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UMaine launches free culture/code/knowledge service. The University of Maine has launched "Still Water," a copyright-free zone for posting and sharing images, music, videos, programming code and texts.
"We are training revolutionaries -- not by indoctrinating them with dogma but by exposing them to a process in which sharing culture rather than hoarding it is the norm," said Joline Blais, a professor of new media at the University of Maine and Still Water co-director.
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EA's geeky recruiting campaign. 
Games publisher Electronic Arts Canada is running these amazingly geeky billboards that translate as "Now Hiring."
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(Thanks, Pete!)
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Once More, With Hobbits: Musical Buffy meets LotR. Chris sez, "In honor of Return of the King we've created Once More, With Hobbits. This combines the Buffy: the Vampire Slayer musical episode with Lord of the Rings.
ORC:
I've been having a bad bad day
Come on Gimli put that axe away
I'm asking you please no!
You've my sincere apologies
You've got the killing expertise
You'll cut through my collar like cheese
I'm begging let me go!
You have got me on my knees
You could slaughter me with ease
I really hate those fucking trees
GIMLI:
Forty-two, Master Legolas!
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(Thanks, Chris) |
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MSNBC video only for Windows. MSNBC is no longer supporting MacOS or Linux with its free video. They sent Chris an email that said, "MSNBC Video now requires Windows 98SEor higher operating system, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5or higher, Windows Media Player 9 or later, Macromedia Flash Player 7or higher, and Microsoft .NET Passport. The MSNBC Video content is currently unable to support Macintosh or other operating systems."
(Thanks, Chris!) |
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Dalek Xmas. 
A little holiday spirit: Daleks eating Christmas dinner.
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(Thanks, David!)
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Italian/English poem-collage-photo-blog. 
Delightful photoblog: snapshots of poems strung together in haphazard kidnapper script; Italian and English. Beautiful visual style; odd, quirky mood. Link (Grazie, Jean-Luc). Update:Gamethyme points out the similarity between this blog and A Softer World, "simultaneously haunting and hilarious."
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QTVR: Jehova's witness tub-baptism. 
QTVR enthusiast and photographer Peter Murphy says: "Sydney is full of thousands of Jehovah Witnesses at the moment, here for a big Convention. My panorama shows their mass baptism ceremony today at the Olympic Stadium here -- Jehovah Witnesses are into full immersion baptism." Link
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Evangeline: "Interview with a Child cyber-Prostitute in TSO". Noted without comment. The anonymity-requesting BoingBoing buddy who forwards this, then ducks and scampers away in a hurry, asks "What subculture is this? Jeez louise!" Snip:
In the following interview, notorious sim Evangeline goes back to her early days in Alphaville, and claims to have worked as a cyber-prostitute and then to have been a madam for various cyber-brothels under the guise of her sims Roxy, Tori, Fanki and then Dorian Merrill, claiming that at times she made the equivalent of $50 US per trick from her customers. She claims to still being a minor and hints that some of her customers have been Maxis employees. She discusses the conflagration with Mia Wallace, and claims to have guessed Mia's password and trashed her property and account. Finally she discusses her current policy of newbie-humiliation on her Free Money for Newbies property, currently number 1 in Alphaville's welcome category. In particular, she discusses her new game of locking newbies "in the freezer" and "caging" dark skinned avatars and calling them "monkeys" and also calling them "ugly" because one can't see their eyes.
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NASA off-world Wi-Fi simulation success. NASA researchers have conducted a successful test of Wi-Fi networking in a remote location to simulate terrain on another planet. BoingBoing pal Mike O points us to part of this article which states "Wi-Fi technology currently rates in the 1-to-3 range on NASA's 10-point technology readiness scale," and asks, "Does anyone know more about this scale? Is it an official thing or just a soundbite for the article?"
During a September field test at Meteor Crater, Ariz., NASA used Wi-Fi cells from Tropos Networks to measure a reliable 1 megabit/sec of solid data throughput at a range of 1.3 miles. A three-node network of Tropos 5110 Wi-Fi cells was set up over a two-square mile hot zone at Meteor Crater. Engineers used a laptop computer inside a moving vehicle, with no external antenna, and successfully transmitted data from a remote location through two nodes back to the base camp computer. Though NASA has no current plans to send Wi-Fi technology into space, researchers are examining Wi-Fi as a possible future communications support to interplanetary expeditions, including flights to Mars.
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Update: Joe Crawford points us to background on the NASA scale here. |
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Web Zen: Holiday gift guide zen. 
design object |
print club |
acme bags |
pixel blocks |
hand pressed prints |
bleibtreu bags |
pimp cups |
shag |
technokitty bags |
catapult watch |
tiki art |
threadless |
jelly bath |
zakka |
kid robot |
happy tree friends |
chaoskitty |
ultimate wish list
web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank).
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Hungary takes aim at phonecam snapshots. The data protection ombudsman of Hungary ruled last week that phonecam users who transmit pictures of people who are unaware of being photographed may be prosecuted for privacy violation -- as could their mobile service providers.
Ombudsman Attila Peterfalvi said he started an investigation after one of Hungary's three mobile providers ran an advertisement saying: "If you see a good-looking girl or guy on the street, don't hesitate to share the aesthetic experience with your friends via MMS." Mobile phones, kitted out with small cameras used in multimedia messaging (MMS), are selling fast in Hungary, where mobile penetration is a high 75.2 percent.
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Softcore Chinese flower girl photos -- on Xinhua. 
Bruce Sterling muses aloud, "Holy macaroni. Why is the official news agency of the People's Republic of China posting a whole bunch of nude body-painting? Have they lost all their little gray Mao suits over at Xinhua? What gives? A couple of these pics are Veruschka Lehndorff art-shots from the mid-1980s. Some official Chinese web-guy has been collecting these things. What could this be about?" Link
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Cool bodypaint photo gallery. 
Link (thanks Invisible Cowgirl, via cupofchica)
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Nerd porn: "Lord of the G-Strings". Fleshbot is on a LOTR-themed rampage lately. See a slew of related posts over the last few days. Of particular note, this video:
We'll let the box cover copy speak for itself: "In the mythical realm of Diddle Earth, diminutive yet delectable Throbbit Dildo Saggins is sent by Smirnoff the Wizard to destroy the legendary G-String - most powerful weapon in the land."
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Wrist-mounted catapault watch. 
The Catapault Watch fires BBs and similar projectiles from your wrist.
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(Thanks, Samari Chop!)
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Calvin and Hobbes
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Calvin and Hobbes for 15 Dec 1992.  |
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Calvin and Hobbes for 16 Dec 1992.  |
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Dilbert
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Dilbert for 16 Dec 2003.  |
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Non Sequitur
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Non Sequitur for 16 Dec 2003.  |
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User Friendly
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User Friendly for 16 Dec 2003.  |
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New York Times: Technology
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Motorola Selects Former Sun Executive to Be Its New Chief. Motorola said today that it had named Edward J. Zander, former president and chief operating officer at Sun Microsystems, as chairman and chief executive. By Kenneth N. Gilpin. |
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President Signs Legislation Aiming to Stem Flood of Spam. President Bush signed a highly anticipated law this morning to restrict junk commercial e-mail, which now accounts for more than half of all e-mail traffic. By Jennifer 8. Lee. |
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EMC Acquires Software Maker for $635 Million. The EMC Corporation took a significant step to broaden its business with the purchase of VMware for $635 million in cash. By Steve Lohr. |
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Accord Lets First Data Acquire Concord EFS. The First Data Corporation said that it had reached a late agreement to settle a government lawsuit blocking its planned $7 billion acquisition of Concord EFS. By Jennifer Bayot. |
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Oracle Quarterly Earnings Beat Estimates by a Penny. Oracle reported better-than-expected earnings because of new licenses for its software and increased corporate spending. By Laurie J. Flynn. |
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Camera Down the Hole, and the World Follows It. Who invaded not only Saddam Hussein's spider-hole, but also his private lice check? A combat crew, armed with guns and high-resolution digital video cameras. By Virginia Heffernan. |
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Phone Service Over Internet Revives Talk of Regulation. The debate over government involvement in the Internet is likely to escalate now that the technology is poised to threaten phone service. By Matt Richtel. |
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Crusaders Against Junk Faxes Brandish Lawsuits. Steve Kirsch, a wealthy Silicon Valley philanthropist and entrepreneur, has been waging a crusade to stamp out the unwelcome form of advertising known to some as junk faxes. By Lisa Napoli. |
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CNET News.com - Front Door
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Thin clients and private schools |
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McDonald's plays it cool on hot spots |
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CollabNet CFO to boost overseas work. The company, which sells tools to aid cooperative programming projects, names its first chief financial officer as part of a plan to profit from overseas software development. |
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Sun settles export violation charges. The server maker agrees to pay $291,000 in fines to settle U.S. Commerce Department charges that the it violated rules in exporting equipment to China and Egypt. |
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Server powers standardizing management. The most powerful server companies join to standardize how the networked machines are managed, a move that could ease administrator burdens and the arrival of new technologies. |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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Student Computer Plan Angers Minn. Voters (AP). AP - A plan to provide junior high school students with laptop computers generated enough anger among voters to elect two write-in school board candidates, but the laptop critics say they won't move to sever a deal with Apple Computer. |
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Observer - US (FT.com). FT.com - Zander, former president of Sun Microsystems, was on Tuesday named chief executive of Motorola. And he immediately extended an olive branch to Mike Zafirovski, the internal candidate he beat for the job. |
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Oracle Reports Income Rises 15 Percent (AP). AP - With an upbeat financial report, Oracle Corp. is among the latest prominent high-tech bellwether bolstering a growing sense of optimism that companies are slowly starting to spend on new business software. |
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Novell Launches Services For Enterprise Linux (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Novell's Nterprise Linux Services 1.0 release brings a set of software services from NetWare to Linux servers to help enterprises adopt the open-source operating system. |
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Microsoft SPOT Watches Hit Stores (PC World). PC World - Wristwatches with wireless connectivity coming next month. |
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HP to Provide Laptops to Mich. Schools (AP). AP - A state board on Tuesday approved Hewlett-Packard Co. as the provider of laptop computers and other technical services for a statewide sixth-grade program. |
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LookSmart Unveils Integrated Internet Marketing Tool (Reuters). Reuters - LookSmart Ltd. (LOOK.O), aiming
to compensate for the upcoming loss of its largest customer,
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O), on Tuesday unveiled a new, integrated
product it hopes will give the company a boost in the lucrative
and competitive Web search advertising sector. |
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The Free PC Makes a Comeback (PC World). PC World - British company hopes users will watch ads in exchange for a computer. |
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Japan's DoCoMo Trials Ultra-Handy Smart-Chip Phone (Reuters). Reuters - Imagine a future where a cell phone
serves as a key to open doors, an identification card and an
electronic wallet to buy everything from plane tickets to a
compact disc or a can of soda. |
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Philips Will Launch Open Digital Media System Soon (Reuters). Reuters - Philips Electronics (PHG.AS)(PHG.N)
said on Tuesday it was six months away from launching a system
against illegal copying that will allow consumers to play
digital video and music on any digital media player. |
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Microsoft Revamps for Next Major Windows Release (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday that it
is reshuffling its Windows business and creating a new group
that would dedicate itself to developing Windows, the world's
largest software maker's core operating system. |
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Bush Signs First National Anti-Spam Bill Into Law (Reuters). Reuters - President Bush signed the first
national anti-spam bill into law on Tuesday, outlawing some of
the most annoying forms of junk e-mail and setting jail time
and multimillion dollar fines for violators. |
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Cultured Perl: Fun with MP3 and Perl, Part 1 |
| 47. |
Interview with Mandrake Linux Founder Gael Duval |
| 48. |
Have You Fought Your ISP Over Bandwidth Limits? |
| 49. |
Spidering Hacks |
| 50. |
Company Claims Patent on CD Writing |
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U.S. Spam Law to Take Effect Jan. 1 |
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DoCoMo Starts Cell Phone Smart Card Trial |
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Intertrust Plans Universal DRM System |
| 54. |
Xandros version 2 |
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X-Prize Progress Update |
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Hack the Planet
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EE Times: Peribit unwraps details of latency-reduction method. TCP hacks make me nervous, but I guess that's why they get the big bucks. |
| 57. |
The Register: EMC eyes the server with $635 million VMware buy. |
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O'Grady's PowerPage: Sony Ericsson T630: Getting Online with GPRS and Bluetooth. Maybe now I can get online with my P800. |
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AaronSw has a new page about alternative compensation systems for the music industry (although I only see one system there). Are there any opt-in alternatives, or is that impossible for some reason? |
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Steve Gillmor: BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution. BitTorrent as it is today is not suitable for distributing RSS feeds, because the centralized tracker uses just as much bandwidth as a modern Web server. P2P news delivery is a great concept, but to make BitTorrent suitable for RSS you'd have to make enough changes that you might as well start from scratch. I'm still holding out for Newswire as the solution. |
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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New chief appointed at Motorola. The struggling telecoms firm names former Sun Microsystems executive Edward Zander as its new chairman and chief executive. |
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Oracle's profit, outlook improves. Software giant Oracle posts a profit and says the outlook for earnings is better than many analysts had predicted. |
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Video phones show slow take off. UK's first third-generation network, 3, says it expects to attract more users, despite a poor first year. |
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Apple store tops 25 million tunes. Apple's online music store hits a new high, having sold more than 25 million songs since its launch in April. |
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Cyber threats risk net's future. Developing nations are grappling with how deal with security threats as more and more people go online. |
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Bush signs first US anti-spam law. Americans will have the right to refuse unwanted e-mails - but critics say a new US law could lead to more spam. |
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Microsoft abandons older Windows. Microsoft's decision to withdraw older software from shelves will hit thousands of firms still using the programs. |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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WiredRed rolls out e/pop Web Conferencing - Infoworld Staff. WiredRed Software on Monday shipped its e/pop Web Conferencing Server, which combines multi-point audio and synchronous video conferencing with desktop and application sharing. |
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Oracle earnings up on strengthening market. Citing a strengthened competitive position and an improving economy, Oracle reported fiscal second-quarter results on Monday that exceeded its own guidance and hit the upper end of Wall Street expectations. |
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Macromedia providing video-streaming assist - Infoworld Staff. Macromedia on Tuesday is joining with VitalStream to provide outsourced on-demand video-streaming services, to lessen the load of video bandwidth on users' networks. |
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Zander to head Motorola. Ed Zander, former president of Sun Microsystems Inc., is returning to the corporate IT world as chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Inc. |
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Toshiba prepares coin-size hard-disk drive. Toshiba Corp. plans to begin sample production next year of a coin-size hard-disk drive that can hold up to 3G bytes of data, the company said Tuesday. |
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Samsung planning highest capacity flash memory yet. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to shortly begin mass production of a flash memory chip that could enable memory cards and portable electronic devices to offer greater data storage area, the company said Tuesday. |
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Samsung to almost double PDP production in 2004. South Korea's Samsung SDI Co. is planning to almost double its production of Plasma Display Panels (PDPs) next year, the company said Tuesday. |
| 75. |
T-Mobile, iPass team to offer Wi-Fi roaming. Wireless network provider T-Mobile USA Inc. has signed an agreement allowing corporate users of virtual network operator iPass Inc. to access its public Wi-Fi network in the U.S. |
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Server vendors launch management initiative. Intel Corp., Dell Inc., IBM Corp., and Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday announced plans to jointly work with an industry organization to standardize the way servers are managed, the companies announced Monday. |
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Foundation opens door to Net and knowledge. Amid all the talk about bringing computers and Internet access to the digital "have-nots" during the global Net summit in Geneva last week, one group was showing participants how it's already delivering the goods. |
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InfoWorld: Security
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Check Point to acquire Zone Labs - Infoworld Staff. On a day when EMC and BMC Software announced their own intended acquisitions, Check Point Software Technologies also got in
the game with the $205 million acquisition of Zone Labs. |
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LinuxSecurity.com
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Linux Security Week - December 15th 2003 |
| 80. |
Year of spam blamed on Sobig |
| 81. |
Study Finds Fewer Flaws in Open-source Code |
| 82. |
Firewall: Migrating to Astaro Security Linux |
| 83. |
Apache and SSL |
| 84. |
Windows-style security hell stalks Mac OS X? Yeah, you wish... |
| 85. |
Red Hat: apache Multiple (minor) vulnerabilities |
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Red Hat: lftp Buffer overflow vulnerability |
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SecurityFocus News
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Elsewhere: BMC Software buys Network Associates unit for $47 million. NEW YORK -- Network Associates Inc. said it agreed to sell its help-desk software unit, Magic Solutions, to BMC Software Inc. for $47 million as part of an effort to focu... |
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Elsewhere: Bush set to OK spam bill--but critics not convinced. President Bush is expected to sign the "CAN-SPAM" bill Tuesday, creating the first federal law regulating spam, a move backers say would be a major step in the war agains... |
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Infocus: Nessus, Part 2: Scanning. This article, the second in the series, provides direction through the scanning process with Nessus, a powerful open source vulnerability scanner. |
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News: Check Point buys Zone Labs. The Register By Drew Cullen [drew dot cullen at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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News: 'Gouging' memo leaves Diebold red-faced. The Register By Andrew Orlowski [andrew dot orlowski at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities
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BugTraq: Re: Self-signed certs unrestricted in Windows XP. Sender: Kurt Seifried [bt at seifried dot org] |
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BugTraq: [RHSA-2003:320-01] Updated httpd packages fix Apache security vulnerabilities. Sender: [bugzilla at redhat dot com] |
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BugTraq: RE: Self-signed certs unrestricted in Windows XP. Sender: Menashe Eliezer [menashe at finjan dot com] |
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BugTraq: Re:Re: SQL Injection Vuln In osCommerce 2.2-MS1. Sender: JeiAr [security at gulftech dot org] |
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The Register
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On the Inland Revenue EDS sacking. Letters Finger pointing |
| 97. |
European RIAA-style anti-file swap lawsuits 'inevitable'. Industry bigwig talks tactics |
| 98. |
Motorola taps former Sun prez Zander as new chief. CEO at long last |
| 99. |
Warning: lack of technology may harm your prospects. Digital divide leaves underprivileged stranded |
| 100. |
Roxio first target as CD-R patent owner threatens industry. Optima claims ownership of key burning technique |
| 101. |
Gov.UK touts Net access for all by 2008. Say hello to the Digital Inclusion Panel |
| 102. |
MS moves into 'get Longhorn on the road' mode. That time of the dev cycle again, people |
| 103. |
Friends of Aimster back Supreme Court bid. Set P-to-P free |
| 104. |
Windows-style security hell stalks Mac OS X? Yeah, you wish.... Infowarrior's Richard Forno spells out the differences for the hard of thinking |
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Intel's release of Itanium replacement is imminent - analyst. 2004: "The Year of x86-64-bit" |
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Wired News
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New Gun Shoots Around Corners. Need to nail a bad guy without exposing yourself to unfriendly fire? A new weapon -- soon to be in the hands of Israeli fighters and maybe U.S. police teams -- could change the rules of urban combat. |
| 107. |
Saddam's DNA Test a Fast Job. While most commercial labs need about a month to develop a DNA profile from a sample, experts say a DNA test like the one that helped confirm Saddam Hussein's identity can be completed in as little as 12 hours. |
| 108. |
Soon, Marketing Will Follow You. Ads that follow people around and morph themselves based on computerized demographic profiles aren't the stuff of science fiction anymore. A few researchers work to bring the era of omnipresent marketing closer to reality. By Daniel Terdiman. |
| 109. |
The Englishman Who Wanted to Fly. The Wright Brothers get all the credit, especially this week, the 100th anniversary of their legendary flight. But historians say acclaim also is due Sir George Cayley, creator of a flying machine that predates Kitty Hawk by 50 years. By Noah Shachtman. |
| 110. |
Group Seeks E-Voting Standards. Election officials, voting machine makers, computer security professionals and voting activists meet to discuss ways to bolster confidence in electronic voting systems. Kim Zetter reports from Gaithersburg, Maryland. |
| 111. |
The Seven Days of Creation. The president of the United States wants to ban it. A lab in Massachusetts is working to perfect it. The inside story of a human cloning experiment. By Wendy Goldman Rohm from Wired magazine. |
| 112. |
Wi-Fi Grows, but Profits Don't. As wireless Internet access becomes available in more and more places, businesses struggle to squeeze money from their networks. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe. |
| 113. |
Copyright Doesn't Cover This Site. As debate over the legality of online file trading rages on, a University of Maine department takes a contrarian approach to copyright protection, creating a network where content is open to all. By Michelle Delio. |
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Help Net Security
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Stop! ID thief! |
| 115. |
SCO attacks keep coming back |
| 116. |
Xmas virus on the cards |
| 117. |
"Sombria:" a witness to potential cyber crimes |
| 118. |
Faster, more secure WiFi |
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NewsIsFree: Security
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| 119. |
Microsoft's plans for making XP more secure |
| 120. |
Aardvark Topsites 4.1.0 Vulnerabilities |
| 121. |
Red Hat update for lftp |
| 122. |
Invision Power Board SQL Injection Vulnerability |
| 123. |
Invision Power Top Site List SQL Injection Vulnerability |
| 124. |
Devs Get First Crack at XP SP2 |
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hydra-2.6.tar.gz |
| 126. |
arptoxin.exe |
| 127. |
President Signs Antispam Law |
| 128. |
Re: Buffer overflow/privilege escalation in MacOS X |
| 129. |
DoS-Attacken gegen SCO dauern an |
| 130. |
Datenklau per Funk |
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Apache and SSL |
| 132. |
Immunix: lftp Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Red Hat: apache Multiple (minor) vulnerabilities |
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
