The Daily Reckoning London, England Thursday, May 26, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The air of general unconcern over the current state of the U.S. economy is mystifying - especially with the unstable housing market and sky-high consumer debts. Dr. Richebächer explores... AN OMINOUS PARALLEL by Dr. Kurt Richebächer It can no longer be doubted that the world economy is heading into a neby archive - Archive
The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea Unlimited energy. Fast-growing fruit. Free air-conditioning. John Piña Craven says we can have it all by tapping the icy waters of the deep. By Carl Hoffman Issue 13.06 - June 2005 Source Halfway through an important lunch meeting in Kona, Hawaii, with the lieutenant governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, John Piña Craven is suddenly restless. Theby archive - Archive
Nokia announces patent support to the Linux Kernel May 25, 2005 Nokia press Source Espoo, Finland - Nokia Corporation announced today that it allows all its patents to be used in the further development of the Linux Kernel. Nokia believes that open source software communities, like open standards, foster innovation and make an important contribution to the creation and rapid adaptation of technby archive - Archive
OASIS Approves OpenOffice 2.0 File Format May 23, 2005 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Source OASIS, the international e-business standards consortium, announced on Monday that it has approved the Open Document Format for Office Applications Version 1.0 as a standard. OpenDocument (Open Document Format for Office Applications) is the new default XML-based file format for the forthcoming open-souby archive - Archive
Beyond Relational Databases From Databases Vol. 3, No. 3 - April 2005 by MARGO SELTZER, SLEEPYCAT Source There is more to data access than SQL. History of Relational Databases The number and variety of computing devices in the environment are increasing rapidly. Real computers are no longer tethered to desktops or locked in server rooms. PDAs, highly mobile tablet and laptop devices, paby archive - Archive
Hacker Hunters By Brian Grow, with Jason Bush in Moscow MAY 30, 2005 Edition Preference BusinessWeek Source An elite force takes on the dark side of computing In an unmarked building in downtown Washington, Brian K. Nagel and 15 other Secret Service agents manned a high-tech command center, poised for the largest-ever roundup of a cybercrime gang. A huge map of the U.S., spread across 12 digitby archive - Archive
When fed to rats it affected their kidneys and blood counts. So what might it do to humans? We think you should be told The secret research we reveal today raises the potential health risks of genetically modified foods. Here, environment editor Geoffrey Lean, who has led this paper's campaign on GM technology for the past six years, examines the new evidence. And he asks the questions thby archive - Archive
Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food Rats fed GM corn due for sale in Britain developed abnormalities in blood and kidneys By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Source 22 May 2005 Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn developed abnormalities to internal organs and changes to their blood, raising fears that human health could be affected by eating GM food. The Inby archive - Archive
Ritter, former U. N. weapons inspector, shares his views on Iran's nuclear capabilities By Tyler Wasson, Reporter May 18, 2005 Source Scott Ritter, a former U. N. weapons inspector spoke to a sold-out crowd last Thursday evening at Spokane’s Metropolitan Opera House. The event was co-sponsored by the Spokane group the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane (P.J.A.L.S.). A critic of thby archive - Archive
Particle Accelerator Used to Decipher Text By ALEX DOMINGUEZ Associated Press Writer May 21, 2005, 4:30 PM EDT Source BALTIMORE -- A particle accelerator is being used to reveal the long-lost writings of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, work hidden for centuries after a Christian monk wrote over it in the Middle Ages. Highly focused X-rays produced at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centby archive - Archive
“The greatest failure of the US in Iraq is not that mistakes were made but that its political system has proved incapable of redressing them.” -- Patrick Cockburn Iraq is a bloody no man's land. America has failed to win the war. But has it lost it? Ten US troops were killed in action across Iraq last week. The fighting is now sustained and ferocious. Patrick Cockburn, winner of the Marthby archive - Archive
The Daily Reckoning London, England Wednesday, May 18, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: China is in the process of moving from tyranny to democracy - and many are worried about the chaos that may ensue during that change. Jim Rogers explores... THE RISE OF RED CAPITLAISM by Jim Rogers In 1999, when I was in China, the then prime minister, Zhu Rongji, spoke at the Harvard Business School.by archive - Archive
Privacy vs. openness: A data dilemma in U.S. By Tom Zeller Jr. The New York Times WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2005 Source BALTIMORE Ted Stevens wanted to know just how much the Internet has turned private lives into open books. So the U.S. senator, a Republican from Alaska and the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, instructed his staff to steal his identity. "I regret to say they were sucby archive - Archive
EU seeks 'legally clever' patent definition By Ingrid Marson, Special to ZDNet 18 May 2005 Source The European Parliament (EP) has enlisted the help of intellectual property lawyers to amend the directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions so that companies are prevented from patenting pure software. The draft software patent directive was adopted in March, despby archive - Archive
Published on Monday, May 9, 2005 by TomDispatch.com The Intensifying Global Struggle for Energy by Michael T. Klare source From Washington to New Delhi, Caracas to Moscow and Beijing, national leaders and corporate executives are stepping up their efforts to gain control over major sources of oil and natural gas as the global struggle for energy intensifies. Never has the competitive pursuitby archive - Archive
May 16, 2005 Staying What Course? By PAUL KRUGMAN Source Is there any point, now that November's election is behind us, in revisiting the history of the Iraq war? Yes: any path out of the quagmire will be blocked by people who call their opponents weak on national security, and portray themselves as tough guys who will keep America safe. So it's important to understand how the toughby archive - Archive
t/Space Offers an Option for Closing Shuttle, CEV Gap By Brian Berger Staff Writer Monday, May 9, 2005 Source Transformational Space Corp. (t/Space), a company founded in response to the new U.S. vision for space exploration, thinks it can help NASA close the gap between retiring the space shuttle fleet and fielding a Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) to carry astronauts beyond Earth's orbit.by archive - Archive
The Rude Awakening Wall Street, New York Thursday, May 12, 2005 ECHOES OF 1998 By Eric J. Fry When GM bonds skidded last week, a few hedge fund managers ended up with tire tracks across their backs...and some nasty injuries. According to the hyperactive Wall Street rumor mill, several large hedge funds are reeling from an ill-timed “capital-structure arbitrage” play: Buy General Motors bondsby archive - Archive
Buttonwood Junk my ride May 10th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source The downgrade of GM’s and Ford’s debt to junk status poses various problems for the bond and derivatives markets. But it has a silver lining IT CAN now be revealed: Buttonwood no longer owns a car. With petrol costs high and congestion charges rising, car ownership for those living in central London is nine-tenths pby archive - Archive
Col. David H. Hackworth, 1930-2005: Legendary U.S. Army Guerrilla Fighter, Champion of the Ordinary Soldier Thursday May 5, 1:57 pm ET Source NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Col. David H. Hackworth, the United States Army's legendary, highly decorated guerrilla fighter and lifelong champion of the doughboy and dogface, groundpounder and grunt, died Wednesday in Mexico. He was 74 years old.by archive - Archive
Motorola Debuts First Ever Nano Emissive Flat Screen Display Prototype May 09, 2005 by PhysOrg.com Source Building Upon Carbon Nanotube Technology, Motorola Prepares to Revolutionize the Flat Panel Display Industry Motorola Labs today unveiled a working 5-inch color video display prototype based on proprietary Carbon Nanotube (CNT) technology – a breakthrough technique that could create large,by archive - Archive
"This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents." -- From the memo below. IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED." Special to BuzzFlash Thursday, May 5, 2005 By Greg Palast Source Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it. The top-by archive - Archive
OpenLDAP: The future of business? By Tina Gasperson 2005.05.04 Source Mark Taylor believes that OpenLDAP is the catalyst that will finally make open source fully enterprise-ready. And he's willing to stake his business on it. Taylor is founder and CEO of Sirius IT. Based in the United Kingdom but focusing on all of Europe, Sirius provides training, deployment, and support for open sourceby archive - Archive
Buttonwood Still earning after all these years May 3rd 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source The legendary investor who stood the efficient-markets thesis on its head has hit a spot of bother. But Warren Buffett has survived such spots before “I’M WARREN. He’s Charlie. We work together. We really don’t have any choice, because he can hear and I can see.” Thus Warren Buffett and his viby archive - Archive
GATES VS. GOOGLE Search and Destroy Bill Gates is on a mission to build a Google killer. What got him so riled? The darling of search is moving into software—and that's Microsoft's turf. FORTUNE Monday, April 18, 2005 By Fred Vogelstein Source Microsoft was already months into A massive project aimed at taking down Google when the truth began to dawn on Bill Gates. It was December 2by archive - Archive
The Daily Reckoning London, England Tuesday, May 03, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Those who went to Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder's meeting expecting a straight-laced event full of serious people would have been in for a surprise. Read on, as Sala Kannan describes the funniest lesson in economics she has ever experienced... THE ORACLE OF OMAHA by Sala Kannan Berkshireby archive - Archive
Letters to the business editor: 5/3/05 Tuesday, May 03, 2005 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Source Music stealing all around Cary Sherman's opinion piece on Sunday, "Mellifluous Discord: Universities' High-Speed Internet2 Used by Students to Pilfer Music," was as one-sided and illogical as the whole Recording Industry Association of America he represents, as president. Sherman suby archive - Archive
A Call to Arms From Databases Vol. 3, No. 3 - April 2005 by JIM GRAY, MICROSOFT MARK COMPTON, CONSULTANT Source Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand. Avalanche of Information We live in a time of extreme change, much of it precipitated by an avalanche of information that otherwise threatens to swallow us whole. Under the mby archive - Archive
THE ROVING EYE Iraq's hostage cabinet By Pepe Escobar Source "We fasted for three months; then we broke our fast with an onion." - Iraqi proverb After fasting - or watching non-stop squabbling - for almost three months since the January 30 elections, Iraqis finally got their onion: a new cabinet no one likes (except the Kurds). Shi'ite Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari diby archive - Archive
Small box 'to end digital divide' By Jo Twist BBC News science and technology reporter Friday, 29 April, 2005 Source A pared down "computer" to replace bulky, grey desktop PCs could help close global digital inequalities. Not-for-profit developers, Ndiyo - the Swahili word for "yes" - said it could open up the potential of computing to two billion more people. Tby archive - Archive