I was discussing with a friend how a scientist has a theory about how matter never really goes away -it just changes form. Take for instance a black hole, the common misconception is that matter goes into a black hole and disappears forever, the scientist new theory is that it just passes through to another galaxy or universe. In a time of great loss to me this is somehow very comforting. Take a look at this article from CNN today:

Galaxy may be full of 'Earths,' alien life

As NASA prepares to hunt for Earth-like planets in our corner of the Milky Way galaxy, there's new buzz that "Star Trek's" vision of a universe full of life may not be that far-fetched. There may be 100 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, or one for every sun-type star in the galaxy, said Alan Boss, an astronomer with the Carnegie Institution and author of a new book. full story

The Death of the Bit Torrent?

If Pirate Bay goes down for the count, could it take all of BitTorrent with it?

The people who run the massive BitTorrent site Pirate Bay (thepiratebay.org) are going on trial for copyright violations next week in Stockholm, Sweden.

BitTorrent is a popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol which is widely used to share large media files like television shows, movies and music.

TorrentFreak has an interesting article which quotes Raynor Vliegendhart of the Tribler P2P team at Delft University of Technology, who believes that the Pirate Bay’s servers support as much as 50 percent of all the BitTorrent traffic on the Internet.

So the general belief is if they go down for any extended time — or, God forbid, permanently — it could have a huge impact on torrenters everywhere, including leading to the failure of other trackers (sites that coordinate the sharing process) due to overload.

As always, can’t wait to hear what you, our valued viewers, have to say on this topic.

Microsoft Offers $250K to Catch Worm Authors

MS Offers $250K to Catch Worm Authors
With the Confisker worm still running wild, tech companies are turning to some desperate measures. Microsoft just offered $250,000 to anyone who would help turn over the worm's authors. Find out why Confisker is so hard to kill and why MS decided to offer a reward.

Ethernet zooms to 100 GB speeds

http://gigaom.com/2006/11/14/100gbe/
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How fast can data travel over Ethernet? If you answered 10 Gigabit per second, then you would be off by about 90 gigabits per second. Infinera, a San Jose, Calif.-based start-up, along with University of California, Santa Cruz, Internet2 and Level3 Communications, today demonstrated a 100 gigabit/second Ethernet connection that could carry data over a 4000 kilometer fiber network. The trial took place at the Super Computing Show in Tampa, Florida.

The future of newspapers?

There’s been a lot of chatter about the newspaper industry in recent weeks about whether newspaper companies should find something like iTunes , or use micropayments as a way to charge people for the news, or sue Google , or all of the above and how journalism is at risk because newspapers are dying. Who thinks Newspapers should go the way of dot matirx printer?

Captains Log - Stardate - Wednesday Feb 04, 2009

No unusual sitings today. So far things are a go as normal. A few characters have appeared but have been relatively peaceful and un-annoying. Hopefully the cosmos will stay in my favor through the weekend.

BTW - I saw on the web where scientists are working on teleporting atoms! Beam me up Scotty!

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