9. security & defence

Army & fights (347)
Defense (23)
Defensive structures (9)
Emergency (12)
Guard (3)
Protections (57)
Risk & insecurity (18)
Security (168)
Shelters (18)
Weapons (132)

Synopsis: 9. security & defence:

Pushed into coastal waters in wartime during the Tang Dynasty, these boat dwellers weren't allowed to set foot on land until the second half of the 20th century.

but land-based agriculture may also be in danger due to a predicted shortage of the crucial nutrient phosphorus by the year 2050.

Fighting over the best way to save species instead of saving them will, to future generations, look like"fiddling

which greatly increases a person's risk of death in the developing world. The best-known example of boosting nutrition in staple crops is golden rice,

More than 550 years after Johannes Gutenberg printed 180 copies of the Bible on paper and vellum, new technologies as revolutionary as the printing press are changing the concept of a book and

that writing about conflict can unsettle his younger readers. oewhen two characters in my book have an argument,

so I use it only when there is a real need in the story for conflict. Now that anyone with an Internet connection or even a cellphone effectively owns a digital printing press,

The risk is that we become mindless ants following endless crumbs of digital data. oepeople tend to ask

and trial process before it can be granted patent protection, according to Hussein Said of Kenyas National Council for Science and Technology.

what we in terms of technology and equipment to fight forest fires, he said. Fires in Kenya last year destroyed 11,370 hectares of bush and forest land.

and protective in extreme elements. The idea of growing rocks sounds farfetched at first, but apparently the idea is solid.

The scheme has been designed as a hedge of greenhouses providing a windbreak and shelter for the outdoor planting.

seeking out ways small and large to tear down the stronghold the banks and credit card companies have built.

About 20 percent of all online transactions now take place over so-called alternative payment systems, according to consulting firm Javelin Strategy and Research.

and risk-management issues to Paypal. oei can focus on the social side of the business and not on touching money,

And so, an army of engineers and entrepreneurs is rushing in, hoping to do to the payment world what has already been done to the music,

Mitchell Wolfe, an ecommerce veteran who ran Compaqs Canadian Internet sales team before moving on to a series of startups,

This is the kind of revolutionary fervor that Paypal was intended always to foment. Peter Thiel, Paypals cofounder and a die-hard libertarian, launched the company as a means of creating a stateless monetary system,

according to the book The Paypal Wars. oeit will be nearly impossible for corrupt governments to steal wealth from their people.

Paypal acted more as an enabler a way of extending the credit card model of payment into the online realm than as a bomb-thrower.

there were some hints of Paypals revolutionary capabilities. Unlike credit card companies, Paypal had need no to build

Paypal moved even further away from its revolutionary roots in 2002, when it was purchased by ebay for $1. 5 billion.

In April 2008, Bedier led a meeting at ebays North First street headquarters, where he presented his idea to CEO John Donahoe and his lieutenants.

When Bedier was finished, he was stunned to get applause. oeit was like a lightbulb clicked on,

and his voice rises until its echoing off the stark white walls. oethis is the main battleground of capitalism!

Paypal has shied away from using revolutionary rhetoric. In discussing its role, company executives sound less like Thiel,

seeking out ways small and large to tear down the stronghold the banks and credit card companies have built.

About 20 percent of all online transactions now take place over so-called alternative payment systems, according to consulting firm Javelin Strategy and Research.

and risk-management issues to Paypal. oei can focus on the social side of the business and not on touching money,

-and-mortar banks to make deposits, withdrawals, payments, etc. Smart cards: The general term for any card with a specialized computer chip embedded,

And the less-wondrous inventions#articularly the explosion of subprime credit#elped mask the rise of income inequality for many of those

found their savings, employers, or professions ravaged by the same forces that have enriched the plutocratic elite.

The result of these divergent trends is a jaw-dropping surge in U s. income inequality.

It s true that few of today s plutocrats were born into the sort of abject poverty that can close off opportunity altogether#a strong early education is pretty much a precondition#ut the bulk of their wealth is generally the fruit of hustle and intelligence (with, presumably,

and leading them in discussion of matters ranging from global financial imbalances to the war in Afghanistan.

Alfred Nobel ensured that he would be remembered for something other than the invention of dynamite. What is notable about today s plutocrats is that they tend to bestow their fortunes in much the same way they made them:

In a study of British and American CEOS, for example, Elisabeth Marx, of the headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles,

there is a growing sense that American businesses that don t internationalize aggressively risk being left behind.

#or the insistence by several top bankers after the immediate threat of the financial crisis receded that their institutions could have survived without TARP funding

Look for several new mines to come online in coming years and China s stranglehold on the industry to plummet. 16.)

The drive to make all food supplies local has touched off a number of battles to rewrite municipal codes to accommodate everything from rooftop gardens, to backyard cows and chickens

Full-time aerial drone pilots needed to help manager our growing fleet of surveillance, delivery, and communication drones.

#In 2010 the U s. Military spent $4. 5 billion on drones, increasing to $4. 8 billion in 2011.

But as a technology, future drones will go well beyond military uses. The stage is being set for thousands of everyday uses in business and industry all over the world.

The Coming Transparency Wars Can you feel the layers being lifted? Transparency is entering our lives in unusual ways

The greatest danger of too much transparency is that we will become consumed by watching each other,

This will continue to be a volatile battleground for many years to come. More details here and here. 24.

if our reality hasn t been augmented in some way. 2. Alternative Currency Bankers According to Javelin Strategies, 20%of all online trades are already being done with alternative currencies.

In the future, robotic earthworms will be used to silently mine the landfills and replace whatever is extracted with high-grade soil. 39.

and climatology to one where the true power-brokers will wield the forces of nature. 47.

Nano-Weapons Specialists Many of the weapons of the future will be too small to be seen by the human eye.

and delivered as online services#rom movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading

How Netflix eviscerated Blockbuster is an old story, but now other traditional entertainment providers are facing the same threat.

Comcast, Time warner and others are responding by transforming themselves into software companies with efforts such as TV Everywhere,

Even national defense is based increasingly software. The modern combat soldier is embedded in a web of software that provides intelligence, communications, logistics and weapons guidance.

Software-powered drones launch airstrikes without putting human pilots at risk. Intelligence agencies do large-scale data mining with software to uncover

and track potential terrorist plots. Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

This includes even industries that are based software today. Great incumbent software companies like Oracle and Microsoft are threatened increasingly with irrelevance by new software offerings like Salesforce. com

Over the next 10 years, the battles between incumbents and software-powered insurgents will be epic. Joseph Schumpeter, the economist who coined the term creative destruction,

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented

only this one so far satisfies the complex, long-time-coming security standards. Using an app on the mobile phone,

#Adoption of Mobile Wallets Being slowed by Behind-the-Scenes Battle Among Corporate Giants Consumers would wave their phones instead of swiping credit cards at the checkout counter.

#and is used overseas#wide adoption of the so-called mobile wallets is being slowed by a major behind-the-scenes battle among corporate giants.

As to the issue of security, several banks and payment networks said that mobile wallets would require a pass code

or a strong central bank,#said Beth Robertson, director of payments research at Javelin Strategy and Research.

#said David Acheson, former assistant commissioner for food protection at the FDA. Somebody is probably going to make a bundle of money out of this.#

an artillery game, became a sensation. Can they start writing good apps? Not often, no.

Late last year, Mr. Grimes was laid off as a computer security specialist by Legg Mason, the Baltimore financial firm.

he hoped to find satisfying work that paid enough to provide a middle-class living and some shelter from a shifting economy.

#The Grimeses quest cost them more than $200, 000 in lost income and savings. So far this year, their eight apps have earned $4, 964.

So in late 2008 he wrote an artillery game that could be played on the iphone,

All of my savings and retirement account are gone##Brent Miller said. His father took out a second mortgage.

#So far, there has not been much risk of revolt. Developers have expressed flickers of grumpiness at Apple s 30 percent cut of each app sale.

the company said it struggles to find enough workers to make its new 787 aircraft. Rather, the machines offer significant increases in precision and are safer for workers.

Over the 15-year life of the system, the machines yielded $3. 5 million in labor and productivity savings.

#It still houses a dingy, unused Toyota corolla assembly line on which an army of workers once turned out half a million cars annually.

but also create new stress and insecurity. The giant facility where he works distributes dry goods for Kroger supermarkets.

While consumers tend to think of Apple s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif, . as the company s heart and soul, a majority of its workers in the United states are not engineers or executives with hefty salaries and bonuses but rather hourly wage earners selling iphones and Macbooks.

But Cory Moll, a salesman in the San francisco flagship store and a vocal labor activist, said that on Tuesday he was given a raise of $2. 82 an hour, to $17. 31,

It s interesting to ask why we find it offensive that Wal-mart pays a single mother $9 an hour,

but we don t find it offensive that Apple pays a young man $12 an hour,##Mr. Osterman said.

And a leap to the company headquarters is highly unusual. Apple prohibits its staff from talking to the media,

anyone with four points in a 90-day period was at risk of termination. It was a perfectly good idea,

when stress-related health issues sidelined him long enough to put his job at risk.

which means that the interior air pressure can be adjusted to more comfortable levels without the risk of damaging the fuselage.

The Shutup Gun When you aim the Speechjammer at someone, it records that person s voice and plays it back to him with a delay of a few hundred milliseconds.

It s different from conventional weapons such as samurai swords,#Kurihara says. We hope it will build a more peaceful world.#

The rationale is that the more we shield children from potential scrapes and sprained ankles,

the more unprepared they ll be for real risk as adults, and the less aware they ll be of their surroundings.

Sleep Mining Wearing a small sensor on your head, at home, while you sleep, could be the key to diagnosing diseases early

and assessing traumatic brain injury in soldiers. Currently, Low is working on a newer version of the device,

and the chemicals used in fire extinguishers can be toxic (halons, the most effective chemical fire suppressant, create holes in the ozone layer.

So the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon has developed a hand-held wand that snuffs out fires, without chemicals.

now supplies food to grocery stores and the U s. military. Your local Costco or Wegmans may sell perfectly cooked sous vide lamb shanks, osso buco or turkey roulade.

The home landscaping company Toro already has a line of consumer-grade moisture sensors that turn on the sprinkler system

but Sanjay Sarma, of the Field Intelligence Lab at M. I t.,is working to produce tiny,

Long Range Acoustic devices (LRAD) are being used as loud hailers to emit warning signals. Audio drones, however, have far more potential in the marketing and entertainment fields.

) Password Eliminator Technology Even with all our sophisticated security technology being built-in to computer platforms,

our best defense against hackers and identity theft remains the lowly password and our ability to remember it

And we won t find a solution for war. But there is great value in the struggle.

Our greatest achievements will come from these struggles. We can learn much about where we ve come from

and for this reason I d like to give you a quick overview of the top articles in 2011 on Futuristspeaker. com, based on popularity.

and the situation was complicated far too for normal emergency rescue crews, she somehow thought of the Davinci Institute.

the dangers are quite obvious, and even more apparent is our poor understanding of the demands being placed on us individually,

thanks to Qatar s dominance in global IT for the past few decades, have taken the place of the primitive bitcoin, offering superior security and anonymity, quick transfers and very low transaction fees.

It s surmounted by a spinning laser turret and knobbed with cameras, radar, antennas, and G. P. S. It looks a little like an ice-cream truck, lightly weaponized for inner-city work.

and anticipate danger, gauge distance, direction, pace, and momentum. Americans drive nearly three trillion miles a year,

He went on to build robots that explored mines In virginia, guided visitors through the Smithsonian,

And though Congress had set a goal that a third of all ground combat vehicles be autonomous by 2015,

Every so often, Thrun recalls, military contractors, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, would roll out their latest prototype.#

When the gun went off, the bike sputtered forward, rolled three feet, and fell over.#

#oeput too much intelligence into a car and it becomes creative, #Sebastian Thrun told me. The second Grand Challenge put these two approaches to the test.

Whittaker approached the race as a military operation, best won by overwhelming force. His team spent twenty-eight days laser-scanning the Mojave to create a computer model of its topography;

then they combined those scans with satellite data to help identify obstacles.##oepeople don t count those who died trying,

Whittaker the blustering field marshal. Carnegie mellon with its two military vehicles, Sandstorm and Highlander; Stanford with its puny Volkswagen Touareg, nicknamed Stanley.

It was an even match. Both teams used similar sensors and software, but Thrun and Montemerlo concentrated more heavily on machine learning.#

#oeit was our secret weapon, #Thrun told me. Rather than program the car with models of the rocks

It s part of a sprawling campus built by Silicon graphics in the early nineties and repurposed by Google, the conquering army, a decade later.

Smurfs,#oestar Wars#toys, Rube Goldberg devices. The next things you notice are the desks: row after row after row,

At the gourmet cafeterias that dot the campus, signs warn against#oetailgaters##orporate spies who might slink in behind an employee before the door swings shut.

#oeall of us were in denial that this could be done.##Then, in February of 2008, Levandowski got a call from a producer of#oeprototype This!#

#That justification has caused an uproar among some consumer protection and environmental groups. They say that representing Evolva s laboratory-grown flavoring as something similar to vanilla extract from an orchid plant is deceptive,

right in front of the windshield, is a low-profile heads-up display. manual, it reads, in sober sans serif font, white on black.

#Levandowski works at Google s headquarters in Mountain view, California. He s the business lead of Google s self-driving-car project, an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.

Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars#asily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof#n average of once an hour.

At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year, where Governor Jerry brown signed California s self-driving-car bill into law, Google cofounder Sergey Brin said#oeyou

Google s crew of young testers have been trained in extreme driving techniques#ncluding emergency braking, high-speed lane changes,

A self-driving car near Google s headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward

The attack came from Chrysler, the smallest of Detroit s Big Three automakers, in the form of a television commercial for the new Dodge Charger.

His company, Velodyne, makes a unit that packs 64 lasers in a turret that typically rotates at 600 rpm,

Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask whether he could make a next-generation lidar#ruggedized, standardized automotive component.

The company wanted a design that it could hide (perhaps behind the windshield) that would wholesale for no more than $1, 000,

#The other fight is the legal one. It too is filled with catch-22 s. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker s analysis of self-driving-car technology.#

But that doesn t mean the development of potentially lifesaving technology should be halted.##oethere wasn t legal protection for the Wright brothers

when they made that first plane, #he says.##oethey made them, they went out there,

drafting resulted in average fuel savings of 10 to 15 percent#ut that, too, is seen as the tip of the iceberg.

if they sense imminent danger, either by steering back onto the roadway or braking in anticipation of a crash.

returning the consequent weight savings as even better mileage. The EPA has a new mileage mandate for car manufacturers:

Submissions ranged from self-filling water bottles, to extreme dehumidification, to a large-scale water sources for greenhouse drip irrigation, to emergency water for lifeboats, to self-filling canteens for the military,

to continually generate water even in emergency situations. It will generate between 1-3 Gallons Water/day depending on the humidity conditions and sun conditions.

and every soldier, sailor, and construction worker to have within arm s reach at any given moment?

but it s close enough that the device has been under consideration for military use for several years now.

all while subjecting the passenger to G-forces comparable to that of a leisurely ride on the highway

which nuclear power plants produce energy) is much easier to control than nuclear fusion (the process by which the sun burns, and nuclear weapons work).

self-made billionaire who has led the design of revolutionary cars and rockets and he needs no introduction.

so he worked for smaller firms#here an autonomous military land vehicle, there a mower for golf course greens.

working nights at an Air force Exchange Service Burger king as he built his book. In the late 1980s, there was a spontaneous move to Lincoln,

Those details range from minimizing g-forces around curves (Hyperloop anticipates 0. 5gs of lateral force;

especially without a bathroom) to keeping terrorists and saboteurs from soft targets that, when breached, create onrushing air tantamount to an onrushing train.

Both believe evacuated-tube transport is a battle worth fighting. They told each other as much in a meeting three weeks before the Hyperloop announcement.

Calif. headquarters, the man from Mead walked among rockets in assembly, guys in Air Jordans working on cargo pods

Using a fleet of surveillance drones, equipped with special infrared cameras, fires can be spotted during the earliest moments of a containment window,

signaling a fleet of extinguisher drones to douse the blaze before anything serious happens. Drones specifically designed for extinguishing forest fires have the potential to eliminate virtually 100%of the devastating fires that blanket newspaper headlines every summer.

930,000 Rehabilitation expenses included costs incurred by USFS emergency rehabilitation programs, Denver water, US Geological Survey (USGS) mapping,

I was an engineer working as part of an IBM team to build a mobile satellite command and control center for monitoring missile launches from space.

This contract was part of Reagan s#oestar Wars#missile defense system. Whenever a missile was launched, the heat plume coming out of the back of the rocket produces a distinct heat signature instantly detectable by satellites tens of thousands of miles away with infrared sensors.

The technology we were using over 25 years ago could instantly detect missile launches anywhere on earth, within seconds of the launch.

I can only assume today s technology is hundreds of times more precise than anything we were working with back then. 2007 NASA image of forest fires in California The above photo was infrared taken with thermal imaging sensors on NASA s Ikhana unmanned research

Thermal image of Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat Massachusetts State Police released video taken of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev s

and instantly determining the danger level is well within our grasp. The#oecan-we-should-we#debate Certainly not all fires are bad.

As we add entire new toolsets to our fire suppression arsenal, these decisions become far more difficult.

Illustration of a fire extinguisher drone Final Thoughts I began this line of thinking looking for a solution to the wildfires we re currently experiencing here in my home state of Colorado.

Surveillance drones will likely be separate from fire-suppression drones. Extinguishing a fire under several layers of tree canopy will also be a challenge.

While it s true that Sub-saharan africa as a whole still leads the world in poverty and food insecurity rates,

I could understand from the ground up the new forces at work in rural Africa and in farming and agribusiness in the region.

attempting to foment rebellion: Almost every African family he met owned a plot of farmland#radically different situation than in Latin america,

At urban markets, legions of#oemarket women#buy food wholesale and then peddle it retail, some amassing tidy fortunes through their efforts.

which were accomplished using simple technologies to combat desertification. He describes such efforts by farmers in parched Niger as#oethe biggest environmental transformation in Africa.#

and can do it again After WORLD WAR II, a starving Europe, its farms ruined by the most destructive conflict in human history,

leaned heavily on growers south of the Sahara. Wheat from Kenya, maize from Zimbabwe, and fruits and vegetables from western and southern Africa adorned European tables.

yet parts of western and northern Kenya face a chronic struggle for food. What Africa needs most#nd is increasingly getting,

in the central part of the country, their struggle to provide enough food was heart-wrenching.

So, the The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has joined forces with America s beer brewers to change how farmer irrigate their crops.

#oethe learnings and savings in the first two years of the pilot project farms were significanta cumulative 270 million gallons of water reduced.#

Yet the promise of precision agriculture is to find the right mix of profit and environmental protection.#

and are a prime example of scientists meddling in nature, heedless of the dangers. But that could soon change,

The key is an alarm pheromone that some species of wild plant have evolved to mimic the chemical warning signals put out by aphids#a major crop pest in the temperate zones

Putting the genes for this defense into wheat has created a crop that could trick the insects into thinking that they are in peril and drive them away.

Unlike Bt cotton and other existing GM organisms, such a crop would need no insect-killing chemical for protection from pests.

LCD s dominance is already under threat from lighter Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDS) that don t need backlighting,

Ultimately, teasing out the technical problems may be only half the battle. This is the eternal question of the speciality materials industry,

Horvath and Barrangou s paper set off a race to figure out what the bacteria s mysterious secret weapon was.

Currently we have a very active program here on the Jornada Experimental Rangein landscape ecology using unmanned aerial vehicle reconnaissance.

At the top end, it s as if a fire alarm went off in here#we re going to get out

Now, there are going to be some animals that you either get your rifle and then put the product in your freezer,

With a visible boundary, there s no question#this side is mine and that side is yours.

#Poudre River Public library District, Fort Collins, CO) A birthday party (for a fish!:##oethe Library fish, Dewey and Decimal are extremely popular and most young patrons stop for a quick visit

Manatee County Public library, Bradenton, FL) Teen Battle of the Bands-The winning band will receive 10 hours of recording time at Clear Track and $1, 000 cash.

Lego club Teens writing a manga book online Class on making medieval weapons from office supplies Sit down aerobics for seniors#oecrafters Who Care##Needlework lovers meet to knit

donated over 1, 000 hats to local food pantry, hospice center, spouse abuse shelter, and shipped hats to soldiers overseas.#

#Boyle County Public library Laurel County Public library: Vintage dancers Trapping and hunting Mah-jongg#oewhisk Me Away#cooking series Creepy Foods for Halloween World Religion Discussion Series Holocaust Discussion Series Adult Pottery Class

photographing dioramas, antique dollhouse furniture displays, historic doll history/display, miniature war machines, trains, etc.

Seed lending library Reading camp for struggling first grade readers ipad and e-Reader/Kindle classes Civil war re-enactment bivouac on back lawn, Dessert contest, scarecrow

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