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- University of California regents on Thursday appointed Nobel laureate Steven Chu to head the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. UC President Robert C. Dynes said the appointment, effective Aug. 1, demonstrates UC's commitment to making the case that it deserves to remain lab manager beyond this year. |
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- Free picture posting direct to your blog, fast, easy, and did I mention free? |
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Opera (Jun 17 2004 23:21 GMT) - Mensagem do Nemo: "O melhor browser já está na versão 7.51 - Opera"... |
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- Hi LoveGems2, I came across your threads about your orange garnet and |
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- SGI IRIX is reported prone to a local denial of service vulnerability. The issue is reported to present itself when a mapelf32exec() call is made on a malicious binary. ... |
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- SGI IRIX is reported prone to an undisclosed denial of service vulnerability. The issue is reported to present itself due to page invalidation issues that exist in init. ... |
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- SGI IRIX contains a system call syssgi() which is used as a system interface to read and change various system parameters, such as LED states, tuning parameters, and othe... |
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- Sender: Pete Foster [petef at sec-tec dot co dot uk] |
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- Sender: Matt Zimmerman [mdz at debian dot org] |
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- John Jarrold, ex-publisher of SF and fantasy imprints at Time Warner, Random House and Simon & Schuster, has taken on his very first author client and set up shop as a Literary Agent. Blimey! |
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- Microsoft co-founder talks to the 'Nest about the first non-government, privately funded manned space flight. |
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- 'Terrorism' worries kill Mel Gibson's 'Mad Max: Fury Road'. |
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- Claire Bott's new 'Timehunter' novel blends Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' story with 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' by Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft. |
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Breath (Jun 17 2004 23:21 GMT) - Christopher Fowler's new novel, Breath, is 'The Office' meets 'Night of the Living Dead'. |
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- Weapons from the new Star Wars movie revealed. |
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- How anonymity became a bargaining chip. By Sundhir Muralidhar, Slate (via MyAppleMenu Reader) |
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- Unfortunately I can no longer bear the bandwidth cost of running this service so I'm turning it off. There's a mirror at http://www. wcc. vccs. |
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- What do they talk about? Roger V |
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- What do they talk about? Roger V |
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- We seriously love Ana Marie Cox's roundup of Tina Brown's Washington Post column each week. With Gawker's intern Henry offering weekly disection of her CNBC show Topic A and Cox's column comments, we just can't get enough from Nick Denton's... |
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- Via Chris and Sam.com comes an article in the Macomb Daily: "Sheriff gets armored vehicles" Macomb County's "newest" weapon against crime is 44 years old, weighs a beefy 10 tons, travels only 3 miles on a gallon of gas, sits 10 people uncomfortably and can flatten a house. And it's a war veteran. The Sheriff's Department on Monday took delivery of an M113 armored personnel carrier, compliments of the U. |
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- The Daily Telegraph, Conservative daily of London, England |
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- Patent holder in infringement case against Research In Motion dies on eve of latest arguments. |
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- Web news sources frustrate me again. Is it bad journalism or technological ignorance? |
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- I'm back from vacation and catching up, but I couldn't let this slip by. Scoble, commenting on the interview with Mozilla's Scott Collins (who gave a talk at TALUG way back when I still lived in Ohio), mentions that he uses FireFox and that the IE team doesn't like it: And, I know quite a few of the people on the IE team. They are not happy at all that I'm using Firefox. Whenever I have lunch or a meeting... |
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- MATT GALLANT -- Microsoft today officially announced Blinx 2 for the Xbox. Developed by Artoon and due out in time for the holidays, Microsoft boasts that Blinx 2 is "the world's first 5-D game, giving players control over both Time and Space". You may remember that the first Blinx was billed as a "4-D" game, because it gave you control over time. So apparently the idea here is that time has four dimensions and space has only one. Developers, I've said it before, and I'll sa... |
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- Not only are DVR users skipping the commercials on recorded programs, they are purposely delaying the start time of shows to avoid ads. |
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- Microsoft had better have a big announcement by its annual analyst meeting on July 29 or investors are going to be mighty disappointed. |
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- The Inspector General tells Congress that fraud, waste and abuse will likely continue without adequate investigative resources. ... ... |
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- The FTC puts two Internet scamsters out of business. ... |
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- Legislation wants harsh penalties to combat use of tracking software. |
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- Not only are DVR users skipping the commercials on recorded programs, they are purposely delaying the start time of shows to avoid ads. |
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- Microsoft had better have a big announcement by its annual analyst meeting on July 29 or investors are going to be mighty disappointed. |
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- The Inspector General tells Congress that fraud, waste and abuse will likely continue without adequate investigative resources. ... ... |
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- The FTC puts two Internet scamsters out of business. ... |
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- The soup wasn't just good. It was downright addictive. Narcotics police in southwestern China shuttered 215 restaurants found to be mixing opium poppy into their soups and hot pot stews, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday. |
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- The Concert Companion is the 21st Century's version of programme notes - a hand-held computer which displays commentary on the music being performed, as it is being played, with real-time video. |
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- A late-night meeting fails to bridge differences over who should lead the European Union's top body. |
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- . juhu. die erste überweisung vom geschäftskonto getätigt. |
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- (US) While authorities declined to release details of the killings, neighbors said the small, one-story house, divided into apartments, had a reputation as a site for drug dealing. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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