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autocracy
  slashdot2007@sto ... m minus math_god
http://storyinmemo.com/
It's a *NIX thing, eh? All said in a few words, the free Unixes just dominate for the simple reason that you can make it do what you want all the way - and often without much coding, or at least cut, copy, paste, change; lather, rinse, repeat. Small interoperable tools rule.

autocracy (192714)

  Pakistan Telecom hijacks Youtube's netblock 2008-02-24 17:07 autocracy

Submitted by autocracy on Sunday February 24, @05:07PM
autocracy writes "Pakistan Telecom, in their zest to comply with the national Pakistan block of Youtube, has begun exporting the route to Youtube worldwide via BGP. This has affected ISPs all over the world depending on which route they think is the shorter connection to Google's popular video hosting site. Some of the more technical information about the routes has been posted on Wikinews"
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 [+] submission, it, networking

  Idle: Speedcabling - Untangling For Fun and Profit 2008-02-13 10:30

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 13, @10:30AM
from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.
ibnsuleiman writes "A new competitive sport is emerging amongst IT professionals and hobbyists. Speedcabling tests the ability to untangle the rat's nests that grow inside and outside of the beige boxes that pervade todays homes and workplaces. The first public competition was held in an LA gallery for a $50 gift certificate to a local Italian restaurant. The winner, LA web developer Matthew Howell, had to untangle a dozen ethernet cables in record time leaving them in working order to win."
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 [+] story, idle, humor, gordianknot, theocho, wireball, speedcutandsplice

  US Slipping in Life Expectancy Rankings[->] 2007-08-12 23:58 Iron Condor

Submitted by Iron Condor on Sunday August 12 2007, @11:58PM
Iron Condor writes "Just an AP piece; operative quotations:
"[...]improved access to health insurance could increase life expectancy. But [...] the U.S. won't move up in the world rankings as long as the health care debate is limited to insurance."
and
"The starting point is the recognition that the U.S. does not have the best health care system. There are still an awful lot of people who think it does."
http://www.physorg.com/news106121686.html
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 [+] submission, science, quickies

  IT: CERTStation Threat-Level Aggregator 2006-12-28 10:04

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 28 2006, @10:04AM
from the if-you-don't-like-the-weather-wait-a-minute dept.
sloit writes "Just spotted, the CERTStation Threat level Aggregator displays the current threat level, in real-time, as assessed by 8 of the Internet's leading vulnerability watch services such as Symantec Threatcon, ISS Alertcon and SANS Infocon on one publically accessible Web page. Well, that saves a lot of daily trudging!"
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 [+] story, it, security, agression, internet, slashvert, ads
Submitted by on Wednesday December 27 2006, @10:03AM
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has crossed the line by giving high-profile bloggers free notebooks loaded with Vista, according to TECH.BLORGE.com. This initiative will be prove to be damaging for Microsoft. No doubt we'll all still buy Vista, but we'll just be a little more suspicious about how Microsoft conducts itself as a corporate citizen."
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 [+] submission, it, windows
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