Saturday, September 13, 2003

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New York Times: Technology
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1.  File-Sharing Battle Leaves Musicians Caught in Middle. Many musicians have found themselves watching helplessly as the recording industry has begun suing their fans. By Neil Strauss.
2.  A Tech Company Wins Big in the War on Terror. For L-3 Communications, a company that specializes in selling technology devices, the bottom line is thwarting terror. By Amy Kover.
3.  Whatever Will Be Will Be Free on the Internet. The recording industry's long-running battle against online music piracy has come to resemble one of those whack-a-mole arcade games. By Steve Lohr.
4.  The Music Industry Reveals Its Carrots and Sticks. The lawsuits against sharers of music files are battling a public that finds it hard to distinguish among several sorts of copying. By Adam Liptak.
5.  Beyond File-Sharing, a Nation of Copiers. Like file-sharing, cutting and pasting from the Internet is just one part of a broader shift toward all copying, all the time. By John Leland.
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CNET News.com - Front Door
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6.  Utility computing: Turning on the spigot. Utility, or on-demand, computing is the idea of delivering applications, storage or processing power on a pay-per-use basis.
7.  Security: Trouble in mind. From viruses and worms to spam, fraud and theft, security problems have become perhaps the biggest headache in the high-tech industry today.
8.  What labor shortage?. Experts at Wharton find that conventional wisdom about the impact of a smaller baby bust and an aging population of boomers is misleading--if not outright wrong.
9.  Editor's note: A new and improved News.com. CNET News.com celebrates seven years of award-winning tech journalism this month. Jai Singh, its founder and editor in chief, shares his vision for the next seven years, which includes a site redesign.
10.  Audiocast archive. Open HTML container page.
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11.  IEEE to Standardize OS Security Components
12.  Security Versus Science
13.  Can Lotus Notes R3 Prior Art Save The Browser?
14.  Fame, Fortune and Micropayments
15.  The Economist on Open Source in Government
16.  Response to Spider Robinson on the State of Sci-Fi
17.  Half-Life 2, ATI, NVIDIA, and a Sack of Cash
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Hack the Planet
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18.  Dan Egnor: "Somewhere deep inside the secret headquarters of the RedHat/GNOME/Ximian/Mozilla Cabal, there's a hidden document with a list of everything in Unix you know and love, marked with a date for its final expurgation. I think 'ls' is slated to be finally replaced with a symlink to 'nautilus' in 2007. Except that symlinks will have been replaced by ".shortcut" files, which are interpreted by the Mono implementation of GNOME-VFS."
19.  Scott McCloud: Misunderstanding Micropayments: BitPass, Shirky and The Good Idea that Refuses to Die. He has an obvious error in saying that there are mental transaction costs in a system where the customer never sees the payments, but it doesn't invalidate his other arguments.
20.  EE Times: Dueling video codecs square off at broadcast conference. Here are the preliminary H.264 licensing terms: $0.25 per unit for encoding and decoding. What happened to the H.264 royalty-free baseline? The Windows Media Video 9 license fee is $0.10 per unit for decoding and $0.25 for encode and decode.
21.  IEEE Begins Standard to Create Baseline for More Secure Operating Systems. It will be interesting to see how much security they're willing to trade off for compatibility. Wait, here it is: "The TOE is not expected to be able to sufficiently mitigate risks resulting from application of sophisticated attack methods."
22.  Cory Doctorow: New Sidekick features, just in the nick of time. "Party like it's 1982!" Since the Hiptop is totally dependent on servers run by the carriers, I wonder how it would interact with number portability.
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The Register
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23.  Govt restricts access to snooping powers. 'Dramatically cut down'

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1.  Nokia Shows Off Phone with Printable Faceplate
2.  Space Elevator Going Up
3.  Pilot a Plane with a PDA?

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CNET News.com
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1.  What labor shortage?. Experts at Wharton find that conventional wisdom about the impact of a smaller baby bust and an aging population of boomers is misleading--if not outright wrong.
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2.  3D File Manager on Linux Wins NSF Prize
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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3.  'Snooper' powers to fight terror. Phone companies and service providers will be asked to keep records of users' calls and e-mails for a year to combat terrorism.

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1.  Distributed Computing and Climate Change

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9:27:44 AM    

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1.  Ruling on GPS Tracking Devices
2.  Wired Case Mod Roundup
3.  UK RIP Bill Reintroduced

8:27:24 AM    

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CNET News.com
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1.  Web services: Making connections. A Web service is a software application available over a network that uses a standardized XML messaging system and is not tied to any one operating system or programming language.
2.  Internet telephony: Talk is cheap. Voice over IP is a technology for making phones calls using the Internet Protocol, the world's most popular method for sending data from one computer to another.
3.  Utility computing: Turning on the spigot. Utility, or on-demand, computing is the idea of delivering applications, storage or processing power on a pay-per-use basis.
4.  Security: Trouble in mind. From viruses and worms to spam, fraud and theft, security problems have become perhaps the biggest headache in the high-tech industry today.

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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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1.  Scam targets Barclays customers. An e-mail scam is targeting Barclays banking customers to trick them into revealing their confidential details.
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Wired News
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2.  Are You Too Stupid to Surf?. A lot of the bad things that happen online are preventable. Intelligent use of the Internet is the answer. But there are plenty of dopes out there who don't have a clue. Should we require Internet users to be licensed?
3.  Science Suffers Security Complex. Homeland security laws hinder scientific advancement with bureaucratic mazes, policies that oust foreign researchers and jail time for improper lab operation. Scientists are resorting to self-censorship to avoid the hassle.
4.  Hacker Must Live With Parents. A U.S. magistrate judge says 22-year-old Adrian Lamo, the California man charged with hacking into the New York Times computer network, can remain free. Only there's a catch: Lamo must live with his parents and restrict his computer use.
5.  Videophone Dick Tracy Would Love. A new attachment for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance will allow the handheld to operate as a videophone, displaying live video of gamers on both ends of a telephone line. The add-on will only be available in Japan.
6.  Possible Weapon in HIV War. Researchers say the smallpox vaccine might be effective in protecting people from HIV infection. Laboratory tests are promising and further studies are ordered.
7.  New-Generation Phones Got Game. Cell-phone makers and game developers are building new devices that will let people talk with their friends and communicate with online gaming worlds. It's a whole new mobile lifestyle. Brad King reports from the Austin Game Conference.
8.  Get Ready for the Robot Air Corps. Over the next seven years, the Pentagon plans to unleash a new fleet of robot-controlled aerial vehicles to fly hundreds of dangerous missions for the U.S. military. By Scott Kirsner from Wired magazine.
9.  Through the Solar Looking Glass. New York researchers are creating solar 'window shades' for the biggest users of peak-period energy: giant office buildings. They're targeting a 100 percent energy-conversion rate, a huge improvement over today's solar panels. By Kari L. Dean.
10.  Sex Sites Sick of Getting Screwed. Online pornographers say a hacker tried to extort money from them by threatening to cripple their websites. Now police in Israel have arrested a suspect, and the pornmeisters cry 'Throw away the key!' By Noah Schachtman.

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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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1.  Online ambitions of sci-fi game. The multi-player online universe of PlanetSide offers a first-person shooter with a dash of strategy.

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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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1.  Beatles sue Apple over iTunes. The Beatles' record label Apple Corps is suing computer firm Apple in a wrangle over the use of the Apple name to promote music products.

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New York Times: Technology
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1.  Microsoft Says It Is Planning to Double Its Dividend. The higher payment is still small compared with the enormous piles of cash generated by the company's software franchises. By Steve Lohr.
2.  Revenue in Key Line Falls, and Oracle's Shares Slide. Oracle unnerved Wall Street by reporting that revenue from licenses for new software fell 6.7 percent from a year ago. By Barnaby J. Feder.
3.  For the Beatles Management Company, It's Apple Versus Apple. The management company for the Beatles is contending that Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store breaches the band's trademark. By Reuters.

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1.  License to Surf, Take Two

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