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Sun ousts top server executives

Sun ousts top server executives 04/15/2004 05:12 PM
CNET Apr 15 2004 9:32PM GMT

Mainframe Entertainment Announces
Appointment of CEO Rick Mischel as CEO
of IDT Entertainment Sales

Mainframe Entertainment Announces
Appointment of CEO Rick Mischel as CEO
of IDT Entertainment Sales 06/22/2004 03:24 PM
BC Technology Jun 22 2004 8:19PM GMT

Oracle Ousts Top Execs

Oracle Ousts Top Execs 01/04/2005 03:15 PM
The company has quietly replaced two top executives as it moves forward with integrating PeopleSoft.

IBM ousts EMC, HP for storage in German
bank

IBM ousts EMC, HP for storage in German
bank 04/01/2005 03:54 AM
Blog: Commerzbank AG, a large German bank, has swapped out a raft storage systems from EMC and Hewlett-Packard for a few large systems...

Louisville Ousts No. 1 Seed Washington
(AP)

Louisville Ousts No. 1 Seed Washington
(AP) 03/24/2005 10:41 PM
AP - Undoubtedly, Louisville would rather play another game than be a No. 1 seed in the tournament. Francisco Garcia went on a shooting tear Thursday night to keep the Cardinals moving on, leading Rick Pitino and underrated, fourth-seeded Louisville to a 93-79 victory over top-seeded Washington in the Albuquerque Regional semifinals.

Tennis: Rusedski ousts Gaudio

Tennis: Rusedski ousts Gaudio 08/04/2004 08:49 PM
Greg Rusedski beats Gaston Gaudio in three sets at the Cincinnati Masters.

CA ousts Kumar as chief executive

CA ousts Kumar as chief executive 04/21/2004 10:18 AM
Sanjay Kumar steps down as chairman and CEO of the software maker as the company comes to grips with charges of financial impropriety.

Arafat Ousts Gaza Police Chief

Arafat Ousts Gaza Police Chief 07/17/2004 10:09 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 17 2004 1:39PM GMT

Troubled Siebel ousts chief executive

Troubled Siebel ousts chief executive 04/14/2005 01:42 PM
vnunet.com Apr 14 2005 4:37PM GMT

Dean Ousts Campaign Manager
(washingtonpost.com)

Dean Ousts Campaign Manager
(washingtonpost.com) 01/29/2004 03:49 AM
washingtonpost.com - COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 28 -- Howard Dean replaced his campaign manager Wednesday as he tried to retool his candidacy and slow John F. Kerry's rush to the Democratic presidential nomination.

Siebel Ousts CEO, Taps Former Webvan
Head (Reuters)

Siebel Ousts CEO, Taps Former Webvan
Head (Reuters) 04/13/2005 05:26 PM
Reuters - Siebel Systems Inc. ousted Chief Executive Michael Lawrie on Wednesday, days after the business software maker warned quarterly sales would be the lowest in five years and as a group of disgruntled shareholders was to meet to mull the company's future.

Siebel ousts CEO Lawrie after warning on
sales (USATODAY.com)

Siebel ousts CEO Lawrie after warning on
sales (USATODAY.com) 04/14/2005 06:25 AM
USATODAY.com - Troubled software maker Siebel Systems ousted Michael Lawrie as CEO on Wednesday, days after it warned that quarterly sales would be the lowest in five years. Longtime company board member George Shaheen, a former CEO at Andersen Consulting (now called Accenture) replaced Lawrie.

Siebel Systems Ousts CEO Lawrie, Names
Shaheen New CEO

Siebel Systems Ousts CEO Lawrie, Names
Shaheen New CEO 04/13/2005 03:06 PM
Information Week Apr 13 2005 5:53PM GMT

Ask Jeeves Ousts Overture, Goes Google
in $100M Deal

Ask Jeeves Ousts Overture, Goes Google
in $100M Deal 07/19/2002 10:46 AM
Further strengthening its position atop the search engine hierarchy, Google has inked a $100 million, three-year deal to provide paid search results to search engine Ask Jeeves, where it will displace rival Overture.

Siebel Board Ousts Chief as Market Share
Declines

Siebel Board Ousts Chief as Market Share
Declines 04/13/2005 10:22 PM
Siebel Systems, the business software maker, announced that its board had ousted J. Michael Lawrie after 11 months on the job.

This Firm Is Not Yet Rated

This Firm Is Not Yet Rated 01/03/2004 06:02 AM
Want full disclosure from corporate America? Start rating cybersecurity. A commentary by Mark Rasch from Wired magazine

does any 1 know of sum 'A' rated games

does any 1 know of sum 'A' rated games 07/09/2004 08:10 AM
TechTree Jul 9 2004 12:09PM GMT

The Terminator's G-rated GOP lovefest

The Terminator's G-rated GOP lovefest 08/31/2004 10:22 PM

An R-Rated Trademark Dispute?

An R-Rated Trademark Dispute? 04/19/2005 04:16 AM
The MPAA really does get a little crazy when it comes to over-reacting on intellectual property issues. Their latest move is to send out cease-and-desist letters to sites that host fan fiction -- not because those made up stories use characters, places and themes from real movies -- but because they use the (trademarked) MPAA movie rating system. That's right, if you happen to label your story as rated G, PG, PG-13, R or NC-17, you'd better watch out, the MPAA might come after you. Of course, they seem to ignore the fact that this system has become common around the world, is hardly taking anything away from the MPAA's own system (if anything, it enhances it), and also is useful in keeping age-inappropriate stories off the screens of those who shouldn't see them.

Top 100 Websites as Rated by PC Magazine

Top 100 Websites as Rated by PC Magazine 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
There are a lot of Gems in this list and a few you are already familiar with. [PC Magazine]...

Tsunami charities rated

Tsunami charities rated 12/29/2004 10:00 AM
Cory Doctorow: Benjamin sez, "I did a little digging into a few of the major charities mentioned on Google's page and on the tsunami blog, and have posted ratings and links from Charity Navigator, the Better Business Bureau, and the American Institute of Philanthropy for the top few." Link (Thanks, Benjamin!)

Disney's x-rated fare

Disney's x-rated fare 12/22/2004 01:57 AM
The original plates for the famous parody work (that was never sued over) Disneyland Memorial Orgy, is on sale at eBay. Here's the whole story on the piece, which ran in 1967 in a small underground newspaper and was created by Paul Krassner. I bet a copyright/trademark lawyer with a sense of humor buys this to mount over his desk soon.

Revenge of the Sith Officially Rated
PG-13

Revenge of the Sith Officially Rated
PG-13 04/11/2005 05:59 AM

"Keep the Sex R-Rated, N.Y.U. Tells Film
Students"

"Keep the Sex R-Rated, N.Y.U. Tells Film
Students" 12/05/2003 10:14 PM

Worst Cars Of All Time Rated

Worst Cars Of All Time Rated 01/26/2004 07:36 PM

Yahoo back in X-rated business

Yahoo back in X-rated business 11/17/2003 06:56 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Nov 17 2003 6:19AM ET

Object relational mappings are
over-rated...

Object relational mappings are
over-rated... 01/01/2004 06:18 PM

... At least according to Tim Bray:

Lots of architects have learned, painfully, that you usually can't magick relational rows away behind object/class abstractions. The right way to think about a database is as a set of normalized tables that are designed to be addressed with SQL strings.

This brings in to focus something I've been thinking about for quite a while. I always try to abstract away the details of the data storage layer behind some kind of interface, so that none of my front end code ever has to make a direct database call, instead calling methods on my application objects with names like "get_user_by_id" or "get_blog_entries_for_date". The idea is that I could, if I wanted to, completely switch out the underlying data source. I should also be able to write new front-end functionality that calls the existing application layer methods without having to change anything in the data access code.

There are a couple of problems here. Firstly, I've already got a data abstraction layer in the form of SQL. Although there are many discrepancies between implementations, basic SQL statements such as selects and joins should work on pretty much any database. Additionally, in my three years of building web applications I can't think of a single time I've needed to change the data layer for an existing application.

Modern database features such as stored procedures and constraints allow you to move huge chunks of application logic that relates to data coherency in to the database itself. In fact, PostgreSQL even allows you to write stored procedures in third party languages such as Python or Perl. With carefully written stored procedures, much of the important application logic could live in the database along with the data itself - a concept comparable to object oriented programming where the data and the methods that can be run on the data are encapsulated together.

I certainly haven't made up my mind one way or the other, and at the end of the day the best approach is the one that gets a project completed in a reasonable time frame and that results in easily maintainable code. Plenty of food for thought, in any case.

Gifted pupil summer schools rated

Gifted pupil summer schools rated 05/17/2004 08:52 PM
Summer schools for gifted and talented children worked well, boosting their knowledge and confidence, Ofsted says.

'Over the Rainbow' rated no. 1 movie
tune

'Over the Rainbow' rated no. 1 movie
tune 06/23/2004 10:59 AM

X-Arcade MAME Dual Controller Rated

X-Arcade MAME Dual Controller Rated 05/23/2004 10:27 PM

Hefty fine for X-rated spam scam

Hefty fine for X-rated spam scam 02/17/2004 01:02 PM
A telecoms watchdog has fined a US firm for spam that dialled up premium rate lines without permission.

Bush Climate Plan Rated Somewhat
Improved

Bush Climate Plan Rated Somewhat
Improved 02/19/2004 12:11 AM
The president's plan for climate research has improved, but can succeed only if the research is shielded from political pressures and if more money is spent, an independent panel said.

JobSniper Rated #1 Job Meta-Search
Engine

JobSniper Rated #1 Job Meta-Search
Engine 09/21/2004 02:44 AM
JobSniper.com has been rated the Internet’s number one meta- job search engine by an independent human resources and web technology development and services organization for the second time in as many months. [PRWEB Sep 21, 2004]

Lego rated adults' favourite toy
(Reuters)

Lego rated adults' favourite toy
(Reuters) 05/31/2004 10:01 AM
Reuters - Lego, the multicoloured plastic bricks which delight youngsters but catch out unwary barefoot parents, has been voted the nation's favourite toy, according to a poll.

The unit-- unit test aid for C++

The unit-- unit test aid for C++ 04/13/2005 08:01 AM
An initial version released

ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a
tourist attraction, dammit

ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a
tourist attraction, dammit 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
A Hair Raising Account From A Soldier Caught In An Ambush In Iraq .. ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a tourist attraction, dammit .. a breathtaking account of what can go wrong .. soldier's eye view .. Alamo

livejournal.com/users/ginmar/256570.html#cutid1
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N.Y.U. film school keeps its
students’ on-camera sex R-rated

N.Y.U. film school keeps its
students’ on-camera sex R-rated 12/05/2003 06:40 AM

nytimes.com/2003/12/04/nyregion/04MOVI.html
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Subservient Chicken's X-Rated Bits
Exposed by Code

Subservient Chicken's X-Rated Bits
Exposed by Code 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
Following up on the launch of Burger King's "instameme" promo -- background in this earlier BoingBoing post -- geek supersleuth NEMESIS reveals the Subservient Chicken's naughty little nuggets:

"By backwards engineering the API within the HTTP headers, you can un-censor the censored ones:
Link 1 (scratch, crotch, balls, nutsack, destroy tokyo, stomp, godzilla, jonny rotten, punk rock, fsu, fuck shit up)
Link 2 (rub, chest, breast, breasts, boobs, jugs, tatas, hooters, jugs, nips, burning man, mardis gras, girls gone wild, playboy, penthouse, barely legal, leg show)
Link 3 (give bird, give the bird, bird, middle finger, flipping, fuck you, fuck off, flip , flip me off, flip them off)
Link 4 (shit, ass , fuck, cock, pussy, motherfucker, cunt, piss , arse, suck, dyke, bitch, clit, cum , dick, dildo, feces, felch, foreskin, whore, jizz, jism, masturbate, jerk, anal, bastard, blowjob, butt, suck, choad, erection, fellatio, incest, semen, tit)
Link 5 (touch yourself, naughty spot , naughtyspot, private, privates, sore, nuts , testicles, balls, groin, crotch)
Link 6 (show breast, breasts, tits , titties, slut, whore, tramp , seduce, hooker, prostitute, tatas, jugs, nice rack, your rack, tatas, show yer tits, show yer breasts, show your breasts, show yer tis)
Link 7 (masturbate, masterbate, play with yourself, jerk off , take off mask, take off costume, take off your, streak , flash , strip , naked, nude, take it off , get naked, take it all off, nekkid, get nekkid, whip em out, show your tits, show yer tits, tits , take off your clothes, take off yer clothes, clothes, off like a prom dress, prom dress, do me , blow me, take pants off, take off your pants, mask)

But to paraphrase another fast food empire: Where's the bukkake? Link to copy of file with index of all Subservient Chicken Behavior commands, many of which would merit FCC fines, if they were -- I don't know, read aloud on the Howard Stern Show or something. (Thanks also to Josh Santangelo!)

"ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a
tourist attraction, dammit"

"ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a
tourist attraction, dammit" 04/10/2004 02:10 PM

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