Saturday, September 27, 2003
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New York Times: Technology
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Confessions of a Spam King. How Richard Colbert mastered the art of bombarding people with unwanted e-mail, and why Congress almost certainly won't do anything to stop him. By Jack Hitt. |
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The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide. Based on nearly a decade of experience, detractors argue that PowerPoint-muffled messages may have life or death consequences. By John Schwartz. |
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'Artificial Love': All the World's a Contraption. Paul Shepheard, an architect, offers an impassioned rumination (by way of Shakespeare) on our mechanized universe. By Bernard Sharratt. |
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At Central Command, Death Gets an Online Demotion. The count of U.S. casualties in Iraq has grown less visible to those who visit the Web site operated by the United States Central Command. By Alex Berenson. |
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Web Research, Stem to Stern. A few sites that are useful starting (or ending) points for researching cruises online. By Bob Tedeschi. |
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Letters to the Editor. Toward a Real-Life HAL?. |
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MacFixIt Details OSX 10.2.8 Bugs |
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BBC Music Series 'Later' Preps Third DVD (Reuters). Reuters - In a music TV world seemingly
dominated by "reality" talent shows, the British program "Later
.. With Jools Holland" is an anachronism. |
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HyperSCSI Examined |
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IBM Examines How Inventors Invent (AP). AP - On a bright, warm morning at IBM Corp.'s research center here, seven of Big Blue's scientists gathered around a conference table to consider a nonscientific question: What helps inventors invent things? |
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One Phone Number, to Go (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Nov. 24 is a day many cell-phone users have been dreaming about. The fantasy goes like this: On that morning, customers living in the 100 biggest cities in the country will be able to walk into a competing wireless carrier's store, sign up for service, and have their old phone number transferred, without interruption, to the new phone that day. |
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Germany Seeks Tougher Punishment for Child Porn (Reuters). Reuters - German officials called on Saturday for
tougher sentences for consumers of child pornography after
police cracked a huge global child porn network involving some
26,500 Internet users in 166 countries. |
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MPAA Calls for Ban on Screeners |
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In search of tech serendipity |
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So much for a reasonable security debate |
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Latest Scareware Is a Creepy Delight (AP). AP - "Silent Hill 3" is delicious to play and highly instructive as well, because the video game reveals one of those quizzical things that distinguish humans from every other living being on Earth: We delight in scaring the bejeezus out of ourselves. |
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Perl 5.8.1 Released |
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2nd Arrest Made in Computer Worm Attack (AP). AP - Investigators have made a second arrest in connection with the "Blaster" computer worm, and the latest suspect is another juvenile accused of creating a variant of the worm. |
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LiveWire: Learn What the Locals Know Before Your Trip (Reuters). Reuters - There's no need to be a stranger in a
strange place when you travel. Everything you'll need to know
about your destination can be found on the Internet, before you
even leave the house. |
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Programs: 'Haunted Carousel' Is Nancy Drew's Mild Ride (Reuters). Reuters - Think of "Nancy Drew: The
Haunted Carousel" ($20, Windows) like you would an old
merry-go-round. It's not a scare-a-minute thrill ride, it's
nothing high-tech, but it does offer good old-fashioned fun. |
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New Moon System Around Uranus |
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Big Blue Fires Away. IBM files counterclaims against SCO Group, contending that the Lindon, Utah-based company has 'misused and is misusing, its purported rights to the Unix operating system.' |
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Segway Pulls Scooters Off Street. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the motorized scooters are dangerous when batteries are low. The company agrees to recall them, but offers a software upgrade as well. |
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Wi-Fi Earns Zagat's Blessings. A Zagat guide distributed as an insert in The New Yorker this week makes it official: Wi-Fi has moved beyond geekery to reach the mainstream. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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The Cell: It's a Selling Machine. Who would say yes to text-message ads? Plenty of people, perhaps. Even though costs and opt-in rules may keep some users safe from spam, cell-phone advertising could be the next big thing in the United States. Randy Dotinga reports from San Diego. |
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JetBlue Customers Feel the Pain. The decision by JetBlue to hand over millions of passenger records to a firm doing a government terrorist-screening study comes as a blow to the airline's loyal customers. By Noah Shachtman. |
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Second Arrest Made in Computer Worm Attack (AP). AP - Investigators have made a second arrest in connection with the "Blaster" computer worm, and the latest suspect is another juvenile accused of creating a variant of the worm. |
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Verio Offers Windows Server 2003 Web Hosting (TechWeb). TechWeb - Verio this week launched Microsoft Windows Server 2003 web hosting for small and medium size businesses. Verio will also offer Windows Server 2003 hosting in the fourth quarter to enterprises. |
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IBM Ducks Indemnification Of Linux Users, Files Counterclaims Against SCO (TechWeb). TechWeb - IBM says Hewlett-Packard's offer to indemnify Linux users against legal action by SCO is against the spirit of open source, because it forbids users from making their own technology modifications. IBM also charges SCO with violating the Linux General Public License. |
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New York Real Estate Agents Ellis Deploys Wireless Application (TechWeb). TechWeb - CB Richard Ellis has deployed Good Technology's wireless system in the New York region, giving nearly 500 agents access to property listings and data, property comparisons, tenant information, e-mail and personal planning information. |
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How An Online Business Is Defending Itself Against A Denial-Of-Service Attack From The Swen Virus (TechWeb). TechWeb - Greyware Automation Products is getting 40 copies of Swen every minute, and the worm attempts to contact the company's discussion servers 16 times per second.
Left unchecked, the activity would flood Greyware's Internet connection, take Greyware offline and put it out of business. Here's how Greyware is fighting back. |
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Yahoo Messenger Blocks Outside IM Clients |
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Google hails 'rational' tech sector. The founders of the Google search engine site tell the BBC the dot.com industry is a better place do business now than in the boom years. |
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Nigeria enters space age. Nigeria's first satellite - part of an international disaster-monitoring network - is launched from Russia. |
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Scooter Much Publicized for Stability Is Recalled. The maker of the Segway Human Transporter has agreed to recall the motorized scooters because they fall over, at least under some conditions. By John Schwartz. |
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Nokia Names an American to a Top Post in an Overhaul. The management reshuffle spurred speculation that the company may be preparing to change its chief executive. By Alan Cowell. |
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PC Retail Sales Higher in August. Retail sales of personal computers and PC-related products in the U.S. posted their strongest gain so far this year. By Reuters. |
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20th Anniversary of RMS's Original GNU Post |
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Interview with Linus Torvalds from NYT Magazine |
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Oracle readies CRM, supply chain upgrades. Oracle is adding automated configuration tools to its supply chain management applications and is developing an upgrade to its CRM software designed to make it easier for users to exchange customer data with other systems. |
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Wireless LAN throughput on the rise. Think about a wireless LAN with enough throughput to match your switched Ethernet infrastructure. |
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Juvenile arrested for creating Blaster variant. Another person has been arrested in relation to the Blaster worm that infected computers worldwide last month. This time the individual is a juvenile, prosecutors in Seattle said Friday, which in the U.S. typically means under the age of 18.
ADVERTISEMENT: AT&T-Cisco Portal Examines IP VPN Services. - The IP VPN Portal from AT&T and Cisco Systems features numerous resources and tools, including a Webcast on how to increase productivity, lower costs and extend the power of your network. |
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