14 Feb 2006
Smoking ban in all pubs and clubs

It's a good thing the men who defeated the greatest menace ever faced by Western civilization – FDR, Churchill and Stalin – lived before the current anti-smoking hysteria. The latter two constantly smoked cigars, and the former chain-smoked cigarettes. They would have fared rather poorly today. On the other hand ...

"I am convinced that if I had been a smoker, I never would have been able to bear the cares and anxieties which have been a burden to me for so long. Perhaps the German people owe its salvation to that fact."
--Adolf Hitler, March 1942

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MPs vote in overwhelming numbers to ban smoking from all pubs and clubs in England.

(link) [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]

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OSx86 Cracked Again

To answer the rhetorical question in the teaser, it's a blessing. And if Apple has half the brainpower I think if has, it'll eventually accept and embrace this: and eliminate M$ as an operating system powerhouse in less than 2 years.

The OSx86 Project is reporting that the intrepid hacker 'Maxxuss' has once again eluded Apple's security methods and cracked the latest release of Mac OS X for Intel, or 'OSx86', to run on standard x86 PCs. It seems Apple just can't win this eternal struggle with the hackers, as 10.4.4 included beefed up security designed to prevent similar hacking methods used on beta releases of the operating system. Is this a blessing for Apple, or simply a nuisance?

(link) [Slashdot]

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