Major Flare Today: Sun Kicks Up Biggest Storm in Years

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"CNN.com - Sun erupts in biggest storm
in years - Oct. 29, 200..."

"CNN.com - Sun erupts in biggest storm
in years - Oct. 29, 200..." 10/29/2003 09:08 AM

CNN.com - Sun erupts in biggest storm in
years - Oct. 29, 2003

CNN.com - Sun erupts in biggest storm in
years - Oct. 29, 2003 10/29/2003 09:10 AM
CNN.com - Sun erupts in biggest storm in years - Oct. 28, 2003 .. another earthbound solar flare .. CNN

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Biggest
solar flare goes off

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Biggest
solar flare goes off 11/05/2003 08:41 AM
Because it's being badass recently .. Biggest solar flare goes off .. sputtering .. BBC

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Largest Solar Flare seen in years

Largest Solar Flare seen in years 11/05/2003 10:56 AM
What the heck is going on with the Sun seems like for the past couple of weeks is all we...

Microsoft kicks off biggest ever Windows
promo

Microsoft kicks off biggest ever Windows
promo 04/18/2005 10:04 AM
vnunet.com Apr 18 2005 1:35PM GMT

India's biggest IT firm kicks off public
share offering (AFP)

India's biggest IT firm kicks off public
share offering (AFP) 07/29/2004 01:00 AM
AFP - Indian software services giant, Tata Consultancy Services, has launched an initial public offering expected to raise up to 1.25 billion dollars, making it the biggest ever by a privately owned firm.

Major Spam ISP Kicks Off Spammers

Major Spam ISP Kicks Off Spammers 09/08/2004 12:32 PM
Apparently, Cable & Wireless US had absolutely no problem giving access to many of the most major spammers out there. Savvis bought C&W US earlier this year, and apparently had a big internal debate about how to handle the spam accounts, which continued to grow until they were hosting 148 of the world's largest spammers (how nice of them). Apparently (as you might expect) some of the execs at Savvis didn't want to do anything about these accounts since they were considered quite profitable. One former Savvis employee wrote up a 200 page report detailing all of the complaints about the spammers, and the executive battle was on. While some continued to insist that the spammers be left alone, executives realizing the potential damage to Savvis' reputation (helped along by a Spamhaus threat to have Savvis customers blacklisted) have apparently convinced the company to shut down the accounts of all 148 major spammers. While it's likely that they'll quickly find new ISPs, shutting off such a major (and well-known) source of network connectivity for spammers has to be seen as a good thing.

Monster Solar flare was likely an X-28
class flare

Monster Solar flare was likely an X-28
class flare 11/07/2003 03:14 AM
SOHO Hot Shot: X-whatever Flare! .. Another great flare .. terrifying movies .. movie

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Major VC firm raises one of biggest
funds since dot-com bust

Major VC firm raises one of biggest
funds since dot-com bust 02/19/2004 04:10 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 19 2004 7:42AM GMT

Macworld Expo kicks off with 20 years on
the Mac

Macworld Expo kicks off with 20 years on
the Mac 07/13/2004 11:47 AM
The first Macworld Conference & Expo to be held in Boston, Mass. since 1997 officially kicked on Tuesday with a feature presentation the Macintosh at 20. The presentation, hosted by New York Times columnists David Pogue, featured original Macintosh designers Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, Jerry Manock and Jef Raskin.

Google Ipo Kicks Off: Bids Are Starting
Today

Google Ipo Kicks Off: Bids Are Starting
Today 08/13/2004 02:06 AM
New York Post Aug 13 2004 6:31AM GMT

Macworld Expo kicks off with 20 years on
the Mac (MacCentral)

Macworld Expo kicks off with 20 years on
the Mac (MacCentral) 07/13/2004 11:58 AM
MacCentral - The first Macworld Conference & Expo to be held in Boston, Mass. since 1997 officially kicked on Tuesday with a feature presentation the Macintosh at 20. The presentation, hosted by New York Times columnists David Pogue, featured original Macintosh designers Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, Jerry Manock and Jef Raskin.

GDP Jumps 7.2 Percent, Biggest Increase
in Nearly 20 Years

GDP Jumps 7.2 Percent, Biggest Increase
in Nearly 20 Years 10/31/2003 06:07 AM
The Economy grew at an annual rate of 7.2 percent .. STUNNING ECONOMIC GROWTH .. FoxNews: US GDP Surges .. GDP is up

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Intel Exec: Next Chipsets Are Biggest
Leap In 10 Years

Intel Exec: Next Chipsets Are Biggest
Leap In 10 Years 02/19/2004 08:19 AM

Internet to see major strike today?

Internet to see major strike today? 08/27/2004 01:56 PM
Yevgeny Kaspersky, of Kaspersky Labs fame, has raised concerns of a major attack on the internet today. Kaspersky has been widely quoted as saying that there would be a major online attack against Israeli sites today. "Arabic and Hebrew language websites contained an announcement of an 'electronic jihad' against Israel, to start on 26th August 2004".

True? Quite possibly. However, after this news was widely circulated around the web, Kaspersky went on to clarify his comments. He remarked that the true possibility of the threat was 'low', but added that Kaspersky Labs would be raising their online thread level.

He also commented (and raised a very valid point) that if not today, it could be tomorrow that we see an attack. He noted that the many insecurities in the internet’s structure and popular Operating systems meant that it was only a matter of time before online terrorists added 'the internet' to their arsenal of weapons.

Although such a major attack has yet to take place on the internet, a few have come close. Of note, an attack on Akamai, WWW content distributor/cache, did serious damage due to the number of sites hosted with them. Equally damaging was an attack in October 2002 on the Root servers of the internet, that manage DNS. For more information on this kind of attack, read here for an extensive interview with Dave Dittrich.

View: Info from Russian News Agency Novosti | Clarification @ Viruslist.com

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OKC: Ten years ago today

OKC: Ten years ago today 04/19/2005 08:35 AM
9:02 AM CST 4/19 1995. Ten years ago today. Do you remember where you were when the federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed? It was then the biggest act of mass murder in U.S. history. Shocking to a people una ccustomed to domestic terrorism. What followed was an outpouring of volunteer support and grief for the victims, a manhunt for suspects presumed to be Arabic, and calls for a 'war against terrorism'. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were eventually arrested for, and convicted of the crime, but since McVeigh was put to death in 2001, a steady stream of new evidence has called into question both the government's handling of the investigation and the official version of events. Survivors and victims' family members gather today to remembe r and to reaffirm demands for truth.

It was 10 Years Ago Today. . .

It was 10 Years Ago Today. . . 02/17/2004 11:55 AM
The San Francisco Chronical has an observance on the 10th anniversary of the death of Randy Shilts. His second book, And the Band Played On opened my eyes to the AIDS epidemic, as I am sure it did to a lot of straight people. I was amazed to see him pilloried in the gay press as being a traitor to his "kind." My understanding is that this disfavor arose from his assertion that aspects of the hard-won sexual freedom enjoyed by many gay men were also killing them. Anyone want to weigh in on this?

Rumor Today: Signs Point to Major
Overhaul of the Apple iMac

Rumor Today: Signs Point to Major
Overhaul of the Apple iMac 06/22/2004 06:45 PM
AppleInsider : The new iMac will reportedly sport single Power PC G5 processors at speeds below 2GHz and feature a completely redesigned enclosure.

Forty years ago today

Forty years ago today 02/15/2004 02:33 PM
Actually, it was in 1960, four years before the Beatles showed up on Ed Sullivan, that Doug McIlroy published Macro instruction extensions of compiler languages, which appears to be a seminal paper in the literature of metaprogramming. I mention this because a number of folks have responded to last week's item, Programs that write programs, pointing out that Lisp programmers have been there, done that:

"your note about code generation, and the referenced discussions - bits of which i'd already read elsewhere, left me with a really eerie feeling, that i might not be living in the same dimension with you folks. you see, there's a practice of code generation which extends back decades: lisp. code generations is a lisp programmer's bread and butter."

"In the lisp world, they call these macros. The idea is pretty widely known, though not too many languages implement them. Perl 6, and by extension the Parrot interpreter, will include macros, and they will thus be available to any language that gets implemented on top of Parrot (which currently includes Ruby, Python, (maybe) PHP, and, of course, Perl)."

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The Birth of GNU, 20 Years Ago Today

The Birth of GNU, 20 Years Ago Today 01/07/2004 03:16 PM
Richard Stallman resigned from MIT 20 years ago today to launch the GNU Project. That was the free software effort that ultimately spawned the operating system known as Linux, building on a tradition that gave the world a host of other software, some of which is at the heart of the Internet and other things we take for granted today.

Acidman is two years old today!

Acidman is two years old today! 12/30/2003 06:12 AM
Rob "Acidman" Smith .. Blogiversary

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Last Solar Eclipse For Years Today

Last Solar Eclipse For Years Today 04/08/2005 12:34 PM
CBS News Apr 8 2005 4:55PM GMT

Mars Attacked, 65 Years Ago Today

Mars Attacked, 65 Years Ago Today 10/30/2003 08:15 PM

FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today

FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today 06/28/2004 07:53 PM

Internet-savvy psych major celebrates 10
years of world's first cyber cafe

Internet-savvy psych major celebrates 10
years of world's first cyber cafe 09/11/2004 05:47 AM
National Post Sep 11 2004 8:52AM GMT

Spam Might Be Your Biggest Headache, But
It's Not Your Biggest Threat

Spam Might Be Your Biggest Headache, But
It's Not Your Biggest Threat 01/22/2004 11:43 AM

Flare

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Software vendors continue with major
initiatives to publicize their goal of
carving out a major piece of the SMB
market.

Software vendors continue with major
initiatives to publicize their goal of
carving out a major piece of the SMB
market. 07/14/2004 03:05 AM
[PRWEB Jul 14, 2004]

Yet Another Big Solar Flare

Yet Another Big Solar Flare 10/30/2003 03:48 PM
philthedrill writes "CNN is reporting that the sun has fired another large solar flare towards Earth. This one could arrive as early as Thursday (Oct. 30th) ...

DR Congo clashes flare up again

DR Congo clashes flare up again 05/30/2004 07:22 PM
Fresh clashes break out near the eastern town of Bukavu between regular army troops and former rebels.

Intense Solar Flare

Intense Solar Flare 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
The largest solar flare of the current solar cycle shot off the sun earlier today. After the media latched on to what was predicted to be mostly a non-event last week (probably due to a NASA article released around the same time about a super spacestorm) , it's not making as much news this time. But you should pay attention this time. This could be the best and last chance for a lot of us farther south to see some auroras before the sun dives into solar minimum, assuming all the variables line up correctly this time. I recommend watching the Solar Terrestrial Dispatch, as it is a great all around resource for solar activity and auroras that includes live data and sightings reports by the general public. Unfortunately though, no doubt as word IS spreading, that site is being hammered again and may be quite slow.

Tempers Flare Around The iPod

Tempers Flare Around The iPod 02/19/2004 12:08 AM
I already knew that a huge population of Windows bashers, and a huge population of Mac bashers populate the Internet -- but now I've met the iPod bashers. By David Pogue (New York Times via MyAppleMenu)

How to Promote a Game With Flare

How to Promote a Game With Flare 05/15/2004 05:45 AM
The Army stages an assault on the L.A. Convention Center to promote its latest video game at E3. Also: Sony to release EverQuest II this fall.... Mangled patients in ER, the video game. Wired News reports from Los Angeles.

Flu vaccine fears flare up
(USATODAY.com)

Flu vaccine fears flare up
(USATODAY.com) 09/22/2004 06:33 AM
USATODAY.com - If the pediatrician's office seems more crowded than usual this fall, blame the flu. Not the virus, but the vaccine, which is recommended this year for all babies 6 months to 23 months old.

Firewall market forecast to flare up

Firewall market forecast to flare up 12/03/2003 06:21 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 3 2003 6:10AM ET

Sun Produces Strongest Flare Ever
Recorded

Sun Produces Strongest Flare Ever
Recorded 11/06/2003 09:57 AM

fired another large solar flare towards
Earth

fired another large solar flare towards
Earth 10/31/2003 04:59 AM
two big shots at us .. same week

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EO Newsroom: New Images - Massive Solar
Flare

EO Newsroom: New Images - Massive Solar
Flare 10/29/2003 03:52 PM
caughtfor posterity on its way to Earth .. massive solar flare .. hi-rez photos

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"EO Newsroom: New Images - Massive Solar
Flare"

"EO Newsroom: New Images - Massive Solar
Flare" 10/29/2003 09:21 PM

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