Friday, July 29, 2005

Lost in Translation - Government Technology:

As the U.S. population becomes more diverse and the number of non-English speaking residents grows, the more difficult communication between local law enforcement and residents become.

This January, two handheld voice translation devices -- the Phraselator developed by VoxTec, and the Voice Response Translator (VRT) developed by Integrated Wave Technologies -- were tested by the Chula Vista, Calif., Police Department in conjunction with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in San Diego. read more »

IE7 nukes Google, Yahoo! search

Update Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 went on a limited beta release today and contains a nasty surprise for some users.

Users with search toolbars from Yahoo! and arch-rival Google have discovered that these vanish. Other third-party toolbars designed to block pop-ups or aid with form filling appear to be working normally, according to reports from Reg readers. read more »

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Thursday, July 28, 2005

Yemeni cleric jailed for 75 years

A Yemeni cleric who once called himself Osama Bin Laden's spiritual adviser has been sentenced to a maximum 75 years in prison in New York.

Sheikh Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad was convicted on charges of conspiring to support the al-Qaeda network and Palestinian militant group Hamas.

At a meeting with two FBI informants in Germany, he was recorded promising to funnel more than $2m (£1.1m) to Hamas.

He was arrested by German police in January 2003 and extradited to the US.

For each of five counts, he received 15-year sentences, each to be served consecutively.

He was also fined $1.25m in a federal court in Brooklyn.resd more »

Thursday, July 14, 2005

EXIT MUNDI: A COLLECTION OF END-OF-WORLD SCENARIOS:

Isn't life a bitch? The world is going to end. You don't even have to be a religious fundamentalist to see that's true.

Some people collect postal stamps; Exit Mundi collects scenarios of what could go wrong with the world. Sure, our planet could get hit by an asteroid. But hey, that's nothing. Did you know we could all be munched away by hungry molecules? Or that our physicists could unintentionally wipe us all out while tinkering with particles? `Oops, sorry...'

Exit Mundi isn't in it for doom preaching, but strictly for fun. It's a fascinating thought: if that &*%#-comet didn't wipe out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, we wouldn't be here pondering about apocalypses and armageddons in the first place. The dinosaurs roamed our planet millions of years longer than we did. If it wasn't for the comet, they still would.

That's why this site is a tribute to floods, quantum explosions and awfully big chunks of space rock falling out of the sky. If there's a lesson to be learnt, it should be that within every end looms the dawn of a new beginning.
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Guerrilla News Network:

Fallen Heroes of Operation Iraqi Freedom

Remembering the soldiers who died in the service of their country.

The list was last updated at 8:30 PM EDT Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Source: DefenseLINK


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American soldiers listed: 1754

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Eben Rawls, Attorney at Law

Eben Rawls is a North Carolina criminal defense attorney. He is board certified by the North Carolina State Bar as a Specialist in both Federal and State Criminal Law with over 25 years of trial court experience. While he regularly handles state and federal cases across North Carolina, Mr. Rawls has also defended clients facing serious criminal prosecutions in the trial courts of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, New Jersey, New York, and California. In one case, Mr. Rawls was admitted to the courts of Norway to defend his client.