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Live@5: Serial killer's items auctioned
Stockwell Day and Corrections Canada are investigating to see how personal items of notorious serial killer Clifford Robert Olson came to be offered on an Internet auction site.
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Computer's down, some get free hotel rooms
OSLO, Norway, July 28 (UPI) -- An Oslo, Norway, hotel chain with locations stretching across Scandinavia said some guests received free rooms and services due to a computer error.
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China Party pundit spies battle outside Games arena
Source: Reuters By Chris Buckley BEIJING, July 29 (Reuters) - China has cast its Olympic Games as the crowning act in a year of patriotic bonding, and yet Sima Nan -- television pundit, blogger and ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 17th Mar 2007 00:26 UTC
During my 8 years of Linux on and off usage I have tried more distros than I have chocolate bars. Each one of my previous encounters meant that I had to spend at least 2 days configuring before I have a desktop that I was somewhat comfortable with.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Sep 2005 16:10 UTC
Screenshots of Office 12 have been published . You'll be amazed (for better or worse, your call). "As you can see, Microsoft is trying to do away with the 'legacy' menu bar. In newer Vista builds the menu bar is turned off by default (although it can be reactivated temporarily by pressing alt).
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Police dismiss reports of 'no evidence of sodomy'
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have dismissed reports on the Internet that a private hospital doctor had not found any medical evidence of sodomy on Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's accuser as another attempt to sabotage police investigations.
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Bookstores, ISPs ask to be part of lawsuit
After being dismissed as plaintiffs last year from a lawsuit claiming the Utah Harmful to Minors Act will unfairly subject them to prosecution, a number of local bookstores and Internet providers are trying to get back on the case.
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Riveted in Ridgewood
Cinematreasures.org is a world unto itself. On the web site’s numerous message boards, cinema aficionados meet, mingle, and argue the merits of historic theaters long-ago turned into a Starbucks or a CVS.
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Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search
Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. She believes her latest invention is even more valuable _ only this time it's not for sale. Patterson...
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Suspect allegedly had 30,000 porn images of kids
Police have searched the home of a Chandler man accused of taking lewd photos in Gilbert, Mesa and the Tolleson areas and say they've found more than 30,000 pornographic images of children and teens stored on his computer.
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Pausch's Talk Is Legacy To Children
It was not really complicated.Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, stood up last Sept. 18 and gave a talk to about 400 students, faculty and friends about some life lessons he'd learned.
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Marsh Creek group's Web site working after hacker strikes
A hacker's work took the Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed's Web site down in mid-July, just as the nonprofit is seeking hundreds of volunteers for its September creek cleanup. Now organizers hope the error didn't deter would-be volunteers
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Assemblyman linked to porn case resigns
New Jersey Assemblyman Neil Cohen turned in a letter of resignation Monday after authorities linked his computer to a printed picture of a naked girl.Cohen, D-Union, 57, has not been charged in the case, but authorities seized his work computer last week and he volunteered to undergo psychiatric treatment, the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger reported Monday.Please accept this letter as my formal ...
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Oracle touts proof SAP stole software
The Oracle headquarters is seen in Redwood Shores, California. Business software giant Oracle claimed Monday that it has new proof that its German rival SAP looted its software libraries for competitive advantage.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Dec 2005 19:30 UTC
The Open Source Development Labs has voiced cautious optimism that its latest initiative could finally herald a mass-market for Linux on the desktop.
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Gay American war hero with Purple Heart who didn't tell unless asked
In life, Major Alan G Rogers was an American patriot, committed to the US Army in which he had served for 18 of his 40 years. His death, from a roadside bomb, which took the number of American losses in Iraq to more than 4,000 this year, robbed the service of an outstanding military intelligence officer and deprived his friends of someone they all described as a great listener and a profoundly ...
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Gammons On Manny
186387. Unfortunately, my computer skills are not good enough to put in a link to the article, but Peter Gammons just savaged Manny Ramirez in his column on ESPN.com. Since we all know Gammons, we can assume it comes directly from Red Sox management.
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Ocean County clerk distressed by voter registration site
Ocean County Clerk Carl W. Block issued a public warning today about what he described as an online "scam" to register new voters for a fee of $9.95.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Nov 2006 19:36 UTC
"eWEEK Labs has been testing Microsoft Windows Vista builds for more than three years, and our evaluation of the final code shows that the new operating system is a significant improvement over its predecessor , Windows XP. What's more, with a raft of subsystem and driver model improvements, Microsoft has laid out in Vista a solid foundation for stability and usability gains in future Windows ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Aug 2005 17:44 UTC
Paul Thurrot (there he is again) compares Vista Beta 1 to Tiger : "For Windows enthusiasts, Windows Vista Beta 1 is a much-needed demonstration that Microsoft can still churn out valuable Windows releases, after years of doubt.
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Illinois tops list of most spammed state
A study by web security company MessageLabs has shown that Illinois residents get more spam than any other US state. The study analysed spam traffic on a state by state basis and found 92.1 per cent of all email to addresses in Illinois was made up of spam.
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EU greenlights HP/EDS deal
The European Commission has given the green light for HP's acquisition of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) to go forward. The company will have to win the approval of shareholders in its attempt to acquire the outsourcing specialist for upwards of $13.9bn.
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World’s cheapest laptop goes on sale
A Taiwanese manufacturer is selling what is possibly the world’s cheapest laptop. The NPX-9000 is selling for $130, although it is only being sold in batches of 100.
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CONSUMER PROTECTION You can stop identity theft by taking precautions
In this week's installment of Consumer Protection, Attorney General Alicia Limtiaco discusses how identity thieves have posed as different bank representatives and Internet service providers to defraud people. She also gives tips on how you can protect yourself from identity theft.
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Al-Qaida-linked group targets Olympics
A video has been posted on the Internet from the Turkistan Islamic Party threatening the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. As reported by G2 in early March, Islamist elements affiliated with al-Qaida have had this summer's Olympics games in Beijing in the crosshairs for some time.
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