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More on the way to a PacketPC, John Robb would like this wireless enabled hard drive from Toshiba. Geek.com Geek News – Toshiba’s new HOPBIT wireless personal server
“SnapStream’s primary product is the Personal Video Station, which can turn any computer with a TV tuner card into a device that, like TiVo or Replay, can pause and record live television. SnapStream’s product is inexpensive, about $50 for the software” Dwight Silverman: Hybrid products living up to hype
“Apple has to come up with something, a product, an app, a gadget of some kind, that will put a crippling hurt on another established technology or company.” Why don’t Apple compete with the consumer electronics market and come up with the definitive media PC? Applelinks: Latest Warp Core Praised
“The electronic Holy Quran has become more popular because of it is easy to use and available with English translations. It also gives the Qibla direction and accurate prayer timings in more than 1,000 cities of different countries,” said Riaz, a salesman in another electronics outlet.” GN Online: Digital Quran gains popularity
State Can Make Inmate Sane Enough to Execute “In 1986, the United States Supreme Court held in an opinion by Justice Thurgood Marshall, that the execution of the insane was barred by the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. “ What were the Supreme Court thinking here? Surely the issue with insanity is that it diminishes reponsibility, i.e. some lunatics aren’t responsible for their own actions, and therefore get treatment. To say that not being of sound mind makes the process of execution cruel means that the sedatives that are used prior to lethal injections are potentially unconstitutional.
As many people are pointing out, the US has hardly been imperialist considering its power. If you really want to look at the seedy side of European history, take a look at Hong Kong. Its very existence came about because the British went to war against China who wanted to stop British drug trafficking. Opium War: Britain Stole Hong Kong From China
A new imaging technology gives X-ray vision without radiation. Presumably a device based on this technology could provide full body X-rays of people at airports, something much more reassuring than a metal detector. EE Times UK – ESA makes breakthrough in terahertz imaging technology
Nick Denton: Please please please will somebody, anybody, develop a usable micropayments system for the web. Hear Hear! If you had told me 5 years ago that we would still not have a proper Internet micropayments system, I would have assumed that the web must have failed to take off. So who should provide micropayments now that the only likely candidate, Paypal, has been absorbed by a classified ads company? Perhaps the retail banks? Hell no – can you believe that these guys actually have services that allow you to create a paper check online and have it mailed to a creditor. This is as mad as having little people inside ATMs. Retail banks move a glacial speed in terms of technology. What we need are the real micropayments masters, the phone companies. Pick up your phone and dial, and money drains out of your bank account, little by little,…
Seems I was wrong about XFML, Peter Van Dijk: “XFML allows for unlimited depth in the hierarchies”
“What began as a triumph of US global policing turned into a diplomatic farce as Washington was forced to set free the North Korean freighter, So San, with its cargo of 15 Scud-type missiles curiously concealed under sacks of cement.” Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Sailing on, the ship with a hold full of Scud missiles