Archive for November, 2005
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
First Read - MSNBC.com
The Vice President stepped into the carefully managed spotlight with a speech echoing Bush's criticism of Democrats on Iraq: "The President and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their memory, or their backbone - but we’re not going to sit by and let them rewrite history." ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Tapes of Lennon's killer to air
Newly released audio tapes of interviews with John Lennon's assassin reveal Mark Chapman's self-confessed "compulsion" to kill the former Beatle.
"It was like a train, a runaway train, there was no stopping it," Chapman told interviewers in a New York prison ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
When I looked at this project initially, I found it a little ho-hum. So, you're posting the faces of people who have recently blogged. And ... ? But, the more I've visited, the more interesting it's become. There's something very personal in a face that's often missing from the normal ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
This is a truly compelling story, included today in NPR's "Most Emailed Stories" podcast.
NPR : 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey
All Things Considered, November 16, 2005 · On Jan. 17, 1946, a psychiatrist named Walter Freeman launched a radical new era in the treatment of mental illness in this country. On ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
A Dangerous Veto Threat
Today, amazingly, America finds itself embroiled in the same kind of debate that Iran--one of the three nation's Bush admonished as a part of the "axis of evil"-- had three years ago when hardliners in the conservative Guardian Council repeatedly vetoed a version of a bill banning ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
There's enough muscle in this group to actually effect a change.
Web Firms Take Stand Against Spyware
The five companies -- America Online Inc., Yahoo Inc., Cnet Networks Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Computer Associates International Inc. -- said they are responding to escalating frustration among consumers about stealth computer code that ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Yet another Sony security breach:
Security Fix - Brian Krebs on Computer and Internet Security - (washingtonpost.com)
When it rains, it pours. Researchers at Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems Inc. say they've uncovered yet another security flaw in Sony BMG's anti-piracy software that attackers could exploit to take total control over any vulnerable ...
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
This guy is the head of product development and technology at SAP:
Open-source community hits back against SAP - Computerworld
Agassi attempted to lighten the mood by joking about his attempt to install a Linux desktop, but his discussion characterized open-source as fundamentally opposed to intellectual property protection. He argued that innovation ...
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
I'm glad to see this. It almost makes my comments last week seem prescient.
ESPN.com - MLB - MLB players, owners agree to tough new 'roid policy
WASHINGTON -- Major league players and owners agreed to toughen penalties for steroid use to a 50-game suspension for a first failed test, 100 days ...
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Security Fix - Brian Krebs on Computer and Internet Security - (washingtonpost.com)
A patch that Sony issued a week ago when virus writers began taking advantage of the software's file-hiding capabilities actually introduces serious new security risks onto the user's machine, according to research released today by Princeton University computer science ...
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