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Creator of Escape Key on Keyboard Dies at 84
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Let us all have a moment of silence for Bob Bemer who died at age 84 from cancer. He helped developed the ASCII coding system which helps a computer translate text as a binary number. Without him, there would be no Escape key.
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spam: awesome free spam filter
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So I was looking in my email the other day and realized 75% of the mail I receive is spam. I was getting sick of the usual, clean out my mailbox by hitting the delete button method so I went to everyones favorate GPL software site, sourceforge.net.
I did a search for spam and came up with a nice piece of software named Spambayes which helped me right out...
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SneakEmail - the next spam stopper is your email being sold?
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ran across this website the other day SneakEmail.com.
The idea behind it is that you would create a sneakemail account and use that email to sign up for things such as free email accounts or sprint email or any other company that requires your email. Any email sent to this email will forward the mail to your real email account, this allows you to cypher the mails and find out who is selling your email address to spammers.
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Scientists find previously unknown moon material. Read here.
FBI strikes piracy groups at the heart of the crusaders. Read here.
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Sony developes a 25GB disc made of paper!
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I crapped my pants when I saw this. I could do alot with a 25GB disc, I never thought using it as fire kindling would be one of them. Thats right, to save cost it's made out of mostly paper.
Interesting article here.
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from the developers who brought you KaZaA
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Skype, the online free phone call tool. It's a nice program with clear sound that works on a P2P network. Searchable online user database by profile.
skype's homepage
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Toshiba creates world smallest hard drive
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At only .85 inches with capacities of up to 4 gigs Toshiba was inducted into the guiness world records.
Check out Toshiba's press release for specs.
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So the scientists at Nasa say there is a new planet. But then again, we still don't know if Pluto is truly a planet just yet.
At about 8 billion miles away Sedna is the most distant object discovered in our solar system.
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BARSTOW, Calif. (AP) - The first of 15 driverless robots began trundling across the Mojave Desert on Saturday in an unprecedented race for $1 million in government-funded prize money. First out of the gate was Carnegie Mellon University's converted Humvee, which took off at a fast clip only to break down about 45 minutes into the race. - AP
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Surfin' the net and I found a cool spy digi-cam that supposedly takes decent pictures for its size/weight. It comes in the form of a zippo lighter and is dope. Check out the link to see actual pics taken by people who bought the camera.
check it here
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Microsoft goes on defense...
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Microsoft is sending warnings to users who search for its source code on peer-to-peer file-swapping services and is mailing legal warnings to those who have already downloaded the secret programming code, says Tom Pilla, a Microsoft spokesperson. The company has acknowledged the code, spreading on the Internet without its authorization, is genuine if incomplete.
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Gamma Ray Weapons? A Premature Speculation
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Recently there has been speculation that a gamma ray arms race may be in the offing. The U.S. Department of Defense is considering the development of a novel and exotic explosive that would release a flood of high-energy gamma rays from the nuclei of certain atoms.2 If a weapon that exploits this energy source could be devised, it would have a power approaching that of a nuclear weapon.
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If you didn't here already, Intel is planning on releasing a 64-bit chip. This should make all you Intel fans happy. AMD has had the Operton 64bit out for a while now.
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