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- "Court Gives Police Victory in Waiting Time": Gina Holland of The Associated Press has this news from the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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- This is one of those issues that should not be partisan: no one should want a voting system that prevents... |
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- Glen Campbell was released this morning from a Phoenix jail after being arrested yesterday on suspicion of drunk driving, aggravated assault on a police officer and for a hit and run. The country-pop legend was arrested at his home after a witness said Campbell fled the scene of a two-car collision in his adopted hometown. Campbell's BMW struck a Toyota Camry at an intersection on Monday afternoon, and the witness followed the car and alerted ... |
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- this past weekend i did the upgrade to panther. it went rather smoothly i must say. i took just about every precaution i could take - repairing permissions, removing startup items, running pilot via cocktail and most importantly making sure my lacie firewire drive came through this with flying colors. all went well and i could not be happier. major pros: |
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- Stefan hat zwar seine iSight immer noch nicht, aber endlich mal jemand am Draht, der sich auskennt. Es besteht Hoffnung. [Fortsetzung von ...]... |
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- Slashdot pointed the way to H.R. 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act which they say neatly sidesteps the copyright question and allows treble damages to be levied against anyone who uses information that's in a database that a corporation asserts it owns. Columns from the American Library Association and Phyllis Schlaflynbsp; have more. |
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- Steve Fesenmaier writes "Another invention story from MIT - but about someone who designs gizmos for poor people - Amy Smith. Here's The NYTimes Story" |
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- search-engines-web writes "A Collection of Products and Stories that really affected a "heard all that before" techie... Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission control protocol, FAST continuously checks the flow of data packets, squeezes the maximum amount of data through a connection- 8,609 megabits per second potential using 10 simultaneous flows of data over routed paths. Where Monitor Resoultion amp; Laser Printers Meet The effect of PenTile Matrix is similar to resolution enhancement in laser printers. Lasers can print only a certain number of dots per inch, but by altering the size and position of the dots, they can produce a higher effective resolution. |
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- The Daily Freeman Reports NY Education Commissioner Richard Mills was the featured speaker at the New Century Library Leadership meeting Monday morning at the Mount St. Alphonsus Retreat Center. Mills said librarians must get their communities involved to get more support for libraries from the state Legislature. Because libraries are used by business, medical and educational communities, he said, they should be a good source of advocates. Parents of school-aged children are another source, he said, noting that more than one million children statewide participated in summer reading programs at public libraries this year. |
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- ref: dilluzionz of judi II: Set your VCRs Judi reminded me of one of my all time favorite Christmas shows on TV tonight and I won't be home to watch, thanks to the Cub Scout Pack Meeting. Hope you enjoy the SHOW! |
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MM 3.48 (Dec 02 2003 15:58 GMT) - Those paper toilet seat covers in public bathrooms, do you use them?No I'm sorry to say that I don't. If I catch something from the seat then I catch something. What is on your Christmas Wish List for Santa to bring?I have no idea and I wish everyone would stop asking me. |
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- Wow what a weekend. Sandy finally came home from shopping at 4:30 and I got to go out and get the electrical stuff that I needed. In the course I got rear end and I got the ticket for it. I can win when it comes to tickets. |
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- Scrooge:: Bill Murray Ribbon:: Tinsel Physical:: Education Income:: Not enough Dream:: |
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- It may not be a return to the heyday of free-and-easy song-swapping, but this month old-school Napster users have a chance to try out the newly launched service from Napster LLC with a three-day free trial period. |
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- In the Java Specialists newsletter, Heinz Kabutz and Carl Smotricz have devised a way to write BASIC programs in Java with a series of case statements for line numbering, a GotoException, and horrendous formatting: Carl told me that it was possible to program GOTO in Java. Naturally I was curious, so I asked Carl to give me an example. ... What makes me scared is that the code runs and actually works. |
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- In the Java Specialists newsletter, Heinz Kabutz and Carl Smotricz have devised a way to write BASIC programs in Java with a series of case statements for line numbering, a GotoException, and horrendous formatting: Carl told me that it was possible to program GOTO in Java. Naturally I was curious, so I asked Carl to give me an example. ... What makes me scared is that the code runs and actually works. |
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- Jeff drove a Pontiac Grand Prix. Late 70s model. It was built like a diving manta ray, black and flared... |
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- NavaL chief Admiral Madhvendera Singh said the warship, armed with a squadron of MiG-29k fighters, will be almost 70 per cent new. |
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- British insurance giant Aviva announced on Tuesday that it will hire 2,500 people in India next year to serve its businesses in the UK and Canada. |
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- Ringing in the holidays I mentioned in a previous Thrilling Days of Yesteryear post that I had listened to a pair of shows originally broadcast back-to-back on a chilly Chicago winter night in March of 1949. Last night, there was an encore, Christmas style: both holiday programs were from December 23, 1941. It’s Tuesday night, 9: |
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- A memo to Dodge (my, I'm full of helpful suggestions today!): women watch football too. DaimlerChrysler's Dodge unit is sponsoring... |
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- Well everything turned out fine! Jacqui had to rent a car to get us back to Chicago, but once that was done everything went smooth. We drove the Dodge Stratus to Chicago and hung out for a day and spent Thanksgiving with Jacqui’s family and ate some awesome food cooked up by her parents. Later on her Father informed her that they would be giving Jacqui her mother’ |
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- personally, i've found that many of the 'dating design patterns' can also be used as 'marriage design patterns'. married men everywhere will be quiet familiar with the 'optimistic persistence, a.k.a. surprise statefulness' pattern : |
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- many old timers who know jorn barger as one of the original bloggers who maintains[ed] robot wisdom and were alarmed to see he had gone missing . the story takes an odd turn when people start to wonder why it took jorn's roommate 2 months to notice that he was missing. it appears that jorn's 'o.k.' and "... |
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- The raid by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi officials on an Arab television network bureau in Baghdad and the ban on its broadcasts hardly fits my idea of how to spread democracy in the Middle East. |
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- It's not that he's mean. It's just that when it comes to seeing how his policies affect people, George W. Bush doesn't have a clue. |
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- The PSX is Sony's first attempt at tying the worlds of consumer electronics and games together and combines a hard drive-based video recorder, a DVD recorder, a music player, a photo viewer, and a PlayStation 2 game console in a single box. Two of the features, the abilities to read DVD+RW discs and to connect to the PlayStation BB broadband Internet service, will be offered as a firmware upgrade for no cost via the Internet, said Takamine, although he could not say when Sony will offer the upgrade. "We plan to do it as soon as possible. |
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- Seniors with big prescription drug bills, health maintenance organizations awaiting lucrative new subsidies, upper-middle-class families anticipating a fat tax refund, and Iraqi cities expecting new schools or hospitals all have reason to be thankful about President Bush's extraordinary success at pushing his agenda through the Republican-controlled Congress this year. There may be less celebration among the young people who will inherit the tab for these initiatives. Bush is funding every penny of every one of these goodies by increasing the national debt. |
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- WASHINGTON - Senior FBI officials took the unusual step Tuesday of publicly declaring that agents are not using the war against terrorism as a cover to collect information on people who demonstrate against the government. Riiiiight... it's not like they haven't done it before!! |
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- The San Diego Union Tribune reports that opposition to the CLEAR Act, that would promote programs for the federal government |
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- Wenn die EC-Karte im Ausland gestohlen und die Urlaubskasse komplett abgeräumt wird, dann hat man als Verbraucher kaum Chancen, sein Geld zurück zu bekommen. Nach dem Willen der Europäischen Kommission soll sich das ändern. Auch Überweisungen innerhalb der EU sollen sicherer und schneller werden. |
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- Diebold has dropped it's case against the Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons (SCDC) (origi... |
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- "Some 1,000 people protesting against Colin Powell's visit to the Netherlands and the occupation of ... |
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- Reported on Soldiers For The Truth, supposedly by a soldier who was there:"The convoy which was atta... |
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Faces (Dec 02 2003 15:56 GMT) - De verschillende gezichten van Michael Jackson.... |
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- The Philip K. Dick Offical Site has opened: relevant not just because the movie Paycheck is coming out this month (based on a short story of his), but because we live in a Dickian world. As he put it, "We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. |
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- Canada's View on Social Issues Is Opening Rifts With the U.S. (note: NYT reg. required) " |
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