New Google Beta offers Free In-Home WiFi , using DNA based advertising to offset costs... "we use information gathered by discreet DNA sequencing of your personal bodily output to display online ads that are contextually relevant to your culinary preferences,
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So with my renewed annoyance for yahoo music; who recently changed their terms of service to only allow a user to be logged in once, not three times as per their original agreement, its come time to ditch yahoo music. Every time I would boot my laptop,
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Despite the failure of a hydrogen fuel sensor, NASA decided to load the astronauts this AM, and start the countdown. At T -15 they decided to "go by the book" and scrubbed the launch... They will repair the sensor and try to launch again tomorrow...
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In reading a recent report on a shuttle delay, I came across If the shuttle doesn't get into space this week, NASA is considering relaxing a rule that Atlantis be launched in daylight, which would allow the space agency to make another attempt at
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Microsoft Corp has recently annouced a new MSDN style documenting tool they codenamed Sandcastle ... Those of you framilar with nDoc will note the similarities. Kevin Downs, the creator of nDoc, has been working twords a .NET 2 comatable version, and
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So my colleague Kevin Harder has the real dirt on why Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft. Turns out, that he was miffed that he was passed over for the Chief Architect position being left vacant due to Bill Gates announced plans to retire... Instead Microsoft
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is preparing to send a letter asking congress to intervene on behalf of all Americans, and put an end to the litigious pursuits of the RIAA, and their battles with more than 18,000 Americans; as well as ease some of
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I say... because its one of the few places where you can actually be a user of the program you are developing... And that scenario has huge synergistic benefits from the development and test side... The fact that the source is available just means that
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I am a Yahoo music service subscriber... I think of it like insurance against any potential MP3 files I may have in my collection but might I misplaced the media for (g)... My review... The service is very good, the music quality is excellent (all 128k
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I think I want to get a tablet PC for around the house... and to replace my aging laptop... I am just not sure which way to go on the size factor... One part of me says bigger is better. I would really like to have a higher resolution than 1024x768, but
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For regular readers of my blog, I'll apologize in advance for this somewhat off topic post... I find myself wondering in these times of "Judge Analysis Litmus Tests..." Just why is abortion center stage... Why not say Slavery, or NRA... Oh yea... That's
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Yep its official, Netscape released their new "secure" browser, exposed to the known vulnerabilities in the Firefox 1.0.3 engine... They have release 8.0.1.... Also apparently they are "still working on" their software update mechanism, so you have to
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OK, so Netscape 8 finally came out in "release format".. It has a more windows esq skin option... And most importantly, it lets you switch between IE rendering and Firefox... So you can still view and work on your IE only sites... It gives you tabbed
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Ok so whether or not you are a Limbaugh fan, you have to admit that this is big Podcasting news... The show has been available via streaming audio for some time, and occasionally Rush will enable a web cam, he affectionately refers to as the "Ditto Cam".
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Ok, so it has been a year, I just cant stand it anymore... I am running Longhorn 4047 on all my PC's (laptop too). To prepare for the new build, I bought a new PC (Intel 3GHz w/EM64T 630 CPU), it came last week, the memory (2GB DDR2 533) came on friday...
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