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In e-mail, Islamic group claims India blasts
AHMADABAD, India (AP) — An obscure Islamic group claimed responsibility for a series of synchronized explosions that killed at least 45 people in western India, warning of "the terror of Death" in an e-mail sent to several television stations minutes before the blasts.
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Facebook fights global attack of its clone rivals
MOSCOW - In its bid to go global, Facebook is facing off against itself. Clones of the wunderkind social-networking Web site - some of which resemble Facebook right down to color, font and layout - have popped up in local languages around the world. These competitor sites offer identical core services, letting users post pictures, make groups and choose their friends.
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Let me tell you a few things
I’m not much for filling out questionnaires on the internet or introducing myself through a personality profile. However, I got something sent to me this week called “Get to Know Me.” Here are some of the questions and answers I supplied.
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China Has 253 Million Users - Largest in the World
China has now 253 million internet users according to the latest report of the China Internet Network Information Centre (The CNNIC is a government agency). That’s 43 million users more than the last report released at the end of last year and it also makes it the world leader in Internet users. 253 million internet users [...]
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Labour & Employment
The headlines proclaiming the end of employer monitoring have vastly overstated the impact on the workplace of the Ninth Circuit's ruling in Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Company . To be sure, the case holds that the Stored Communications Act prohibits third-party service providers, such as text message services and Internet service providers, from disclosing stored electronic communications ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 17th Dec 2005 16:28 UTC, submitted by supergeek
You would like to install Linux/BSD but the Windows partition is taking up your whole hard disk space and you don't want to pay money for commercial solutions?
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Intellectual Property
The author examines recent cases holding that e-mail communications with an attorney or spouse were not privileged because they were sent from a work-issued computer or e-mail account and also examines the prior law addressing these issues.
Mondaq |
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Pressure Builds Against Online Fight Videos
Lawmakers and parents want fight videos pulled from YouTube.
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Recent Original Stories
After an extensive development period, the Syllable project has released Syllable Desktop 0.6.5 with improvements all over. As always there are bug fixes, most notably in USB and the network stack, leading to large reliability and performance improvements.
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by andrewg (2.76) on Fri 9th Feb 2007 20:50 UTC
Tried Mac OSX when it was 10.0. Terribly slow almost unusable. Bought a powerbook with 10.3 on it then upgraded to 10.4. Used it for about 9 months ended switching back to Windows. There are some nice things but at the end of the day I am far more productive in Windows.
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Screen time leads to kids’ idleness
It wasn’t all that long ago pediatricians were concerned with the correlation between video games and violence and asked children which games they played. Now, the focus has shifted a bit, according to Thomas Selva, a University of Missouri professor of clinical child health. Today, pediatricians want to know how long the children they treat sit in front of a television or computer.
Columbia Daily Tribune |
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Opening Quantum Computing To the Public
director_mr writes "Tom's Hardware is running a story with an interesting description of a 28-qubit quantum computer that was developed by D-Wave Systems. They intend to open up use of their quantum computer to the public. It is particularly good at pattern recognition, it operates at 10 milliKelvin, and it is shielded to limit electromagnetic interference to one nanotesla in three dimensions ...
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Finnish group uses wiki model for electric car
Ideas for conversion of gas-fuelled vehicles fed to discussion boards and email lists
The Globe and Mail |
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Customer demand adds Linux to industrial computer line
Glacier Computer is offering two Linux distributions as options on its Everest PCs. The company announced this month it is offering customers a choice of IGEL Linux or Fedora Linux distributions.
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5 missing Hawaii foster children found
Five children previously listed on the Department of Human Services (DHS) Missing Children Web site were reported found this past week, department officials said.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 16th Oct 2005 10:28 UTC
A few weeks ago an "unofficial" preview release of windows XP SP3 hit the web . Now, Microsoft has responded and warned users of this preview package.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Apr 2006 14:20 UTC
Microsoft's Windows Vista will run on just about any PC available today, but it will only show its true colors on about half of them , according to a new report from Gartner.
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India Detains 30 In Bombings That Killed 45
AHMADABAD, India -- Authorities scoured a western Indian city Sunday for those behind a series of bombings that killed at least 45 people, reportedly rounding up more than two dozen residents. It was the second series of blasts in India in two days.
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IOCELL contents phone logs conversations, sends 'em around the web
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Not quite sure why, but we get this whole Get Smart vibe from this thing. IOCELL's contents phone would probably be more suited for a highly covert spy agency rather than your grandmother's home, but we suppose even granny could appreciate the built-in hard drive that logs conversations, plays 'em back and makes remembering things that much easier. ...
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Creating Useful Directions for Solo Travel
There are a slew of useful internet mapping sites that make your life easier in getting directions from point A to point B (like airport to hotel), but a little extra work can make your driving easier - and safer.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Aug 2007 18:15 UTC
Openbox 3.4.4 has been released . "Openbox is a minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. Openbox lets you bring the latest applications outside of a full desktop environment.
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Finnish group uses wiki model for electric car
HELSINKI — After the wikipedia, the wikicar. “eCars - Now!” is a Finnish Internet community seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-out due this year.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Aug 2006 16:47 UTC, submitted by anon
"Welcome to GetWebKit , the home of the first and only WebKit based Windows web browser. Featuring the excellent rendering engine used in popular Macintosh web browsers Safari and Shiira, GetWebKit offers a free, powerful, and open-source internet experience."
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Seminars offered by Sen. Bivins
DIXON - Internet safety, consumer fraud protection and saving money on your phone bill are the topics of four free seminars being offered Aug. 4, 6 and 13 and Sept. 8 by state Sen. Tim Bivins, R-Dixon.
SaukValley.com |
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Experts on reading wonder: Is the Internet friend or foe?
Nadia Konyk spends six hours a day on the computer in her suburban Cleveland home. Children like her lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age.
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