"After selling a broken laptop on Ebay..the buyer was pleasantly surprised to find Amir didn�t wipe the hard drive. The purchaser then created a blog and posted several unflattering photos and details of Amir�s life..."
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The iPod Observer - Now Playing - McCartney: Lennon Invented the iPod
Published Tuesday, May 30, 2006 by Stangrunner.
It could be the first treatment for a terrifying problem faced by people with diabetes -- the nerve damage that's a leading cause of amputations.
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Bayer knew that the batch had been infected with AIDS so they pulled it from the US market and sold it overseas.
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As unbelievable as it might seem, OpenSUSE actually seems to support more hardware than Vista does at this stage in its development. Linux having more hardware support than Windows -- who says we don't live in a time of miracles?!
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There's no word better than "ultimate" to convey the impression that you're getting nothing but the best. However, when it comes to Microsoft's new software, whatever you end up getting is going to cost you heaps. And all those bits and bytes can be yours for just US$679, the price of a fairly handy desktop computer.
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The boy, identified only as "Jie-jie," also was born with just one kidney and may have problems that could lead to curvature of the spine, local media reports said. Jie-jie cried when either of his left arms was touched, but smiled and responded normally to other stimuli, the reports said.
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Check it out! The lost opening scenes to Star Wars: A New Hope! See Luke watch the space battle and talk with Biggs about the Rebellion!
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If you are unfortunate enough to catch it, you will suffer from intractable diarrhoea with gut-searing pain and fever. The full extent of the illness is unclear because American hospitals are not required to report it.
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Mini-Microsoft: Copying Xerox, Vista Mistakes, and VP Perspectives
Published Monday, May 29, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Entertainment gear maker Apple has patented a device which controls the speed of music to affect the mood and behaviour of the user during an activity such as exercise.
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Humans can threaten species with extinction in many ways, including overfishing, pollution and deforestation. Now a pair of studies points to a new danger to the world's biodiversity: humans may be blocking new species from evolving.
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Breaktrough Images of AIDS Virus That May Shape Vaccine
Published Sunday, May 28, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Never before generated in such intricate detail, the super-sized images of the virus and its viral spikes have given researchers their first good look at the pathogen's complex molecular surface architecture that facilitates the infection process.
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Main benefit of setting transparent proxy is you do not have to setup individual browsers to work with proxies.
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Once in a while you're likely to have a bad reaction. (I once made one for a tip, and popped it up on the bar. When the girl turned around and saw it, for just that split second, it looked real. She let out a scream, and must have jumped three feet straight into the air. She was slightly arachniphobic. Oops.)
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If your router is slow, resetting, or stopping internet access when you're doing torrents or downloading from other P2P sources, the router you will make from this guide will take care of all your problems. Part 1 of this guide shows you how to install Fedora Core 4 as the operating system.
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The Our vision is building the human body on a chip," says Linda Griffith at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A living, 3D, interconnected set of tissues.
The idea is to create not feeling entities but brainless mini-bodies that will be ideal for studying
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A living, 3D, interconnected set of tissues.
The idea is to create not feeling entities but brainless mini-bodies that will be ideal for studying
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Glowing, silvery blue clouds that have been spreading around the world and brightening mysteriously in recent years will soon be studied in unprecedented detail by a NASA spacecraft.
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Skype may not be the biggest threat to Vonage. The Cable TV giants are all wanting to carve up a slice of the market for themselves. Their abilities to roll up one bill for cable, broadband, and telephone, and send a tech to your home is looking attractive to many customers.
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This guy tried to get all of his phone records from the NSA through the Freedom of Information Act. The NSA actually sent him a detailed reply. This after the USA TODAY published their famous story about a database of telephone records maintained by the NSA on all Americans.
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A company in Colorado has come up with a water bottle for their spring water that totally biodegrades in about 80 days. It's a type of plastic made from corn.
You can watch the time-elapsed video on their site (just make sure your window is wide enough - the time-elapsed part is on the far right).
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You can watch the time-elapsed video on their site (just make sure your window is wide enough - the time-elapsed part is on the far right).
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"Visitors walking down Third St. have been gawking at this thing for the past couple of days. The 25 ft. iPod is attached to the side of the Unizan Bank building across from the state house. Not only does it look like an iPod, but it actually plays music!"
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Symantec Corp.'s leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and U.S. government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers said Thursday.
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DivX Inc. has announced the release of DivX 6.5 for the Mac. The new version of the video conversion and playback software features the first "official" release of DivX for Mac player, which lets Mac users watch DivX-encoded video either in a Web browser or from the desktop
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A nice list for all you new MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini owners that are wanting to run native programs. Make sure you bookmark to check for updates!
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Attention all you laid-back IT professionals: a new study claims that IT is the most stressful occupation, ahead of engineering, sales, finance, HR, and pretty much everything else.
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Study: Drinking daily can bring health benefits -- for men
Published Friday, May 26, 2006 by Stangrunner.
I had to put my beer down to post this... drinking reduces the risk of heart disease but the beneficial effects seem to work differently in men and women. They found that for men drinking daily seems to have the biggest positive effect on health while in women the amount of alcohol consumed may have more of an impact.
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Swarm shows you what websites people are visiting, right now.
Swarm is a graphical map of hundreds of websites, all connecting to each other. It updates itself every second with where people are going and coming from.
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Swarm is a graphical map of hundreds of websites, all connecting to each other. It updates itself every second with where people are going and coming from.
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Who is more dangerous to your data; the "outside" hacker or the "inside" worker?
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Can a sticker and a few extra features fatten the desktop business? Paul Otellini sure hopes so.Intel's gone brand-crazy in the last year. Its marketing department has designed a new company logo and rewritten its slogan from "Intel Inside" to "Leap Ahead." Millions of dollars have been put behind new product brands.
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The Examining Room of Dr. Charles: Breast Implants Versus the Family Doctor
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tunes Music Store Says \"In the event that a customers entire music library is lost, the iTunes Music Store does re-grant the purchases history. Please keep in mind that Apple does not offer protection against the loss of purchases, so this is a one-time exception.\"
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Whether or not a fertilized mammalian egg ultimately develops into a male or female is determined by the winner of a tug of war between two different genes encoding signaling proteins and the divergent pathways they control, according to a new study.
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Microsoft has been taking action to improve its reportedly low employee morale, unveiling a series of new perks as part of a program dubbed \"MyMicrosoft\" at an all-employee meeting May 18. This comes on the heels of a Reuters report that 1,000 Microsoft contract workers were forced to take a week off without pay.
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These pictures from FHM show that Kari is a hottie whether she\'s blowing up stuff on the show or not. Enjoy!
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A man\'s fertility appears to decline after the age of 40, in much the same way that a woman\'s ability to conceive fades after 35, say French researchers.
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Philip Zimmermann, best known as the developer of the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption algorithm, has released a new public beta of a software package designed to encrypt VoIP calls.
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Techno-savvy UK pupils have recorded the ultra-high sound - audible only to under-20-year-olds - from the ultrasonic device Mosquito onto their cell phones - and are now receiving calls and text messages in class without teachers having the faintest idea of what is going on.
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This school is overstepping its bounds. They are disciplining this guy for something he posted outside of school hours. Don\'t they have better things to do? Maybe they should try educating students instead of prosecuting students.
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An \'unbreakable\' wine glass made of a new material called Kwarx has been launched at Vinexpo in Hong Kong. Kwarx glass is handblown crystal and is supposed to retain lustre and transparency as well as being unbreakable.
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There have been hacks for a while now to allow people to install the Windows Vista sidebar by assembling files from various sources but I just stumbled across a single executable package that MSTN put together.
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Microsoft told more than 1,000 contract workers doing software development and testing to take seven business days off without pay to lower costs during this quarter, the company said Monday.
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CNN.com - Sleepy controllers contributed to near-misses, NTSB says - May 24, 2006
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Neowin.net - Windows Vista Beta 2: Aftermath - Windows Vista Beta 2: Aftermath
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These short videos show a new technology being used in Las Vegas night clubs that allow people to manipulate images and\r\nVideo in real time by simply moving their appendages over them. You have to check out the videos to fully comprehend how cool this is.
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\"Did you ever hear the warning, �be careful what you wish for, it might come true?� Well, because Microsoft is the company most people love to hate, I decided to ask a cross section of industry cognoscenti this simple question: What would happen if Microsoft and all of its technology disappeared tomorrow?\"
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\"If the FCC initiates an investigation and gets blocked by the White House, then the White House is stonewalling. But if the FCC refuses to even demand answers, then the White House never has to block the enforcement agency from getting to the bottom of this. The American people deserve answers.\"
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Akin is, like many things in cyberspace, an alias. In real life he\'s 14. He wears Adidas sneakers, a Rolex Submariner watch, and a kilo of gold around his neck.
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The United States had the lowest piracy rate in the world last year at 21%. However, that amounted to $6.9 billion in losses to software manufacturers, the highest of any country because the U.S. market for computer software is so large.
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\"The truth is that I never sought out nor did I ever hire David P. Meyer & Associates or Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro to represent me in any case, much less the iPod Nano Class Action suit\"
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How to convert TV Series DVDs to DivX/XviD with ease using free software
Published Tuesday, May 23, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Nice guide including folder structures. This is not the same as converting straight forward DVDs, but is tailored for TV series based DVDs.
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One of world\'s largest online retailers, Amazon.com, might yet live to rue the day it took an order from New Zealand actor Peter Calveley. The 35-year-old has successfully - and single-handedly - lobbied the US Patent and Trademark Office to re-examine what many regard as the internet\'s most famous patent.
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Fishermen in Siberia have discovered the complete skeleton of a mammoth - a find which Russian experts have described as very rare.
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Article describing how to repair Windows XP when your PC is inaccessible from the standard boot procedures, and you have to use the recovery console as your last resort!
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Last weekend an Aston Martin flew off the track at Mid-Ohio Raceway and flew 142 feet, completely level, before landing in the dirt. That beats the first recorded powered flight by the Wright Bros. (120 feet) by 22 feet.
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Police in Germany have charged 3,500 users of a file-sharing network in the biggest single action against the illegal distribution of music online. Each could face five years in prison.
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Anti-P2P organizations are actively polluting P2P networks with fake peers, sending out fake or corrupt data in order to waste bandwidth and slow down file transfers. At its worst, when downloading copyrighted torrents as much as a fourth of the peers can be attributed to various Anti-P2P agencies. There is also a much more serious side to this...
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Bink.nu | Microsoft releases Windows Vista Beta 2 build 5384.4, Longhorn Server Beta 2
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CNN.com - 500-pound bear chases girl into home, mauls woman - May 23, 2006
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CNN.com - Police: Boy, 8, releases parking brake, bus runs over girl - May 23, 2006
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Finnish researchers are trying to develop a chewing gum that would help to stave off cancer.
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As common office items such as printers, vending machines and lifts become more advanced and run embedded operating systems, they could easily create vulnerabilities that are often overlooked by administrators.
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Mini-Microsoft - Commitment Zero and Reactions to the Big Microsoft Changes
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Unseen papers on sale for $1.5m show scientific genius\'s failures together with his lighter side
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Monday morning, Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Joseph White confirmed that private detectives working with the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America entered the Rock Financial Showplace on Friday working under the suspicion that illegal sales of copyrighted recordings were being made.
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I\'ve heard rumors about a pilot who demonstrated that you can pour a drink in the cockpit while doing a barrel roll and not spill a drop. Thanks to the magic of YouTube and an email tip, I have finally seen the video.
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According to this George Lucas is sold on the idea of re-releasing Episode I in 3D with new technology.
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So you\'ve heard about Linux and you want to try it out, but you\'re scared you may screw up Windows or that it\'s too hard to install. Well fear no longer, here is a guide for the total newbie.
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James Sooy and Oliver Gibson have come up with Pierced Glasses - the most minimalist eyewear since the Pince-nez glasses that clip onto your nose was invented in the 1840\'s
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On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by.
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In July Skype will offer a WiFi Phone that allows you to use Skype WITHOUT a PC for $300. Totally worth it, so long skype keeps their calling any phone from US and Canada for free.
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Quick, step-by-step HOWTO to set up secure, encrypted tunnels for web browsing, instant messaging, and email from anywhere. No need to set up a VPN. Great for working from hotels and coffee shops!
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Neowin.net - Canada Leads the Way in Firefox Usage - Canada Leads the Way in Firefox Usage
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New black MacBook running Ubuntu, WinXP, and MacOS all at the same time! This is the ultimate setup!
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The piece was first spotted in 1994, on the third of seven expeditions made jointly by RMS Titanic. The hull chunk was charted by specialists aboard deep-sea submersibles that take 2 1/2 hours to reach the ocean floor. A 1996 attempt to recover it failed when a cable snapped and the piece plummeted back down 12,500 feet.
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Doolittle\'s Raiders trained in Columbia, SC for their raid on Japan in World War II. One of their planes was lost in Lake Murray near Columbia, and it was recovered recently in surprisingly good condition.
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This is a really good breakdown of what you want/need to know about the new MacBook from Apple. Things like color and hard drive options, the high gloss screen, totally new keyboard design, and integrated graphics. Good information from Macworld.
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all is not lost, at least not if you\'d installed another program called Undercover on your machine, which not only sends out an IP-address-containing SOS if it\'s reported stolen, but actually uses your machine\'s built-in iSight to snap a photo of the perp before simulating a screen failure that makes the Mac unusable.
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Mini-Microsoft: Commitment Zero and Reactions to the Big Microsoft Changes
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A pop-on modchip for the DVD drive firmware hack was possible and in the works, Microsoft fixed that by coating the firmware chip on all sides with epoxy - the pictures do the talking. The leads needed for the firmware otherwise are all over - making modchips quite hard to make.
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This site has a very useful tutorial if you have an old and slow XP machine with hundreds of programs and you want to re-install. This site will show you how to save your old partition in a virtual machine, and have a nice, new install of Windows.
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"Here's a tip for those of you that stay in Marriot hotels. Marriot has installed a PPV system nationwide called "On Command". As far as I can tell, there is a radio frequency module attached to the TV that signals some master hotel unit to order movies and add charges to your hotel bill." I'm sure this is illegal.
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Have you ever looked at Activity Monitor and wondered what all those background processes are? This website has a nice list of each background process or dameon, and tells you exactly what it does. It's always important to know what's going on inside your computer.
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"Numerous" eye-witnesses reported an unidentified flying object crashing into the sea on Saturday.
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"Yo,Taxi! coat with a persistence of vision display, shown through a row of LEDs on the cuff of the coat. When the wearer waves his/her hand in the taxi-hailing gesture, the LEDs illuminate."
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And at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, after students photographed test questions with their cellphone cameras, transmitted them to classmates outside the exam room and got the answers back in text messages, the university put in place a new proctoring system.
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Harry McCracken, of PC World, takes a look at the MacBook as a Windows machine and he likes it. True, he is a Mac person at heart but the MacBook plus Boot Camp equals nirvana.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs interviewed on CNBC to mark the opening of their new 24/365 store on 5th Avenue.
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"A lot of the core people just feel excited about the technology. And that's why a lot of people just start ... At least from the developers' standpoint, nobody does it because they hate Microsoft. None of the people I work with do it for that reason. They do it because they love doing what they do."
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Sarcastic article which uses figures from the RIAA to show that one month of downloads from ThePirateBay is 5 times greater than the 2005 Gross Domestic Product of France!
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A how-to that shows how to use a remote access program called UltraVNC and a USB thumb drive to bypass school and work PC restrictions. Also includes a pre-made portable app. setup for your thumb drive.
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If your telephone company is one of the companies that decided to take financial compensation from the federal government in exchange for illegally proving your records to them they owe you $1,000. Now IANAL but this seems pretty damn clear cut to me.
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A mountain near the Montana-Wyoming border once moved 62 miles in a half-hour in a catastrophic scenario that could be repeated elsewhere, scientists say. Rock at the summit of Heart Mountain is 250 million years older than at its base. That suggests the top and the bottom have not always been together.
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Parallels Desktop (known before as Parallels Workstation) hit the release candidate !
Again fix some issues like USB, networking or sound.
Go get it !
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Again fix some issues like USB, networking or sound.
Go get it !
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XM Radio basically tells the RIAA to shove it! They won't be bullied around by the RIAA and they'll fight them!
"We will vigorously defend these radios and your right to enjoy them in court and before Congress, and we expect to win."
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"We will vigorously defend these radios and your right to enjoy them in court and before Congress, and we expect to win."
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Kubuntu, the KDE version of Ubuntu is now accepting requests for FREE Kubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) CDs...
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Yesterday the Turkish cracker going by the handle "Iskorpitx", succesfully hacked 21,549 websites in one shot (plus 17,000 as our last update) and defaced (on a secondary page) all of them with a message showing the Turkish flag (with AtaTurk face on it) and reporting...
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For the first time, a robot surgeon in Italy has carried out a long-distance heart operation by itself."This operation has enabled us to cross a new frontier," said Carlo Pappone, who initiated and monitored the surgery on a PC in Boston, ANSA reported. Pappone is head of Arrhythmia and Cardiac Electrophysiology at Milan's San Raffaele University.
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Now, that Blue Security has given up, it request its users to uninstall Blue Frog immediately because spammers try to get access to that program.
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An AT&T attorney indicated in federal court on Wednesday that the Bush administration provided legal authorization for the telecommunications company to open its network to the National Security Agency.
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OpenOffice 2.0 the free, open source office suite -- has many features that are very similar to Microsoft Office. The trick is knowing how to use them.
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Novell says it has a faster way to get drivers into Linux users' hands. Here's how they do it.
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The much anticipated Episode 6 is now out.
"The 2006 Maker Faire presents the do-it-yourself community with thousands of finished projects and inspired ideas."
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"The 2006 Maker Faire presents the do-it-yourself community with thousands of finished projects and inspired ideas."
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For the last two years several people in Singapore have gotten a flesh eating fungus in their contact moisturizer drops.
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The recording industry said XM's Inno device, which stores music and divides it into tracks, infringes copyright. The lawsuit seeks $150,000 in damages for EVERY song copied by XM customers to an Inno gadget.
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Windows Vista's new Aero interface uses 3D graphics where a 2D graphics could do. The next thing you know - a dedicated Java co-processor would be required to run Java applets, and not just for performance sake, but in principle.
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Bink.nu | Bill Gates keynote from Microsoft CEO Summit 2006 "The Next 10 Years"
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When Apple Computer Inc. opened its first Apple retail store in 2001 in a shopping mall in McLean, Va., critics saw the initiative as an expensive, dubious gamble. But as Apple prepares to take the wraps off its latest, most ambitious store yet -- on New York's Fifth Avenue -- there are few doubters left about Steve Jobs's retail strategy.
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I started using Gmail as my primary mail application a little over a year ago. For the most part, it has been a pleasurable experience. However, to my knowledge thereis no simple way to make Gmail the default mailer in GNOME. Until now!
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Bash, which is the default shell in Linux contains a whole lot of key bindings which makes it really easy to use.
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He sounds pretty serious about it ("There is nothing the MPAA/Universal Studios could say or do that will make me settle (I wouldn't settle for $1)."). I hope he kicks some ass in court.
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Owners of Apple Computer's new MacBook consumer notebooks will find that upgrading or replacing the computer's hard disk is as simple as adding more memory.
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Matthew Ryan Hahn glared in disbelief at the digital photographs of a man molesting a girl. She was only a year old, maybe 2. The next thing to do would be obvious -- call police. But Hahn had been convicted of burglary more than once. And the memory card on which he discovered the photos came from a stolen safe.
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As most of you know Skype is now free to use for within the US and Canada for mobile and landlines but a bill offered by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, proposes to levy fees on voice-over-Internet companies, and hearings on the legislation are scheduled later this week.
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Less than 24 hours after this baby was released comes the a first look, courtesy of MacWorld. Overall, looks pretty promising!
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Design-wise, the recessed keyboard allows the closed laptop to have a very sleek form and subtle magnetic closure. But my main complaint is what I want to call a lack of travel followed by a lack of bounce. The stroke just feels too short and too firm � it�s somewhat jarring.
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Man tries to steal some iPod accessories from the Apple Store and gets tackled. Moral of the story? It's a bad idea to attempt any shenanigans at an Apple retail store on the day a big, new product is released.
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IO2 Technology has the coolest sounding display I have ever seen called the M2i. The device projects a 30" diagonal 4:3 aspect ratio display into the air. That's right, into the air like a hologram. The entire projection unit is designed to be hidden out of site so that only the display image shows.
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Samsung Electronics says notebook users will get an extra half hour of battery life and be able to boot up their computers faster using its hybrid hard drive, which will come out in PCs in 2007!
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No bigger than a tub of Vaseline, the Vibro Blaster promises to be the ultimate portable speaker as long as you've got a flat, solid surface. The gadget works by transforming sonic signals into sonic mechanical vibrations to produce 15 watts of sound quality to rival some of it�s bigger, bulkier competitors.
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The 2007 Lexus LS-460 will have a factory-installed 30GB hard drive partitioned for music and navigation, three cameras for lane departure warning and park assist, touch-screen and voice activated navigation system, Bluetooth phone control, monitored telematics, live traffic reports and a 19-speaker audio system that reads compressed audio formats.
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FCC has started auctioning frequencies that will enable airlines to offer in-flight Internet services
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"I can only hope that this is just a rough first effort which was perhaps rushed to market. The Toshiba HD-A1 is unacceptable, even for early adopters. Please, do yourself a favor and don't go through the trouble of buying it, setting it up and being frustrated by it. 2 out of 10 stars."
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Let's take a look at some of the lesser-known and most useful portable applications.
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The Firefox and Safari Web browsers are gradually becoming more popular, while Internet Explorer (IE) may be starting to lose some of its lead, according to experts.
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An Italian company has begun marketing a cement that is capable of absorbing pollution from vehicles.
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Like blind peoples� fingers, rats use their whiskers to engage in active sensing � a combination of movement and touch � when trying to figure out the location and identity of a certain object.
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The number of companies reporting a spyware infestation has increased by almost half in the past 12 months, according to a new survey!
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Australian researchers are developing a computerised system that monitors the performance of miners and tells management if workers are getting tired.
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CNN.com - Army: HBO documentary could trigger stress disorder - May 15, 2006
Published Tuesday, May 16, 2006 by Stangrunner.
For three months a woman has been lying in bed as part of a NASA experiment to study weightlessness. She even started her own blog to record her unique and frustrating experience. The Flickr account has great pics. This story gives a quick glimpse into her life the last three months lying down on the job.
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IPod Shuffle giveaways have been used to lure people to open bank accounts and buy cars and as bait by online hucksters. Well, now even churches are getting in on the craze.Leaders of the Interfaith Unity Church, are hoping to capitalize on the gadget's popularity and entice people to try out their 10:30 a.m. Sunday service.
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You can use this to detonate a sonic grenade, firework, lights, anything! Super cheap and reliable, $5 project.
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A robotic NASA spacecraft designed to rendezvous with an orbiting satellite instead crashed into its target, according to a summary of the investigation released Monday.
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We are forbidden to call them phones," said the vice president of multimedia strategy and business development (of Nokia, the world's largest 'phone' maker). Instead, they're "multimedia computers."
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Pilot test in Washington and Oregon lets dryers and water heaters check electricity prices and decide if its worth waiting until off-peak times.
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A new design that eliminates the losses that arise from energy conversion may successfully couple the two abundant natural resources to produce potable water at an attractive cost.
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The first zero energy home costing less than $200,000 has been built in Oklahoma. This house produces as much energy as it consumes in a year and combines "renewable energy technologies with advanced energy-efficient construction." This environmentally friendly house is just a prototype and not yet available for sale.
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Besides the obvious pleasure kissing brings to so many, research shows this activity to be healthy, especially to those suffering from allergies.
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Users running illegal copies of Windows XP are being offered discounted purchase prices
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This is what the RIAA is _really_ worried about: a new business model for bands. This band, called "The Fall" gets most of its promotion work done for free by its online community. Imagine what would happen if this continues to spread -- no big nasty record labels, no nasty RIAA. Just bands, music and fans.
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The lithium PT Cruisers use a 320V battery pack that offers a cycle life of more than 1,500 charges and a range of 150 miles (150 miles * 1,500 charges = 225,000 miles, then the battery can be recycled), and can be fully charged in 5 - 6 hours.
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Kevin Rose has just posted some pictures of the new Digg office on flickr. The office looks amazing, check out these pictures for a behind the scenes look at Digg.
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Do you suspect that you have a compromised system ?
Check now for root kits that the intruder may have installed !!! .
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Check now for root kits that the intruder may have installed !!! .
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Mozilla has just released the second alpha of upcoming Firefox 2, code named Bon Echo (after Bon Echo public park following a Firefox development tradition). Scheduled for sometime this winter (or summer in the North Hemisphere), this version brings a number of enhancements. Let's start the review.
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The Dept. of Justice went ahead and filed to dismiss the class-action wiretap/data-mine suit against AT&T, claiming it is protecting state secrets.
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Most modern shells support csh's bang commands - bash, tcsh and zshall do. While some bang commands don't work in all those shells, all of the following do. The plus side to using them is that no matter what shell you're using, these shortcuts will work.
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In the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney and his top legal adviser argued that the National Security Agency should intercept purely domestic telephone calls and e-mail messages without warrants in the hunt for terrorists, according to two senior intelligence officials.
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New to Linux, and having trouble figuring out how to install anything in Ubuntu? "Where's the EXE?", "Where do I need to extract this to?", "How do I run it?", "Where did it go?" It's just as easy in Ubuntu as it is in Windows to install things, only different.
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Studies show that you can bring about a dream in another person. One way is by holding an open bottle of perfume under the sleeper's nose. Another is by whistling. A third way is by blowing air across the sleeper's face with a fan. Someone else can also affect the content of a sleeper's dream. For example...
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Five examples of fundamental Windows architecture design flaws, the endless headaches they cause for Windows users, and how the issues are handled more elegantly in Mac OS X.
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Or they will be on May 16!
Simply plug the darts into a USB port and acquire your unsuspecting target. The launcher pans 180 degrees and tilts up to 45 degrees. A move of the mouse aims it, and with a click it's bombs away, complete with cool sound effects!
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Simply plug the darts into a USB port and acquire your unsuspecting target. The launcher pans 180 degrees and tilts up to 45 degrees. A move of the mouse aims it, and with a click it's bombs away, complete with cool sound effects!
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A powerful earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault, which hasn't ruptured in over three centuries, is capable of producing prolonged periods of strong shaking in the greater Los Angeles region, a new study finds.
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Large gallery of incredible photos of the Japanese storm water drainage system. The look like something straight out of Myst or an FPS.
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[Repost for another attempt to frontpage] Many resellers of Microsoft products have been receiving a special package from Microsoft. But instead of the usual marketing promoting spiel, many of them found a rock inside a nicely sealed package, a symbolism of effects of piracy in business. [pics in link!]
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IT experts are more likely to suffer from stress than any other professional, according to the survey.
A staggering 97 percent of people working in IT claim to find their life at work stressful on a daily basis.
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A staggering 97 percent of people working in IT claim to find their life at work stressful on a daily basis.
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In this clip from SpikedHumor, A Kung Fu master "sucks" up his balls so he is not vulnerable to attack in that area. "A technique used by samurais before battles." As a test, the BBC reporter is then told to actually kick him in the groin.
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Microsoft is in the process of preparing the rollout of Windows Live LifeCams, their new High Definition set of webcams. This series of web cameras will feature high definition still shots on all models and high definition video on some. They will also include a common interface for their software, dubbed the "LifeCam Dashboard."
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Podcasting News: Drexel University Prof Predicts iPods with Monster-Sized Memory Capacities
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Slashdot | Convicted Hacker Adrian Lamo Refuses to Give Blood
Published Saturday, May 13, 2006 by Stangrunner.
To help incent its own employees to file and fix bugs in Windows Vista, the Microsoft brass is implementing a bounty program, according to one employee. The Windows team will pay employees $100 for each bug file and fixed. And the employee with the most bugs filed and fixed will earn an extra $500.
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"There are already scores of religious fanboy zealots who are going to tell you - in great detail - how great the Mac is, and why you should switch. I'm not going to. But beware. Just because the Mac is an excellent computer, that doesn't mean it's panacea. Here are some things you're going to want to pay attention to as you switch."
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The finding, detailed in the May issue of the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, supports the idea that persistent exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke in childhood can contribute to the development of cancer later in life, said study team member Stephen Hecht of the Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota.
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NAVIsis has come out with a technology that allows you to turn your regular and boring LCD monitor into a useful touch screen monitor. Called the NAVIsis EZ-Canvas, its a pair of sensors that you simply attach to the top corners of your monitor and use a special stylus to write and draw on your screen.
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Learn how you can run your own web server from a master! Goes over FreeBSD installation, Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc, and all the configuration. This is part 1, links to part 2 and 3 at the bottom of the page.
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Telcos Could Be Liable For Tens of Billions of Dollars
Published Friday, May 12, 2006 by Stangrunner.
For every 1 million Americans whose records were turned over to NSA, the telcos could be liable for $1 billion in penalties, plus attorneys fees. You do the math.
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If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.
Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible.
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Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible.
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A Madison reporter asks AT&T point-blank about their involvement with the NSA's domestic wiretapping and documents their Kafkaesque runaround.
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The infamous Rubik's cube is solvable from any mixed up position. In fact, there are mathematical theorems that say the cube can be solved from any mixed up position in 22 turns. However, no one has been able to prove this theorem yet. So we will approach a much simpler method to solving the cube.
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In-Stat consumer survey data shows 49 per cent of MP3 player owners own an Apple iPod. The rapidly growing worldwide market for Flash-based and hard disk drive (HDD)-based players is to jump from 140 Million units in 2005 to 286 Million by 2010.
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OneStat.com today reported that Microsoft's browsers have a total global usage share of 85.17 percent. The total usage share of Microsoft Internet Explorer decreased 0.65 percent since January 2006. The total global usage share of Mozilla is 11.79 which is 0.56 percent more than at the of of January.
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O'BRIEN: "All right. And as far as we know, how long has this been going on?" CAULEY: "Since at least -- since at least 2001, with the 9/11 attacks. Possibly the groundwork was laid prior to that."
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus - I Will Buy Another Mac ... But This Is Still Important to Read
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CNN.com - Bush says U.S. not 'trolling through personal lives' - May 11, 2006
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