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BBC World News

Man jailed for 'brutal' murders
A man is jailed for life for murdering an elderly Italian couple in a "brutal and savage" attack at their Wolverhampton home.
Boy guilty of student riot attack
A 17-year-old boy is found guilty of an attack on a Malaysian student during the summer riots in London.
Gay Ugandans flee fearing for their lives
Gay Ugandans flee fearing for their lives after homophobic attacks
Parents' tribute to stabbed girl
The parents of a 13-year-old who was found fatally stabbed in Doncaster describe her as a "beautiful, intelligent and bright young girl".
What are the competing claims over the Falklands?
Who claims what over the Falkland Islands?

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Opera Watch

How to resume an accidentally removed/missing ...
This tip will help you to resume a download (especially large size) in the following cases. Accidentally removed transfer from the transfers tab. Closed Opera with an intention to resume download next day but transfer is missing when Opera is started. Resuming download with an another high spee ...
Typical browser users (picture)
I saw this funny comparison of typical browser users on Choose Opera.
How to change hotclick dictionary/encyclopedia ...
You can change default hotclick dictionary site & encyclopedia site with preferred site. Hotclick menu If you don’t know how to edit menu setup, see this. To change dictionary site, under [Hotclick Popup Menu] replace Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY = Hotclick search, 50 with Item, MI_IDM_ ...
Opera 9.6 beta is out
The Opera desktop team today released the first beta of the Opera 9.6 browser. Major new features include a nicer preview of RSS feeds and a ‘Low bandwidth mode’ for the Opera Mail client. In addition, the typed url history can now also be synchronized between various Opera browsers using Opera ...
Marriott Mobile recommends Opera Mini
The Marriott is now recommending visitors to its mobile website to download and use the Opera Mini browser. Nice! (Via: WapReview.com)

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Slashdot

Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin
An anonymous reader writes "ABC is warning that dirty election tricks are about to start. In the past, they've ranged from late-night robo-calls to voter intimidation. ABC has a pretty good list of what to watch out for as told by Allen Raymond, a former Republican operative, who was reformed af ...
Linux-Based E-Voting In Brazil
John Sokol writes "I just heard from a good friend and Linux kernel hacker in Brazil that they have just finished their municipal election with 128 million people using Linux to vote. They voted nationwide for something like 5,000 city mayors. Voting is mandatory in Brazil. The embedded computer ...
Mono 2.0 and .NET On Linux
Several readers noted the release of Mono 2.0, which is compatible with Microsoft's .NET Framework 2.0. According to Miguel de Icaza, "...users can move over server applications built for .NET and client applications built with Windows Forms." InternetNews points out that only about half of the ...
Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents
thesandbender writes "Ford is set to release a management system that will restrict certain aspects of a car's performance based on which key is in the ignition. The speed is limited to 80, you can't turn off traction control, and you can't turn the stereo up to eleven. It's targeted at parents ...
Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced
davidmwilliams writes "Microsoft followed their major annual Tech-Ed event in Australia with a week-long programming contest called 'DevSta,' to find 'star developers.' While the quantity and quality of submissions suggest a poor turnout, it certainly caught the attention of at least two hackers ...

Kuro5hin

Introducing New People to Hunting
It's that time of year again. New people want to get into hunting and I intend on dragging them into it. Below the fold - New hunter safety courses, teaching people to hunt and more delicious squirrel pot pie. I've talked about hunting squirrel before and even covered the mechanics of shooting ...
A Simple Formula for the Rebirth of Kuro5hin
The basic problem with Kuro5hin is the mindless, pointless negativity here. It is hard to devote time and energy to writing a good front page story when it is greeted by "LOL WUT?" and a -1. As such, the front page is gradually devolving into a ghost town, or self-satisfied smug navel gazing abo ...
The Credit Crisis and the Bailout in Plain English
This is an explanation of economics. There's no way to avoid some boring details and glazed eyes when talking about such things. However, I promise to avoid some of the jargon which will send you running to wikipedia, if you in turn forgive me for some oversimplification. The purpose of thi ...
The Meat Hooker: Steak
Humans are omnivorous. Probably the reason we are is that we started out as scavengers before we were hunter/gatherers. Eating ancient and primeval 'road kill' must have been nasty enough that some bright ancestor found a pointed stick and jabbed something to death and we tasted fresh meat. That ...
To bail or not to bail, that is the question
So King George got on the TV tonight to let everyone know that yes, the sky will indeed fall if those pesky congress persons don't agree to effectively nationalize a handful of companies that may or may not have been poorly managed.So the question is, would a bailout have the desired effect? Gi ...