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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. |
| Garfinkel on the VisorPhone |
| 1:10:06 am mst / 7 March 2001 found by paul / filed in handhelds / source Salon 89 hits / 0 comments / 2 e-mails |
| Simson Garfinkel writes: "Handspring's VisorPhone is the first cool combination of cellphone and personal digital assistant." Click through to read why. |
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| Russians Take Out Insurance on Mir |
| 7:55:22 am mst / 7 March 2001 found by paul / filed in space / source AP News 29 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails |
| The Russian government has taken out a $200 million insurance policy in case of any damage caused by the Mir space station landing on Earth. |
| If it lands on a large city, the damage could be well in excess of $200 million. But I suppose that would be the insurance companies' problem. |
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| The 10 Least Boring Games Of All Time |
| 8:37:16 am mst / 7 March 2001 found by diana / filed in humor / source Daily Radar 279 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| It's Boredom Week over at Daily Radar. But this top ten list is all about anti-boredom: those games where you're dead if you just dare to blink. |
| Don't miss the counterpart: The Most Boring Games Of All Time! |
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| Single-Use Number Can Thwart Theft |
| 8:46:47 am mst / 7 March 2001 found by paul / filed in security / source San Francisco Chronicle 109 hits / 0 comments / 1 e-mail |
| Personal finance writer Jane Bryant Quinn explains how single-use numbers can help prevent credit card fraud on internet purchases. |
| Yet another good reason to keep using my Discover card. |
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| Brass Knuckles Finally Redesigned! |
| 8:56:18 am mst / 7 March 2001 found by diana / filed in internet / source Brass Knuckles 139 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| It was almost vaporware, with all those endless promises and delays. But it has finally happened: Brass Knuckles is sporting a cool new look! |
| They're also running a contest with some cool prizes. |
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| Grudge match above 1GHz: Pentium 4 vs Athlon |
| 1:25:49 pm mst / 7 March 2001 found by diana / filed in hardware / source The Tech Report 95 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails |
| Scott Wasson performed extensive comparisons between Intel's Pentium 4 and AMD's Athlon CPUs. Athlon came out on top, but it was a pretty close race. |
| Personally, I'm an AMD fan: I'm just none too thrilled about paying for all those Blue Man commercials with Intel's higher prices! |
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| BBspot Interviews Apple CEO Steve Jobs |
| 3:28:19 pm mst / 7 March 2001 found by diana / filed in humor / source BBspot 100 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| BBspot correspondent Ralf the Dog interviews Steve Jobs about the forthcoming Mac products. |
| It's all about pretty! |
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| Descramble That DVD in 7 Lines |
| 6:06:36 pm mst / 7 March 2001 found by paul / filed in legal / source Wired 113 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Two MIT programmers have written the shortest known program to implement the outlawed DeCSS algorithm for decrypting DVDs. Their program only takes up 7 lines (!) of Perl code. Because the program doesn't include the 5 byte title key, it theoretically shouldn't violate the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. |
| The best part is that people are putting it in their e-mail sigs. Cut-and-paste your copy from here! |
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| Coffee Pot Retiring |
| 9:34:14 pm mst / 7 March 2001 found by diana / filed in internet / source The Times 38 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| The first webcam (which actually predates the web) is soon to be retired. The coffee pot cam, designed to prevent those intrepid computer scientists from walking down several flights of stairs only to find an empty pot, will not be needed much longer, as the department is moving. |
| Truly sad to see such important relics of history destroyed willy-nilly! |
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