By John C Dvorak | August 5, 2008
High oil prices giving Iraq up to $79 billion in surplus cash - International Herald Tribune
The soaring price of oil will leave the Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by the end of this year, a U.S. oversight agency has concluded in an analysis released Tuesday.
The unspent windfall, [...]
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By John C Dvorak | August 5, 2008
40 Million credit cards stolen. Crooks busted, finally. Worldwide-scheme.
IBM pushing the “Microsoft-free” desktop. Nobody is biting.
Delta to offer Wi-Fi across entire US fleet.
Sony grabs Rocketboom for exclusive distribution rights.
PayPal co-founders investing in Space-X venture.
AT&T now into Cloud Computing.
Lenovo growing too slowly.
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By McCullough | August 5, 2008
Another Mission Accomplished - KFC in Iraq
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By McCullough | August 5, 2008
Hell on Earth: 2 acre patch of California Land heats up to 800 degrees Farenheit
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By hhopper | August 5, 2008
Rusty in the Sink
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By Eideard | August 5, 2008
This is a question of evading a penalty, not evaluating the penalty.
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By John C Dvorak | August 5, 2008
Översatt version av http://www.expressen.se/motor/1.1254101/byggde-varldens-plattaste-van What’s there to say? The guy flattened a VW van and it actually looks cool. Well, or idiotic.
translated from a Swedish Motor Magazine:
Friendster took away nearly one and a half metres of the car’s roof, put in a new control system and lowered the seats.
— We have applied to the [...]
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By Eideard | August 5, 2008
It never seems to end or even diminish...
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By Eideard | August 5, 2008
Street View is arguably fairly benign, but the bigger issue of privacy at Google is worth discussing.
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By Eideard | August 5, 2008
Rather than risk getting caught, turn yourselves in. That’s the latest government strategy in its ongoing effort to dramatically reduce the nation’s ballooning population of illegal immigrants…
Julie Myers, director of ICE, told a Spanish-language network that “Operation Scheduled Departure” will allow illegal immigrants without criminal records a chance to literally “self-deport” by turning themselves in [...]
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