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This Does Not Reassure Me: Texas School District Will Let Teachers Carry Guns

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2008-08-16 00:11:10 by Judie Lipsett in Gear Diary
...District. This isnt exactly gadget news, and Im not sure why it hit today as this policy change approval actually took place last October, but needless to sayI am flabbergasted and felt the need to share. Indulge me, please Trustees at the Harrold Independent School District approved a district policy change last October so employees can...
 
Tags: district policy change, policy change approval, visit site, october, teachers follow, gadget news, school shootings, news story, carry
 
 
 
 
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District attorney on trial for building monster gaming rig with state money

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2008-03-14 02:03:30 by admin in Cool Gadgets and Gizmos
...district attorney in Rockwall County, Dallas, is under scrutiny from the FBI due to a PC he built as a backup server using office money. Ray Sumrow claims he was using the system for business, but the server actually seems to be a tricked out gaming rig, featuring two hard drives, seven fans, high end graphics and sound cards, WiFi, and...
 
Tags: district attorney, ray sumrow claims, server, backup server, sumrows legal, fbi examiner, penny arcade, backup computer, ultraviolet light
 
 
 
 
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District attorney on trial for building monster gaming rig with state money

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2008-03-13 23:12:00 by Joshua Topolsky in Engadget
...district attorney in Rockwall County, Dallas, is under scrutiny from the FBI due to a PC he built as a backup server -- using office money. Ray Sumrow claims he was using the system for business, but the "server" actually seems to be a tricked out gaming rig, featuring two hard drives, seven fans, high end graphics and sound cards, WiFi, and...
 
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Man kills 5 in gadget-district rampage

2008-06-08 10:38:34 by Rob Beschizza in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...district after a 25 year-old man drove a rented truck into pedestrians and then "began stabbing people" with a survival knife. The incident took place on Chuo dori, the main street that cuts through the heart of the world-famous shopping district, at around 12:30pm. On Sundays the road is closed off to traffic to become a pedestrian area and...
 
Tags: district, akihabara electronics district, electronics, akihabara, idg reports, manga comic books, reports, attacker kills, computer hardware
 
 
 
 
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Federal District Court Rules on Alleged Violations of Injunction

2008-08-31 20:05:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...District Court for the Central District of California issued a ruling on Broadcom's motion to find Qualcomm in contempt of various aspects of the Court's December 31, 2007 injunction ruling arising from the underlying trial last May While the Court found that Qualcomm had not violated the order on most of the issues raised by Broadcom, and...
 
Tags: court, district court, qualcomm, enjoin qualcomm, qualcomm employees, support wcdma products, support, requires qualcomm, wcdma products
 
 
 
 
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Madman Kills 7 In Akihabara Gadget District Rampage [Tragedy]

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2008-06-08 14:26:15 by Wilson Rothman in Gizmodo
...district is known to gadget lovers the world over as Japan's gizmodic heart. Today, though, a 25-year-old man named Tomohiro Kato allegedly drove his rented van into a crowd of people, then jumped out stabbing more people, including those he'd already hit with the vehicle. Reuters says that among the reported dead were six men aged 19 to...
 
Tags: akihabara, kill people, people, akihabara district, reuters, 25-year-old, murky video, world, local details
 
 
 
 
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Before Neon Lights: What Tokyo's Akihabara Geek District Looked Like 50 Years Ago [Japan]

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2008-11-05 07:20:44 by Brian Lam in Gizmodo
...district was laced with neon, it looked like this photo taken circa 1950 which I saw on my recent trip. Despite the horses in the photos, even around this time, gadgets were a part of the trade. (Although as the ads below show, phonographs and vacuum tube radios made up some of the choices.) Doing some research on the area, I did not know...
 
Tags: akihabara geek district, shinto shrine, shrine, extinguisher shrine, fire-control named akiba, vacuum tube radios, recent trip, rebuilt, time
 
 
 
 
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Students Hack into Schools Computer Systems to Change Their Grades

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2008-05-06 03:23:41 by max in zedomax.com
...District s computer network and altering grades for at least 60 students, as reported by the district officials The case could be regarded as a felony case, since the financial loss of the act is estimated at about $190,000. According to the law, an action leading to a loss of $100,000 to $200,000 should be called a second-degree felony,...
 
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U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Trial Court's Decision that Motorola Phones Do Not Infringe University of Texas System Patent

2008-07-27 20:27:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...district court order granting summary judgment in favor of Motorola , Inc. (NYSE:MOT) and its customers on infringement claims asserted in a patent case brought by the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System ("University of Texas System"). The University of Texas System had appealed an order by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks...
 
Tags: motorola, patent, texas system, court, motorola products, motorola software, software, patent claims, district court correctly