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- ich suche die dvd des filmes "karakter" (niederlande 1997; regie: mike van diem; darsteller: fedja van huet, jan decleir, betty schuurman, victor löw, tamar van den dop u. |
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- REUTERS: Report: Courtney Love Booked and Hospitalized She's a slow motion train wreck, and yet cigars and champagne are still flowing in the dining car. Hole's lead singer is a darling of the Dead Pool, and quite a few people... |
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- Kai Erikson, Professor of Sociology and American Studies at Yale University will speak on Reflections on Disaster and Trauma at a workshop on 15 October Conference Room 4 from 1.00pm - 3.00pm. Chair:... |
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- Al Qaeda and Company don't just go after Christians, Jews, Hindus etc. To be safe from them, you must be the right kind of Muslim. And even then, that may not always help. From the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) :... |
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- Al Qaeda and Company don't just go after Christians, Jews, Hindus etc. To be safe from them, you must be the right kind of Muslim. And even then, that may not always help. From the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) :... |
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- Here's a fun Opinion Journal Piece in which the author, Mark Laswell, covers action figures (Which hkhill reminds us is now available at mcphee.com), the PATRIOT act, CIPA and Cuba. If you assumed that librarians as a group would feel flattered, or at least amused, by the prospect of being elevated to action-hero status, then your library card must have expired long ago. Their view of the vocation has changed a tad since the days when Laura Bush was reshelving books. News last month of the impending immortalization in molded plastic set off a torrent of complaints from librarians who were irate about being depicted as shushers. |
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- A Short Piece from Sacramento, California, says some books at Sacramento's main library recently generated some complaints that they appear to promote pedophilia, which is illegal. On Thursday, those books were temporarily removed from public view. A staff member was disturbed by two of the books: "Never The Same," which shows a man and a boy on the cover; and "To Want A Boy," with a drawing implying an adult-child sexual relationship. |
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- Svenska golfstjärnan Sophie Gustafsons fina form håller i sig. Hon leder damtoutävlingen efter den första dagens spel i Lincoln, Kalifornien. |
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- Í fyrradag (1. október) gengu í gildi lög í Danmörku sem leiða til þess að Svíar og jafnvel Norðmenn munu hópast til Danmerkur í tilteknum erindagjö.. |
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- A suburban Philadelphia hospital apologized to employees for complying with a man's demand that no black staff members assist in the delivery of his child. |
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- I must admit that I had dismissed John Sculley as a soda executive who may have created short term profitability for Apple but destroyed it in the long run. After reading this interview with Sculley, my appreciation for him has gone way up. He proves to have a very good understanding of current trends and he presents several innovative insights. |
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- The Pakistani army holds 18 men for interrogation after Thursday's operation along the Afghan border. |
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- Saudi Arabia launches an inquiry into allegations that a terminally-ill Aids patient was thrown out of a hospital. |
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- Salvano: This maniac should be wearing a number, not a badge. |
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- October 2, 2003 An ambitious new NASA research project aims to answer perhaps the most vexing and profound of scientific mysteries: How did life on Earth begin? Using space probes and telescopic observations, scientists hope to better understand how organic molecules form in interstellar clouds and how comets might deliver them to planets. |
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- Apple has been boasting for some time that they offer a total solution for their consumer and education customers. While one television show may not win the war for Apple in Hollywood, the adoption of a total Apple solution by Touchstone Television and NBC Corp. for their hit medical comedy Scrubs, is a step in the right direction. Read the full story... |
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- October 2, 2003 Since the digital film festival Resfest launched in 1997, digital filmmaking has exploded, with top Hollywood directors now embracing the new technology. This year's festival, which plays in 18 cities around the world, offers a new segment sponsored by the National Geographic Society focusing on geographic literacy |
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- October 2, 2003 About 100,000 years ago the top of Volcano Alcedo in the Galpagos Islands exploded in a violent eruption that smothered the region in pumice and blew away all but one lucky lineage of the giant tortoises that lived there, according to a new study |
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- The digital media upstart may see a Hollywood ending for its controversial video format. |
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- "We're going through a systemic, secular change in high technology." |
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- Frustrated by the lack of a copy protection standard that might help the digital content business reach the mainstream, MPEG LA is taking matters into its own hands. |
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- The software maker says that third-quarter revenue came in slightly below analyst estimates, declining about 10 percent from the same period last year. |
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- The consumer device software seller announces development tools for programmers who want to build products that use embedded Linux. |
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- The cable provider doubles the bandwidth of its high-speed Internet service, part of an industrywide push to beat the Baby Bells to new broadband customers. |
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- By David Knuth EE Times September 29, 2003 (11:31 a.m. ET) Unemployment has burdened me with a gnawing despair that has tried to chip away my self-esteem. Because the end is unknown, it has been difficult to sustain a positive outlook. |
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- Category: Cellphones This is Barnes & Noble's worst nightmare: a company called NeoMedia has new application for Nokia cameraphones called PaperClick that let's you walk into any bookstore, take a picture of any book's ISBN, and automatically get its pricing information from Amazon. It's bad news for any bookstore, but something like this is especially troublesome for independent booksellers who are having a hard enough time competing with Amazon as it is. Will bookstores be the next places to ban cameraphones? |
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- The company releases a fix for an incompatibility between the new Outlook e-mail client and an older version of the Exchange mail server program. |
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- As Microsoft looks beyond patches toward "securing the perimeter," it draws fire for both old flaws and new security plan |
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- The malicious QHosts program, which infects PCs using a recent flaw in Internet Explorer, could take control of how computers look up Internet addresses. |
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- The proposed suit is based on claims that the software giant's market dominance and product vulnerability to viruses could lead to "massive, cascading failures" in computer networks. |
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- The Electronic Frontier Foundation says a component of so-called trusted computing technology from industry giants, including Microsoft and IBM, is a threat to computer users. |
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- Symantec's latest report on Internet security paints a gloomy picture of the dark side of information technology, citing a rise in the number of "blended" threats, an increase in security vulnerabilities, and a decrease in the amount of time it takes attackers to issue an exploit for a known vulnerability. |
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- Using a classical computer to manipulate Shor's algorithm -- a centerpiece of quantum-computer science -- Japanese researchers hope they can shore up the shaky marriage of quantum mechanics and computing that scientists hope will someday produce offspring of super-fast HAL-9000 style machines. |
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- While analysts following the U.S. IT spending patterns expect purchases to pick up late in 2003, the same does not hold true for Europe, according to Forrester Research. In fact, the software revenues garnered by the top 20 companies doing business in Europe will drop from $18.2 billion in 2002 to $17. |
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- Hughes Network Systems today introduced the DW6000, the latest member of its family of DIRECWAY broadband terminals. The DW6000 is self-hosting, thereby eliminating the requirement to install any special software and extending DIRECWAY service to Macs. The DW6000 incorporates an advanced, single-board architecture, offering an Ethernet output for easy connection to LAN networks and satellite-based service activation, which eliminates the need for a terrestrial line. |
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- C|Net has published an interesting interview with former Apple CEO John Sculley. Mr. Sculley left Apple in the early 1990s after overseeing some of Apple's headiest expansion |
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- UK security firm mi2g is suggesting that reliance on Microsoft could be a threat to the global economy. According to a statement received by TMO |
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- The Register- 50minutesago A lawsuit filed against Microsoft in Los Angeles this week is attempting to hold the company responsible for the damage wrought by the systemic failures of security in its sofware, and for its conspicuous failure to fix them adequately. The suit follows ... |
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- ZDNet.co.uk- 5minutesago An anonymous California computer user went to court on Thursday to challenge the recording industry's file-trading subpoenas, charging that they are unconstitutional and violate her right to privacy. |
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- The Register- 4hoursago A Trojan that exploits an Internet Explorer vulnerability is capable of allowing attackers to hijack browser behaviour, anti-virus firms warn. |
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- Director Quentin Tarantino, whose latest film is the action-thriller Kill Bill: Volume One, told the Zap2It.com Web site that he avoids comic book adaptations because of the genre's traditionally zealous fans. |
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- Star Wars creator George Lucas will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Visual Effects Society at the second annual VES awards ceremony, according to The Hollywood Reporter. |
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