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Top 10 dying technologies

Ender

No write-up needed here, really, just a look at ten formerly-ubiquitous or still-dominant technologies that will soon find their way to obsolescence....

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Justice Department subpoenas website visitor logs

Ender

No, not this one, don't worry. IndyMedia, which has attracted the attention of federal law enforcement before, was recently hit with a subpeona on their ""include IP addresses, times, and any other identifying information," including e-mail addresses, physical addresses, registered accounts, and Indymedia readers' Social Security Numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and so on". ...

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Henderson Castration Tools

RickySilk

Just attach this to a variable-speed drill and let the fun times begin, Cowboy!...

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Somali pirates extending their range

Ender

Somali pirates have attacked an oil tanker further out than they have ever previously struck, leaving people wondering if their capabilities are actually growing, despite first-world navies' attempts to contain them. In case you're wondering --and you should be by now-- exactly why it is that foreign-flag ships don't just sail even further out to avoid the gnat-like pirates, you may be interest...

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Long-lost Persian Army found

Ender

Thousands of years ago, the story goes, a Persian Army 50,000 strong marched into Egypt. After stopping at an oasis, they marched on.....never to be heard from again. Stories and legends had grown up around the disappearance; Herodotus reported that the army had been swallowed up by "columns of sand", but historians had been increasingly writing that off as one of early recorded history's many...

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No good deed goes unsubpoenaed.....

Ender

A journalism class at Northwestern University uncovers evidence suggesting a 31-year-old murder case convicted the wrong man....and the modern-day prosecutor who'd be responsible for conducting the potential retrial tries to subpoena the evidence --including the students' notes and grades-- to put it under lock and key. Sounds like a lawyer-show TV plot, wherein the entire incident is neatly re...

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Teabaggers start piling on Elie Wiesel

Ender

A article on Politco today concerning Elie Wiesel's condemnation of a teabaggers' sign in yet-another DC protest using pictures of concentration camps to imply that the health-care proposals before the Congress would result in an American holocaust. The comments under the post quickly grew singularly ugly, as the Jeezus Brigade quickly started associating Wiesel's commentary with the usual arra...

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Tracking Ida....

Ender

Well, looks like our Foo friends in Florida are going to get a bit of a storm in the next 18 hours, as the Category 1 Hurricane Ida blows through. Here's a nifty site to track it. It won't be as bad as Katrina in '05 or Ike in '08, though you sure as hell wouldn't know that from watching The Weather Channel, which as usual has deployed all its assets and is making a big fuss about it....

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Five years of Firefox

Ender

Neat article here on Webmonkey where the forces behind the popular Firefox browser reminisce about the early days of the project, and look ahead to the future....

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The modern "green" mile

Ender

From the article: [quote]There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed. All are in the United States. And 77 of them are here in Florida.[/quote] The Supreme Court is set to weigh appeals from two people who have been incarcerated for years, since they were minors, challe...

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