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Friday, August 22, 2003
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Sierra Leone players disappear: "Twelve members of Sierra Leone's Under-17 national side go missing in Finland." [BBC News | World | UK Edition] If I see them (12 athletes are probably easy to spot), I'll let you know.
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SCO CEO says IBM behind open source attacks: "IBM Corp. has been quietly stage-managing the open source community's response to The SCO Group Inc.'s $3 billion lawsuit over Big Blue's contributions to the Linux source code, SCO's Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride said in an interview at his company's SCO Forum user conference in Las Vegas this week." It is almost impossible to believe the stupidity of SCO executives. The fight between SCO and the rest of the world is becoming a IT soap opera with a plot too convoluted for anyone to follow.
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Kinds of ignorance: 'Jack Vinson has dug up an interesting Taxonomy of Ignorance. "The purpose is to increase awareness of both knowledge and ignorance that help shape decision processes." [...] Being aware of our own ignorance is immensely useful. This reminds me of that Ig Nobel-prize winning paper, Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.' [Seb's Open Research]
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Slogan for Microsoft to get users to update their systems -- Comment()
Slashdot: "Where do you want to go today?!?! Federal prison?!?! If not, upgrade now!"
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I have a dream: Forty years on: "On August 28 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his famous speech. Gary Younge explains why it is as important now as it was then." [Guardian Unlimited]
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