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If this article is correct: [www.microsoft-watch.com] Microsoft’s anti-virus/anti-spyware strategy is taking shape. Sources say Redmond’s prepping a fee-based bundle, which could go beta soon. …am I the only person who thinks that this would be potential corporate marketing suicide, in the vein of some hypothetical product marketers who might be saying: Nah mate, nuts to

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I just got asked by a colleague on AIM: Gilles: Question for you. What language would you suggest for somebody who wants to “learn to program”… something easy, yet with good concepts… …and the attached is my response and justification. I’d be interested in what other people have used to teach modern newbies the essentials

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it’s not that i’m an overgrown schoolboy or something, but sometimes i wonder whether the nicest thing about my bike isn’t how that at low-revs it sounds like a WW1 fighter plane, but at high-revs it sounds like a fighter jet…

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Chris Gerhard cited this article in The Register: [www.theregister.co.uk] A Register reader passes us an eye-witness account of progress with the see through clothes scanner currently being tested at Heathrow Terminal 4. As one might expect from a country that deploys stuff without considering health implications, the testing is splendidly incoherent, and unlikely to produce

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Incidentally, this is an interesting page of bombing-related history taken from [news.bbc.co.uk] Bombings 31 Oct 1971: Bomb explodes in Post Office tower 22 Feb 1972: IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks 06 Sep 1972: Olympic hostages killed in gun battle 19 Sep 1972: Parcel bomb attack on Israeli embassy 10 Sep 1973: Bomb blasts

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I’ve spent more than a week marveling that there has been no coverage of the terrible threat of global terrorism, chiefly because the world has had it driven home that when Mother Nature wants to create havoc, she can kill fifty times as many people as the 9/11 terrorists with just a little slip of

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I just received this: To Alec Muffett, I’m a 19yr Australia male, and interested in taking up a career in I.T. Security. What i would like to know from you is do you have any recommendation as to where to begin to learn about I.T security. I have read your site and it’s one of

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OK, this is driving me crazy; on the southbound M40, as you pass into Oxfordshire, approaching the Banbury junctions the Prodrive building will be on your right, and from somewhere will come the aroma of chocolate, or perhaps coffee beans, being roasted or otherwise cooked. The scent is not strong, but it is consistent, and

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I sense impending old-fartdom, not least because some of the signs are becoming manifest: you don’t get Christmas lights like you used to. Now I don’t exactly dislike the houses – over here in Britain has seen fungal growth in people setting-out vast quantities of exterior Christmas lighting, so much so that some entire farmsteads

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I just got my first (and to date only) Christmas present, and it’s still 2004, even! And it’s a good’un! Rachel, Graham & Chris – although I suspect the latter 7yo wasn’t really involved in this one – provided me with a copy of this mavellous book and a close-packed travellers loo roll, or toilet

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ITYS. From the BBC, even. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4135687.stm

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