The Drone War Goes Global | On Point with Tom Ashbrook

podcast: The Drone War Goes Global | On Point with Tom Ashbrook

Very interesting: technology is changing how society is viewing war/conflict...
Dramatic changes are happening right now, and most of people are not aware...

Reverse Mergers Give Chinese Firms a Side Door to Wall St. - NYTimes.com

Reverse Mergers Give Chinese Firms a Side Door to Wall St. - NYTimes.com

...over the last few years, Rino International and scores of other young Chinese companies slipped into the United States stock market through the back door. Rino’s American stockholders later lost hundreds of millions of dollars when accusations surfaced that the company had fudged its books. All told, investors’ losses on these Chinese ventures have stretched into the billions.

InfoQ: Secure Distributed Programming on ECMAScript 5 + HTML5 Platforms

InfoQ: Secure Distributed Programming on ECMAScript 5 + HTML5 Platforms

A great presentation.

JavaECMAScript 5 is possibly becoming the best
programming language for writing secure programs!

Summary
Mark S. Miller explains how to create secure applications in ECMAScript 5 and HTML5 by turning JavaScript into a distributed secure programming language.

Bio
Mark S. Miller is a research scientist at Google, main designer of the E and Caja secure programming languages, a pioneer of agoric (market-based secure distributed) computing, an architect of the Xanadu hypertext publishing system, and a representative to the ECMAScript committee.