Tuesday, 2 July 2002
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U.S. pilots arrested for drunkenness
Two pilots with America West airlines were arrested just before takeoff
after security screeners said they could smell alcohol on the pilots'
breath.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
Sounds like they could have been arrested for stupidity.
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Xserve rolls out. Apple dishes up rack-mounted server. The company starts shipping Xserve as it looks for a stronger position in the corporate market and with companies delivering digital media content. [CNET News.com] [Rob McNair-Huff: OS X 10.1.4]
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iPhoto Book Now Available (01-Jul-2002; 1.6K) [TidBITS]
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Official Cautions Microsoft on Plan. Microsoft should be careful that its new software security plan doesn't shut out competitors, the European Union's new antitrust enforcer said Monday. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]
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Deck 3.5 for OS X Ships
PETALUMA, Calif., Jul. 02, 2002
-- Version 3.5 of multitrack recording pogram Deck is now shipping, an upgrade that brings full support for Mac OS X, and new features such as OMF file importing and 5.1-channel surround mixing.
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
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Staggering AIDS Report From U.N.. The AIDS epidemic is worse than was ever considered possible and isn't close to being controlled, a report from the United Nations says. Jordan Lite reports from New York. [Wired News]
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PolyGram and Warner acted to fix prices, says US Federal Trade July 2 2002Judge orders Vivendi Universal - now owners of PolyGram - not to act in similar way again [Gramophone - News]'PolyGram (now part of Vivendi Universal S.A.) acted with Warner Communications to fix prices and limit advertising for a certain period of time for albums and videos of The Three Tenors concerts, according to the US Federal Trade Commission.' If there's monkey business going on for the Three Tenors, what do you suppose is happening with Britney and Celine?
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Macromedia to integrate Opera browser [The Macintosh News Network]Interesting. Congrats to both companies for poking a stick in MS's eye.
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Tourism spending in Canada rebounds
After nine months on the decline, real tourism spending in Canada
rebounded in the first quarter of 2002, Statistics Canada reported
Tuesday.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]'Foreign travelers were the force behind the surge in spending, with their purchases rising 3 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2001. StatsCan said the number of international visits to Canada was up 7.7 per cent from the fourth quarter.'
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Vivendi Universal in alleged accounting irregularity July 2 2002Share price dives [Gramophone - News] 'If the allegations prove to be correct, Vivendi Universal will be the first European organisation to join the recent wave of high profile accounting irregularities at companies including Enron, WorldCom and Xerox.'
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Wireless networks - stumbling and security [Mac OS X Hints]'MacStumbler is a tool for discovery of wireless networks.' Great. Not to be abused but as a tool to access bandwidth someone may be willing to share.
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Mark Pilgrim: "Don't force links to open in new windows. [Scripting News]I agree. There is one way to handle this which is acceptable. Use a javascript to open the new window to a small size and on that new window include a 'close this window' button/link. This makes the new window and how to deal with it very obvious. But it should only be used in exceptional cases.
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Planes collide in mid-air over Germany
A Canadian pilot is among scores of people killed in a mid-air
collision over southern Germany.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]Thank god one of the planes was a cargo plane.
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