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Italian footballer gives fascist Mussolini salute at game. Way to be. (Dec 21 2005 04:59 GMT) - FOXSports.com - Europe- Di Canio suspended for giving fascist saluteMILAN, Italy (AP) - Lazio's Paolo Di Canio was suspended for one match because of his fascist salute to fans last weekend. The veteran forward will miss Wednesday's Serie A match at Lecce. The Italian Soccer League's disciplinary commission also fined Di Canio $11,977 late Monday."It was a political sentence, it was an unjust |
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An Update, Finally (Dec 21 2005 04:58 GMT) - The last few months have been very busy. Travel alone has taken me to London, Amsterdam, Toronto, and Seattle (twice). And I'll be back in Toronto next week for Christmas and New Year's. Amsterdam was for X05, Microsoft's worldwide launch event for the Xbox 360. London was a solo trip - I demoed the multiplayer component of The Outfit for Xbox 360 to key press and retail from across Europe. |
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Monkey Business - by John Rolfe and Peter Troob (Dec 21 2005 04:58 GMT) - August 2005A co-worker mentioned that he'd heard this was a good book, so I bought it and read it. Turns out it was a horrible book.Monkey Business is a "book" written by two young investment bankers on how - gasp! - investment banking is miserable work. The writing quality is below that of many amateur blogs with goonish similes and metaphors slammed together, sentence after sentence. |
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2004 - Introduction by Susan Orlean (Dec 21 2005 04:58 GMT) - August 2005This was the best book purchase I made this year. I bought it as one of my reading materials on our Cuban honeymoon in January and read it all down there. I'm posting it now because I forgot to post it then.As you'd expect, there are some incredible stories in The Best American Magazine Writing 2004. My favourite was "Columbia's Last Flight", an exhaustively researched piece exploring the investigation into the most recent shuttle disaster. |
Stop the Bleating!
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Free Speech Anyone (Dec 21 2005 04:57 GMT) - Am I missing something, or is this case not an attack on the first amendment? As despicable as what is being displayed, I am not sure how it is obscene. If anything, this may fall under some federal national security... |
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Il Mac perde Internet Explorer (Dec 21 2005 04:57 GMT) - Per gli utenti della Mela sarà obbligatorio passare a Safari, Firefox e Opera I browser disponibili per Mac OS X sono diversi, Safari, Firefox e Opera. Dal 31 dicembre per gli utenti Mac termina il supporto del browser di Microsoft. Internet Explorer non ha mai contato troppi fun sui computer della Mela, e ormai ha solo due settimane di vita la versione per Macintosh di Apple. Internet Explorer per la piattaforma Mac chiuderà i battenti il prossimo 31 gennaio. Agli utenti Mac suggeriamo di scaricare una versione in tempo utile (www. |
ScorpionGo
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Xbox 360 sotto attacco degli hacker (Dec 21 2005 04:57 GMT) - L'hacking colpisce la nuova console di Microsoft Hacker hanno già parzialmente violato il codice di Xbox 360, la console di ultima generazione di Microsoft rilasciata da poche settimane. Dal codice raw al cracking il passo è breve: il Team PI Coder per ora ha rilasciato l'extractor tool per duplicare i giochi, ma secondo Microsoft Xbox 360 implementa opzioni di sicurezza lato hardware e software, tali da limitare i danni. |
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What is Software Piracy? (Dec 21 2005 04:57 GMT) - When software is pirated, consumers, software developers, and resellers are harmed. Software piracy increases the risk that consumers will become infected with viruses, have corrupted or defective software. Pirated software usually has inadequate documentation, which prevents consumers from enjoying the full benefits of the software package. In addition consumers are unable to take advantage [...] |
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