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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. |
| Building the interplanetary Internet |
| 3:34:28 am mst / 28 February 2001 found by paul / filed in internet / source CNN 62 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails |
| An interview with Chad Edwards, manager of the Mars Network project, a joint project between NASA and JPL to extend the internet to the planet Mars. |
| "I want my Mars TV!"... |
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| Review: RIM BlackBerry 950 Internet Edition |
| 4:19:11 am mst / 28 February 2001 found by paul / filed in handhelds / source Gadgeteer 126 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| An extensive review of the RIM Blackberry 950, with the usual Gadgeteer thoroughness. |
| Although it's not for everyone, the people whom I know that use it really like it. |
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| Marines inventing non-lethal energy weapon |
| 6:43:26 am mst / 28 February 2001 found by paul / filed in inventions / source Marine Times 193 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| From the article: "The Marine Corps is preparing to unveil perhaps the biggest breakthrough in weapons since the atomic bomb — a nonlethal weapon that fires directed energy at human targets." (Link from MetaFilter.) The Times has a related story about an energy weapon which may be the same thing: "The US military is said to have developed a weapon designed to send enemy forces fleeing by heating them. The device envelops the enemy with a field of microwave-like energy that causes a burning sensation, like a hot bulb pressed against the skin." |
| The name of the weapon (the Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial System or VMADS) is nowhere near snappy enough. |
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| College: A Cracker's Best Friend |
| 8:50:57 am mst / 28 February 2001 found by paul / filed in security / source Wired 102 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Because security is often so spotty in college and university computer networks, crackers find them attractive targets, both to store data (pornography, MP3s, etc) as well as programs to perform distributed denial of service attacks. |
| Everyone always says that most of the learning one does in college takes place outside of the classroom... |
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| Taping lecture = wiretapping? |
| 11:21:51 am mst / 28 February 2001 found by paul / filed in legal / source Miami Herald 129 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| A high school girl in Florida has been charged with violating the state's wiretapping law after taping her chemistry teacher's lecture without permission. The student, who is also a varsity athlete and a member of the Math Club, was having difficulty with the subject and wanted to maintain her high GPA. (Link via Obscure Store.) |
| Gotta watch out for the threat to society posed by studious high school girls!... |
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| Nike blames bad software for lost sales |
| 2:41:41 pm mst / 28 February 2001 found by paul / filed in business / source Information Week 64 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Nike shoe company is blaming their new inventory management software from i2 for supply chain snafus that they claim have cost the company $80-100 million worth of sales this quarter. |
| I guess the celebrity endorsement money might be a little tight for a while... |
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| Shaken, Not Deterred |
| 7:32:44 pm mst / 28 February 2001 found by diana / filed in business / source Wired 41 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| From the article: Seattle's communications systems survive a strong earthquake nearly unscathed. The quake bounced Bill Gates from a conference, but tech workers say their Mardi Gras hangovers were more a threat to productivity. |
| It's about time the northwest experienced more natural disasters! :-) |
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| Bizarre 404 page |
| 8:34:44 pm mst / 28 February 2001 found by paul / filed in humor / source Geeknews.net 176 hits / 0 comments / 2 e-mails |
| Geeknews.net pointed us towards this entertaining 404 page. |
| Someone has too much time on his hands... |
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| Dot-bomb fallout -- cheap used computers |
| 11:44:19 pm mst / 28 February 2001 found by paul / filed in business / source Reuters News 192 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails |
| Because so many internet startup companies have gone bankrupt recently, there have been a flood of inexpensive nearly new high-end computers on the used market. |
| Diana is hungrily looking at used laptops on eBay as I write... |
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