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He told a political rally in Louisiana the issue is not Iraq's co-operation with the UN or what the inspectors find. He said the issue is what weapons Iraq really has and that if Saddam says he has no weapons of mass destruction, he's lying." If she floats she's a witch. The US shows its true colours: they will use the UN when it's convenient for them. Otherwise, the one super power is the policeman of the world. .< 5:42:13 PM  >Turkey qualifies role in Iraq crisis. Ankara says it wants a second United Nations resolution before co-operating with the US in any military action against Iraq. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 5:42:03 PM >Ontario wastes hundreds of millions on consultants: report 
The Ontario government has wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars by paying outside consultants to do work its own staff can do for a third of the wages, the province's auditor general said on Tuesday. [CBC News] .< 3:13:13 PM >Multimodal user interfaces 'Several folks made the point that we process sonic information using a different part of the brain than we use to process visual information. One participant described a system that translated server logs into birdsong. When the servers were healthy, there was a pleasant ambience of happy birds -- a baseline pattern that supplied information without requiring conscious attention. As the servers became stressed the birds became more agitated.' .< 3:09:09 PM >Yikes! A call from Madhu at Sax Inc. indicates I am a victim of identity theft. Somebody has opened an account at a Mississippi store (McCrae's?) using, I think, information from a Carson Pirie Scott account of mine. Both stores are owned by Sax. I am calling the credit beaureaus now to attach a fraud alert to my file. Found some good info on what to do from the FTC. Also a government site on identity theft. [On The Mark] .< 3:05:45 PM >The Boston Globe follows up on the last stand of Massachusetts and West Virginia in the Microsoft monopoly trial, quoting Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly: "Microsoft is powerful and has unlimited resources and from the beginning has been able to wear down and crush anyone who gets in their way," he said. Once it reached a more amiable agreement with the US Justice Department last year, Reilly said, Microsoft's "goal was to split the states and wear them down one by one, and they've accomplished that goal," he said. "But it's important that someone stays the course, and Massachusetts will, and bring this to a conclusion."[Macintouch] .< 11:01:04 AM >Radio UserLand : Re: OSX 10.2.2 and RU 8.0.8: "I just got word from a developer at Apple today, that there is indeed a bug that's been identified in the asychronous AppleEvent code in MacOS 10.2.2, and that Apple is working on a fix." .< 10:57:19 AM >QSound Labs, iLab America Form Strategic Partnership Calgary, Canada (December 3, 2002)--QSound Labs, a supplier of audio software solutions, and iLAB America, a leader in digital audio product designs, have joined forces to offer QSound's QSurround technology in a new "off-the-shelf" production board designed and developed by iLAB. [ProSound News] .< 10:53:33 AM >The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) recently announced a MultiPhoto/Video (MPV) 1.0 specification, designed to standardize and simplify the use of multimedia collections. [Macintouch] .< 10:44:20 AM >Europe names its 'fleet of shame'. Sixty-six ships are blacklisted by Brussels, amid hopeful signs that the sunken tanker Prestige is not leaking more oil from the Atlantic seabed. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 10:41:14 AM >Grace Design Lowers Price of 801R 8-Channel Mic Preamp Read more [Digital Pro Sound News] .< 10:32:01 AM >Windows costs less than Linux. A bit. Sometimes - MS study. But you don't want to use it as a web server. Oops... [The Register] .< 10:30:14 AM >Apps: Mozilla, LiteSwitch X, NUDC... [The Macintosh News Network] .< 10:19:46 AM >Menubar extras may cause SystemUIServer problems [Mac OS X Hints] .< 1:03:44 AM >O'Reilly unveils bevy of new tech books [The Macintosh News Network] I'm a fan of O'Reilly books. This is an announcement of some new pocket books. .< 1:00:41 AM >Israel denies targeting food aid. The Israeli army says it is investigating why its troops destroyed a UN warehouse holding hundreds of tons of food aid for Palestinians. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 12:39:09 AM >The Globe and Mail: Breaking News: "The lack of a confrontation has raised concerns in the White House that Mr. Hussein is winning the early public relations battle by creating an impression that he is complying with inspectors. Aides said those fears prompted the President and Vice-President Dick Cheney to deliver separate speeches Monday to cast doubt on Mr. Hussein's intentions." The hawks are getting nervous. .< 12:28:21 AM >Did Timothy McVeigh have Iraqi helpers?. The Justice Department says no, but an Oklahoma City TV reporter says yes. With war against Iraq looming, her conspiracy theory has new support among right-wingers and hawks. [Salon.com] McVeigh wasn't the only nutbar in town. .< 12:26:43 AM >The decline and fall of the American empire. An expert on geopolitics says forget Islamic terrorism -- the real future threat to America's supremacy will come from Europe. [Salon.com] .< 12:20:47 AM >Anger over Straw's dossier on Iraqi human rights. Politics: Government accused of double standards after launching a dossier designed to soften up public opinion. [Guardian Unlimited] |
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