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I'm fairly easily satisfied by a restaurant. If the food is reasonably good, the service reasonably attentive, and the price commensurate with the surroundings, I'm generally happy. Stuff happens sometimes - orders get misplaced, wait staff gets busy, and so on. For the most part, I understand these things. Usually, all it takes is a "sorry about that," and it's forgotten.

Risk Advisory Services manager Craig Wright notes that his Internet connected Jura Impressa F90 coffee maker has a number of software flaws that could be exploited to change the brewing strength of the coffee, change the amount of water used for each cup, possibly causing puddles, and engineer incompatible settings that break the machine. Attackers could also "gain access to the Windows XP system it is running on at the level of the user."

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493387

Kevin saw me at rehearsal for Program Three and proudly stated that he would beat me to the post, as he intended to blog in real-time. Too bad there was no wireless connection accessible from the Swedenborg.

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Information sharing is a principal component of the DNI’s strategy for improving the Intelligence Community’s
ability to overcome the new challenging threat environment that we face as a Nation. This document
outlines a forward-leaning information sharing strategy to enhance our capability to operate as a unified,
integrated intelligence enterprise. The information sharing strategy is focused on developing a “responsibility
to provide” culture in which we unlock intelligence data from a fragmented information technology

Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web applications. It provides a programmatic environment for RDF, RDFS and OWL, SPARQL and includes a rule-based inference engine.

http://jena.sourceforge.net/

Protégé is a free, open-source platform that provides a growing user community with a suite of tools to construct domain models and knowledge-based applications with ontologies. At its core, Protégé implements a rich set of knowledge-modeling structures and actions that support the creation, visualization, and manipulation of ontologies in various representation formats. Protégé can be customized to provide domain-friendly support for creating knowledge models and entering data.

From http://z4.invisionfree.com/Popular_Technology/index.php?showtopic=2050

Guides:
A Global Warming Primer (PDF) (National Center for Policy Analysis)

The Art of Written Persuasion: The Rise of Written Persuasion
By Troy Simpson, Published on May 30, 2008

Introduction

I. PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Prior to the renovation of Wedge 1, the Pentagon, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1992, had never undergone a major renovation. After more than 60 years of operation and use, renovation is essential in order to meet current health, fire and life-safety codes, and to provide reliable electrical, air conditioning and ventilating services.

The passage of time and the cumulative effect of decades of deferred maintenance had left this historic

Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008.

The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is based on a course we have been teaching in various forms at Stanford University and at the University of Stuttgart.

Electronic versions available at the companion web site.