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Filet, lingerie, Web dates -- with your tax dollars
Federal employees charged millions of dollars for Internet dating, tailor-made suits, lingerie, lavish dinners and other questionable expenses to their government credit cards during a 15-month period, congressional auditors say.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 26th Nov 2007 10:16 UTC
The creator of Linux is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of interest in the area.
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CD-ROM sized board targets x86 storage servers
— Apr. 01, 2008 — Via has announced a motherboard with an unusual 7.5 x 5.6 inch footprint, matching that of a standard optical disk drive. The NAS 7800 runs Windows CE or Windows XP Embedded on a 1.5GHz C7 processor, and targets storage devices with up to eight SATA drives. ...
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Kohjinsha's SR pivots into a tablet configuration
Like other UMPCs such as the HTC Shift , the SR uses Intel's 800MHz, Pentium M-based A110 processor, along with the "GU" version of the company's 945 Express Chipset laptop northbridge, and a "u" version of its ICH7 I/O Controller Hub laptop southbridge.
WindowsForDevices |
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SEO Being Trademarked?
It seems the world we live in has recently been relocated to the 'Twilight Zone'. The reason being, that recently a man named Jason Gambert is trying to register 'SEO' as a trademark . The most shocking point in this bizarre event is that he has managed to get all the way to the publication stage of the registration process. read more
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Indian origin researcher one step closer to realising quantum computers
Washington, April 9 : A researcher of Indian origin at AT&T says that his group has reached one step closer to realizing fully-fledged quantum computers, a technology that villains in the film 'Transformers' used to break into the US Army's secure files in just 10 seconds flat.
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Rosetta Stone course at Benson library
The language learning software, Rosetta Stone, is available free online with a Benson Library card. Languages available through the library access include English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Greek and Italian.
Benson News-Sun |
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RSA 2008: malware expert considers future of cybercrime
What keeps a world expert in malware awake at night?
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Caribou man gets 17 1/2 years for share child porn collection
A 29-year-old Caribou man who pleaded guilty to sharing his child pornography collection on the Internet has been handed a 17 1/2-year prison sentence.
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Opening that closet door
How to deal with gay teens... By Dan Savage.I'm in my final year of high school and I decided to come out as a lesbian -- a foolish move as I live in a small town not exactly brimming with tolerant people. In the beginning, I could cope, but it just isn't getting better. I have to park two streets away so people don't write shit on my car, someone's hacked my user account and deleted important ...
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Norrkross Movie 1.2 Adds Volume Keyframing
Norrkross Software announced the immediate availability of Norrkross Movie 1.2 on Wednesday. The updated version of the video editing application added volume keyframing along with Quick Look and Spotlight support for Mac OS X 10.5
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AT&T Plans to Invest Nearly $200 Million in Texas Wireless Network in 2008
SAN ANTONIO , April 9, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T ), the world's largest communications company, today announced a planned investment of nearly $200 million in the Texas wireless network in 2008. This will bring AT&T's three-year investment in the state to more than $700 million , further demonstrating AT&T's commitment to provide Texans with a stronger, expanded network ...
The San Francisco Examiner |
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New Grid Could Make Internet Obsolete
The Internet might soon be a thing of the past. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement.
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Portrait Professional headed to Macs
Anthropics Technology has announced that Portrait Professional, a tool currently only available for Windows, is at last being ported to Mac systems. The software is intended mainly for professional photographers or graphic designers, by addressing common problems in the appearance of models. Using sliders, editors can remove blemishes, grease and...
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Desktop transporter unlimited pack available
Coeur d’Alene (Idaho, USA), April 9, 2008 – DEVONtechnologies, LLC presents a world-wide license for its remote desktop solution Desktop Transporter for US 199.95.
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Some athletes say amenities housed in new academic center for student athletes will help impress and attract potential ...
The three-story glass building that will soon replace the athletic department's aging academic learning services center for student athletes will be a state of the art facility - brimming with at least two dozen committed staff and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of new computer equipment.
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GAO: Internet dating among inappropriate government card purchases
Brooks Brothers’ suits, iPods, Internet dating and mortgage payments aren’t exactly government requirements, but federal employees managed to charge them to government purchase cards and get away with it, the Government Accountability Office has found.
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Creating Quantum Computers Using Entangled Photons In Optical Fibers Getting Closer
Computer scientists are one step closer to realizing distributed quantum computing. They recently demonstrated one of the basic building blocks for distributed quantum computing using entangled photons generated in optical fibers.
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Millions wasted on government cards
Federal employees charged Internet dating, tailor-made suits, lingerie, lavish dinners and other questionable expenses to their government credit cards over a 15-month period, auditors say.
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7 Days
Some residents object to the city’s plan for Wi-Fi. But they’re OK with the city distributing cups and strings so residents can make their own telephones.
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Why Is The Internet Sometimes So Slow? Internet 'Black Holes' May Be To Blame
A surprisingly large fraction of Web traffic gets sucked into temporary black holes, in which information between two computers disappears en route. A new online observatory monitors Internet black holes so network administrators -- and frustrated Web users -- can diagnose problems in real time.
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EU report urges search data deletion
A European Union privacy panel wants Internet search engine providers like Google and Yahoo to delete data taken from users after six months, even when they operate abroad. The new report from the EU-funded privacy watchdog recommended that search engines follow European data protection rules regardless of their headquarters' location. Although the watchdog has no policy powers, its report could ...
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Yongsan tripped up by Ez Guide collapse
Yongsan, once a mecca for building personal computers, is losing ground. Ez Guide, located in Yongsan Electronics Market, went out of business on Feb. 25 after its president, Lee Sung-kwang, disappeared, leaving behind losses estimated around 6 billion won ($6.2 million).
JoongAng Daily |
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Computers taught to tell 'Am I hot or not' in new AI study
"Not tonight darlin', I'm defragging my hard drive." That will be what your computer says to you soon when it deems you too ugly to touch its keys.
Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Stolen laptops scream with alarm
Thanks to USB gadget that also locks data when disturbed.
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