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Monthly Archives: oktober 2001

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woensdag, oktober 31, 2001

Wired: America’s military is turning to advanced hardware and software that generates virtual environments of war zones such as Afghanistan. Mirror: WHAT IF BIN LADEN SMUGGLED HIMSELF INTO MECCA? Anything to sell newspapers… A Briefe History of the Codpiece

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dinsdag, oktober 30, 2001

Wired: Civil liberties groups are demanding that the U.S. government disclose information about hundreds of people who have been detained after the Sep. 11 attacks.

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maandag, oktober 29, 2001

Wired: There are many putting a brave face on the state of the streaming media industry, but recent cost-per-user reports from Streaming Media, along with the volume of streaming media failures, show that there is a fundamental problem: Streaming media costs far outweigh the money made from the content in return. C-Net: A patent held [...]

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vrijdag, oktober 26, 2001

Reuters: The U.S. Army, in an unprecedented alliance with Hollywood and a major university, is providing funding and technical advice for video games that aim to hone the skills of the next-generation of military field commanders. C-Net: As first reported by CNET News.com, some Mozilla and Opera users found Thursday that they could not access [...]

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woensdag, oktober 24, 2001

Register: Compaq has been hit with a hefty Q3 loss – worse than the market expected, and it wasn’t expecting much – in the first results the company has posted since announcing the Hewlett-Packard takeover. The company says Q4 will be equally bad. The Atlantic: The records also “indicate the presence of an interlocking set [...]

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dinsdag, oktober 23, 2001

Register: Euro politicians gave the thumbs up to spam last night by passing an amendment that will force Net users to register if they don’t want to receive unsolicited commercial email. Register: More disturbing to network operators, attackers have taking over the machines that route and direct the flow of Internet traffic, to use them [...]

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maandag, oktober 22, 2001

Wired: The most productivity-enhancing feature of Microsoft’s Windows XP, set for release in October, won’t be mentioned in the ad campaign. But somewhere between adding product activation and Passport authentication to the new OS, Microsoft programmers finally installed a fix for the most dreaded bug of all: the Blue Screen of Death. Sunday Mail: AMERICAN [...]

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zondag, oktober 21, 2001

Wired: We have demonstrated the ability to selectively deny GPS signals on a regional basis, particularly … when our national security is threatened,” said Lt. Jeremy Eggers, a spokesman at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. Philadelphia City Paper: A local man was kept off a recent flight because of a book he was carrying.

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vrijdag, oktober 19, 2001

Wired: As the Department of Justice opens its antitrust investigation into major-label-backed digital music services, a variety of trade organizations are pressing Congress to back a law designed to loosen the record industry’s grip on music. Wired: Many of the 28 blacklisted organizations operate websites where they issue press releases, threaten their enemies, raise funds [...]

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donderdag, oktober 18, 2001

Wired: “We’re not far from a world where all of human knowledge is accessible to you instantly from the ether,” said Pop Tech founder and president Anthony Citrano. “There is a world coming where you don’t have to ever be disconnected if you don’t want.” BBC News: As a French resident in the UK, I [...]

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