Da Vinci Code judgement code decrypted

The code inserted by the trial judge into the legal judgement on the recent Da Vinci Code court case has been decrypted.

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All About Wii - 1up.com

Miyamoto and Iwata have hinted at a final secret for Wii that has yet to be revealed. And while we're sworn to secrecy, 1UP knows what this secret is -- and it's rather revolutionary. In fact, it's perhaps the most intriguing element of the system -- something with some rather cool implications for gaming.

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Steve Jobs says, Forthcoming Products, "The Best I've Ever Seen in My Life"

the 3 executives remained typically tight-lipped about Apple's future product plans. When pressed about what product to expect in the future, Jobs said, "I can't tell you." However, Apple's CEO didn't let secrecy stop his enthusiasm for those secret products. "The new products in the pipeline are the best I've ever seen in my life," Jobs said

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Sony Stealing iTunes Royalties Revenue from Musicians

the Allman bros and Cheap Trick are suing Sony over this.

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New speed traps can measure speed based on sound

A new type of speed trap developed by the University of Tennessee can detect the speed of a car based on the sound of its exhaust as it passes. It works by detecting the Doppler shift from the sound of the car's exhaust as it passes. Brilliant yet horrible all at the same time!

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SCI FI Announces Caprica

SCI FI Channel announced the development of Caprica, a spinoff prequel of its hit Battlestar Galactica, in presentations to advertisers in New York on April 26. Caprica would come from Galactica executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, writer Remi Aubuchon (24) and NBC Universal Television Studio.

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Fight Club director discusses making his new movie using Apple's Final Cut

Short video clip of David Fincher talking about shooting and editing with a few looks at his new film Zodiac.

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2GB Flash Drive under $50

Awesome deal. Newegg rocks.

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JUST IN: Democrats lose House vote on Net neutrality!

By a 22-to-34 vote, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee rejected a Democratic backed Net neutrality amendment that also enjoyed support from Internet and software companies including Microsoft, Amazon.com and Google.

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Invention: Apple's all-seeing screen

This week's patents include an electronic display screen that acts as a video camera, and a flashy new way of judging a person's age

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Iomega Debuts 1-TB Wireless NAS Box

Gigabit Ethernet interface. ...a pair of USB 2.0 ports, either for connecting even more storage or a USB printer, through which the unit can act as a print server or a media server, through the installed software. ... includes integrated 802.1g wireless networking and uPNP capability, complete with either WEP or WPA security functionality

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Apple to cut iPod prices!!

Apple expects the average selling price of its iPod digital music players to decline in the current quarter from the prior period, the company's CFO said on Wednesday.

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Video of Jobs proposing second Cupertino campus

Steve Jobs proposing to the Cupertino City Council a plan to build a second, 50-acre Apple campus.

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Use Thunderbird like a pro

Discusses features, useful extensions, and collaboration abilities of Mozilla's Thunderbird mail client. A good read if you already use Thunderbird or want to switch.

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Dual Monitors Increase Productivity by up to 30%

"Survey after survey shows that whether you measure your productivity in facts researched, alien spaceships vaporized, or articles written, adding an extra monitor will give your output a considerable boost � 20 percent to 30 percent, according to a survey by Jon Peddie Research."

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Miller Beer to be first to use High Tech (Cold Can) Technology

Lowers Temp. by 30° Fahrenheit in just three minutes.

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A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab

A tour of the Mac Lab at Microsoft - 2000 square feet and LOTS of computers.

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MythTV + Asterisk + Home Secrity + and more = PlutoHome (TOTAL FREE)

Pluto is the only all-in-one solution for your home that seamlessly combines media & entertainment, home automation, security, telecom and computing.
You can control your whole house with a mobile phone, a touch-screen tablet or a web-interface. A Pluto system is like an appliance - not a computer. It is self-configuring, maintaining and updating.

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Doctors Investigate Man who popped 40,000 pills of X in NINE YEARS

Doctors from London University have revealed details of what they believe is the largest amount of ecstasy ever consumed by a single person. The heaviest previous lifetime intake on record is 2,000 pills. Wow.

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"I am the World's Biggest Failure", says MP3 Inventor

"MP3 Inventor Could've Been a Contender: 'The iPod is the world's fastest selling electrical equipment ever,' said early MP3 inventor Kane Kramer, 'and I suppose, in a way, I am the world's biggest failure.'

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Jet Blue- Family Guy- Easter Egg

Select a destination then hold down shift and type pbj

Instantly a scene from the Family Guy will appear on Jet Blues website.

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Is The Core Duo Intel's Best CPU?

The Tech Report compares the Core Duo directly to a range of mobile and desktop CPUs from AMD and Intel, including the Athlon 64 X2 and the Pentium Extreme Edition. The results are surprising. They conclude that its performance is easily superior to Intel's flagship desktop processor, the Pentium Extreme Edition 965.

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All Visual Studio Express Editions are now Permanently Free!

"Dear Visual Studio Express community, we are incredibly excited to announce that effective April 19th, 2006, all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions including Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++, and Visual Web Developer Express will be free permanently!"

Also check out the cool new tools.

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How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design?

We learned that good design is based on the C.R.A.P., and when Creative Directors tell you that your design is crap, they�re actually giving you positive reinforcement.

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Om Malik's 10 Must-have Mac Apps

Om Malik's list of the 10 most essential freeware or shareware apps for Apple computers.

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Create CSS Signatures in Apple Mail

This is a great little tutorial on how to create better looking email signatures in Apple's Mail.app using CSS.

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www.ajaxxls.com

I been using this and its not bad, its the begining but it still hass some issues. But I am pretty sure this COULD be the way of the future.






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Nintendo: The Risk Taker

"The strategy is simple, says Will Wright... Nintendo is waiting for its rivals to kill each other."

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First Color Photo of Mars from HiRISE Camera (1 Pixel = 2.5 Meters)

This sharp view of the martian surface from the HiRISE camera includes image data with a full resolution of about 2.5 meters per pixel - recorded from a range of 2,500 kilometers

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The Polyphasic Sleep Experiment is Over

Steve Palina tried switching to a polyphasic sleep cycle 5 1/2 months ago. This involved taking six 30-minute naps per day, instead of one 7 hour sleep at night. He has now switched back to the "regular" way, and he explains why it didn't work for him.

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Girl's Letter To Apple Gets Legalese Reply

You wouldn't think a letter from a third-grader could change a company's corporate practices.

A South Bay mom told CBS 5 that her young daughter's letter offering suggestions on how to improve the Apple iPod prompted a harsh response from the company.

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Firefox 1.5.0.2 released

Firefox 1.5.0.2 provides native support for Macintosh with Intel Core processors, and stability and security enhancements that are part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.

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250+ working proxies for safe access from work/school

Great Resource...

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How To Make a Guitar/Bass Pickup

In this guide we will show you how to make a guitar pickup using neodymium magnets, a couple Popsicle sticks, and some wire. Total cost for this project will probably be less then $5 (depending on the materials you have available).

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Apple to bring back colorful enclosures?

When Apple Computer introduces its new line of Intel-based consumer notebooks this spring, the company may once again offer buyers a fashionable option it phased out of its iMac product line 5 years ago.

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Naked iPod Mini!

Check out the innards of an ipod mini, alot cheaper than pulling apart your own!

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Religion: Blight upon humanity?

blight n. - Something that impairs growth, withers hopes and ambitions, or impedes progress and prosperity.

The question is simple - to paraphrase Bertrand Russell, is religion the dragon that needs slaying in order to facilitate the societal progress that will benefit all of humanity?

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How to Stop the Dreaded FireFox Memory Leak @ Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech

How to Stop the Dreaded FireFox Memory Leak @ Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech: "config.trim_on_minimize"

Firefox Flicks Now Open

You can now see all of the ads that were made as part of Spread Firefox's New Project.

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Digg Google IG Module Now Live

We are happy to announce our first Google IG module. The module will display stories that have been promoted to the homepage, along with stories your friends have dugg. Enjoy!

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Hacking Google Analytics

A must read for anyone who has a friend that's obsessed with websites statistics. It's surprisingly simple to scew a sites Google Analytics, a couple extra function calls is all it takes. I came across this when it happened to me.

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Near-death experience revealed to have biological cause

New evidence is published that backs the idea that the near-death experience is a biological experience, rather than anything to do with a larger, spiritual dimension, a glimpse of heaven, or the existence of the soul.

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NASA back to moon in 2008!

for the first time since Apollo, NASA will be sending its first vehicle/probe to the moon in 2008! sweet!

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David Copperfield's "Flying" and other tricks revealed

This is the Google cache of a Russian site revealing the details of David Copperfield's "Flying" trick. The original site is currently inactive. Click the cached pages to search for other revealed tricks at: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.copperfield.ru

You can watch Copperfield flying at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DzqjWDOOTeg.

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Amazing video of Rube Goldberg Machines!!!

Check out this video!!! Its a collection of a bunch of different Rube Goldberg devices. Its a pretty long video (over 9 minutes total) WATCH IT NOW!

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Home Network Router Security Secrets

Ever delve inside your home network routers and use the hidden security settings that can lock down a network nice and tight? Most people never do. Andy Walker reveals 10 secrets on how to easily access your router's security settings.

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Why Apple Will Be The New Dell

with the introduction of Windows on the Mac, Apple looks to use the Windows OS against MS and make sleeker, better designed machines then Dell. What a strategy.

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MacBook (non-pro) to Arrive in 30-60 days

Apple has begun manufacturing its new MacBook and should have the laptop in consumer hands in the next 30-60 days, sources report. The MacBook�and it will indeed be called the MacBook, sources have confirmed, as Apple will be dropping the iBook moniker.

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Direct Link: Video of Israeli Made "Forcefield"

Developed by Israeli company Rafael, it creates a sort of protective bubble defending ground vehicles against RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) and tank rounds. Video in swf form.

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Mac OS 7 emulation on the web

Well, it is not really an emulation, it is just a Flash application, but it works great. The developer put a lot of time and effort into making this work really well. You can mess around with your control panels, play games(!!!), use a word processor, or draw. It does feel a lot like System 7 did.

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Technical Foundations of Hacking

"I want to hack. Where do I start?" - RIGHT HERE! This article not only gives you the technical foundations of hacking but also offers up a review of the attacker's process and some of the better known methodologies used by ethical hackers.

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How to Wow 'Em Like Steve Jobs

A cool article that details Jobs' five keys to a dazzling presentation.

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Intel Macs run Windows faster than comparable PCs

Apple's Intel-based Macs running Windows are faster than their PC counterparts, according to new benchmarks from CNET.

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Beginners Guide to Podcasting

Very in-depth look at podcasting for beginners.

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Game developers react to Boot Camp

Inside Mac Games has a nice roundup of reactions from various Mac OS X game developers on the news of Boot Camp. Reactions on the whole are positive concerning the opportunities that Boot Camp offers, and speculation from the likes of Aspyr, MacSoft, Freeverse and Ambrosia are hopeful that this will help boost the Mac gaming platform even faster.

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Science Confirms the Obvious!

Every year, serious scientists undertake detailed, rigorous studies to prove things that seem�well, painfully obvious. Why bother? We reviewed scores of unshocking discoveries and asked the researchers who conducted the work to explain their motivations. Two main themes emerged...

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'Missing Link' from Sea to Land Animals Discovered w/pics

Fossil animals found in Arctic Canada provide a snapshot of fish evolving into land animals, scientists say. The finds are giving researchers a fascinating insight into this key stage in the evolution of life on Earth.

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U.S. Rolls Out Plan to Build 125 Nukes per Year.

The Bush administration Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for rebuilding the nation's decrepit nuclear weapons complex, including restoration of a large-scale bomb manufacturing capacity.

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'Gospel of Judas' Surfaces After 1,700 Years

Okay, so its off-topic but fascinating. Apparently Jesus made him do it!

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Cancer Vaccine Discovered

This vaccine has been found to prevent the onset of cervical cancer, the cancer responsible for roughly 85% of total annual cancer cases worldwide. The vaccine is claimed to be "100% effective" in prevention.

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Sleek Wall Mounted Projector

"Aesthetically, LG�s wall mounted projector is an industrial work of art � taking home the 2006 iF Design Gold Award. This projector puts convenience first with a remote controlled lens door, auto focus, zoom, and venitilator. It features near silent operation (25 db) and can project a 100-inch image from a distance of 3.8m - 5.3m" - techeblog

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Mac programs to run on Windows starting in 2007

This report claims that around the time of OS X 10.5 Leopard's release, Apple will also make available a set of APIs to allow Windows to run Mac Universal Binary applications.

This rumor was mentioned elsewhere several months ago, but wasn't linked so directly with the next version of OS X.

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Who needs Boot Camp? New Apple firmware updates DIRECTLY add XP support.

Is this the world of legacy BIOS emulation we all wanted? Is this XP and Linux and Vista and all the OS goodness running on Intel Macs? It seems Boot Camp is designed only to provide XP with drivers, the new firmware update for Intel Macs adds all the support an Intel Mac needs to boot the OS!

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True Video Ipod On the Way April 5th!!!

A anonymous source that works on the apple website has confirmed at ThinkSecret that the new True Video Ipod will be released April 5th. In comment 235, he goes on to explain the specs of the ipod: 50-100GB HD, Bluetooth technology, 30 hours of music and 15 hours of Video playback.

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Virtualisation for the Mac Arrives

This will enable users to run multiple operating systems like Linux and Windows simultaneously with Mac OS X. This is not simply a "dual-boot" but instead gives users the ability to use Windows or any other operating system at the same time as Mac OS X.

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There is a God: Alcohol cloud spotted in Deep Space

Astronomers say they have spotted a cloud of alcohol in deep space that measures 463 billion kilometres across, a finding that could shed light on how giant stars are formed from primordial gas. Mmmm Beer...

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Microsoft found guilty of having plagiarized Vista font!

The European Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market denied Microsoft the registration of a trademark for the "Segoe" font for its upcoming Vista OS. "Segoe" has been found absolutely identical to Linotype's Frutiger Next.

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Mac OS 10.4.6 Update Released

Now available via software update, 10.4.6 includes the usual fixes and slight improvements. Happy 30th birthday Mac Users... this is what Apple's present to you is.

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A computer with 400 TERABYTES of Memory! (2008)

Cray Inc. is building a supercomputer that consists of 24,000 2.6 Ghz quad-core Opteron (AMD) processors. This will be the first computer ever to hit ONE PFLOP - 1 quadrillion operations/second. The human brain is capable of about 10. It will use up to 400TB of memory and 11PB of storage. The computer will require 170 MEGAWATTS of power!

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Mass of Neutrino Confirmed!

So if certain flavours of the neutrino have mass, then there could be a lot more mass in the universe than before suspected. Don't worry. It's only a theory. Intelligent Universe Weight, another theory, is still espoused by the current White House administration.

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Imaging May Help With Depression

Whether or not cognitive behavior therapy will help a person recover from depression can be predicted through brain imaging, a U.S. study found.

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Mario Stamps Are Coming To Japan

Starting today in Japan you can pre-order a 10 stamp sheet of 80 Yen stamps that come in their own special case. The set will be released at the end of May.

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Free video 'flash' tutorials- These are AWESOME

This guy rocks! What the web should be about, learning, information and knowledge - and all FREE & no adds! Awesome tutorials showing how to create flash presentations simply and easily.

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15,000 layer Photoshop file.

Bert Monroy released his latest Photoshop painting this week after 11 months of work with an estimated 2,000 hours. The attention to detail is amazing in this 10 foot wide poster.

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