Monday, February 11, 2002

Sleeping With the Terrorists

There are several reasons for misgivings about the American military deployment here. [ ... ] We are unwittingly about to join a dirty war in Basilan, siding with murderers and torturers in a way that dishonors our larger purposes.

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Finding The Bad Guys

Andy Rooney
I hate to say this - I love saying things I hate to say - but the airlines are in more trouble than they know because flying simply isn't fun anymore.

I don't care much for Rooney's suggestions (a tattoo somewhere maybe - yikes!), but there's no way I'm flying anywhere with the current security procedures in place. I'm not scared, I just have a low tolerance for annoying situtations. I'd probably end up making some sort of inappropriate remark...

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Flight Arrest Under Olympic Rules

An airline passenger who allegedly got up to go the bathroom less than 30 minutes before landing became the first person arrested under a new federal flight regulation adopted for the Olympics.

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Hollywood's Latest Attack on Customers

If Hollywood and the big television networks had controlled Congress 25 years ago the way they do today, you wouldn't have a fast-forward button on your video-cassette recorder. You wouldn't be allowed to tape a program to watch later. You would be allowed to view TV only the way they chose. Period.

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Printing Digital Photos, Part 1

Should we buy a photo printer, or should we send them out to be printed by a photo service? If the latter, which one? Since these aren't just everyday snapshots, I decided to investigate both options.

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A Safe Place for a War

Mrs. Arroyo has astutely used the new partnership with President Bush to shore up her previously wobbly presidency. And the Bush administration has found a safe place to continue the war on terrorism, even if a closer look suggests that isn't exactly what it is.

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Google aims search device at companies

What makes Google different is that it is selling search hardware and software, all contained in a slim device it calls the Google Search Appliance, which businesses can install behind their own corporate firewalls and program to scan whichever documents they wish.

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Judge Dubious About Link Patent

But a federal judge with a laptop on her desk warned that it may be difficult to prove that a patent filed in 1976, when today's Internet was barely imagined, somehow applies to modern computers. The language is archaic, said U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon. It's like reading Old English.

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