Ping?
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A quote from Petro's Archives: ***
"Campaigns to bear-proof all garbage containers in wild areas have been
difficult because, as one biologist put it, `There is a considerable overlap
between the intelligence levels of the smartest bears and the
At 01:47 AM 6/30/00 -0400, Anonymous Sender wrote:
Computers offered if weapons are turned in
Associated Press
OAKLAND [yeah, what a surprise there...]
The city ran a similar program in 1995 and drew about 300 people. Back
then, they were handing out free 286s. Now, they've upgraded to
Maybe they'll find the gene for obedience...
Worried police refuse to give DNA
samples
BY DAVID TAYLOR
http://www.lineone.net/express/00/07/02/news/n0240-d.html
THOUSANDS of police officers have refused to give DNA
samples to a new Home Office database amid concerns
Oakland is giving Pentiums in exchange for guns
Can we cut out the middleman? I have a Pentium laptop I'd love to
trade for a decent gun.
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Hm... After failing to find a press release about this on the NSI web site,
I decided found the following article on SecurityFocus:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/54
After reading it, I think there must have been some misunderstanding on the
part of the person who wrote the article Dave is
At 10:05 AM -0400 7/3/00, jeradonah wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/03spee.html
July 3, 2000
A Break in Moore's Law, But, Hey,
Who's Counting?
By STEVE LOHR
Ever-faster computers are just in the nature of things. Behind the
