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Sircam Virus Exports Documents, Still Spreading Sircam, a nasty morphing virus.
posted at 07:58

Navajo 'Code Talkers' Honored for Wartime Service The U.S. Marine Corps, anxious to find a means of quick and secure communications, recruited the first 29 code talkers in May of 1942 to develop a code in their complex language. The Japanese never succeeded in breaking the code.
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Bruce Schneier on Dmitry Sklyarov Arrest On Monday in Las Vegas, the FBI arrested a Russian computer security researcher, because he presented a paper on the strengths and weaknesses of software used to protect electronic books. Because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which makes publishing critical research on this technology more serious than publishing nuclear weapon design information, Dmitry Sklyarov (age 27) landed in jail. Just how did the United States of America end up with a law protecting the entertainment industry at the expense of freedom of speech?

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InternetNews - Web Developer News -- Sun Responds to Microsoft's Removal of JVM in XP . "On the one hand, you could say, 'gee, Microsoft is attempting to keep people from using Java on Windows and this is sort of an exclusionary tactic.' I think that's probably not true. Because of the settlement agreement with Sun, they can't ship current or new versions of Java. If my choices were to ship nothing or an old version, I would ship nothing."
posted at 21:01

BBspot - Ellison to Grads:  Diplomas are for Losers Words of Wisdom (or madness) from Ellison. Read it and see why you could be a loser.
posted at 20:31

Investor’s Business Daily: IBD's 20 Rules For Stock Market Success

The market is flattening and is now trading in a tight range. The recovery is coming back soon, follow these rules and maybe you won't lose so much as last time.
posted at 08:49

AOL bent on taking 'AIM' AOL owns the three letters AIM. Soon AOL will own the whole alphabet, then what ?
posted at 11:09

Nation Shocked by Case of Boy Who Lived with Dogs Boy lives with dog, drinks bitches milk. Strange story but true.
posted at 10:15

Putin Says Russia Would Counter U.S. Shield If the United States proceeded on its own to construct a missile shield, Russia would ensure that it would be able to overwhelm it, President Vladimir V. Putin said.

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Lynx Viewer Lynx is one of these old browsers that still exist. It is entirely text based. Try putting your site or any other site in the URL and see how fine it looks without the colors and the graphics and everythnig else. Looks more like a web site "unplugged" . Enjoy!
posted at 15:50

Putin pact with China as fear of Islam rises RUSSIA and China forged a new regional alliance yesterday to combat rising fears over the spread of Islamic fundamentalism into the nations of central Asia.
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US 'planned nuclear first strike on Russia' BRITISH intelligence warned in 1951 that the Americans were planning to wage a "preventative" atomic war on the Russians the next year with or without the support of their Nato allies.
posted at 19:50

False Radio Report Worries Fans of Spears and Timberlake To all of you woried about Britney Spears, I would like to reassure you that she is alive and well and rumours of her death are not true.
posted at 08:59

The Attacks on GRC.COM Play by play of a denial of service hacker attack. Very interesting reading.
posted at 13:32

Mobile phones may foil stealth bombers - smh.com.au - World America's multi-billion-dollar stealth bombers could be rendered obsolete by a British invention that uses existing mobile telephone masts to detect and track aircraft that were previously invisible to radar.

US stealth fighters and bombers such as the F117, B1 and B2 played key roles in the Gulf and Kosovan wars as they are almost impossible to detect using conventional radar.

posted at 22:45

The Chip Collection - Chip Art Page 1, Smithsonian Institution These chip art images were made visible through lapping techniques, magnification and Polaroid capturing. Typically chips have a unique "signature" which we have come to recognize and expect to be logic, memory, gates, etc. However, these signatures are the designer's, the engineer's and in some cases a company logo.
They have left their mark in and for history. The chip collection is complemented with imagination which takes no space on a shelf, requires no conservation and cannot typically be exhibited.
posted at 15:24

Salon.com Technology | Geek house How to build your own smart home.
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Bill Gates' Web Site - Speeches Bill Gates - Thoughts about the digital decade and how it will affect us.
posted at 09:58

PCWorld.com - Who's Reading Your Instant Messages? Careful what you type, someone might be reading it.
posted at 15:31

ToniArts homepages I did not completely check this site but it has been reccomended by Fred Langa in his langalist newsletter. Promises good free software.
posted at 08:53

IBM "pixie dust" breaks hard drive barrier - Tech News - CNET.com You can never have enough storage to put all your fun files and MP3s.
posted at 13:03

Princess Gets U.S. Residency ``She continues to be an alien but can live permanently in the United States,'' said her lawyer, Jan Bejar. ``She was extremely happy. I think she has found peace finally.''
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Yahoo - The Daily Interview: The Market Has Gotten Ahead of Itself What we need is the consumer to spend more. But when you look at the profile of the consumer and consumer spending, retailers are reporting OK numbers. But these are reduced numbers. Now, we have the lowest savings rate, the highest debt-to-income level we've ever had and consumers are concerned about jobs now because of the layoffs we've seen and will continue to see. So I'm not willing to bet on that horse, either. There's not a catalyst to bring us out of this.
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The Times It has, however, prompted fears among some scientists that it could bring closer the production line “hatcheries” envisioned by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, and make IVF the normal means of human reproduction.
American researchers have already built several prototype chips, which can carry out a single stage of IVF, such as the fertilisation of an egg, though not all the steps at once.
posted at 23:01

U.S. Wooing Student Hackers If you are a hacker, you can apply for a job at the US goverment. Better than stealing credit card numbers and you don't go to jail if caught.
posted at 22:58

BBC News | BUSINESS | Danger ahead warns Greenspan The markets now are confused, you got the fear of recession creating bearish sentiment, and the rate cuts creating bullishness. Its a fight between the bulls and the bears. With technology the companies are going to clean up their act and recover quickly. My prediction: it is going to be a slow summer with a stalemate in stocks till September, then the big boys are going to start buying enthusiastically. Watch for a bull run at year end.
posted at 22:49

To all my faithful audience, I konw it has been a long time since I updated my blog. First my apologies, I was busy, blogger did not work all the time, and different stuff was happening, anyway I am back and will be putting more interesting links and pictures for all of you. So keep on reading and tell your friends.

posted at 15:25

Yahoo! News - Reuters Photo The Tech Kings that will define the next century.
posted at 15:22

Reality Bites: Emirate Penalizes 'Bad Arabic' ONE OF THE MEMBERS of the United Arab Emirates is to fine companies who use grammatically incorrect Arabic in their advertisements.

The northernmost Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah says it will charge just over $135 for mistakes on signboards.

posted at 20:29

money.com | tech investor | Fudgy the accountant Creative Accounting 101, how to make your high tech company a money machnie by careful imagination.
posted at 14:53

The McVeigh letters: Why I bombed Oklahoma The indepth letters Timothy McVeigh invited the Observer to look at were sent to the safekeeping of his friend Bob Papovich who had up until now been told that the correspondence was to be kept 'off-the-record' Why Timothy McVeigh bombed Oklahoma
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Shorting Strategies Some thoughts about shorting stock. Very good article.
posted at 10:18

q8soft -- Princess blog

EXLUSIVE to q8soft, now you can see the princess and the marine pictures here, for your viewing pleasure.

posted at 22:41

"Body Modification" takes wild step beyond piercing, tattooing What will they think of next.
posted at 22:37

Raging Bull JOKES Post #11551

A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle when it accidentally slipped into gear. The man, still holding onto the handlebars, was dragged through the glass patio doors and along with the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house.

The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room and found her husband lying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle lying next to him, and the shattered patio door. The wife ran to the phone and summoned the
ambulance.

Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the several flights of stairs to the street to escort the paramedics to her husband.

After the ambulance arrived and transported the man to the hospital, the wife up righted the motorcycle and pushed it outside. Seeing that gas was spilled on the floor, the wife got some paper towels, blotted up the gasoline. and threw the towels in the toilet.

The man was treated and released to come home. Upon arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle He became despondent, went to the bathroom, sat down on the toilet and smoked a
cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into the toilet bowl while seated.

The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard the loud explosion and her husband screaming. She ran into the bathroom and found her husband lying on the floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was suffering burns on the buttocks, the back of his legs, and his groin.

The wife again ran to the phone to call the ambulance. The very same paramedic crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the street. The paramedics loaded the husband on to the stretcher and began carrying him to
the street.

While they were going down the stairs to the street accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the husband had burned himself. She told them and the paramedics started laughing so hard, one of them slipped and tipped the stretcher, dumping the husband out. He fell down the remaining stairs and broke his arm.

Taken from a Florida Newspaper.
posted at 14:25

CNN Seeks Return of Equipment The videophone was used to show the takeoff live in the United States, until Chinese authorities shut it down. A reporter, Lisa Rose Weaver, was briefly detained. China, in seizing the equipment, said CNN was making an unauthorized transmission
posted at 10:53

Check this Flash out Check this out, well made, good music and excellent fight scenes.
posted at 07:18

IOL : Independent Online Canibal caught eating someone, don't read this if you have an uneasy stomach.
posted at 06:59

British Military Funds Soldiers' Sex Changes If you need to change your looks, or your sex, just joing the birtish army. You can see the world, be your own man, or decide if you want to be your own woman.
posted at 01:37

Women caught in high tech cantankerous crapper A 51-year-old woman was yesterday subjected to a harrowing two-hour ordeal when she was imprisoned in a hi-tech public convenience.
posted at 15:31

Army 'caused original foot and mouth infection' The UK army is the source of foot and mouth disease in the UK. The chinese restaurants got bplamed but it seems it is the army that is the one starting this whole epidemic.
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BW Online | April 26, 2001 | Greenspan's Preoccupation with Profits By aggressively cutting rates, Greenspan is betting that the New Economy is alive and kicking and can insulate the U.S. against any inflation outbreak. As far as the Fed chief is concerned, Corporate America hasn't even begun to exhaust the many productivity-enhancing and profit-making opportunities the New Economy affords. Greenspan, after killing the new economy you want it to save your ass ? You cannot have it both ways.
posted at 11:57

Free Breast Implants for Some Female Soldiers A happy soldier is a good soldier.
posted at 08:33

Fired CNN Staffers Use the Web For Revenge Read the story about the fired CNN staff and how they are fighting back with a website of their own. I tried going to tedsturnovers.com, but could not. Maybe the courts got to it already.
posted at 02:35

Photo Album To see the photo album of the Arabic Princess and the Marine and their happy times together, check out the photo album. Wishing them all the best. It seems this link has been removed. If I get any new links I will post them.
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CNN.com - Sci-Tech - IBM's graffiti ads run afoul of city officials - April 19, 2001 IBM, wants to be cool. Everybody hates IBM but I personally like their boxes, their thinkpad laptops are great too. Their prices have really gone down since the early PC days.
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Metal teeth give US police dog a new bite AMERICAN police dogs are being equipped with a new weapon in the fight against crime: titanium false teeth designed to improve their bite - and their grip - on anyone trying to escape the law.
posted at 22:29

How to Obscure Any URL You all must have seen funny URLs, with cryptic numbers and letters, now you can do the same, this article shows you how to hide your URL.
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