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June 30, 2005

Little trouble with the old MasterCard, Sen. Leahy?

Congress moved Wednesday to protect the personal information of the few thousand remaining Americans not yet affected by data theft, introducing a bill aimed at stopping security breaches that have […]

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June 30, 2005

Quoted

"I see things or animals or people around me that others do not see." "My soul sometimes leaves my body." "I have a habit of counting things that are not […]

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June 30, 2005

Does this jumpsuit make my ass look big?

I hope Sanjay Kumar’s personalized color workup tags him as an "autumn" because he may end up wearing a lot of prison orange. This morning the government amended its indictment […]

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June 30, 2005

I think it was Sun Tzu who once said, “If your opponent is entrenched, irritate him with volleys of lawsuits.”

Looks like it’s pizza and Mini Thins for AMD legal again. This morning, the semiconductor maker added to its barrage of litigation against Intel, filing two lawsuits against the company’s […]

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June 30, 2005

Son, can you wrap up your game? Your mom needs the PS3 to do some seismic modeling

With its multiple processor cores and theoretical maximum performance of 256Gflops, there would seem to be far better uses for IBM’s Cell chip than running over pedestrians in Grand Theft […]

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June 30, 2005

Couldn’t you have picked a better movie?

Matrix Revolutions. In its entirety. On Google Video. For free. This will last, oh, five minutes.

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June 29, 2005

Off Topic

Google’s master plan: Cattle mutilations … hire Richard Branson … Orbital mind control (Be sure to click through all the frames; Thanks Tom)

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June 29, 2005

Intelsucks.com was already registered, so we figured an ad in the Merc was the next best thing

Looks like AMD intends to try its high-profile antitrust suit against Intel in the court of public opinion as well as federal court in Delaware (see "Intel to play Luca […]

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June 29, 2005

“DVD & Google Jon”? Mmm, maybe a little awkward

Well, that didn’t take long at all. Google’s VideoLAN-based in-browser video player is not yet a day old and already DVD Jon Lech Johansen has managed to crack it. The […]

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June 29, 2005

Quoted

"If the recent visual footage acquired from strategically placed cameras in a leading Mumbai-based business process outsourcing (BPO) unit showing a couple having sex in an office cubicle is anything […]

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