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Feed Blogs Shift Mideast Dialogue (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday February 09, 2007 @08:12PM

Middle Eastern bloggers tackling everything from human rights to Islam are making it harder for governments to keep their monopoly on the media. By the Associated Press.

Feed MIT Cracks Fiber-Optics Conundrum (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday February 09, 2007 @08:12PM

Researchers say they've created a nifty optics-on-a-chip device that overcomes a major obstacle in harnessing the full power and speed of light waves. By the Associated Press.

Journal Journal: AsteriskNow: A Software Appliance?

Journal by Scott7477 on Friday February 09, 2007 @06:48PM

An article at serverwatch.com describes a "software appliance" which is essentially a complete system that you install on a PC.

Submission + - Single-celled Organisms Power Artificial Heart

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09, 2007 @06:12PM

An anonymous reader writes: Nigga, please!

Feed YouTube as Extremist Theater (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday February 09, 2007 @06:12PM

Clips of bombings, sniper attacks and kidnap victims show up regularly on YouTube -- some of them staged for the camera in order to post for a world audience. By the Associated Press.

Submission + - The Unreliability of Email

Submitted by

geekmansworld

on Friday February 09, 2007 @05:36PM

geekmansworld writes: "Our business is entirely dependent on e-mail to function. We have our own server and maintain it scrupulously to make sure we optimize legitimate receipt versus deletion of spam. All our major clients' domain names are SA whitelisted to avoid blocking. Increasingly, we've had trouble receiving messages sent through certain ISPs. We've poured over the mail logs, but the messages never even got to our servers (we have primary and secondary MX). It's no secret that spam is overwhelming these days. I wonder, is e-mail now so unreliable that it's a dead medium of communication? How are other server admins coping with email recently?"

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