Friday, October 31, 2003

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1.  More info to come...
2.  AMD Athlon 64 FX 51 CPU
Zalman CNPS7000A-AlCu heatsink
ASUS SK8N motherboard
2x Corsair TwinX 1024RE-3200LL RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB video card
Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 80GB hard disk
Thermaltake W0009 power supply
Cooler Master Aerogate II (a trifle)
Lian-Li PC-60 case
ViewSonic VX2000 monitor
3.  Wes's Penultimate Linux Box
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4.  Why Microsoft could be Google's best bet. How to get ahead in advertising

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1.  Protection from Pornography Week. First they came for the bukkake websites, and I did not speak out because I was not a bukkake website. George W. Bush says:
Pornography can have debilitating effects on communities, marriages, families, and children. During Protection From Pornography Week, we commit to take steps to confront the dangers of pornography.
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2.  Temporary IP address instead of boingboing.net. As you may have noticed, we're in the middle of an extended outage. We've got a new server up and running (with lots of new posts), but the DNS is going to take a day or two. In the meantime, http://216.126.84.59/ is your friend.

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3.  Senator John Edwards to guestblog for Lessig. Presidential hopeful Senator John Edwards is coming to Lessig's blog for a guest stint -- Lessig's doing this very swell thing in convincing presidential candidates to write frankly and personally about their aspirations on a blog. Shoot by and ask Edwards a question or two...

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4.  Crazy TokyoFlash watch: the Pimp Watch.

New on the killer TokyoFlash watch site, the Pimp Watch -- at $129, it's a little rich for my blood, but boy, that's some sweet watch action.

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5.  Hack the universe. BoingBoing patron saint Warren Ellis spake thusly, and lo; it was good:
Read this Scientific American piece. Short version; the universe is actually a two-dimensional plane packed with information, and the three-dimensions universe we perceive is nothing but an expression of that information. Matter and energy and life are, in fact, holograms. It leaves something very very interesting open for the future. If the universe is a vast two-dimensional plane of information -- then it can be hacked.
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6.  Album covers redone in Lego.

Famous album covers re-envisioned in Lego. Can you guess this one? Nirvana's Nevermind. Link (thanks, jean-Luc!)

7.  Photo quiz: Serial killer or Programming Language Inventor?. I got 7 out of 10. Link
8.  Lock-in prevents landfill. The AP has run a good piece on cellphone recycling that is marred by an excitingly stupid lede about the likelihood that number-portability will cause many of us to throw away our phones once we get better deals under the new competitive rules, and that this will be an environmental disaster. Lock-in prevents landfill. Cheez.

The new rule that takes effect Nov. 24 allowing users to change wireless (news - web sites) companies without losing their phone numbers is expected to motivate as many as 30 million people to switch within the first year.

Those who do will need to buy new phones. That's because even carriers that use the same network technologies employ different encryption.

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9.  Powerbook 15" has known screen-defects. The new 15" PowerBooks have a new known screen defect, in which big ugly white splotches show up on your display. My new 1GHz 15" has this in spades; Dan Gillmor's has a less severe case. The problem is that I suspect that I'll have to give the box back to Apple for a week to get it fixed, and there's no way in hell I can afford to do that any time soon.

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10.  Web archiving legal in the UK. Parliament has enacted a law allowing the British Library to scrape and archive British websites.

"This new legislation will now mean that a vital part of the nation's published heritage will be safe," said MP Chris Mole, who supported the move.

The archive will comprise selective "harvesting" from the 2.9 million sites that have "co.uk" suffixes.

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11.  How to bypass voicemail hell and get a live operator. List of ways to get to a live operator for various banks, airlines, credit card companies, and support centers.
If you want to reach a live voice at Gateway, hit zero twice, but be prepared to wait on Hold for a little while.

For Hewlett-Packard say "agent" when you're first prompted to speak.

We found no magic bullet to bypass Dell, Apple, or IBM's automated voice menus.

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12.  Issue Two of LA Innuendo magazine now out. The second edition of snarky LA Innuendo, post-ironic slicers and dicers of all that is Hollywood, is now out. If you're in LA on Wed. Nov. 5th, check this: editors and contributors will do standup at the Hudson Theater's Comedy Central Stage.

Link to the mag, Link to event details.

13.  I'm interviewing Stross on the WELL. I'm interviewing Charlie Stross for the WELL's inkwell.vue conference for the next two weeks or so -- it's free to read, and you can ask questions by emailing me and I'll post 'em.

I suppose you could say my second writing career dates to about 1998. I took stock of myself and found (a) one unfinished novel (I was 12 months in to it), (b) one finished, unsold novel with structural problems (bits of it have since re-surfaced in the form of "The Atrocity Archives"), (c) one short story sale in 1998 -- and that was a reprint of something I wrote in 1991. I was in my early thirties and I realised that either I should give up, or I should get serious about writing. I started by setting myself a goal of writing *and selling* four stories a year, and a second goal of getting into the magazines that get name recognition -- Asimov's, Analog, F&SF. Somewhere in the preceeding decade I'd cross-fertilized a chunk of ideas between the biological and computer science, and I'd also learned a little bit more about human nature -- enough to handle characterisation better than during my late teens or early twenties. (Parenthetically: this is one of the reasons why we often see new authors erupt on the scene aged thirty-something -- they've finally learned enough about human nature to have something interesting to say about it.) So in 1998 and early 1999 I finished and sold "Antibodies" and "A Colder War" (which got me into the Year's Best SF anthologies), wrote "Lobsters" (which got me into Asimov's and onto the Hugo and Nebula ballots), completed the novel now know as "Singularity Sky", and got serious.

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14.  Hallowe'en and copyright. Ernie sez, "On Halloween, what is more scary than copyright law? For example, did you know that the famous vampire movie 'Nosferatu' was almost lost forever due to copyright? On the other hand the makers of a Michael Myers Halloween mask won a lawsuit by proving they took the idea from the movie. Maybe someone can figure out how to get around pumpkin carving DRM. If not, some ghost pirates (or is that pirate ghosts?) have a solution for the file sharing problem."

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(Thanks, Ernie!)

15.  Aaaaand we're back. Well, it looks like we may or may not be back up (don't be surprised if we get an outage or two in the next couple days!).

Thanks to everyone who wrote in asking if everything was all right. The server threw a shoe, we moved it to a new host, all is well.

Thanks to Carl Steadman, for his years of hosting the box, and thanks to Ken Snider, who has taken over hostly duties. All hail the sysadmins.

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1.  Code Genealogy of the New Napster. The New Napster launches tomorrow, and -- apart from the crippling WMA/DRM barbwire -- it's really a rather nice app. With more than a little resemblance to Pressplay and MyMP3.com, from which it is descended. I asked MP3.com founder Michael Robertson (also founder of Lindows.com, SIPphone.com) to trace the digital DNA for BoingBoing readers; here is his take on who begat whom:

(1) VU buys MP3.com.
(2) VU owns half of pressplay (Sony owns other half)
(3) Pressplay uses MP3.com to build pressplay service.
(4) MP3.com had my.mp3 which made it fairly easy to do pressplay since framework was already built
(5) Roxio buys pressplay and got along with it 150 engineers in San Diego and the my.mp3 technology which is used for pressplay
(6) Roxio buys Napster
(7) Roxio takes pressplay, adds to it with tech all built by my ex-guys in San Diego
(8) Relaunches as Napster


So Roxio currently has a building in San Diego, one of the old MP3.com buildings full of engineers that do the work on Napster. It's like a soap opera.

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2.  Totally TMI: Survey shows information overload on the rise. A group of researchers at UC Berkeley have just released research that shows global information production grew by 30% annually from 1999 to 2002.

"All of a sudden, almost every aspect of life around the world is being recorded and stored in some information format," said [researcher Peter] Lyman. "That's a real change in our human ecology."

According to the researchers, the amount of new information stored on paper, film, optical and magnetic media has doubled in the last three years. And, new information produced in those forms during 2002 was equal in size to half a million new libraries, each containing a digitized version of the print collections of the entire Library of Congress, they added. The researchers also report that electronic channels - such as TV, radio, the telephone and the Internet - contained three and a half times more new information in 2002 than did the information that was stored.

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3.  Fox threatens to sue Fox over Simpsons. Fox News threatened to sue Fox Entertainment because a Simpsons parody of the Fox News crawler hurt Rupert Murdoch's feelings.

"Fox said they would sue the show and we called their bluff because we didn't think Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself. We got away with it," Mr Groening told National Public Radio in the US.

"But now Fox has a new rule that we can't do those little fake news crawls [tickers] on the bottom of the screen in a cartoon because it might confuse the viewers into thinking it's real news," he added on NPR's Fresh Air programme.

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4.  Google to create searchable archive of 60,000 books. Hot on the heels of Amazon's brilliant new text-search service for books, Google is getting ready to announce a similar service.

So far, Google has made agreements that give it the ability to scan as many as 60,000 titles, the report said.

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5.  America approves anti-shortness therapy. The FDA has approved human growth hormone for use in treating shortness, so that parents of short kids can hack their hormone-balance and make them into beanpoles.

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6.  Biz-card-sized PDA with Crackberry functionality.

Here's some leaked info about a new business-card-sized PDA from Citizen that supports a WiFi card (or Bluetooth, if you're some kind of pervert) for email. Rumor has it that it will be targetted to corporations at 20,000-30,000 Yen ($185-$285) each.

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(via Gizmodo)


7.  CIA's goofy spy-robots. The CIA has celebrated its 40th by showing off its misbegotten spy-robots (mechanical, eavesdropping bumblebees, dragonflies and catfish!) in a private exhibit.

In the 1970s the CIA had developed a miniature listening device that needed a delivery system, so the agency's scientists looked at building a bumblebee to carry it.

They found, however, that the bumblebee was erratic in flight, so the idea was scrapped.

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(via Gizmodo)

8.  RIP, Hal Clement. Harry Stubbs -- AKA the golden-age science-fiction legend Hal Clement -- has died. He was a gentleman, a talented writer, and he always had the time of day for beginning writers. We were on panels together at Ad Astra, the Toronto science fiction convention, a couple times, and he always made me feel like I was worth listening to. I saw him and had a brief and friendly conversation with him in September at the World Science Fiction convention. He was very old, but sharp as a tack, and friendly as ever. Goodbye, Hal.

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(Thanks, Scraps)

9.  MySociety: Technology in the public interest. MySociety, a new project from the people behind FaxYourMP and VoxPolitics, launched today. MySociety is a foundation that supports the production of low-cost technology that is produced in the public interest:

mySociety.org will support projects that have three broad attributes:

1. Founded on electronic networks. This includes the internet, mobile and telephone networks, wireless, fax and anything related.

2. Real world impact. The projects must have an impact which is above and beyond helping users to use their computers or mobiles more efficiently. We understand that there is a degree of philosophical ambiguity here (isn't faster browsing a real life impact?), so we've developed the following list of desirable outcomes from projects...

3. Low or zero cost scalability. This is key. We are looking for projects that cost the same (or virtually the same) to run for ten or a million users. This doesn't exclude the possibility of SMS based services, but it does rule out one-on-one tuition or building a site just for your community.

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10.  Atkins Hacks: Overclocking your metabolism. A Salon piece picks up on something I've been saying for a while: low-carbing is the geek diet. It's why conferences are now filled with nerds with jawlines.

Sure, if you eat fewer calories and exercise more you'll lose weight, but if, like so many dieters, you're unable to follow that advice, who cares if it's an airtight theory? "If that's science, then it's science that has yet to produce a lot of results because American asses grow rounder every day," says Doctorow. "If you ask people to reduce their caloric intake and increase their exercise, you won't get a lot of good results. It's like going around complaining that people have crappy passwords."

"The hacker ethic is not necessarily being a formally trained engineer, not necessarily being someone who understands the science. It's a reverse-engineering perspective: Sometimes you're right and sometimes you're wrong, but it's based on empiricism," says Doctorow. "That's kind of the low-carb approach, which goes against the conventional wisdom about how you do nutrition and weight loss."

Scientific studies sanctioning the approach are just starting to appear, but there's a still a sense that one is tinkering with one's own body to somewhat unknown ends. "Maybe it will make us all grow third arms and go blind in 20 years," quips Doctorow. "It's sort of hard to tell. It represents a kind of hacker's approach, grounded as it is in jack-legged engineering rather than science."

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11.  MoveOn calls for homemade CC-licensed anti-bush TV spots. MoveOn is sponsoring a competition to produce the best 30-second political TV spot showing "the truth about George Bush." The winning entry will be aired during the week of the State of the Union address -- and all entries must be opened under a Creative Commons license.

All eligible submissions will be posted on this web site and rated by visitors. The top rated ads will then be voted on by our panel of esteemed judges, including Michael Moore, Donna Brazile, Jack Black, Janeane Garofalo, and Gus Van Sant. The winning ad idea will be broadcast on television during the week of Bush's 2004 State of the Union address, and the winner will receive a recording of the ad as broadcast.

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12.  Extended iCal rant from a timezone warrior. Apple's iCal has an unbelievably annoying, poorly thought-out system for handling timezone changes. Here's how it works: when you change the timezone of your system-clock, it adjusts all of your calendar items, so if you go from Pacific to Eastern time, you noon lunch appointment is "fixed" so that it shows up at 3PM -- the Eastern equivalent of 12PM Pacific.

What is the use-case for this? If I'm in San Francisco and I'm going to Toronto in a week and I make a 6PM dinner appointment with my brother and sister-in-law, should I enter it as a 3PM appointment, knowing that my computer will adjust this to 6PM when I land in Toronto and change my system clock? And if I do, how do I avoid double-booking myself when someone else asks me to have dinner at the same time and my calendar shows that 6PM isn't booked, that's fine?

In other words, why does Apple think I want to use Greenwich Mean Time, rather than my internal, subjective frame-of-reference, as my clock?

Now, Apple has updated iCal with a "switch timezones off" feature. Which doesn't work.

Here's how it doesn't work: Create an appointment with timezone "support" switched off. Make it from noon to 1PM. Now, go to your system clock and change your timezone to one hour back. The appointment will shift back by one hour. That's with timezone "support" switched off.

If you switch the "support" on and change timezones, iCal will ask you if you want to change the timezone "display" for your appointments. Answering "no" seems to solve the problem, as all of your events will stay localized for whatever timezone you were in when you created them. What's more, whenever you create an event, it gives you the option of specifying a timezone for it and adjusts it on your behalf -- so if you create a 12PM appointment while in EST and specify that its timezone is PST, iCal will move the event back to 9AM for you.

This stinks. For starters, that's all well and good when you and I make a lunch date for noon next week in New York, but it falls down when you call me back an hour later and ask me if we can make it brunch at 2PM -- now I have to go into iCal and work out that my noon-Eastern/9AM-Pacific appointment is really a 2PM-Eastern/11AM-Pacific appointment and, rather than simply bumping a noon appointment to 2PM, I need to subtract three and move a 9AM appointment to 11AM.

It gets worse, though: say you use the timezone "support" and just don't worry about the timezones. All start/stop times stay as you entered them, provided you keep on clicking "no" every time you change zones and iCal asks you if you want to update your display. So far so good. But woe betide you if you create an appointment with an alarm -- your 9AM alarm will ring a 6AM when you're on the west coast (if you created it while your clock was set Eastern), even though it will show up as a 9AM alarm in your calendar. There's a user-hostile design decision!

It gets even worse: Just wait until you synch iCal with your PalmOS device! Last night, I moved from Mountain to Central time. I adjusted the time-zone on my Clie and my Powerbook, but asked iCal to leave all my appointments in Mountain time. Then I made the mistake of synching my Clie: iSync decided that all the appointments in my Clie were an hour behind, and moved them up an hour -- including my wake-up alarm and the alarm for my 8:30AM conference call (Thanks, Apple!).

I have toyed with the idea of leaving my timezone set to GMT or some arbitrary value, and then spoofing my clock by manually setting it forward or back whenever I get off an airplane, but this royally screws up your email (which arrives at the remote end with bogus timestamps that indicates that it was sent hours in the past or the future, depending), and messes up any kind of incremental backup that uses change-dates to determine which version of a file to overwrite.

So, after all that whingeing, I have a solution of sorts. I used to use an app called "iCalTimeZoneFixer" that would automatically adjust your calendar items when you changed timezones, undoing the damage wrought by Apple's system. But with Panther and the new iCal, this doesn't work so good anymore: about 70% of the time, running iCalTimeZoneFixer deletes all the items in my calendar.

So this morning, while I was missing my phone call because my alarm hadn't gone off, I figured out a fix of sorts. It hinges on the fact that your iCal calendar file (which you'll find in ~/Library/Calendars/$CALENDARNAME.ics") is a flat text file, that you can edit with a text-editor like BBEdit.

1. Quit iCal, then make a copy of your calendar file. Open your calendar file in a text-editor (I used BBEdit)

2. Look for the string that denotes the city/timezone your calendar is localized to, i.e. "America/Chicago" or "America/San Francisco"

3. Go to System Preferences -> Date and Time -> Time Zone and use the map interface to find out the name of your desired timezone (i.e., if you're in America/San Francisco on your way to America/Denver, America/Denver is your desired timezone)

4. Search-and-replace the existing timezone string with your desired timezone and save

5. Start iCal up again, then go back to System Peferences -> Date and Time -> Time Zone and change your timezone. iCal will "adjust" your calendar and you'll find yourself looking at the correct times again

There you have it: using a text-editor and search-and-replace, you can undo the stupidest feature I've ever seen in a calendar app.

13.  Nokia's sideways phone makes people feel silly.

Sidetalkin' is a photoblog devoted to pix of people demonstrating how ridiculous they feel talking into the new "sideways" Nokia N-Gage phone, which requires that you hold it at a right-angle to your head and talk into the thin edge.

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(via The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century)


14.  Hallowe'en, Jack Chick style.

If you're tired of celebrating Hallowe'en in a TP- and egg-free house, why not give you Jack Chick tracts instead of candy this year? Jack's got a bunch of suggestions for helping you warn your neighbors off of the evil crypto-druidic satanic costume-festival.

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(via EBA)


15.  Protection from Pornography Week. First they came for the bukkake websites, and I did not speak out because I was not a bukkake website. George W. Bush says:
Pornography can have debilitating effects on communities, marriages, families, and children. During Protection From Pornography Week, we commit to take steps to confront the dangers of pornography... We have committed significant resources to the Department of Justice to intensify investigative and prosecutorial efforts to combat obscenity, child pornography, and child sexual exploi-ta-tion [sic] on the Internet. We are vigorously prosecuting and severely punishing those who would harm our children.
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17.  Vulnerabilities: Apple Mac OS X 10.3 Unspecified Apple Quicktime Java Vulnerability. Apple has released security updates to address an unspecified vulnerability in the Quicktime Java implementation included in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther). The vendor has repo...
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18.  Feature-stoked firewalls burn brightly - Infoworld Staff
19.  New worm steals user information

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1.  Group: Amazon Book-Search Feature Changed (AP). AP - Internet retailer Amazon.com's new book-searching feature does not allow users to print pages from within books, soothing authors who feared the tool could give users too much free content at the expense of book sales.
2.  E-Mail Virus Hits Corporate Users, Heads for Homes (Reuters). Reuters - A new e-mail virus started spreading to corporate computers on Friday and is headed for home computers, but computer security experts said they expect the outbreak to wind down over the weekend.
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3.  Slashback: Diebold, Cluster, Radiation
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4.  Symantec product activation causing headaches. Company does not know what is causing the problem

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5.  Feature-stoked firewalls burn brightly - Infoworld Staff. But VPN functionality isn't so hot when products face off
6.  New worm steals user information. Intruder rated as "medium" threat
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7.  Appliance security: What's inside does matter - Infoworld Staff
8.  UpdateExpert manages patches painlessly - Infoworld Staff

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1.  Round one to Vonage; round two to the states?
2.  Senate set to debate Net tax bill
3.  Lawmaker gives thumbs-up to RIAA clampdown
4.  Setting the record straight on tariffs
5.  IBM customers need not worry over SCO
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6.  Kaspersky Updates Antivirus Apps (PC World). PC World - Version 5.0 offers improved e-mail protection for Linux users.
7.  Temporary Ban on Internet Tax Nears End (AP). AP - A five-year ban on taxing services that connect consumers to the Internet runs out Saturday while a bid to make the prohibition permanent moves slowly through Congress.
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8.  Gaming Communities Cause Of TV Ratings Decline?
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9.  Gartner: Q3 server shipments soar, HP out in front. Server shipments grew 20 percent in the third quarter as compared to last year's third quarter, as the industry rebounds to a level of growth not seen since the fourth quarter of 2000, Gartner said Thursday.
10.  IBM adds to Express integration offerings. IBM is augmenting its midmarket-aimed Express portfolio, launched a year ago, with a handful of new software products.
11.  Hospitals get an Rx with search - Infoworld Staff. Herman Baumann, executive director of strategic development of the American Hospital Association (AHA), found search when he sought to gain greater control of his sprawling organization.
12.  Search gets serious - Infoworld Staff. Like it or not, your enterprise is drowning in its own growth. The explosion of corporate content -- both in the physical form of documents, records, and data, and in the human form of personal knowledge -- has pressed companies into a crisis: Find a way to tap into and effectively leverage that knowledge, or watch your company's most vital assets wither on the vine.
13.  Lotus opens Workplace 1.1 doors - Infoworld Staff. IBM's Lotus Software will detail its vision for enterprise collaboration this week with the launch of IBM Lotus Workplace. Version 1.1 of the J2EE-based platform seeks to offer collaboration technologies as components that can be embedded into a variety of applications and business processes.
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14.  Appliance security: What's inside does matter - Infoworld Staff. Pardon me while I grep this box: Mainstream OSes in your appliances make infrastructure easier to manage, but are they safe?
15.  UpdateExpert manages patches painlessly - Infoworld Staff. St. Bernard's solution may cure the headache of Windows security updates
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16.  BugTraq: Re: Mimail.C (Denial of Service Attack). Sender: K-OTiK Security [Special-Alerts at k-otik dot com]
17.  BugTraq: New Varient Of Irc Worm Spreading. Sender: Craig Holmes [Leusent at absolut dot intellihost dot ca]
18.  Vulnerabilities: Centrinity FirstClass HTTP Server Directory Disclosure Vulnerability. FirstClass is a commercially available suite of network service utilities available from Centrinity. It is available primarily for the Microsoft Windows platform. Version...
19.  Vulnerabilities: Apache Mod_Security Module Heap Corruption Vulnerability. The Apache 2 mod_security module is designed to act as an web-based intrusion detection system. It is also designed to prevent certain types of attacks by handling and pa...
20.  Vulnerabilities: SGI IRIX NFS Exportfs Wildcard Entry Unauthorized Access Vulnerability. SGI has announced that a vulnerability has been discovered in Irix 6.5.21 systems. The problem occurs when an /etc/exports configuration file has been configured with the...
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21.  China sees export potential in home grown 3G. Hello, world!
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22.  Reactivity Unveils Firewall Appliances for Web Services Apps

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1.  Microsoft Office faces British invasion. Ability Plus Office, a productivity software package that has eked out modest market share in Europe, is heading to North America.
2.  New worm poses DoS attack threat. Security experts sound the alarm about a new mass-mailing worm that attempts to launch a denial-of-service attack.
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3.  Netopia Soars on Fund Manager Comments (AP). AP - Shares of Netopia Inc., which makes Internet connection gear and communications software, soared Friday after a respected money manager touted the company on CNBC.
4.  Mich. Internet Voting Moves Step Closer (AP). AP - Michigan Democrats are a step closer to having the option of voting for their presidential favorite over the Internet next Feb. 7 despite a challenge from opponents who say Internet voting would deny equal access to minority and low-income voters in the state.
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5.  SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL
6.  China Detains Internet Essayist for Subversion
7.  Will Google Become Another Netscape?
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8.  system.verbs.builtins.radio.trackback.ping changed on Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:37:30 GMT: If the post is not on the home page, use the permalink URL for the post in the first category in which it appears. Fixes a bug which caused trackback to fail for posts which are not on the home page.
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9.  IBM adds 10 new Express products - Infoworld Staff. IBM on Friday continued its hot pursuit of the mid-market, adding 10 new offerings to its Express line of products and services, most of which are intended to improve integration and information management capabilities in hopes of making it easier for IT shops to establish on demand computing environments.
10.  Update: Kaspersky Labs offers new Linux/Unix anti-virus software. Kaspersky Labs Ltd., a Moscow security software developer, has released a new version of its anti-virus software for mail servers running on Linux and Unix operating systems.
11.  Internet-based system aids California wildfire fight. As wildfires in California this week consumed more than 1,800 homes and ravaged southern sections of the state, Los Angeles and Ventura counties needed more aerial support in the form of National Guard C130 air tankers to help firefighters on the ground.
12.  ICANN to give new gTLDs a new push. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will launch a new initiative for enabling new generic top level domains (gTLDs), the group announced Friday after completing its week-long meeting in Carthage, Tunisia.
13.  EU cookie directive off to slow start. BRUSSELS - Internet users in Austria, Sweden, Denmark and Italy can complain to national authorities if Web sites fail to alert them about cookies the sites automatically download to their computers, an official at the European Commission said Friday.
14.  Symantec product activation causing headaches. An antipiracy feature in Symantec.'s popular Norton AntiVirus software is causing headaches for some users, who are being prompted to re-enter product activation codes for the antivirus, firewall and antispam products whenever they reboot their machines.
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15.  The New Security Paradigm
16.  CSO study: limited security adopted despite heightened awareness of threats
17.  The State of Information Security
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19.  BugTraq: Macos 10.2.8. Sender: Adam Shostack [adam at homeport dot org]
20.  BugTraq: Console Root On OSX up to 10.2.8. Sender: Jason Storm [jms at lasergun dot org]
21.  BugTraq: Virginity Security Advisory 2003-002 : Tritanium Bulletin Board - Read and write from/to internal (protected) Threads. Sender: Virginity Security [advisory at konfiweb dot de]
22.  Vulnerabilities: Apple Mac OS X Insecure File Permissions Vulnerabilities. There are multiple instances in Apple Mac OS X where files are installed or created with insecure permissions or inappropriate permissions. This could permit local attac...
23.  Vulnerabilities: kpopup Local Arguments Format String Vulnerability. kpopup is a KDE utility designed to allow hosts to transmit and receive "WinPopup" messages. It is available for Unix and Linux platforms.

It has been alleged that it i...

24.  Vulnerabilities: SH-HTTPD Character Filtering Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerability. sh-httpd is a freely available, open source web server written in shell. It is available for the Unix and Linux platforms.

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25.  Update: Kaspersky Labs offers new Linux/Unix anti-virus software
26.  The New Security Paradigm
27.  CSO study: limited security adopted despite heightened awareness of threats
28.  Yet Another Mass-Mailed Worm Is Spreading Quickly
29.  JCB Launches Fingerprint ID Trial
30.  LedForums 'Top Message' Input Validation Flaw Permits Cross-Site Scripting Attacks

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1.  Yahoo shutters enterprise software division. The Web giant has laid off an undisclosed number of employees and is folding the operations of the enterprise software division into its consumer side.
2.  Considering VoIP for the enterprise. The authors of "Online! The Book" detail what companies should focus on when considering meshing their voice and data systems--and how VoIP must improve before becoming the norm.
3.  Web patent critics spotlight old technology. The Web community hunts desperately for evidence of "prior art" to thwart Eolas' patent suit against Microsoft.
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4.  Server Sales Surge for HP, Dell, IBM (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Server sales surged in the third quarter and appear to be sustaining higher sales relative to last year, according to research-firm Gartner.
5.  What Longhorn Means for the Enterprise (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - The possibilities that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is dangling in front of the user community with its upcoming Longhorn operating system are no less than dazzling, offering a wealth of increased productivity enhancement along with a glitzy look and feel, thanks to 3-D graphics processors. But look underneath the high-tech light show and you will see an application designed to increase lock-in for Windows, Gartner research analyst Michael Silver told NewsFactor.
6.  Is There a Place for Debian in the Enterprise? (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Although Linux is increasingly popular in the enterprise, not all Linux distributions will find a place in the corporate data center. While the Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) and SuSE distributions power many enterprise servers, there are hundreds of Linux distributions, many of them free, that rarely are used in business settings.
7.  IBM Boosts Wireless-Chip Production (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - With an eye on a potentially lucrative market, IBM (NYSE: IBM) is expanding its chip-manufacturing services to focus on producing processors for cell phones, wireless networks and other wireless applications.
8.  Senate Delays Internet Tax Ban Vote (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The U.S. Senate will vote next week on a bill to permanently bar state governments from taxing Internet access.
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10.  Update: Kaspersky Labs offers new Linux/Unix anti-virus software. Software searches for, neutralizes malicious code passing through mail servers
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11.  Elsewhere: MiMail worm uses ZIP files to rampage across corporations. A NEW variant of the MiMail worm family, version C, is proliferating across the world, according to security firm iDefense. MiMail.C has a DDoS component to attack DarkPr...
12.  Elsewhere: Hackers: Businesses invite attacks. This is the second part of a silicon.com interview with two UK hackers dryice and frixion who were implicated in testimony during a recent trial over a denial of service ...
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13.  BugTraq: DoS in Plug and Play Web Server Proxy Server. Sender: Oliver Karow [Oliver dot Karow at gmx dot de]
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14.  HP e3000 users prompt reality check. Has the grief gone too far
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15.  Le spam a désormais son Forum
16.  Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for Security
17.  Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for good security
18.  Panda Pushes New Anti-Virus Solutions
19.  PointForce Security Appliance Debuts For Small Business
20.  VBS_INOR.A
21.  WORM_SPYBOT.K

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1.  Spotty display riles some PowerBook buyers. Hundreds of owners of Apple Computer's new 15-inch PowerBook G4 are complaining about an apparent design fault that causes white spots to show up on the notebook computer's display.
2.  Yahoo replaces eSpotting with Overture
3.  Apple plans to remedy Jaguar security issues. The Mac maker says that security updates included in the new Panther OS will be made available as a free update for older Mac OS X versions.
4.  OS X delivers treats and tricks. A potential refund, data-loss concerns and security questions cast a shadow on Apple's operating system.
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5.  Microsoft Adding Blogs to Longhorn?
6.  Assorted Bits of Halloween
7.  Apple to Fix Security Holes in Jaguar
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8.  BugTraq: VMware GSX Server and ESX Server OpenSSL vulnerability patches. Sender: VMware [vmware-security-alert at vmware dot com]
9.  Vulnerabilities: MacOS X Long Argv Value Kernel Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. MacOS X is a unix-based operating system developed by Apple computers. The MacOS X kernel is derived from the FreeBSD kernel.

When a command-line application is invoked,...

10.  Vulnerabilities: kpopup Privileged Command Execution Vulnerability. kpopup is a KDE utility designed to allow hosts to transmit and receive "WinPopup" messages.

It has been alleged that it is possible for local attackers to gain root pri...

11.  Vulnerabilities: Apple Mac OS X Core File Symbolic Link Vulnerability. Mac OS X is a UNIX operating system distributed and maintained by Apple.

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12.  Japanese boffins advance quantum computing. CNOT milestone
13.  IBM pounds server rivals in Q3. Sun seeing stars
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14.  Banking Lobby Feels the Heat
15.  LJWorld.com : Police defend dispatch tapes' privacy
16.  Some privacy advocates are concerned about the specter of Big Brother
17.  Advances in Video Surveillance Offer Security Options, But Raise Privacy Fears
18.  IBM Wants To Protect Your Privacy
19.  IBM Unveils Online Privacy Management Service
20.  Put Privacy on the List
21.  Financial Privacy Bill Before Senate
22.  Developers get hands on Microsoft's upcoming security technology

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1.  Mac drive makers help stamp out FireWire flaw. A number of hard drive manufacurers release patches designed to prevent a glitch that has caused some FireWire 800 drives to lose data when used with the new version of Mac OS X.
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2.  Brit teen pleads guilty to US nuclear lab hacking attack

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1.  Apple will fix security flaws in Jaguar (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. said in a statement given to MacCentral on Friday that the company would be fixing security flaws uncovered in Mac OS X Jaguar by Cambridge, MA-based security research firm @Stake earlier this week.
2.  Big Blue unveils more Express bundles (TechTarget). TechTarget - IBM is continuing its campaign to repackage technology and bundle tools, both new and old, into ready-to-go products for the midmarket customer.
3.  Timetable for New Domain Names Approved (AP). AP - The Internet's key oversight body approved a timetable Friday for expanding the online addressing system with an eye toward allowing domain names made up entirely of non-English characters.
4.  E-Mail Virus Turns PCs into Spam Machines (Reuters). Reuters - A new e-mail virus capable of turning infected personal computers into "spamming" machines emerged on Friday targeting corporate and home users in Europe and the United States, a computer security expert said.
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5.  Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
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7.  British Library archives websites. The British Library is now able to store web pages and e-mails alongside other documents in its archive.
8.  New EU laws tackle spam. New digital privacy rules come into force across the EU aimed at stemming the tide of unsolicited e-mails.
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9.  Vulnerabilities: Apple Mac OS X Panther Screen Effects Locking Latency Vulnerability. Apple Mac OS X ships with a screen locking/screensaver application called Screen Effects. When Screen Effects is activated, the console is locked and the user must re-au...
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10.  Kaspersky Labs offers new Linux/Unix anti-virus software
11.  Symantec product activation causing headaches
12.  Israelis ship eight tera-ops optical processor
13.  Multimillionaire Arrested for Hacking Into Company
14.  Product activation glitch hits Symantec
15.  Bye-Bye Data: Glitch in Panther
16.  Briton pleads guilty to US nuclear lab hacking attack
17.  Robots to gain eyes in the back of their heads
18.  U.K. plans to extradite spammers
19.  Copyright law could hurt crypto research
20.  Host-based intrusion detection key to security
21.  Kaspersky Labs offers new Linux/Unix anti-virus software
22.  Hack attacks--a public embarrassment?
23.  UK firms fare poorly in virus protection
24.  @Stake issues security advisories for OS X Jaguar
25.  Police advise on avoiding online fraud
26.  Virus-writing hackers are biggest threat
27.  FlexWATCH Network Video Server Authentication Flaw Grants Administrative Access to Remote Users

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1.  IBM expands midmarket campaign. Big Blue introduces new editions to its express software portfolio as well as hardware bundles and services products targeted at its partners and smaller businesses.
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2.  Microsoft Goes After Google (PC World). PC World - Software giant wants to acquire the search company, report says.
3.  PowerBook's white spots have owners seeing red (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Apple Computer's newest 15-inch-screen PowerBooks have mysterious white blotches showing up on the LCD screens, and annoyed owners are flocking to the Web to complain.
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4.  Mac OS X 10.3 vs. Linux
5.  Fox News Considered Suing Fox's "The Simpsons"
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6.  NEC to step up battle against PC viruses, worms. NEC Corp. is taking recent computer virus and security problems to heart and has begun notifying users when potential security problems exist on their PCs.
7.  Kaspersky Labs offers new Linux/Unix anti-virus software. Kaspersky Labs Ltd., a Moscow security software developer, has released a new version of its anti-virus software for mail servers running on Linux and Unix operating systems.
8.  Apple to address Panther, FireWire drive issues. Apple Computer Inc. has responded to concerns from its users that Mac OS X Panther disables or corrupts external FireWire hard disks. Users began reporting the issues to Apple shortly after the release of the operating system on Oct. 24.
9.  Motorola's Linux-based phone with Intel chip debuts. Motorola Inc., the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, on Friday in China launched its long-awaited mobile phone featuring both a Linux-based operating system and chips from Intel Corp.
10.  IBM case highlights health fears in computer industry. Silicon Valley owes its might to front-line clean room workers such as James Moore and Alida Hernandez who worked for IBM Corp. in the 1970s and 1980s. Next week, a jury trial begins to determine whether that work caused health problems that almost killed them.
11.  Report: Microsoft courting Google for possible takeover. Microsoft Corp. has reportedly approached Google Inc. about a potential buyout of the search technology company.
12.  Symantec product activation causing headaches. An anti-piracy feature in Symantec Corp.'s popular Norton AntiVirus software is causing headaches for some users, who are being prompted to re-enter product activation codes for the anti-virus, firewall, and anti-spam products whenever they reboot their machines.

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13.  Sober virus in the wild but slow-moving. E-mail borne virus classified as 'low-profiled'
14.  Kaspersky Labs offers new Linux/Unix anti-virus software. Software searches for, neutralizes malicious code passing through mail servers
15.  Symantec product activation causing headaches. Company does not know what is causing the problem
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17.  BugTraq: SUSE Security Announcement: thttpd (SuSE-SA:2003:044). Sender: Thomas Biege [thomas at suse dot de]
18.  BugTraq: WU-FTPD 2.6.2 Freezer. Sender: Angelo Rosiello [angelo dot rosiello at katamail dot com]
19.  BugTraq: Mimail.C. Sender: Alan [alan dot tennent at y3kgroup dot com]
20.  BugTraq: VMWare GSX Server Authentication Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability - Update. Sender: Darryl Swofford [dswofford at kpmg dot com]
21.  Vulnerabilities: InfronTech WebTide Directory/File Disclosure Vulnerability. Infrontech WebTide is a J2EE Web Application Server.

Infrontech WebTide is prone to a vulnerability that may permit remote attackers to gain access to sensitive informat...

22.  Vulnerabilities: Bytehoard Files.INC.PHP Root Directory Disclosure Vulnerability. Bytehoard is a file storage/transfer application that is implemented in PHP.

Bytehoard is prone to a directory disclosure attack. Remote attackers may submit a request t...

23.  Vulnerabilities: Fastream NetFile Error Message Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. Fastream NetFile is a FTP and web server for Microsoft Windows Platforms.

A vulnerability has been reported to present in the software that may allow a remote attacker t...

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24.  Police advise on avoiding online fraud
25.  iWeb Server '%5C' Input Validation Flaw Discloses Files on the System to Remote Users
26.  Gator change de nom
27.  Le Vietnam passe à l'Open Source
28.  Nom de code : Gaia
29.  La sécurité informatique est devenue la priorité des entreprises européennes
30.  Rappel sur les pare-feu
31.  Première version de Palladium
32.  YELLOW ALERT: WORM_MIMAIL.C

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1.  HP winds down venerated 3000 servers. Although the company will no longer sell the systems, it plans to continue to offer customer support. Also: Loyal HP 3000 fans band to help each other out.
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2.  G3/OS X class action settlement details posted (MacCentral). MacCentral - Details regarding the pending settlement of a class action lawsuit filed against Apple on behalf of G3 owners who have upgraded to Mac OS X are now available online.
3.  Motorola Launches Linux-Based Phone (PC World). PC World - Handset includes audio player, IM app, and built-in camera.
4.  New on DVD (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Looney Tunes Golden Collection, * * * 1/2 stars (out of four), 1940-59, Warner, unrated, $65 and under
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6.  Elsewhere: Copyright law could hurt crypto research. The new European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD), which comes into force today, could adversely hit research into areas such as stronger cryptography, threatening progre...
7.  Elsewhere: Briton pleads guilty to US nuclear lab hacking attack. A teenage computer student has pleaded guilty to hacking into IT systems at an American nuclear weapons laboratory.

Joseph James McElroy, 18, a first-year undergraduate ...

8.  News: Apple upgrades AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi security. The Register By Tony Smith [tony dot smith at theregister dot co dot uk]
9.  News: Cliff Stanford denies hacking Redbus. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk]
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10.  Vulnerabilities: Novell PMAP.NLM Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Novell has reported that the PMAP.NLM component of NetWare/ZenWorks is prone to a buffer overrun vulnerability, which is reported to result in a server abend. This condi...
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11.  Pensioner accused of AUS $5m Nigerian scam. 'I am the Australian headquarters for those scams'
12.  The conspiracy against our in-boxes. Opinion Why trusted bulk email is an oxymoron
13.  Israelis ship eight tera-ops optical processor. Let there be light
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14.  Gentoo update for apache2
15.  The conspiracy against our in-boxes
16.  CanSecWest/core04 Call For Papers

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1.  NEC Steps Up PC Protection (PC World). PC World - Users will be notified when software patches are available.
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2.  Google Considering Merger With Microsoft
3.  Microsoft's new CLI
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4.  'X-ray software' sees the past. Advanced software combines old and new aerial images to see through buildings and reveal the past.
5.  Hunt for 'Napster of good causes'. Good ideas that use technology to improve life offline are being sought by a new non-profit organisation.
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6.  CanSecWest/core04 Call For Papers
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7.  Pensioner accused of AUS$5m Nigerian scam. 'I am the Australian headquarters for those scams'
8.  Yahoo! takes! Overture! to! Europe!. Searchlight
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9.  SuSE update for thttpd
10.  Cliff Stanford denies hacking Redbus
11.  WORM_MIMAIL.C

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1.  Gateway aims for retail shelves. With fewer customers buying directly from the hardware maker, Gateway looks to a host of other retail outlets to push its lineup of computers and home electronics.
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2.  Yahoo Taps Overture as Europe Search Partner (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. Web firm Yahoo Inc. said on Friday it had appointed Overture Services Inc. for the provision of advertiser-sponsored search links on its European Web sites, replacing its longtime partner Espotting Media.
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3.  MacOS X 10.3 vs. Linux
4.  RIAA Calls Settlements Proof that Education is Working
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5.  BSkyB facing investor protest. A UK pension fund body calls for the removal of the BSkyB director in charge of finding a new chief executive for the company.
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6.  WM-data and Novo: finishing off the competition. Switching horses
7.  Cliff Stanford denies hacking Redbus. Demon founder under police investigation
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8.  31 Oct W32/Mimail-C

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1.  Microsoft's new best friends. News.com's Charles Cooper says the Eolas dispute has convinced even Microsoft bashers that what's good for Bill Gates is good for the rest of the PC industry.
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2.  UK Copyright Law Goes Into Effect, 9 EU States to Go (Reuters). Reuters - A new copyright law designed to curb the unauthorized exchange of music, film and software on the Internet went into force in Britain on Friday, reigniting the debate on the proper way to tackle rampant digital piracy.
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3.  'Park and ring' scheme launched. Edinburgh becomes the first city in the UK to let drivers pay for parking by mobile phone.
4.  Laptop bags go from geek to chic. Fashion designer Julien MacDonald has taken the geek out of laptop bags for the wireless working woman.
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5.  News briefs - Infoworld Staff. Microsoft Rides Whitehorse
6.  Longhorn backs thick client model - Infoworld Staff. Call it the revenge of the Windows client -- or the revelation of Microsoft's three new technology pillars.

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7.  Antispam advocates question Senate bill. Critics say the CAN-SPAM Act will do little to stem the tide of spam
8.  Sober virus in the wild but slow-moving. E-mail borne virus classified as 'low-profiled'

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9.  NEC to step up battle against PC viruses, worms. Preinstalled software monitors IE and warns users when settings have been changed
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10.  Red-Team Application Security Testing

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1.  Worms and toasters turn up heat on corporate security
2.  Q&A: Bruce Schneier, founder and CTO of Counterpane
3.  Microsoft shows next-generation security code
4.  Host-based intrusion detection key to security
5.  Linux security: tips from the experts
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6.  Worms and toasters turn up heat on corporate security
7.  Q&A: Bruce Schneier, founder and CTO of Counterpane
8.  Microsoft shows next-generation security code
9.  Host-based intrusion detection key to security
10.  Linux security: tips from the experts

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1.  Non-English Search Tool Takes the Web World Wider (Reuters). Reuters - A technology for finding Web sites by typing words into the address bar of a browser is taking off in South Korea after failing in the United States, and could make the Internet more accessible for non-English speakers.
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2.  World drowning in oceans of data. The equivalent of a 30-foot pile of books of data is produced for everyone on Earth annually, a study finds.
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3.  SCO introduces 'resume download' feature. It's Linux, with strings attached
4.  Q3 sales jump lifts VIA out of the red. Still losing money for year as a whole
5.  'Social Hardware' nears with Bluetooth iPod. It's what you do with friends
6.  Light at end of the tunnel switched back on for IT contractors. Perms in doldrums (mostly)
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7.  U.K. Plans to Extradite Spammers. Calling the flood of junk e-mail a criminal threat rather than a mere irritant, British lawmakers hatch a plan to bring overseas bulk e-mailers to trial.
8.  Second Solar Storm Blasts Earth. The sun takes another shot at the blue planet, sending a second coronal mass ejection our way in as many days. The latest flare moved faster but was less intense than the first blast.
9.  New Stem Cell Lines Developed. A Harvard biology professor has created 17 new stem cell lines to share with other scientists. He hopes to encourage stem cell research in the face of U.S. legislation that restricted work on stem cells to a small number of cell lines.
10.  RIAA Sues 80 More Swappers. Another round of lawsuits, with warnings beforehand this time, is filed by the music industry against people it says have been sharing songs illegally on the Internet. By Katie Dean.
11.  DNA, Now in XXX-Large. Researchers wanted to be able to more easily see DNA in testing, so the folks at Stanford made it glow. By Kristen Philipkoski.
12.  Cloned Food OK by FDA. The FDA green-lights meat from cloned animals for human consumption. An official decision on whether companies can sell it is due in January.
13.  BBC Offers Power to the People. The Beeb launches iCan, a site for citizens to get government to fill in potholes and build sidewalks. Some call it real e-democracy. Others say it will not address real issues, like war and peace. By Kari L. Dean.
14.  The New Road to the White House. The blog may be the first innovation from the Internet to make a real difference in election politics. But to see just why requires a bit of careful attention. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine.
15.  No More Ringing in Your Ears. If it's popular in Korea, you know it will wind up here. Your calls to a cell phone may never be the same, thanks to ring-back tones, which play music instead of bells when you connect. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe.
16.  Banking Lobby Feels the Heat. California's devastating wildfires give privacy advocates a reprieve by delaying debate over a bill that would almost certainly have derailed California's pending financial privacy bill. By Ryan Singel.
17.  Bye-Bye Data: Glitch in Panther. Apple's Panther has a serious bug that wipes out external FireWire drives during the upgrade procedure. Worse, many Mac users are backing up to external drives before upgrading. Some are losing everything. By Leander Kahney.
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18.  Firms tap encyption over complex security
19.  Security flaws make Macs vulnerable to attacks
20.  Expect more intrusive IT regulation, security chiefs warned
21.  Australian head of Nigerian scam caught
22.  Apple upgrades AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi security
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23.  Telindus devoile les resultats de son enquête sur les nouvelles tendances du marche de la securite
24.  Firms tap encyption over complex security
25.  Security flaws make Macs vulnerable to attacks
26.  Expect more intrusive IT regulation, security chiefs warned
27.  Australian head of Nigerian scam caught
28.  Apple upgrades AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi security

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1.  Tokyo Edge: Gadgets That Trick and Treat (PC World). PC World - Cell phones that speak dog, tiny digicams, and all-in-one entertainment devices debut.
2.  Microsoft Made Advances Toward Google - Report (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O), seeking a foothold in the Internet search business, approached Google within the last two months to discuss a partnership or even a merger, The New York Times said on Friday.
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3.  Intel Pentium 4 Extremely Expensive Edition to ship Monday. Systems too
4.  Apple upgrades AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi security. Adds WPA support
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5.  OpenBSD update for httpd

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1.  'X-ray software' uncovers the past. Advanced software combines old and new aerial images to see through buildings and reveal the past.

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1.  China Detains Internet Essayist for Subversion (Reuters). Reuters - Chinese authorities have detained a civil servant, whose essays are banned by Beijing on the Internet, on charges of subversion, sources said on Friday, part of an intensified government crackdown on online dissent.
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2.  Linux Advisory Watch - October 31st 2003
3.  Passwords are the key
4.  The 'Low Voltage' hackers
5.  Security pros can leverage spam-busting with management
6.  Tipping the security scales
7.  Q&A: Bruce Schneier founder and chief technology officer of Counterpane
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8.  Minimize your ROI with IBM. Less is... less
9.  BOFH and the government contract. Episode 26 The name's Bofh. James Bofh...

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2.  BugTraq: IE bug: loading HTML under a graphic file name - summary. Sender: Gadi Evron [ge at egotistical dot reprehensible dot net]

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1.  Microsoft and Google: Partners or Rivals?. Google recently began meeting with bankers to prepare for its initial public offering as it was still exploring a merger with Microsoft. By John Markoff and Andrew Ross Sorkin.
2.  A Critical Study, Minus the Criticism. A report that harshly criticized the Justice Department's diversity efforts was heavily blacked out on the agency's site but not for long. By David Johnston and Eric Lichtblau.
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3.  Quantum Computing Breakthrough in Japan
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4.  Small business owners disagree on spam approach. WASHINGTON - Small-business owners disagreed Thursday on what action the U.S. Congress should take on spam, with some saying unsolicited e-mail should be banned and others defending it as a valuable marketing tool.
5.  HP retires venerable e3000 midrange servers. Hewlett-Packard will stop selling its e3000 midrange server on Friday, the company has confirmed.
6.  BMC brings SmartDBA to the mainframe. BMC Software Inc. will soon release the first of its SmartDBA tools for IBM Corp.'s DB2 mainframe database, marking what it called a significant milestone in its effort to provide a single console for managing mixed database environments.

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