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Monthly Archives: May 2005

The Israeli Horse.

31-May-05

Court remands top Israeli execs in industrial espionage affair
The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court Monday remanded several people from some of Israel's leading commercial companies and private investigators suspected of commissioning and carrying out industrial espionage against their competitors, which was carried out by planting Trojan horse software in their competitors' computers.
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Also on Monday, the Tel [...]

Today in "Cured cancer yet?" news…

21-May-05

Eggheads Invent Tele-Petting
“This is the first human-poultry interaction system ever developed,” said professor Adrian David Cheok, the leader of the team, who has been developing the technology for nearly two years.

“Remote dance synchronization is a real possibility,” said Lee Shang Ping, a fellow team member. “Students learning how to dance can wear these special shoes, [...]

Just in case anyone thought I was joking…

06-May-05

(Weeks are Saturday-Friday, which is why the week ending May 6 figures, but why not all of the hours listed in it are represented in the total for April, only 30 April's.)

Still haven't bought disk…

04-May-05

… and the Mac OS X laptop (hostname: shiny… I'm sure you can understand why) where I've just been letting things pile up was whining that it didn't have enough disk space left for swap-in-FS. “Lessee… 55 GB drive, 230 MB left; whoops! Oh, hey, look at that… I've got 768 MB of RAM, which [...]