UPDATE: Ireland must now bow out of World Cup contention..."Ireland's
World Cup came to a sorry end as Sri Lanka thrashed them by eight
wickets with 40 overs to spare in their Super 8 clash in Grenada.
The Irish were bowled out for 77, mainly thanks to Farveez Maharoof (4-25)...
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"Yes, that’s right, the Main Stream Media (MSM) here in North America is finally taking notice that cellphones and symbologies make good bedfellows (New York Times – “New Bar Codes Can Talk With Your...
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"Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have...
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"Unmanned helicopter rescue service for Mount Everest
February 7, 2007 One of the many problems of climbing a mountain as tall as Mount Everest, is that once you’re up there, there’s not much help available if things go wrong. Most helicopters are not designed to operate...
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I love freakonomic-type stuff that takes conventional wisdom and subjects it to some kind of emprical test. Recently I came across a study into randomness. Totally cosmic man."The poll was inspired by this post...
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"Government advisers recommended against setting specific requirements for the reliability of new hormonal contraceptives on Wednesday, saying that might keep useful approaches off the market.
The panel did recommend, however, that the Food and Drug Administration ask drug...
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"Fallout Compensation Expansion Conference Set For Boise
Idaho Downwinders, based in Emmett, Idaho, is organizing a conference open to the public, Saturday, January 27 in Boise, Idaho on expanding compensation to victims of radioactive fallout from past nuclear weapons...
The stress test of hardware (hard drive benchmarks) is a simplistic
test. There are a number of benchmarking applications software that can
be used as hard disk (storage) stress testing. My favorite is Bonnie++
software.
Bonnie++ is a benchmark suite that is aimed at...
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"Thanks for the tip Rutilus
Mozilla has officially released the first public alpha build of Firefox 3.0.
Codenamed Gran Paradiso, Firefox 3 includes the new Gecko 1.9 rendering
engine which leverages the open-source Cairo rendering framework and
features heavily refactored...
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"After years of coding, bug-testing and a few early skirmishes with rivals and regulators, Microsoft's next operating system will finally launch "to businesses" on Thursday. The question now is, who will want...
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"Yahoo! is getting in on the group text messaging biz with the launch of their new site, Mixd. TechCrunch was tipped off to the site's existence today but we have not been able to determine how long it has been live.
Mixd allows users to set up groups and text or share...
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