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Hans Reiser Leads Authorities to Wife's Body
We put this in DATB , but it merits its own post because: Oh my, God!!!! Convicted killer/open source computer programmer Hans Reiser led police to the whereabouts of his wife Nina's remains. Her body, it seems, was located somewhere "near Redwood Regional Park in the Oakland hills ... buried next to a deer trail, reports the Gate . Her body was found at around 4 p.m. today. If you recall, ...
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Gels to protect women from HIV may help men more
Gels aimed at helping women protect themselves from the AIDS virus may end up helping men as much or more, researchers predicted on Monday.
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Agent: Man accused of buying fish toxin sought hit
A man accused of buying a highly poisonous fish toxin while posing as a research doctor once solicited someone over the Internet to kill his wife in exchange for $8,000 and an AK-47 assault rifle, prosecutors said Monday.
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Whichever Screen, People Are Watching
Both the time spent in front of the television screen and in front of the computer screen continue to increase, a report found.
New York Times |
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Microsoft backs bid to oust Yahoo board
Microsoft threw its weight behind efforts to dump Yahoo's board, saying that a successful shareholder rebellion may see it renew its bid.
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Afrika : musique orchestrale
Sony Computer Entertainment nous propose de découvrir à travers cette nouvelle vidéo le Making-of de la bande son de Afrika.
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posted by Michael Katsevman on Thu 6th Nov 2003 19:33 UTC
Debian is widely considered the Linux distribution with the best package management tool, APT and one of the largest software bases (>13,000). However, the installation horror stories kept me away.
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Loan Pains Turned Site Into a Hit
The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter, a Web site, is gleefully tallying the number of lenders that run into trouble.
New York Times |
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Twitter Bounced Back! [I Toldja So]
In my last post about Twitter (supposedly my last post about Twitter ever), I rounded up a bit of the blogosphere’s dire predictions for Twitter. “Everyone’s moving to FriendFeed,” they said. “Identi.ca will kill Twitter,” they said. “Plurk will kill Twitter,” they said. I debunked these allegations by simply pointing to the numbers. According to some’s best [...]
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An expanded vocabulary, dictionary adds 100 new words
Lisa Poole/APA look at a few of the new words included in Merriam-Webster's dictionary. More than 100 words were added.Take a break from all the gloom and doom about the subprime mortgage crisis, won't you? Get dirty bombs and noroviruses...
The Plain Dealer |
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Microsoft wants to negotiate with new Yahoo board
The development gives Icahn a huge carrot to dangle before Yahoo shareholders as he wages a campaign to oust Yahoo's nine directors at the company's annual meeting Aug. 1.
The Press-Enterprise |
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Reuters Business Summary
Microsoft says willing to restart Yahoo talks NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp said on Monday it would be willing to reopen talks to buy all or part of Yahoo Inc , but only if a new Yahoo board is elected -- a big boost for financier Carl Icahn's board slate. Microsoft, which broke off months-long talks in early May to buy the Internet company for $47.5 billion, said it would ...
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posted by Rahul Gaitonde on Thu 15th Jan 2004 06:40 UTC
Around 3 weeks ago, I downloaded the 2nd beta of KDE 3.2 from their FTP site. I've been using this release every day since then.
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by ishmal (2.12) on Mon 13th Nov 2006 04:09 UTC
The article speaks of the generalities involved: proprietary vs. open, for/against software patents. But they do not talk of any specifics. Are there any detailed items in the agreement where there is contention? I'm thinking that there are not.
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Extra content for Collector's Edition Fable 2
Beyond the casual Arcade games that will arrive ahead of the full title this August, Microsoft and Lionhead today reveal their Collector's Edition plans for the eagerly awaited Fable 2 RPG.
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In a spat over royalties, the European Commission has declared war
on accepted global conventions regarding intellectual property rights. Why didn't you quote the entire passage from the article? Which is, "Pat Cox is the former President of the European Parliament. He advises Microsoft, among other companies, on EU-U.S. relations."
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Microsoft warns of new Access attack
SAN FRANCISCO, 7 JULY 2008 - Cybercriminals are exploiting a bug in software used by Microsoft's Access database programme in a new online attack, Microsoft warned Monday.
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Lenovo set to produce e-commerce PC for Intel, Alibaba
SINGAPORE, 7 JULY 2008 - Lenovo Group will manufacture a PC designed to make e-commerce easier for small and medium-sized Chinese businesses, bringing to fruition plans hatched in May by Intel and Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com.
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Agent: Man accused of buying fish toxin sought hit
Mon, Jul 7, 2008 (7:21 p.m.) A man accused of buying a highly poisonous fish toxin while posing as a research doctor once solicited someone over the Internet to kill his wife in exchange for $8,000 and an AK-47 assault rifle, prosecutors said Monday.
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Microsoft prepares for battle to oust Yahoo's board of directors
Microsoftset the stage for a full-blown battle to overthrow Yahoo's board of directors yesterday when it declared that it was interested in reopening talks to buy all or part of the internet company - but only if a new board was appointed first.
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Michael Meyer documents old Beijing districts
In his two-room house in Beijing, Michael Meyer has no heat and no indoor plumbing - but he does have high-speed Internet. "They just threw the cable over the roof," says Meyer, 36, who watches A's games on his laptop. The Minnesota native has lived for the...
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AP News Alert
Software programmer convicted of murdering estranged wife leads police to a body in Oakland.
The Fresno Bee |
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Agent: Man accused of buying fish toxin sought hit
A man accused of buying a highly poisonous fish toxin while posing as a research doctor once solicited someone over the Internet to kill his wife in exchange for $8,000 and an AK-47 assault rifle, prosecutors said Monday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Karner also said that Edward F. Bachner IV was named as the beneficiary of a $5 million life insurance policy on his wife. The testimony came at a ...
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Blogger sentenced for "extremist" post
A Russian man who described local police as "scum" in an Internet posting was given a suspended jail sentence on Monday for extremism, prompting bloggers to warn of a crackdown on free speech online.
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Risk, From a Broader Perspective
New risk charts published last month provide a broader perspective than most of the risk calculators available on the Internet.
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