Manitoba: Mosquito numbers down during hot dry weather
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 03:03:13 -0700 | technology-news
For all you ever wanted to know about mosquito populations, mostly in the Prairies, see this CBC article. Cities such as Edmonton in Alberta usually have less mosquitoes than Winnipeg which is often buggy in the summer. But this year...
Canada: Manitoba considering incentives for purchase of electric cars
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-11-02 13:54:29 -0700 | technology-news
The NDP Manitoba government is considering increntives to encourage consumers to purchase electric vehicles.The government believes most city and suburban commuters will find electric cars capable of meeting their needs. The cars can travel 120 kilometres on a single charge,...
Millions download latest Firefox browser but it is losing market share
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 05:09:03 -0700 | technology-news
There have been more than five million downloads of the latest Firefox version release only a day ago. Mozilla the maker of the browser has a map showing in real time where the downloads are happening. Despite the rapid uptake,...
Kevin Mitnick and Solitary Confinement.
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-27 01:10:59 -0700 | technology-news
Kevin Mitnick was a famous or infamous hacker accused of many crimes and convicted of some. Here is a link to his Wikipedia biography. Yesterday I listened to an Australian documentary on Bradley Manning on the CBC. The entire documentary...
The Jester and attacks on Wikileaks.
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 06:52:15 -0700 | technology-news
Thanks to Paisano1 for the first link that generated this report. The Jester as he is called in his Twitter bio describes himself among other things as: ""Bio Hacktivist for good. Obstructing the lines of communication for terrorists, sympathizers, fixers,...
Downloads of Attack Software Spikes as Cyber War heats up.
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-11-02 04:56:41 -0700 | technology-news
Security specialist Imperva reports that a software tool released by the Anonymous Hacker Group has been downloaded over 40,000 times. The majority of the downloads have been in the U.S. The tool can be used to mount DDOS or distributed...
What are DOS attacks and How are they mounted?
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 06:56:45 -0700 | technology-news
Denial of service (DOS) attacks are becoming increasingly common. Such attacks are being used by groups to attack recording industry sites in revenge for file sharing site shutdowns. Now attacks are being mounted against corporations that have refused services to...
In many countries today is 9/ 11.
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 08:36:33 -0700 | technology-news
There are different calendars in use in the world. But even within the same calendar system there are different formats for expressing dates. Most of us in North America use the Gregorian calendar. In many countries 9/11 would refer to...
Rice yields falling in many areas over last 25 years.
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 09:48:07 -0700 | technology-news
A group of mainly U.S. based scientists found that over the last 25 years yields in many parts of Asia have fallen by 10 to 20 per cent. The research links the yield declines to temperature rises in the areas...
Will terrorists soon be using drones?
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 12:33:26 -0700 | technology-news
There are already more than forty nations that have drone technology. Drones range in size from model aircraft to agricultural applications that can spray crops and of course the armed US drones used to attack in Pakistan. Much of the...
Who makes Drones?
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-27 21:40:29 -0700 | technology-news
They are manufactured in numerous places. Even Pakistan is beginning to make its own drones. A list of types of drones worldwide can be found on this site at wikipedia. However, the US and Israel were among the pioneers in...
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