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- WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. argued in 1984 that an executive branch official who authorized the illegal wiretapping of US citizens without a warrant should be immune from lawsuits, papers released yesterday indicate. Read... Advertisement |
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- The US Department of Transportation's inspector general has drafted an internal memo that says the Big Dig's cost may rise by tens of millions of dollars, according to state, industry, and federal officials. Read More... Source: Boston Globe -- Front Page Advertisement |
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- The announcement yesterday that a South Korean scientist fabricated much of a landmark cloning paper has raised the stakes for scientists in Massachusetts and England who are now seen as the front-runners in the effort to clone human cells. Read... Advertisement |
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- LUANDA, Angola -- China's growing demand for energy sources and profitable construction deals is leading the world's most populous country increasingly to swoop into Africa, where it has found abundant raw materials, governments desperate for outside... Advertisement |
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- Philadelphia Police are searching for the killer wanted for the city's 374th homicide. Someone shot a 25-year-old man multiple times at 33rd and Sergeant Streets in Strawberry Mansion, just before 8 Friday night. |
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- Red-and-green elf hats were banished from one school. ''Merry Christmas" was booted from songs at another, prompting a grandfather to berate a teacher for taking the spirit out of the holidays. Read More... Source: Boston Globe -- Education Advertisement |
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- On Thursday, the last day of the semester, professor Mary Elizabeth Hooker cheerfully greeted her hematology class at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell with homemade baked goods and coffee from Dunkin' Donuts, friends said. Read More...... Advertisement |
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- It rocketed across the Internet a week ago, a startling newspaper report that agents from the US Department of Homeland Security had visited a student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth at his New Bedford home simply because he had tried... Advertisement |
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- Ben Benson’s Steakhouse Knives Sale Price - 64.00 The engraved Ben Benson’s Steakhouse knife has a beautiful handle made of rich Spanish pakka wood with a custom serration for lasting sharpness. Set of four in engraved oak gift box. |
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- There was a deadly hit and run accident on 19th Street at Hunting Park Avenue in the city's Tioga-Nicetown section Friday night. |
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- FreeGuide TV Guide is a TV guide program which grabs listings for many countries from the Internet and allows you to view them and construct a personalised guide to print out. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab listings, and requires Java 1.4 or above. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: |
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- uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors. It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: |
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- Antallet af færdselsuheld, hvor der har været spiritus involveret, er meget lavere i denne måned sammenlignet med for fem år siden. |
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- MailManager helps teams deal with large volumes of email by allocating mail to the right person, providing tools to help answer it (prioritisation, reply templates, and a knowledge base), and allowing managers to set service levels for different types of mail and report on performance against service levels and volumes received. MailManager is based on Zope which is required to use it. It is cross-platform, but most of the testing has been under Linux and Mac OS X. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: |
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- The New York Times Company to Webcast Fourth-Quarter 2005 Earnings Conference Call (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)NEW YORK—-Dec. 22, 2005–The New York Times Company announced today that its fourth-quarter earnings conference call with financial analysts will be held on Tuesday, January 24, at 11 a. |
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- Would like someone to build us a website and software that acts like ifilm.com Keywords:Web,Flash,XML / XHTML,Prototype / Model |
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- Place your bets: 2006 full of more hype?. Unstrung looks back to early this year and notes that 45% of their readers believed Wimax - a long range (70Miles theoretically, a handful practically) wireless broadband technology - would emerge as a DSL/Cable competitor this year. While 2005 turn.. |
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- Exploiting flaws in TDM-VoIP networks. It has been a long time since Phreakers gathered on BBS systems, posting long-distance accounts to 1-800 numbers; but it appears they've been making the jump to modern telephony, according to BetaDot. This generation of phreakers has found a way to .. |
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- Geist: push will lead to regulatory reform. Internet law professor Michael Geist chimes in on this two-tier Internet approach being lobbied for by the major telcos, eager to charge IP service providers and websites more for quicker access to their customers. "While prioritising websites or ap.. |
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- The . Engadget has a fun device if you're a last minute shopper: the "MetaGeek's Wi-Spy 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer" sniffs the wireless signals bouncing around your home, takes notes, and then lets you view any interference troubles you may have via a simpl.. |
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- DRM, Bit Torrent, Lawsuits. Straight off of a piece that reports the p2p population has reached an all time high, P2P website Slyck interviews the MPAA on subjects ranging from Bit Torrent to DRM. From the MPAA's mouth: "If Slyck’s recent reports about the number of people usi.. |
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- Rumblings from the Google War front.... After Google bought a billion dollar, 5% stake in AOL, they felt the need to explain the deal at the Google blog, to calm people worried about ad-overload. Meanwhile rumors are surfacing today about a counter Microsoft deal with a tier-one broadband.. |
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- . "Santa, could you bring me a new FCC? My old one's on the blink," writes an Associated Press technology beat writer. The FCC "hasn't been as focused on the interests of ordinary citizens as much as the huge-and-getting-huger media companies," he com.. |
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- Locals have fun with BellSouth & Cox lawsuits. The citizens down in Lafayette Louisiana voted to build a triple play fiber network, but haven't been able to build it yet because Cox and BellSouth have been tying the process up in court, after waging a misleading PR war against the project. Local.. |
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- $31.20, 35-40 channels, including CNN. As expected, Comcast has unveiled its "family friendly" cable channel lineup, in order to gain approval from the FCC for its Adelphia acquisition and prevent Congress from pursuing real "a la carte" pricing further. The $31.20 tier will include some.. |
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- [Blick.ch: Aktuell] - Compare up to 4 free offers. Refinance and lower your monthly payments. All credit types accepted! |
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- [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] - firmament: the sky; the heavens. |
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- Original holiday poems and a movie (A Tokyo Christmas Carol). Really jusy happy holidays! |
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- Solomon Ward partner appointed to UC Board of Regents San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News - Dec 20 3: |
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- THE GIFT OF THE MAGI (O. Henry) One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and... |
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ABIA (Dec 24 2005 12:53 GMT) - Early morning flight back home to San Jose. The America West line was considerably shorter than the rest. |
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