Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

Slashdot.org has found a site that allows you to navigate the Linux kernal like Google maps!

Click to invade Europe!!!

Here is a great example of a photo-realistic Virtual Tarantula Spider using Flash – Adobe Flash is really getting refined.

Modern Fossil of Playstation controller

Gizmodo has an article about The Fossil Record Now Includes Outdated Personal Electronics
, where modern day electronics are carved in stone!

Civilizations eons from now will be able to visuallize modern day, ‘tools’.

To use Lindell’s new protocol, the first party (“Alice” in cryptography speak) would create a key with which both parties could encrypt their data. The key would be stored on a special kind of secure smart card. Alice would then hand over the smart card to the second party in the scenario (known as “Bob”), and both parties would use the key to encrypt their respective databases. Next Alice sends her encrypted database to Bob.

The contents of Alice’s encrypted database cannot be read by Bob, but he can see where it matches entries in the encrypted version of his own database. In this way, Bob can see what information both he and Alice share. For extra protection, Bob would only have a limited amount of time to use the secret key on the smart card because it is deleted remotely by Alice, using a special messaging protocol.

Source: Technology Review

I wonder if this could be extended for medical records, where I could generate a temporary key that I provide to  ‘Bob’, a hospital, who would then read from ‘Alice’, Google or another hospital who has my records.  Keeping a log knowing exactly what was viewed would be good to know.

Two materials, lonsdaleite and wurtzite, have just been recognized as being harder than diamonds.

Lonsdalite, similar to diamonds that its made from carbon, is formed during asteroid impacts, and is 58% harder than its cousin. Wurtzite boron nitride is formed during heavy volcanic eruptions and can be up to 18% harder than diamonds.

Source

That’s pretty impressive. I wonder if we can learn anything from their molecular structures to improve other materials like steel or plastics?

Wiring up physicians from small practices will be one of the biggest hurdles.

Physicians and information specialists across the country are feverishly figuring out how to best prepare for the impending availability of $19 billion designated for health-care IT spending in the newly signed stimulus bill. Broadly deploying electronic health records (EHRs), they say, will require special support for small private practices across the country.

In my humble opinion we need to fix things like the vulnerability of DNS servers and SSL certificates, before something like this goes into effect. (more…)

I wonder if something like this could be used for Search & Rescue?  I want to see how this works underwater:

A surgical procedure allows intuitive control of a sophisticated robotic arm.

By surgically rearranging the nerves that normally connect to the lost limb, physicians have developed an intuitive way for amputee patients to control a robotic arm.

Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/22730/

I wonder how soon people will replacing their own limbs with bionic superior limbs?  I mean if you could get a set of legs that would allow you to run a marathon in under 2 hours, would you get them?