Government refuses to sign agreement.
[The Devil's Excrement]

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Will code for food. If you want to know just how grim the scene is for the unemployed information technology worker, attend a tech job fair in the Silicon Valley. [CNET News.com]

It is very uplifting to read this sort of article while unemployed and looking for a job... damn...

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Madonna swears at music pirates. Madonna floods file-sharing networks with fake tracks but fails to stop online piracy of her latest album. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

I once thought Madonna was intelligent, but no. Nobody has told her that her songs are being stolen right from her website? You see she does free streaming of some songs and those can be converted to Mp3. Not only you can use the Analog Hole (I bet Madonna would love that!), but there are programs now that can rip a stream directly to disks. Give it up, there is no way you can win this.

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Internet Is Losing Ground in Battle Against Spam. In the cat-and-mouse game of e-mail marketers and those trying to stop them, the spammers are still winning. By Saul Hansell. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

What are these guys talking about? Spam stopped to be a problem for me in August 21, 2002. Do I still get some Spam messages? Sure, but deleting ten messages out of a hundred is not a big deal, the problem is deleting ninety out of a hundred. If the filters are failing you are not using the right filters. The fight against Spam is over, get over it and get on with the program.

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