Topic: COMPUTER - on June 5, 2004 at 11:42:00 AM CEST
BugMeNot - Firefox Extensions
Bypass compulsory web registration via Firefox's right-click context menu. Compatibile with Mozilla, current Firefox releases, and the upcoming 0.9 Firefox release that will use a new extension manager. Visit bugmenot.com for full details of their service.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 5, 2004 at 11:07:00 AM CEST
Experiments in Riding Drunk
You think that an occasional beer--or two--before a ride isn't a problem? You might want to consider the experiences of our staff, when they had a couple and went for a ride.
Except for the vodka and cops, it was a day like any other at Honda's Rider Education Facility in Colton, California. Imagine being hopelessly drunk and trying to execute a complex skills course with police officers on the sidelines, breathalyzers and radar guns drawn. It could have been a bad dream.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 5, 2004 at 11:05:00 AM CEST
RIAA wants your fingerprints
Not content with asking for an arm and a leg from consumers and artists, the music industry now wants your fingerprints, too. The RIAA is hoping that a new breed of music player which requires biometric authentication will put an end to file sharing.
Established biometric vendor Veritouch has teamed up with Swedish design company to produce iVue: a wireless media player that allows content producers to lock down media files with biometric security. This week Veritouch announced that it had demonstrated the device to the RIAA and MPAA.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 5, 2004 at 12:48:00 AM CEST
LA 'on the road to Falluja'?
The LA murder rate is going up and the police chief has requested more officers. But California is broke and cannot afford to recruit.
Civil rights lawyer Connie Rice warns that with too few officers to "police humanely", parts of the city may as well be in Falluja.
Los Angeles is notorious for gang violence, but even by LA standards 2002 was gruesome. With 658 murders in just that one year, it became America's murder capital.
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 5, 2004 at 12:44:00 AM CEST
Bilderberg Conference 2004 - The 50th anniversary of the first meeting in 1954
Participants 2004
The 52nd Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Stresa, Italy, 3-6 June 2004. The Conference will deal mainly with European American relations and in this context US Politics, Iraq, The Middle East., European Geopolitics, NATO, China, Economoic Problems and Energy...... CURRENT LIST OF PARTICIPANTS S T R I C T L Y C O N F I D E N T I A L
Honorary Chairman - Davignon, Etienne - Vice-Chairman, Suez-Tractebel
Honorary Secretary General - Taylor, Martin - International Adviser, Goldman Sachs International Nationalities of participants followed by names and partial portfolios .
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