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Book Reviews

Monday, October 14, 2002

Where is Vantaa, Finland? -- Comment()
Oliver Weinitschke pointed to the following map of Finland showing the location of the city of Vantaa. This map was published by BBC. Vantaa is in reality quite close to Helsinki, not where shown on the map.

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IBM Promises Muscle for the Mac: "Big Blue announces a processor to power a new line of Macintosh computers. The chip is designed to put Macs neck-and-neck with Intel's Pentium line -- and even start new 'computing wars.' By Robert McMillan." [Wired News]

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Tackling Breast Cancer on a Grid: "Venerable Oxford University unveils a landmark grid computing project aimed at pooling breast cancer research and improving methods for fighting the disease. By Michelle Delio." [Wired News]

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Users don't want Passport or Liberty: "Identity management systems, such as Microsoft's Passport and the proposed Liberty Alliance standard, are not wanted by most consumers, according to panelists at RSA Security's European conference in Paris." [Google Technology News]

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Space station seen as a stepping stone: "The world's major spacefaring nations believe multinational cooperation will continue to underpin the post-Cold War exploration of space, but most are eager to look beyond the international space station." [Google Technology News]

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Life on Venus may be microbe clouds: "Venus is considered the most inhospitable of planets, a barren inferno where surface temperatures approach 900 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmosphere is composed of metal-eating acids." [Google Technology News]

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Telescopes Find a Miniplanet at the Solar System's Edge: "Looking beyond the known planets of the Sun, out among an orbiting multitude of small icy bodies, astronomers have seen and measured a miniplanet, more than half the size of Pluto, that is the largest object in the solar system to be detected..." [Google Technology News]

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Visakopu writes: "I am a blog virus. Please post me into your blog to help me spread!"

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Cancer Vaccine Test Has Promising Result: "A cancer vaccine developed by Antigenics, a New York biotechnology company, virtually eliminated tumors in 2 of 28 patients with advanced melanoma, a deadly skin cancer." [Headlines From The NY Times]

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IBM Announces PowerPC 970: "International Business Machines Corp. Monday announced a microchip for personal computers that will crunch data in chunks twice as big as the current standard and is expected by industry watchers to be used by Apple Computer Inc." [MacMegasite]

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IBM Server Chip Seen Slimmed Down For Apple Macs: "IBM Monday announced a microchip for personal computers that will crunch data in chunks twice as big as the current standard and is expected by industry watchers to be used by Apple." (Reuters via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

Return to scheduled program -- Comment()
I have decided to post messages about the Myyrmanni bomb on a separate channel titled 'Myyrmanni'. So, I'm still collecting information about the crime, but will not jam the UR home page with all those message.