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Flu Hits Delaware Early (Dec 03 2003 16:34 GMT) - State health officials say this year's flu season has hit even earlier than usual, and could be more severe than normal. |
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Ohio Highway Shootings (Dec 03 2003 16:34 GMT) - Knowing someone had fired a shot into Hamilton Central Elementary, parents watched nervously in the school gym as their kids dribbled basketballs around orange cones. |
NewsForge: NewsVac
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China Embraces Linux Desktop, But Caution Prevails in the U.S. (Dec 03 2003 16:33 GMT) - The deal calls for Sun to provide China Standard Software Co. with as many as 1 million seats per year of its Java Desktop System. China Standard Software is a consortium of Chinese technology companies that executes government initiatives. Sun Microsystems Inc. landed the largest Linux desktop deal in history with an agreement announced last week involving a consortium of technology providers in China. |
Techdirt
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Ohio Halts Electronic Voting Deployment (Dec 03 2003 16:32 GMT) - Beck writes "Electronic voting was to be deployed in Ohio statewide by March, but due to numerous security flaws found in the voting systems the state has delayed certification of the systems, possibly until 2006. Diebold's system had the most problems, but all of the systems had numerous flaws. Many scenarios were found where a person without proper authority was able to manipulate election results. The Ohio Secretary of State released a report detailing 57 security flaws. (The entire report was released, unlike the state of Maryland, which blacked out much of their report. |
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Fading (Dec 03 2003 16:32 GMT) - He who deemed Germany on a better way must see Schröder has come up with nothing Kowtows China like a dog Roadies for the KowTow Clan: Joschka Fischer, Mick Jagger |
Брызги сознания
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Заговор филологов (Dec 03 2003 16:32 GMT) - Как широко известно, любые события в России основываются на языке -- язык их порождает, их направляет и приводит их к концу. Соответственно, общественно-политическая жизнь нашей многострадальной родины все больше наводит меня на мысль о том, что Некто в Коричневом проводит... |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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It's flu time (Dec 03 2003 16:32 GMT) - With the temperature suddenly 21° (with a 9° wind chill) in NYC, those who haven't succumbed yet to the flu could well be on the verge, including me. Here's some good information from the CDC, Influenza: The Disease. |
Population: One
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More of the right (Dec 03 2003 16:31 GMT) - Ginger pointed out that I didn't mention the violence committed by the anti-abortion crowd. She's right; it's another example of... |
Pointy Ears
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Dilemas (Dec 03 2003 16:31 GMT) - I agreed to help a client and now I'm stuck. The individual in question is armed with a WYSIWYG editor and no understanding of html. I'm basicly being paid to do some backend work, adding a shopping cart to the... |
pakistani perspective
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Bottom of the barrel - Guardian (Dec 03 2003 16:30 GMT) - "The world is running out of oil - so why do politicians refuse to talk about it? The petroleum geologist Colin Campbell calculates that global extraction will peak before 2010. In August, the geophysicist Kenneth Deffeyes told New Scientist that he was '99% confident' that the date of maximum global production will be 2004. Even if the optimists are correct, we will be scraping the oil barrel within the lifetimes of most of those who are middle-aged today." |
Soup is Good
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even more google fun (Dec 03 2003 16:28 GMT) - i stole this from Atrios who in turn got it from someone else, but it's so good, I couldn't pass it up. this is what happens when you enter the search string "miserable failure" in Google. for those of you... |
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