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Broz News
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Stranded, NYC Heads to the Web (Dec 21 2005 18:54 GMT) - Commuters braving New York's transit strike meet online to thumb rides, while others hope to make some spare cash by renting out their apartments as strike pads. Connecting them all is craigslist. |
freshmeat.net announcements (Global)
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Io programming language 2005-12-21 (Development branch) (Dec 21 2005 18:54 GMT) - Io is small prototype-based programming language. It is a pure object language, and it features an incremental garbage collector, exceptions, light weight threads, and embeddability. License: BSD License (revised) Changes: This release contains important fixes for the new coroutine system and sockets bindings, a number of new unit tests, an improved blowfish binding, and build system and other fixes. |
Broz News
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Diebold Hack Hints at Wider Flaws (Dec 21 2005 18:54 GMT) - I think the Diebold vote machines use Windows as their OS. True? -- Election officials in search of a paper trail embrace optical-scan voting machines. But are they really better than touch-screen devices? |
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Social Security Act Sources and ... (Dec 21 2005 18:54 GMT) - Social Security Act Sources and Information Section 1921 of the Social Security Act (Section 5(b) of PL 100-93, the Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987, as amended) INFORMATION CONCERNING SANCTIONS TAKEN BY STATE ? http://www. npdb-hipdb. com/legislation/1921. |
freshmeat.net announcements (Global)
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Advance Stock Tracker 0.1.6 (Default branch) (Dec 21 2005 18:54 GMT) - Advanced Stock Tracking System (AST) is a Web-based application for keeping track of stocks. It features a portfolio with dividend tracking, a worksheet to keep track of prospects, a stock comparison utility, and a search engine for the stock market based heavily on technical analysis. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The chart engine was rewritten to return images. |
The Daily Bubble
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NSA Update: Did the Wiretaps Have Oversight? (Dec 21 2005 18:54 GMT) - Bush assures us that members of Congress were briefed on the program. But, as Washington Post writer William Arkin says, "We tell you, tie your hands, and tape your mouth. Sounds more like S&M than Congressional oversight. |
PoliWatch News
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Hadley downplays Iraq early returns (Dec 21 2005 18:54 GMT) - The Washington Times: World: "National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley warned yesterday against reading too much into the early returns from Iraq's elections, as the Sunni Arab minority sharpened complaints that the vote last week was flawed." |
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
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Tennessee Senate Race is Tight (Dec 21 2005 18:54 GMT) - The race to replace Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) "is shaping up to be very competitive," according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll. Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN), "the likely nominee of the Democrats, holds a modest lead over one potential Republican candidate while trailing two others by even smaller amounts." Ford leads Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker (R), 42% to 26%. |
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