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The Great Wealth Deception - By Dr. Kurt Richebächer - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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) - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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? - 20 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 - 20 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) - 20 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? - 20 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
Running away with the money (Brussel) - 20 years ago
Charlemagne Running away with the money Apr 7th 2005 From The Economist print edition Source How corrupt is Brussels? ANYONE wanting to understand Brussels should make a point of leaving town on a regular basis. Like most government cities but more so, Brussels exists in a bubble of its own pre-occupations and belief systems. What seems important in the self-styled capital of Europe can seem tby archive - Archive
Linux distro turns PCs into supercomputers - 20 years ago
Linux distro turns PCs into supercomputers By Renai LeMay, ZDNet Australia April 07, 2005 Source An Australian security firm is about to launch a clustered Linux distribution that aims to utilise the unused nightly processing power of desktop PCs. Dubbed CHAOS, the software is able to remotely boot a computer and run it on Linux without affecting the local hard disk. With enough PCs, this hasby archive - Archive
Sony patent takes first step towards real-life Matrix - 20 years ago
Sony patent takes first step towards real-life Matrix 07 April 2005 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition Jenny Hogan Barry Fox Source IMAGINE movies and computer games in which you get to smell, taste and perhaps even feel things. That's the tantalising prospect raised by a patent on a device for transmitting sensory data directly into the human brain - granted to none other than thby archive - Archive
Reading the Mind of Mr. Market (about Soros) - By Mark Tier - 20 years ago
The Daily Reckoning Johannesburg, South Africa Wednesday, April 06, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: George Soros believes that everyone's view of the world is "somehow flawed or distorted," and Mark Tier shows us how Soros turned that realization into a powerful investment tool. Read on... READING THE MIND OF MR. MARKET By Mark Tier In 1949 - having escaped from Soviet-occby archive - Archive
Japan Announces Manned Moon Flight by 2025 - 20 years ago
Japan Announces Manned Moon Flight by 2025 By Kenji Hall Associated Press posted: 06 April 2005 12:20 pm ET Source TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's space agency mapped out a new, ambitious plan Wednesday for manned flights to the moon by 2025 as a first step to explore the solar system's farflung planets, but said decisions about whether Japan will go it alone or collaborate with other nations wby archive - Archive
yup Hardware Rant - 20 years ago
#$*^ rant ^h^h^^h^^ up, yup Hardware Rant Bridges burned aplenty By Charlie Demerjian 05 april 2005 Source I WAS PLANNING on going to sleep early tonight, and checked my email and a few sites before I went to sleep. Bad move, I am now to0 angry to sleep, so it is time to rant, and get a few things off my chest, all while outing a few dirty internet secrets. It all comes down to this, the harby archive - Archive
Asset Class of the Next Generation - By Jim Rogers - 20 years ago
The Daily Reckoning Johannesburg, South Africa Tuesday, April 05, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Investors tend to steer clear of the commodities market, saying that it's just "too risky." But, as Jim Rogers points out, there has been more volatility in the NASDAQ in recent years than in any commodities index. Read on... ASSET CLASS OF THE NEXT GENERATION By Jim Rogers Rby archive - Archive
Proof and beauty - 20 years ago
Mathematics Proof and beauty Mar 31st 2005 From The Economist print edition Source Just what does it mean to prove something? QUOD erat demonstrandum. These three words of Latin, meaning, “which was to be shown”, traditionally mark the end of a mathematical proof. And, for centuries, a proof was exactly that: showing something by breaking it down into readily agreed-upon steps. Proving sometby archive - Archive
Hitachi claims leap in drive density - 20 years ago
Hitachi claims leap in drive density By Michael Kanellos, ZDNet Australia 04 April 2005 Source Hitachi Global Storage will come out with hard drives containing 230 gigabits of data per square inch, the company is expected to announce on Monday, which could mean a 20GB iPod mini. The density breakthrough represents a refinement in perpendicular recording. Today, hard drives record and store datby archive - Archive
Evidence that Python is advancing into the enterprise - 20 years ago
Evidence that Python is advancing into the enterprise 2005.03.29 By Cameron Laird Source More WASHINGTON, D.C. -- So what was the bottom line from the PyCON 2005 conference, held here last week? Python is an open-source technology whose use in enterprise IT operations will only grow for the foreseeable future. Mission-critical development organizations often regard only a handful of languagesby archive - Archive
Why Python? - 20 years ago
Why Python? By Eric Raymond Created 2000-04-30 23:00 Source Cardinal Biggles had Eric in the comfy chair for over four hours before wringing this confession from him... My first look at Python was an accident, and I didn't much like what I saw at the time. It was early 1997, and Mark Lutz's book Programming Python from O'Reilly & Associates had recently come out. O'Reilby archive - Archive
What's Going On? - By Paul Krugman - 20 years ago
March 29, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST What's Going On? By PAUL KRUGMAN Source Democratic societies have a hard time dealing with extremists in their midst. The desire to show respect for other people's beliefs all too easily turns into denial: nobody wants to talk about the threat posed by those whose beliefs include contempt for democracy itself. We can see this failing cleaby archive - Archive
NASA Tests Shape-Shifting Robot Pyramid for Nanotech Swarms - 20 years ago
NASA Tests Shape-Shifting Robot Pyramid for Nanotech Swarms NASA News 03.29.05 Source Like new and protective parents, engineers watched as the TETWalker robot successfully traveled across the floor at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Robots of this type will eventually be miniaturized and joined together to form "autonomous nanotechnology swarms" (ANTS)by archive - Archive
La Vida Robot (keep in mind: Education for All) - 20 years ago
La Vida Robot How four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix took on the best from M.I.T. in the national underwater bot championship. By Joshua Davis April 2005 Source The winter rain makes a mess of West Phoenix. It turns dirt yards into mud and forms reefs of garbage in the streets. Junk food wrappers, diapers, and Spanish-language porn are swept into the gutters. On West Roosevelt Aveby archive - Archive
Desktop manufacturing - Fabulous fabrications - - 20 years ago
Desktop manufacturing Fabulous fabrications Mar 23rd 2005 From The Economist print edition Source A way to help inventors in poor countries realise their ideas STAR TREK had the replicator—a device that could assemble any object, atom by atom. The Nutri-Matic vending machine concocted drinks molecule by molecule in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, personalising them by analysing anby archive - Archive
Old before their time - 20 years ago
Economics focus Old before their time Mar 3rd 2005 From The Economist print edition Source Labour-market reform remains the key to higher living standards IN MANY European countries, calls for economic reform are heard more often than they are heeded. However, a new report by the OECD, “Economic Policy Reforms in OECD Countries: Going for Growth”, deserves attention. It may aid reform by proviby archive - Archive