Ownage is: Cop who made monkey noises resigns

A police constable who made monkey noises at a black prisoner as he stood in a holding cage has been forced to resign.

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Google/OpenSocial vs. Microsoft/Facebook

This latest fuss between Google and Microsoft over social networking may be far more important than you think and it may have a direct effect on how you run your enterprise before it's done.

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Microsoft's Antitrust Expiration Date Delayed

The judge responsible for enforcing Microsoft's antitrust settlement with federal and state governments has agreed to a delay – possibly until the end of January – to give her time to consider whether or not to extend court oversight of the company for another five years.

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World Wide Wits: Build an indestructible Web-hosted brain

Distributed neural networking using heterogeneous Web servers

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Optimized and predictable Ajax applications

In this article, author Judith Myerson gives a brief discussion of these limitations and what pitfalls to avoid, including some helpful solutions for optimizing browser differences.

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Developing a grid application with open source tools

Using open source tools for developing grid applications opens up a wealth of possibilities. The first is a very rapid development process, especially if you take advantage of script languages like Perl or Python and deployment environments like Apache. There is also a wealth of examples available that can help you.

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Apache Lucene quick-start guide

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Apache Solr and integrate it with a Web application.

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Wii can't do this: PS3 enters into Guinness Book of World Records

It's no secret the PS3 packs a real punch when it comes to computing power. Add in some of Stanford's Folding@home project, 600,000 registered consoles, and some good ol' scientific elbow grease and you have a legitimate entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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Digg 'will grow by letting others copy us'

Social news website seeks to expand by empowering other sites to use its model.

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Q&A: Digg co-founder Jay Adelson

Jay Adelson is the co-founder of social news website Digg.com and internet video company Revision 3. He spoke to the Guardian about his plans for Digg in the future.

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New PS3 to Reduce Power Consumption by 65 Watts

According to the website Computer Base, the recently announced 40 GB edition of the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system will be not just be smaller and cheaper: it will also be more energy efficient.

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Q&A: Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov

The father of one of the most popular games of all time talks about his inspiration, his latest project, and how he feels about the fact that the game was originally property of the Russian state.

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Cop goes to jail for accepting a cake as a bribe

He was found guilty of telling a student that had had his trombone stolen, that policemen tend to work harder if they get a cake as a reward.

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Punches by email are getting close to a reality

With a new vest, players can feel the impact of video games.

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Quick and cheap costumes for the dead beat parents

They are cheap and quick to make, but they look awesome.

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Leopard gives the cold shoulder to Java

Early adopters of Apple's newly released OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system are unable to work with the latest version of the Java programming language.

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From Windows to Ubuntu and Back

We wish we could say that Ubuntu is the best alternative to Windows; sadly, it isn't. It took a LONG time to get all these programs running, and MANY sleepless nights of bug fixing.

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WordPress Wins Best Open Source Social Networking CMS

Packt is pleased to reveal that WordPress is the first winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, picking up the best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System. In a very close category, WordPress came out in front of Elgg and Drupal, who finished joint second.

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How Stumbleupon's Beating Google, Yahoo & MSN

Stumbleupon is one of may favorite social media sites, Not only can it drive traffic that matches or often exceeds that of Digg, stumbleupon users are much less critical/confrontation/judgmental than the typical Digg user.

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Another botched "illusion" by Criss "The Fraud" Angel

I don’t believe in giving away an illusion if you pre know the trick, but believe it is fair game to point out a Bad Illusion when it is botched and freely visible and available to the novice. It is then fair game to comment on. More important it’s fair game to point out when no illusion is involved at all…

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Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer

Less than a 10th the cost per GFlop of the $2500 supercomputer Take 8 PS 3 consoles, Yellow Dog Linux, a Gigabit Ethernet switch and your favorite protein folding or gravitational wave modeling codes and you’re doing real science. On a Playstation!

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Sleepless in Space: Astronauts Work on Mechanical Problem

If you think getting a 2-year-old tucked in to bed after bath time and story time is tough, try dealing with seven grown-up astronauts who are in space for 14 days and don't want to waste any time doing something as mundane as sleeping.

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Take Command with AJAX

Do you want to build more dynamic, responsive, desktop-like Web applications like Gmail and Google Maps? Then this article is for you. It guides you through the AJAX basics and through the process of building a simple AJAX application.

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Mario Galaxy leaked on the interwebs!

Apparently, EBGames has a demo of the game with a 10 minute restriction. When you play that game on a Wii, the limit is not there. EB employee leaked it.

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Atari, Inc. should just bring back the 2600 already

There only hope is to bring back the Atari 2600, all this company has going for them is the nostaglia factor.

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Balloon-telescope snaps photos of sun

You don't need a rocket to send scientific instruments into space. A really big balloon works just as well, according to an international research team that plans to take a closer-than-ever look at the sun. art.nasa.balloon.telescope.jpg

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SQLite Data Wizard, a neat piece of data management software

SQLite Data Wizard is a powerful Windows GUI utility for managing data. It provides you with a number of easy-to-use wizards for performing data manipulation easily and quickly. SQLite Data Wizard allows you to generate ASP.NET and PHP scripts for the selected tables and queries, convert any ADO-compatible database to the SQLite database

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Protect Your Network from spamming, scanning, harvesting and dDoS attack

DROP (Don’t Route Or Peer) is an advisory “drop all traffic” list, consisting of stolen ‘zombie’ netblocks and netblocks controlled entirely by professional spammers. DROP is a tiny sub-set of the SBL designed for use by firewalls and routing equipment.

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Foreign teachers jobless after Japan school goes bust

Thousands of foreign teachers have been made jobless and face expulsion from Japan after the country's biggest chain of English language schools folded and sought protection from creditors.

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Tricks for recycling Halloween treats

Rather than dump it in the office candy jar or let it go stale under your child’s bed, consider some creative ways to indulge just a little bit more.

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JavaServer Faces (JSF) vs Struts

I would have to say, the most common question or feedback came along the lines of comparing Struts to JSF. I thought it would be a good idea to compare JSF to Struts by evaluating various features that an application architect would look for in a Web application framework. This article will compare specific features.

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PlayStation 3 losses now over $1 billion

BusinessWeek has now pointed out, "Sony's gaming division has just lost $848 million -- double the figure from last year -- and first-half losses reached $1.1 billion."

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Latest PS3 firmware adds DualShock3 support

The PlayStation 3's latest firmware, version 1.94, will finally add support for "rumbling force feedback controllers", a feature that many gamers have wanted since the console's introduction last year.

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Java Remains #1 Programming Language, But Ruby Is Now 10th

Ruby is now the 10th most popular programming language, up from 13th place a year ago

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HP admits to problems with Pavilion notebooks and tries to help.

Earlier this week, I published my 11th video Tech Shakedown. This one was a critique of HP; not just the failures that buyers of its HP 6000 and 9000 series Pavilion notebook computers are experiencing with their built-in WiFi components, but also for the company’s failure to make an appearance in an online forum on its own Web site where its custo

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One Laptop Per Child Project Hit With More Delays on Compiler

Production of the XO, the One Laptop Per Child project's computer for children, has been delayed again. The Chinese factory that's producing the laptops was originally supposed to begin production this month, but last minute bugs have delayed the production launch until November 12

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Sprint to unlock its phones

Could it be that Sprint has a heart? According to a proposed settlement for a California class action lawsuit it may just have one. Sprint announced today that if the settlement is reached the carrier will provide customers with the necessary codes to unlock their handsets for use on other carrier networks.

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PS3 is Not More Powerful than Xbox 360, says Ex-Harmonix Dev

Sony has said that the PlayStation 3 has more power than Microsoft's Xbox 360, but that it requires a bit of patience and legwork to leverage that power. Jason Booth, a former developer from Harmonix, just doesn't see it happening. He thinks game designers are trying to match PS3 games to 360 games at best.

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Nintendo Announces Wii Gift Giving

Nintendo Worldwide President Satoru Iwata has unveiled plans to introduce new functionality to Japanese Wii owners next spring. Although Nintendo did not provide official titles for said functionality, users will gain access to a television schedule channel and have the ability to send downloaded games to friends for free.

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Johnnie's Dog House Awarded Best Hot Dog - 4th Win in 2007

This is the 4th time this year that Johnnie's Dog House has been voted as having the best hot dog in the greater Philadelphia region.

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Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn't take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic...

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The $831 IPhone

Apple doesn’t chat too much about the iPhone service fees AT&T shares with it. But the good folks at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (who make rules for how companies keep their books) have forced it to give us some clues. The accountants say that if someone promises to pay you money in the future (as AT&T does for each iPhone activated),

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Open source: The most disruptive influence in IT today

For some it is gospel. To others, it is completely mind-bending and new. The fact of the matter is clear: Open source software, Linux included, is quickly becoming the disruptive force in IT. Some would say it has already.

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Ubuntu's latest OS not so Gutsy

Ubuntu fanboys have been crying into their beers after discovering internet connection problems with Canonical's latest open source Linux distribution operating system, dubbed the Gutsy Gibbon.

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Is Global Warming Fueling Forest Fires?

Wildfires that raged in Southern California this week and forced more than half a million people from their homes spread so rapidly in part because the landscape was parched by a hot, dry summer—conditions that may become more of a norm for the Southwest, thanks to global warming.

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California Firefighting Goes High-Tech

Experts Use Satellites, Computer Models to Predict Fire's End

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Microsoft Buys Facebook Stake for $240M

Microsoft Trumps Google With $240 Million Investment That Values Facebook at $15B

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Make Ajax development easier with AjaxTags

Integrate Ajax functionality into your JSPs for a smoother Web experience

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Ajax and XML: Ajax for media

Use Ajax techniques to show movies and slide shows

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Vista vs Ubuntu: this time, it's virtual

If you've got a gig or more of memory, a chunk of spare disk space and a broadband connection, you really should check this out.

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Extending Vim with Python

If you're a user of the text editor Vim, chances are you are already impressed with the number and power of its inbuilt features. If you've ever tried to add your own functionality to the editor but been turned off by its arcane Vimscript language, then you'll be pleased to know that Vim now supports internal Python scripting.

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Toyota suffers setback in reliability rankings

After three straight months of sales declines, the defections of three top executives and stinging criticism from environmentalists, one of the top automakers in the U.S. received more bad news Tuesday: Its reliability ratings slipped at influential Consumer Reports magazine.

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Setting Up Master-Master Replication With MySQL 5 On Debian Etch

Since version 5, MySQL comes with built-in support for master-master replication, solving the problem that can happen with self-generated keys. In former MySQL versions, the problem with master-master replication was that conflicts arose immediately if node A and node B both inserted an auto-incrementing key on the same table.

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7 Deadly Startup Mistakes

Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) drew some 300 entrepreneurs to a startup "camp" in New York. The event was full of advice on things emerging companies can do raise their chances of success--and a reminder of flubs to avoid.

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Biggest fraud on Earth fooled the CIA

Uri Geller attracted the attention of the CIA at a time when the depth of Russian and Soviet satellite interests in all things paranormal sent a chill up the collective spine of the Intelligence Community.

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Microsoft moves on F# functional language

Microsoft plans to integrate F#, a functional programming language developed by the Microsoft Research group, into its Visual Studio application development platform

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Halloween costume for the pervert

There's always a lot of banter about the best this and the best that, but it's rare that something actually fits the description, especially in the realm of gaming oneupmanship.

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Piracy fuelling Brazil's tecno scene

This steamy city at the mouth of the Amazon river is a haven for pirates - the digital kind who copy CDs and DVDs by the thousands for illegal sidewalk sales.

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More to Mac sales than a halo

It's very easy to take a look at Apple's stellar fourth quarter and conclude that the long-awaited iPod "halo effect" is in full swing, and move onto something more pressing, like handicapping the World Series.

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Spammers Turn to MP3s to Deliver Pitches

Spammers Using MP3s With Fake Names to Deliver Pitches, Slip Past Sophisticated Filters

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How Baboons Think (Yes, Think)

The purpose of the experiment is not to ruin Royal’s day but to understand what goes on in a baboon’s mind, in this case how carefully the animals keep track of transient relationships.

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AAAAARGH that's expensive: Rum worth £26,000 goes on display

What is believed to be the world's most expensive bottle of rum has gone on display at a festival in London.

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Dynamic global functions in PHP

Most PHP applications produce HTML output, so you end up writing a lot, using this technique. Or you forget it, and make your application prone to all sorts of nasty XSS attacks.

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NASA Drops Deal With Rocketplane

NASA said Thursday it dropped a multimillion-dollar contract with an aerospace company because the firm failed to secure enough private financing to develop a new commercial spaceship.

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After Fight, Airport Embraces SUX Code

City leaders have scrapped plans to do away with the Sioux Gateway Airport's unflattering three-letter identifier — SUX — and instead have made it the centerpiece of the airport's new marketing campaign.

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More than 100 times faster than WiFi?

Radio scientists at IBM Research and MediaTek are teaming up to develop a wireless transmission protocol that will deliver files more than 100 times faster than WiFi.

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Tokyo soccer robots don't quite have Becks appeal

David Beckham doesn't have anything to fear from robot players -- for now.

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Generating dynamic documents from template with python

Most of the cgi programs have the html text within themselves, thus making cgi programs larger, less comfortable to view, difficult to go through the code. The ideal situation would be separating html text from the program.

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13 reasons to try linux

If you have never given Linux a run, then you should take a look at these 13 considerations and maybe think about giving it a go. I’m sure all of our Linux gurus will also chime in below.

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Seven Areas Where Linux Could Get Better

Not all these features will get in, showing the stop-and-go road for improvements to make their way into the Linux kernel.

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Linux assemblers: A comparison of GAS and NASM

This article explains some of the more important syntactic and semantic differences between two of the most popular assemblers for Linux®, GNU Assembler (GAS) and Netwide Assembler (NASM), including differences in basic syntax, variables and memory access, macro handling, functions and external routines, stack handling, and techniques for easily re

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Who Really Invented The Mountain Bike?

Klunkerz, a film from director Billy Savage entertainingly answers that contentious question by telling the story of the evolution of what we now call the mountain bike.

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Play the Wii on a BIG screen

if you bought a Wii for FUN (!!!), then you might be interested in this $180 portable projector that ships with a Wii-specific AV cable (but supports standard cables as well).

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PS3 First-Year Sales On Par With Xbox 360's

Much has been made about the PS3's slow start, but in all fairness, too many people are comparing it to the PS2's dominance. The last generation was a blowout in favor of Sony's system, but nobody really believed that would happen again, what with Microsoft's debut firmly behind them and Nintendo going a new - and profitable - direction with the Wi

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Video protest against Chavez

Although the song was intended to Bush, Chavez seems to make a better fit for it.

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Blackwater fills the blogsphere with misinformation

Blackwater wants to make their bull shit a truth crusade.

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Viacom mounts renewed attack on Google

The content provider says the seach giant is not doing enough to prevent clips being illegally shown on YouTube

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Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic

Comcast Actively Hinders Subscribers' File-Sharing Traffic, AP Testing Shows

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Space Station Gets 1st Female Commander

Since First Station in 1970s, Men Have Been in Charge. Peggy Whitson Breaks the Mold

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Is America going broke

Record deficits, colossal debt and no clear plan for digging itself out. If the U.S. sinks, it will take Canada down with it.

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Stocks drop on Black Monday anniversary

Twenty years to the day after the worst stock market crash ever, stock prices tumbled yesterday. The drop was not nearly as bad as that on "Black Monday" in 1987, however, and experts advised investors to remain calm.

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Unfair to Consider Africans Inferior

Tarusenga asserts that Africans "are destined to extinction, with the more competitive nations eventually swamping us, if these forces of our conduct persist, especially as manifested in the awarding of business contracts to citizens of other nations while there is massive unemployment in Africa, the involvement of Western "experts" in key areas

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Wizard Of Woz Keeps Casting His Spells

What would you do after founding a technology giant? Steve wozniak Uses those resources to keep innovating and following his creative impulses.

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The face of the screwed up: Video Shows Thief Trapped Inside Bait Car

Bellevue police released video Friday to Eastside Bureau Chief Alison Grande from inside a special bait car used to catch car thieves in the act.

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TV: Mario Makes It To South Park

Mario has made it. With the likes of cameos by famous figures like George Clooney (playing a barking dog), Mario will go down in the books as a South Park star.

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Dutch government to ban trade in seal products

The Dutch government has informed Namibia's Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources that it will ban all imports and trade in seal products by the end of this year.

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Designing a rocket ride into suborbit

Before Virgin Group mogul Richard Branson hired him to design a futuristic tourist rocket ship, Richard Seymour's only experience in the market was dreaming up spacecraft for the movies.

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Do you remember the Atari Force?

Real superheroes or shameless marketing attempt?

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Microsoft plans smaller deals, "independent" path

Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the company aims to pursue an independent path, focusing on up to 20 smaller acquisitions of $50 million to $1 billion each annually rather than mega-deals.

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Learning from CGI masters how to bring Robots in Disguise to life

A great insight of ILM studios.

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Pinball machines decriminalized in Los Altos Hills

For more than half a century, an obscure town ordinance made it illegal to use a pinball, marble or claw machine in Los Altos Hills.

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PC News: Rare's new Banjo-Kazooie game on PC?

"We'll probably make a decision when Banjo-Kazooie is finished about moving it to PC", Rare designer Justin Cook has told PC Zone magazine in a recent interview.

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A toll road with MANY ways to pay //PIC

Sometimes you don't have change for the toll booth. This one in particular has the problem covered.

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Wii: Super Mario Galaxy Hands On Impressions

It shouldn't come as a surprise that Super Mario Galaxy is tremendously fun to play and clearly a first-day must-buy for any Wii owner. It's the best looking Wii game to date and plays like a dream.

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Top Ten iPod Tips and Tricks

Michael Miller explains ten cool tips and tricks to get more out of your iPod.

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Hidden Worlds In Mario Galaxy

MTV's Stephen Totilo had a Nintendo guy show off a pretty cool little area in the upcoming system selling Super Mario Galaxy that takes place inside a capsule and features side-scrolling gameplay and reversible gravity.

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R E A L Pirate Attacks Up Worldwide

Maritime pirate attacks worldwide shot up 14 percent in the first nine months of 2007 from a year earlier, with Somalia and Nigeria showing the biggest increases, an international watchdog said Tuesday.

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Fried eggs lead to knife in heart

Hendrika Coetzee's paraplegic boyfriend apparently didn't fry eggs to her taste, and so she stabbed him with a knife in the heart.

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Scientists Discover Rare Marine Species

Scientists Exploring Sea Basin Off Philippines Coast Discover Rare Marine Species

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The Parabolic Cookware Wi-Fi Booster

Here we have yours truly demonstrating a quick and easy way to greatly enhance your computer's ability to detect and connect to Wi-Fi networks both near and far with a piece of Asian parabolic cookware.

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Cool halloween house //PICS

Guess what house the kids will skip.

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Two reports show "superbug" bacteria spread

Two drug-resistant "superbugs" are becoming more common across the United States including one that causes hard-to-treat ear infections in children, researchers reported on Tuesday.

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Aviation adventurer Fossett likely dead: Branson

British tycoon Richard Branson, who partnered aviator Steve Fossett on his earlier attempts to circle the globe in a balloon, said on Monday his adventurer friend is likely dead.

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Securing Apache Web Server with mod_security

The Internet has its share of packet filters and proxy servers in order to increase the security for clients and servers alike. Filtering network traffic is never a bad idea since it provides a basic level of protection. When it comes down to protecting web servers your packet filter will most probably allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic to your server ap

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How to Stream Audio and Video from PC to PSP

How do PSP owners tackle the art of streaming audio and video from the ordinary PC to the PSP without having to spend a lot on additional software? More after the digg.

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Virgin Atlantic 747 to test biofuel in early 2008

British billionaire Richard Branson said on Monday his Virgin Group hopes to produce clean biofuels by around the start of the next decade and early next year will test a jet plane on renewable fuel.

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jQuery and XML

Whether you're an admirer of AJAX, or one who can't stand all the hype, if you're a web developer you must admit that it's proven very useful in driving explosive competition among JavaScript utility libraries. And the embarrassment of riches keeps on growing. jQuery emerged a couple of years ago to great acclaim for its performance, elegant design

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PyMedia - Python module for avi, mp3, dvd, wma, ogg processing

Pymedia, a library for accessing and manipulating media files. It makes audio and video playback/creation a snap for even a newcomer to programming. This tutorial aims to walk you through installing and using the PyMedia library. For the sake of simplicity most of the examples have been kept concise and straightforward. In a 'real world' apps.

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Would you live in a shipping container?

A non-profit organization called Instant-Built House® is proposing such an idea.

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A two tone elephant //PIC

All plain gray is out, two tones is in.

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JavaFX: Learning by Example

If you're a Java developer and you have Swing, animations, GUIs, and Java2D in your daily menu, then you will be very happy to find out that on May 8, 2007 JavaFX was born. As soon as you start using it, you'll appreciate it for it's linearity and simplicity in comparison with traditional Java capabilities.

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Simplify Your Java Configurations

There are many ways to configure Java applications: through Java's Properties files, XML files, databases, and even from the command line. Each of these methods has its own advantages—and its drawbacks, but unfortunately they all offer different ways to access the data values Wouldn't it be nice if there was a uniform API for all of these methods?

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Expand the editing capabilities of OpenOffice with XSLT

You might know that you can pull XML data into OpenOffice's spreadsheet program, Calc, but did you know that you can create a filter to make word-processing documents out of data stored as XML? This tutorial shows you how to use OpenOffice's import/export filters to open your XML data as though it's just a plain document. From there, users can edit

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Forget drive-thru; Portland has bike-thru

So in bike-friendly Portland, restaurants are making a little extra effort to cater to them - with bike-thru windows.

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Spyware helps police find laptop

A father's decision to spy on his son's Internet surfing helped police solve a Coronado hotel burglary and arrest two National City men this month, police said.

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You have 'Pirate' mail

Pirate mail is an email account automatically created for each PJC student enrolled in college credit courses. Pirate mail is a fast, efficient way to access strictly PJC related messages, class assignments, teachers, and broadband notices such as class cancellations, without any outside spam or unwanted e-mail.

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Digital SLR cameras are not worth making, says Kodak

Kodak will not rule out future entry into the consumer digital SLR arena. But the company admits that it has so far stayed out of this market because it does not make the lenses necessary to make enough profit.

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13 Tips: Taking Care of a Camera

These tips apply to taking care of virtually any camera. Mostly they are just common sense. Nonetheless, see how many of them you routinely apply.

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Angry geek keeps hegemony over backyard with an auto-sentry water gun

A little over the top but works like a charm.

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A cool costume for this Halloween

Apple, the iPhone and hackers: lessons from Family Therapy and Freud.

Where are you in the arguments over hacking the iPhone, its alleged bricking on purpose by Apple, and those who believe Apple is the new Microsoft, meaning all things rotten in the world of technology?

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Mobile Firefox Likely to Work on Symbian

Mozilla's mobile Firefox browser will likely be available for phones running Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux operating systems.

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Apple's problem with the French

You should never mix Apples and Oranges, particularly in France.

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Unreal Tournament 3 demo released

Epic have released a beta demo of Unreal Tournament 3. Powered by Unreal Engine 3, the game has been hotly anticipated for some time and looks set to push the visual envelope.

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Microsoft adds PHP to InfoCard support list

Microsoft said this week it would collaborate with Zend Technologies to allow PHP developers to build support for user-centric identity cards into their Web-based applications.

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Reading zip archives in Python

Zip is the name of a popular file compression algorithm, which lets you both combine multiple files into a single archive and store them on disk using less space. We'll show you how you can open and read zip files in your Python scripts.

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Oracle beefs up PHP driver

Oracle announced on Wednesday the enhancement and preview release of an upgraded Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) driver for PHP.

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Foreign artist criticizes Chavez and gets hooped

Venezuela's government has blocked a popular Spanish singer from using a stadium because he criticized President Hugo Chavez three years ago.

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Homemade in-car camcorder mount

Here are some pictures and plans of a homemade in-car camcorder mount. It fits very stiff on the passenger's seat headrest allowing hands-free filming from the driver's viewpoint.

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Company fined over hand in blender

A company at which a factory worker lost her hand while cleaning a blender has been fined $19,000.

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Make a cool hologram illusion!

This instructable will show you how to easily make a convincing floating head hologram.

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Africans To Deploy Microsatellites

Four African nations plan to deploy a constellation of microsatellites to monitor water/land use, agriculture, forestry and other sustainable development parameters.

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Flying Car About to Take Off?

An aeronautic startup looks to complete a prototype of its roadworthy aircraft within a year.

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Installing Cinelerra on Ubuntu Studio

Cinelerra, one of the only serious video editing and compositing tools available for Linux, can cause frustration for users trying to install it on Ubuntu Studio. Fortunately, after several attempts, I found a way to install it easily.

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Expand the editing capabilities of OpenOffice with XSLT

This tutorial shows you how to use OpenOffice's import/export filters to open your XML data as though it's just a plain document. From there, users can edit the document much more naturally and then save it back to its native format. You can also use this feature to easily turn your documents into XML data.

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PHP: Getting started with three popular frameworks

This series takes a look at three widely used PHP frameworks — Zend, symfony, and CakePHP — examining their similarities and differences while building and extending a sample application in each of the three frameworks.

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How to build a rain water collector

In this instructable, I will show how I made a rainwater collection system to water my garden. This helps to conserve water and make good use of a free and renewable resource.

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To the Dragonmobile! a Harry Potter pimped wheelchair (pic heavy)

JKR however most inconsiderately forgot to include any cripples as characters, so as usual, I knew any costume I wore would be spoiled by the big ugly mobility scooter I need to use. My solution: dress up the scooter!

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How to install Ubuntu Linux 7.04 News

Linux is no longer Windows' scary alternative

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MojoPac: A Dead Simple Way To Make Windows XP Portable

MojoPac used to run $50, but the company rolled out a free version last week that offers the basic functionality you need to set up a portable USB stick with Windows XP and the basic applications you'd want.

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Ballmer Claims Red Hat Violates Microsoft IP

Microsoft CEO says Red Hat Linux uses intellectual property owned by Microsoft and that Red Hat's customers should pay Microsoft for it.

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Creative Ads By Lego

Simple designs, great ideas.

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Dealing with the Web 2.0 bubble

The question of whether there is a Web 2.0 bubble has been out there for a couple of years, and it's now pretty safe to say that the answer to the question is yes. Facebook worth $10 billion – or more? Google at $700 a share, with Henry Blodget predicting a run to $2,000? The Industry Standard "coming back"? What else do you need

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Are you ready for XOP (XML-Oriented Programming)?

The domain model is a familiar concept to most OOP (Object Oriented Programming) developers and architects, and has been used successfully in a variety of systems and projects. But how does this principle apply to SOA-based solutions?

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How To Speed Up Logon Times In Windows XP

To restore order and your sanity, a freeware utility allows you to set the load order and speed up logon times for Windows…

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Dying words of famous people

The last words spoken by famous people at death, or shortly before.

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Sony to put cheaper PS3 in play

Sony Computer Entertainment America will unveil a $399 40GB PlayStation 3 on U.S. shores, sources said.

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The Greatest Compliment A Developer Can Receive

Here’s the dirty little secret about being a software developer. No matter how good the code you write is, it’s crap to another developer.

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Will somebody PLEASE think of the gorillas

ongolese rebels have overrun a protected area for endangered mountain gorillas, forcing out rangers and making them unable to track the primates, leaving them open to attacks by armed militias, a conservation group said Monday.

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Undergraduates Discover More than 1,300 Asteroids

Undergraduate astronomy students at the University of Washington combing through images from a specialized telescope have discovered more than 1,300 asteroids that had never before been observed. That is about one out of every 250 known objects in the solar system

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Get Swinging! We'll show you how to put the GRR in swinger.

Swing offers Java developers greater flexibility and control over the design of graphical user interfaces (GUI), as well as a suite of graphical components ranging from buttons to tables and trees.

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How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Java version

How to Think... is a free textbook available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Readers are free to copy and distribute the text; they are also free to modify it, which allows them to adapt the book to different needs, and to help develop new material.

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How to Install and Configure Drupal CMS

In this article I will explain how to install this script and describe the configuration basics.

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Chicago Marathon Leaves 1 Dead, 250 Hospitalized

A 35-year-old Michigan man has died while running the Chicago Marathon in high temperatures, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. Another 250 people were taken to hospitals because of heat-related ailments.

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Rubik's Cube solved in 10.88 seconds, damn!!!

A 16-year-old took the top prize at the Rubik's Cube world championship Sunday, solving the puzzle five times in an average of 12.46 seconds. But the fastest single attempt was a cool 10.88 seconds, just off the world record of 9.86 seconds.

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How to save money on AA batteries in a year

You've seen the other battery hacks, now get ready to save hundreds of dollars a year with this simple hack of a 6 volt battery!

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Override Your PC's Image Quality Settings

If your system is outfitted with a powerful graphics card, you may not be getting the most out of it. Whether your rig boasts a card based on the AMD ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT or the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX (or even a GTS variant), you might be able to crank up the visuals in your games higher than you knew.

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Five PC Gaming Myths

If you're a long-time PC gamer, you've heard it all before. Your favorite gaming platform is dying, and it's all about the consoles now. After all, gaming on the PC is too expensive. It's too complicated and unreliable.

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Analyzing Sound Files with python

In the last five articles we performed numerical calculations using the Numerical Python module and plotted our calculations using the DISLIN plotting package. This article concludes the series with an application for analyzing sound files on your PC. This small but interesting program will bring together many of the components we have talked about

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Gimp-Python, creating add-ins for the gimp the easy way

Gimp-Python is a package that allows people to write plug-ins for The Gimp in the Python programming language rather than Script-Fu (Scheme), Perl, Tcl or C.

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Sun Patches Critical Java Bugs

Fixes to the Java Runtime Environment include 11 holes in Windows, Linux, and Solaris versions.

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Tiny 'tin whiskers' imperil electronics

They've ruined missiles, silenced communications satellites and forced nuclear power plants to shut down. Pacemakers, consumer gadgets and even a critical part of a space shuttle have fallen victim.

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iFlash - External Flash for the iPhone

Using a USB connector, 4 white LED’s, and a tact switch, I built a removable flash unit.

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Trigger-happy video game players battle for cyber supremacy

The roar of virtual racing engines and rat-a-tat of screen killers echo in a Seattle arena, as 700 trigger-happy video game players from 74 countries flex their thumbs for bragging rights at the World Cyber Games (WCG).

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Automate FTP with macros

Has it been a while since you used FTP from the command line? While there are decent GUI-based FTP clients (such as gFTP), you can automate operations with the command-line version and handle file transfers with no user interaction at all.

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Automate FTP with macros

Has it been a while since you used FTP from the command line? While there are decent GUI-based FTP clients (such as gFTP), you can automate operations with the command-line version and handle file transfers with no user interaction at all.

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Don't want an iPod? Lots of choices available

When Marybeth Miller decided she wanted a digital player to carry around music from her massive collection, she had one important rule: no iPod.

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'Halo' Creator Bungie Jumps From Microsoft

Bungie Studios, the "Halo" video game developer acquired by Microsoft Corp. in 2000, is once again operating as an independent company, Microsoft said Friday.

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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 7

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 7 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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CmdrTaco Q&A: 10 years of Slashdot

This month, as Slashdot celebrates its 10th anniversary, CmdrTaco is doing the same thing, except that now his group of friends has swelled to 250,000 readers each day and millions of page views (and 5.5 million visitors per month).

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Twelve Essential Photographic Rules

From Sunny 16 to Moony 11, 8, and 5.6, these facts, formulas, and photographic rules can get you out of a jam and help you get good shots when nothing else will.

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Is Java Full of 'CRAP'?

At one point or another, every developer has looked at a piece of code and said aloud (or to themselves), "This is crap." Until now, however, the definition of what actually constitutes bad code has not been an exact science with a proper formula or analytics.

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Top 10 Things You Should Know about Optimizing SQL Server Performance, from

Learn the 10 things you should know about optimizing SQL Server performance - and get a free t-shirt! Learn tips and tricks to immediately improve the efficiency of your SQL Server environment. Read this Quest Software white paper and get your t-shirt now!*

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The 16 Greatest Moments in Web History

From a blog about a stained blue dress to the day Larry met Sergey, these are the pivotal moments that made the Web what it is today

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Female 4x4 drivers are 'Britain's most hated motorists'

"Aggressive attitudes, failure to handle their vehicles, misjudging their size and an inability to park the beasts" were the main gripes of 3000 drivers polled.

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The Next Leap for Linux

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, “Linux is a political idea — an idea of freedom. They don’t want to be tied to Microsoft or Apple. They want choice. To them it’s a greater cause.”

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Zoho adds database to office suite

Zoho is filling out it on demand suite with a database and reporting application. Zoho DB can convert spreadsheets into databases and supports pivot tables.

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Weatherman gets attacked by giant spider

Those green screens surely can scare you.

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Free Nintendo Wii 'Jackets' Fight Sweaty Palms

Wii owners were greeted with a pulsing blue light to alert them to the "Wii remote jacket," a cushioned glove that fits around the Wiimote to keep it soft if it happens to hit something... or someone.

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Viacom chief: We're sticking with DRM = WROOONG!!!!!

Content creators and their digital distributors must unite against piracy by installing more "safeguards," Viacom's CEO said Tuesday.

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Why no Wordpress, and go Habari

Migrating from Wordpress to Habari wasn't a decision based on any real issues with the Wordpress software itself, but rather as a personal reaction to what I feel is a flawed development process and a general feel that the project itself is heading in a direction I don't want to be a part of.

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Biologists aim to wipe out Rat Island

Not the newest political reform measure, but actually getting rid of the rats-all of them. Biologists will be attempting to get rid of the colony of rats that has taken over the appropriately since named Rat Island in the Aleutians. It's not only that they are an invasive species, with no natural predators, they are about becoming the only species

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Americans wrong about computer security

Most Americans believe their computers are protected against viruses and spyware, but scans found that a large number had outdated or disabled security software, according to a poll released on Monday.

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Cheating in Video Games Now Means $$$.

With Real Money Now at Stake, Crackdowns on Video Game Cheating Gain Currency

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Free Promotional Flyers Available for US LoCo Teams

I am very happy to announce a FREE promotional flyer program made available for US LoCo Teams sponsored by System76. The great people that sell Ubuntu laptops, Ubuntu desktops and Ubuntu servers at System76 are also stepping up to help support and grow the Ubuntu LoCo Project by offering LoCo Teams FREE promotional flyers for team events.

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Linux to power mysterious mobile gadget?

Israel-based Emblaze Mobile has announced a mysterious new mobile communications device, expected to ship in 2008. The undefined and unnamed device reportedly has been developed in collaboration with Sharp and Access, the latter of which has lately been hard at work perfecting a Linux stack for mobile devices.

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Bytes and pieces from Apple’s iPhone interface guide

Apple on Saturday released to developers its guidelines for iPhone web applications. The iPhone Human Interface Guidelines makes some interesting assumptions about iPhone users and their connections with technology.

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Digg buries autobury gaming algorithm

It appears Digg has changed the way it deals with sites it suspects of using foul means to get onto the much coveted Digg front page.

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