Salon reports on how (and why) GNU Radio will not only change the way we see and use technology, but also hopefully prevent government and big business from screwing the consumer.
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Archive for December, 2002
This account of a regular guy (and his regular, pregnant wife) falling victim to modern America is being widely reported in the weblogging communtiy. It’s a story that should make people think, but probably won’t.
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According to the New York Times, “the Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and, potentially, surveillance of its users.” History will probably not look kindly upon the idiocies Bush has marked upon his time.
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This Christmas hundreds of thousands of people will be forking out tens of millions of dollars for expensive computer and console games and equipment. Suckers. All you need is this clever Swedish Scalextric game.
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This page is being touted as the best 404 page ever. Can you beat it?
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Full name, Gary Westfahl’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Film, from Forrest J. Ackerman to Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Tim Burton,
Peter Cushing, Boris Karloff and Rod Serling can be found in-between.
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For the SciFi buff, soundbytes from the famous and infamous. Strictly
speaking, not all the quotes are SciFi-related, but most are quite
insightful.
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Under powers granted by US President Bush after the 11 September attacks on America, the CIA is allowed to target and liquidate American citizens. According to the Houston Chronicle, the agency “has [already] killed one American under this authority” in the November attack on “suspected” al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen. A Yemeni-American named Kamal Derwish was in the car destroyed by a CIA-operated Predator drone. The White House confirmed that they interpreted this action as legal. However, a dictionary had to be fetched to look up the word “just”.
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