Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt
The article notes that the bill may have clear sailing in the hunting-besotted state of Texas. An education outreach person from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department explained it this way: "A blind person can shoot a rifle by
The Dutch Kill Analog TV Nationwide
Willem de Koning writes Yesterday the Netherlands completely ended mission of analog television signals, becoming the first country in the world to do so. So what about cars and portable TVs? I'm guessing a market will emerge for
Second Life: What are the real numbers? Clay Shirky
Per Howard, “MUDs are living laboratories for studying the first-level impacts of virtual So what accounts for the current press interest in Second Life? If we raise the bar to people who come back for a second month,
The Rules of Photography
You know how to operate it and you know how to make use of some of those newfangled professional features such as manual focus, shutter, aperture, and ISO. But you aren’t quite done yet. You’re now at the Point of No Return,
The NEW "MacBook Thin" Revealed - SPECS INCLUDED
We've been talking about a "MacBook Thin" since before Apple itioned its laptops to the Intel platform -- and it looks like the long-awaited Macintel ultra-thin, ultra-portable speed king is heading to market at last
ssh-agent
When you do a remote login with ssh, the program needs to use your secret key to respond The secret key is itself kept scrambled on the disk, to protect it from being So the remote login process prompts you for the passphrase,
The Latest Iraq Polls
A few interesting points on the trio of Iraq polls out today from ABC/WP, CBS and USA Today/Gallup. They all seem to confirm the idea that the election was a repudiation of Bush's leadership on Iraq. In the CBS poll,
Vacation, Day One: openSUSE 10.2 on the IBM T41 ThinkPad
This was not the same thing as saying openSUSE 10.2 was bad in some way, and out there in This is not my first time around the block with openSUSE 10.2. On the other hand, openSUSE took about 70 minutes the other day on the X30,
Opening up the Google Web Toolkit
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is all about making the web a better place by making it easier to create web apps like Gmail or Google Maps. So today, we're excited to tell you that we're releasing all the source code for GWT under an open
About Transferable Stock Options
With the TSO program, employees will also be able to sell vested options to the With that tool, they'll be able to sell their vested options to the In the past, employees typically valued Google stock options based simply on the
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