Topic: VIDEO - on May 5, 2007 at 5:33:00 PM CEST
History of Video Games
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Topic: NEWS - on May 5, 2007 at 5:28:00 PM CEST
Baby Hedgehogs
Cute
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on May 5, 2007 at 5:14:00 PM CEST
Monkey see, monkey sue: Austrian activists want chimpanzee declared a ’person’
In some ways, Hiasl is like any other Viennese: He indulges a weakness for pastry, likes to paint and enjoys chilling out watching TV.
But he doesn't care for coffee, and he isn't actually a person - at least not yet.
In a case that could set a global legal precedent for granting basic rights to apes, animal rights advocates are seeking to get the 26-year-old male chimpanzee legally declared a "person."
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Topic: War and Peace - on May 5, 2007 at 5:11:00 PM CEST
Saved by the bomb
Satirical opinion piece from ex-Python Terry Jones. Worth reading for the reader's comments.
Not safe for Americans.
"Campaigning in Oklahoma the other day, the Republican senator John McCain was asked what should be done about Iran. He responded by singing, "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran", to the tune of the Beach Boys' Barbara Ann. (Join the hilarity and see for yourself on YouTube.) How can any thinking person disagree? I mean, any country with a president who doesn't shave properly and never wears a tie deserves what's coming to it - a lot of American bombs, with a few British ones thrown in to ensure we don't miss out on the ensuing upsurge in terrorism."
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Topic: VIDEO - on May 5, 2007 at 5:10:00 PM CEST
100 Tons of explosives
Defense contractors detonating 100 tons of various explosive munitions.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 5, 2007 at 12:33:00 PM CEST
Paris Hilton sentenced to jail
Hotel heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton was ordered on Friday to spend 45 days in jail for violating the terms of her probation for alcohol-related reckless driving.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered the 26-year-old celebrity socialite jailed for driving on a suspended license in February. He ordered her to report to jail on June 5.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 5, 2007 at 12:25:00 PM CEST
Finally! A 100-kg Canadian gold coin
The Royal Canadian Mint has produced the world's first 100-kilogram gold coin with a face value of $1 million. And they're for sale.
Why did it do this? "Because we can," the mint said on its website.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 5, 2007 at 12:18:00 PM CEST
Canada Post cowed by "very threatening cat"
Canada's postal system has stopped delivering mail to a home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after a mail carrier was scared away by a "very threatening cat," the Winnipeg Free Press said on Friday.
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Topic: Terror - on May 5, 2007 at 12:13:00 PM CEST
Poaching for Bin Laden
In the jungles of India, local animal trappers have a new breed of client: Islamic militants using the trade in rare wildlife to raise funds for their cause. It is so early in the morning that the cooks in the roadside dhabas along India's National Highway 37 are asleep in their kitchens, their tandoors unlit. Across the valley of Assam, in this far north-easterly corner of India, there is not a flicker of light except the feeble yellow beams from the Gypsies, the open-backed vehicles carrying small groups of tourists to the edge of one of the world's most bountiful jungles.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 5, 2007 at 12:09:00 PM CEST
How my lack of understanding of how processes exit on Windows XP forced a security patch to be recalled
Last year, a Windows security update got a lot of flack for causing some machines to hang, and it was my fault. (This makes messing up a demo at the Financial Analysts Meeting look like small potatoes.)
The security fix addressed a category of attacks wherein people could construct shortcut files or other items which specified a CLSID that was never intended to be used as a shell extension. As we saw earlier, lots of people mess up IUnknown::QueryInterface, and if you pass the CLSID of one of these buggy implementations, Explorer would dutifully create it and try to use it, and then bad things would happen. The object might crash or hang or even corrupt memory and keep running (sort of).
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Topic: WEB - on May 5, 2007 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Pandora to block non-US listeners
Web radio station Pandora is to block most non-US users accessing its service because of licensing constraints.
Mounting pressure from record labels has forced the company to stop streaming music to countries where licensing deals have not been agreed.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 5, 2007 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
Google's country-fried data center
Google confirmed the deaths of more penguins this week by admitting to a mega data center in Oklahoma.
The ad broker will build a $600m server plant at MidAmerica Industrial Park in Pryor, Oklahoma. A grand total of 200 workers will enjoy the Okie version of the Google lifestyle and earn $48,000 on average. So, when Google comes to town, you don't get a lot of jobs, but you do earn a huge energy drain and boost server component deliveries.
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