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31Jul/01Off

GE CEO told NBC to call election?

NBC's Lack, Rep. Waxman Clashing

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) wants NBC News to surrender to him alleged in-house NBC videotapes that reportedly show presidential-election-night interference with news operations by General Electric Co. chairman and CEO Jack Welch in support of then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
31Jul/01Off

Don’t Eat the Yellow Links

Slashdot: Don't Eat the Yellow Links

ContextPro (TOPText) must be stopped. Before you know it every word on every page of every site will be linked to someone else's site hawking their crap.

Apparently this product has changed names twice this week!

31Jul/01Off

House Votes to Ban Human Cloning

House Votes to Ban Human Cloning

This is very sad.

31Jul/01Off

The Hammer

The Standard: Get With The Program

31Jul/01Off

Microsoft Innovation at it again

MacCentral: FireWire gets another hug from Microsoft

"Microsoft has adopted a vision called eHome, which is similar to Apple's Digital Hub vision. The eHome is a home that Microsoft sees based upon numerous devices communicating with each other over many different networks."

EVERY time Apple announces a strategy, Microsoft announces an "initiative" or "vision" 6 months later that's identical to Apple's. When will Apple finally publicly call them on this and make them look foolish?

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31Jul/01Off

Silence

A moment of silence please, to remember those who died in Edmonton on Black Friday, July 31, 1987, when the F4 tornado struck.

30Jul/01Off

Surpise of the Century (not)

Wired: MS Amends Icon Concession

"It appears that Microsoft is backing off their much ballyhooed itty bitty teeny weeny sliver of flexibility and heading back to the rigid stance that has been slapped down by the second-highest court in the land," said AOL Time Warner vice president John Buckley.

AOL's icon can go on the XP desktop as long as the MSN one is there too. I am not surprised one bit. Something has to put MS down, or this is how it will act forever.

30Jul/01Off

The Hunger Site

Shit, it looks like The Hunger Site and associated sites are gone. Damien says they lost their financial backing. :-(

That's very sad.

30Jul/01Off

More on TCO, and Zope/OpenACS, by Luke

Luke Tymowski, ZopeNewbies: Total Cost of Ownership

You wanna talk TCO? You got it baaaaaby.

30Jul/01Off

‘Code Red’ Internet Worm May Hit Again Tuesday

Reuters: 'Code Red' Internet Worm May Hit Again Tuesday

"For us to have a safe Internet the public at large has to institute appropriate security measures, of downloading appropriate fixes to various products, making sure that their anti-virus software is continually updated," Dick said.

Don't be a Dick. Uninstall Windows today!

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