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Dolly the cloned sheep dies

Wow, I hope this isn't indicative of the cloning process in general...

LONDON - Dolly, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult, has been euthanized, scientists said Friday.

A veterinary exam confirmed the six-year-old sheep had a progressive lung disease. Her cells had started to show signs of aging faster than a typical animal.

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Latest wireless networking standard nears - thank goodness

Known as 802.11g, the specification increases the bandwidth of wireless networks from 11Mbps, under the 802.11b standard, to 54Mbps. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers said Friday that a consensus had been reached to establish the latest version of the 802.11g specification, version 6.1, as the standard to be used in the industry

Now maybe we wont have the same problems like we did with 802.11a and 802.11b...

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Secret Microsoft plot to promote open source exposed

As a follow-up to the story posted below, a secret plot by Microsoft to promote OSS has been exposed. See http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0212.petreley.html for all the details.