Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 11:03:57 PM CET
Germans sold Iraq parts for supergun
Details of an alleged plot by Saddam Hussein's regime to acquire the means to deliver weapons of mass destruction were laid out before a German court yesterday.
Two German businessmen went on trial in Mannheim, charged with supplying Iraq with equipment for the manufacture of a giant cannon.
After reading the indictment, the prosecutor, Stephan Morweiser, told reporters that the weapon would be "capable of firing not only conventional, but also nuclear, biological and chemical weapons".
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 11:01:54 PM CET
Your Government Is Lying To You (Again) About Marijuana
A Refutation of the Drug Czar's "Open Letter to America's Prosecutors" ALLEGATION #1 "There is a serious drug problem in this country."
TRUTH America does have a serious drug problem, and our public policy needs to better address this issue with health and science-based educational programs, and by providing more accessible treatment to those who are drug-dependent. Unfortunately, the bulk of our nation’s current anti-drug efforts and priorities remain fixated on arresting and jailing drug consumers – particularly recreational marijuana smokers.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 10:55:32 PM CET
Searching in Two Directions
Yahoo goes broad, while Google sticks to its roots. Question No. 1: What's the most useful site on the Web? It's Google.com, usually the fastest and most reliable route between question and Net-based answer. I asked 65 colleagues whether they agreed: 51 told me they visited Google at least once every business day, and 13 of them reported that they had made Google the homepage on their Web browser. It's that useful.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 10:28:43 PM CET
Giant squid attacks French boat
French sailors taking part in the round-the-world Jules Verne Trophy say they have come across one of the most elusive monsters of the sea - the giant squid. Veteran yachtsman Olivier De Kersauson - who sailed from Brittany on Saturday - said that several hours into his voyage he found that a giant squid had clamped onto the hull of his boat.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 5:31:29 PM CET
Lufthansa bietet drei MBit/s-Leitung im Flugzeug
Cisco hat an Board der Testmaschine fünf Access Points der Cisco Aironet 350 Serie, ein Cisco 3640 Router und neun Cisco Catalyst 3548 XL Switches installiert
"Sachsen-Anhalt" heißt die Boing 747-400 der Lufthansa, die auf der Strecke Frankfurt-Washington ab heute ihren Passagieren einen drahtlosen Breitband-Internet-Zugang über den Wolken anbietet. In der Testphase sind an Bord der Boing fünf Access Points der Cisco Aironet 350 Serie installiert, außerdem ein Cisco 3640 Router und neun Cisco Catalyst 3548 XL Switches. Die Komponenten sind laut dem Netzwerker Cisco modifizierte Standardgeräte, die von Lufthansa Technik auf ihre Flugtauglichkeit überprüft und nach den gültigen Luftfahrtregularien zertifiziert wurden. Sie unterstützen drahtlose Verbindungen nach dem 802.11b-Standard. Zusätzlich stehe eine Ethernet-Verbindung am Platz zur Verfügung.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 5:18:43 PM CET
Brussels to probe TV rights in Hollywood
Hollywood studios and European pay-television companies are being investigated by European Union antitrust regulators over the sale of TV rights to movies. Brussels investigators are believed to have asked seven studios, including Warner Brothers, Columbia Tristar and Walt Disney, to explain the television distribution contracts for their movies - one of their fastest growing revenue streams.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 5:13:38 PM CET
Lufthansa, Boeing to offer broadband service on flights
The German airline said that the service – called Lufthansa Flynet – will be offered on an inaugural flight tomorrow from Frankfurt to Dulles airport in Washington DC.
The demonstration will last for around three months on this particular route. Lufthansa said that passengers will be able to surf the web from laptop computers and send and receive emails in flight.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 5:10:11 PM CET
Space centre to screen proof of UFOs
Images claiming to be proof of alien UFOs will be shown to members of the public at the National Space Centre later this month. Hundreds of the objects were captured on film by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Soho), a spacecraft a million miles from Earth observing the sun. The glowing, saucer-shaped "craft" were apparently moving in a way that suggested intelligent control.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 4:33:01 PM CET
RIAA, IT groups agree on digital rights
THE music and technology industries, which have often clashed in the past over how to limit the sharing of songs over the Internet, have agreed on at least one thing: the U.S. Congress should keep its hands off the issue.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Business Software Alliance (BSA), and the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) announced their agreement on seven broad digital content policy principles during a press conference here Tuesday.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 3:04:41 PM CET
10 Most Wanted US Government Documents
We asked the public to identify categories of data that should be on the Web. Hundreds of citizens responded. From that list we narrowed it down to the Ten Most Wanted.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 2:57:05 PM CET
Help stop palladium and TCPA
To: IT Industry
Palladium and TCPA are a violation of a users rights to privacy on their computer systems and are wrong in the emerging Open Source driven society. These innovations must be stopped, before they bcome out of control.
- The signers of this petition will not endorse the new Intel, Microsoft joint venture known as Palladium
- The signers agree that the rights of their computer usage rest in themselves, and do not lie on the manufacturers to take charge of.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 2:39:01 PM CET
Reports document other dog shootings by Cookeville police officer
Here's what they reveal. In 1998, officer Hall answered a neighbor's complaint about a so-called dangerous dog. Officer Hall fired twice at the animal, saying he was, in his words, in "grave fear of this animal", when he says it lunged toward him while he was investigating the case. Three years later, in 2001, officer Hall was ordered by a supervisor, to shoot another dog labled as "dangerous" in a Cookeville neighborhood.
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