Defender of the free world: McNeil Technologies lands top secret contract. (Tech Buzz).Virginia-based McNeil Technologies Inc. has landed a $10 million contract with the U.S. Office of Defense to declassify de·clas·si·fy tr.v. de·clas·si·fied, de·clas·si·fy·ing, de·clas·si·fies To remove official security classification from (a document). de·clas top secret documents. Over the next five years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time company will examine more than 800,000 documents (about 33 million pages) from the Cold War Era to determine whether they should be made available to the public. The challenge? Much of what the U.S. considers old technology is new to many developing nations. In fact, the U.S. learned that information Iraq received to produce chemical and biological weapons came from data that had been declassified de·clas·si·fy tr.v. de·clas·si·fied, de·clas·si·fy·ing, de·clas·si·fies To remove official security classification from (a document). de·clas years ago, says company CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. James McNeil. "Our job is to make sure that the wrong material isn't declassified," he adds. "We have to be the guardians of weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or ." McNeil Technologies doesn't actually declassify the documents but makes recommendations on which documents should be declassified, digitizes the information, and makes it available via the Internet. These highly classified documents are stored in vaults, and those working on the document receive top-level clearance. For more information on McNeil Technologies Inc., see ("One Size Does Not Fit All," March 2002). * One company says it may have a solution to the Florida elections debacle. TruVote International Inc., based in Nashville, Tennessee “Nashville” redirects here. For other uses, see Nashville (disambiguation). Nashville is the capital and the second most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee, after Memphis. , has created the TruVote Voter Validation and Verification System, which provides voters with a computerized system to cast their ballots. Developed by Athan Gibbs Sr., the system has tested in 48 states. It provides touch screen voting with photos, sound and animated instructions, vote validation at the booth, and a receipt showing proof of voting. The system also has built-in security for fraud protection. * Bugs, patches, fixes. If your new iPod is having trouble waking up, there's a good reason. Apple says that a "small percentage" of iPods temporarily don't wake up from sleep mode when the battery runs low. To fix the problem, head to www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n120077 to download the iPod firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. update, version 1.0.4 |
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