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War Liberal
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And? (Dec 05 2003 14:32 GMT) - Jefferson, Shelby still in violation, says EPA The neighbor counties (Jefferson = Birmingham and old-line suburbs; Shelby = Newer suburbs,... |
NewsForge: NewsVac
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Intel's new Mobile Application Architect Guide (Dec 05 2003 14:32 GMT) - Anonymous Reader writes "This article by a technical marketing engineer in Intel's Software Solutions Group introduces Intel's Mobile Application Architecture Guide, which was created to help application developers understand the issues that are arising through the growing proliferation of wireless mobile computing devices." |
Letters of Marque
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Free the mouse, but shoot the CEO (Dec 05 2003 14:31 GMT) - In this lovely open letter from the CEO of the most obnoxious company on the face of the globe, Darl McBride compounds his many sins by misquoting the Constitution, misinterpreting the Copyright Clause, and misstating the positions of open source... |
Rhino's Blog
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RHINO'S BOTTOM LINES - Fox Occupation Critic, Fairly Unbalanced PBS (Dec 05 2003 14:30 GMT) - 1) Fox News' Occupation Critic by David Corn, The Nation, 12/3/03 Fox News Channel is considered by many to be pro-Bush, pro-war, and pro-occupation. Yet one of the harsher critics in the media of the Bush administration's postwar actions has been retired Major Bob Bevelacqua, a Fox News military analyst. "Major Bob," as he is called on air, served thirteen years in the Army Special Forces, which included a nation-building stint in Haiti. |
symlink.ch: Wissen Vernetzt - deutsche News fr die Welt
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SCO und die Ehe... (Dec 05 2003 14:30 GMT) - Ermel schreibt "Heise berichtet von SCOs neuestem Griff ins Klo: man argumentiert mittlerweile, die amerikanische Verfassung enthalte ein inhrentes Profit-Motiv, und das Copyleft sei somit verfassungsrechtlich bedenklich. Amsanter sind die Reaktionen aus der Open-Source-Szene." |
symlink.ch: Wissen Vernetzt - deutsche News fr die Welt
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UMTS-Moratorium gefordert (Dec 05 2003 14:30 GMT) - Patrik schreibt "Unter Berufung auf jene hollndische Studie, die hier auch schon verhandelt wurde, fordert ein Zusammenschluss von 'rzten fr Umweltschutz', 'Schweizerischer Energie-Stiftung, 'Stiftung Landschaftsschutz Schweiz', 'WWF Schweiz', 'Greenpeace Schweiz' und 'Stiftung fr Konsumentenschutz' ein Moratorium fr die Einfhrung von UMTS. Die Studie habe gezeigt, dass schon eine tiefe UMTS-Strahlenbelastung whrend kurzer Zeit eine Beeintrchtigung des Wohbefindens auslsen knne." - viel zu viele Wenn/Danns fr mich - die sollten mal lieber Die beste Band der Welt hren anstelle rumzumoratorien |
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
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Dean Takes Lead In South Carolina (Dec 05 2003 14:30 GMT) - A new Zogby poll in South Carolina shows Howard Dean "has taken a slight lead," though "there is still no clear favorite." Dean, Sen. John Edwards, Wesley Clark, Sen. Joe Lieberman, Rep. Dick Gephardt and Al Sharpton are all within the margin of error. |
finding lucy
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Friday's Fritterings (Dec 05 2003 14:30 GMT) - I never read the back of the toilet paper package- who does?- but last night I grabbed a six-pack package... |
Small Values of Cool
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Weird (Dec 05 2003 14:30 GMT) - I just received a very odd email. Clearly it's a scam of some kind, but I can't work out exactly what's going on. |
Small Values of Cool
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Weird (Dec 05 2003 14:30 GMT) - I just received a very odd email. Clearly it's a scam of some kind, but I can't work out exactly what's going on. |
black...MYstory
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Retailer Claims Eviction From Jefferson Mall Is Racially Motivated (Dec 05 2003 14:30 GMT) - Retailer claims Jefferson Mall evicted his business to get rid of African American customers.A local retailer claims management at Louisville's Jefferson Mall evicted his business in an effort to help rid the shopping center of African American customers.It is a claim the mall disputes.The owners are planning to file suit against the mall next week. Owners of Airbrush Express, a t-shirt kiosk at the Jefferson Mall say their business was thriving until mall officials decided they did not like some of the customers. |
Blogator.com
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Linux Advisory Watch - December 5th 2003 (Dec 05 2003 14:30 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - This week, there are several serious vulnerabilities that need to be addressed. Advisories were released for bind, rsync, the Linux kernel, xboard, and gnupg. The distributions include Caldera, Conectiva, Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Secure Linux, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Trustix, Turbolinux, and Yellow Dog Linux. |
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iCal subscribe feature shares calendars (Dec 05 2003 14:29 GMT) - Awesome. I just subscribed to my local Mac Users group iCalendar. Once a day, my iCal syncs and adds any new events from the group iCal. Turns out, there's a whole bunch of public calendars that Apple shares that I... |
avocado8
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Let it Snow! (Dec 05 2003 14:29 GMT) - While walking to the K-Mart at lunch on Tuesday I experienced a snow squall. From the description of lake-effect now on the Weather Channel that morning, I'd have sworn that's what it was—except that we don't live near the... |
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Coppermine 1.2.0 (Dec 05 2003 14:29 GMT) - I've got some more pictures to upload to the gallery, taken when we were at Hocking Hills earlier on this week. I checked the main website for Coppermine and discovered that they have contacted the original developer and that there is also a new version, 1.2 available |
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Linux: The GPL And Binary Modules (Dec 05 2003 14:28 GMT) - When first made available in September of 1991, the Linux kernel source code was released under a very restrictive non-GPL license requiring that the source code must always be available, and that no money could be made off of it. Several months later Linus changed the copyright to the GPL, or GNU General Public License, under which the kernel source code has remained ever since. Thanks to the GPL, any source code derived from the Linux kernel source code must also be freely released under the GPL. This has led many to question the legality of "binary only" kernel modules, for which no source code is released. Linux creator Linus Torvalds talks about this issue in a recent thread on the lkml explaining: |
A blog doesn't need a clever name
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Benton Headline BILL MOYERS ON ... (Dec 05 2003 14:28 GMT) - Benton Headline BILL MOYERS ON MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY [Commentary]. Bill Moyers illustrates the dangers of media conglomeration with a tale about baseball and big media. Foul Ball, a new book by former Yankee pitching star Jim Bouton, tells the story. The local newspaper in Bouton's hometown of Pittsfield, MA, wanted to use $18.5 million of taxpayer money to build a new baseball stadium on property it owns. |
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