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Linux Vendors Gang Up On Red Hat |
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12:16 pm EDT, May 29, 2002 |
"A number of Linux vendors will announce on Thursday that they have agreed to standardize on a single Linux distribution to try to take on Red Hat Inc.'s dominance in the industry.
A media advisory issued on Tuesday said executives from Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE and Turbolinux on Thursday will make "a major announcement that will change the shape of Linux worldwide." Linux Vendors Gang Up On Red Hat |
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washingtonpost.com: The New Face of Another Gilded Age |
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| Topic: Society |
11:24 am EDT, May 28, 2002 |
We have just witnessed, in the spectacular growth of U.S. fortunes over the past two decades, a once-in-a-century phenomenon. Puffed up by the boom in high-technology and finance, a select group of Americans has accumulated an even larger boodle in an even shorter period of time than the titans of the Gilded Age amassed 100 years ago. The numbers almost defy belief. ... If the recent accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few resembles the Gilded Age, what about the politics? ... While history often repeats, it usually does so only in outline; ... politics today has a somewhat different cast. ... Money will keep talking, the public interest will keep walking. The great battles, in short, are still ahead. washingtonpost.com: The New Face of Another Gilded Age |
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From a Few Colored Lines Come the Sounds of Music |
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| Topic: Music |
11:05 am EDT, May 28, 2002 |
A music teacher / MIT Media Lab researcher has developed an innovative new tool for composing music on the computer. He calls it HyperScore, software that would convert expressive gestures -- lines, patterns, textures and colors -- made on the screen into pleasing and variable sounds. The goal, he said, is to let children have "the direct experience of translating their own thoughts and feelings into music." From a Few Colored Lines Come the Sounds of Music |
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| Topic: Technology |
10:54 am EDT, May 28, 2002 |
This search engine draws a map showing the relationships between documents returned from a web search. It can shorten the time spent finding the page that you want out of the list returned by the search, but its more interesting then practical... Kartoo metasearch engine |
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Welcome to Cyber-Geography Research |
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10:49 am EDT, May 28, 2002 |
"Exploring the geographies of the Internet, the Web and other emerging Cyberspaces." There are some good links on this site to interesting data visualization projects. Welcome to Cyber-Geography Research |
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2:30 pm EDT, May 27, 2002 |
"Fortune 100 corporations, small firms and even Internet service providers with strong security have an Achilles heel: users who pick easily guessable passwords" There simply isn't any news today. News sites across the net are really stretching to come up with something to write about. You should stop reading the internet, go outside, and play golf. A day without news |
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6:35 pm EDT, May 26, 2002 |
"From the outset, this thesis is difficult to square with basic facts about the Information Age, particularly with the explosion in access to information made possible by the digital revolution. " This arguement against Lessig is better then most... Of course, I completely disagree with it, but I'll let you find the flaws... Adkinson Vs. Lessig |
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NPR : Terrorism Intelligence Timeline |
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6:16 pm EDT, May 26, 2002 |
NPR's Mike Shuster reports on Morning Edition that government agencies had several clues that might have triggered alarms in the months before Sept. 11. But no one put them together. Senior government officials were frantic about threats from al Qaeda, going all the way back to June 2001. There were daily meetings in the White House, and alerts issued from the FBI, the State Department and the Federal Aviation Administration. "The warnings were serious, the information specific and some of it had to do with the use of airplanes to kill the president and foreign leaders." Be sure to follow the "Listen to Mike Shuster's report" link to hear the audio track for this story. It's the best study I've seen thus far into how close we actually came to having specific advance knowledge of September 11. NPR : Terrorism Intelligence Timeline |
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6:06 pm EDT, May 26, 2002 |
Maybe it is a way to tame a fearsome subject by Hollywoodizing it, or maybe it is a way to drive home the dreadful stakes in the arid-sounding business of nonproliferation, but in several weeks of talking to specialists here and in Russia about the threats an amateur evildoer might pose to the homeland, I found an unnerving abundance of such morbid creativity. This is a long article, and there is little you can do, but it you are curious... Nuclear Nightmares |
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Fact-Finding and Its Limits |
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5:39 pm EDT, May 26, 2002 |
It's not surprising that many officials in Washington are talking about convening an independent panel to investigate the federal government's actions before the Sept. 11 attacks. ... Congressional investigations can calm public anxiety, push reforms upon government agencies and in some cases force out ineffective officials. What they are unlikely to do is give us the kind of understanding that normally comes only decades later from history, when we will have full access to information and the distance to judge it properly. Presidential historian Michael Beschloss explains it all. Fact-Finding and Its Limits |
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