Archives: August 2010
Mon Aug 30, 2010
It's over, by the way.
The swine flu pandemic is officially not happening any more. More...
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An ABM model of Organizational Performance in Emergency Environments
An article in JASSS reports a model of emergency response and concludes that organisations respond more efficiently when they communicate freely at working level. More...
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Simulating in silos - 'The Economist' discovers ABMs
An article in the Economist for 11 July 2010 argues that economic forecasting should make use of agent-based modelling (ABM). That it does not yet seem to have used ABM is a good example of the way simulation takes place in silos. More...
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Fri Aug 13, 2010
Exercise intended to be mistaken for reality in Zimbabwe
Last December an aviation exercise in Lusaka caused panic when it was mistaken for the real thing. This year it is Zimbabwe's turn. More...
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Sun Aug 08, 2010
Elektronic Tribulation Army
Wired recently reported raids on three alleged ETA (ETA, geddit?) members. Gives an insight into what some hackers are like. More...
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Stuxnet
Official confirmation of a hacking attack on US electrical power infrastructure from the CIA, following a BBC report that attacks involing a bug in Windows shortcuts had been used in Mid-July and that
'Early attacks using the bug were aimed at the software control systems for critical infrastructure such as power stations.'.
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Sat Aug 07, 2010
Photo tampering
Interesting website on photo tampering, maintained by Hany Farid. More...
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