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Borrowers Should Go For Broke - by Rick Ackerman - 19 years ago
The Daily Reckoning London, England Tuesday, March 22, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The new bankruptcy bill may deter some debtors from further "credit card kamikaze," but if property prices decline, the bill could leave millions of homeowners underwater on their mortgages. Rick Ackerman explores... BORROWERS SHOULD GO FOR BROKE by Rick Ackerman As indebtedness in its many inby archive - Archive
Rolling out next generation's net (About The Grid) - 19 years ago
Rolling out next generation's net BBC News Saturday, 26 March, 2005 Source The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start. "In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population," the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. Theby archive - Archive
A New Company to Focus on Artificial Intelligence - 19 years ago
A New Company to Focus on Artificial Intelligence By JOHN MARKOFF Published: March 24, 2005 Source SAN FRANCISCO, March 23 - The technologist and the marketing executive who co-founded Palm Computing in 1992 are starting a new company that plans to license software technologies based on a novel theory of how the mind works. Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky will remain involved with whatby archive - Archive
Banks eye bootable Linux CDs - 19 years ago
Banks eye bootable Linux CDs By Renai LeMay ZDNet Australia March 24, 2005 Source Australian company Cybersource says it's currently talking to two domestic banks about providing Linux-based bootable CDs to consumers to ensure Internet banking security. The company yesterday released information about its Online Banking Coastguard solution. Coastguard is based upon Knoppix, a Linux distrby archive - Archive
Microsoft criticised for IP address configeration patent - 19 years ago
Microsoft criticised for IP address configeration patent Ingrid Marson ZDNet UK March 23, 2005, 16:20 GMT Source An organisation that campaigns for the reform of the patent system criticised Microsoft on Wednesday for filing a patent with a claimed similarity to the address auto-configeration mechanism of IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol. The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) claimby archive - Archive
Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene - 19 years ago
Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene By NICHOLAS WADE March 23, 2005 Source In a startling discovery, geneticists at Purdue University say they have found plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents' generation or earlier. The finding implieby archive - Archive
Why Novell's internal migration to Linux desktops is a landmark - 19 years ago
NewsForge Why Novell's internal migration to Linux desktops is a landmark 2005.03.23 By Joe Barr Source SALT LAKE CITY -- There have been so many announcements, so much activity, such a hurried pace to the Brainshare 2005 conference that I think many may have overlooked the big story. It was thrown out in an almost offhand manner during Novell CEO Jack Messman's keynote address on Mby archive - Archive
Novell preps Linux Desktop 10 - 19 years ago
Novell preps Linux Desktop 10 It plans to go head-to-head against Windows News Story by Cathleen Moore Source MARCH 23, 2005 (INFOWORLD) - Linux is ready for the corporate desktop, and the forthcoming version of Novell Inc.'s Linux Desktop offering will go head-to-head against Windows, Novell executives said this week at the company's annual BrainShare gathering in Salt Lake City.by archive - Archive
The Ugly American Bank - By Paul Krugman - 19 years ago
March 18, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST The Ugly American Bank By PAUL KRUGMAN Source You can say this about Paul Wolfowitz's qualifications to lead the World Bank: He has been closely associated with America's largest foreign aid and economic development project since the Marshall Plan. I'm talking, of course, about reconstruction in Iraq. Unfortunately, what happened there is likely tby archive - Archive
How to Battle the Coming Brain Drain - 19 years ago
How to Battle the Coming Brain Drain Older workers are retiring in droves. How do you prevent their crucial knowledge from leaving with them? FORTUNE Monday, March 7, 2005 By Anne Fisher Source If you scan the reams of "best advice" in the preceding pages, you'll notice a pattern: Many of the key advice givers are older and wiser bosses. No surprise there. It's the managerby archive - Archive
Firefox explorers - 19 years ago
Firefox explorers By Nigel McFarlane March 22, 2005 Source When Bill Robertson decided last year to switch 450 workers and 100 desktops at De Bortoli Wines to the open source Firefox web browser, he had the company's future in mind. In moving to the free Firefox, he did more than just install a web browser that rivals Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which comes for free with every PCby archive - Archive
The Age of Missing Information - 19 years ago
The Age of Missing Information The Bush administration's campaign against openness. By Steven Aftergood Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005, at 4:23 AM PT Source The government does a remarkable job of counting the number of national security secrets it generates each year. Since President George W. Bush entered office, the pace of classification activity has increased by 75 percent, said Wiby archive - Archive
Guide: Microsoft European draft licence - 19 years ago
Guide: Microsoft European draft licence Ingrid Marson and Matt Loney, ZDNet UK March 21, 2005 Source In last year's European Commission antitrust ruling against Microsoft, the software giant agreed to create a server interoperability licence that would allow rival makers of server software to write applications that can "achieve full interoperability" with Windows client anby archive - Archive
Funding the Way to Open Access - 19 years ago
Funding the Way to Open Access By Robert Terry Published: March 15, 2005 Source Imagine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notification from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onby archive - Archive
What price for 'trusted PC security'? - 19 years ago
What price for 'trusted PC security'? By Bill Thompson Last Updated: Friday, 18 March, 2005, 12:11 GMT Source You can now buy "trusted computers", but can we really trust the PC vendors, asks technology analyst Bill Thompson. If you have recently bought an IBM ThinkVantage computer, a Dell Optiplex, or one of a whole range of laptops from Toshiba, HP/Compaq or Samsuby archive - Archive
Contrabandwidth (black market access for Internet) - 19 years ago
Contrabandwidth By Kate Palmer March/April 2005 Source People can get almost anything on the black market—drugs, passports, even human organs. Now add Web sites to the list. Inside many authoritarian regimes that closely monitor and censor the Internet, access to blocked Web sites has become a black market commodity like any other. Typically, the process is simple: Savvy black marketers in cybeby archive - Archive
An Interview with the OpenOffice.org Team - 19 years ago
An Interview with the OpenOffice.org Team. By Aditya Nag email(@)adityanag(.)org adityanag(@)gmail(.)com Date: March, 2005 Source This article was first published on :www.newsforge.com. UPDATE: The article was written by Bruce Byfield, but the Interview in the sidebar is mine. In fact, it's an extremely cut down interview, which is why I have posted the entire interview here.by archive - Archive
XS4ALL vs Scientology (Copyright) - 19 years ago
ATTORNEY-GENERAL CONFIRMS RULING FOR XS4ALL IN SCIENTOLOGY CASE XS4ALL News 18 March 2005 Source Today, Attorney-General Verkade delivered his opinion regarding the Scientology case to the Dutch Supreme Court. In this case the Church of Scientology accuses Karin Spaink of copyright infringement for making parts of their course material available on her website. By publishing this mateby archive - Archive
XS4ALL vs Scientology (Copyright) - Dutch - 19 years ago
ADVOCAAT-GENERAAL BEVESTIGT GELIJK XS4ALL IN SCIENTOLOGY-ZAAK XS4ALL Nieuws 18 Maart 2005 Bron Vandaag heeft Advocaat-Generaal Verkade advies uitgebracht aan de Hoge Raad in de Scientology-zaak. In deze zaak beschuldigt Scientology Karin Spaink van auteursrechtinbreuk omdat de publiciste stukken uit de leer van Scientology op haar website heeft geplaatst. Spaink wil met het plaatsen van dezby archive - Archive
Barrels of Oil, Miles of Mud - by Byron King - 19 years ago
Barrels of Oil, Miles of Mud The Daily Reckoning London, England Tuesday, March 15, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Byron King discusses the stir caused by Edwin Drake, the man who drilled the world's first commercial oil well in a small in town in Pennsylvania. It's interesting to see what a look into history can tell us about the present-day oil frenzy... BARRELS OF OIL, MILESby archive - Archive
Fannie sees additional losses - 19 years ago
UPDATE 4-Fannie sees additional losses, stock tumbles Thu Mar 17, 2005 06:14 PM ET (Rewrites throughout) By Kristin Roberts Source WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said it would have to record $2.4 billion in additional losses for 2004 if the company's accounting for its mortgage commitments as derivatives is not allowed. The emby archive - Archive
EDS' secret love for Linux laid bare - 19 years ago
EDS' secret love for Linux laid bare By Julian Bajkowski, Computerworld 18/03/2005 09:43:30 Source Only a day after flaming open source as insecure, unscalable and unfit for Australian consumption in its Agility Alliance, services vendor EDS has revealed it really does have a soft spot for the penguin deep in its heart. Contrary to the stern warnings on open source delivered by EDS globalby archive - Archive
Starkers (The Dollar) - By Buttonwood - 19 years ago
"This is perhaps not the week to air such apocalyptic concerns, though they are much on Buttonwood’s mind. In the end, what foreign central bankers have it in their power to do is to reveal before all the world that the mighty American economic empire has no clothes—not even a pair of little fuchsia-coloured shoes." Buttonwood Starkers by Buttonwood Mar 16th 2005 From The Economistby archive - Archive
Secret US plans for Iraq's oil - 19 years ago
Secret US plans for Iraq's oil By Greg Palast Reporting for Newsnight Source The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed. Two years ago today - when President George Bush announced US, British and Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad - protesters clby archive - Archive
Microsoft's licence to kill - 19 years ago
Microsoft's licence to kill Leader ZDNet UK March 18, 2005, 13:15 GMT Source Microsoft's response to the EC's antitrust ruling is breathtaking in its audacity. It cannot be allowed to stand Let's start with some facts. Microsoft has been found guilty by the highest authorities in Europe — as in the US — of abusing its monopoly position. As a result, the company is requiredby archive - Archive
MIT urges Brazil towards Linux - 19 years ago
MIT urges Brazil towards Linux Reuters March 18, 2005, 09:05 GMT Source MIT's Media Lab has recommended Brazil install open source software instead of proprietary software offered by Microsoft on thousands of computers that will be sold to the poor, according to a letter obtained by Reuters on Thursday. "We advocate using high-quality free software as opposed to scaled-down versionsby archive - Archive
Argentina cries out for Linux - 19 years ago
Argentina cries out for Linux By Ingrid Marson ZDNet UK December 17, 2004, 12:40 GMT Source Companies in Argentina are opting for Linux over Windows and some are planning to migrate all their systems to Linux, according to a survey published this week. The survey was carried out by Trends Consulting, an Argentina-based company, which interviewed 115 companies in Argentina in the first half ofby archive - Archive
Peak Oil Presentation in the US Congress - 19 years ago
Peak Oil Presentation in the US Congress Published on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 by US Congressional Record By Roscoe Bartlett Source [ Conservative Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, Chairman of the Projection Forces Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, gave an hour long presentation on Peak Oil to the US Congress on Monday. This is the full transcript. We hope to get a hold of the grapby archive - Archive
New machines could turn homes into small factories - 19 years ago
New machines could turn homes into small factories Dr Bowyer appeared on Design on Nature on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday March 17 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/designs_nature]Listen to this>> Source A revolutionary machine which can make everything from a cup to a clarinet quickly and cheaply could be in all our homes in the next few years. Research by engineersby archive - Archive
13 things that do not make sense - 19 years ago
13 things that do not make sense 19 March 2005 NewScientist.com news service By Michael Brooks Source 1 The placebo effect DON'T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away. Thisby archive - Archive