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Owego police crack down on unlawful behavior (Dec 12 2003 05:33 GMT) - Police said many people were stopped and questioned about their intentions and destinations and through these efforts, several people were arrested for unlawful possession of marijuana and underage consumption of alcohol. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%), $alcohol(50%)] |
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Akron City Council OKs agreement with APS (Dec 12 2003 05:33 GMT) - (US) In a move designed to aid the Akron Police Department (APD), specifically the Narcotics Division in investigating drug activity, officers of that division will be appointed as sheriff's deputies in Summit County. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $narcotic(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3.0 (Dec 12 2003 05:33 GMT) - 12 Dec 2003: Andy Richter reviews the highest-end Red Hat OS solution today, Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3.0."If you currently use RHL and are looking at RHEL as an upgrade path to a supported system, I think its a great choice (IMHO). This is especially true if you qualify for the educational deal with Red Hat and can obtain it at a greatly reduced rate. |
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Linguistics Meets Linux: A Review of Morphix-NLP (Dec 12 2003 05:33 GMT) - 12 Dec 2003: Zhang Le, a Chinese scientist working on NLP has decided to pack the most important language analysis and processing applications into a single bootable CD: Morphix-NLP. More than 640 MB of NLP specific software is included and there's still a lot of place on the CD which uses a compressed filesystem for bringing us the best of both worlds...The rest of the review is here. |
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Software that Predicts Needs (Dec 12 2003 05:33 GMT) - 12 Dec 2003: Deviceforge tells us about Intel's Probabilistic Networks Library (PNL) software and Open Source Machine Learning Library (OpenML)."Faster microprocessors and improvements in the graphical mathematical models at the heart of Bayesian methods are all enabling real-time computer "machine learning" algorithms to run on standard PCs, according to Intel. The computer machine learning library is designed to increase innovation in this field by providing source code for a w... |
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Virginia Arrests Man For Spamming (Dec 12 2003 05:33 GMT) - Slashdot | Virginia Arrests Man For Spamming. volpe writes "According to this Yahoo news story, Virginia arrested a North Carolina man for spamming in violation of a new state law. He was arrested Thursday afternoon in Raleigh, NC. The story is pretty fresh, so the news details are still pretty thin." |
Recent SD Jobs Posted
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MF P/A (Sioux Falls, SD) (Dec 12 2003 05:33 GMT) - Mainframe Assembler Programmer/Analyst for Sioux Falls, SDAnalytical Skills, Assembler, C/370 Language, DB2, MVS Utilities, Mainframe Experience, Problem Solving Skills, Programming Experience, Systems Analysis, VM Utilities, Cobol |
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A Strike That's Struck A Chord? (SoCal) (Dec 12 2003 05:32 GMT) - Los Angeles grocery walkout taps into labor solidarity and woes of a shrinking middle class (Christian Science Monitor 12/11/03) quote:Management and unions are still hunkered down; negotiations could trickle into next year. And the fight has become emblematic of a larger national anxiety over tradeoffs between consumer prices and decent-paying jobs. On one level, it's a tussle between management - which says it must cut costs to compete with b... |
The Agonist
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Halliburton Unit Probed for Possible Overbilling of U.S. (Dec 12 2003 05:31 GMT) - Halliburton Unit Probed for Possible Overbilling of U.S. Defense Department auditors have discovered that a Halliburton Inc. subsidiary may have overcharged the government $61 million on a contract to supply fuel for Iraq, a Pentagon official said at a hurriedly called news conference last night. ed: |
Heretical Ideas
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QUOTE OF THE DAY (Dec 12 2003 05:31 GMT) - "Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another." -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton... |
Recent LA Jobs Posted
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J2EE Architect Developer (Baton Rouge, LA) (Dec 12 2003 05:30 GMT) - J2EE Architect/ Developer needed: ASAP6mos. in Baton Rouge, LASeeking a J2EE architect / developer to work for the state of LA. Candidates should have hands on expereince working with J2EE. As well as some experience on the arcitect level. |
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Reviving the idea of common carriers (Dec 12 2003 05:29 GMT) - Martin Geddes says that network providers should be regulated as common carriers. He's right, of course. There really is no other solution. Common carriers can't discriminate against either users or applications. This idea is older than telecom, going back to... |
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Marin County Free Library Blog. ... (Dec 12 2003 05:29 GMT) - Marin County Free Library Blog. Marin County Free Library Blog - "Stay up to date on what's happening at the Library, best-selling books, great websites, book clubs, author appearances, and more!" (RSS Feed - not sure of its working though) They even have a page explaining what the blog is? Jenny, we should use this as an example in our presentations...[LIS Blogsource] |
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Platypus Provocation © 2003, John ... (Dec 12 2003 05:29 GMT) - Platypus Provocation © 2003, John H. Farr All right, see this first picture? Call it a "platypus box," for want of a better name. It's an art object, obviously, although the top of the platypus does pivot to the side revealing a cavity within. |
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Finalists Named in AOL Interactive Review (Dec 12 2003 05:28 GMT) - AOL narrowed its choice of agencies down to three in the ongoing review for the online service's interactive advertising duties. Left standing in the ring, after an initial 15, to fight for the $50-60 million account are three finalists: Modem Media, Digitas and incumbent AtmosphereBBDO, which has teamed with fellow Omnicom agency OMD. A final decision is expected in mid-January. Adweek reports. |
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Tonya Paoni (Dec 12 2003 05:28 GMT) - ">Tonya Paoni ">Tonya Paoni appeared on Big Brother last year. The Las Vegas native also appeared on Playboy's Girls of Reality DVD (which also features Trishelle of the Real World). You can ">watch the DVD online at Playboy.com.... |
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