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Monday, July 25, 2005
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Mini robot mimics cockroaches: "Insect "extermination" may soon involve mini robots that can befriend and lure cockroaches from their dens."
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A very ordinary journey to death: "The life and last minutes of Jean Charles de Menezes." [Guardian Unlimited]
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Execution in London -- Comment()
'Shoot-to-kill' policy to remain: "UK police say they will not abandon their "shoot-to-kill" policy despite the death of an innocent Brazilian." [BBC News | World | UK Edition] What can I say? I was not there, so I don't know how the situation affected the victim or the shooters. But shooting someone in the head is definetely an extreme action. Can there ever be enough evidence to make this kind of on-the-spot capital punishment decisions?
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Media everywhere, always -- Comment()
My column on the London bombings and the revolution in media appeared today (in Finnish, Viestejä kaiken aikaa kaikkialta). Today media content is increasingly produced by amateurs, who happened to be on the spot where a crime happened - capturing the event on a camera phone or a video camera. There is less room for privacy, and it is easier than ever to catch the criminals.
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Problems with Mac OS X - or not? -- Comment()
Is Mac OS X Becoming Crufty?: "Two years ago, all of my Macs worked flawlessly. [...] Now, in this exciting year of the Tiger, a bunch of strange ailments has started affecting my machines. All three of them." Sorry to hear about the problems. I have been using Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) for ten days on my PowerBook G4, so I'm not yet qualified to estimate the reliability. But for me Tiger hasn't presented any problems. Of course, no operating system (or the user for the matter) is infallible.
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Savy iPodders Make Retailers Work Hard: "Retailers are staring into the financial abyss because of a failure to keep pace with the arrival of the iPod generation and its changing spending patterns." [MyAppleMenu]
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iGet So Sick Of World According To iPod: "Why? Because it's ruined my life and those of countless others, and created a whole new strata of trash culture, that's why." [MyAppleMenu]
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