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- Andrew Reeves ruminates on the freedoms and restrictions that Muslim women are subject too: First off, since my own social views are usually closer to grumpy old fart than most, I actually have a great deal of sympathy for what... |
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- Iraqi police opened fire in downtown Baghdad Wednesday morning after a group of unemployed people demonstrating to win back jobs stormed a police station and threw stones at officers, an Iraqi policeman said. |
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- More than 35 years after he was shot down in Laos, the remains of the only U.S. Coast Guard member missing in action in the Vietnam War have been found. The Pentagon says the remains of Lt. Jack Rittichier, of... |
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Echelon (Oct 01 2003 02:57 GMT) - While listening to TechTV this evening, I heard about the Echelon eavesdropping network. The article presents an interesting look into the intelligence gathering process of the network and how little is publicly known about it.... |
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- Public mailing lists: gpu-world |
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- Public discussion forums: Help, Developers, Open Discussion |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (28 Sep 2003): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Project description: GPU is a Gnutella client for sharing files and CPU-resources. Our objective is to develop a robust framework for distributed computing on a peer-to-peer grid. We hope to support peaceful, open and free research and to build a cheap supercomputer. |
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- Project administrators: dangermaus, seeschloss |
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- Most recent daily statistics (28 Sep 2003): Ranking: 5094, Activity percentile: 62.24%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (28 Sep 2003): Download count: 3 |
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Sad Coda (Oct 01 2003 02:57 GMT) - More celebrity death. Well, Shawn Lane wasn't a celebrity except for true improvised music dorks like me. He was just a real musical virtuoso. A really wanky performer to be sure, but the guy could play his ass off, and not just on guitar. For shi |
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- An actual invitation to a John Kerry fundraiser. 1. Maybe Kerry should have invested Wilson's $1,000 on a spell check program. 2. And they say WE have trouble with "No Child Left Behind. |
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- Harvard Square is the last place anyone should be when they're in a foul mood. With (in my case) the first cold of the season, accompanied by a sore throat and a fever. Walking around, I discovered that everything and everyone was annoying the hell out of me. In order: Professional homeless people. |
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- Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite... |
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- Is tomorrow night and I'm bummed. My satellite is out and so I'm going to miss it. Not a world... |
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- Il y a quelques semaines, alors que nous attendions que la table ronde de la gouverneure générale débute, Clément Laberge et moi discutions du fait que les images pré |
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- Maybe it's because I had a Monday today (it's Tuesday). Maybe it's because normally conflictive people were suddenly very cooperative this morning, causing me to have a very odd day.... |
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- Maybe it's because I had a Monday today (it's Tuesday). Maybe it's because normally conflictive people were suddenly very cooperative this morning, causing me to have a very odd day.... |
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- BBC NEWS: Scientists aim to filter out invaders Australian scientists may have found a way to stop ships transferring "alien" organisms in their ballast water - an accidental practice that is damaging ecosystems worldwide. The water is taken on board vessels to balance them when empty. |
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- The 2LD WG (which I am a member of) has finally released its background and consultation paper. I would strongly advise everyone to read the background paper and give some thought to the issues in it and the questions at the end. Then either use the online from or email comments to the WG. |
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Eek (Oct 01 2003 02:54 GMT) - I am downloading something at 400kb/s o_O Am all of a flutter.... |
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- Next time you go down to your local supermarket pay special attention as you rummage around packets of frozen vegetables.... |
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- Howard Dean has, with very little fanfare, posted a set of Internet Principles. They are: No one owns the Internet Everyone should be connected The Internet's value comes from its openness The Internet's openness should be promoted The Internet is a democracy of voices, not primarily a broadcast medium The Internet is not perfectible The Internet is just at the beginning If you agree with these, please donate money to the Dean campaign. |
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- JOHO is proposing a new fitness theory: Blogging makes you fat ... "I went to the gym today for the first time in over 18 months. I used to go before my... |
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- Running a bath last night, the water turned cold and before you think this might be another made-a-sandwich blog entry, there is a point here. This morning, the water was still cold.... |
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- In a bold move against cyber-trickery of all kinds, Irvine, Calif.-based software vendor Optima Technology Monday filed a lawsuit against domain registrar Network Solutions, alleging that the VeriSign subsidiary transferred ownership of the URL www.optimatech.com without permission from its rightful owner. |
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- When I spoke to the Computer Society at NUI, Galway earlier this year - on the topic of the introduction of electronic voting in Ireland - I didn't put anything online, as my notes were all handwritten. I have now transcribed them, and include them below. |
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- Sometimes it's amazing what I see posted by liberal factions on community weblogs as incisive reporting but an article that I saw posted on Sensible Erection today just takes the... |
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- Kansas State Collegian: Editorial: Collegian explains how Bosco mistake was made (via fark) In Thursday's Collegian, a mug shot on Page One identified Osama bin Laden as Pat Bosco, our dean of student life. hehe.... |
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- From another blog I post at:"Free" Private Education - MIT OpenCourseWare In 1999, MIT began an initiative to “virtualize” all of their graduate and undergraduate programs, for public consumption, por gratis (an idea similar to Wikipedia). As of September 2003 the Institute has published 500 courses online - and an even larger cornucopia will be marching along the way throughout the next 5 years (2008 is the goal for total implementation). With courses ranging from biology to nuclear engineering to the Sloan School of Management, the OCW program will assist the Curious George within all of us – and hopefully one group in particular: two million home schooled students. |
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- Creature Thought Extinct Found in Cuba:HAVANA - A living example of an insectivore native to Cuba — but believed for years to extinct — has been found in the island's eastern mountains, a Cuban news agency reported. The discovery of the male insect-eating mammal known as an almiqui (pronounced ahl-mee-KEE) raises hopes "that it will not wind up in the catalog of the irretrievable animals disappearing from the face of the Earth," Prensa Latina said in reporting the discovery. The creature looks like a brownish woolly badger with a long, pink-tipped snout and can measure up to about 19 inches, according to Prensa Latina's Monday dispatch. Raise your right hand if you think Ra has a sense of humor. |
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- EFF Archive - Intellectual Property - Internet Address Disputes |
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- Scoble: "Today I spent the entire day with the future staring me in the face. It is a future with an infinite number of possibilities. But, yeah, it might put some Win32 programmers out of work. So be it. |
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- Dan Geer was right! Any monolithic culture is inherently doomed to suffer its own inbred shortcomings, whether we're talking about Appalachian hillfolk (I is one, BTW) (remind me to tell... |
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- Dan Geer was right! Any monolithic culture is inherently doomed to suffer its own inbred shortcomings, whether we're talking about Appalachian hillfolk (I is one, BTW) (remind me to tell... |
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- (US) [Is a controlled substance.] Hemp project shut down - 2003-09-30 - Pacific Business News (Honolulu) Self-employed see agony, ecstasy: Hemp project shut down Hemp project shut down The federal Drug Enforcement Agency closed down the Hawaii Industrial Hemp Research Project on Tuesday. The ...[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme1(60%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $drug_law(80%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $hallucinogen(60%), $MDMA(60%), $cannabis(100%), $hemp(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- (US) Joshua Lynn Cripps was charged with felony obstruction of a law enforcement officer.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $cannabis(100%), $narcotic(100%), $opioid(100%), $oxycodone(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $police_related_news(70%), $dea_prime_contractor(80%)] |
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- (US) Defendants have called her the Dragon Lady and 213, for the number of years she once gave a drug dealer. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride is touring the nation to promote legalizing working immigrants. [$drug_related(70%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $propaganda_theme7(70%), $legalization(70%)] |
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- (US) WXMI FOX 17 | Teacher Suspended For Pot Incident With Students Teacher Suspended For Pot Incident With Students Two weeks ago, a jury convicted Speidel for allowing a student to smoke marijuana. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $use_is_abuse(60%), $propaganda_theme4(60%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $cannabis(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- check out the OCT. 1-14 Issue of THE INDYPENDENT - www.nyc.indymedia.org: |
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