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The new iMac G5. Yum. you did take a look at it already didn’t you?
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I don’t watch tv. it surprises me that people do watch as much as they do.
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Microsoft Warns of Critical JPEG Flaw
A security flaw in the way many Microsoft applications process JPEG images could allow an attacker to gain control over a computer running the software, Microsoft warned this week. Any program that processes JPEG images could be vulnerable, Microsoft says in Security Bulletin MS04-028. To take advantage of the flaw, an attacker would have to…
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Biodegradable laptops
NEC Corp is aiming to make more than 10 per cent of the plastic it uses in PCs biodegradable by 2010. The company will release notebook personal computers that use biodegradable plastic this month.
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Does John Howard have election dysfunction?
Does John Howard have election dysfunction? He just can’t seem to get it up past 2%! Does he really think his tiny Clean Energy Target is going to satisfy anyone? At the upcoming Federal election, use your vote to tell John Howard that size really does matter. Climate change is already hurting Australia through the…
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Intellectual Property Should Not Be Treated Like Property
Stanford Professor Mark Lemley argues that the notion that intellectual property resembles property ‘represents a fundamental misapplication of the economic theory of property…. the externalities in intellectual property are positive, not negative, and property theory offers little or no justification for internalizing positive externalities. Indeed, doing so is at odds with the logic and functioning…
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1,000 Dead — How Do You Sleep Mr. Bush?
Michael Moore’s Blog: “1,000 Dead — How Do You Sleep Mr. Bush? Watching TV, the anchorman says, ‘A milestone tonight, the 1,000th American soldier to die in Iraq.’ 13 soldiers have died in the past two days. We don’t know how many Iraqi civilians have died in the bombing of Fallujah and Sadr City today,…
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The EcoBot II eats flies and digests them for power
We know what you’re thinking. A robot that totes around human sewage, digesting living beings for energy? What, you’re not inexorably excited about this? The EcoBot II (ah, what a benign, nonthreatening name) is fed flies into 12 sewage-based bacterial fuel cells, which break them down, digest them, and use the electrons released as current.…
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Your say on the Jakarta bombing
Have your say on the Jakarta bombing By NEWS.com.au readers September 10, 2004 Submit your views on the Jakarta embassy bombing.
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democracy4sale
d4s – The Greens Donations Project: Follow the Money Trail Every year, big corporations donate millions of dollars to the major political parties, buying access and influence that ordinary Australians can’t afford. Use this site to find out which companies have donated, how much, and which political parties are the big winners. The Greens believe…