Presto Vivace forwards a link detailing a current Home Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the White House missing emails mess. David Gewirtz’s report, carried in OutlookPower and DominoPower (in 6 parts, keep clicking), makes for scary reading. “If, in fact, the bulk of the White House email records are now stored in bundles of rotting PST files, all at or above their maximum safe load-level, that ain’t good in a very huge way… I object to using the inaccurate and inflated claim of excessive cost as a reason to avoid compliance with the Presidential Records Act.”

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MBCook sends us to the blog of one Landon Dyer, who posted an entry the other day entitled Donkey Kong and Me. It describes how he was offered at job at Atari after writing a Centipede clone and ended up programming Donkey Kong for the Atari 800. It’s full of detail that’ll be fascinating to anyone who ever programmed assembly language that had to fit into 16K, as well as portents of what was to come at Atari. “My first officemate didn’t know how to set up his personal. He didn’t know anything, it appeared. He’d been hired to work on Dig Dug, and he was completely at sea. I had to instruct him a lot, including how to program in assembly, how the Atari hardware worked, how to download stuff, how to debug. It was pretty bad.”

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krquet notes an InfoWorld article on Sun’s plans for the iPhone. After studying Apple’s newly released SDK docs for 24 hours, Sun decided it was feasible to develop a JVM, based on Java Micro Edition, for both the iPhone and the iTouch. An analyst is quoted: “I think going forward, with the SDK, it takes out of Apple’s control which applications are ‘right’ for the iPhone.” The article doesn’t speculate on how Apple might to react to such a loss of control. “Apple hadn’t shown interest in enabling Java to run on the iPhone, but Sun plans to step in and do the job itself… The free JVM would be made available via Apple’s App Store marketplace for third-party applications.”

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Filed under: World wide web, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Web services, Freeware, web 2.0

Have you ever needed to access an FTP site while using a friend or colleague’s personal? In some cases you can just type the URL into Firefox or Internet Explorer, but life’s always a lot easier when you’re using a full featured FTP client, so your first impulse is probably to download and install a free client like Filezilla.

AnyClient presents another option. It’s a browser-based FTP client that can be run from any computer with Java installed. Unlike FireFTP, which is a browser add-on that you need to install before running, you can fire up AnyClient just by visiting a web site.

You can select to save profiles of sites you visit to your desktop if you want. But the beauty of AnyClient is that you can access it from anywhere. AnyClient supports FTP, FTPS, SFTP and WebDAV protocols. There’s also a free cross-platform desktop version available for download.

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holy_calamity writes “Intel has been awarded a patent for building cosmic ray detectors into chips, to guard against soft errors where a high energy particle from space changes a value in a circuit. It’s a problem that largely only affects RAM. As component sizes shrink futher, “this problem is projected to become a major limiter of personal reliability in the next decade”, says the patent. Intel’s solution is to build in a detector that responds to cosmic errors by repeating the latest operation, reloading previous instructions, or rolling back to a previous state. You can also read the full patent.”

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mr sanjeev notes that Computerworld is running a story about Cyber Storm II, set to run from March 11th until the 14th. The exercise will test the security of the US, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, and Canada. The organizers’ goals are to test preparedness and responsiveness in relation to real-time threats. The previous Cyber Storm test identified “eight specific areas in need of improvement.” We recently discussed the details of the tests themselves. From Computerworld: “Security experts said the first Cyber Storm event last year improved participants’ understanding of who to call in the event of an attack, but didn’t identify specific vulnerabilities in the nation’s computer systems. ‘What they’re trying to do is highlight the inefficiencies in the process,’ according to Marcus Sachs, deputy director with research group SRI International’s Computer Science Laboratory. ‘They’re not really looking for technical solutions.’”

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ProfBooty brings us a story about England’s Heathrow airport, which will begin fingerprinting passengers on its domestic flights later this month. Airport executives claim that the data will be stored for no longer than 24 hours, and won’t be shared with law enforcement. We’ve previously discussed airport fingerprinting measures in the United States and Japan. Quoting: “All four million domestic passengers who will pass through Terminal 5 annually after it opens on March 27 will have four fingerprints taken, as well as being photographed, when they check in. To ensure the passenger boarding the aircraft is the same person, the fingerprinting process will be repeated just before they board the aircraft and the photograph will be compared with their face. Dr Gus Hosein, of the London School of Economics, an expert on the impact on technology on civil liberties, is one of the scheme’s strongest critics. He said: ‘There is no other country in the world that requires passengers travelling on internal flights to be fingerprinted. BAA states the fingerprint data will be destroyed, but the records of who has travelled within the country won’t be, and it will provide a rich source of data for the police and intelligence agencies.’”

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Farakin brings us a story about how cameras in roughly 200 Chicago schools are being connected to police headquarters and the city’s 911 emergency center. The goal of the effort is to “consolidate video surveillance,” and it will involve both routine monitoring and real-time updates to officers on their way to a crisis. According the the Chicago Tribune, “The mayor acknowledged the cameras provide only limited security, citing a spate of shootings in current days that have claimed young victims during after-school hours.” The story also contains a video in which Mayor Daley indicated that he anticipates the cameras to serve as a deterrent now that people know they’re under the eye of the police.

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