I was watching tv one day and stumbled into a cool news segment on Estonia's advanced ID card system. I was pretty impressed with the ID infrustructure and how cool it would be to have something like that. However I'm pretty sure it would be very expensive to have everyone in the United States switch over to a ID system like Estonia's. Who knows we might end up getting something like that in the future. Any ways here's the details on the whole thing.

Estonia has implemented the electronic ID card as the primary document for identifying its citizens and the alien residents living within the country. The card, besides being a physical identification document, has advanced electronic functions that facilitate secure authentication and legally binding digital signature, in connection with nationwide online services. The Estonian ID card is used to gain access to a number of Internet-based services, including viewing and changing data in the Estonian Citizenship and Migration Board systems, running queries to the national registers, using the E-Tax Board, gaining access to several banks, giving digital signatures, purchasing and using ID-tickets, and many others.

Front and Back for a Estonian Citizen

The card issuing as well as its further operation is done in close public private partnership. There are three main organizations that are associated with issuing and operating the ID card and the associated infrastructure. The Estonian Citizenship and Migration Board is the government organization responsible for issuing identification documents to Estonian citizens and alien residents. AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus functions as the certification authority, maintains the electronic infrastructure necessary for issuing and using the card, and develops the associated services and software. TRÜB Baltic AS, subsidiary of Swiss TRÜB AG, is the company that personalizes the card.

Alien Identity Card. Front and Back

The Estonian ID card has two main functions. First of all, it works as a regular ID, useful to prove the age or identity when paying at a retailer using a bank card or at a local government office. The ID card also functions as an electronic identity, enabling citizens to use services online conveniently and securely. The card is not limited to specific services. Any organization, public or private, has the opportunity to "ID enable" its service and thus start serving people online.

One can also use her/his ID card to give digital signatures. According to Estonian law, digital signatures are equivalent to handwritten ones if the systems used to give and process them meet certain regulations.

Each ID card contains two certificates and their associated private keys protected with PIN codes.

 

Long Term Resident ID Card. Front and Back

 

MBARI researchers Bruce Robison and Kim Reisenbichler used video taken by un-manned, undersea robots called remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to study barreleye fish in the deep waters just offshore of Central California. At depths of 600 to 800 meters (2,000 to 2,600 feet) below the surface, the ROV cameras typically showed these fish hanging motionless in the water, their eyes glowing a vivid green in the ROV's bright lights. The ROV video also revealed a previously undescribed feature of these fish--its eyes are surrounded by a transparent, fluid-filled shield that covers the top of the fish's head.

This video is narrated by senior scientist Bruce Robison.

For more on this story, see the news page on MBARIs web site at http://www.mbari.org

I haven't been playing video games in a while until recently I got my hands on Fallout 3. I don't really write about video games but this one is worth mentioning. Fallout 3 is a RPG game with some optional first person shooter view. Personally I prefer third person since I've been playing way too much first person games in the past.

You start off as the "Wanderer" you begin the game as a baby being raised in a underground vault in a world that has been raped with nuclear war. Pretty much everything around you is shit.

The main quest involves you looking for your dad since he left your ass without warning. I'm not going to spoil the game but I have to say this game kicks ass. Aside from the main quest there's a shit load of mini quests that help describe and engulf you into the wasteland. Almost all quests I played were all pretty entertaining.

There's plenty of blood and guts with a rich story line. The game is pretty violent so no small kiddies while you play this game.

Have you ever noticed how computers in movies differ from real ones? Here goes:

* Word processors never display a cursor.

* You never have to use the spacebar when typing long sentences.

* All monitors display 2 inch high letters.

* High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, have easy-to-understand graphical interfaces.

* Those that don't will have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English.

* Corollary: You can gain access to any information you want by simply typing "ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES" on any keyboard.

* Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS."

* Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn't go faster than you can read. The really

All of these are companies that didn't spend quite enough time considering how their online names might appear - and be misread...

1. Who Represents is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is
   www.whorepresents.com/
2. Experts Exchange is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange Advice and views at
   www.expertsexchange.com/
3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at
   www.penisland.net/
4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at
   www.therapistfinder.com/
5. There's the Italian Power Generator company,
   www.powergenitalia.com/
6. And don't forget the Mole Station Native Nursery in New South Wales,
   www.molestationnursery.com/
7. If you're looking for IP computer software, there?s always
   www.ipanywhere.com/
8. The First Cumming Methodist Church Web site is
   www.cummingfirst.com/
9. And the designers at Speed of Art await you at their wacky Web site,
   www.speedofart.com/

I have seen a lot of lightsaber duels before, I have to say this is the best one!!

CPDRC inmates of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Philippines get down.

Some scientists think that an actual virus may be alien to our planet. It originally came from space or some other planet. Taking travel by means of Comet. It may sound crazy but reading the full theory makes a lot of sense. When I dug around for more information I found a lot of possible proof to back up these claims.

They say the tail of a comet drags space dust and debris possibly taking along a virus. One of the proofs that may back up this theory is the bird. Birds are usually the first species to contract a virus. Why?,  When a comet passes along our planet some of that trail it drags along makes it into our atmosphere, taking around a year or two to fully reach our land level. However birds are at constant flight, passing through that alien virus while it lingers in our atmosphere.

Somewhere around the early 1900s , an influenza outbreak suddenly infected Europe, US, and parts of Asia simultaneously. The outbreak didn't seem to infect people like a one by one network, it infected people all at once.

Whatever the case, if this theory is right, than I guess we've been battling alien invasions for along time now.

This engineer figured out a way to power his car using only water instead of Gas, if this guy comes out with a public company, you better buy the stock! Funny thing though is that if this technology becomes mainstream than there might be a possibility water might cost more than it does now. Alhambra becomes a corporate super giant!! LOL

I was checking out You Tube and found this clip. Pretty freaky, looks real but could be fake.