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Mr. Moore, your documentary "Bowling for Columbine" is fictitious, not factual. David Hardy's Truth About Bowling is simply damning. You deliberately deceive your viewers, who are only expecting a slightly biased factual report. Mr. Moore, my personal hope is that you publicly apologize, not for your ideas, but for dubbing your lies the truth. Please see revoketheoscar.com Love always, NHA Crew. Greets to: Colin L. Powell, DoubleOh, xyral, qu3da, Rav3n, GOD, Zombie *good luck in the marines*, kluster, Ruder, OSS, YuY, Bill O'Reilly, Tyger, Avangel, sub_pop_culture, AcIdR3IgN, Renegade
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Thirty years of 'talking' computers The original diagram laying out ethernet's basic form Some of the computer technology that lets you read this story is 30 years old this weekend.In 1973 data was passed over a computer networking technology known as ethernet for the first time. The feat was accomplished by Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs who at the time were researchers at the legendary Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Three decades on and ethernet is used to connect millions of computers together and to link those machines to the internet. Ether flyerBob Metcalfe began working on ways to...
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<< Return to article An Aircar in Every Garage?The fantasy of a personal flying machine is lurching toward reality, as companies ready vertical-takeoff aircraft for market, and information technology endows planes with the ability to fly themselves. Staff Illustration By David Louis DreierMay 23, 2003“I’ve been lecturing on this subject for about a decade and a half,” says Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, “and at the end of every talk, people ask me two main questions: Where can I buy one; and where can I get a franchise to sell them?” “These things” are...
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Tel Aviv University and American researchers have managed to cure diabetes in mice by creating insulin-producing cells from stem cells taken from the liver of a four-month-old miscarried human embryo and implanting them into Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetic mice. Prof. Shimon Efrat of the department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine at TAU's Sackler School of Medicine and colleagues in Israel and the US hope that eventually such cells could be transplanted into human diabetics if a way is found to protect them from rejection through an autoimmune attack. The genetically engineered human cells will theoretically be ready for clinical...
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Radio tags the size of a grain of sand could be embedded in the euro note if a reported deal between the European Central Bank (ECB) and Japanese electronics maker Hitachi is signed. Japanese news agency Kyodo was reportedly told by Hitachi that the ECB has started talks with the company about the use of its radio chip in the banknote. The ECB is deeply concerned about counterfeiting and money-laundering and is said to be looking at radio-tag technology. Last year, Greek authorities were confronted with 2,411 counterfeiting cases and seized 4,776 counterfeit banknotes, while authorities in Poland nabbed a...
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YOKOHAMA, Japan, May 22 (UPI) -- Scientists said Thursday that invisible, high-speed circuitry from Japan someday soon could form the innards of devices now seen only in science fiction, such as televisions made of nothing but hunks of transparent crystal."Transparent transistors are the first step towards the realization of transparent displays, such as seen in Tom Cruise's last summer movie, 'Minority Report,'" electrical engineer John Wager of Oregon State University in Corvallis told United Press International. "I was astonished when I first heard about this result."Inventors have used invisible conductors of electricity in gadgetry for years. Clear wires that heat...
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NASA-funded research at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., that literally stops light in its tracks, may someday lead to breakneck-speed computers that shelter enormous amounts of data from hackers. The research, conducted by a team led by Dr. Lene Hau, a Harvard physics professor, is one of 12 research projects featured in a special edition of Scientific American entitled "The Edge of Physics," available through May 31. In their laboratory, Hau and her colleagues have been able to slow a pulse of light, and even stop it, for several-thousandths of a second. They've also created a roadblock for light, where they...
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rare in the abstract of a reputable scientific paper. But the latest report by photonics crystal pioneer John Joannopoulos and his group at MIT, soon to be published in Physical Review Letters, does not disappoint. The researchers document the ultimate control over light: a way to shift the frequency of light beams to any desired colour, with near 100 per cent efficiency. "The degree of control over light really is quite shocking," comments photonics expert Eli Yablonovitch at the University of California, Los Angeles. If the effect can be harnessed, it will revolutionise a range of fields turning heat into...
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My antivirus software was removed from my computer and when Zone Alarm was removed (don't ask, let's just say that I am in the running for the tech version of the Darwin Award) hidden viruses infested the entire beast. Norton Antivirus ran all of Tuesday and located and killed many viruses but there were a few it could not remove and had to ignore. Now Norton has been running in Dos format. It seems to be really slow or repeating itself. It still is in my temp folders after 24 hours. Will the patient survive? Are there other treatments??Will I...
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In the .NET Framework, it's possible to access a private member of any class -- your own, another developer's, or even the classes in the .NET Framework itself! Appleman demonstrates this with a great example that uses private members to get the list of groups that the current user is a member of -- in a single line of code -- by accessing a private member that is not exposed by the .NET Framework. Appleman also explains the tradeoffs of using this technique. The code you're using is not documented, and it's not guaranteed to be present in future versions....
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WASHINGTON (AP) - To track and thwart terrorists, the Pentagon wants to give U.S. agents fingertip access to records from around the world that could fill the Library of Congress more than 50 times. The library's collection includes more than 18 million books. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says in its documents that it is trying to design software that could access and analyze an unprecedented amount of data, ``measured in petabytes.'' In computer jargon, a byte is what it takes electronically to represent one letter of the alphabet. A petabyte is a quadrillion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000, bytes. Most personal...
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<p>It's a memory aid! A robotic assistant! An epidemic detector! An all-seeing, ultra-intrusive spying program!</p>
<p>The Pentagon is about to embark on a stunningly ambitious research project designed to gather every conceivable bit of information about a person's life, index all the information and make it searchable.</p>
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NORTH CHELMSFORD, MA--(MARKET WIRE)--May 16, 2003 -- PredatorWatch, Inc. today announced its discovery of vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Evaluation Software, which Microsoft is making available to the public for free usage. The evaluation software download and CD-ROM offer of the Windows Server 2003 operating system is available from the Microsoft Web site. ADVERTISEMENT PredatorWatch tested the Evaluation Software operating system using the PredatorWatch vulnerability assessment and management system.The following weaknesses were discovered: The Microsoft server ships with ports 135, 139, 445 and 1025 open, leaving various network-based services open to possible attack. It accepts "NULL" session login...
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Microsoft threw its weight behind SCO Group's battle against Linux Monday by declaring that it would license Unix technology from SCO in order to "ensure intellectual property compliance across all Microsoft solutions." Microsoft's license covers a patent and source code from Unix.SCO claims that the Linux kernel holds Unix intellectual property owned by SCO. The company has moved to hold IBM (Quote, Company Info) responsible, unleashing a $1 billion lawsuit against the company for misappropriation of trade secrets (though not copyright infringement, to date). Still, the company has conceded that some of the alleged Unix code in the Linux kernel...
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Sun Microsystems is expected to unveil Monday a partnership with software maker Oracle to promote the use of stripped-down blade servers as a way to lower computing costs. The announcement will describe an effort code-named Project Grizzly, part of Sun's plan to develop servers that use Intel and Advanced Micro Devices processors and that run Sun's Solaris operating system, according to sources familiar with the plans. Other announcements from Sun are anticipated for Monday, and though details are still sketchy, their overall theme will likely center on the company's efforts to show that it can offer low-cost options to customers....
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Upgraded to Windows XP (news - web sites) yet? If not, you might miss your chance, because Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news)is already working on the newest version of its operating system, code-named Longhorn, due for release in 2005. Although Windows XP, the most current version of Windows, is just 20 months old, the world's largest software maker is betting that users will be ready to upgrade within the next couple of years as personal computers become more powerful, faster and affordable. Details about the new operating system remain scant, but Microsoft has already started soliciting feedback...
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Security Flaw Shows Microsoft Passport Identities Can't Be Trusted15 May 2003John Pescatore | Avivah LitanA serious security flaw shows that Microsoft Passport identities could be easily compromised. Financial institutions and other enterprises should replace or augment Passport until at least November 2003. EventOn 8 May 2003, Microsoft acknowledged a major security flaw in its Passport Internet user-authentication service. An independent researcher in Pakistan first identified the flaw. It could theoretically have enabled unauthorized access to any of the more than 200 million Passport accounts used to authenticate e-mail, and e-commerce and other transactions. Microsoft indicates it has resolved the problem...
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What exactly did Rush say about Adobe PDFs? PDF editing programs are becoming more affordable. And it's a proven platform, going from a browser to an inkjet printer to a press with one document convention. The time has come! I noticed Microsoft's Office 2003 is going to have some collaborative document sharing, but it may be another case of too much, for too little, too late.
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It's not the Fountain of Youth, but it is intriguing: a class of molecules that researchers have discovered prolongs life and prevents a debilitating age-related illness. • Worm research sheds light on aging process • Siebel relents on shareholder meeting • Good Morning Silicon Valley • Dan Gillmor's column These findings, announced by a team of University of California-San Francisco scientists in today's issue of the journal Science, are thus far confined to a lowly worm found in compost heaps everywhere. But because worms, humans and all other creatures share the identical class of molecules -- called "small heat...
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EZ-D Will Feature Titles From Buena Vista Home Entertainment Including The Recruit, The Hot Chick, 25TH Hour, Frida & Signs NEW YORK, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Flexplay Technologies, Inc, a privately held company based in New York, today announced that Buena Vista Home Entertainment Division of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS - News) will use its flexible play DVD technology to make movies available to consumers in test markets beginning this August. The introduction of this innovative product, branded "EZ-D," will include BVHE titles The Recruit, Rabbit Proof Fence, The Hot Chick, 25th Hour, Heaven, Equilibrium, Frida and Signs....
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