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Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
PHOENIX — A former student shot three people Thursday in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arrested nearby.
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Trooper arrested in Net sting
A state trooper was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of sexual exploitation of a child after Fort Lupton police said he used the Internet to send graphic sexual pictures of himself to a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
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The manual for despots
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Robert Gabriel Mugabe and Morgan Richard Tsvangirai held hands.
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The Fives: Cute little babies, a church youth group under fire and high speed chases
For many, the midst of summer is vacation time. But in the world of online news, at least here at the Rapid City Journal, it is the busiest time of year.
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The extension of daylight-saving time by a month in the United States is causing enormous grief for some IT administrators running Microsoft software, as many of the software programs running on their users' systems need to be individually patched to reflect the change.
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Just weeks after releasing Windows Vista Beta 1, Microsoft has shifted our paradigms again, unveiling a preview of beta 2 at the TechEd 2005 developer conference.
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Burlington student blogger plans libel lawsuit
BURLINGTON — A lawyer for a high school student who brought a free speech lawsuit against her school system last year said he now plans to file a libel lawsuit against the principal.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Aug 2005 17:26 UTC
For off Windows XP machines offer several options - including hibernate, stand by and shut down. However, many users don't know the difference. What's worse, however, is that applications and drivers can veto a user's decision to hibernate or similar.
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Filmmakers take another shot at short film 'Lords'
EL PASO -- A couple of guys get their hands on some editing software before it goes on the market and decide to check it out by making a short film about warring border drug families.
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Future of information security governance
Updated: 26 Jul 2008 SINGAPORE, JULY 18, 2008— Managing information security governance in the traditional sense is no longer sufficient as cyber threats evolve. Such was the message echoed during Oracle’s security symposium, where key speakers challenged long-standing notions of data protection.
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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Thu 24th Jul 2008 18:01 UTC, submitted by Ward D
Mac Antivirus developer Intego might have stumbled across an OS X specific virus being offered for auction that targets a previously unknown ZIP archive vulnerability.
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Professor fought cancer with optimism
Computer scientist's inspirational talks about battling cancer won worldwide acclaim.
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GM center to speed up R&D
PONTIAC, Mich. -- General Motors Corp. says it's turning to advanced math and simulators to chop 40 percent off the development time for vehicle power systems at its new $463 million powertrain development center.
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'Fight Club' unearths more about dinosaurs
They struggled to survive 70 million years ago. Now computer-generated animation gives new life to some of the most combative prehistoric creatures. History's new "Jurassic Fight Club" offers a fresh perspective on familiar and lesser-known dinosaurs. Airing Tuesdays through Oct. 14, the series taps experts and sophisticated scientific research to piece together the ancient events behind ...
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Ali Lohan out to prove her family is normal
There are "Mean Girls,” and then there are mean girls. Such as two of Ali Lohan's former classmates, who made a catty video about her and then posted it on the Internet. Ali, 14, and a budding musician, calls herself a "nice girl, who wants to be friends with everybody.” You just don't want to mess with the Lohans, she says, because then there may be trouble. The younger sister of You-Know-Who ...
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University of Texas regents uphold professor's firing
SAN ANTONIO -- University of Texas regents upheld the firing of a tenured professor at University of Texas at San Antonio accused of accessing pornography on his work computer.
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Hoping to lure younger visitors, Itasca State Park gives wireless Internet a try
PARK RAPIDS, Minn. (AP) - With attendance slumping among younger adults, Itasca State Park has added wireless Internet to lure more visitors.
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Shooting victim punched gunman before he fired
PHOENIX — Police in Phoenix say one of three people wounded in a computer lab at a community college had punched the gunman in the face before he opened fire. Police say 19-year-old Isaac Smith had beaten the suspect, Rodney Smith, in a fistfight in December. Detective Reuben [...]
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FCC poised to punish Comcast for traffic blocking
Fri, Jul 25, 2008 (10:57 p.m.) A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.
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"Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been announced ! We accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of nearly 6,200 applications. All the mentoring organizations that will participate in Google Summer of Code 2007 are listed.
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Convicted predator refused furlough
A 50-year-old Pacifica man convicted of propositioning a 15-year-old girl online will serve his six-month sentence in one stretch at the county jail after a judge refused his request to serve the time on 60 three-day weekends instead.
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Mays did not snub Rangers’ Hamilton
An ill-timed camera shot has created a buzz in some Internet circles that Rangers center fielder Josh Hamilton was snubbed by baseball legend Willie Mays during introductions before the All-Star Game on July 15.
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Attorney general sets up office to fight sex abuse
Florida's attorney general has completed a planned expansion of his CyberCrime Unit by opening an office in Milton.
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Internet censorship tightens in China ahead of Olympics
Shanghai, July 25 - China will tighten its control over the Internet as the Olympic Games approach by ordering Chinese Web sites to censor certain content, Interfax sources with several online community and blogging platforms said this week.
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Done with Yahoo: Microsoft CEO
REDMOND, Washington: Chief executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended Microsoft Corp’s need to make heavy investments in its Internet businesses but said the company was “done,” for now, with pursuing Yahoo.
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