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Never mind the kids, maybe the curfew is to protect them from adults... Reuters reports:

Child Hurt as Man Lobs Computer from Apartment
Mon July 7, 2003
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean man angry with his daughter's Web surfing faced possible charges on Monday after he threw a computer monitor out of his 12th-floor apartment, hitting a four-year-old girl below on the head, police said.
A police official said the man, 49-year-old Park Yong-ju, had got angry when he returned to his flat in Seoul on Saturday. His 20-year-old daughter was playing an online computer game and failed to greet him, as Korean custom requires.
When she declined to let him join the game, he grabbed the monitor and flung it through the balcony window, the official said by telephone.
The screen hit four-year-old Han Jung-in, causing severe facial injuries but no brain damage, a hospital official said.
"She was very lucky, considering the severity of the accident," the official said. The girl was in a stable condition.
About 55 percent of South Korean households have at least one computer, and the country has the largest number of high-speed broadband Internet connections per capita in the world.
Police said an arrest warrant had been issued and further investigations were under way. Under the South Korean legal system, police ask prosecutors to issue warrants.

[OK, so it's not Thailand, but still....]

You are probably right about Estonia becoming an economic powerhouse, but I can also see something else: Eastern Europe becoming the economic and technology center of Europe, surpassing the EU in economic and political strength.

Rumsfeld was right.

ASA

A bit more info from a previously submitted post:

New Jupiter-like Planet Discovered in Sol-like system

A new Jupiter-like planet has been discovered in a circular orbit around a Sun-like star 90 light-years away in the constellation Pupis. What is remarkable about the discovery is that this system is the most like our own solar system discovered to-date. This development lends credence to the theory that systems with small, rocky Earth-like planets are out there. ''This is the closest we have yet got to a real Solar System-like planet and advances our search for systems that are even more like our own,'' said UK team leader Hugh Jones of Liverpool John Moores University. Jones went on to say that, ''Jupiter's position is probably crucial to the distribution of other planets in the Solar System.'' Current thinking on planet-formation indicates a large, Jupiter-like planet in a circular orbit would allow the relatively undisturbed formation of an inner system of smaller Earth-like planets. The newly discovered planet is about twice the mass of Jupiter with an orbit equivalent to the asteroid belt in our own solar system.

Bah! Let them eat the giant blob.

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Reuters photo

No sense in letting a rejected post go to waste. :)

Here's more background on the ideas and issues at stake, especially (surprisingly) the technology press links.

At the recent Wireless Internet Opportunity for Developing Nations conference, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that 802.11b (AKA Wi-Fi) has "a key role to play everywhere, but especially in developing countries and countries with economies in transition," where there is little to no telecommunications infrastructure in place. Keynote speaker Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger was understandably thrilled saying, "We see millions of people with the potential to become Wi-Fi users," and that wireless Internet was particularly appropriate for developing nations because it was neither government-regulated nor licensed. With 40-50 million PCs in use already, developing nations (including China and India) now make up the fastest growing market segment. Intel's new Centrino 802.11b laptop chipset and 30-mile-range MANs now under development that are based on 802.16 make Gelsinger hope for a sales bonanza that will put Intel in the lead for wireless notebooks. Critics say that a technology focus is not the panacaea for the poor, but instead solutions should be matched to the needs of a population.

Most investment banks already use IM in the form of Bloomberg messaging and Reuters (MSN) Messenger. Bloomberg messaging is a fairly old system and not logged, but the new Reuters system is designed to be compliant. From the Reuters client page:

Meet compliance requirements
Access the tools necessary to meet industry regulatory requirements, including a complete audit trail of all messages sent and received by your users.

Most investment banks already use IM in the form of Bloomberg messaging and Reuters (MSN) Messenger. Bloomberg messaging is a fairly old system and not logged, but the new Reuters system is designed to be compliant. From the Reuters client page:

Meet compliance requirements
Access the tools necessary to meet industry regulatory requirements, including a complete audit trail of all messages sent and received by your users.

Reuters just launched "IM for financial community"
One of the fetures: - Optional message logging features to meet industry compliance requirements
News Release - Reuters to Expand Instant Messaging Community within the Financial Services Industry
Reuters Products - Reuters Messaging

Reuters just launched "IM for financial community"
One of the fetures: - Optional message logging features to meet industry compliance requirements
News Release - Reuters to Expand Instant Messaging Community within the Financial Services Industry
Reuters Products - Reuters Messaging

Also, according to this page:

Optional message logging features to meet industry compliance requirements

Email is easy because you just mirror it on a server. You'd need some sort of complicated transparent proxy to log normal IMs, and that wouldn't work with encrypted conversations.

Brokers aren't going to be using just some random IM client they downloaded from the web, they'll be using something like this which looks and feels like a regular IM client (MSN in this case) but is designed for the need of the finance business, with logging to a server, encryption, directory services etc.

Micron's lobbying wouldn't have anything to do with Micron posting a loss last quarter, would it? Nah. Of course not.

Down 8.5% while the markets were closed last night...

Reuters
Yahoo!

Story with IBM response

French Airbus beats Boeing to become # 1

Airbus trumped arch-rival Boeing Monday by unveiling a massive $12.5 billion order for biggest planes ever made

So far, Airbus has a nice start...link

Washington post spreads FUD again. I can not understand why people read WP.

Go to reuters for the same text without all the propaganda between the lines.

Linked here.

So if DNNA keeps their word, it looks like the older 4000 and 5000 units that still have these features will not have them stripped retroactively. Time to start looking on eBay!

UPDATE 1-ReplayTV strips ad skipping in new DVR models
Tue June 10, 2003 01:44 PM ET (Adds details on other models) NEW YORK, June 10 (Reuters) - D&M Holdings Inc.6735.T on Tuesday said its new ReplayTV digital television recorder will not include controversial features such as automatically skipping commercials and sharing shows via the Internet.

Due in August, the new ReplayTV 5500 series will remove the "Commercial Advance" and "Send Show" options present in models that are currently for sale. Digital video recorders (DVR) save hundreds of hours of TV programs to a hard drive and allow users to pause live TV and instantly replay selected scenes.

When ReplayTV in 2001 introduced its 4000 series of DVRs, those services upset major media players such as Viacom Inc. VIAb.N and the TV networks, which sued SONICblue, ReplayTV's previous owner, claiming that the service violated copyrights and robbed them of advertising revenue.

All other currently available models will retain the commercial skipping and Internet-sharing features. Competitive products made by TiVo Inc. TIVO.O and EchoStar Communications Corp.'s DISH.O Dish Network do not have these features.

ReplayTV said the new devices will include updated software that allows users to skip reruns, eliminate programming conflicts and "Pause and Resume," where a viewer can halt a saved program playing on a ReplayTV box in one room, and finish watching that same program on a device in another room.

It will also feature buttons that let users manually fast forward through recorded programs, if they choose.

ReplayTV was purchased earlier this year by Japan's D&M Holdings, parent company to premium audio and video brands Denon and Marantz.

A ReplayTV spokeswoman said that pricing has not yet been determined for the new machine.

Questions Swirl Around WMD Charges

US said to twist its data on Iraq

Some analysts doubt US theory of Iraqi germ trailers: NYT

Intelligence Historian Says CIA 'Buckled' on Iraq

Ex-official: Bush administration distorted intel on Iraq arms

Microsoft doubled their loss on the Xbox this past year, losing $190 million before taxes. But I'm faily sure that Microsoft more than made up for this loss in their other divisions.

Sony made a profit of $964 million for the fiscal year. "Sony (SNE) shares are down 40 percent this year, following declines of 8 percent in 2002, 35 percent in 2001 and 51 percent in 2000. "

Nintendo made a profit of $553 million. Their shares are also down, at around 35%. Not bad considering the competition.

Microsoft doubled their loss on the Xbox this past year, losing $190 million before taxes. But I'm faily sure that Microsoft more than made up for this loss in their other divisions.

Sony made a profit of $964 million for the fiscal year. "Sony (SNE) shares are down 40 percent this year, following declines of 8 percent in 2002, 35 percent in 2001 and 51 percent in 2000. "

Nintendo made a profit of $553 million. Their shares are also down, at around 35%. Not bad considering the competition.

All this for the price of a few supercomputers every year. And the market for supercomputers pushes several technologies; for example, high speed interconnect and gallium arsenide, and sets the bar for high performance silicon. Pretty good deal, doncha think?

But now the Moron-in-Chief wants to bring back nuclear testing. (pardon me, 'nookyuler.' Bush can't be wrong about something as simple as pronunciation, can he?). Farewell to deterrence. Farewell to common sense...

I sold you and you sold me:

There lie they, and here lie we

Under the spreading chestnut tree.

next ill hear that war is peace and that the war is in measureable distance of being over... oh wait

"By waging this fight together we will speed the day of final victory," --Dubaya todays retuers

yes i am aware im horribly off topic but i couldnt resist:: may i be modded into oblivion!

Let's all say this together - "We don't need no stinkin' registration for the majority of news!"

Use Google News to find it elsewhere, and reported better as often as not.

Shuttle Wing Foam Collision Tests

And a direct Reuters link which is pretty much what all the other articles say for those who are too lazy to click twice.

-Adam

Fox tells the story without a liberal slant.

That is putting it mildly.

Seriously though, it is sad that so many people do not understand that, above all other things, the media should strive to be unbiased. I actually saw a big picture advertisement on Foxnews.com for one of their anchorman's books that had the subcaption "winning the war of liberty of liberalism." Now, regardless of whether you are a liberal or not, this *should* make you sick to your stomach. Sadly, I know most people do not understand why this is a Bad Thing. The other news networks may indeed have a liberal slant, but I have NEVER seen an ad for a book saying "winning the war against conservatives" on CNN.com. FoxNews has sunk to new lows (Geraldo aside), and is in a league of its own.

All the corporate American news sources are tainted, albeit less so than FoxNews, with this corruption. The CNN headline after the start of the war in Afghanistan "America Strikes Back" is a loaded headline. The headline is, in effect, telling you two things. First, that we were not at war before this most recent invasion, and second, that we are attacking in self-defense. Both points are debatable, but CNN felt it necessary to make up the viewers minds for them. Its subtle, but its extremely important that people begin to pick up on these things. Real news sources should stick to presenting facts, and facts alone.

If you want to check out better news sources, look into Reuters and BBC News.

Reuters has more details.

things come to mind reading this. For one thing, they appear to be using Microsoft Chat over the internet to communicate reconnaissance information. Whether such communication is secure is something I'd really like the govt. to think about, if not it could be putting soldiers at risk.

Microsoft chat, like almost everything else they do, is really a toolkit for building your own applications on. It can be hardened and deployed to communicate sensitive financial and corporate data, as necessary.

One thing that is mission critical is tech support, and apparently they have a top tier (premier?) support from Microsoft. I wonder if anybody short of say IBM could offer a competing Open Source (*BSD or Linux) based solution?

Sun have a large contract for tactical computing systems with the US Army; I can only assume that it was too expensive to deploy Tadpoles in the field. And no matter what anyone says, a Dell laptop running the OEM install of Windows is far easier to support than the same laptop running Linux, if only because Dell have done more testing and have more techs with experience. That may change someday, but it's how it is for now.

EMI sales down 11 percent,.

The loss is largem but it is driven by ClearCrap, not by piracy...

Don't feel like driving ?

Rent a Segway

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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Security guards smashed their way into an official limousine with sledgehammers on Monday to rescue Thailand's finance minister after his car's computer failed.

Suchart Jaovisidha and his driver were trapped inside the BMW for more than 10 minutes before guards broke a window. All doors and windows had locked automatically when the computer crashed, and the air conditioning stopped, officials said.

"We could hardly breathe for over 10 minutes," Suchart told reporters. "It took my guard a long time to realize that we really wanted the window smashed so that we could crawl out. It was a harrowing experience."

From Reuters

Here is Microsoft's proud announcement of their partnership with BMW.

Story here

he company proceeded into a Q&A session with the press, but not before ruling out rumors of a price drop for the GameCube and reaffirming the themes of the conference--that Nintendo will grow with the times, stick to what works, and stay in the thick of the console market while continuing to focus on its systems' innovative features.

Jeez, how big is this thing going to be? The GBA has a 2.3" screen and look how big it is, and Sony's PSP will be nearly double that?!

here's a better article; it goes into a bit more detail than the posted one.

This is not a professor-discovers-formula story. Sue Clayton is a filmmaker and composer who has apparently been teaching at a London university for 6 months. I would hardly call her "an academic." The story would be a lot more interesting if it gave a clue as to how the percentages are assigned. In another article Clayton is quoted as saying she analyzed the films "frame by frame," but that could mean anything. Plot is 10%? Of what exactly? Chalk this up to a filmmaker who finally has a captive audience.

Oh, I forgot, the California is on the LEFT coast.

What is it with you people? Hmm, Bush administration announces a really large budget deficit. The last biggest deficit was in 1992, right after 12 years of republican presidential control. Oh, and when reagan entered the deficit was 40 billion (1979) and when Bush left, it was 290 billion. Oh yeah, but I guess that is because they are on the right coast. Now why did you build a house made of glass?

-Sean

Film Review: the Matrix Reloaded

Anger Mounts After U.S. Troops Kill 13 Iraqis
Tue April 29, 2003 06:56 AM ET

By Edmund Blair
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers killed at least 13 Iraqi civilians who marched on a school west of Baghdad to demand the troops leave the building and get out of Iraq, doctors and witnesses said on Tuesday.

Medics said 75 were also wounded in the march by more than 200 protesters on the school after Muslim prayers on Monday evening in Falluja, 30 miles from the Iraqi capital. Some witnesses put the death toll as high as 17.

Residents said the marchers were unarmed. U.S. forces said the troops opened fire only after they were shot at by a group of gunmen armed with AK-47 assault rifles.

The shooting outraged local people who, like many other Iraqis, welcomed the removal of Saddam Hussein by U.S.-led forces but now want the American troops to leave. It is likely to fuel anti-American sentiment elsewhere in Iraq.

U.S. helicopters hovered overhead as angry mourners buried the dead on Tuesday. The white walls of houses near the school were pock-marked by bullets, bullet-riddled cars stood by the roadside and traces of blood marked the ground.

"Our soul and our blood we will sacrifice to you martyrs," hundreds of mourners chanted as they carried at least four simple wooden coffins shoulder-high through the town.

Ahmed Ghanim al-Ali, director of Falluja general hospital, confirmed the death toll was at least 13 and said the hospital had carried out about 30 operations in the past few hours. "Some were wounded by shots. Some were wounded by shrapnel," he said.

"They are stealing our oil and they are slaughtering our people," said Shuker Abdullah Hamid, a cousin of one of the victims, 47-year-old Tuamer Abdel Hamid.

"Now, all preachers of Falluja mosques and all youths...are organizing martyr operations against the American occupiers," said a man cloaked in white, using the term often used to describe suicide attacks in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

There have been a few isolated suicide attacks at military checkpoints, and U.S. troops killed seven Iraqis during a violent demonstration in the northern city of Mosul on April 15, but most anti-American protests have ended peacefully.

U.S. MILITARY

A U.S. military spokeswoman said at war headquarters in Qatar that soldiers in Falluja opened fire on gunmen who shot at them with assault rifles.

"Members of the 1st Battalion of the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division came upon a group of Iraqis armed with AK-47s last night," the spokeswoman said. "The Iraqis fired on them. The troops returned fire."

A local Sunni Muslim cleric, Kamal Shaker Mahmoud, said the protesters had asked the troops to leave the school so that lessons could resume there.

"It was a peaceful demonstration. They did not have any weapons," the cleric said. "They (the U.S. troops) opened fire on the protesters because they went out to demonstrate."

"We are asking the Americans to leave Iraq completely but first we want them to leave residential areas," he added.

Murhij Rashid, 52, pointed to a grave where gravediggers were throwing dry earth on top and kicking up dust. His 18-year-old son Hussein had just been buried.

"There was a demonstration but he did not have any weapon," he said.

Some residents said some of the dead may not have been taking part in the protest.

Salah Abdullah Hamid said his cousin, a 36-year-old man employed by the Oil Ministry, was an innocent bystander.

"He was not part of the protest. He did not have a weapon. He was killed by American bullets," he said.

Asked why the troops had fired, he replied: "We don't know. No one knows why...We want the Americans to leave our country completely. We are a Muslim country."

Mahmoud Fawzi Hamdan, 33, said one man, 32-year-old Waleed Saleh Abdel-Latif, was shot dead as he opened the gate to his house for his brother to drive in and two women in the house were hit by bullets but survived.

At least, that's how it would go down in a civilized nation. Don't know how it would go down in Canada.

Need I remind you that last year the capital of your "civilized nation" alone has a murder rate nearly 48 times that of my entire nation -> Washington DC, 48.5 murders per 100 000 people, compared to the entire country of Canada, 1.78 murders per 100 000 people. Also of note from Stats Canada on murders involving guns:

"Of the 171 firearm-related homicides, 110 were committed with a handgun, 46 with a rifle or shotgun, 7 with a sawed-off rifle or shotgun, 3 with a fully automatic firearm, and 5 with another type of firearm.

Handguns were used in 65% of all firearm homicides. This proportion has risen from 46% in 1998 as a result of the continuing decline in the number of homicides involving rifles or shotguns."

That's out of 554 total murders in the entire country of 32 million during 2001. Compare that to Los Angeles, with 658 murders in the same time, but with 1/3 the population.

In the "civilized nation" 65.6%of all the murders were committed with a firearm during the same time.

Hmmmm, perhaps there are some people who are "too stupid to have a gun".

Say what you will about "mummy government", I am quite safe from gun violence here as are my children. That is, after all, why I elected my governement - to ensure my life, liberty and security of the person.

If all you have protecting you from sending ammo clips through the mail is a minimum wage postal clerk, then you have the country you deserve... :)

I used to work for Intel in the Fab automation software department and I find it hard to believe they're can justify investing this much to start up new fabrication plants for an unproven product.

Usually, with initial chip production at this scale, they lease out fab production time from other companies. Only huge production plans (like Pentiums or PowerPCs) generally justify building entire new Fabs. Plus, with the world economy slow, there's plenty of capacity at the world's fabs. Here's a good article on fab capacity

and the Reuters Link can be found here

Oh sorry those turned out to be more baseless lies by the Americans. They are intended to confuse dullards such as yourself, a strategy which obviously worked.

Anyway, you can read here to see that no WMDs have been found.

Reuters

Separately, U.S. news station National Public Radio reported that U.S. forces had found a weapons cache not far from Baghdad of about 20 medium-range missiles equipped with sarin or mustard gas and "ready to fire."

yahoo

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=inte rnetNews&storyID=2539761

Ice T sells his music directly to users on Kazaa. IF Eminem did this Eminem would make plenty of money but nooo, Eminem would rather bitch and moan about how Kazaa is robbing him.

Its his own lazy ass thats robbing him, maybe if he release a new CD on kazaa for $5, he'd make a fortune.

via Reuters

Quote from this article:

A Gallop survey for CNN and USA Today released on Friday said public support for the war remained steady at about 70 percent, in line with findings from other opinion polls released on Friday.

Well I dont know if Microsoft is on some kind of suicide mission spree lately.. their latest effort to try to take on Google seems like a total waste of time. They consider Google to be a threat to their business, and plan to release a better search engine.

But Google are masters at the search engine now - everyone loves them, they have an (almost) clean image, and they are fast becoming sure fire IPO candidates even in this shaky .com era. I dont know what Microsoft are going to achieve from taking on Google, OR the industry giants you mention in your post.

Weird.

U.S. Eyes Personal Commercial Data in Terror Search
Sun March 30, 2003 09:43 AM ET