Friday, July 29, 2005
Lost in Translation - Government Technology:
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
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 »
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Yemeni cleric jailed for 75 years
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 »
Sunday, July 24, 2005
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.
Sounds good, doesn't it?
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