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Delving into mind over matter - 19 years ago
Delving into mind over matter By CLAIRE SMITH Source IT WAS during a weekend of fire-walking in the Welsh hills that scientist David Hamilton decided to change his life. As an organic chemist with a major pharmaceutical company, he was on a good salary, developing a new generation of drugs by synthesising molecules found in nature. But Hamilton was never convinced that man could improve on natby archive - Archive
'Little progress' in malaria war - 19 years ago
'Little progress' in malaria war BBCNews Thursday, 21 April, 2005 Source Little progress has been made in the war on malaria because the global body launched to fight the disease in 1998 is failing, a medical journal says. Roll Back Malaria, an international group of 90 organisations, was set up to co-ordinate the response to malaria. But the Lancet said the number of cases was risby archive - Archive
Do Firefox browser bugs matter? - 19 years ago
Do Firefox browser bugs matter? BBCNews Friday, 22 April, 2005 Source No program is perfect, but bugs in open source software are less of a problem, says technology analyst Bill Thompson. The Firefox open source browser is full of bugs, some of which are rather serious. In March Danish security firm Secunia reported that it had found eight. Some could be used to trick users into giving awayby archive - Archive
'Infomania' worse than marijuana - 19 years ago
'Infomania' worse than marijuana BBC News Friday, 22 April, 2005 Source Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers, new research has claimed. The study for computing firm Hewlett Packard warned of a rise in "infomania", with people becoming addicted to email and text messages. Researchers found 62% of peby archive - Archive
Will the walls come falling down? - 19 years ago
Will the walls come falling down? Apr 20th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source House prices have been growing at a breakneck pace in many developed countries. This has encouraged householders to keep spending even during the global slowdown. But now that housing markets are looking soft, consumers may be forced to retrench AMERICAN homeowners, particularly those who have just boughtby archive - Archive
Expatriate workers - 19 years ago
Expatriate workers In search of stealth Apr 21st 2005 From The Economist print edition Source Today's global businesses have created a new kind of expat CARLOS GHOSN is a Brazilian who, from next month, will be spending 40% of his time in Paris as the new boss of Renault, 35% in Tokyo where he will continue as the head of Nissan, and 25% elsewhere, most of it in America. Jean-Pierre Garnby archive - Archive
Open source developers provide 'glimmer of hope' - 19 years ago
Open source developers provide 'glimmer of hope' By Ingrid Marson ZDNet UK April 22, 2005, 11:25 BST Source An eminent software developer has claimed that the pressure to be first to market with new technology is leading to a decline in software quality, but that standards are higher in the open source world. James Coplien, a software design expert who currently works as an object arby archive - Archive
The Undoing of America - 19 years ago
Gore Vidal on war for oil, politics-free elections, and the late, great U.S. Constitution The Undoing of America by Steve Perry Friday 25th March 2005 Source For the past 40 years or so of Gore Vidal’s prolific 59-year literary career, his great project has been the telling of the American story from the country’s inception to the present day, unencumbered by the court historian’s task of makiby archive - Archive
Passing the Buck - By Paul Krugman - 19 years ago
"According to the health organization, the higher costs of private insurers are "mainly due to the extensive bureaucracy required to assess risk, rate premiums, design benefit packages and review, pay or refuse claims." Public insurance plans have far less bureaucracy because they don't try to screen out high-risk clients or charge them higher fees." Passing the Buck Bby archive - Archive
Security vs. Rebuilding: Kurdish Town Loses Out - 19 years ago
Security vs. Rebuilding: Kurdish Town Loses Out Christoph Bangert/Polaris, for The New York Times Nuradeen Ghreeb, a civil engineer, dreamed of bringing clean drinking water to his hometown, Halabja, but the United States canceled its planned water project there this week. By JAMES GLANZ Published: April 16, 2005 Source HALABJA, Iraq, April 11 - For years Nuradeen Ghreeb has dreameby archive - Archive
Interview with Gore Vidal -- 11/04/2005 -- ABC Australia - 19 years ago
Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT Source Broadcast: 11/04/2005 Gore Vidal Reporter: Tony Jones TONY JONES: The foreword to Gore Vidal's latest book, Inventing a Nation, is penned by an Australian politician. The writer is none other than New South Wales Premier Bob Carr, a lifetime enthusiast for American history and longtime friend of Gore Vidal. Springing to hisby archive - Archive
HIV is 'out of control' in India - 19 years ago
HIV is 'out of control' in India Last Updated: Tuesday, 19 April, 2005 BBC News Source A senior Aids expert has warned that HIV in India is "out of control". The executive director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids said that the epidemic in India is spreading rapidly and nothing is being done to stop it. Richard Feachem warned that India has overtaken South Africa as theby archive - Archive
Sharon warns Bush of regional war in 2006 - 19 years ago
Sharon warns Bush of regional war in 2006 SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Source Israel has relayed its concern to the United States of the rising prospect of a Middle East war in 2006. U.S. officials said Israel has determined that the expected U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2006 would raise tensions in the region that could lead to a Middle East war. The officials said theby archive - Archive
Vint Cerf on Internet Challenges - 19 years ago
Vint Cerf on Internet Challenges Source I drove up to the Univ. of Utah this afternoon to hear this year’s Organick Lecture by Vint Cerf, one of the inventors of the Internet (I believe he and Al Gore were lab partners). Vint is currently Senior VP for Technology Strategy at MCI, Chairman of ICANN, and a recent winner of the ACM Turing Award. Where is the science in CS? Here are places some wiby archive - Archive
Al Gore's support of the Internet, by V.Cerf and B.Kahn - 19 years ago
Al Gore's support of the Internet, by V.Cerf and B.Kahn Source * Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:30:06 -0700 (PDT) * To: politech@politechbot.com * Subject: FC: Al Gore's support of the Internet, by V.Cerf and B.Kahn * From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com&gby archive - Archive
The Hoax of Democracy in Iraq - 19 years ago
The Daily Reckoning London, England Wednesday, April 20, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Iraq's recent election - the election that many Iraqi citizens voted in despite death threats - is seen as a success in the eyes of most Americans. However, Richard Maybury wonders if forcing our love of democracy on Iraqis was the right thing to do - or if it will further separate an already divideby archive - Archive
The Great Wealth Deception - By Dr. Kurt Richebächer - 19 years ago
The Daily Reckoning London, England Tuesday, April 19, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The U.S.'s economic recovery since 2001, despite what others may say, is practically non-existent. Dr. Richebächer wonders if this quest for an economic rebound has been abandoned - or simply delayed... THE GREAT WEALTH DECEPTION by Dr. Kurt Richebächer This is the most important economic questionby archive - Archive
Building the EU by stealth - 19 years ago
Building the EU by stealth by Hugh McDonald This document was last modified by David Granville on 2005-02-08 11:48:13. Source HOW DECEIT is integral to the development of the EU was admitted frankly by Italian prime minister Guiliano Amato in an interview with Barbara Spinelli of La Stampa on 13 July 2000. Since then Amato became vice-president of the convention that drafted the EU constitutioby archive - Archive
Manufacturers learn from users' creativity - 19 years ago
Manufacturers learn from users' creativity By Robert Weisman April 17, 2005 Source When Lego Mindstorms made their debut in 1998 after a lengthy product development cycle, Lego marketing officials were surprised to discover that the robotic toys were popular not only with teenagers but with adult hobbyists eager to improve on them. Within three weeks of their release, user groups had spruby archive - Archive
Fact Sheet (from the Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education) - 19 years ago
Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education Fact Sheet Source 1. Congress has improperly delegated to the U.S. banking system a power that Congress does not have under the Constitution: the power to create legal-tender-irredeemable-paper-ticket/electronic-fiat-token money out of nothing. This means that our monetary system is not in accordance with the Rule of Law. 2. There is no posby archive - Archive
Earth’s gravity may lure deadly asteroid - 19 years ago
Earth’s gravity may lure deadly asteroid By Nigel Hawkes April 18, 2005 Source A HUGE asteroid which is on a course to miss the Earth by a whisker in 2029 could go round its orbit again and score a direct hit a few years later. Astronomers have calculated that the 1,000ft-wide asteroid called 2004 MN4 will pass by the Earth at a distance of between 15,000 and 25,000 miles — about a tenth of thby archive - Archive
U.S. Military's Elite Hacker Crew - 19 years ago
U.S. Military's Elite Hacker Crew By John Lasker Source 02:00 AM Apr. 18, 2005 PT The U.S. military has assembled the world's most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be ready to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks -- from electric grids to telephone nets. The group's existence was revealed during a U.S. Senate Armedby archive - Archive
Flying Cars Ready To Take Off - 19 years ago
Flying Cars Ready To Take Off April 17, 2005 Source Have you ever dreamt about the day you can buzz around in your very own flying machine? Well, that day may be sooner than you think. The folks at NASA have built something called “The Highway in the Sky.” It's a computer system designed to let millions of people fly whenever they please, and take off and land from wherever they please, iby archive - Archive
New Law Center Founded to Assist Open Source Software Developers - 19 years ago
New Law Center Founded to Assist Open Source Software Developers Source Software Freedom Law Center to be led by noted IP lawyer and professor Eben Moglen of Columbia University – initial funding support from Open Source Development Labs BURLINGAME, Calif. – February 1, 2005 – Columbia University Law Professor Eben Moglen today announced the formation of the Software Freedom Law Center, whoseby archive - Archive
The SCO Boomerang and the Strength of Linux - 19 years ago
The SCO Boomerang and the Strength of Linux By Pamela Jones NewsFactor Network April 15, 2005 1:49PM Source As a result of the SCO litigation, the community has bonded more tightly than ever, and showed that it will support Linux and free and open-source software and any company that stands up for it. That is how Groklaw was born. Back in March of 2003, when SCO Group first brought its suit agby archive - Archive
Passport applicants must give fingerprints - 19 years ago
Passport applicants must give fingerprints Preparation for ID cards goes ahead without parliament Alan Travis, home affairs editor Tuesday April 12, 2005 The Guardian (UK) Source Ministers are to press ahead with the mandatory fingerprinting of new passport applicants using royal prerogative powers to sidestep the loss of their identity card legislation last week. The police are expected to bby archive - Archive
China, India: Rule Global Tech? - 19 years ago
China, India: Rule Global Tech? Associated Press 10:34 AM Apr. 10, 2005 PT Source BANGALORE, India -- China and India should work together to dominate the world's tech industry, bringing together Chinese hardware with Indian software, China's prime minister said Sunday. On a visit to India's southern technology hub of Bangalore, Premier Wen Jiabao said the two nations should puby archive - Archive
Bionic suit offers wearers super-strength - 19 years ago
Bionic suit offers wearers super-strength 11 April 2005 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition By John Boyd Source A ROBOT suit has been developed that could help older people or those with disabilities to walk or lift heavy objects. Dubbed HAL, or hybrid assistive limb, the latest versions of the suit will be unveiled this June at the 2005 World Expo in Aichi, Japan, which opened last monby archive - Archive
The Whole-House Machine (Robots) - 19 years ago
The Whole-House Machine This is why people think robotics are the future By Brad Lemley Photography by Sian Kennedy DISCOVER Vol. 26 No. 04 | April 2005 | Technology Source In a sunny laboratory at the University of Southern California, a robotically controlled nozzle squeezes a ribbon of concrete onto a wooden plank. Every two minutes and 14 seconds, the nozzle completes a circuit, topping tby archive - Archive
The new Dutch model? - 19 years ago
Living with Islam The new Dutch model? Mar 31st 2005 | AMSTERDAM AND THE HAGUE From The Economist print edition Source Increasingly, the Netherlands wonders whether diversity is always desirable FOR people who see themselves as the front line in an uncertain struggle to defend western civilisation—a struggle, moreover, which has already cost some lives—the cultural warriors of the Netherlandsby archive - Archive