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“They just shot him! They just shot him!” yelled 19-year-old Vargas, whose camera-phone had just captured the slaying of Grant by a San Francisco Transit officer. “… I got you, mothaf–kers!” she exclaimed.
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Sunnyvale, California-based AMD is expected to unveil a new range of desktop processors, coming to provide its customers with the performance of the new Phenom II desktop CPUs, designed on the 45nm process technology.
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Seagate has announced that it will showing off “the world’s first consumer product application of USB 3.0″ at this year’s CES.
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No more trawling the web for the latest media codecs. Windows 7 comes ready to play all your favourite “downloaded” videos.
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Teens and young adults are responsible for a doubling of record sales this past year, while CD sales plummeted.
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In a proceeding that took less than 15 minutes, a judge who police say was drunk when she drove into a parked state police cruiser — and who allegedly made racist remarks after the collision — was accepted into an alcohol education program. Which, if successfully completed, could lead to the erasure of the charges against her in a year.
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Comcast, which got in trouble with the FCC for its P2P-throttling approach to network management has now completed its plan that deals with bandwidth hogs by slowing all broadband traffic for heavy Internet users during times of congestion. The new system is Protocol-Agnostic which means it isn’t targeting P2P protocols only, therefor ok by the FCC
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BART-Police who patrol the Bay Area’s subway system came to break up a fight. They had a 22 year old man named Omar Grant in handcuffs and on the ground when an officer shot him point blank in the head.
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Super Ubuntu is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 8.1 (Intrepid Ibex), offering extra features and an improved support for multimedia, Internet, Windows applications integration, graphical interfaces and more.
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As the professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, Ross Anderson is one of the founders of security economics as an academic discipline. Perhaps more impressively, though, he wants your ISP to send you cash every time you get spam.