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A Labor for Herc

Seems there's a problem with the flocks in the high Pyrenees. And here we worry about coyotes? I feel better already ...

[from rogueclassicism]

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SCO Gives Notice To 6,000 Unix Licensees
Just because there hadn't been an SCO story since before Yule!

(link) [Slashdot]

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Better Search Results Than Google?
Years ago I used a commercial product named Gopher (a program, not the protocol) to search the hard drives of the classified ad paper I worked for at the time. Searching is a HUGE part of computer science, and information processing in general.

These kinds of new approaches fascinate me ... the better these technologies get, the better our CS and IT gets. It's as simple as that.

(link) [Slashdot]

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Yahoo to Dump Google
Not sure what Yahoo! thinks it's doing here ... I still get on it for group mailing lists and I have some friends (including a daughter) who uses it for a primary email address, but using Yahoo! for search? How quaint.

My prediction? Yahoo! dumps Google search technology and goes down the tubes as as directory/search engine.

(link) [Slashdot]

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Bangalore Beats Silicon Valley
Well, maybe in sheer numbers - but I've gotta wonder what the future will hold for this newset "boom town".

The inevitable has happened. Bangalore, which grew under the shadow of America 's Silicon Valley over the last two decades, has finally overtaken its parent.

(link) [Slashdot]

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US army battles to keep soldiers
This is a disturbing development ...

The military prepares to introduce measures to prevent soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan from leaving.

(link) [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Mad Cow Spurs Livestock Tracking
I mentioned uses for GPS in agriculture just yesterday ...

Officials researching the recent mad cow case in Washington state, stymied by a hodgepodge of paper-based data, are pushing for a centralized database and electronic tracking. Cows may soon be traced with RFID tags, retinal scans and GPS chips.

(link) [Wired News]

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US envoys bid to ease BSE fears
Here we go ... from the BBC

Officials go to Mexico and Asia in effort to get beef import bans lifted after outbreak of mad cow disease.

(link) [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Mad Cow Spurs Livestock Tracking
I mentioned uses for GPS in agriculture just yesterday ...

Officials researching the recent mad cow case in Washington state, stymied by a hodgepodge of paper-based data, are pushing for a centralized database and electronic tracking. Cows may soon be traced with RFID tags, retinal scans and GPS chips.

(link) [Wired News]

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Questions Seen on Seed Prices Set in the 90's
I'm shocked, shocked, I say, to find this out ....

(if my tongue got any further into my cheek it's be thru the side of my face)The two biggest seed companies in the world conspired to charge higher prices for genetically modified seeds, according to former executives.

(link) [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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