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Onion Routing Averts Prying Eyes. The Navy built a networking technology, called onion routing, to mask the online activities of intelligence employees. Now open-source programmers are using the same system to let users surf the Web anonymously. By Ann Harrison. [Wired News]
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Microsoft has Delayed SP2, Again [Slashdot:]
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Apple gaining ground in higher education market [The Macintosh News Network]
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Griffin ships GarageBand Guitar Cable [The Macintosh News Network]
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An Unconventional Way To Elect Presidents. The current national election system of the United States is flawed. Designed in the late 18th Century, it was built to fit a different society. It was designed for a loose federation of 13 states stretched out along the Atlantic shore. The telegraph would not be invented until the middle of the 19th century and the automobile would not be invented until the late 19th century. Transportation was difficult. Horses carried people over dirt roads. Communication was by messenger. News could take weeks to travel from one end of the country to the other. Advances in transportation, communication, and other technologies have changed society. The United States is no longer an agricultural population on the Atlantic. It is an economic, military, and political powerhouse that stretches across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. It has grown to become the fourth largest country in area, the third largest in population, and has the largest economy. It is time for change. [kuro5hin.org]
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Stop. What's That Sound?. "When the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four years in a war ... with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world cannot manage its economy ... when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad, or to any major city at home, then it's time for new leadership for the United States." The ellipses are to keep you from guessing too soon. Give up? That was Dick Nixon in 1968. Nowadays Kennedy and Johnson are heroes who made a "mistake" in Vietnam while Nixon twirls a handlebar mustache in Hell. But to look back at what we thought at the time is to see parallels to today. [kuro5hin.org]
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Yogi Berra. "This is like deja vu all over again." [Quotes of the Day]
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