Not a very plausible scenario for the very easy reason of “buying is going where the prices are the lowest”…and most other sellers of the stuff are not nations or governments headed by lunatics.Thus Iran would instantly lose all customers, throwing his own country into a depression,and it is known that his country’s population is […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net
Archive for July 28th, 2008 Mogulus, a New York-based company that’s part of the crowded pack of live-video streaming sites, has raised a new round of funding from news media conglomerate Gannett, publisher of USA Today and about two dozen other newspapers. The two companies have had a partnership in place for the past …  The easiest way to describe Spire, a new community site that made its debut Monday, is as a more grown-up, cultured Yelp: the latter offers expert advice on the ideal dive bars in Brooklyn, whereas the former focuses on four-star restaurants and hotels across the river in Manhattan. Calling itself …  In recent years, standards such as the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and Energy Star have done a lot to advance green building, proving that good design doesn’t have to cost more — and, in many cases, can save money. But green buildings are often just “‘islands of sustainability’ — excellent case studies in what’s possible, but ultimately unconnected to their surroundings,” according to a recent report in RMI’s Solutions Journal (PDF). The world’s cities are now home to half the earth’s population. By 2030, that figure is expected to mushroom to 5 billion people. With all this anticipated growth, how can we take the experience and know-how from the green building community and scale it up? Answer: “compassionate competition.” That’s a term coined by an innovative San Francisco non-profit, Urban Re:Vision. By sponsoring a series of contests, the group hopes to spawn visionary ideas for “what can and should be in the design of urban space.” Previous competitions have focused on energy, transportation, community economic development, and sustainable building materials. This fall, with RMI’s help, the organization will launch its sixth and most ambitious competition to date. The challenge: design a sustainable city block. From the website:
RMI and Urban Re:Vision will be hashing out what criteria make a city block “sustainable” later this summer. That framework will guide the competition when it launches this fall. For more info and a brief video about the contest, check out this site. Noah Buhayar is a fellow at Rocky Mountain Institute. Update 12:35 p.m. PDT: I clarified this post to reflect the fact that this involves encryption only between a user’s browser and Gmail’s servers. Gmail now can be set to encrypt communications between a browser and Google’s servers by default, an option that makes the e-mail service harder to snoop on but also potentially slower. Users already could encrypt communications with Gmail servers (by going to https://mail.google.com), but on Thursday, the company added an option to use that encrypted connection automatically. 
Gmail now can be set to encrypt communications with its users by default. (Credit: Google) “Your computer has to do extra work to decrypt all that data, and encrypted data doesn’t travel across the Internet as efficiently as unencrypted data,” Gmail engineer Ariel Rideout stated in a blog post Thursday. “That’s why we leave the choice up to you.” The encryption comes through use of HTTPS, a secure version of the HTTP protocol that governs how Web browsers fetch information from servers. It’s not simple to snoop on somebody else’s network traffic, but it can be done when the communications aren’t encrypted. HTTPS encrypts communications only between the browser and Gmail’s servers. It’s not like PGP (nee Pretty Good Privacy) or GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) software that encrypts e-mail all the way from source to destination. The Gmail login process is always encrypted. (Via Google Blogoscoped.)
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Last.fm gets a makeover, but can’t stay standingPosted by: admin in Social Media and Tech
A look at the new Last.fm homepage. (Credit: Last.fm) Social music site Last.fm has unveiled a new look: a slick new design, an iPhone app, a partnership with Logitech to stream music to compatible home stereo systems, and a host of new features. With the new features, … Update 12:35 p.m. PDT: I clarified this post to reflect the fact that this involves encryption only between a user’s browser and Gmail’s servers. Gmail now can be set to encrypt communications between a browser and Google’s servers by default, an option that makes the e-mail service harder to snoop on but also potentially slower. Users already could encrypt communications with Gmail servers (by going to https://mail.google.com), but on Thursday, the company added an option to use that encrypted connection automatically.
Gmail now can be set to encrypt communications with its users by default. (Credit: Google) “Your computer has to do extra work to decrypt all that data, and encrypted data doesn’t travel across the Internet as efficiently as unencrypted data,” Gmail engineer Ariel Rideout stated in a blog post Thursday. “That’s why we leave the choice up to you.” The encryption comes through use of HTTPS, a secure version of the HTTP protocol that governs how Web browsers fetch information from servers. It’s not simple to snoop on somebody else’s network traffic, but it can be done when the communications aren’t encrypted. HTTPS encrypts communications only between the browser and Gmail’s servers. It’s not like PGP (nee Pretty Good Privacy) or GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) software that encrypts e-mail all the way from source to destination. The Gmail login process is always encrypted. (Via Google Blogoscoped.) Stock Rating Reiterations: MMM ATVID AFFX AEM ALO Last Update: 7/25/2008 10:30:00 AM Rating reiterations for July 25 from Briefing.com: Company Ticker Brokerage Firm Rating Change 3M MMM Argus Purchase Activision Blizzard ATVID Kaufman Bros Purchase Affymetrix AFFX Lehman Brothers Equal-Weight Agnico-Eagle Mines AEM RBC Capital Mkts Sector Perform Alpharma ALO Roth Capital Buy Ball Corp BLL Longbow Buy Belden BDC Stifel Nicolaus Buy Benchmark Elec […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net |
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