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Particle Accelerator Used to Decipher Text (Archimedes) - 20 years ago
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
Iraq is a bloody no man's land - 20 years ago
“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 Rise of Red Capitalism - by Jim Rogers - 20 years ago
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. - 20 years ago
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 - 20 years ago
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
The Intensifying Global Struggle for Energy - 20 years ago
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
Staying What Course? - By Paul Krugman - 20 years ago
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 - 20 years ago
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
Echoes of 1998 (LTCM) - By Eric J. Fry - 20 years ago
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
Junk my ride (GM and Ford) - By Buttonwood - 20 years ago
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 - 20 years ago
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 - 20 years ago
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
Iraq: Facts were fixed - 20 years ago
"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? - 20 years ago
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
Still earning after all these years - By Buttonwood - 20 years ago
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 - 20 years ago
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 Oracle of Omaha - by Sala Kannan - 20 years ago
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
Music stealing all around - 20 years ago
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 - 20 years ago
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 and the (on purpose?) blundering US - 20 years ago
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' - 20 years ago
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
The cyberbuttonwood era arrives - By Buttonwood - 20 years ago
Buttonwood The cyberbuttonwood era arrives Apr 26th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source America’s fragmented stockmarkets are consolidating with a vengeance as electronic trading increases. This must be good news for investors—but for some more than others IT IS not widely appreciated—even by the willing but baffled Family Buttonwood—where the name of this column comes from. So casby archive - Archive
Arab democracy - 20 years ago
Arab democracy Should the West always be worried if Islamists win elections? Apr 28th 2005 | CAIRO From The Economist print edition Source In Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, Islamists seem to be gaining ground. Many want the chance to prove they are real democrats IT MAY be four decades since Saudis last voted, and only in a limited local way, but elections for town councils across the country, tby archive - Archive
Cold fusion - Honest! (The Economist) - 20 years ago
Cold fusion Honest! Apr 28th 2005 From The Economist print edition Source A report of a desktop experiment that produces nuclear fusion is bound to raise eyebrows. But this time, the results look convincing PHYSICISTS who meddle with cold fusion, like psychologists who dabble in the paranormal, are likely to be labelled quacks by their peers. This is due to an infamous incident in 1989 whenby archive - Archive
A Thousand Clowns - by Bill Bonner - 20 years ago
The Daily Reckoning Ouzilly, France Friday, April 29, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Often, the best way to deal with something, or someone, that you find absurd is to take a step back and laugh. Bill Bonner advises his readers to employ this strategy when trying to decipher what our world leaders are really trying to save the world from... A THOUSAND CLOWNS by Bill Bonner Economics hasby archive - Archive
Open Wallets for Open-Source Software - 20 years ago
Open Wallets for Open-Source Software By GARY RIVLIN April 27, 2005 Source SAN FRANCISCO, April 26 - The first time Marc Fleury tried to raise money for his technology start-up company, in mid-2000, a venture capitalist told him that he didn't have merely a bad business plan but a terrible one. Not only was Mr. Fleury planning to compete against the likes of I.B.M., but his product was opeby archive - Archive
The Money Shufflers' Vig - by Marc Faber - 20 years ago
The Daily Reckoning Ouzilly, France Wednesday, April 27, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The notion of one's child wanting to be a doctor sends chills of fear down parents' spines, engineers gravitate to plying their craft on money instead of real stuff, and the $600/hour lawyers are depressed to the point of either padding their accounts or working nearly 24/7. Money shufflers areby archive - Archive
Linux to get trusted, better desktop support - 20 years ago
Linux to get trusted, better desktop support Rodney Gedda, Computerworld 26/04/2005 14:35:29 Source Microsoft may have raised eyebrows when it announced its intentions to turn Windows into a "trustworthy" platform, but the open source Linux is set to support trusted computing, among other enhancements, in its next release. Speaking at Linux Australia's annual Linux conferernce,by archive - Archive
Nuclear fusion on the desktop ... really! - 20 years ago
Nuclear fusion on the desktop ... really! Mini-reactor yields neutrons, could power spacecraft A key part of the apparatus for the nuclear fusion experiment is in the foreground. In the background are researchers Seth Putterman, Brian Naranjo and Jim Gimzewski. MSNBC staff and news service reports Updated: 2:56 p.m. ET April 27, 2005 Source Scientists say they have achieved small-scale nby archive - Archive
New NASA Software Detects 'Bugs' in Java Computer Code - 20 years ago
John Bluck NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Phone: 650/604-5026 or 650/604-9000 Email: jbluck@mail.arc.nasa.gov Valerie Williamson Open Source Technology Group, VA Software Corporation, Fremont, Calif. Phone: 510/687-7116 April 26, 2005 RELEASE: 05_28AR New NASA Softwaby archive - Archive