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| "I don't think the report is true, but these crises work for those who want to make fights between people." Kulam Dastagir, 28, a bird seller in Afghanistan
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Chalabi told Iran U.S. broke their codes? |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
10:58 pm EDT, Jun 2, 2004 |
] American intelligence officials have said that Mr.
] Chalabi informed Iran that the United States had broken
] the secret codes used by Iranian intelligence to
] transmit confidential messages to posts around the
] world. Very interesting. Get your bullshit detector warmed up because maybe he did, or maybe they want you to think that he did, or maybe they want you to think that they want you to think that they did, or maybe.... I wonder what Iranian encryption is like. I wonder how easy it is for them to deploy a new cipher. I wonder how hard it will be for us to break their new cipher. If they've got one waiting in the wings, then maybe we also have a crack waiting in the wings... Chalabi told Iran U.S. broke their codes? |
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Congratulations, Nanochick! |
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| Topic: Biology |
4:05 pm EDT, Jun 2, 2004 |
[ Just wanted to take a minute to give a shout-out to Marie for completing her Qualifying exams today! We all know you kicked they ass! When does the drinking start? ;) -k] Congratulations, Nanochick! |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
12:19 pm EDT, Jun 2, 2004 |
] The project will use the latest technology, including
] biometrics, to identify people coming into the United
] States. The contract was awarded to Accenture, formerly
] Andersen Consulting, over two competing contractors,
] Lockheed Martin and Computer Sciences. Several industry
] executives and analysts said that the award surprised
] them and that Accenture had widely been considered the
] outside candidate. I have to say I have some sympathy with the outrage here. They award this huge homeland security contract with significant civil liberties implications to a company that was at the heart of the Enron scandal and is based out of the Caribbean for tax reasons. This is too important to trust to a company with such a culture of shadyness. Virtual Security Fence? |
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| Topic: Humor |
11:22 am EDT, Jun 2, 2004 |
Worth checking out for some humor on Diebold's lock on the voting system. Probably akin to something awful... Diebold Ad Parodies |
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Joi Ito's Web: Will airtexting BlackBerry become the mobile hecklebot? |
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| Topic: Technology |
12:44 pm EDT, Jun 1, 2004 |
] By waving the Nokia 3220 camera phone from side to side,
] the LED lights of the Nokia Xpress-on FunShell light up
] to "write" a message that appears to float in mid-air. Joi Ito's Web: Will airtexting BlackBerry become the mobile hecklebot? |
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Rendezvous by Claude LeLouch |
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| Topic: Cars and Trucks |
10:55 pm EDT, May 31, 2004 |
Go to this website and click on Rendezvous. I dunno if its worth 15 Euros because its only 9 minutes long, but its fucking awesome. This guy mounts a camera to the hood of his ferrari and then drives full on through the streets of Paris in the early morning. Bloody lucky he didn't kill someone. If the intense driving doesn't amaze you the sites of the city will. Check it out. There are some previews on the website. Rendezvous by Claude LeLouch |
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Buffalo spammer gets 3.5 to 7 years |
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| Topic: Politics and Law |
6:17 pm EDT, May 31, 2004 |
] A New York man convicted of using the network of Internet
] service provider EarthLink to send out hundreds of
] millions of unsolicited commercial (spam) e-mail was
] sentenced to between three-and-a -half and seven years in
] prison Thursday, according to Brad Maione, a spokesman
] for New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Buffalo spammer gets 3.5 to 7 years |
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The generation storm begins to brew... |
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| Topic: Economics |
11:42 am EDT, May 30, 2004 |
] After a decade of cost controls in the 1990s, insurance
] premiums have resumed their rapid growth - 11
] percent in 2001, 13 percent in 2002 and 14 percent in
] 2003, according to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
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] Ford spent $30 billion in 2002 to cover insurance costs
] for 560,000 workers, retirees, dependents and surviving
] spouses, said Ford spokeswoman Brenda Hines. In 2003, the
] figure jumped $2 billion, adding nearly $1,000 to the
] cost of every Ford vehicle produced in the United States. The generation storm begins to brew... |
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The Creation of the Media (Review) |
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8:40 pm EDT, May 29, 2004 |
Most complaints about the media are personal. Rupert Murdoch did this, Jayson Blair did that. But the most important -- and interesting -- questions are structural. How can newspapers support increasingly expensive international coverage, when most keep losing readers? How can a television station afford not to trumpet disasters and scandals on its local news, when competitors that do get higher ratings? Does concentration of ownership really matter? Is there any longer such a thing as a broad market for the news? "The Creation of the Media" is so thick with detail and careful in nuance that it is completely convincing as a work of scholarship. The heart of his argument is that Americans fundamentally misunderstand what is unusual about their communications media, and why. The Creation of the Media (Review) |
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| Topic: Telecom Industry |
8:07 pm EDT, May 29, 2004 |
The limited introduction of so-called naked DSL is among the signs that the Bells must face the day when local phone service will no longer be the linchpin to their business. Its about damn time. I think the "phone line requirement" for DSL service ought to be illegal. In any event, people are increasingly opting for cable because it gives them more options. They don't want to pay $40 a month so telemarketers can call them. Your friends and co-workers call your cellphone, and it gets cheaper long distance. Bells loosen their grip |
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