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Digital Identity World
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - September 11, 2003 Issue |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - September 18, 2003 Issue |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - September 25, 2003 Issue |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - October 2, 2003 Issue |
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Boing Boing Blog
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FCC releases number-portability guidelines. In preparation for the blessed day at the end of November when cellular number portability arrives, the FCC has issued guidelines for carriers. They're non-binding, though.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said carriers should let defecting customers keep their old number even if their account has an unpaid balance. The FCC also found "no technical reason" why switching subscribers should have to wait longer than two-and-a-half hours before their old number is "ported" to their new dialing plan.
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(via Gizmodo) |
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Sliding-scale indie disc with proceeds to bail out RIAA victims. Scott sez, "Today I released my new DIY record, 'Where I've Been,' with a twist: the sliding-scale minimum price is $5, with all amounts over $5 donated to the P2P Defense Fund at downhillbattle.org to help out people who've been hit with RIAA lawsuits. The enhanced CD also contains MP3 versions of the whole record, licensed under a Creative Commons license."
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Reading/signing on Thursday in Berkeley. A reminder: I'll be reading and signing books on Thursday night at Berkeley's The Other Change of Hobbit (2020 Shattuck Ave, 1-510-848-0413) from 6-8PM. Hope to see you there!
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BBCi director's stunning speech on file-sharing and TV. Ashley Highfield, Director of BBC New Media & Technology, gave a speech on Monday at the Royal Television Society about the nature of the BBC's ambitious and grand Internet plans. It's a stunner of a talk, filled with extreme sensibleness:
Downloading and sharing this video is the final piece of the jigsaw and will create a killer combination that I believe could undermine the existing models of pay-TV.
The killer combination is broadband together with digital TV and PVRs, plus the ability to share this video in the same peer-to-peer model with which music files are exchanged on the net...
We are exploring legitimate peer-to-peer models to get our users to share our content, on our behalf, amongst themselves, transparently.
And as an industry, we should be more active in creating legitimate content download products, whether that's as a pay-model, or rights-cleared for free. We need to help consumers leap-frog the illegal downloading issues that have wrecked havoc on the music industry. Here's what we believe is the shape of things to come, a way for people to search for whatever they are interested in -- perhaps in the case of a natural history for a school project -- searching from Buffalos to Bears -- and then download it for their use.
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(via Werblog) |
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Boombox modded into a WiFi AP. 
The Bass Station is an old-school boom-box with a WiFi access-point built in, along with:
a 120GB hard drive, and an MP3 decoder, and that is controlled using a web browser. Besides being able to play MP3s, it can also stream audio to other devices in its local area network, double as a file-server for file-sharing.
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(via Gizmodo)
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Apocamon 3 is out, and $0.25. 
Patrick "e-sheep" Farley has published the third installment of his brilliant, scathing Apocamon strip, in which he interprets Revelations through Pokemon characters.
He's opted to charge $0.25 for 30 days' access to the strip, using the BitPass system that Scott McCloud was touting a little while ago. Of course, BitPass requires that you buy a $3.00 prepaid "card" in order to give Patrick his $0.25, and there's precious little else I want to buy with my remaining $2.75, so as far as I'm concerned, I've just spent $3 on this Apocamon installment, and as far as I'm concerned, it was worth it -- I'd pay that much for a comic book this good any day.
On the other hand, I'd own the comic book and be able to read it whenever I want to. Patrick's charging $0.25 or $3.00 (depending on how you squint at it) for 30 days' worth of access to his funnybook. Now, if I could only figure out a way to give Patrick the remaining $2.75 for permanent access (preferably without giving any money to BitPass).
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Tiny remotely chargeable battery for implanted medical apparati. A new rechargable miniature (2.9 mm X 13 mm) battery intended for implanted medical appliances is shipping. The battery lasts 10 years, and is recharged when the body part it resides in is placed alongside an electrified pillow, which remotely juices up the cell.
"In the treatment of urinary incontinence, which is an area Quallion is focused on, the stimulation has to be delivered all day long so there's no good place to put an external coil," Loeb said.
The Quallion team decided to focus on urinary incontinence partly because the problem requires constant stimulation, but also because millions of people suffer from it.
"There are more adult's diapers sold in the world than children's ones," Fong said
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Internet voice technology is not subject to telco rules in Minnesota. A Federal court has ordered the Minnesota telco regulator to stop treating Voice Over IP providers as though they were phone companies. This has been an area of great concern, since it made it appear that the Internet was going to come under the thumb of the thoroughly captured telco regulators, who'd trash our last great hope for bankrupting the telcos while insisting on the local equivalent of horseshoes for steam-engines.
The Minnesota PUC's August decision required Vonage to file with the commission as a telephone company, to receive official certification from the PUC in order to operate in the state and to begin making payments to support 911 service administration.
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(via /.) |
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Hard drive capacity explained -- will it stop the court case?. In the wake of a lawsuit over "deceptive" hard-drive marketing in which it is alleged that hard-drive vendors mis-label the capacity of their products to make them seem larger than they really are, the tech site Wiebetech has published an easy-to-follow paper explaining the discrepancy. I wonder if it will be introduced as evidence in the hearing?
We’ve finally determined the math used by the operating system, which has converted
our drive from a capacity of 123.5GB to a capacity of 115.04GB. The mystery is solved.
This handy formula may be used by anyone for converting decimal GigaBytes to binary
GigaBytes (with decimal representation). The mathematical conversion works the other
way around as well, as shown below:
115.GB x 1,073,741,824 = 123,522,415,614 decimal bytes
(assuming all digits of precision are used in the 115GB). (This allows conversion
from operating system GigaBytes to Hard Drive Manufacturer GigaBytes).
76k PDF Link
(via /.) |
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Giant Grocery "loyalty card" swapper. Rob's Giant BonusCard Swap Meet is a site where you enter in your Giant grocery-chain "loyalty card" number and the site responds by serving you a printable barcode for someone else's loyalty card number. Paste the barcode over your own and help poison the Giant database.
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Online propaganda short from Korea: "Fuck'n USA".  From RobPongi's blog, which features lots of streaming media oddities from Japan and other Asian countries:
"This is a very shocking anti-American propoganda video made by North Koreans and previously broadcast on South Korean and Japanese Television." Don't miss the part right after George W. Bush's head morphs into a bloodsucking vampire monkey, where they call America an "audacious" country that "stole the Olympic gold Medal from us."
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New York Times: Technology
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Court Allows U.S. to Enforce No-Call Rule. A federal appeals court let the Federal Trade Commission enforce its do-not-call program against telemarketers, while the agency appeals a judge's ruling that declared the rule unconstitutional. By Bloomberg News. |
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As It Tries to Cut Costs, Wall Street Looks to India. Wall Street firms, including J. P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley, are joining the chase for more highly skilled Indian labor. By Saritha Rai. |
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Gauging Rollovers on a Track and Not Just on Paper. Regulators demonstrated their new vehicle rollover test, hoping to better gauge the effectiveness of technologies like electronic stability systems. By Danny Hakim. |
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Regulators Work on Keeping Cell Numbers. The Federal Communications Commission is requiring that beginning Nov. 24 cellular companies offer customers the option of taking their phone numbers with them when they switch carriers. By The Associated Press. |
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Technology Briefing: Software. LOOKSMART TO LOSE KEY MICROSOFT AGREEMENT; VIVENDI GAME DELAYED BY CODE THEFT; BORLAND CUTS 125 JOBS;. |
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CNET News.com - Front Door
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Inside the IBM-Microsoft spin zone. The Stencil Group co-founder Bill Robins gives the conspiracy theorist view of why Bill Gates decided to share a stage with an IBM executive to talk up Web services standards. |
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EMC signs storage exec from HP. The data storage company has hired Howard Elias to work on new ventures, making him the latest high-level HP manager to jump ship for a rival. |
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U.K. looking to Linux with help from IBM. Nine new test programs in Britain add to open-source rumblings in Germany, China, the United States and elsewhere and increase the heat on makers of proprietary software. |
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Security group names top software risks. The SANS Institute publishes its to-do list of vulnerable software that system administrators need to fix. Two top risks: Microsoft's IIS and Unix BIND. |
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Euclid seems to have right angle on VC funds |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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Apple to release Mac OS X Panther, Server Oct. 24 (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday announced the release of Mac OS X Panther and Panther Server, the latest major updates to its Unix-based operating system. The releases come just four months after Steve Jobs demoed the new operating system during his keynote address at the companies Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Both versions will be available on Friday, October 24, beginning at 8:00 p.m. |
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Microsoft Tightens Grip on Server-OS Market (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Despite the inroads being made by Linux open-source software, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)
will continue to dominate the global server operating-system market for
the foreseeable future, according to a report from IDC. |
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Latest copyright battle: software pirates vs "subversive" programmers (AFP). AFP - Computer games programmers have become subversive in the latest twist of their unending war against software pirates, the British weekly New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue. |
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Microsoft Builds Lead in Server Systems (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. has increased its share of the worldwide market for operating systems that run servers, despite high-profile competition from Linux, a new study shows. |
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The Wireless-Network Race (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Would you like to flop under a tree in Central Park and fire up your laptop to search the Internet for nearby restaurants? Or stroll along Ocean Beach in San Francisco and access the Web to identify the small bird you just saw hopping in the surf? |
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REVIEW: Nokia's N-Gage Packs Performance (AP). AP - The category-busting Nokia N-Gage combines a cell phone, pint-sized video game player and an entertainment center in a compact, daring package. |
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Yahoo Profit Up, Guidance Raised (Reuters). Reuters - Internet media company Yahoo Inc.
(YHOO.O) on Wednesday posted a doubling of its quarterly profit
on strength in advertising, and raised its earnings forecasts
for the year to include the acquisition of Overture Services. |
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Sony Puts $719 Tag on PSX Game/Entertainment System (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) said on
Tuesday it would launch the "PSX" -- an entertainment system
boasting a satellite TV tuner and DVD recorder plus its
PlayStation 2 game player -- in Japan later this year at a
minimum price of 79,800 yen ($719). |
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Vivendi's 'Half Life 2' Hit by Code Theft (Reuters). Reuters - Hackers have stolen the
source code to "Half-Life 2" and distributed a portion online,
leading the game's developer to say on Tuesday that the release
date for one of the most anticipated PC games had been thrown
into question. |
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Heart Patients May Benefit from Sensors in Clothes (Reuters). Reuters - Heart patients may soon be able to
buy underwear designed to detect heart rhythm abnormalities and
even call for an ambulance in case of emergency, according to
researchers at Netherlands-based Philips Electronics. |
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House Votes to Tighten Computer Security (Reuters). Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives
voted on Wednesday to require the government to set up its
computers so they are not exposed to security risks associated
with "peer-to-peer" networks. |
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Apple Sets Oct. 24th Release For Mac OS X 10.3 |
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China Plans Manned Space Flight October 15 |
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MS Patents IM Feature Used Since At Least 1996 |
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Michigan To Purchase Record 130,000 Laptops |
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Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? |
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Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++ |
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New 3D CPU Water Cooling Method |
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A Cluster Of Pocket PCs |
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Disgruntled Fan Arrested, Indicted For Spam Attacks |
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Protein Researchers Win Nobel Prize In Chemistry |
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Hack the Planet
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For the last couple of days OmniWeb has been getting into a state where it never finishes loading a page (the status gets stuck at "Loading n of n+1") and it chews up the CPU. |
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That ThinkPad T41 sure has nice specs. |
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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UK tech firms 'give up on recovery'. The UK technology sector continues to struggle, but the first glimmers of recovery are appearing in Europe, surveys suggest. |
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Yahoo profits double again. The internet portal reports net profits of $65m thanks to its strategy of adding more fee-based services. |
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Patients set to book online. Every patient in England should soon be able to book their hospital appointment online at their local surgery. |
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Blind 'see with sound'. A system that uses soundscapes to map a blind person's surroundings is being developed at Philips' Labs. |
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CCTV comes to mobile phones. Home owners worried about house security can now watch live CCTV pictures of their property on a mobile. |
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Broadband at the price of dial-up. Internet firm Tiscali are to offer a lower speed broadband package for the price of dial-up, but experts are sceptical. |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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Rambus has legal momentum in memory patents. Efforts by Rambus Inc. to extract royalties from memory chip makers got a boost Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court, increasing chances that the company will beat vendors in court. |
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Critics raise security concerns about VeriSign service. WASHINGTON - VeriSign Inc.'s Site Finder service has caused problems with the way some e-mail and other Web applications function and collected more information about Web surfers than some other services designed to redirect mistyped URLs (uniform resource locators), critics of the new Web search site said Tuesday. |
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TCO reduction is Siebel's top priority, CEO says. SAN DIEGO - Siebel Systems Inc.'s announcement last week that it will re-enter the hosted CRM (customer relationship management) market it abandoned two years ago is a sign of the company's commitment to meeting its customers' ever-changing needs, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tom Siebel said Wednesday during a keynote speech opening Siebel's annual customer conference, in San Diego. |
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Toshiba produces first X architecture test chip. Toshiba Corp. has produced the first functional test chip which conforms to a new integrated-circuit architecture called X, which includes interconnects using diagonal pathways as well as the traditional grid-like vertical and horizontal pathways in use today. |
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Microsoft wins patent for IM activity notification. Microsoft Corp. has been awarded a patent for a feature in IM (instant messaging) that alerts a user when the person they are communicating with is inputting a message. The feature is present in IM services from both Yahoo Inc. and America Online Inc. (AOL). |
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Napster set to replay Thursday, for pay. Roxio Inc., the company that bought the remnants of fallen song-swapping service Napster Inc., is preparing to relaunch the service, dubbed Napster 2.0, on Thursday. |
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UAN will be bigger than CRM, Siebel says. SAN DIEGO -- Late Tuesday afternoon, R. David Schmaier, executive vice president of Siebel Systems, fielded questions on the company's announcement made that same morning that it will partner with IBM to deliver Siebel CRM solutions in a hosted, IBM OnDemand, platform. |
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Microsoft dominance of OS market grows, IDC study says. Despite increasing pressure from Linux, Microsoft Corp. dominated the worldwide market in 2002 for OSes (operating systems) used on servers and, less surprisingly, the OS market on the client side. It will continue to defend its market position for at least the next four years, according to a research report released Wednesday by IDC. |
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Apple releases Mac OS X Panther, Server. Apple Computer Inc. Wednesday announced the release of Mac OS X Panther and Panther Server, the latest major updates to its Unix-based operating system. The releases come just four months after Steve Jobs, the company's chief executive officer, demoed the new operating system during his keynote address at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Both versions will be available on Friday, Oct. 24, beginning at 8 p.m. |
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Longhorn details emerge. Details are emerging about Microsoft Corp.'s plans for Longhorn, its forthcoming Windows operating system upgrade.
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InfoWorld: Security
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Critics raise security concerns about VeriSign service. 'Site Finder' allegedly creates technical problems with Internet protocols |
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EarthLink offers customers spyware protection. ISP boosts security by adding Spyware Blocker to TotalAccess package |
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IBM unveils wireless IDS service. Managed service detects rogue access points, DoS attacks, improper configurations and compromised encryption keys |
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LinuxSecurity.com
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Security Concerns Shroud VeriSign Service |
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Build an Internet Server on a Shoestring |
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Building an LDAP Server on Linux, Part 1 |
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Demonstrating ROI for Penetration Testing (Part Four) |
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Microsoft's Muglia Details 'Securing The Perimeter' Initiative |
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RedHat: SANE remote vulnerabilities |
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TurboLinux: pine buffer overflow vulnerability |
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SecurityNewsPortal.com
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Baseball hacker busted for spamming Phillies and newspapers |
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Stupid Security
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Report: Security Must Not Be Used To Extend Microsoft Monopoly |
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Hospital Security |
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The Register
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Windows, Linux gain in server sales, but what about 'free'?. The 64,000 matchstick question... |
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Northern Ireland offers broadband funds. Making connections |
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US parents sue over WLAN school fears. Could 'permit toxic proteins to invade the brain' |
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EMC dips into HP's storage exec pool - again. Elias on board |
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CNET removes anti spam software 'made by spammers'. Twists and turns |
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Warning: virus terrorism stories may contain nuts. High tech unit probes killer neckwear... |
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Shift key breaks latest CD anti-rip tech - grad student. MediaMax CD3 not so 'incredible' after all |
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Oracle offers up database to the little guys. Five-user license under $1,000 |
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MS plucks Sierra Wireless for smartphone. Xscale win |
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Do-Not-Call site has AT&T web bug. Trust us - we're a phone company |
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Press 'Shift' and Copy Away. MediaMax CD3 is supposed to prevent the copying of music CDs onto computers. That it does, but as one grad student discovered it's also easily disabled. Music industry execs say they're unconcerned. |
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Nokia's N-Gage Hits the Streets. Nokia launches its N-Gage game phone, seeking to gain a foothold in the portable gaming market now controlled by Nintendo's Game Boy line. Consumers and game enthusiasts give mixed reviews. |
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Mobs Turn Net into Money Machine. Organized crime gets an upgrade as syndicates do their dirty work online. To tech-savvy gangs, the Net is the perfect place to run extortion rackets, kiddie-porn rings and assorted scams. |
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Charter: Hands Off Song Swappers. Broadband service provider Charter Communications sues the Recording Industry Association of America to block it from getting names of about 150 of Charter's customers suspected of file trading. |
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How Computer Chips Keep Cool. A Silicon Valley startup has developed a water-cooling 'radiator' for computers that could show up in laptops using next-generation monster chips. By Leander Kahney. |
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AAA Battery Gets a Mini-Me. A tiny new rechargeable battery -- the smallest of its type in the world -- could power implantable bionic neurons, making medical treatment of certain disorders safer and easier. By Louise Knapp. |
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Music Label Cashes in by Sharing. Magnatune is trying to turn the music industry on its ear by encouraging file sharing and giving artists a large chunk of the proceeds. It seems to be working. By Chris Ulbrich. |
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Security Basics In a Home Computing Environment. This is an article I originally posted back in January of this year. Mixed in with news from other sites, new articles I write myself and book and product reviews, I will also be re-posting some of the old articles... |
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
