Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Thursday, September 9th, 2004
Right of a clive barker horror novel comes the line "You guys have no idea what's down there." This is all in reference to the underground Paris that contains many secrets; one of which has recently been revealed.
There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes ...
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
BanDiDo, leader of the now former DrinkOrDie pirate group is coming to the United States after a long battle to fight extradition from his home land of Australia. All other people involved in the DrinkOrDie bust have already gone through trial and serving their sentences. For Microsoft, I ...
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2004
Emmanuel Goldstein, editor and founder of hacker magazine 2600 has been arrested in NYC for "parading without a permit," In other words, he and 900 or so other people were marching in protest at the Republican National Convention. I guess the freedom to protest doesn't including moving -- ...
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Friday, August 13th, 2004
Julia Child passed away in her sleep last night at the ripe old age of 91. The cause of death was kidney failure.
She was one of the first chefs I watched on TV, and most of the french style cooking that I do know how to do was learned ...
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Friday, July 16th, 2004
According to Infoworld, Adrian Lamo has been sentenced to six months of home confinement after he plead guilty. Adrian Lamo is best known for his infiltration of the New York Times, and was dubbed by the media as the "homeless hacker" which is kind of funny if you ...
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Friday, July 16th, 2004
The worlds best chess player has been found. He was caught with an expired passport in Japan and now faces being deported to the states to face charges of violating international sanctions while playing in a previous match over 10 years ago.
MSNBC has the full story.
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Thursday, June 10th, 2004
So I was on a conference call yesterday with a bunch of guys from the states. One of the guys had come up to the Toronto area for a meeting on Monday and had to drive from Toronto's Pearson aiport to Waterloo. He mentioned on the call that ...
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2004
While surfing around on Rock Dummy I couldn't stop laughing when I read:What a great day for the music industry!
What a great day for mankind!
What a great day to put your head in a chipper shredder with dull blades!This was in response to the fact that the Spice Girls got ...
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2004
Turns out you can get all your piracy news direct from Microsoft Canada.
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