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Man chainsaws house in two in divorce split

Do No Evil – A 43-year-old German decided to settle his imminent divorce by chainsawing a family home in two and making off with his half in a forklift truck.

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Cambodia jails Germans for child sex abuse

Do No Evil – A CAMBODIAN court sentenced one German to 28 years in jail today and another to 12 years for sexual abuse of girls aged between 13 and 15

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The 50 Most Important People on the Web

Gadgets & Tech – At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling on their keisters as much as the next person, but without the folks who create the Craigslists, MySpaces, and YouTubes of the world, much of the Web's potential would be lost among spam sites and other online detritus.

View Story Discuss (6) (pcworld.com) 506 days ago by jeremytoday

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Unpaid Taxes Equal $2,680 Per Household
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Unpaid Taxes Equal $2,680 Per Household

Money – Think of the uses of $300 billion, the annual gap between what taxpayers owe and what they pay. Skeptics, however, scoff at the notion there is a pot of gold waiting to be claimed. They say it is an illusion as long as nothing is done about the hopelessly complicated tax system.

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Airline Employee Helps Al Gore Bypass Security at Nashville Airport
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Airline Employee Helps Al Gore Bypass Security at Nashville Airport

News – An airline employee led former Vice President Al Gore and two associates around airport security lines before police spotted the breach and required them to be screened, an airport spokeswoman said Thursday.

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Japanese spas feel the heat over 'tap water and bath salts' scandal

Do No Evil – The japanese swear by their therapeutic benefits, but the nation's hot springs have been hit by scandal after some were found to consist of nothing more than warm tap water laced with bath salts.

View Story Discuss (1) (telegraph.co.uk) 508 days ago by okitech

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Attacking USB Devices... Hackers Going Old School

Gadgets & Tech – Kevin Liston, a handler at the Internet Storm Center, wrote in an online diary Friday that there are a handful of viruses roaming around the Internet targeting USB removable media -- think thumb drives and other storage devices. Win32.Agent.WJ and VBS.Solow.E are just two of them.

View Story Discuss (1) (informationweek.com) 509 days ago by okitech

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AT&T Gets $11.5 Defense Deal

Money – The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency said Friday it awarded an $11.5 million contract increase to AT&T Inc. to extend its contract for another six months

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Hillary Clinton's hidden thesis

Politics – The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.

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Shortages threaten Guard's capability, nearly 90% not ready

News – Nearly 90 percent of Army National Guard units in the United States are rated "not ready" -- largely as a result of shortfalls in billions of dollars' worth of equipment -- jeopardizing their capability to respond to crises at home and abroad, according to a congressional commission that released a preliminary report yesterday on the stat

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Microsoft Windows ousted at California school district

Gadgets & Tech – By this summer, all 5,000 students and 250 teachers will be working off of a Linux-based thin client running OpenOffice.org, and the majority of the district's servers will be running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

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Which Linux distro is right for my needs?
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Which Linux distro is right for my needs?

Gadgets & Tech – There are some good ideas in here if you are wondering about it or thinking about jumping into linux...but just are not sure

View Story Discuss (6) (extremetech.com) 510 days ago by okitech

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Experts Debate What Drives Islamic Terrorists

News – More than five years after 9/11, experts continue to debate what motivated the attacks on the United States and other violent actions by Islamic extremists against the West.

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Bangladesh to immunise 24 million children against polio

Health & Fitness – Bangladeshi health officials plan to immunise 24 million children under five against polio in a mammoth nationwide operation Saturday after fresh outbreaks, an official said

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Fifteen foreigners missing in Ethiopia

News – Fifteen foreigners including 10 French nationals have gone missing in a remote region of north-east Ethiopia which has seen kidnappings of tourists in the past, expatriate sources said on Friday

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