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Monday, December 20, 2004 |
Ansar al-Islam codes broken to disrupt attack on Allawi (there won't be an Enigma level breakthrough here due to decentralization). Franz-Hellmutt Schuerholz, president of Baden-Wuertemberg state police department, is quoted as saying: "We have managed to break the structures of the terrorist organization from the outside." The report said that with the help of the arrested suspect authorities deciphered coded email and mobile telephone messages going right to the top of the organization.
7:10:37 PM
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Reuters. Global guerrillas in Sudan (which produces 320,000 barrels a day). "This was our first military operation and we chose the oil fields because this is the wealth of Sudan, which this government is not sharing with all of its people," said leader Ali Abdel Rahim el-Shindy, speaking to Reuters from an undisclosed position in central Sudan.
5:59:42 PM
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Doug Kaye gets into accelerating change issues with a David Brin interview. Cool.
11:30:32 AM
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User interface for a next generation IPod. The real breakthrough would be a LUI.... (a language user interface).
Not a free form LUI, but a simple one like Wildfire. Record the names for your artists and it will find them and play them. I don't understand why more devices don't use the Wildfire LUI. It was breakthrough and still is. If Microsoft wants to do this, hire me.
10:35:57 AM
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© Copyright 2005 John Robb.
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