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Ten Pills a Day Keeps the Doctors in Pay

WASHINGTON — What preventive health measures would save the most lives
for the least money?
The top rank goes to taking aspirin daily to prevent heart attacks and
strokes in men over 40 and [...]

Ten Pills a Day Keeps the Doctors in Pay

WASHINGTON — What preventive health measures would save the most lives
for the least money?
The top rank goes to taking aspirin daily to prevent heart attacks and
strokes in men over 40 and [...]

Devestating SCADA Attack Could Cripple USA

WASHINGTON — Attacks on US computer networks could
escalate from mere inconveniences to disasters that ruin companies or
even kill people, according to the head of a cyber-security unit working
with the government.
[...]

iCin

Camcorder
accessory manufacturer Bella has just announced a new device that will
let you toss those MiniDV cassettes straight out of your bag and replace
them with your [...]

60 Billion Senders Can’t Be Wrong

BERLIN, April 25 – Internet users around the world send an estimated
60 billion emails every day and many of these are spam or scam attempts,
business leaders said on Tuesday.
from Reuters
That works out to just over 10 emails for every [...]

Techno-Lust Retarded

Batteries Not Included

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Half of all malfunctioning products that are returned
stores by consumers work just fine, if only the customer knew how to operate
the device, a scientist said on Monday.
Such product [...]

Forbidden Cyber City

China may be planning to break away from ICANN and the
Domain Name System, after creating its own versions of several top-level
domains
China has announced it is creating a new set [...]

No One Writes to the Dowbrigade

An interesting article appeared on the front page of the New
York Times today concerning the balance between utility and imposition represented
by student email to college professors.
We are pretty much [...]

Web as Weapon of War : Wired to Win

Africa is the world’s least developed continent, and most rural inhabitants
live without electricity or running water. But in some of its poorest
and most remote corners, the Internet has become a powerful weapon for
[...]

W Union Ends Era Stop

The following
notice appeared today on the web site of Western
Union:
Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram
and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any [...]

Sites Google Censors in China

A
fascinating side-by-side comparison of actual current search results
from the new Google China service and the regular Google search the rest
of the world gets.
The results are displayed as graphics side by [...]


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