Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 8:39:48 PM CEST
Profits from piracy
Evidence is mounting that cracking down on software copyright infringement may not be good for business. Case study: Microsoft in China.
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 8:05:59 PM CEST
Odigo says workers were warned of attack
Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 8:03:06 PM CEST
Software pioneer Bob Wallace Microsoft's ninth employee dies
Bob Wallace, a pioneer in Seattle's early software community and Microsoft's ninth employee, died unexpectedly at his home Friday in San Rafael, Calif..
¬><a href="seattletimes.nwsource.com "target="_blank"> SEATTLE TIMES ¬> The New York Times
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 7:20:45 PM CEST
Worlds most secure cryptographic algorithim hax0red
Distributed Team Collaborates to Solve Secret-Key Challenge.RSA Laboratories, the research center of RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS), the most trusted name in e-security®, today announced that a coordinated team of computer programmers and enthusiasts, known as distributed.net, has solved the RC5-64 Secret-Key Challenge. The distributed.net team solved the challenge in approximately four years, using 331,252 volunteers and their machines. Distributed.net receives a cash prize of $10,000 for solving the challenge.
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 5:35:43 PM CEST
Firefighters who stole firetruck and took it to a Rolling Stones concert have been charged with "frolicking."
Some Pennsylvania volunteer firefighters are in trouble after some racy photos were published. The photos show the Upper Darby firefighters aboard a ladder truck at a Rolling Stones concert, along with a woman displaying her thong underwear. Upper Darby Township has launched an internal investigation, said Thomas Judge Jr., the township's chief administrative officer.
``We are extremely disappointed,'' he said.
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 5:20:57 PM CEST
TRUTH OR D.A.R.E.
The father whose own son turned him in for growing pot in his garage goes on the record for the first time about his son, his arrest, his drug use, and his treatment at the hands of the media.
When Aaron Palmer was arrested outside his Covington, Washington, home on May 7 for growing pot in his garage, he didn't suspect that his own 17-year-old son, Trever Palmer, was the one who called the police. A single father raising three children--17-year-old Trever, 15-year-old daughter Ashley, and a seven-year-old son--Palmer, a computer programmer, had been smoking pot most of his adult life.
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 3:58:30 PM CEST
"Krawuzi Kapuzi" oder ein "Das Beste iiist ..."
45 Jahre TV-Star
"Seid Ihr alle da?"
Der Kasperl steht auch für ein Stück heimischer Kulturgeschichte: Bereits 1953 fragte der österreichische Rundfunk, damals noch als RAWAG, bei den Gründern der Urania-Puppenbühne, Hans und Marianne Kraus, an, ob sie an der Sendereihe "Kasperl im Funkhaus" mitwirken wollten.
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 3:46:21 PM CEST
Pocket-Sized RC Cars Hit U.S. Soil
The ZipZaps Starter Kit comes with the Ford SVT Mustang Cobra, Porsche 911 Turbo, Honda Civic or Chrysler PT Cruiser body top and all the parts needed to zip the car together, the company said. The battery charges in less than a minute, and lasts between eight to twenty minutes, a company spokeswoman said.
¬> ExtremeTech
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 3:39:38 PM CEST
Ecstasy Produced for 'Riot Control' in South Africa
According to Reuters, on June 9 1998 a fomer South African government scientist told South Africa's Truth Commission that in the final days of apartheid the government ordered its chemists to make one tonne of ecstasy, for 'riot control'.
¬> ectasy.org
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 3:32:16 PM CEST
M400 Skycar
Using a principle similar to that of the British Harrier jump jet, the Moller Skycar volantor incorporates a patented thrust deflection vane system that redirects thrust, enabling it to hover or to takeoff and land vertically from almost any surface. This capability plus the added safety of ducted fans makes it ideal for a wide variety of commercial and military applications. These include private and charter air travel, express delivery, news gathering, border patrol, police and fire work, and search and rescue, to name just a few.
¬> TESTING VIDEOS
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 3:28:52 PM CEST
Massive post-war rise in production of Afghan opium
Britain is expected to be hit by a flood of heroin after a gigantic increase in the production of opium in Afghanistan, the United Nations will warn today. A UN survey estimates the farmers will grow 2,700 tons of opium this year compared with 185 tons in 2001, a 1,400 per cent jump.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 26, 2002 at 2:47:22 PM CEST
Cannabis auf der Schwelle zum legalen Rauschmittel?
Der Gebrauch von Cannabis kann heute nicht mehr als eine Angelegenheit randständiger Drogenkonsumentinnen und -konsumenten betrachtet werden. Dies zeigt die aktuelle, im November 2000 im Auftrag der Schweizerischen Fachstelle für Alkohol- und andere Drogenprobleme (SFA) durchgeführte Repräsentativbefragung zum Phänomen "Cannabis" ganz eindeutig.
<a href="www.hanfmedien.com"target="blank"> ¬> Hier gehts zur Geschichte
other guy same view ¬> Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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