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NYC crosswalk buttons have been deactivated for years. Most of NYC's push-to-cross traffic-light buttons have been deactivated for years, but still function as a placebo. More interesting, is the glimpse into the history of computer-aided traffic routing and the "Barnes Dance" afforded by this NYT article:
Most of the buttons scattered through the city, mainly outside of Manhattan, are relics of the 1970's, before computers began tightly choreographing traffic signal patterns on major arteries. They were installed at a time when traffic was much lighter, said Michael Primeggia, deputy commissioner of traffic operations for the city's Transportation Department.
The first "semi-actuated signal," as they are called by traffic engineers, is believed to have appeared in the city in 1964, a brainstorm of the legendary traffic commissioner, Henry Barnes, the inventor of the "Barnes Dance," the traffic system that stops all vehicles in the intersection and allows pedestrians to cross in every direction at the same time. Barnes was also instrumental in completing the one-way conversion of major avenues in New York.
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(via Paul Boutin) |
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Disturbing iPod ad remix. 
This is betamale's disturbing and good remix of the iPod ads and the classic Vietnam war-atrocity photo.
29K JPEG Link
(Thanks, betamale!)
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Disney World and Florida: raking the mud. A poli-sci prof from Rollins College has written what looks like a very good muckraking book about the relationship of Walt Disney World to the temporal authorities in Florida, called "Married to the Mouse":
Disney World, in its agreement with the city of Orlando and the state of Florida, actually negotiated the right to construct and use a nuclear power plant at the amusement park. True, it has never built one, but according to this well-researched, cogently argued and eye-opening account of the complicated relationship between the Disney Company and the city of Orlando, it's a sign of the high price that Orlando has paid to become the home of "the most popular tourist destination in the world." A privately held corporation, Disney has created what amounts to an independently governed country "a sort of Vatican with mouse ears" within Orlando, says Foglesong, professor of politics at Rollins College. For example, Disney competed for (and won) bond money, which ultimately paid for new sewers to accommodate its own expansion rather than for low-income housing in a county already strapped with the influx of Disney workers. When the Orlando Sentinel ran a series offering "tepid" criticism of Disney's bad-neighbor policy, the paper was banned from the theme park. In his litany of Disney's major and minor infractions, Foglesong never fails to shed light on the nuances of the situation. Even more than a critique of Disney, Foglesong's book takes a fascinating, important and entertaining look at contemporary problems in urbanology, city planning and, certainly, business ethics.
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Donate your music antitrust check to EFF. Did you get a court-ordered $13.86 check from the RIAA to make up for its price-fixing wrongdoing? DonateMyMusicCheck.com is encouraging you to give it to EFF, "so the music industry doesn't screw you over again!"
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(via Ambiguous) |
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Stop geting credit-card offers. A Kuro5hin writer has posted a great step-by-step for ensuring that you never receive a pre-approved credit-card solicitation again.
Fortunately, hidden away in the fine print of every single pre-approved offer sent to consumers is a paragraph stating how to prevent credit bureaus from including you in pre-screened lists. If you're like me and always end up throwing these offers away, I urge you to follow one of these procedures to notify the four credit reporting agencies of your request to opt out.
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Creative Commons Moving Images winners announced. The winners of the Creative Commons Moving Image contest -- which challenged creators to make a short movie explaining the value of less-restrictive copyright regimes -- have been announced. They're fantastic.
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Haunted Mansion action figures. 
Disney has released a line of theme-park-only Haunted Mansion action figures, including the three hitchhiking ghosts, the caretaker, the mariner and the bride. MouseShoppe has 'em at a healthy markup for $18 apiece.
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Gutenberg audiobooks. Michael Ellerbeck has started a project to read all of the Gutenberg Project texts aloud and release them as audiobooks under the terms of a Creative Commons license.
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(Thanks, Michael!) |
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Bilingual Ewok lyrics. The Ewok scene from the end of Return of the Jedi, the one where they all sing the victory song? Well, the song has lyrics. And an English translation.
Yub nub
eee chop yub nub
ah toe meet toe pee-chee keene
g'noop dock fling oh ah
Yah wah
eee chop yah wah
ah toe meet toe pee-chee keene
g'noop dock fling oh ah...
Freedom
we got freedom
and now that we can be free
come on and celebrate
Power
we got power
and now that we can be free
it's time to celebrate...
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(Thanks, kidsoncrack!) |
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Yahoo Search doublespeak. Tim Cadogan, Yahoo's VP of Search, gave a remarkably smarmy doublespeak interview to Search Engine Watch about Yahoo's new paid-placement search "results." Here's a freely translated version of the interview.
Cadogan: It [rolling all the Yahoo, Altavista, Alltheweb programs together] radically simplifies the situation from having six programs to one that gets you a ton of distribution and gets you a lot of benefits from interacting with us.
Translation: All the money you pay for better
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(via Dive Into Mark) |
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Justin's Tokyo guide under a Creative Commons license. Justin Hall has released his Tokyo-on-zero-dollar-a-day guidebook, "Just In Tokyo," as a free PDF under a Creative Commons license!
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Gene Wolfe's rules for writers. Gene Wolfe's rules for writers are amazing and sensible and good.
Examine your modifiers ruthlessly. What do they add to the story?
Cut adjectives, adverbs, similes and metaphors which do not shed light or develop the narrative voice.
Don't repeat yourself.
Give the reader small surprises: moments of humor, delightful metaphors, something that jolts.
Understand your characters. No one is a villain to him/herself. No one is clinically sane if you know them well enough.
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(via Making Light) |
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3D movies of Disney rides. This guy makes and sells stereoscopic videos of ride-throughs of Disney rides, and has just posted a vid of the Haunted Mansion Holiday from Disneyland last Christmas.
The *full* ride, including some outdoor footage, the full preshow, the entire ride up to the exit. Due to the dark nature of the ride, there is quite a bit of ghosting (which almost seems appropriate for a Haunted attraction, eh?).
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DowningStreetSays: Public comment on the Prime Minister's briefings. Tom sez, "DowningStreetSays allows members of the public to comment directly on the Prime
Minister's Official Spokeman's briefings, previously reserved for the press.
The idea is to provide a hub for unfiltered access to discussion of major
political issues, where the words of 10 Downing Street, the media and the
public are all on a level playing field. We're all properly licenced, and
Downing Street seem content to watch us and see if anything interesting
happens."
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(Thanks, Tom!) |
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Aramaic phrases of note and utility. Here are some handy Aramaic phrases for those of us thinking of attending Mr Gibson's vanity film.
B-kheeruut re'yaaneyh laa kaaley tsuuraathaa khteepaathaa, ellaa Zaynaa Mqatlaanaa Trayaanaa laytaw!
It may be uncompromising in its liberal use of graphic violence, but Lethal Weapon II it ain't.
Een, Yuudaayaa naa, ellaa b-haw yawmaa laa hweeth ba-mdeetaa.
Yes, I'm Jewish, but I wasn't there that day.
Ma'hed lee qalleel d-Khayey d-Breeyaan, ellaa dlaa gukhkaa.
It sort of reminds me of Life of Brian, but it's nowhere near as funny.
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(via AccordionGuy) |
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Weaker database bill gets House committee vote |
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Covad snaps up VoIP start-up. The acquisition will help the broadband service provider jump-start its nationwide VoIP launch. |
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Apple Seed (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - Steve Jobs is having a very good 2004. Six days into the new year Apple Computer rolls out a pint-size version of its bestselling iPod. Two days later Hewlett-Packard announces plans for an HP-branded iPod. |
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Sprint CFO: Stock Reunion to Cut Earnings (AP). AP - Sprint Corp. expects the reunion of its wireline and wireless tracking stocks into a single common stock to reduce earnings between two and three cents per share, the company's chief financial officer said Wednesday. |
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REVIEW: 'Gaming' Laptop Sacrifices Weight (AP). AP - The new Inspiron XPS laptop from Dell Inc. aims squarely at video game players. |
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States Seek Sales Tax on Online Purchases (AP). AP - Remember all those gifts you bought online during the holidays? Now it's time to pay sales tax on them, at least so say the income tax forms of 20 states. |
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Sam & Max Sequel Canceled |
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SCO targets DaimlerChrysler, AutoZone with lawsuits. SCO kicks off its offensive against companies using Linux ADVERTISEMENT: RFID/Smart Label Printing White Paper from Zebra - Learn about how smart labels help prevent asset loss, track shipments, and process customer transactions, and see how the technology could help your business. |
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Earthlink to test sender authentication. Initiative will include Microsoft's Caller ID |
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Acer releases new low-cost mobile workstation. Low price expected to ease concerns about notebook's weight |
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'Worm war' behind recent virus releases. Authors leave text messages in corrupted code |
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SCO posts $2.3 million loss. Revenues from SCOsource initiative dry up |
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Darwin raised from grave to explain Sun's JES evolution. Stacking up |
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W32.Mydoom.H@mm |
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ignitionServer Undocumented Command Lets Operators Gain Elevated Privileges |
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Web Wiz Forums 'Forgotten Password' Flaw Fails to Change Valid Authentication Cookie |
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McD's to nix super-size everything. Looks like the film Super Size Me, previously blogged on BB, may have had more of an impact than imagined:
McDonald's Corp., battered by criticism of its fatty foods, said it would eliminate Supersize french fries and soft drinks by the end of the year, part of a swing toward pleasing health-minded customers and simplifying its menu. McDonald's Supersize option, which includes a 7-ounce fries carton and 42-ounce fountain soda, has been targeted by critics as contributing to a growing obesity crisis in the United States. The world's largest fast-food company said on Wednesday it is making the menu changes to "support a balanced lifestyle" approach that is in keeping with other recent moves to promote healthier behavior. These include a planned national launch of a Happy Meal for Adults which comes with advice from a fitness expert.
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Guatemala: street vendor kids on Pacific coast.  Click for full-size image. At left, one of the snapshots I took in Guatemala. These children work along the streets of Puerto San Jose, a small town with black sand beaches that swells on weekends with Guatemala City residents. It's about two hours by car from the capital, and two hours from the border of El Salvador. It's frayed, grimy, full of makeshift cinder-and-tin shack homes, and not the sort of place where foreign tourists tend to go. The girl in this photo walked alongside her brother, who balanced a basket of watermelon slices on his head. They go for about five quetzal each, more when it's hotter outside, and they were tasty. My travel companion took some snapshots of the children with a Polaroid, and handed the snapshots to them for them to keep. The girl flipped out when she realized she was being handed an image of herself, for keeps -- this huge grin spread across her face. I don't think either of them had ever seen an instant photo before, definitely not of themselves. As they walked away, she would not stop looking at the instant photo. She was so engrossed in the image that she stepped into a hole in the sand and fell flat on her face. This made her brother and other vendors laugh hard, loud, and long, but it didn't kill the grin.
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Wayport adds hot spots to Moscone Center |
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Worms nibble away at ISP profits. The proliferation of worms on the Web is not just a nuisance for home and corporate users--it's becoming a financial burden on Internet service providers. |
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Hughes adopts satellite broadband standard |
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Briefly: Hughes adopts satellite broadband standard. The IPoS standard delivers high-speed Net access via satellite systems...Wayport adds hot spots to Moscone Center...Red Hat names executive of worldwide operations. |
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LinSpot turns WiFi routers into commercial hotspots (MacCentral). MacCentral - Want to make a few extra bucks from your wireless Internet access? Start-up LinSpot announced on Wednesday that their LinSpot 1.0 application for Mac OS X allows you to do just that, with the company taking a 15 percent cut for services sold over your wireless network. |
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Fusion In Sonoluminescence (Again)? |
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Acer Plans A 16 lb. Notebook |
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Disney boss faces up to critics. Disney shareholders are urged to protest against company boss Michael Eisner, in the hope of forcing him out. |
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SCO wins Linux licence payments. The legal row over who owns key parts of the Linux operating system is heating up. |
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Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Weblogs
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Bill Gates, Edd Dumbill, and the Semantic Web. Edd Dumbill's reflections on Bill Gates' recent comment that an AI breakthrough could be worth ten Microsofts leads to a declaration that data interoperability is the key battleground for the future. |
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AppRadar Supports Intrusion Detection for Enterprise Databases |
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Camera Phones, USB Drives Pose Enterprise Security Risk |
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WORM_BAGLE.GEN-1 |
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Sound of War. US forces in Iraq have a new non-lethal (but really annoying) weapon in their arsenal. According to American Technology Corporation's press release, the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) is a "hailing and warning, directed acoustic device that is designed to determine intent, change behavior, and support various rules of engagement. With LRAD, a sentry can issue a focused verbal challenge with instructions in excess of 300 hundred yards, and follow up with a warning tone to cause behavior change." According to an Associated Press article, the LRAD tone is similar to that of a smoke detector but twice as loud and directed in a tight-beam. "Inside 100 yards, you definitely don't want to be there," says the American Technology VP quoted in the article.
This reminds me a bit of infrasound weaponry research, exploring the use of ultra-low frequencies to cause discomfort, pain, suffering, and, er, bowel movements. The AP report also makes a reference to another non-lethal weapon almost ready for field testing, an energy beam that repels enemies. This one has a great name: the Active Denial System.
Link to LRAD press release,
Link to AP article |
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Tribal Digital Village -- wiring indigenous communities in SoCal. Interesting BBC piece about some of the work going on in San Diego, California to wire Native American communities -- wirelessly. Snip:
Before the Tribal Digital Village project, Jack Ward could not get online when it rained. "The telephone lines are very old," explained the director of the Digital Village. "In the heat of the desert it doesn't take long for them to deteriorate."
Things are different now. Everybody has at least a broadband DSL connection. The Tribal Digital Village (TDV) is based in Southern California's San Diego County. This mountainous and remote land is home to 18 native American reservations - each one a sovereign nation - with an aggregate population of 15,000. As with other rural areas of the US, wiring Native American reservations for telephony and internet access has never been an attractive proposition for established phone companies. The number of subscribers per mile makes recouping costs a tricky proposition. Nor has deregulation of the telecoms market changed the picture.
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Manufacturers build up security efforts. Midsize manufacturers are putting security ahead of all other IT projects, while larger companies view enterprise resource planning as almost equally critical, a study shows. |
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Worm authors talk trash. Security researchers have discovered that the authors of MyDoom and Bagle are exchanging insults with the author of NetSky using text hidden inside their virus code. |
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January chip sales bode well for 2004. Although there was a "seasonal" dip in sales from December, the year-over-year comparison shows a jump of 26 percent in semiconductor revenue, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. |
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SCO Sues AutoZone Over Use of Linux (AP). AP - Taking a page from the music industry, SCO Group Inc. sued AutoZone Inc. and DaimlerChrysler Corp. on Wednesday to force them and other companies to respect the software copyrights that SCO claims ought to apply to the Linux and Unix operating systems. |
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FBI Seeks Identity of Child Porn Suspects (AP). AP - The FBI announced a new effort Wednesday to disseminate photographs of unidentified child pornographers on television and the Internet in hopes they will be recognized. |
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Purely Functional Data Structures |
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Windows source code sharers face chop. Knock it off or get cut off, says BT |
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New Variant Of Netsky Worm Detected |
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Primary Concerns |
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Gateway Signs Another Grid Customer |
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NTIA Sponsors Forum on RFIDs and (Among Other Things) Privacy |
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Will Sophisticated Phishing Scams Degrade Public Confidence in SSL? |
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Video Game Porn. 
Via Fleshbot:
Backdoor demon sex! Hardcore bestiality orgies! Hot gang bang action! The Accidental Video Game Porn Archive features vidcaps of moments in video games which might be considered pornographic if you look really, really hard and are really, really desperate: a site for the dirty-minded seventh grader in all of us.
Accidental Video Game Porn Archive |
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Spooky-cool Photoshopped child portraits. Adobe's Photoshop turns 14 years old this month. In the NYT, this article on the work of German painter turned photographer Loretta Lux, who uses the ubiquitous image-editing software on portraits of children -- to magnificent effect.
With so many choices at her fingertips, she has opted for delicate, minute alterations. Walking through her show of children's portraits at the Yossi Milo Gallery in Chelsea, one continually wonders if the boys and girls in her studies are software simulations, and why and to what degree they might be at the mercy of the artist's hand. In fact, Ms. Lux has carefully costumed and photographed her subjects and, after scanning the image, dropped the figures into a separately scanned background, often taken from one of her paintings. She erases irrelevant details — fireplaces, cats, toys — until the children are settled in a neutral, dreamlike space.
An eerie result is children who seem willed into existence by Ms. Lux (her puppet master's strings are evident in the slightly distended heads and limbs and in the pastel tints) but who also have the air of self-created beings, a race of tiny Nordic monsters, spawned inside her computer but now genetically mutated and struggling with her for domination.
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New Mobile/Meatspace hybrid game "I Like Frank". 
Matt Adams and the other mad scientists at Blast Theory -- an art/tech collective that creates games mixing wireless virtual space with reall space -- just launched a new 3G project in Australia called "I Like Frank." The mixed reality game is billed as a world first, for its innovative use of 3G technology, and debuts as part of the Fringe Festival in Adelaide. The purpose of the game? Search through real and virtual streets of Adelaide to find a guy named Frank.
Participants must register with the "I Like Frank" to play, and must have a 3G phone to send and receive data during the game. Street players use an "Event Search" option on the Fringe Festival website.
Previous coverage of Blast Theory's work in Wired News. |
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Variety Magazine launches e-gaming weblog. Hollywood trade rag Variety just launched a new electronic gaming weblog, helmed by former Wired News staff reporter Brad King (also the author of Dungeons and Dreamers, a book on the history of gamer culture). Link to EEG News: Entertainment and Electronic Gaming. |
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Ozone Depletion Rate Three Times Worse Than Predicted. BoingBoing buddy Roland Piquepaille says:
According to a new study, the shrinking of the ozone layer over the Arctic is much worse than previously believed. In Climate change set to poke holes in ozone, Nature tells us it is a side-effect of global warming, the polar stratospheric clouds absorbing more and more industrial chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). "I was surprised to see these results," says Drew Shindell, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York. "We never suspected the models were this far out of whack," he says. It remains to be seen if this new model is more accurate than previous ones. However, even if we reduce the emission of CFCs in a near future, another big unknown, the ozone layer will continue to shrink for decades to come. This overview contains more details and references. It also includes pictures of these polar clouds se en from space and from the ground (the one from space is amazing!).
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First music video shot entirely on a Nokia 3650. It's kind of lame, but it's still a first. Link (Via Warren) |
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SCO takes fight to Linux users. The software company, which claims that parts of Unix have been illegally incorporated into Linux, files its first lawsuits against users of the open-source OS: AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler. |
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Utility to Offer High-Speed Internet (AP). AP - A division of utility Cinergy Corp. plans to offer high-speed Internet service over its power lines, letting customers connect by simply plugging a computer modem into existing electrical outlets. |
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Target Phasing Out 'Smart' Visa Cards (Reuters). Reuters - Retailing giant Target Corp. (TGT.N)
is phasing out computer chips on its Target Visa cards, citing
limited shopper use and dealing a setback to proponents of
"smart" card technology. |
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SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] |
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DRAM Price Fixing Investigations |
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Xeon vs. Opteron Performance Benchmarks |
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What are they thinking? |
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Gambling Anglo-Saxons lose 419 shirt to rampaging virus. It can only be Letters |
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Nokias N-Gage ads are 'violent and sinister'. Very sorry. We won't do it again |
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Cyber attacks hit half of UK firms in 2003 |
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Virus writers stage online slanging match |
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Worms still number one security threat |
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EuroTrust Acquired by VeriSign |
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Majority of mobile device users worried by security |
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'Weakest link' users push up ISP costs |
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IBM will spend $1 billion to challenge Microsoft |
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CIA Invests In Tech Start-ups |
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10th Variant of Bagle Worm Hits the Net |
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SCO Group: screen Buffer overflow vulnerability |
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SPAex Search Engine Input Validation Flaw Permits Cross-Site Scripting Attacks |
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Dream FTP Server Additional Format String Flaws Lets Remote Users Crash the FTP Service |
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Prelude - une infrastructure de détection d'intrusion open-source |
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Thomson propose un nouveau format MP3 anti-copie |
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Virus-Writers Declare War On Each Other |
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What are they thinking? |
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Elsewhere: GAO hits IT security at USDA, says improvements needed |
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Elsewhere: Technical problems reported in e-voting |
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News: Calls to regulate 'failing' AV industry |
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News: El Reg badly misguided on cyber-terror threat |
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Financial Services Discover Identity |
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Biometrics and Financial Services -- Show me the money! |
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When the walls come tumbling down |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - January 7, 2004 Issue |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - January 22, 2004 Issue |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - January 29, 2004 Issue |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - February 5, 2004 Issue |
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Identinet - A Runaway Cluetrain |
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XDI: Weaving the "Dataweb" |
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The Great Enabler |
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Red Hat names exec of worldwide operations |
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SCO Sues First Linux User (PC World). PC World - AutoZone retail chain is accused of violating Unix copyrights. |
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Study: Blogging Still Infrequent (AP). AP - Despite the potential of turning every Internet user into a publisher, relatively few have created Web journals called blogs and even fewer do so with regularity, a new study finds. |
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Broken Windows: Will Your PC Ever Be Secure? (PC World). PC World - It seems a week doesn't go by without some malcontent writing a worm that attacks holes in Microsoft products. What can you do to protect yourself? |
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Cebit to highlight high-speed networking, voice-over-IP. An expected half a million people will descend on Hanover, Germany, later this month for the annual Cebit trade show, where organizers hope to brush off the industry downturn with new products in areas such as high-speed networking, voice-over-IP, storage, and smart mobile phones. |
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Report: Toshiba faces claim from flash memory inventor. An ex-Toshiba Corp. researcher credited with inventing one of the most common types of electronic memory is asking the company for ¥1 billion ($9.1 million) in compensation related to that invention, according to a report in the Wednesday morning edition of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business newspaper. ADVERTISEMENT: ProIT - Network Management Software - Enterprise-class IT management optimizes the entire network infrastructure, accelerates problem resolution, and predicts future performance with intelligent monitoring, diagnostics, and trending. Dow... |
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NTT DoCoMo develops speech recognition without speech. YOKOSUKA, JAPAN -- NTT DoCoMo Inc. lifted the lid Tuesday on its five-year-old research and development (R&D) center in Japan and demonstrated a couple of the technologies the operator is working on, including a speech recognition system that doesn't require speech. |
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Go Daddy fights VeriSign with money and missives. Go Daddy Software Inc., which filed a lawsuit against VeriSign Inc. regarding the Site Finder service last year, upped the ante in its opposition Wednesday by pledging $100,000 to help the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) defend itself over its right to regulate VeriSign's registry services. |
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SCO sues first Linux user, AutoZone. The SCO Group Inc. said Wednesday that it filed suit against Memphis-based auto parts chain AutoZone Inc. for violating SCO's Unix copyrights through its use of Linux. |
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PeopleSoft ports EnterpriseOne suite to Red Hat Linux. PeopleSoft Inc.'s EnterpriseOne software suite will run on Linux starting in the second quarter, the enterprise software vendor announced Wednesday. |
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Elsewhere: GAO hits IT security at USDA, says improvements needed. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has "significant, pervasive information security control weaknesses" brought on by the lack of a fully implemented IT security m... |
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Elsewhere: Technical problems reported in e-voting. Electronic voting made its debut in cities and towns from Maryland to California on Tuesday as election officials beefed up security for the record number of voters expec... |
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News: Calls to regulate 'failing' AV industry. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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News: El Reg badly misguided on cyber-terror threat. The Register By Thomas C dot Greene [thomas dot greene at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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BugTraq: Wftpd stat Command Remote Vulnerability Exploit. Sender: security team 0seen [o5een at hotmail dot com] |
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BugTraq: Spider Sales shopping cart software multiple security vulnerabilities. Sender: S-Quadra Security Research [research at s-quadra dot com] |
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BugTraq: directory traversal in GWeb 0.6. Sender: Donato Ferrante [fdonato at autistici dot org] |
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BugTraq: New Internet Explorer Cross Zone/Site Scripting Vulnerability. Sender: Cheng Peng Su [apple_soup at msn dot com] |
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NTL notches up 1m 'broadband' punters. Cableco struts its stuff |
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SCO takes Linux-loving auto industry to court. Stop the servers! |
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Universal builds 20TB digital music archive. Ready to sell songs to Apple, Napster, et al |
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MP3 DRM to demo at CeBIT. Fraunhofer Institute comes late to the game |
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Deutsche Telekom cuts broadband tariffs. EC antitrust probe does the trick |
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3 Mar W32/Agobot-DG |
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FreeBSD Memory Buffer Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability |
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YabbSE Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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SonicWall Firewall/VPN Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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1st Class Mail Server "APOP" Digest Parameter Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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1st Class Mail Server "APOP" Digest Parameter Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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Nortel WLAN Access Point 2200 Denial of Service |
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Nortel WLAN Access Point 2200 Denial of Service |
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Secure Computing To Partner With Risc Technology |
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Court nixes FCC rules on line-sharing, state regulation. Court rebuffs FCC rule changes. What does this mean for phone and broadband competition? By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. |
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EU May Force Change in Microsoft Windows (AP). AP - Going beyond Microsoft Corp.'s settlement of U.S. antitrust charges, the European Union wants to force the software giant to offer computer makers a version of Windows without any multimedia program to give rival companies a better shot at getting their products on consumers' desktops, sources said Wednesday. |
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SCO Sues AutoZone Over Use of Linux (AP). AP - The SCO Group Inc. Wednesday said it has filed a copyright suit against auto-parts company AutoZone Inc., alleging the chain runs versions of the freely distributed Linux operating system that contain code belonging to SCO. |
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Online Extra: Craig Barrett on the Digital Future (BusinessWeek Online). BusinessWeek Online - Craig R. Barrett, CEO of Intel (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) since March, 1998, is racing to reinvent the company before he steps down next year. He has embarked on an ambitious diversification strategy to make Intel chips the foundation around the world of everything from PCs and servers to cell phones and telecom equipment. This includes spending $28 billion on R&D and capital projects over three years to build five new cutting-edge plants, which many worried would give Intel too much capacity. Now, some of the factories have been completed, and they're running at full tilt. |
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EU OKs Joint Toshiba-Samsung Venture (AP). AP - The European Commission approved a joint venture Thursday involving the optical-disk drive divisions of Japan's Toshiba Corp. and Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to produce CD-ROM and DVD-ROM units. |
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FreeBSD Based Live CDs |
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SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone |
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SCO wins Linux licence payments. The legal fight over key parts of the Linux operating system is heating up. |
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Use process of sustained risk management to eradicate knee-jerk security scrambles |
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Clerk stashes 20m porn pics. 'Utterly vile' collection of indecent images |
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Calls to regulate 'failing' AV industry. RSA Be careful of what you wish for |
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DiData reshuffles board. Disties! Dealers! More Disties! More Dealers! |
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Sun shuts Bristol and Cambridge offices. Staff asked to work at home |
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Portsmouth airs UK's first online soap. 'Chalkhill Lives' hits the screens |
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Çà êëåâåòó â ôîðóìàõ áóäóò îòâå÷àòü âëàäåëüöû ñàéòîâ |
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Combating Netsky.C, D, E Viruses |
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W32.Netsky.F@mm |
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TROJ_DAMEWARE.B |
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WORM_NETSKY.F |
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WORM_BAGLE.K |
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Use process of sustained risk management to eradicate knee-jerk security scrambles |
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Motorola T720 Denial of Service Vulnerability |
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Motorola T720 Denial of Service Vulnerability |
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NetScreen-SA Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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NetScreen-SA Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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OpenLinux update for screen |
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OpenLinux update for screen |
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Oracle, DOJ size up judge (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - Vaughn R. Walker will preside over the Department of Justice's challenge to Oracle's attempted takeover of PeopleSoft. |
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Two-Legged Home Robot, Coming Soon To Japan |
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Lastminute buys rival travel firm. The UK-based internet retailer buys rival Online Travel in a deal that will further expand its holiday sales business. |
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Microsoft fixes broken Explorer URL handling |
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Sun Secures Solaris with Kernel Rewrite |
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Windows 2000 Source Code Leaked! |
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Trojan Network Could Produce "Superworm" |
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Attn: Win users |
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MySQL Profits From Open Source |
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Trojans as Spam Robots |
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UK: Safest OS isn't Windows or Linux |
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Microsoft Ignoring the Biggest Source of Security Threats? |
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Combatting Spam |
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Windows Shorthorn is 'dead-on-arrival'. In for the Longhaul |
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Drugs agency calls for crackdown in e-pharmacies. Illegal trade targets the vulnerable |
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Chip sales fell in January. Well up on January 2003, though |
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AMD to start 90nm production next month.... ...but we won't see product until late Q3 |
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MSI to launch ATI-based graphics card line. Nvidia 'exclusive' over |
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Evidence of Water on Mars. NASA says that samples collected by its Opportunity rover suggest that Mars once held quite a bit of water. If true, one of the preconditions for supporting life as we know it did exist. |
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ESA's Rosetta Mission Under Way. It will take 10 years for the European Space Agency's spacecraft to rendezvous with its target, a comet. When it does, scientists hope to unlock the secret of how life began on Earth. |
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DEA Accedes to Ecstasy Test. Regulatory group finally gives the go-ahead to test Ecstasy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome. By Kristen Philipkoski. |
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E-Vote Glitches Found in Election. Voting is barely under way in Tuesday's primary election, and technical glitches have cropped up in California and Maryland, where some counties are using electronic voting machines. |
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U.S. Users Give It Up for the Net. A recent study finds that almost half of U.S. Internet users contribute online content. So is this surprising? Depends on whom you ask. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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Underwater Travel Takes Wing. The Navy is working on a new type of submarine glider that resembles a stealth bomber. The less-obtrusive vessel could be used for research and surveillance. By David Snow. |
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Indies Stay in Tune With Sharing. Austin's South by Southwest music conference will provide free access to its library of music to anyone near a wireless hotspot. Songs will be accessible to users of Apple's iTunes through a 600-song shared playlist. By Katie Dean. |
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Sixth Reinvention of Neil Young. The folk-country-grunge dinosaur is reborn (again) as an Internet-friendly, biodiesel-driven, multimedia machine. By Ted Greenwald from Wired magazine. |
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Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine. Congress is considering a bill that would allow companies to copyright databases and other sets of information. Critics say the bill would circumvent the core of copyright law, which says no one can own a fact. By Kim Zetter. |
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Virus writers start dissing match with new worms |
| 29. |
The next step in the spam control war: greylisting |
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Network protocol stack and TCP hacking |
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Protect your wireless network |
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Visualizing WEP insecurity |
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ZH2004-06SA.txt |
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yabb.infoleak.txt |
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brokerFTP.txt |
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02.17.04.txt |
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vizer191.txt |
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linksysSNMP.txt |
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cesarFTP099.txt |
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smallFTPd.txt |
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ZH2004-07SA.txt |
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Adv-20040216.txt |
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ZH2004-08SA.txt |
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isec-0014-mremap-unm..> |
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Adv-20040218.txt |
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metamailBUGS.txt |
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metamail.advisory-da..> |
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Broken Windows: Will Your PC Ever Be Secure? |
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Bagle, Netsky Variants Hit the Net |
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Waarschuwing voor ZEER gevaarlijke Bagle.J en MyDoom.G |
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NetSky.D laat computerspeakers spreken |
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50% Engelse bedrijven getroffen door DoS en virussen |
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Gevaar van uitgelekte Windows broncode overdreven |
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Protect Your Wireless Network |
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Virenschnüffler Stinger in neuer Version |
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ArGoSoft FTP Server Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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FreeBSD Out-of-Sequence TCP Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability |
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Network Associates Partners With IBM To Deliver On-Demand Computing |
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E-voting on Super Tuesday: did it work or not?. The answer to that question depends on whether you're reading the AP or News.com. By Hannibal. |
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AskJeeves denounces paid inclusion. The company will stop accepting advertiser payments for inclusion in its searchable Web database, a move to draw competitive lines between it and Yahoo's new search engine. |
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High Court Weighs Sidelined Internet Porn Law (Reuters). Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court considered on
Tuesday whether a law that requires Web site operators to wall
off risque material from underage visitors violates free-speech
rights. |
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Nintendo Says GameCube Nearly Sold Out in U.S. (Reuters). Reuters - Nintendo Co. Ltd., which at one
point stopped production on its GameCube video game console due
to slack demand, has now nearly sold out of the console in the
United States and is seeking to bring supplies in from
elsewhere, a spokeswoman said on Monday. |
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Yahoo To Charge For Search Listings |
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IBM open source Java proposal puzzles Sun official - Infoworld Staff. IBM’s proposal to have the Java programming language offered under an open source format is puzzling a Sun official, who stressed Tuesday that the current licensing program ensures compatibility for the language. |
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Spawn of Bagle and Netsky roil Internet. Serial worm outbreaks continued on Tuesday as new variants of the Bagle and Netsky e-mail worms spread on the Internet. |
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Criminal charges filed against WorldCom's Ebbers. Bernard Ebbers, the former chief executive officer of WorldCom Inc., on Tuesday was charged with conspiracy and securities fraud in connection with his former company's $11 billion of accounting misstatements. ADVERTISEMENT: Free Shipping at Dell! - Free 3-5 day Shipping with purchase of any new Dell Home System. Offer ends 3/3. Click for details. |
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Chips let non-Lexmark cartridges print. Static Control Components Inc. (SCC) announced Tuesday it has begun selling three new chips that allow third-party printer cartridges to work in printers from Lexmark International Inc., the latest salvo in a ongoing dispute between SCC and Lexmark. |
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Microsoft unveils BizTalk Server 2004. MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday, as expected, officially introduced BizTalk Server 2004, the third major release of its business integration software offering. |
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Former California official charged in Oracle case. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed criminal charges against the former policy director of recalled California Governor Gray Davis in connection with a 2001 database contract scandal. |
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