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CNN thinks Linus Torvalds doesn't matter anymore
When I came across the news yesterday, I couldn't believe my eyes. But there it was, in pixels, plain as day. A story on CNN reporting that Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, the most disruptive technology of the past 100 years, just doesn't matter anymore. We immediately sought out Torvalds for his reaction to the story,
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Bush Hijacks The Constitution
George Orwell once wrote: "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." This New York Times OpEd boldly speaks the Truth behind the Bush administration seizure of the Constitutional values Americans hold dear.
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Skype Protocol Cracked
A team of Chinese engineers say they have reverse engineered the protocol used for Skype Internet phone calls.
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Gates: Vista "80%" chance for January release
Bill Gates says: "We got to get this absolutely right. If the feedback from the beta tests shows it is not ready for prime time, I'd be glad to delay it."
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Unique autistic savant describes how his mind works
Tammet became famous for reciting pi to 22,514 decimal places with the same ease that the rest of us can reel off 3.142. He also broke the bank in Las Vegas the first time he played blackjack.
And now he has done something that, for a man who describes words as "his second language", is even more remarkable: he has written a book.
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Scientologist assaults peaceful protester
A man filming a documentary outside the Church of Scientology in Clearwater, Florida was attacked and assaulted by a Scientologist. Michael Fitzgerald was caught on camera attacking peaceful protester Shawn Lonsdale who was there in Clearwater filming a documentary on The Church of Scientology. Fellow Scientologists were quick to lie to the cops...
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HTML's a Tag Too!
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�s the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end of every document. But yet, it happens to be one of the most ignored tags out there. Why?
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9 Yrs Prison for WiFi Credit Card Hacker
Though there's no evidence either man saw a single stolen credit-card number, and despite cooperating to help Lowe's boost its security after his arrest, Salcedo was sentenced to what the government described at the time as the longest U.S. prison term for a hacker in history.
A federal appeals court upheld the nine-year prison term...
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UK set to ban Standby on consumer electronics
Please give a warm welcome back to good old 'Off'. It would save enough carbon in one year to meet all the Kyoto targets and is stilling there right in our living rooms. Who knew?
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Google Erases Malta
We have some bad news for those on the sunny island of Malta: you don't exist and we have the evidence to, er, prove it. Look on the bright side, though: since you either don't exist or are currently drowned, you can reasonably argue with the boss that the rest of the afternoon spent in front of a bottle of excellent red wine is in order.
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Woodcrest to power Apple's next-gen Mac Pro desktops
Apple Computer has selected dual-core Xeon server processors from Intel Corp. to power its next wave of high-performance professional Mac Pro desktops, AppleInsider has confirmed.
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The Future of .Mac - Free?
This article explains why Apple will soon be making .Mac a free service and how it will drive many people to the Mac platform.
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100 Best Places to Work in IT!
For the 13th year in a row, Computerworld conducted a survey to identify the 100 Best Places to Work for IT professionals. A total of 20,435 IT professionals responded to the employee survey from the final 100 companies selected.
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Cell phone makers to standardize charger plugs... Finally!
The standardization would enable cell phone users to continue to use the same chargers even after replacing phones with ones marketed by different service providers
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Mock-ups of New Default Theme for Firefox 2
Mozilla team has released the mock-ups for a new default theme to be included with Firefox 2. The theme looks slick, simple and yet elegant. Have a look.
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Virtual PC 2004 is now FREE
Not a demo, not a timed trial, but fully free. FTA: "Whether Microsoft virtualization technology is an important component of your existing infrastructure or you're just a Virtual PC enthusiast, you can now download Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 absolutely free."
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McDonald's Uses The Sun on it's New Billboard
Check this out. Very clever advertising. Personally, I love billboard advertising to show something about your product of service no one has ever seen before.
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Shakira - Hips Dont Lie spoof
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My brothers spanish final. Which just happens to be a hilarious, yet disturbing, Shakira spoof.
Shakira - Ryan
Gangsters - Sal, Matt
Directed/Filmed/Edited - Tom
Go to the official shakira spoof homepage at www.myspace.com/shakiraspoof
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FBI: putting a backdoor in every router soon?
The FBI wants all future routing equipment manufactured to include backdoors for law enforcement. Like in CALEA, such back doors require no warrant to activate, and hence can be secretly enabled at will. How bad is this?
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