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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Lost Ark of the Covenant located? |
| 2:30:34 am mst / 3 January 2001 found by paul / filed in culture / source Reuters News 218 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| According to a new book, both the Lost Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail may be hidden on the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm. (Link from Metafilter). |
| Go north past the Temple of Doom and then a block to the east. Ya can't miss it!... |
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| Pirates Beware: We're Watching |
| 8:36:00 am mst / 3 January 2001 found by paul / filed in digital media / source Wired 66 hits / 0 comments / 1 e-mail |
| Music and movie companies have started adopting a different strategy to combat what they call piracy. They will begin monitoring traffic in and out of ISP's looking for anything that matches their profiles of copyrighted material, then send warning messages to the ISP's to contact the offending users to remove the disputed files. |
| This "solution" is bound to fail, because it will be too easy for file traders to circumvent. As the article points out, even simple encryption renders the system useless. |
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| GeekPress on Fire |
| 2:27:49 pm mst / 3 January 2001 found by diana / filed in geekpress / source Reuters News 91 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails |
| The neighborhood in which Paul and I live, Palo Verde Ranch (in Alpine CA), is currently on fire. We might need to evacuate on short notice. So don't expect much GeekPress from us. Update: I've added an image of the fires now southwest of us. |
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| Cold war, hot secret |
| 9:13:37 pm mst / 3 January 2001 found by diana / filed in politics / source New Scientist 81 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| A commission investigating the Stasi (the former East German secret police) has discovered that East German dissidents were exposed to radioactive chemicals so that they could be tracked by Stasi operatives with vibrating armpit Geiger counters. |
| Dissidents were sometimes identified and then tracked by treating the floor of a dissident meeting room. Very crafy! |
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