July 20, 2006
We Don't Protect Their Kind
From today's Washington Post:
Deadliest Day Yet in Assault on Lebanon
Hezbollah Rockets Fired Into Israel Kill Two Arab Boys
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Hezbollah missiles, which have been fired regularly into northern Israel since hostilities erupted, on Wednesday landed in the Israeli Arab town of Nazareth. Two brothers -- Rabia Taluzeh, 3, and Mahmoud, 8 -- were killed around 5 p.m. as they were walking to their uncle's house when two rockets landed in the center of a main street running through the Safrefeh neighborhood in Israel's largest Arab city.
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Nazareth, a city of 75,000 people, has no public bomb shelters or early-warning sirens commonplace in other Israeli cities across the north.
July 11, 2006
Copy, Paste Features Missing in Google Calculator Gadget, Users Say
July 11, 2006 (Computerwhirld) Early adopters of Google's new Calculator Desktop Gadget are expressing widespread concerns that the new utility, while functional, does not permit them them to copy or paste numerical data, according to a new survey by Gartner Research.
Google, Inc.'s Calculator Gadget allows users to generate an almost limitless variety of numbers by combining user-supplied digit sequences with mathematical operators like "addition" and "multiplication." However, the lack of a copy-and-paste feature has some grumbling, according to the soon to be released study.
"The division function is really handy. I use it to figure out how much everybody owes for the office coffee pool," said Brian Sanders, a project manager for the Atlanta-based Newell Rubbermaid corporation. "The rounded corners and drop-shadows are a big win for us, too. But without the copy and paste, I might go back to the [Microsoft] Windows Calculator."
Microsoft Calculator is a free calculator included with the Windows operating system.
Ron Wojciechowski, a System Administrator for Red Point Networks of San Francisco expressed similar concerns. "I usually just fire up [the command-line utility] dc when I need to calculate [disk drive] partition sizes, but one of our interns was using the Google calculator, so I gave it a test drive. When I discovered cut-and-paste didn't work, I was furious. Screw that noise."
Representatives from Google were unavailable for comment.