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666
Many people probably wonder what 666 is and it's symbolic meaning..
The number is derived from six hundred
threescore and six mentioned in the Book of Revelation 13;18. It's
interpretation varies but 666 is the count
number or it's symbolic identity for The Mark of The Beast. It is the
number of a man Rev 13;18 Some researchers have
speculated about the number 616.
One form of this numerology is gathered from various methods of
mathematical calculation. The Gematria is one form of
numeric tabulation where the letter A=1 through letter I=9 where as
beginning with the letter J=10, K=20,L=30 and so forth.
This form of calculation has been applied to many individuals in the
past and the present and it's purely non proven.,
but interesting. In the past, individuals associated with numerical
names that totaled 666, using The Gematria calculation formula
as well as other forms included such historical figures as Nero
Caesar, Adolf Hitler, Henry Kissinger, Prince Charles, Bill
Gates, and former US President William Jefferson Clinton.
Any method of calculation of determining the identity of this
AntiChrist System would be inconclusive. The Bible's mention
of this symbolic number 666 is one of numerous clues to identify The
Mark of The Beast. It would be safe just to know it's
origin and meaning. Too speculate on the subject, that is,. to start
finding numeric values for present day individuals or global
entities that total 666 would be futile and dangerous. The Book of
Revelation already tells us the character of this
666 and what we should look for.
The value of 666 could also mean a Man's System instead of being the
count identify of a human individual. One example is
that Time Magazine elected the computer( A Machine ) once for their
Man~Person of the Year in January 1983. Another
example which is interesting concerning this theory is the number
total for COMPUTER also adds up to 666.
The last possible explanation may be found in The New Testament's Book
of John I & John II. The word
AntiChrist appears only four times in the Bible, and they are in Two
Books of John. John I 1;19 1;22 4;3 & John II 4;3
The possible symbolic meaning of the Antichrist is explained as anyone
who denies The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost.
Thus all humans whom deny this trinity are defined as forms of the
AntiChrist themselves.
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JaysNet News BIG BROTHER ADVANCEMENTS IN VIDEO BIG BROTHER
ADVANCEMENTS IN VIDEO
2005 MARCH : The World Economic Forum announced ObjectVideo, the
leader in intelligent video surveillance software,
has been selected as one of 29 Technology Pioneers for 2005. Companies
selected as Technology Pioneers are developing
and applying the most innovative and transformational technologies.
This year's class of companies are at the forefront of cutting
edge work in fields such as nanotechnology, drug development,
renewable energy and wireless technology. Their work has the
potential to significantly impact the way business and society
operates. In line with the Forum's commitment to improving the
state of the world, the Technology Pioneers program was established in
2000 to provide a new perspective on technological
change. Each innovation, whether it has large or small consequences,
is another step in society's attempt to harness, adapt and
utilize technology to change and improve our world. The World Economic
Forum is invested in monitoring and highlighting
these innovations and exploring possible societal repercussions. "The
World Economic Forum has long been a renowned
organization that brings thought leaders together from across the
globe," said Raul J. Fernandez, CEO of ObjectVideo. "We're
extremely honored to be selected."
ObjectVideo provides intelligent video surveillance software for the
protection of critical infrastructure and high risk
environments. Its software processes video from surveillance cameras
and automatically detects, classifies and analyzes
threats. Customers using ObjectVideo's software to proactively
improve security operations include the Department of
Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection Bureau, the
Department of Defense, the U.S. Air Force, Port of
Jacksonville, Port Everglades, Miami International and Reagan National
airports, and a wide variety of private sector
businesses which include HP, Dell, and IBM. ObjectVideo has recently
been awarded research and development grants to
expand the capabilities of intelligent video surveillance from the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and
the National Science Foundation (NSF). ObjectVideo develops
intelligent video surveillance software to solve today's
complex security challenges. Its computer vision technology adds
automated threat detection, identification, and notification
capabilities to surveillance systems to significantly reduce false
alarm rates and markedly increase the effectiveness of security
professionals. Founded in 1998 and head quartered in Reston, VA,
ObjectVideo works with government and commercial
organizations.
ObjectVideo's software products are ObjectVideo VEW, now in its third
commercial release, and ObjectVideo Forensics.
ObjectVideo VEW works with existing security infrastructures and
allows users to define rules so that they can detect, classify
and track potential threats to their environments in real time.
ObjectVideo Forensics works with VEW to provide rapid analysis
of collected video, allowing users to identify patterns and trends
that can help them to anticipate and effectively deny future
security threats. Unlike conventional technologies, such as video
motion detection, microwave, or infrared based surveillance
systems, all ObjectVideo products reduce false alarms by detecting the
difference between normal occurrences, such as the
movement of waves, versus a suspicious vessel near a shoreline.
Additionally, ObjectVideo products work within any existing
camera and surveillance infrastructure, allowing the customer to make
better use of human and other technology resources. Of
particular value to customers is the unique ability of the product to
set and change customized rules within the system, enabling
the security operation to easily apply their specific security
policies using the software. ObjectVideo VEW is a powerful
software tool that significantly improves the effectiveness of
conventional video surveillance. ObjectVideo VEW detects,
identifies, classifies and tracks objects in real time. The software
then immediately generates alerts or sounds an alarm when
user defined security rules are violated. ObjectVideo works within
any existing video infrastructure. With the software's ability
to distinguish between potentially threatening activities and
irrelevant events. ObjectVideo Control is specifically designed to
detect people traveling the wrong way in crowded environments, such as
airport security exits. Users can define the acceptable
direction of motion and, when people move against the flow, the system
generates an alert and works with high resolution
cameras, allowing for better image detail and larger areas of video
coverage. As a result, objects can now be identified,
classified, and tracked from much farther away.
It is said that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. The
same can be said about security. While it is always
preferable to detect security breaches in real time, often the best
form of preventative security is to look at the past-that's where
ObjectVideo Forensics comes in. ObjectVideo Forensics is a powerful
software tool that allows security professionals to
collect critical intelligence about their security environment based
on past events. This product scans days and weeks of
pre-recorded video within minutes to locate and extract information
about potential security breaches then allows users to run
regular queries to detect possible patterns, such as a person casing a
perimeter. Forensics security professionals can screen
hundreds of hours of video for unusual human behavior, vehicle
behavior, lights turning on or off, objects being left behind and
other numerous forms of analysis. In fact, security policy rules can
be tested against stored video, then transferred to the real
time solution, thereby ensuring higher probabilities of detection and
lower false alarm rates. This comprehensive, after-the-fact
analysis allows security professionals more accuracy when determining
the course of events that may have led to security
breaches. The identification of patterns and trends from the results
of ObjectVideo Forensics queries empowers professionals
with information to determine what new rules may be needed in the
future environment, or in response to increased threat level.
This can further reduce false alarms and dramatically improve the
environment's ability to act on future security threats in real
time. Forensics users can determine, test and fine tune rules and
filters by analyzing previous security scenarios. This enables
security professionals to optimize their current surveillance settings
to set rules for the future with more accuracy.
The protection of government installations, borders and ports has been
the focus for many players in the video analytics field.
But the role of the technology continues to expand as companies
explore new applications and end users seek new ways to
maximize the video they collect and store. ObjectVideo is the
established leader in one aspect of physical security, intelligent
video surveillance. The companies award winning products make any
video surveillance solution dramatically smarter and more
effective. For more information using ObjectVideo products, you can
e-mail: info@objectvideo.com.
Nanotechnology & The Feasibility of Molecular Manufacturing
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Nanofactories will use specialized machinery to mass-produce small
parts. Pictured above, a belt carrying molecular
tools (moving from left to right, above) meets a belt carrying
cylindrical parts. Each tool adds a single atom (shown
striped) to a precise location on each part. In later steps, a
nanofactory will assemble small parts into larger products
using tiny robotic arms that work much like the larger robotic arms in
modern factories.
Foresight Chairman Eric Drexler proposed in 1981 that molecular
objects could be mechanically positioned to atomic precision
to effect controlled site specific synthetic reactions to build
complex objects. In 1986 Drexler gave the name assembler to
devices that "will be able to bond atoms together in virtually any
stable pattern." In Nanosystems, published in 1992, Drexler
presented a detailed technical analysis of the process of molecular
manufacturing that assemblers would make possible. Without
a broad consensus in the technical community that molecular
manufacturing is indeed feasible, it is likely that lack of resources
will unnecessarily delay the development of molecular manufacturing,
and the eventual development of assemblers will take
place without informed oversight and will take an unprepared society
by surprise, possibly with disastrous consequences.
In a talk given in 1959, Richard Feynman was the first scientist to
suggest that devices and materials could someday be
fabricated to atomic specifications: "The principles of physics, as
far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of
maneuvering things atom by atom." The first journal article published
on molecular nanotechnology: "Molecular engineering: An
approach to the development of general capabilities for molecular
manipulation," Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, September 1981, is now available at the Institute for
Molecular
Europe has launched a report on the benefits, risks and social,
ethical and legal implications of nanotechnology
A new European Commissioned funded project, Nanologue
www.nanologue.net, was just launched, bringing together leading
researchers from across Europe to facilitate an international dialogue
on the social, ethical and legal benefits and potential
impacts of nanoscience and nanotechnologies. In the aftermath of the
controversy and debate on genetically modified organisms
it has become abundantly clear that in order to harness new
technologies for economic and social benefit, governments and
businesses will have to address a wide range of social, ethical and
regulatory concerns. Nanologue will bring together current
leading research on the social, ethical and legal implications of
nanotechnology, facilitate dialogue and produce guidance for
stake holders, developers of nanotechnology in particular, on how to
address the issues uncovered to the wider benefit of both
society and the economy.
Volker Türk of the Wuppertal Institute stated, "As nanotechnologies
are still at an early stage of development, by facilitating a
dialogue we are providing a unique opportunity to involve marketers
and developers as well as users and representatives from
the civil society in the process of shaping the course of the
technology. Providing a neutral ground for discussion will help
creating a transparent and trust based processes for nanotechnology
research in the near future." Also, Hans Kastenholz of the
EMPA commented, "Consumer acceptance will be key for nanotechnology's
future development and thus key for financial
markets and venture capitalists. Engaging society in a dialogue about
the opportunities and potential risks will address and help
to mitigate some of these uncertainties surrounding the issue." Tim
Aldrich of Forum for the Future concluded, "Research into
nanotechnology and nanoscience in the EU is currently worth over €250m
per year . It is very important that representatives of
all stake holders engage in dialogue to ensure that development of
this critical area of research is in their wider interests. "
Nanotechnology could have a radical impact across many fields, from
drug delivery to textile manufacture, environmental
monitoring to micro processing. With potential social and economic
benefits will come responsibilities for ensuring social, ethical
and legal concerns are met while enabling competitive advantage for
European business.
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IBM's nanotechnology research aims to devise new atomic and molecular
scale structures and devices for enhancing
information technologies, as well as discover and understand their
scientific foundations. IBM's scientists have made numerous
breakthroughs in the study of these nano-scale technologies. In
particular, carbon nanotubes and scanning probes derived from
the atomic force microscope, cousin of the scanning tunneling
microscope, show particular promise. Research on nanoparticles
leads to applications in biomedicine as well as hard disk drive
storage. Photonic bandgap materials on chip nanoscale structures
are the size of a wavelength of light, will manipulate light as
optical wave guides, splitters and routers. Research into
nanomechanical information storage, such as IBM's Millipede project,
continues to increase the possibilities for increased aerial
storage density. IBM's research into nano-scale structures that self
assemble may one day obviate the need to "hand position"
atoms. Nanotechnology will allow the design and control of the
structure of an object on all length scales, from the atomic to the
macroscopic enabling more efficient and vastly less expensive
manufacturing processes and providing the hardware foundation
for future information technology. Below are links related to
nanotechnology that provides the latest on nanotechnology
research.
http://www.foresight.org
http://www.nanodot.org
http://www.nanologue.net
http://www.research.ibm.com/pics/nanotech
---------------------------A Early Warning on Biowarfare & Genetic
Engineering
We find it mixed in our food on the shelves in the supermarket.
genetically engineered soybeans and maize. We find it growing
in a plot down the lane, test field release sites with genetically
engineered rape seed, sugar beet, wheat, potato, strawberries
and more. It is variously known as genetic engineering, genetic
modification or genetic manipulation. All three terms mean the
same thing, the reshuffling of genes usually from one species to
another; existing examples include: from fish to tomato or from
human to pig. Genetic engineering (GE) comes under the broad heading
of biotechnology.
If you want to understand genetic engineering it is best to start with
some basic biology. In an organism, cells depend on each
other to perform various functions and tasks; some cells will produce
enzymes, others will store sugars or fat; different cells
again will build the skeleton or be in charge of communication like
nerve cells; others are there for defence, such as white blood
cells or stinging cells in jelly fish and plants. In order to be a
fully functional part of the whole, most cells have got the same
information and resources and the same basic equipment. Proteins are
the basic building materials of a cell, made by the cell
itself. Looking at them in close-up they consist of a chain of
amino-acids, small specific building blocks that easily link up.
Though the basic structure of proteins is linear, they are usually
folded and folded again into complex structures. Different
proteins have different functions. They can be transport molecules
(e.g. oxygen binding haemoglobin of the red blood cells);
they can be antibodies, messengers, enzymes (e.g. digestion enzymes)
or hormones (e.g. growth hormones or insulin). Another
group is the structural proteins that form boundaries and provide
movement, elasticity and the ability to contract. Muscle fibres,
for example, are mainly made of proteins. Proteins are thus crucial in
the formation of cells and in giving cells the capacity to
function properly.
Chromosomes means "coloured bodies" (they can be seen under the light
microscope, using a particular stain). They look like
bundled up knots and loops of a long thin thread. Chromosomes are the
storage place for all genetic - that is hereditary -
information. This information is written along the thin thread, called
DNA. "DNA" is an abbreviation for deoxyribo nucleic acid,
a specific acidic material that can be found in the nucleus. The
genetic information is written in the form of a code, almost like a
music tape. To ensure the thread and the information are stable and
safe, a twisted double stranded thread is used - the famous
double helix. When a cell multiplies it will also copy all the DNA and
pass it on to the daughter cell. The totality of the genetic
information of an organism is called genome. Cells of humans, for
example, possess two sets of 23 different chromosomes, one
set from the mother and the other from -the father. The DNA of each
human cell corresponds to 2 meters of DNA if it is
stretched out and it is thus crucial to organise the DNA in
chromosomes, so as to avoid knots, tangles and breakages. The
length of DNA contained in the human body is approximately
60,000,000,000 kilometres. This is equivalent to the distance to
the moon and back 8000 times!
The information contained on the chromo-somes in the DNA is written
and coded in such a way that it can be understood by
almost all living species on earth. It is thus termed the universal
code of life. In this coding system, cells need only four symbols
(called nucleotides) to spell out all the instructions of how to make
any protein. Nucleotides are the units DNA is composed of
and their individual names are commonly abbreviated to the letters A,
C G and T These letters are arranged in 3-letter words
which in turn code for a particular amino acid - as shown in the flow
diagram 1. The information for how any cell is structured
or how it functions is all encoded in single and distinct genes. A
Gene is a certain segment (length) of DNA with specific
instructions for the production of commonly one specific protein. The
coding sequence of a gene is, on average about 1000
letters long In 1976 George Wald, Nobel Prize winning biologist and
Harvard professor, wrote: Recombinant DNA technology
[genetic engineering] faces our society with problems unprecedented
not only in the history of science, but of life on the Earth. It
places in human hands the capacity to redesign living organisms, the
products of some three billion years of evolution..It
presents probably the largest ethical problem that science has ever
had to face. Our morality up to now has been to go ahead
without restriction to learn all that we can about nature.
Restructuring nature was not part of the bargain.... For going ahead
in
this direction may be not only unwise but dangerous. Potentially, it
could breed new animal and plant diseases, new sources of
cancer, novel epidemics. Although not a geneticist, Stephen Hawking,
the renowned physicist and cosmologist, has commented
often and publicly on the future role of genetic engineering. One
possibility he suggests is that once an intelligent life form
reaches the stage we're at now, it proceeds to destroy itself. He's an
optimist, however, preferring the notion that people will
alter DNA, redesigning the race to minimize our aggressive nature and
give us a better chance at long-term survival. "Humans
will change their genetic makeup to give them more intelligence and
better memory," he said. It is generally acknowledged that
secret work is going forward in many countries to develop genetically
engineered bacteria and viruses for biological warfare.
International terrorists have already begun seriously considering
their use. It is almost impossible to regulate because the same
equipment and technology that are used commercially can easily and
quickly be transferred to military application. After reading
about the dangers of genetic engineering in biowarfare, the military
became extremely concerned, and, in the spring of 1998,
made civil defense countermeasures a priority. The administration has
systematically opposed all but the most rudimentary
safety regulations and restrictions for the biotech industry. By doing
so, Clinton has unwittingly created a climate in which the
production of the weapons he is trying to defend against has become
very easy for both governments and terrorists.
As more and more human genes are being inserted into non-human
organisms to create new forms of life that are genetically
partly human, new ethical questions arise. What percent of human genes
does an organism have to contain before it is
considered human? For instance, how many human genes would a green
pepper have to contain before you would have qualms
about eating it? This is not merely a hypothetical query. The Chinese
are now putting human genes into tomatoes and peppers
to make them grow faster. You can now be a vegetarian and a cannibal
at the same time! For meat-eaters, the same question
could be posed about eating pork with human genes. What about the mice
that have been genetically engineered to produce
human sperm? How would you feel if your father was a genetically
engineered species? So that we would not have to be
dependent on petroleum-based plastics, some scientists have
genetically engineered plants that produce plastic within their stem
structures. They claim that it biodegrades in about six months. If the
genes escape into the wild, through cross-pollination with
wild relatives or by other means, then we face the prospect of natural
areas littered with the plastic spines of decayed leaves.
However aesthetically repugnant that may seem, the plastic also poses
a real danger. It has the potential for disrupting entire
food-chains. It can be eaten by invertebrates, which are in turn
eaten, and so forth. If primary foods are inedible or poisonous,
then whole food-chains can die off.
For all the advantages claimed for genetic engineering, in the
overwhelming number of cases the price seems too high to pay. In
order to ensure megaprofits for multinational corporations well into
the next century, we will have to mortgage the biosphere,
seriously compromise life on the planet, and even risk losing what it
means to be a human being. Genetic engineering poses
serious risks to human health and to the environment. It raises
serious ethical questions about the right of human beings to alter
life on the planet for the benefit and curiosity of a few. Scientists
have created a highly lethal virus in an effort to develop
stronger protections against supervirulent forms of smallpox that
terrorists might turn on humans. The scientists said the results
showed that the best defenses proved quite effective in preventing
deadly disease not only in mice, but probably in humans
exposed to customized smallpox of similar design. This type of
research has been debated for years, with critics arguing again
yesterday that superviruses created in laboratories could inspire
terrorists to create their own deadly diseases. The scientists
countered that the research could help deter terrorism by
demonstrating the emergence of more potent medical defenses. The
research was done at St. Louis University as a project financed by the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
meant to find new protections against smallpox, which kills one in
three victims. The leaders of the research said that a lethal
mouse virus would have no effect on humans even if it somehow escaped
from the laboratory, which they said was safeguarded
at biosafety level three, the second-highest degree of security. "To
my knowledge, there's no scientific evidence to suggest that
this kind of research poses any sort of human health risk," said Mark
Buller, a professor of molecular microbiology at St. Louis
University who directed the research. It goes beyond similar research
that Australian scientists reported in early 2001. They
warned that their genetic technique, which they said they stumbled
onto, could overpower existing vaccinations and produce
deadlier kinds of biological weapons. The news prompted heated
scientific debate internationally.
Dr. Buller said the St. Louis researchers had also made a designer
form of cowpox, another cousin of smallpox, to better
understand how easy or difficult it would be to apply the same kind of
genetic engineering to the human smallpox virus and
make it more lethal. Experts said both the threat of such developments
and the federal response seemed part of a theoretical
debate, not something to worry about for now. They split over whether
the research was prudent. Some argued that, given the
accelerating pace of advances in genetic engineering, it was wise to
investigate worst cases and responses. "If we do not act
across a wide range of areas we will be failing in our
responsibilities as global citizens," said Ken Alibek, a former leader
of the
Soviet Union's germ weapons program. Dr. Lawrence D. Kerr, a senior
official at the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy, agreed, noting that the research began before the
recommendations were issued and would have undergone
such scrutiny if begun now. "This is the exactly the kind of scenario"
that federal officials worry about, he said in an interview.
Eradicated two decades ago, smallpox no longer exists in nature or
human populations. Officially, only the United States and
Russia have stocks of the virus, under tight security. But federal
experts suspect that clandestine supplies of the virus exist or
could be fabricated. The mousepox virus is a mouse gene that controls
interleukin-4, a primary chemical in the immune system's
response to invaders. In a Australian case, the designer virus so
crippled mice's immune system with extra production of
interleukin-4 that the microbe reproduced wildly, killing mice that
had been vaccinated and leaving others permanently disabled.
Dr. Buller said the St. Louis research made the killer germ more
lethal by inserting the interleukin-4 gene into an unimportant
region of the virus's DNA, unlike the central part of the genome that
the Australians chose. That allowed the virus to multiply
even faster, he said. The human smallpox vaccine offered no protection
to mice exposed to the superlethal virus. "They all
died," Dr. Buller said. He added that he planned to submit the
research for publication and had no qualms about disclosing the
exact location of the gene transfer. "It's irrelevant" to the design
of a human weapon, he said. Dr. Buller said that colleagues at
the Army's biodefense institute at Fort Detrick, Md., were planning to
test the superlethal cowpox virus on mice. Neither the
White House nor Fort Detrick would comment on whether those plans had
been approved. The cowpox virus can infect
humans, though the resulting disease is usually mild. Still, critics
worry about the ramifications of such research, for safety and
for precedent. "The issue here," Dr. Harris said, "is the potential of
this research being misapplied for destructive purposes."
TECHNOLOGIES ON THE RISE
Sensors
Lasers
Nanotechnology
Biometrics
Genetic Engineering
Electro-Optic Vision
Fiber Optic Gyros
Network-Centric
Constellation Internet Global Information Grid
RFID Radio Frequency Identification Tags
GPS Global Position Satellites
UAVs Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
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