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Rumsfeld Stepping Down 899

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @02:41PM from the at-least-no-one-dropped-a-house-on-him dept.

macinrack writes to tell us that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, architect of the unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years at the Pentagon. Officials said Robert Gates, former head of the CIA, would replace Rumsfeld.

DARPA Starts Ultimate Language Translation Project 123

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @12:19PM from the teach-it-klingon-first-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched the ultimate speech translation engine project that would be capable of real-time interpretation of television and radio programs as well as printed or online textual information in order to be summarized, abstracted, and presented to human analysts emphasizing points of particular interest." If combined with the tower of babel project we discussed earlier, it could only lead to awesomeness.

Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive 166

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @11:43AM from the they-should-have-said-please dept.

Bennett Haselton writes "Parties have reached a settlement in Joel Hodgell vs. EFinancial LLC, an anti-spam case in which I got involved because after Joel sued the defendant over spams he had received, the defendant asked the judge to make Joel turn over a copy of his hard drive." That might not sound that strange until you realize that the case in question was over webmail that was obviously never actually stored on his hard drive. And the witnesses knew it.

Comment Re:Java on XP ? (Score 1) 211

by Porticebot on Friday June 14, 2002 @01:54PM (#3702688) Attached to: Java Meets XP: Two Reviews

I guess if I didn't know what XP was in this context then a lot of the stupid replies would make a lot more sense. XP = eXtreme Programming - a method for developing software (any software, any language, any platform). It's actually no big deal that you can use the XP method with Java development. You can use XP with any development application because XP is a methodoligy and not a product.

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