Rescuing Victims Worldwide 'From the Depths of Hell'

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'From KFOG to iPod' in less than 48
hours

'From KFOG to iPod' in less than 48
hours 01/28/2004 11:23 AM
Virgin Records has announced that the exclusive digital EP "From KFOG to iPod" by The Thrills was released today on Apple's iTunes Music Store, less than 48 hours after the band recorded the tracks at a KFOG-FM Emerging Artist Concert in San Francisco on Sunday, January 25...

iMac G5: 'From the creators of iPod'

iMac G5: 'From the creators of iPod' 09/01/2004 02:04 AM
by Larry Angell - In an obvious move to gain new Mac purchasers, Apple is heavily promoting the similarities between the iPod and the new iMac G5...

'Neighbour from hell' jailed - again

'Neighbour from hell' jailed - again 02/10/2004 07:17 AM
A man banned from the village he terrorised is sent to prison for a second time for breaking an anti-social behaviour order.

"from the depths of Live Journal..."

"from the depths of Live Journal..." 04/29/2004 09:09 AM

In their proper place, the depths

In their proper place, the depths 04/10/2004 10:05 AM
Whe re Wealth Lives
"The top 1% of families, as measured by net worth, receive about 15% of income but own 30% of the nation's assets -- including stocks and bonds, homes, and closely held businesses. That's according to the Federal Reserve's Surve y of Consumer Finances. The top 10% of families, as measured by net wealth, own 65% of assets, and the top 50% own a stunning 95% of assets..."

Ah, Copenhagen in the depths of winter

Ah, Copenhagen in the depths of winter 01/01/2004 01:30 PM
Well, class materials are in, tickets are bought, and I'm off to Copenhagen for NordU in a few weeks. (I get in on the 25th, and leave on the 29th, with the class the afternoon of the 28th) Should be interesting to wander around Copenhagen for a few days, too--I've never been there. (Anyone with recommendations as to what to do, feel free to let fly...)...

'Neighbour from hell' broke order

'Neighbour from hell' broke order 05/25/2004 01:14 PM
A judge tells a 78-year-old woman she was a "malicious and evil-minded old woman" who made her neighbours' lives a misery.

Victims' family in 'living hell'

Victims' family in 'living hell' 07/23/2004 06:06 AM
The daughter of pensioners murdered in North Yorkshire tells of the devastation caused by the killings.

Rescuing cybersecurity

Rescuing cybersecurity 12/04/2003 09:35 PM
Silicon Valley executives meet with U.S. government officials during a cybersecurity summit in an effort to enhance security programs, but regulations may follow if those efforts fail.

Another useful looking tool, this one
for rescuing a PC

Another useful looking tool, this one
for rescuing a PC 04/25/2004 09:41 AM
The ultimate boot CD

ultimatebootcd.com
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Rescuing recordings

Rescuing recordings 05/07/2004 04:16 PM
ZDNet May 7 2004 8:06PM GMT

Rescuing Linux Systems

Rescuing Linux Systems 07/10/2002 04:36 AM
Linux rescue disks generally fall into two distinct classes, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. The first class of these are rescue disks that are provided with or produced by a specific Linux distribution and are therefore targeted toward correcting problems encountered on a machine running that distribution. These distribution-specific rescue disks may either be floppies created during the installation process, or may be boot options that are available from the distribution's installation CD. In either case, such distribution-specific rescue disks reflect the boot loader, filesystems, and tools used by that distribution.

My sister rescued a sick kitten from the street a couple of days ago. Last night it choked and died on her bed. Sadly there's no reboot disk for kittens; we tried CPR but it must have choked on something - we couldn't inflate its lungs. This picture is for you, kitty.

"zeldman.kit"

Rescuing Social Networking

Rescuing Social Networking 06/17/2005 03:27 PM

Recent reports of the demise of Social Networking Applications (SNAs), voted "technology of the year" by Business 2.0 just two years ago, are increasing. Most recently C|Net's Molly Wood reported on Five Reasons Social Networking Doesn't Work. While LinkedIn and eCademy are hanging in there, many of the other entrants into the SNA space are really struggling. I reported last year on what I thought was wrong with the first generation of social networking applications, and I haven't seen any significant improvements become mainstream since then. Wood complains that existing SNAs offer the user little to do, take too much time, don't provide a customized audience, are socially awkward, and don't provide much that other features of the Internet don't do as well or better. It's not clear what problem they're trying to solve, other than to provide a list of not-very-well qualified contacts for people online who are looking (mostly for customers, employers or dates). They remind me a lot of Chamber of Commerce meetings, with consultants and agents outnumbering 'real' businesspeople, five sellers for every buyer. I belong to several SNAs but use them rarely, since my blog provides me with a more robust network than any SNA could ever hope to do. The challenge, as with most business and social problems, is getting attention. Because good stories, useful, researched advice and helpful, informative conversations command attention, these are the tools of the trade in face-to-face networking events. Face to face meetings also provide a huge amount of non-verbal information that allows people to make considered judgements and to establish trust, which virtual forums can only accomplish awkwardly, and over time. The lowly telephone, and Skype, are an improvement. Most of us can converse iteratively faster and more competently in a voice conversation than in a message thread, and get past the awkwardness and misunderstandings faster as a result. I've had some excellent Skype conversations with people I have never met in person, and some ghastly ones. I have proposed a more robust, multimedia, multi-view Simple Virtual Presence (SVP) tool such as what is illustrated above. There are people more technologically competent and agile than I am who are achieving such presence using a combination of tools now, but for most of us this is still just a dream. SNAs are therefore inherently not very good for building relationships or for collaborative work. How are they at finding people for valuable personal or business relationships? Once again we're back to the too many sellers, too few buyers problem (it's the same with dating services, I'm told). Useful SNAs need to be under the control of the customer, not the vendor. They would be better advised to reinvent themselves as a kind of very detailed person-to-person 'yellow pages', to separate users' 'what I have' and 'what I need' personas, and to focus specifically on the former, in a lot more detail, with credentials and samples of offerings. In a way, that's what blogs do, providing a space for one individual to exhibit as much of himself as possible in as much detail as possible, which is why many recruiters are now starting to peruse blogs in the search for extraordinary people or matches for very difficult fits. So a good SNA could offer a condensed version of this: Who I am, What I offer, Who recommends me, and Samples of what I do. Then the buyer can browse this 'catalogue' and, if he thinks I might have what he's looking for (personally or professionally) he is given contact information (ideally with the richness of Simple Virtual Presence) to confirm through conversation that my offer meets his requirements. Simple as that. Forget about the discussion forums and the form-filling and all the other bells and whistles that just complicate use and chew up time. Just give me a yellow pages on steroids. Once some standards emerge on formats for this information, it could then be possible for people to post this information anywhere, in the agreed-upon 'SNA2' format, so that we would no longer have to post my information to each SNA 'yellow page' directory -- the SNA tools could go out and harvest it automatically wherever we posted it, so we would only have to maintain it once (perhaps on our blog-jacke t, personal website, or other online space). So then we would have three easy-to-use SNA tools, working in tandem, all built around the 'customer', the guy looking for something: The standard-format 'yellow pages' displaying our personal 'offerings', A Simple Virtual Presence tool to qualify those offerings and to enable powerful conversations, and Blogs as 'personal filing cabinets' that people could browse if we were away from our phone/SVP tool, or if they wanted to see some more of our stuff before attempting to call us and offer us a job, a contract or a date. What would really make SVP cool would be if we could meter it, so that the tool could track time we spent on each call and, with the agreement of the other party, automatically bill them and pay us for our time at an agreed-upon rate. Because it's the value you add person-to-person, helping them in their personal context, once the introductions are over and they know they've found the person they want to 'hire', that could finally realize the promise of online commerce.

Rescuing the mechanical foundations of
our democracy

Rescuing the mechanical foundations of
our democracy 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
Berkeley had its own problems with the Diebold machines last election, which the Berkeley Daily Planet has done a good job of covering so it was a very encouraging sign to read in an article in the BDP last night that people (many with Berkeley connections) from The Open Voting Consortium have volunteered their time and energy to trying to solve the problem of creating a better way to vote that is secure, fast and voter verifiable. They plan on demonstrating the system they have developed this Thursday in Santa Clara. My congratulations and thanks to them. Here is an excerpt from the article: Bay Area Programmers Develop Touchscreen Alternative By JAKOB SCHILLER (03-30-04) As touchscreen voting machines continue to draw heat from critics pointing to allegations of security vulnerabilities, one group of computer science experts proposes to have the solution. The Open Voting Consortium (OVC), a nonprofit group with several Bay Area members, recently announced the development of touchscreen voting machine software that uses open source and creates a voter verified paper trail. Recently completed, the software is set to be publicly tested this Thursday, April 1, at the Santa Clara County government offices in San Jose. ... Taking all the complaints and security vulnerabilities into question, the Open Voting Consortium developed a simple approach; maintain the advantages of a touchscreen system but include the security features that alleviate the current security concerns. OVC's system, currently in software form only, can be used on regular desktop PCs hooked up to a touchscreen monitor and a standard printer. Like the touchscreen machines now in use, the OVC unit records the vote electronically. But unlike Diebold's machines, the OVC system also automatically produce a paper receipt, which is intended to be the official tally. To ensure accuracy, the paper count is then reconciled against the electronic one stored on the machines. "Our idea is that the machines should have [a tally] that people can inspect," said Arthur Keller, a computer scientist who teaches part-time at UC Santa Cruz. "You trust the paper and can have much more faith in the process." The group has written open source software that can be checked by anyone for malicious code that might tamper with votes. Like Linux software for PCs, OVC's code isn't proprietary. ... The machines are still several steps away from making it onto the market. They need to be certified and...

Rescuing XSLT from Niche Status

Rescuing XSLT from Niche Status 10/30/2002 12:50 AM
XSLT is one of the most exciting technologies to come out of the XML family. Unfortunately, its incredible power and associated complexity can be overwhelming to new users preventing many from experimenting with it or causing them to quickly give up in disgust. In fact, unless the method of teaching and the common style of use for XSLT is radically changed to make it more accessible, XSLT will be relegated to niche status like SGML and other powerful technologies. -- David Jacobs

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VeriLAN Successfully Interconnects Seven
Carrier Labs Worldwide into One Secure
Private Network for Optical
Internetworking Forum (OIF) Worldwide
Interop Demo at SUPERCOMM 2004

VeriLAN Successfully Interconnects Seven
Carrier Labs Worldwide into One Secure
Private Network for Optical
Internetworking Forum (OIF) Worldwide
Interop Demo at SUPERCOMM 2004 07/09/2004 03:40 AM
VeriLAN, Inc., created secure tunnels to connect Verizon, NTT Laboratories, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Telecom Italia, and three other multi-national carriers, into one secure worldwide virtual private network. This industry-first network allowed the OIF participating member companies to demonstrate true multi-carrier (7), multi-vendor (15) global connectivity for optical networking interoperability at SUPERCOMM 2004 in Chicago, IL. [PRWEB Jul 9, 2004]

The Memory Hole [rescuing knowledge,
freeing information]

The Memory Hole [rescuing knowledge,
freeing information] 04/23/2004 09:32 AM
The Memory Hole - Rescuing Knowledge, Freeing Information .. Something to show to the folks who were gung ho .. Via MemoryHole .. .. Such as .. memhole

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Worldwide Internet Security Campaign
Underway A Worldwide Internet Security
Campaign has been organized and la

Worldwide Internet Security Campaign
Underway A Worldwide Internet Security
Campaign has been organized and la 06/18/2004 08:50 PM
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Worldwide.

Worldwide. 03/11/2003 02:00 PM
Sometimes it’s interesting to take a step back and consider how ordinary the extraordinary has become.

"The U.S should not help tsunami
victims"

"The U.S should not help tsunami
victims" 01/02/2005 04:25 AM

More on help for tsunami victims

More on help for tsunami victims 12/31/2004 02:17 PM
ZDNet Dec 31 2004 6:10PM GMT

More to the Tsunami victims

More to the Tsunami victims 01/03/2005 12:43 PM
Anders Jacobsen has pledged to give money for every bloggers that links to the aid organizations or for anyone that gives money to any of these organizations. A good pledge if you ask me, so here is my small contribution...

Ogilvy Worldwide says OSS is OK

Ogilvy Worldwide says OSS is OK 03/30/2005 05:04 PM
The Ogilvy Group, whose clients include IBM, Cisco, and Pitney-Bowes, has made the switch from Windows to Linux and BSD.

Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide

Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide 08/30/2004 01:03 AM
McCain Says Kerry's Anti-War Protests Open for Debate .. John McCain has given his stamp of approval

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Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide

Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide 09/04/2004 02:03 PM
similar bounce: .. Newsweek poll

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The day the Net became a worldwide
lifeline

The day the Net became a worldwide
lifeline 01/07/2005 12:16 AM
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Worldwide effort

Worldwide effort 01/04/2005 12:32 AM
CNET Asia Jan 4 2005 3:32AM GMT

Wi-Fi's becoming a worldwide
wireless wonder

Wi-Fi's becoming a worldwide
wireless wonder 05/12/2004 01:21 AM
Investor's Business Daily (subscription)-14 hours ago ... Investors interested in getting a piece of Google's impending initial public stock offering may want to pay attention to a new Weblog authored by Evan Williams ...

Welcome to CIVIC Worldwide

Welcome to CIVIC Worldwide 04/19/2005 09:47 AM
Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict .. Numbered Among the Dead .. Civic Worldwide .. has died .. CIVIC

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Worldwide Lovefest

Worldwide Lovefest 07/31/2004 12:18 AM
Somewhere in the world, someone is always buying the latest and greatest Apple hardware, and documenting (or boosting) it all on blogs.
And that's why I get jealous all year round. :-)

Should We Blame Security Victims?

Should We Blame Security Victims? 04/28/2004 04:49 AM
There is always something of a back and forth on who to blame whenever a big virus goes around. Is it the fault of a company like Microsoft for not creating their software in a way to better protect against such things? Is it the fault of anti-virus software vendors who are always a step behind the latest virus? Or, is it the fault of the end-user who is convinced to click a strange attachment despite thousands upon thousands of warnings not to? Walt Mossberg recently wrote a column calling for techies to stop blaming the victims. Instead, he blames Microsoft and calls on them to create a one-stop shop for protecting end-users from any and all security problems. Now, Tim Mullen has struck back and pointed out that people should stop being victims if they want to use computers and the internet. He points out, first of all, that Mossberg's vision of the perfect security protection system is impossible. Furthermore, he explains that no one is expecting end users to become system administrators, but to just do a few basic things to secure their computers from the most obvious of malicious attacks by installing basic anti-virus and firewall software (though, these days, you also need anti-spam software, anti-spyware software and anti-phishing software to really be complete). Mullen's point, however, is that we expect a basic level of competence to drive a car without hurting themselves, or to cook meat without giving themselves food poisoning. Thus, is it really that much to ask users to secure their own computers? The answer, of course, probably lies somewhere in the middle. Software companies and, increasingly, internet service providers, are going to be expected to do more to stop malicious attacks in their tracks - but end users should be expected to handle basic protection of their own machines. Besides, if we really must blame someone for all these malicious attacks, shouldn't it be those who are actually creating them?

Help the earthquake/tsunami victims

Help the earthquake/tsunami victims 12/27/2004 01:29 PM

CNN is reporting that the death toll is now > 20,000 and the use is sending aid workers and the US is sending $4,000,000. That's not enough. You can help by contributing here: American Red Cross - Credit Card Contribution.

U.S. to Provide Aid for Tsunami Victims
(AP)

U.S. to Provide Aid for Tsunami Victims
(AP) 12/30/2004 04:27 AM
AP - The United States is focusing on providing clean water and basic sanitation in South Asian areas hit by an earthquake and tsunamis, to try to prevent illness and more deaths among survivors.

Hope for stroke victims

Hope for stroke victims 07/26/2004 08:53 PM

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ABC News reports that there may be hope for stroke victims thanks to the brain cells taken from fetuses. The brain cells in question come from fetuses that were aborted a long time ago. The brain cells are not the same as the embryonic stem cells that we see on the news from time to time. Still, even though reports state that this is some how different than stem cells, they are still coming from…

NHS pays out to hepatitis victims

NHS pays out to hepatitis victims 01/23/2004 02:19 PM
NHS patients infected with hepatitis C from contaminated blood are to get £20,000 each in compensation.

Bloggers help tsunami victims

Bloggers help tsunami victims 12/29/2004 08:07 AM
iafrica.com Dec 29 2004 10:59AM GMT

Buy a PocketDock and help tsunami
victims

Buy a PocketDock and help tsunami
victims 12/30/2004 07:58 PM
SendStation will donate $5 for tsunami relief for every PocketDock sold through the SendStation online store before January 31, 2005 to help victims of the Tsunami in South Asia. To support iPod...

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New victims for Sasser net worm

New victims for Sasser net worm 05/04/2004 10:49 AM
Home broadband users could be the next hunting ground for the Sasser Windows worm as it spread across the net.

NI tribute to tsunami victims

NI tribute to tsunami victims 01/05/2005 04:43 AM
A three minute silence is to be held in Northern Ireland to remember the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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