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A story line with bite
(This classic Dave Barry column was originally published July 6, 2003.)People always ask me: ''Is it hard to be a professional writer like you and Joyce Carol Oates?'' Yes. Very hard. Here is a true example of the kind of difficulties we face: The other day, I was in sitting at my desk in my home office, doing what I do all day, which is frown at my computer screen and wrestle with professional ...
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NCI Scientists Visualize Gene Regulation in Living Cells
A research team led by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has applied advanced imaging methods and computer simulations to be able to glance at the regulation of a cancer-related gene in a living cell.
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Wed 17th Aug 2005 15:52 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The internet is full of hosts running unpatched versions of Windows. Should Microsoft release patching worms to fix every vulnerable system on the Internet in a matter of minutes?
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Teen Charged With Soliciting Sex From 13-Year-Old
LAFAYETTE, La. -- A Lafayette teenager has been arrested and accused of using a cell phone to solicit sex from a 13-year-old. Police said Seth Micah Burch, 18, was booked Thursday on a charge of computer-aided solicitation of a minor.
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Reporter's Notebook: Bill Conroy
The TV “news” show Dateline NBC featured an interview tonight with a “respected” supervisory agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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Who's Blogging
Many people had planned to use their stimulus tax rebate checks to make consumer purchases. In February, the National Retail Federation reported that consumers plan to spend 40.6 percent of their rebate checks. Thirty-three percent of the money would be spent to pay down credit card, student loan...
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For political news, cable is now king
When the polls close in Pennsylvania Tuesday night, network television viewers will have a choice: They can watch Kristi Yamaguchi flash some cunning new moves on ABC's Dancing With The Stars, see if Sharon or Sheila gets kicked out of the house on CBS' Big Brother, or stare at old Saturday Night Live skits on NBC.
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Popular business directory searches
EDMOND — If the price of gasoline is $3.50 a gallon, Americans have no one to blame but themselves. For decades, we have demonized the people and businesses who supply our energy.
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Thursday May 22, 2008 - 12:01 EST
LONDON, England -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- BackgammonMasters Online Backgammon Operator is hosting a Backgammon FreeRoll tournament in honor of the UEFA Champions League Final tonight in Moscow.
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UK Teachers To Monitor Gang Activity Online
UK schoolteachers will learn how to identify students involved in gangs by searching computer accounts, social networks and email. Beverly Hughes, the children's minister, said, "There is evidence that, if gangs aren't growing in number then they are coming down the age range," The Guardian reported. "There is anecdotal evidence that girls are being used in particular ways that puts them at ...
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Pikom seeks to create 150 PC centres by 2010
KUALA LUMPUR: The Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (Pikom) yesterday rolled out its Projek Menguasai Aplikasi Internet dan PC (MAIN PC) with the goal of creating 150 serviced community personal computer (PC) centres by 2010.
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‘Doodle 4 Google’ winner’s sunny sketch
Sixth-grader Grace Moon beat out 16,000 entries from around the country to win the “Doodle 4 Google” contest. Her design, “Up in the Clouds,” graced the Google home page, visited by 100 million people a day.
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Red Herring Names Teradici as One of the Top New Privately Held Start-Up Companies in North America for 2008
BURNABY, British Columbia----Teradici® Corporation, the industry leader in delivering a true PC experience over standard IP networks via PC-over-IP® technology, has been named as one of the top 100 privately-held technology start-up companies by Red Herring Magazine in its annual North American competition.
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Webtech Wireless Launches the WT Personal Locator
Vancouver, BC, May 22, 2008--(T-Net)--WebTech Wireless Inc. (TSX: WEW), a leading provider of location-based and fleet Telematics services, launches the WebTech Wireless Personal Locator (WT Personal Locator™), a GPS personal tracking application designed to operate with Research In Motion’s BlackBerry® products, at Telematics Detroit, one of the mobile wireless industry’s leading tradeshows.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Oct 2005 22:08 UTC
We will try to get a GPRS internet connection using Linux-based phones as modems and route the connection to Mac OS X via Bluetooth.
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Recent Original Stories
"The amazing thing isn't that Windows beat the pants off Unix; it's that so many of the Unix companies survived until today. Linux came into the field though with two big advantages over the Unixes . The first was that it was open-source. The second advantage was it had Linus Torvalds."
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Apple looking at greeting/gift card combos?
An Apple patent application, newly published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, suggests that the company may be interested in expanding the reach of its gift cards. Most of its iTunes cards use generic images, concentrating primarily on music; future cards, however, could depict specific artists, albums, games, movies and TV shows, something ...
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Former county jailer charged with unauthorized computer access
A former Baxter County jailer was arrested and charged with unlawfully accessing the law enforcement computer system at the jail for non-law enforcement purposes.
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Operations back to normal at all Ohio BMV locations
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio's Bureau of Motor Vehicles locations returned to normal operations today after a statewide computer outage caused by defective hardware.
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Google Wants Boring Pittsburgh Lawsuit Moved To Federal Court
Google wants a lawsuit over photos of the Boring family's suburban Franklin Park home moved to Pittsburgh federal court.
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Garage sale shoppers, start your computers
The city of Topeka has made available area garage sales at a click of a button. Find out where to go on the Net to locate a sale near you.
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Linux wins big in financial trading
— May 15, 2008 — Red Hat announced that a European branch of the the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has implemented its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat Network.
Linux Devices |
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Blue Orb software turns game controller into keyboard
MAITLAND, FL –Blue Orb founder and CEO Peter McAlindon developed early signs of carpal tunnel syndrome while still in graduate school.
TechJournal South |
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EU 'Notes', Rivals Knock Microsoft Doc Compliance Pledge
Microsoft assures the European Union that it will make its file format for storing documents compatible with that of rivals. Rivals IBM, Nokia, Sun, RealNetworks and Oracle call the pledge "underwhelming" and the EU "takes note of Microsoft's announcement." Is this a case of fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice ... ?
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Random Sampler: Microsoft vs. Google, SugarCRM, Flock gets funded (?!?), Ubuntu, and more
A random sampler of interesting open source-related news on the web.
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