Brutal, Painful Death, Just a Mouse Click Away
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Morally duplicitous torture porn: how else to describe âUntraceable,â a bleak, rain-washed horror thriller.
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.
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Why have states so doggedly and uniformly clung to an execution method with the potential to inflict intense pain when a simpler one is readily available?
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A HOSPITAL in the Netherlands has revealed it has been mercy-killing terminally ill newborns. The Groningen Academic Hospital recently proposed guidelines for the mercy killings of the terminally ill newborns
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TORONTO, Dec 14 (Reuters Life!) - Video gamers relish  violence on the screen but now players are becoming victims  themselves -- of the latest gaming technology in which a  wireless, wand-like device is used to direct on-screen action.
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Life's too short, the  saying goes, and a black humor Internet site called Death Clock  lets you know exactly how brief it is.
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Watch your back in South Africa. They kill folks here. Murder them at a bewildering rate.
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In Cuddalore, India, a wiry gravedigger had no time to waste, no sentiment to spare: just a mass grave for victims, and mass grief.
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By Jonathan D. Epstein, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 10--Feeling some pain in your jaw? Your solution might be just around the corner, on a computer screen in Tonawanda.
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What goes around, comes around with a vengeance.
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.
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By MAY WONG    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Forget about a better mousetrap...
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His heart stopped. I saved his life. Cut to four years later, and an angry face-off.
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Israel rolls out a tiny, Uzi-toting robot. But what happens when the armed equivalent of the Blue Screen of Death occurs? In Danger Room. In Danger Room.
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"And there I stood: alone in the dark, unknown terrors approaching, armed only with a bucket of water."  "Which is, curiously enough, almost exactly the position that Windows users find themselves in today: alone in the dark, unknown terrors approaching, but in their case, having a bucket of water would be an improvement."  "MS04-028 is, perhaps, the epitome of bad technical writing - the literary equivalent of spaghetti code. I've read through it far too many times, and I still understand far too little."  And who is at fault here?  You or Microsoft?  Microsoft has for years demonstrated that they hate their customers.  Yet its people like Tom Liston that keep coming back for more abuse.  T ...
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For centuries, it has been one of humanity's most graphic, gruesome ways to end a life: sever the head, home to thoughts, dreams and that most personal of features &#151; the face. Decapitation by hand, with sword or knife, smacks of ugly yesterdays &#151; things the West prefers to think it has left behind.
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Buying a new mouse is kind of like buying a new toothbrush: you don&#39;t realize you needed a new one until you actually make the switch and realize how bad the old one really was.