to integrate physical city infrastructures—from utilities, transportation, and real estate to city services.
Smart City development and services is a major theme at the Meeting of the Minds 2012 conference in San Francisco, CA, September 9-11, 2012. Presented by Toyota, with global sponsorship from Philips, Deutsche Bank, and Cisco, this event continues an ongoing global dialogue among the public and private sectors, NGOs, academia, and citizen groups. Leading urban thinkers will engage in lively discussions on how to "connect the dots" across key sectors: mobility, building systems, energy and water resources, and finance.
Alongside this, earlier this week, I moderated a session on scaling Smart City initiatives at another event, the Urban Knowledge and Research Symposium, in Barcelona, Spain.
To fuel the debate for both events, and the on-going global dialogue, a new Point of View from Cisco IBSG defines what we call a "Smart City Framework" designed to move the Smart City debate from merely an academic or esoteric discussion to a call for action. The City Protocol Society is a group that is taking positive steps in this direction.
Smart City Framework Layers (from bottom to top).
The Smart City Framework proposed in this paper describes a potential process that will help key stakeholders and city/community participants 1) understand how cities operate, 2) define city objectives and stakeholder roles, and 3) understand the role of ICT within physical city assets.
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1933-39: On September 1, 1939, the Germans invaded Poland. I fled Lodz with my younger sister to Pruszkow, a small town 10 miles southwest of Warsaw, where there were fewer restrictions on Jews. There was a ghetto there but it wasn't cordoned off. Three times a week we were taken to a railroad labor camp and forced to work--we were often beaten. When the Nazis liquidated the railroad brigades I was deported to the Warsaw ghetto.
1940-45: After several months in the Warsaw ghetto, I was transferred first to the Lublin area and then, in 1942, to theTreblinka extermination camp. When I arrived I heard a guard call out, "Who's a barber?" With nothing to lose I answered, "I am." I was handed scissors and marched to the gas chambers. Suddenly, a door at one end of the cell opened and screaming guards pushed naked women into the room and forced them to sit. I cut their hair in five snips, threw the hair in a suitcase and left the chamber before they were gassed.
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The OS version shipping on the developer G1 that I received was an unlocked Nov 3 1.0 build running the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. While this first generation version is a remarkable achievement for the Android team, there are unsurprisingly a few rough edges. I've read Android reviews stating how stable it is and how it's nearly crash-proof. That didn't turn out to be the case for me. I had the OS unexpectedly and forcibly reboot on me several times, most often when using Android's Music application and listening to MP3 file playback.
There is also the fact that the Android designers took the iPhone approach of masking the underlying file system such that files, even those being stored on the microSD card, cannot be easily accessed and manipulated from a standard file management/browser approach using the standard application set. Instead, a visit to the Android Market is necessary to more easily access the file system when un-tethered from the host development environment. The two I found most helpful are a third-party simple file browser called OI File Manager, and Google's own Terminal shell program. On consumer G1 models, the Terminal program isn't very helpful since root access is locked, but on the developer G1 model, root access is helpful, even a necessity at times. Since the version of OI File Manager I used can only affect a single file at a time, I more frequently call upon the Terminal program to perform most of my file manipulation.
More importantly, the Terminal helped me alleviate one of the most painful design oversights of the Android Market and various Google applications like the Maps and Browser. This ravenous storage eater is the current version's inability to have these standard applications store their downloaded data caches on the microSD card and not the main onboard memory of the device. Googling for Android Market and cache together will yield a litany of angry complaint links from end users and developers alike of how their G1's are rapidly exhausted of memory as a result of these two applications lacking such an obvious feature.
As of this writing, the Android team is working on an update to the Android OS, codenamed "Cupcake", that is expected to fix this glaring oversight as well as add new features such as stereo Bluetooth (known as A2DP) support and a few other nice enhancements. In the meantime, hard-pressed developers equipped with the Terminal program have come up with a very easy Unix-like solution to the cache problem. After downloading and installing the Terminal application from the Android Market, launch it, su to root and create a new directory called /sdcard/marketcache (this can be named anything, and even reside in a deeper subdirectory). Navigate to the /data/data/com.android.vending directory, delete the cache folder located there (rm -R cache) and create a symlink to a new cache folder location on the microSD card (in this example, execute ln -s /sdcard/marketcache cache as root). This caching issue is a problem not just with the Android Market app, but several others as well, including the Browser, Maps and even some third-party Android programs that prefer to keep cached data on the device instead of providing an option to store locally cached data on removable storage. Because this is such a prevalent problem, community contributors at modmygphone.com have created a wiki entry outlining the steps needed to alleviate the cached storage constraints with various Android applications. Visit modmygphone.com/wiki/index.php/Caches_To_SD_Card for details. Note that because these cache relocations require root level access, they can only be performed easily on the developer G1 models. End consumers will either have to hold out for Cupcake, cold reset their devices to clear out the cache (and everything else they had installed) or embolden themselves with attempting to unlock the commercial G1 handset on their own and possibly bricking the phone in the process.
If you prefer not to mess with the file system and want to minimize the cache size, you do have another option. Developer Jay Freeman has created an Android Market front end at cyrket.com that anyone can visit with a web browser. This helpful site also allows non-Android owners to see what the Android Market has to offer. As long as Jay keeps cyrket.com alive, I will continue to visit it first before perusing the latest market updates via the Android Market application.
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Setting up the optimal configuration for Android development is a fairly easy process that takes less than 15 minutes, not including download time for the software. The Sun JDK 1.5 or higher is an obvious initial requirement to run both the Eclipse IDE and the Android Developer Toolkit (ADT) plug-in set. I chose to use the latest 1.6 release. Once the JDK version requirement is met, download and install the Eclipse IDE. The nice thing about Android development is that it can be performed on Windows, Mac, or Linux, the same platforms that Eclipse runs on. Any Eclipse version 3.2 or higher will do. I chose the latest 3.4.1 Ganymede release. While the Eclipse IDE isn't absolutely essential, the Android team has written the ADT exclusively for the Eclipse environment that makes launching and managing the Android emulator much easier. There are reports of some brave attempts to wire up these pieces within Sun's own NetBeans IDE, but unless there is some serious aversion to Eclipse, this effort appears to be more trouble than it's worth.
Next, download and install the Android SDK. This can be installed anywhere as long as the Eclipse plug-ins can consistent locate the installation path. Finally, launch Eclipse and grab the ADT via the usual Eclipse plug-in install route. Select "Software Updates" from the Eclipse "Help" menu, click on the "Available Software" tab, then the "Add Site" button and enter the location of the ADT. Restart Eclipse and enter the installation path of the Android SDK in the Window --> Preferences --> Android dialog box.
Windows and Mac users should be ready to go, but Linux 64-bit users will need to ensure they have the 32-bit emulation libraries (ia32-libs) installed; otherwise the proprietary, closed source emulator compiled in 32-bit code for the Linux environment will fail to run on that 64-bit host.
Check to make sure everything is correctly configured by launching Eclipse, importing the APIDemos project from the Android SDK demo folder and running it. Doing so should launch the emulator and, once confirmed running (initial instances take between 30 seconds and a minute depending on host computing resources), select Run. This will compile the the project's source code and various resources into a single Android package called an "apk" file, download and instantiate APIDemo in the emulator. Fortunately, subsequent Android runs will occur much faster as long as the emulator is allowed to keep running in the background.
The emulator itself is for the most part an accurate reflection of a real Android device like the G1. Unfortunately, the emulator used during the writing of this article could not emulate the sensors or radios such as the accelerometer or GPS. However, the aforementioned folks at OpenIntents have created a helpful alternative to help simulate such inputs at the cost of modifying an Android project's code to get it to talk to OpenIntent's Sensor Simulator. However, I suspect that if the development community clamors loudly enough, the Android SDK team will respond with such capabilities built into future SDK releases.
Once acclimated to the emulated environment, it's time to test sending applications to the actual G1. Windows users first need to download and install the Android USB Windows driver. Linux users have more work to do. A rule has to be added to the host computer (example, for Ubuntu Hardy users, a new file needs to be created at /etc/udev/rules.d/50-android.rules containing the following: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666". Once saved, chmod a+rx the file and the host computer should be able to identify and communicate with the Android device when plugged in via the USB port. Mac users fortunately do not have to mess with any drivers or settings, as the Android SDK tools and Eclipse environment will automatically recognize the device. As Google's SDK installation documentation boasts, "it just works." And they're right -- it does.
The Android plug-ins will automatically assist Eclipse in targeting the attached device and download and run the desired apk accordingly. Simple.
With both the emulator and device successfully receiving and running the API demo, you're ready to start writing your own Android applications.
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Tech Renews Exchange Program With Norwegian University
SOCORRO, N.M. – New Mexico Tech officially renewed an exchange program with a Norwegian university this month, paving the way for graduate students in petroleum engineering to expand the scope of their education.
University president Dr. Daniel H. Lopez on Thursday signed the official documents solidifying a working agreement with the University of Stavanger.
The two engineering schools maintained an active collaboration for several years, but activity had waned over the past two years.
Lopez said this agreement is another piece of New Mexico Tech's ongoing mission to expand its global horizons.
"New Mexico Tech already has a diverse campus," he said. "We have excellent programs in science, engineering and research that can contribute and compete on a global scale. This agreement is another indication that we have excellent programs and instructors who can help put New Mexico Tech on the world's stage."
Petroleum Engineering Department Chairman Dr. Tom Engler said he expects that the renewed agreement will jump-start the exchange program.
The initial agreement with the University of Stavanger was launched by professors Dr. Lawrence Teufel, who had industrial experience in the North Sea, and former professor Dr. Geir Hareland, a Norwegian who was instrumental in making connections in Norway.
Engler, who also has private sector experience as a petroleum engineer, said he hopes to revitalize the exchange program, bring in new students and grow Tech's international reputation. Although the program has been exclusively within the petroleum engineering departments, the agreement allows for exchanges of professors and students from other engineering departments, as well.\
Already, Stavanger has five master's students interested in studying in Socorro and two Tech students interested in spending a semester in Norway.
"Their graduate program in petroleum engineering is all taught in English," Engler said. "They did that several years ago to make this program work. The young Norwegians who come here speak and understand English very well. It's been a very positive program."
Norwegian students can study at Tech for one, two or three semesters, then transfer their credits back to Stavanger. The agreement also allows Tech students to transfer credits earned in Norway back to New Mexico Tech. Although, Stavanger's only English-language program is petroleum engineering.
Exchange students get a broad scope in their education because the two universities have different emphases.
"Stavanger is very strong in research and close to North Sea production," Engler said. "Their program is more oriented toward off-shore oil production, engineering and drilling. Our focus is more geared toward on-shore, unconventional. We work with the same common core materials, but our specialties are different."


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- British GP - Qualifying
Who said what after qualifying
ESPN rounds up all the reaction from up and down the paddock from qualifying for the British Grand Prix
- Race:
- British Grand Prix
Red Bull
Sebastian Vettel (2nd) "It was very tight in Q1 and Q2, we were quite late going out due to the weather and then in Q3 we were quite early for the final run, but it didn't matter as in the end the time was okay. It's hard to know how much you can push when the conditions are like that as you're driving into the unknown. The warm up lap shows you that it's damp and you know it will improve, but by how much is obviously determined by how much risk you take. It seems in the end I took the right amount today, so I'm happy."
Daniel Ricciardo (8th): "I didn't expect it to go quicker at the end of the session there, as the rain kept coming. We really thought the track wouldn't get quicker, Vettel only went out as he didn't have a time at that point. We have to learn from it I guess - I'm gobsmacked how much faster the circuit got, it must dry a lot quicker here than I thought. We'll move forwards from there tomorrow."
Christian Horner, team principal: A very tricky qualifying today in all three sessions and the weather played a part in all three sectors. The guys did well to navigate their way through into Q3 and Sebastian did a tremendous job at the end of the session to secure our sixth front row start at Silverstone. Unfortunately we misjudged the conditions at the end of Q3, so apologies to Daniel, he didn't go again as he had already set a time. With both cars well up the field on a mixed up grid for tomorrow, hopefully we can have a strong race from there."
Lewis Hamilton (6th): "I made a mistake today and pulled out of the lap when I should have kept going. It was a tough qualifying with the changing conditions and we got through most of it really well, until the most important part. It was my decision, a bad call, and that decided my qualifying. I'm so sorry to have disappointed the fans here today as their support has been fantastic and I'll do what I can to have a great race for them tomorrow. I need to have a start like I had in Austria two weeks ago and then do my best to get back to the front; you never know what might happen. It's difficult when you're just out of the car to express your emotions and see the positive but I'll go back to the team and my family now and we'll build up for tomorrow from there."
Nico Rosberg (1st): "Wow, what a qualifying. It was so tricky out there this afternoon with the rain and the conditions changing so quickly. It's very satisfying to get everything right in these conditions and be able to come out on top. Thanks to the team today for guiding me through the hour so well. My last flying lap was difficult because we were very tight for time and I was stuck right up behind Lewis. Luckily he didn't finish his lap but I remembered that we were losing three or four seconds in the last corners when it was very wet so there was an opportunity to make a real improvement and that I should keep going. It's a great opportunity to start the race from pole and I'll give it everything to take the win tomorrow."
Toto Wolff: "It's a case of mixed feelings this afternoon after qualifying. I'm delighted for Nico that he got pole right at the end: he had nothing to lose, because he was P2 after his first run, and got the job done in the final sector of the lap where he was able to make up over four seconds compared to his previous lap. On the other hand, I'm really disappointed for Lewis - he had done a great job to lead the times, then just thought it was too wet to improve and decided to abort. It's easy to be smart in hindsight but these are split-second judgement calls and today was a bad day at the office for him. The way I know Lewis, though, he will take that disappointment and make it into extra motivation for the race. We seem to have strong pace in wet and dry conditions, so I am sure we will see our two cars fighting for the lead sooner rather than later tomorrow afternoon."
Paddy Lowe: "That was one of the trickiest qualifying sessions I can remember. We had to deal with very mixed conditions throughout, swapping between intermediate and option tyres, and these are the days when it's so easy to get things wrong as a team. In fact, we managed to run a very clean session, getting both cars comfortably through the first parts of qualifying and then running on track right at the end of Q3. Nico did a great job to claim his fourth pole position of the season and it was very unfortunate for Lewis that he missed out on his final lap, otherwise I think we would have seen both of our cars on the front row. Tomorrow will be a challenging race on a demanding circuit but we believe we have the pace to get the job done with both cars."
Fernando Alonso (19th): "When it rains in qualifying it's always a lottery, it can go well or it can go badly. Most of all, it's easy to make mistakes. At complicated moments like this, you need to fit the right tyres at the right time, but luck definitely plays a part. I think if we had fitted the Mediums thirty seconds earlier or later, with a dry track, things could have gone differently. In the race tomorrow, we will try and make up as much ground as possible. Yesterday, in the dry, we had a strong pace and even in the wet, as we saw on the first lap in Q1, it seems quite good. Mixed conditions might help us, but here it's impossible to know now what the weather will do tomorrow. One thing for sure, is that starting so far back, we will see a lot of action".
Kimi Raikkonen (10th): "We knew the changeable weather would make this qualifying very unpredictable, but I definitely didn't expect this sort of result. On my first run, I did four laps on Intermediate tyres because the track was still wet, but then when it stopped raining we decided to switch to slicks. On the first part of the track, the conditions were acceptable, but in the second sector, it began raining again and this prevented us from setting a good enough time to get into Q2. Tomorrow, it won't be easy moving up the order, but we will do our best to make up ground, also because today I had a better feeling than yesterday and I see no reason why I shouldn't try and have a good race."
Pat Fry: "Today's qualifying result is bitterly disappointing and it means we will have an uphill struggle tomorrow, with a plan to attack right from the first to the last lap. In the opening minutes of Q1 the track conditions were mixed, which is the worst thing possible, because at some points there was a lot of water while other parts of the circuit were drying and some were even completely dry. It was impossible to improve on the Intermediates because of graining and the switch to slicks definitely complicated matters for the drivers as there was so little grip. When the lap times fell as the track began to dry, we fitted the Mediums, as in fact did everyone else, but the rain returned and that meant we were unable to make it through to the next part of qualifying. Now, our aim in tomorrow's race is to finish in the points, trying to make the most of the new sets of tyres we have."
Romain Grosjean (11th): "It was a good session for me despite the tricky weather conditions here today - certainly the rain was good for my garden! Q1 was tricky, but fortunately we used slick tyres at the right time. Unfortunately in Q2 I had a yellow flag in turn six otherwise I think that I would have been through to Q3. The car felt good in qualifying compared to the rest of the weekend and that is quite important for us. Everyone did a good job, worked very hard and now the car is where I like it to be. I hope that tomorrow it will be the case again and we can go from there and push as hard as we can to score points."
Pastor Maldonado (15th): "We had a lack of fuel during the second qualifying session which meant I had to stop the car out on track. The team are investigating to find out what happened as otherwise the car felt good and we had a strong opportunity to be in the top ten. The pace was certainly there this morning and the car was doing what I wanted it to do. We had a good strategy through the difficult weather conditions today so naturally I'm a bit disappointed with where we ended up on the grid. Now the focus is to get the best result possible in tomorrow's race."
Kevin Magnussen (5th): "It was a very tricky qualifying session. Jenson starting third is fantastic for both him and the team, but I'm satisfied with fifth. It was really hard to know how the track would be from lap to lap, so I was playing it relatively conservatively. Right now, I regret not pushing more - but it's always so tricky to know how much more you can do.
"I was quite surprised by how dry it was at the end of Q3. I didn't even think we'd need to go out at the end because it wasn't anywhere near dry enough - but the conditions were drier than we thought. It's hard to say just what we can do on Sunday. We're in a good position for the start of the race, but, realistically, we're out of position. Still, I'll be giving it everything tomorrow."
Jenson Button (3rd): "At the start of the session, I was really looking forward to getting out there. And, as soon as we did, we found the grip of the circuit, and I felt confident. I even did a lap in Q1 that was quickest overall, but I ran wide at the final corner in traffic, and that time was disallowed - nonetheless, I think it showed that, in difficult circumstances, we often tend make the best of things.
"On my final lap in Q3, I thought it was all over in the first sector: I made a mistake coming out of Turn Five and had a massive snap of oversteer onto the straight, but I still managed to make up the time over the rest of the lap. I would love there to be changeable conditions in the race tomorrow, but, realistically, if it's dry, we're not going to be quite as competitive as we were today. We'll do our best to be as close to the front as possible, of course we will, but we'll need to have a perfect race to get a decent result. "Even so, I'm really happy to be third - in front of the my family, my friends and the British crowd - their support has been so uplifting throughout this whole event."
Eric Boullier, racing director: "Clearly, bearing in mind our qualifying performances for recent grands prix, we're pleased with P3 and P5 today. Having said that, it was a topsy-turvy session, and lady luck inevitably played her part in the way things panned out. Even so, I want to pay tribute to the team, because the guys made all the right calls at all the right moments, and they deserve credit for that, because the decisions they had to make were both difficult and critical.
"Both our drivers performed extremely well, too, in tricky conditions which quite a few others failed to master. Nevertheless, we aren't going to allow ourselves to get carried away by our positive qualifying performance, because we know we're not yet where we want to be in terms of car performance. But undoubtedly our decent grid positions are a welcome boost - and you may be well sure that both Jenson and Kevin will therefore be doing all they can, at our home race, in front of the most enthusiastic and most knowledgeable supporters in the world, to score as many championship points as they possibly can."
Force India
Nico Hulkenberg (4th): "That worked out really well for us and I'm very happy to come away with fourth place on the grid. On days like this you just need to be in the right place, with good timing and a little bit of luck. The track conditions were changing so much and at the end of Q3 I've never seen a track dry so quickly. There were a few spots of rain in the middle of the session, but on my final lap it was completely dry. Fourth place sets us up nicely for tomorrow, but it's hard to know exactly where we stand in terms of race pace. We definitely made some progress with the car balance overnight with some tweaks and it was a lot less windy today, which worked in our favour. There is an interesting grid, which will hopefully make for an exciting race for the fans."
Sergio Perez (7th): "Today leaves us with mixed feelings. It was very good to get both cars in Q3 and ahead of some of our most direct competitors. Had they offered us this result before the session, we would have been satisfied; however, it is also disappointing as we know we could have had an even better result. We were in P3 up to the last lap, but when the track improved and I went out for a last run I ran a bit wide in turn 12 and lost all the temperature from my tyres. I also had to let some cars through and that made it a big problem for me.
"Otherwise I am confident we would have improved enough to stay in the front two rows. It's a shame because we were making the tyres work really well until that moment and we were making the most of the conditions. Still, it is a very positive result and we should have a good opportunity to convert it into a good race and a lot of points. Silverstone is a very difficult place to overtake and track position is very important, so I am confident in that respect."
Vijay Mallya, team principal: "Today we had a very good result, which is always very nice in our home race. We have placed both cars in Q3 in very difficult conditions, which is a great credit to both the team and our drivers: we were on the right tyre at the right time and we reaped the rewards of some good strategy calls. It is a shame Checo was not able to finish his second lap as we thought we could retain his good position, but fourth row is still a very positive place to start and he has shown us before that he can make up positions come race day. Nico was impressive as he pulled a great lap when it mattered on a drying track. Starting fourth and seventh gives us a very good chance to score points and continue our battle in the constructors' championship. Race pace is one of our strongest assets so we can look forward to tomorrow with confidence."
Esteban Gutiérrez (14th, starts 20th due to grid penalty): "We had a very good strategy. I think the conditions were pretty difficult as the weather was very inconsistent all the time. On my last lap I got caught up by a faster car behind. I was trying to push as much as I could. Unfortunately, I lost the car and hit the wall. We were both on our fast lap and I was trying to finish mine as well as possible."
Adrian Sutil (16th) "Unfortunately, I made a mistake today. As I went off the track, I did not notice that the preceded corner was very wet. I lost the rear of the car and got stuck in the gravel trap. It is a shame as I was in ninth and therefore had made it into the second qualifying session, but could not participate. The conditions were tricky for all of us. As the car was difficult to drive and as we were on the limit, those mistakes can easily happen."
Monisha Kaltenborn, Team Principal: "The team worked well, and the engineers made the right decisions. Unfortunately, we weren't able to benefit from that. It's a pity that one car went off after a good lap, got stuck in the gravel trap and consequently was out of qualifying. The other driver lost control of his car and hit the guardrail. So we lost the chance for a good qualifying result. In situations like this one we have to improve significantly."
Giampaolo Dall'Ara, head of track engineering:"Qualifying brought typical Silverstone weather with ever changing conditions. As a result, it was important to be on the right tyres at the right time, which we managed to achieve. Technically, everything went according to plan, the performance of the cars was okay. Unfortunately both drivers went off and we didn't manage to convert this into a good result. This is very disappointing."
Toro Rosso
Jean-Eric Vergne (10th): "It was a good qualifying session today, at least until towards the end when we made a mistake in deciding not to go out again for one last run and improve our position. I don't really know why but it's a fact that all the others went out again and improved as expected. It's a shame as we had a good car to fight for a higher position in the ranking, and it's disappointing also considering that along the weekend we have consistently been quicker than some of the cars that will be in front of us on the grid tomorrow. Let's stay positive and think that P9 and P10 are anyway good enough to hope for a good race tomorrow."
Daniil Kvyat (9th): "We were fighting for really high positions today, but then towards the end we made the decision not to go out anymore. At that time it seemed to be the right decision because it was hard to imagine that anyone would have improved times because it had rained quite a lot and track conditions were tricky out there. But anyway, this is the way it is and in the end, P9 and P10 are good positions to start the race from. We will definitely fight hard tomorrow!"
James Key, technical director: "Slightly mixed feelings today because I think that from a general performance point of view everything went really well and according to plan until the last few minutes of Q3. It was a very tricky session, very unpredictable and I think that everyone on the pit wall and the drivers' feedback matched very well what was going on, with a great effort from everyone. It's disappointing to lose a higher position in the top ten. We were set to go out at the end, our indication was that it was too wet. In the end that final sector in the closing minutes was just dry enough to make the difference and that's why the ones who went out are now ahead of us. Despite our disappointment, P9 and P10 are reasonable positions anyway, our race pace was good on Friday so we just have to do our best tomorrow."
Ricardo Penteado, Renault Sport F1 track support leader: "A very animated qualifying session, which is just as we like them! The changing conditions made it extremely exciting but it was not at all easy to get everything working in harmony. Nevertheless we did manage to extract the maximum from the Power Unit and the car. Unfortunately the decision to stay in the garage until late on did not pay off, but two cars in the top ten is still a good result and puts us in a strong position for tomorrow."
Valtteri Bottas (17th): "The whole session was unbelievable. We left it too late to go out on the dry tyre so we didn't get the run in as it started to rain again. Truthfully we were unlucky it started to rain. We had the pace to get to Q3 so we missed a good opportunity. It's a long race tomorrow and we have a good car so we can still get back into the points, but again the weather will play its part."
Felipe Massa (18th): "It was really a missed opportunity to get the car in a good position for tomorrow. We didn't expect the rain and the track was drying so we had to get the lap in. The moment it started raining again, that was it, it was over. We have a lot to do tomorrow and it will not be easy but the car is quicker than where we are."
Rob Smedley, Head of Vehicle Performance: "We have a good car so it's very disappointing to be in 17th and 18th. We were trying to mark the people on track but our timings were wrong. We didn't see the rain coming as quickly as it did, but that's not an excuse, it's an error which we can't make again. How we recover tomorrow is important now and getting into the points is still our goal, as we have the car for it and we need to try and get as many points as we can over our closest championship rivals."
Max Chilton (13th, starts 18th after grid penalty): "The team has done an incredible job today, making some fantastic calls and putting us right where we needed to be at exactly the right time. I'm really thrilled with P13 but the reality is, had it not been for the Yellow for Gutierrez, we could have ended up even higher as in those damp conditions you put a banker in and then do your quick lap at the end. Obviously I've got the five place penalty for this morning's gearbox change, which will drop me back, but a good qualifying session was what I needed because of that penalty, and that is what we've achieved, so I can't be disheartened. It's a fantastic feeling to have had such a good qualifying in front of the British fans and I can't wait for the race now. I'm ahead of the Caterhams and maybe similar conditions will be what we need to progress because we're very strong under pressure, as we've shown."
Jules Bianchi: (12th) "A fantastic day for the team and I'm so happy for everyone. After our first points in Monaco, it's great that we have now achieved the team's best ever qualifying result. Today's situation was not easy and so this result is down to a combination of great strategy, judging the changing conditions to perfection and then just making the most of the windows we had out on the track when the conditions were right for the tyres.
"It was a real gamble, but we had everything to gain from taking some risks, so for the last run we put the slicks on even though the track was right at the limit. I had a really good lap and then the Yellow flags came out for Gutierrez's spin. Had we not encountered these I could have improved for sure and who knows what might have happened then. I'm just really happy to achieve this result at the team's home race and anything is possible from where we will start on the grid tomorrow. I will try my best to make the most of every opportunity."
John Booth, Team Principal: "Heading into this afternoon's qualifying, the team was still recovering from a tough start to the day, having experienced a failure of Max's gearbox on the install lap and Jules unfortunately not getting many laps prior to spinning off in the wet conditions. From a strategic point of view we had however gained a lot of useful information from looking at the other runners in FP3 and in the build-up to qualifying we had been able to formulate a good plan in the event of us seeing a repeat of FP3 conditions. As expected, the session did start wet and both cars went straight out on the intermediate tyres, in order to set a banker lap early on, given the fact that the weather had been so unpredictable.
Armed with all of our calculations it became clear that we were in the window for dry tyres, so both cars came back in for slicks, which was very much the right way to go, moving us into Q2. In that session, we saw an almost identical repeat of the conditions and again our strategy paid off, fuelling both cars for the session and using the flexibility of pit stops to always ensure we had the right tyre for conditions. Max made a stop for another set of intermediate tyres, due to him having to back off early on a lap. However, we reacted quickly when we saw the track was ready for dry tyres again, pitting Jules and Max immediately to maximise the opportunity. The yellow at the end made things tricky, but ultimately we can see just how prepared the team is for the opportunities that exist in the midfield and P12 and P13 is a fantastic reward for our progress. Really well done to both drivers today for doing exactly what was required of them at every stage of our two qualifying sessions."
Kamui Kobayashi (22nd): "After the rain on Friday night we started FP3 on wets but after the installation lap it was clear the track was ready for inters. We went out early to see how they were performing and found we had some traction issues, but otherwise the car was ok. As the rain had started to fall again we then waited out most of the rest of the session before going out with a few minutes left on another set of inters to run to the flag.
"In Q1 I went out early on a set of inters but after a couple of laps it looked like we could try slicks. We boxed and went onto a set of options but soon after going back out on track I was told to box again because of a problem on the car. We made a couple of adjustments and went back out for another run on options but I had the same technical issue and couldn't go any quicker. It's obviously a shame because today was one of those sessions where we could have had one or both cars in Q2 but it wasn't to be."
Marcus Ericsson (21st): "FP3 started wet but the track conditions were ok so we did the first full run on inters. During that run the rain started coming down again, particularly in sector two where it was pretty wet, so we boxed and waited with most of the other cars for the rain to stop before going out again on wets for the final few laps.
"In quali we went out with most of the pack on inters and then made the call to go to options pretty much as soon as I was back in the garage. The conditions were pretty critical and I made a mistake in sector two when I was really pushing - after that I couldn't recover the time and we ended up where we are. Tomorrow the conditions look like they'll be similar to today and we know that could give us opportunities, especially with the cars that will be around us on the grid as I'm sure they'll all be pushing hard right from the start - we need to be there when it counts so we'll work as hard as we can to make sure we are."
Cedrik Staudohar, Renault Sport F1 Track Support Leader: "It wasn't really our day today. We had hoped to be able to take advantage of the weather but unfortunately on Kamui's car we had an issue with the ERS system on the second run. After a reset it appeared to be OK but then we encountered another problem - effectively the engine behaved as though it was still in the garage and stopped out on track, which meant the end of the session for Kamui. Marcus had a difficult session but no particular engine issues so now we are looking forward to tomorrow's race, where we hope for better luck."
Paul Hembery, motorsport director: "With mixed conditions throughout the day, it was a very complex qualifying session, in which judging the crossover point and amount of grip - which was constantly evolving - proved to be crucial. As a result, there were some surprises in the qualifying order all the way to the end. We're still anticipating a two-stop race tomorrow, from what should be a very interesting grid."


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A lot of the people at the hearing on Senate Bill 31 last Tuesday at the Statehouse seemed too happy from the start — and yes, I'm talking mostly about the "Orange People."
Too happy, I thought, because this hearing was about the risks Vermonters can face from dangerous people with guns, whatever color they choose to wear.
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A Jan. 29 letter to the editor of the Addison Independent, by John Burton of Cornwall, unfairly and unjustly criticizes Rev. Barnaby Feder, minister of Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, Middlebury.
No state is more liberal than Vermont when it comes to its politics. And no state is more conservative than Vermont when it comes to its guns.
Raise my taxes.
Tell me where I can build my home and where I can't.
Tell me which doctor I can visit.
What about the gun bill, S.31?
There's been some speculation on Front Porch Forum regarding my motives for co-sponsoring a bill that does three things: It puts Vermont in compliance with the federal law that requires Vermont to enter into a federal database (1) the names of certain violent felons and (2) the names of persons who have been judged in a court of law to be a danger to themselves or others. The third thing it does is require a background check during the sale of all weapons, while allowing for family members to gift guns to each other.
Earlier this month, a bill was introduced in the Vermont Senate to require criminal backgrounds checks for everyone buying a gun in Vermont. This means that people who have been deemed too dangerous to own a gun by Vermont courts because of their past violent actions will not be able to.
It was a privilege to be in Montpelier on Wednesday, Jan. 14 among those speaking at the press conference in support of a new state Senate bill to require universal background checks on gun sales in Vermont. This highly focused legislation will extend to gun shows and online sales the same background check requirements already in place for licensed gun retailers.
Editor's note: This letter was sent to state representatives and senators serving Addison County and copied to the Independent.
We are members of the Middlebury Area Clergy Association. In writing you today in support of stricter regulation of guns and gun trafficking, we speak as individuals, not as representatives of our congregations.
In a sign of what the nation might hope is the start of a continuing trend, Colorado became the first Western state to adopt tougher gun control laws with the recent signing of legislation.
The measure, which is similar to what Vermont legislators were asked to consider but decided not to tackle this year, bans magazines for automatic assault-style weapons that hold more than 15 rounds and requires background checks made online or through private parties (like gun shows).
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I am considering buying an electric clothes dryer for my home (which is all-electric). I could go with a conventional vented dryer, or a ventless condensing dryer. I am inclined toward the ventless dryer because it will keep the heat in the house (beneficial through most of the year in central Illinois); I can also place it near my heat pump water heater. But there may be other factors to consider, and I also have no experience with a ventless clothes dryer. Any thoughts or advice? Thanks, Scott
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One wonders whether the chlorine in the detergent and the fabric softener might not combine with the hydrogen in the wash water to create a modest but nevertheless undesirable presence of Hydrochloric acid in your indoor air.
Hello Scott!
The electric ventless dryer will, indeed, keep the heat in the house, but it will also keep the moisture from the wet clothing, bedding, etc, in the house. You may be setting yourself up for a future mold problem, depending on your local climate, general leakiness of your house, etc. Additionally, unless you use a clothes line in the cooling months, your AC system will have to compensate for both heat and excess humidity.
In a perfect world, your dryer will have an outside air supply that opens when the dryer is turned on, thus making your "gazoutas" equal to your "gazintas." If you can make that happen, you will achieve perfect balance, and inner harmony. ;-) Good luck!
I have the Bosch Axxis condensing dryer in my home. I live in central coast of California. Our main driver for going with a ventless condensing dryer was because we wanted to keep the house airtight as much as possible -- we have a passive house and our final blower door test came in a 0.59 ACH. The dryer is located in the middle of the house in the same mechanical closet that houses HRV and the washer. We probably used the dryer less than dozen times in the past year. Most of the time we hang the laundry inside the house on folding racks. Because the relative humidity inside the house tends to be low (right now RH is 25~30% with the room temperature at 72-75F) drying the laundry inside the house helps bring up the humidity a bit. When I have used the dyer I found it to work well and it takes much longer than vented gas dryer. Also clothes never gets super crisp dry state that a gas dryer produces, but this is OK because if you take it out and hang things clothes immediately after the end of cycle it minimize wrinkles. If you already have a heat pump water heater then placing the condensing dryer next to it makes sense.
I would be using the dryer only for sheets and towels. Does the condensing dryer work well on these items?
Yes, the condensing dryer works well for sheets and towels IF you don't mind waiting. It takes A LOT longer than gas dryer and the capacity is smaller.
I just looked at the installation instruction for my dryer and it requires 208~240 V receptacle on a 30 A minimum individual branch circuit. Also, the condensing hose needs to be connected to a drain.
I imagine to maximize the intended benefit of condensing dryer heating the air near the heat pump it may require matching the timing of usage of the two appliances. For example, turning on the dryer when someone is taking a bath or having a long shower so that warm air is available for the heat pump when it needs to raise the water temperature in the tank.
Given that the condensing dryer needs to run much longer than vented dryers I wonder if the energy saving on heat pump water heater from using the hot air from the dryer will be equal or greater to the extra electricity needed to run the dyer longer?
I also appreciate the report. I've wondered for sometime how they might work on bigger loads. When my wife and I have used them while travelling... it has always been for small loads while visiting friends or relatives overseas. Not the heaver loads of towels.
One daughter that lived in Germany - while attending school, said her complaint was some students refused to dump the water catch tray... and she'd get tired of stuff not drying as fast because of it; the moldy smells as a result. or getting wet feet when the tray had overflowed on the previous user... not the fault of the dryer of course. She said she just started to dump all the trays when she went down to the laundry room.. Some Americans... just can't adjust.
You didn't mention where the dryer is located... if it is in the garage or an area that doesn't need to be heated. Provide a make up air line to that room... seal it off and add barometric damper to let air in as needed.
If its in the heated portion of the house... you could raise it off the floor onto a box frame, add the make up air into the box and use an automated damper to only open up when the dryer is running.
Last thought, bringing in cold + dry air during the winter time....should actually speed up the drying time in the winter, for a standard electric dryer.
Condensing dryers that I have seen tend to have smaller volumes - and can require the users to run multiple dryer loads if there is a lot of laundry. We've used them when in Europe (Germany) - you must remember to empty the water tray after every use... otherwise the efficiency can drop and/or you can get some mold growing in the water tray...
The dryer would be in the basement, and I would only be using if for sheets and towels, which don't hang-dry very well (too stiff according to my wife).
It sounds like it would be mostly seasonal use... sheets and towels outside during the summer time on a clothes line.... in that case a controlled damper opening up only when dryer runs might not be unreasonable. But if you do it... insulate incoming fresh air to keep it from taking on heat until it gets down by the dryer... include a backdraft damper to keep air from trying to get out...
The RH of the winter time air is likely to be down in the tweens... which means -- you could nearly dry the clothes just with air and tumble dry.... I suppose a home version of freeze drying :-)
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Actress Malin Akerman went back to work on Monday to promote her new TV series, just one month after giving birth to her first child.
The 35-year-old blonde beauty, who welcomed her son, Sebastian, on April 16, stepped back into the spotlight for a presentation of her upcoming show "Trophy Wife" in Los Angeles.
Akerman praised her rocker husband, Roberto Zincone, for staying at home to look after their baby, insisting, "It's my first night out since I've had him! Me and my husband, we're tag-teaming it. We've got a good groove going so I felt comfortable enough to go out tonight. … People always say it's (parenthood) the biggest love you've ever felt and it truly is. It's beautiful!"
"The Watchmen" star told EOnline.com she was relishing her time away from home, joking, "When he sleeps for three hours I want to wake him up. Then when he's up you go, 'God, isn't it time to sleep?'"


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Augmented Reality will Never be a Reality
Augmented Reality is today's Virtual Boy: it's expensive hype no one will buy.
Technologists these days have been hard at work building 3D visual overlays, augmenting how you see the world. As it were, fanboys and fangirls have been hard at work telling us about our future in homemade videos; but, as technology advances, the real world will only get more real.
For the luddites and techies among my readership, please find the following video below and watch it as a point of discussion.
For the same reasons humanoid robots never seem to make the shelves of Walmart, this future vision (double-meaning intended) will never happen for the mass market—it's too costly.
Let's start with the cost of providing vision modification technology, enumerating by scenario:
Case 1: Camera Hacks. Some iPhone apps, like the Yelp application, have basic augmented reality features that overlay information over a video panel of whatever it is you're looking at. The hardware cost is low, but the fact remains your augmented vision requires that you hold a piece of technology out in front of you like a goober. Offloading vision augmentation into a handheld device is clumsy and usually inconvenient; it's a neat trick, but not much more.
Case 2: Super Glasses. Science fiction (e.g. Snow Crash, Accelerando, Caprica, Iron Man) often feature HUD-enhanced glasses that identify other people, overlay environmental information, or display text or video messages from others. Yet, fiction forgets that mobile embedded devices have (and will continue to have) issues trading off performance for reliable power. Modifying a scene in believable real-time 3D is difficult enough for an array of 3D rendering machines at Pixar, much less a pair of Ray Bans. The power and heat requirements would simply be too taxing to prove usable, and vision-augmenting would be limited to short bursts, not useful for regular wear.
Not to mention, glasses move around on faces throughout the day. The display would have to constantly correct for the minor, but highly sensitive differences as the glasses move around ever so slightly on the wearer's moving head. And, like watching Avatar in 3D, you'll develop a slight headache unless the optics are almost near perfect and consistent.
If—big if—you manage to mitigate these issues, how much is it going to cost you?
Case 3: Tiny Projectors. Imagine a micro-projector outfitted somewhere on where an image can be projected on your retina, fooling your eye into seeing things that aren't actually there. Can't imagine it? Neither can I—mostly for the reasons mentioned in Case 2.
Case 4: Optical Nerve Hacks. Imagine a device that could intercept the signal relayed from the retina to the optic nerve as it his the vision cells on the neocortex and offloads visual rendering and modification to a nearby machine, you still have to deal with the matter of bandwidth in rendering an enhanced vision for your neocortex so that it can make sense of it. But, if that technology were possible, why would you waste time, effort, and cost on only making things look more real or understandable. Why not make things simply more real or understandable at the fundamental level of understanding?…
…which brings us to
My Hunch: As technology moves forward, there's little doubt that we'll eventually find a way to make visual image enhancement commonplace. (Naysayers: thirty years ago, what if I told you that people would, en masse, elect to have lasers reshape their corneas, circumventing the need for glasses?)
If we're at the point, as in Case 4, that we would elect to enhance vision directly to the neocortex, why not enhance the neocortex itself?
Strange as it may sound, the neurons in the neocortex that handle and make sense of your taste, your touch, your smell, and your sight, are identical. Instead, depending on what input they're connected to, the neurons arrange themselves and adapt themselves to make sense of the signals coming into them.
Neurons are pretty neat in this respect. Watch how sensors on the tongue can help the blind to see.
Imagine, if you could, connecting a sensor to a portion of your neocortex (presumptively an area that was of very little use to you) and training your brain to make sense of that information coming in. What if it were a digital source, like the entire contents of Wikipedia?
As of January 2010, Wikipedia, including all of its images and all of its text, totals 2.8 Terabytes, or 2867 Gigabytes. If memory density increases 20% a year (as it has been) for the next 21 years, you'll be able to fit Wikipedia into memory the size of the fingernail on your pinky. You could certainly fit a pinky nail underneath your skull.
So, if you could implant information directly on your brain and your neocortex could make sense of it, why would you need augmented reality? Your brain would do the work automatically. Say for instance that you, in 2010, wanted to look up "portmanteau", you'd have to pick up a dictionary or type that word into the Internet, read the definition, understand the definition, and then apply it contextually. With a chip on your neocortex, you'd just know it. You would know it just like you can read this sentence without thinking too much about the character-by-character construction of its words. You would just know.
By the same token, when you looked at someone, you would just know their name. Or, when you looked at the Eiffel Tower, you would know when it was built, who designed it, who installed the elevators, and it's mass in kilograms (or pounds) as easily as you see that it's colored dark brown.
With deep vision into everything you were looking at, why in the world would you need something as crude as a live-drawn diagram to tell you how to make a pot of tea?
You wouldn't— it's too costly. And, as discussed above, you would just know the motions and the recipe by heart.
By the time technology capable of feeding modifications to your vision arrives, we should be able to augment your neocortex. This can, in turn, create real knowledge inside your head based on linked data pools. It'd be the end of visual infographics and the start of just data.
Linking data in your head, live, is cheaper, faster, more reliable, no matter how you slice it. And, until we can connect to the data inside your head, always-on Augmented Reality is too expensive—socially, technologically, economically—to become a reality.


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Hayden Cog Run draws crowd to season-opening Running Series event
Hayden — Steamboat Springs Running Series records will fall if Nathan Allen has his say.
The AmeriCorps volunteer who works with Partners in Routt County moved to Steamboat in August.
Part of the burgeoning Routt County running community, Allen looks to be the best this summer and could challenge many of the records Nick Sunseri set in 2011.
Sunseri left in 2012 to head to Canada to chase an Olympic dream, and now his spot as one of Routt County's top runners could be overtaken by Allen.
The former Lindenwood University runner set a blistering pace Saturday at the Running Series' opening event.
Allen never had done the Hayden Cog Run before and said his lack of knowledge was a good thing.
"That helps in running," he said. "Ignorance to the competition and the course can help so you can't psych yourself out."
Allen was just off the course record, which was set in 2003 by Mark Warner in a time of 48 minutes, 25 seconds.
The turn at the top of the Cog was relocated Saturday, however, turning the expected 8.4-mile trek into 7.75 miles.
Allen finished the run in 46:07. Brett Brock was second in 50:56, and Harry Niedl was third in 51:32.
"I read the article about it in the paper about the big climb and talked with people around town about how tough the climb is," Allen said. "That was all true. It was rough."
Elite triathlete Heather Gollnick was the top female finisher, covering the course in 57:38. Karen Monsen was second in 1:09.08, and Erin Allard was third in 1:12.40.
"That was great coming from Florida where it's so flat," Gollnick said. "It was amazing up there. Being newer to Colorado and seeing the grass turn greener and greener, it was just stunning."
There also was a 5-kilometer run Saturday that had the distinct feel of a Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club cross-country podium.
Simon Zink was the top finisher in 18:24. Ben Kelley was second in 18:40 and Tanner Heil was third in 20:11.
On the women's side Cara Piske was first in 22:09, Abbey Habermehl was second in 22:35, and Cara Marrs was third in 23:33.
The event also saw a big uptick in participation. It certainly helped that the weather was perfect for running Saturday.
Race director Jill Delay that said in her second year managing the race, things were much easier. The race also partnered with the Hayden Chamber for promotion.
In its 34th year, 87 runners competed Saturday after just 48 ran last year.
"That's the hope," Delay said. "We want to make the tradition a little deeper."
The next Running Series race is the May 18 Spirit Challenge that features 5- and 10-kilometer races.
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This year, a handful of Moffat County High School graduates are setting out to carry on the family tradition. From business to education, these students plan to follow in the footsteps their parents and in some cases, grandparents and great-grandparents.


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It was Kai's discomfort with the practice of selling people content-free breakfast cereal based diets that turned me on to the whole issue in the first place – and it was Nestlé's atrocious 'pull pull' radio advertisement that pushed me over the edge into Tuesday's wee slice of grumpy bloggery suggesting you might like to eat paper instead of breakfast
cereal products as part of your new dietary regime.
You can only imagine my delight when the blog post attracted a couple of anonymous comments. I'm not a big fan of these as they're often used to express negative sentiment without the grace of culpability.
Anonycomments can also come from people working for companies who are trying to influence debate without being open about who they are. This is infrequent precisely because it is widely considered as dishonest, egregious and stupid behaviour. And, as eny fule no, you can be traced even if you're 'anonymous'. I have written about this in the past, offering guidance to companies engaging with blogs.
Anonymous comment one came at just after 11am. I haven't (obviously) edited it:
before you go ahead and diss ads make sure you know which is which :)
and ps. two totally different cereals, and at least they are promoting a relatively healthy weight loss program,as opposed to the other crazy fad diets out there
In this case, the comment was saying I had mistaken one ad for another, which I did not do. I also didn't mention Special K or, indeed Nestlé. I purposefully referenced 'the breakfast cereal people' and not those nice, searchable brands Nestlé and Special K, let alone the Special K two-week challenge. Special K is a Kellogg's brand. You know Kellogs? The breakfast cereal people represented by advertising agency Leo Burnett in the Middle East?
The second comment came 14 minutes later. Having obviously reconsidered the original response, 'anonymous' added (again I haven't corrected the text) this:
You know i agree that that particular radio ad was HORRIFIC. And i would probably NEVER buy that brand. But not all low-fat cereal brands preach "get skinny by eating our brand."
Some brands, specifically the ones that offer the 2-week diet, target people who have unhealthy eating habits. The are not talking to the kind of people who are already health conscience and eat organic-type food. And in order to break any habit you need to have a disciplined amount of time doing the opposite. Why do you think there are a minimum of 21 days for rehab? Becuase research shows that it takes 21 days to break an addictive habit such as alcoholism. Similarly, 2 weeks is enough to get you off of junk food/fast food AND offers you an incentive (a little weight loss) to START leading a healthier lifestyle. And im sorry but at least THIS diet is healthier than starving yourself!
Plus,cereal is MUCH better food then the greasy crap people are used to eating now a days. It probably has more vitamins than they know existed!
So the ad you mentioned really does degrade other cereal brands that are honestly trying to help women become healthier.
Lastly, please don't take my comments personally. Everyone is entitled to their opinions but i believe that informed opinions are worth listening to more.
Of course, both comments – posted as 'anonymous' come from the same source: a place SiteMeter identifies only as 22.214.171.124 (Leo Burnett Middle East).
Now don't get me wrong. The commenter may well not work for Leo Burnett. The IPs could have been mixed up or the commenter might have been a random, albeit arrogant and illiterate, visitor to Leo's offices 'camping' on their wireless. I mean, we don't want to jump to conclusions now just because some dribbling idiot has wagged their fingers at us in a mildly offensive and patronising manner, do we? So let's stick to the facts.
As a direct result of these two comments, it is now likely that any number of search strings with permutations consisting of either of these two brands and questions regarding diet will bring this post (and therefore the original one linked again for your convenience here) relatively high into Google search results. That has the potential to drive thousands of people to read my little nag about the attempt to foster the uptake of breakfast cereal diets of questionable nutritional benefit who otherwise would never have bothered.
What do YOU think? I'd be particularly interested in your views if you are employed by the Kellogg Company, the world's leading producer of cereal and Kellogg's convenience foods, including Kellogg cookies, Kellogg crackers, Kellogg toaster pastries, Kellogg cereal bars, Kellogg fruit-flavored snacks, Kellogg frozen waffles and Kellogg veggie foods. You might have concerns regarding the whole Kelloggs two-week challenge promotion, or have worries about sugar levels in Kelloggs' foods, the use of high fructose corn syrup as a cheap sweetener in breakfast cereals or even iron content (for instance the Danish government's 2004 ban on Kelloggs products because of the high added vitamin content and, apparently, non-dietary iron added to its products).
If you do, you might like to add a comment. I'd really prefer it if you could do so only if you are prepared to put a name to it. If you work for an organisation with a vested interest, perhaps you'd like to declare that – or just wait until you get home so that your IP doesn't track straight back to your company's network and expose your idiotic attempts at corporate mendacity by proxy.