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Picture posted on Sen. Kevin Bryant's Web site is source of satire
Cocklebur honors the dying art of satire.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 11th Jan 2006 18:06 UTC
"Today Apple announced the MacBook Pro. It has quite a few changes compared to the previous PowerBook. For one, it uses an Intel Core Duo (formally known as Yonah) chip. This is a dual core processor and no, unlike what Steve Jobs stated, this does not have two processors.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Mar 2007 22:16 UTC
Almost two years ago, the FSF started work on the first update of the GNU GPL in over a decade. A last-minute hitch, though, is keeping the license from appearing . According to Peter Brown, the FSF's executive director, "We continue to work on the details of the GPLv3 as it relates to the situation presented by the Novell and Microsoft deal.
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FCC orders Comcast to stop file sharing blocking
Comcast Corp., the largest cable-television provider, was ordered by the Federal Communications Commission to stop blocking some customers from sharing videos and other files online.
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Yahoo board re-elected after blasting by shareholders
SAN JOSE -- Yahoo executives were resoundingly re-elected Friday after being berated by shareholders over failed takeover talks with Microsoft and for exposing Internet dissidents to Chinese officials.
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Border Agents May Now Seize Electronic Devices
A warning if you are planning on crossing the border into Canada. You may want to think twice about taking your laptop, cell phone or any other electronic device. As FOX 2's Taryn Asher explains, they could be taken away from you.
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Dell Tries to Trademark 'cloud Computing'
Dell is trying to trademark the term 'cloud computing'.
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US Border Agency Says It Can Seize Laptops
U.S. agents now have the authority to seize and retain laptops indefinitely, according to a new policy detailed in documents...
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FBI: Flash Drive Used to Steal Countrywide Data
Two men were arrested for their alleged roles in stealing and selling personal customer information from Countrywide.
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Former Delphi Workers Data Missing
A state official says a computer flash drive with Social Security numbers and other personal information for 2,600 former Dayton-area Delphi Corp. workers is missing.
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Test Selling "Last Mile" Fiber to Homeowners Under Way in Canada
Ars Technica is covering an interesting pilot program taking place in Ottawa, CA. 400 homes are being outfitted with fiber optic cables, however, the "last mile" of fiber is going to be sold outright to the homeowners rather than providing internet at a monthly fee. "In the future, it could become commonplace for homes to come with 'tails'. These customer-owned, fiber-optic connections would ...
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Recent Original Stories
"I am faced with a challenge: I need to find a Linux distribution that is both small enough, efficient enough and easy enough to maintain for my laptop.
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Recent Original Stories
Since yesterday, .iso downloads for SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop/Server 10 have been available from Novell's download page . After seeking confirmation from Novell's Nat Friedman , we can confirm these are indeed the final releases.
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Larry Page's $7 million manse [Real Estate]
Eager to expose Google's threats to our privacy, the National Legal & Policy Center proved so inept at technology that it ended up exposing Google cofounder Larry Page's street address in a publicity... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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And then there were none [Caption Contest]
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.How many ex-Yahoo managers does it take to reproduce a classic Beatles album cover? From left to right: Salim Ismail, Chad... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Bill "Bubba" Clinton breaks Google party plane [Google]
Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin graciously lent their plush Boeing 767, otherwise known as the Google party plane (photographed in Newark last week), to former president Bill Clinton for a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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"Nonguaranteed" [Valleyspeak]
When she's not boring shareholders silly, Yahoo president Sue Decker has been trying to beguile advertisers to buy a new form of online advertising: "nonguaranteed" ads. Her campaign started in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Windows Mobile And Symbian S60 Get Google Maps Upgrade With Transit Info [Google Maps]
Windows Mobile and S60 users get an update to Google Maps this week that includes public transit stops as well as user star ratings for local businesses. The free upgrade shows not just where stops...
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Firefox use growing, Internet Explorer slipping [Browser Wars]
Only four years after its launch, Mozilla's Google-milking cash cow Web browser, Firefox, is now approaching 20 percent market share, reports NetApplications, a website-statistics provider. Just two... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Microsoft's comment on Yahoo, the 17-word version [Great Moments In Pr]
We didn't even have to condense the latest statement Waggener Edstrom uberflack Frank Shaw sent on Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock's comments at today's shareholder meeting about Microsoft's botched... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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If the first prize is getting to stay at Yahoo, what was the second prize? [Jerry Yang]
In the banana-republic politics of America's public companies, anything less than a 99 percent "yes" vote is somewhat embarrassing. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang should not congratulate himself on the result... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Yahoo shareholders not the only ones pissed at the San Jose Fairmont [Censorship]
Over at Jerry Yang's shareholder snoozefest today, Chinese political protesters showed up outside the hotel lobby. They set up exhibits shaming Yahoo for handing over bloggers' Yahoo Mail accounts to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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iMac Thinks It's a Laptop Inside Reinda Leather Transport Bag [Bags]
When the Feds are at the door and it's time to rip and run, what better way for the style- and safety-conscious hacker to make a protected getaway than with this all-leather handmade iMac Transport...
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Anheuser-Busch says data loss affects employees
Anheuser-Busch says several laptops containing personal information for current and former employees are missing. The St. Louis-based brewer won't say how many people are affected or when the loss occurred. It said in a statement Friday that it has been...
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"Intel was surprisingly talkative when it came to future technologies and products this year. As a result, most of the technical audience is up to date regarding the upcoming micro architecture based on the 65 nm Merom design.
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