Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 11:52:46 PM CET
Police:
PDA's don't lie
People are remarkably truthful on their personal digital devices -- investigators said
The Sony Clie was as good a smoking gun as investigators could get in a white-collar crime.
Files: 1 the names of more than 20 victims 2 used the digital camera to take pictures of his partners in crime
phone: It was hard for Torres to deny the Clie was his, the police said, given that he had entered his parents' phone numbers under "Dad" and "Mom." Torres is being held in jail on $1 million bail.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 11:34:17 PM CET
Israeli Coalition Collapses; Elections Possible
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's national unity coalition collapsed Wednesday when his Labor partners resigned in a row over funding for Jewish settlements and paved the way for possible early elections. Labor party ministers, including Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, quit the government after last-ditch talks to avert the break-up failed.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 11:24:35 PM CET
Scientists Find Possible Dawn-Of-Time Star
A group of scientists has discovered a distant star that could date back to the beginning of the Universe. The giant star, HE0107-5240, is a galactic rarity because it is virtually metal-free unlike the other, more modern known stars, they wrote in the science journal Nature.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 11:20:26 PM CET
Researchers 'look inside' antimatter
European scientists have carried out the first experiments on antimatter. Researchers in Geneva, Switzerland, have been able to trap and control anti-hydrogen atoms in a chamber at a sufficiently low temperature to begin studying their physics in detail.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 10:47:54 PM CET
Man leaves treehouse after 12 years
Besh Serdahely, the self-appointed guardian of the San Mateo County mountain's lupines, owls and mission blue butterflies, asked rangers Tuesday to help him dismantle his home of 12 years from its carefully crafted niche in a huge coastal oak.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 10:24:19 PM CET
Intelligent life might be more likely in a Universe in flux
Ever since Copernicus put the Sun, rather than Earth, at the centre of the Universe, scientists and philosophers have suspected that there's nothing special about our cosmic time and place. But two physicists now suggest otherwise.
Galileo's Siderius Nuncius, 1610
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 10:18:20 PM CET
Rolling Stone Magazine's anti-RIAA ad
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 10:07:43 PM CET
Teen used fake gun to get porn tapes
Police say a Maine ninth-grader tried to get some X-rated videos with a fake gun. Now, authorities in Waterboro are deciding how to proceed in the case of the 14-year-old boy.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:35:09 PM CET
Nintendo fined for price fixing
Nintendo has been fined 149m euros (£92.1m) by the European Commission for trying to rig the computer game market. The firm and seven distributors have been found guilty by commission anti-trust officials of attempting to keep prices artificially high in some EU states between 1991 and 1998.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:33:05 PM CET
Corporate Green
Police See Pot Growing Turning Into a Big Business
It wasn't just the size of the operation — some 6,000 plants on three separate plots within a 2-square-mile area — but that the people who worked there had built shacks where they slept and cooked, had lugged in workout equipment and built an elaborate, sophisticated irrigation and misting system to keep the plants growing and blossoming.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:27:40 PM CET
Flashback to the 70's
Do The Hustle.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:24:39 PM CET
Hollywood's version of Napster
DVDXCopy released next week
St. Louis-based 321 Studios, developer of DVD X Copy, plans to make the software available for download starting Monday at its site, dvdxcopy.com, for $100.
Hollywood insisted on having copy protection built into DVDs from the format's formative days. The only test was in 1999, when a Norwegian teen posted a program to get around the encryption. The Motion Picture Association of America successfully sued to have it removed from the Internet.
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