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This post from John Robb reminds me of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. I wonder when life will stop imitating Clancy's fiction?? Brits to form new deep black counter-terrorism unit (The Times).  A dedicated special forces unit is being assembled alongside the SAS and SBS to infiltrate and destroy Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.  The unit, nicknamed the […]

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John Robb follows up on this with this: Nice overview of non-lethal weapons (and terms) by Robert Bunker (PDF).  An amazing variety of equipment and concepts.

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Mediathink has a White Paper on RSS. Everyday RSS is becoming more and more mainstream. Good reason to get yourself a KosmoBlog. RSS is in its infancy–the earliest stage of its adoption–but the velocity and mass of its adoption confirms it to be one of the most important developments in the distribution of media content […]

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Maybe I'm just thick but I don't see how UseBestMail helps anyone in the fight against spam. All it does is prevent myself from sending spam from my own email client. Unless of course everyone on the planet is using UseBestMail and all SMTP servers are validating stamps which just isn't going to happen. The […]

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I first read about these kinds of devices in John Alexander's 1999 book Future War (Non-Lethal Weapons In Twenty-First-Century Warfare). Anyone interested in this kind of stuff should definitely pickup this book. HERFs, or high energy radio frequency weapons (particularly microwaves), will become the weapon of choice for many global guerrilla operations (see Homemade Microwave […]

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Further update to Bloglines New Look, Mark Fletcher and company at BlogLines have already re-instated the font preferences.

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Well, it seems like they must have reset something yesterday at approx. 4:15pm. Totally flatlined at that point until I reset the modem at 4:45. Been pretty good since then but again not normal but useable. Still 2% packet loss over the last 3 hours. I suspect they haven't really resolved this just yet (probably never […]

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Just fired up Bloglines and all of a sudden I'm hit with a new look and feel. Not sure I like it but maybe it is just a matter of getting used to it. Bloglines has always continuously added useful features but it looks like with this one someone came in and said this looks […]

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Down most of yesterday afternoon and so far this morning from around 8am. Called in today and spoke with Ben who was decent. He said he doesn't have a rep number however. Not sure what that is about. Maybe a new policy of not giving out rep. numbers. I just wanted to check on the […]

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Justin Mason sums up the timeline on this paper and various responses between the authors and the DSPAM developer. I'd put Cormack in the top 3 professors who taught computer science when I attended Waterloo. Spam: or, 'SlashDot spam drama'. So, a few days ago, I forwarded a link to a paper I'd been sent […]

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