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Increase your memory capacity with mental exercise. Having trouble remembering things? Memory is very much depends on how much you stimulate your brain. By Matt Woodward. |
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Audio fingerprinting technology cuts both ways. Audio fingerprinting technology. Makes identifying music easy. It can help people find new music artists and help the RIAA enforce their outmoded distribution models. By Matt Woodward. |
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ping -v Linux.Ars. This week in Linux.Ars: more SCO lawsuits, an interview with former Harmony head Jo Dillon, and the normal news roundup By Eric Bangeman. |
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SCO gets 45 days to turn over offending code to IBM. The latest chapter in the long-running SCO-IBM lawsuit saga: the judge has given SCO 45 days to cough up the offending code. IBM must also comply with some of SCO discovery requests during the same time frame. By Eric Bangeman. |
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[H] to Infinium: don't mess with Texas. In other legal news (apart from the SCO development reported below), [H]ardOCP is suing Infinium Labs. By Hannibal. |
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Patent bill to help innovation, cut down on bad patents. H.R. 1561 bill promises to refine the patent process and help innovation. Potential to cut down on bad patents. By Matt Woodward. |
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Fool.com: SCO's doing everything wrong. Motley Fool analyst Seth Jayson writes a scathing review of SCO in his research note following the company's quarterly report. Titled Fool.com: SCO Digs a Deeper Hole. Sparing no minced words, Jayson writes:It's my opinion that SCO is doing everything... |
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Jay-Z construction set. Claire Chanel sez, "I think you'll get a charge out of a new project I'm working on titled 'Jay-Z Construction Set.' It's a CD-ROM, distributed largely through BitTorrent, that contains nine variations on Jay-Z's Black Album, a collection of samples, over 1200 generic hiphop themed clipart images, tutorials on remixes/mashups, and a news archive about the Grey Album conflict. "
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Roll your own Psycho. Jacob sez, "Saul Bass Studios has put the original footage of Alfred Hitchcock's famous Psycho scene online, and you can now re-edit it and compare your version to the original."
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Nerve.com "Science" experiment: sex with a RealDoll. In the current edition of Nerve.com's recurring "I did it for Science" feature, Grant Stoddard conducts an experiment with a RealDoll -- "the world's finest love doll."Link |
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Online typography art piece. Typography morphed into Flash-based online music video / concept art pieces. Sort of. Biggie and Dylan jam with Baskerville and Helvetica. Link (Thanks, Jean-Luc!) |
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Meet PaPeRo, Personal Robot and Interpreter. BoingBoing pal Roland Piquepaille says:
Yesterday, Dan Gillmor mentioned in his eJournal a new Japanese cell phone equipped with a very useful GPS system. He wished that the service was translated into other languages and that these phones were available for rent. A somewhat similar service is just being launched at Narita Airport, where you will be able to rent PDAs which can translate your language into Japanese. The application is based on speech-to-speech technology developed by NEC and implemented in small robots named PaPeRo (Partner-Type Personal Robot), according to BBC News Online. PaPeRo has a vocabulary of 50,000 Japanese and 25,000 English travel and tourism related words. This overview contains more details about PaPeRo including pictures.
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Free, geeky alternative for securing your WiFi traffic. Wes sez, "To secure your WiFi traffic, you could just tunnel it through Tor for free, like everyone at CodeCon was doing to protect themselves from the nosiness of The Shmoo Group." Tor looks promising, but way, way geeky.
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Circus noises for your cellphone. 
SoundCover is an app for your mobile phone that adds custom background noise, including a circus parade or a dentist's drill, to your conversation, so that you can fool people into thingking thaat you're talking to them while having a tooth removed under the big top.
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(via Gizmodo)
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Custom short-story collections on demand. Rob sez, "I'm trying my hand in the realm of experimental, web-driven print publishing. I've penned 25 stories over the last couple of years (well, more, but 25 decent ones) and I've got them up for sale as a sort of modular book that can be ordered to the reader's specifications. Visitors to the site select the stories they want included in the work and place their order, and the book is printed on demand and shipped to them."
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Anthropomorphic Mars Rover LiveJournal. If the Mars Rover opportunity had a LiveJournal, it would read something like this:
8:23 am
squee!
I got to drive today! It's so cool! I didn't think I'd ever be allowed to go out on my own. NASA is so protective sometimes; it's like they wanted to keep me swaddled in airbags forever. But anyways, I keep finding these round pebbly things. They get stuck in my treads. Do you think they'll leave a mark? OMG what if Stardust saw me like this? No, it's cool. It's not like he'd ever come by this planet again...
Spirit is still "sick." She swears she's gonna drive to that crater any time now, though. She just wants to do it on her time and not when NASA orders her to. Like, whatever. Don't tell anyone but sometimes I miss her.
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Guatemala: Guns and Jesus..  This wasn't my first trip to the country. About ten years ago, we traveled there while the civil war was still going on. That time, it was different. No 'Net cafes or VoIP phones like there are today, so when you were there, you were there and only there. Our travel companions back then were two indigenous people, one who spoke Kakchikel, one who spoke Kanjobal, both of whom had lost friends and family members in the massacres. The military's anti-insurgency policy went like this: if we can't figure out which one of you is a guerilla, we kill all of you, and then we kill a few extra to make sure everyone gets the point. She told us about brothers shot in the eyes and neighbors tortured with electrical wires. He told us about highland villages whose only living residents were women and children. That time, we traveled everywhere by chicken bus, and some times the buses were stopped by armed soldiers, who ordered everyone off, searched us all, and let almost all of us back on. You never knew what was happening with the ones who didn't get back on, you just got back on.
So this time, there was no active war, but there wasn't an absence of war, either. There are still nearly as many ammo shops along the roads to Guatemala City as there are tamale vendors. And every building that contains anything worth stealing has an armed guard. The McDonalds. The gas station. The little shops in Antigua that sell tipica, handicrafts, to white tourists. For each one, there is a man in a uniform holding a semiautomatic rifle. Rios Montt -- el general as he's known -- the dictator under whose command the worst of the massacres took place, just ended a failed presidential campaign. He lost the 2003 elections, but his mug is still plastered all over telephone poles, rocks, vacant walls, all over the country. There are a lot of guns, and a lot of Jesus. Evangelical churches in hastily-constructed cinder-block buildings outnumber both the ammo shops and the tamale vendors.
When I stepped on board flight 889 from LAX to Guatemala this time, I knew it would be different, but I didn't know how. Almost midnight. Most passengers were guatemaltecos weighed down with bags full of things from America to bring home to families. We waited, passengers filed on with bursting suitcases. Flight attendants wheeled on a brown-skinned woman in a wheelchair whose body was limp, eyes dim and half-closed. They pushed her into place, strapped her down, we waited again. I dozed off, and woke up minutes later as attendants rushed back to her seat with oxygen and first aid kits. They called for paramedics. They called for doctors. No one could feel her pulse. The paramedics arrived, huddled for a while, then confirmed she was gone. One of the female flight attendants started crying. The woman in the wheelchair had terminal cancer, she said. "It's always like this on 889. They always want to return home to die."
At left, snapshot of a life-sized icon in a Catholic church in Antigua, Guatemala. I snapped it last week, on Ash Wednesday. She's about 300 years old. Click thumbnail for full-size image. |
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Low Life Labs walking robots. Here's a neat video of a "passive" robotic walker. It's made of double jointed pendulums and looks very natural. I guess people walk like this. It's followed by a really cool 2003 video of a motorized walker. This is the first robot I've ever seen that I wanted to own. Link (Thanks, Bryan!) |
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Hep C variant mitigates HIV?. Researchers in Iowa have identified a virus related to Hep C that appears to sheild its victims from the effects of HIV.
..after about six years, the effect of the virus was dramatic. Survival for men who were continuously infected by GBV-C was 75 per cent compared with only 39 per cent for men with no evidence of infection. But the men who faired worst were those who "lost" their GBV-C infection sometime in the first six years - only 16 per cent survived.
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Recreating Far Side toons with Photoshop. 
Worth1000 is throwing a photoshopping contest to composite together clip-images to make real-life versions of Far Side cartoons.
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(Thanks, Eyes Spies and Lies!)
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Canadian Supreme Court gets copyright right. This post to Interesting People runs down a new Canadian Supreme Court copyright decision that is the very soul of reasonableness, balancing out the public interest and the interest of rightsholders.
Considerations of copyright balance appear everywhere in the decision. For example, when working to develop a legal definition for originality in a work, the court expresses concern that too low a threshold tip[s] the scale in favour of the author's or creator's rights, at the loss of society's interest in maintaining a robust public domain that could help foster future creative innovation.
Similarly on the issue of fair dealing, the court notes that fair dealing is a user's right. In order to maintain the proper balance between the rights of a copyright owner and users' interests, it must not be interpreted restrictively. As Professor Vaver, supra, has explained, at p. 171: User rights are not just loopholes. Both owner rights and user rights should therefore be given the fair and balanced reading that befits remedial legislation.
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1951 Civil Defense film "Duck and Cover" site. Ken Sez: "The Library of Congress National Film Registry, which each year inducts 25 films into their film preservation program, has accepted CONELRAD's nomination of 'Duck and Cover' - the classic 1951 children's civil defense short film - and we've launched a campaign to build support for it's inclusion. Deadline is March 30 and there's info at this mini-site including some details from the extensive research we've been doing on this film over the last year and a half. We also just revealed in December that Mia Farrow is original Duck and Cover Kid as part of a 1952 publicity campaign. "
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Dilbert
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Dilbert for 04 Mar 2004.  |
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Penny Arcade!
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If You Siege One Dungeon This Summer.  |
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Ubercon Sketchbook: Inadvisable Cuisine.  |
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Ubercon Sketchbook: Epilogue.  |
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The Precise Location Of Villainy.  |
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Document shows SCO prepped lawsuit against BofA. The SCO Group filed lawsuits this week against AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler, but SCO also has focused on Bank of America, a document seen by CNET News.com shows. |
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SCO takes fight to Linux users. The company, which claims that parts of Unix have been illegally put into Linux, files its first lawsuits, against AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler. Plus: Judge orders SCO to show more code. |
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Microsoft wants to know who your friends are. The company's research unit looks to help computer users manage the thousands of e-mails and other electronic communiques they get each day. An automatically updated "inner circle" is one approach. |
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Dell's success in the details. Outgoing CEO Michael Dell built a dorm room operation into one of the world's largest corporations by thinking small, concentrating on costs and customers with pragmatism. |
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TiVo revenue up 85 percent; loss narrows. The digital video recording pioneer announces a $50 million growth plan aimed at doubling its subscription base. |
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Dell Founder Steps Down as Chief Executive but Remains Chairman. Michael Dell, head of the biggest personal computer company in the world, said today that he would step down as chief executive of Dell but remain chairman. By Saul Hansell. |
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How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web. Investigators were able to track several Qaeda leaders after determining that the suspects favored a particular brand of cellphone chip. By Don Van Natta Jr. and Desmond Butler. |
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For New Buildings, Digital Models Offer an Advance Walk-Through. The new baseball stadium in Philadelphia will not open until next month, but many fans already feel as if they have been inside. By Michel Marriott. |
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50 First Deaths: A Chance to Play (and Pay) Again. What happens in a video game after your character dies, especially if you are still paying to play? For many game designers, that is a tricky question. By Jonathan D. Glater. |
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Tackling the Mystery of the Missing Game. Two new video games "Uru Live" and "Law & Order II: Double or Nothing" allow you to practice solving mysteries. By Charles Herold. |
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To Avert Blackouts a Sag-Free Cable. Several companies are working to develop power lines that can handle more current without overheating and sagging. By Matthew L. Wald. |
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At a Mountain Monastery, Old Texts Gain Digital Life. A monk uses digital tools to preserve manuscripts in an Egyptian monastery. By Sarah Gauch. |
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SBC Offers to Settle Network Leasing Issue. A day after a federal court rejected government regulations intended to govern competition in the telephone industry, SBC suggested to rival carriers that they settle their differences. By Matt Richtel. |
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U.S. Pressing China to Yield on Wireless Encryption. The Bush administration stepped up its pressure on China this week to back off its plan to impose a software encryption standard for wireless computers that American technology companies regard as an unfair trade barrier. By Steve Lohr. |
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For CD's and Memory Cards, a Space-Saving Double Agent. With combination gadgets like wireless camera phones or personal organizers that function as MP3 players, multitasking is not just for busy humans anymore. By J.d. Biersdorfer. |
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For Audio Players, a Chance to Cut the Cord. ELECTRONIC devices have been cutting the cord for years, with one notable exception: portable music players. From the earliest Walkman to the latest fashion-accessory MP3 player, music on the go has generally meant cables trailing from ears to pocket or purse. But a short-range communications technology based on magnetism may mean those days will finally be on the wane. By Alan Krauss. |
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Sounds That Surround You Make It Onto Your Playlist. The air is full of sounds that are not filed on your digital music player: new recordings and live performances on FM radio, not to mention the ambient music of the world around you. The JMTek MelodiBox MP3 lets you add them to your collection on the fly. By Ivan Berger. |
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Furtive Surfers Find a Way to Keep Their Travels Secret. A new thumb-size U.S.B. drive from a company called StealthSurfer aims to guard your privacy by keeping the records of your Web activity close to the vest. When you plug in the StealthSurfer and use its customized version of the Netscape browser, the device stores the cookies, U.R.L. history, cache files and other traces of your Web browsing that would ordinarily accumulate on your computer's hard drive. When you're done surfing, you unplug the drive and take the records of your travels with you. By Howard Millman. |
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LVMH Announces a 30% Increase in Income for Year. Buoyed by record margins for its star leather goods and fashion brand, Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton announced a 30 percent jump in its net income for 2003. By Tracie Rozhon. |
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Consumer Groups Criticize Insurance Regulations Chief. The Consumer Federation of America and allied consumer groups around the country sharply criticized Ernie Csiszar, the president of the national association of insurance regulators yesterday, accusing him of paving the way for a weakening of protections for insurance customers. By Joseph B. Treaster. |
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Saks Posts 20% Increase in Quarterly Profit. By Reuters. |
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Apple financial gurus talk about the company's future (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple CFO Fred Anderson and Corporate Controller Peter Oppenheimer, recently spoke to investors and analysts at the Morgan Stanley Semiconductor & System Conference. In a session about 45 minutes long Oppenheimer and Anderson covered some interesting points about Apple's business strategy, its success with the iPod and iTunes, and how it plans to continue making money and improving margins. |
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MemberWorks to Buy Lavalife Romance Site (Reuters). Reuters - Consumer membership services company
MemberWorks Inc. (MBRS.O) said on Thursday it agreed to acquire
online networking company Lavalife Inc. for $115 million in the
latest corporate marriage in the social networking sector. |
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Another Court Bans DVD X Copy (PC World). PC World - New York judge orders 321 Studios to stop selling its software. |
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PeopleSoft Broadens Linux Support (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) says it will now support Linux with EnterpriseOne -- software the company acquired in its 2003 merger with J.D. Edwards (Nasdaq: JDEC). The move comes as PeopleSoft seeks to market a suite of applications to manufacturers in Eastern Europe and Asia. |
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BellSouth in Talks With Telefonica (AP). AP - BellSouth Corp. is in talks to sell its Latin American operations to Telefonica SA of Spain to raise its share of the $41 billion that Cingular Wireless has agreed to pay to acquire AT&T Wireless. The assets, mostly cell phone businesses, could fetch up to $6 billion for BellSouth. |
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REVIEW: Proving That a PC Can Rival TiVo (AP). AP - SnapStream Media Inc.'s latest software is an excellent example of how a personal computer can improve on a TV set: It offers more choices, more information and, most important, more control over the viewing experience. |
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Ask Jeeves to Double Search Share with Acquisition (Reuters). Reuters - Ask Jeeves Inc. (ASKJ.O) said on
Thursday it would buy Interactive Search Holdings Inc. for
about $328 million, rocketing the stock by as much as 43
percent as the company seeks to compete with the top Internet
search engines Google and Yahoo. |
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Virus writers launch competing attacks (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - The already unsavory community of Internet virus writers is getting nastier. |
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Scientific-Atlanta Mulling Video Game Set-Top Box (Reuters). Reuters - Scientific-Atlanta (SFA.N) on
Wednesday said it is planning to develop television set-top
boxes with high-performance video games capabilities, which
could compete with game consoles such as Nintendo's GameCube
and Sony's PlayStation 2. |
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Iraq Cell Phone Frustrations Ring Louder (Reuters). Reuters - Some Iraqis want mobile telephones to
chat to their girlfriends. Others hope they will make their
businesses more efficient. The Americans believe the phones
will help rescue the economy. |
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Philips' New Camera Lens Works Like Human Eye (Reuters). Reuters - Philips Electronics said on Thursday
it had invented a tiny digital camera lens to fit inside a
mobile phone that could focus on objects and create sharp
pictures in ways that are similar to the human eye. |
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Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO |
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Powered Exoskeleton Legs |
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Next Generation Mail Clients Reviewed |
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Tracking Via Anonymous SIM Cards |
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Kazaa Going to Court |
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Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community is Available |
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ZVUE's $99 Video and MP3 Player |
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Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War? |
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Losing Control of Your TV |
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MS Word File Reveals Changes to SCO's Plans |
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TV and gaming in one set-top box. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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Investors query £15m ITV payoff. Shareholder groups ask ITV to justify ex-boss Michael Green's £15m 'golden farewell'. |
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Michael Dell hands over CEO role. The founder of the PC maker will remain chairman but hand over the position of chief executive to current chief operating officer Kevin Rollins. |
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Court stops DVD-copy software. A New York court bans sales of a DVD-copying program, after a similar ruling in California. |
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Robo-talk helps pocket translator. Tourists landing in Tokyo can hire out a handheld gadget that translates in a second. |
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Online piracy 'devastates' music. Net piracy has had a "devastating" impact on the music business, says a leading record industry figure. |
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E-mail users caught in virus feud. Rival virus writing groups are trading insults via novel versions of their malicious creations. |
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IBM aims new programs at SMBs. Big Blue initiatives foster repeatable solutions that are easier to build, deploy |
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CA named as SCO licensee. Total number of publicly announced licensees stands at four |
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U.S. politicians to take a swipe at offshoring. Bill designed to protect local jobs will be introduced in Congress |
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Intel's CTO to meet Chinese government over WAPI. Pat Gelsinger to discuss concerns over China's national WLAN security standard |
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Lindows offers discount to P-to-P buyers. Customers who download its commercial software using BitTorrent get 50 percent discount |
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CeBit Organizer boosts WLAN service fee. Fees are up as much as 130 percent more than last year ADVERTISEMENT: Does your company copy software illegally? - Illegal copying is software piracy and it?s against the law. Report Software Piracy Today. |
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QuickTime hole waiting to be filled in. 'High severity' vulnerability awaits patch from Apple |
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Ask Jeeves buys Interactive Search. Company expects $343 million aquisition to double its search market share |
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Despite flak, ICANN attends to 'business as usual'. ICANN's role as an Internet regulatory authority is under attack |
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Michael Dell gives up CEO title to Rollins. Dell will still be 'deeply involved' in the day-to-day business of the company |
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'We're just like the RIAA,' says SCO |
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Gateway AV Scanners Caught By Surprise |
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My experience as an Election Judge in Baltimore County |
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Updated: fwall 1.4.6_rc4 |
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El Reg badly misguided on cyber-terror threat |
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Debian: libxml/libxml2 Buffer overflow vulnerability |
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SCO Group: cups Denial of service vulnerability |
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Profiling Network Administrators by Adrian Lamo - Intruder intelligence is a double edged sword |
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Elsewhere: E-mail users caught in virus feud. A war of words is breaking out between the creators of the Netsky, Bagle and MyDoom Windows worms.
The malicious programs' creators are putting taunts and insults in suc... |
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Elsewhere: Bugwatch: The wrong type of virus. Each week vnunet.com asks a different expert to give their views on recent virus and security issues, with advice, warnings and information on the latest threats.
This w... |
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News: Dueling Viruses Are Latest Computer Pest. Washington Post By Mike Musgrove |
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News: New Services Are Minding Your Business. Washington Post By Leslie Walker [walkerl at washpost dot com] |
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BugTraq: A new white paper by Sanctum: "Divide and Conquer - HTTP Response Splitting, Web Cache Poisoning Attacks, and Related Topics". Sender: Amit Klein [amit dot klein at sanctuminc dot com] |
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BugTraq: Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco CSS 11000 Series Content Services Switches Malformed UDP Packet Vulnerability. Sender: Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team [psirt at cisco dot com] |
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BugTraq: Re: [bugtraq] Nokia 3410 cell phones software flaw. Sender: Erwann Abalea [erwann dot abalea at certplus dot com] |
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BugTraq: LNSA-#2004-0004: libxml2 buffer overflow. Sender: Vincenzo Ciaglia [ciaglia at netwosix dot org] |
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Vulnerabilities: GNU Anubis Multiple Remote Buffer Overflow and Formant String Vulnerabilities. GNU Anubis is an outgoing email processor. Anubis is developed to process and format email after it leaves the MUA and before it reaches the MTA.
GNU Anubis has been rep... |
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Vulnerabilities: Volition Red Faction Game Client Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Red Faction is a multiplayer 3D first person shooter game developed by Volition and published by THQ
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been identified in the Red Fact... |
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Vulnerabilities: Calife Local Memory Corruption Vulnerability. Calife is a program that allows local users to elevate privileges to root using their own credentials, provided they are authorized to do so. The program must be setuid r... |
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Vulnerabilities: Microsoft Windows Window Message Subsystem Design Error Vulnerability. A serious design error in the Win32 API has been reported. The issue is related to the inter-window message passing system.
In the Win32 model, all windows on the deskt... |
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Vulnerabilities: Squid Proxy NULL URL Character Unauthorized Access Vulnerability. Squid is a freely available, open source web proxy software package. It is designed for use on the Unix and Linux platforms.
A vulnerability has been identified in the a... |
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Vulnerabilities: Motorola T720 Phone Denial Of Service Vulnerability. Motorola T720 is a Cell Phone that supports Internet connectivity.
The Motorola T720 has been reported prone to a remote denial of service vulnerability. The issue prese... |
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Sun Java site running sluggish on decaf. Doctor orders cache injection |
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California offical in court over Oracle mega-deal. 'Falsification of reports' |
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Internet governance: who will take the helm?. Me. No, Me. NO, ME |
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Cisco's SAN biz bores McData CEO. Ho-hum |
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Japanese deploy bi-lingual talking PDA. Domo origato, me old china |
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Confess about XP Reloaded quick, Gartner tells MS. Windows - a journey without roadmaps... |
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Russian boffins in arctic base ordeal. Buildings lost, rescue uncertain |
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IT bosses baffled by new products. What's this button here do? |
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Michael Dell to relinquish CEO title, command of 'brain'. President Rollins grabs the motor functions |
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Does open source software enhance security?. Analysis Yes, but not for the reasons many think |
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It Wasn't So Smart After All. Target pulls the plug on its Visa card with the imbedded smart chip, saying customers aren't that keen on using it. That's not what the proponents of smart-card technology want to hear. |
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States Push for Net Sales Taxes. Many state governments are asking taxpayers to declare their e-commerce purchases when they file tax returns. The idea is to force consumers to pay sales taxes for those items, but experts say the rules may have little effect. |
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Now Hear This: Beat It. Because the nature of the insurgency in Iraq is to blend in, the military occupation is searching for new ways to disperse a hostile crowd without resorting to lethal force. The current weapon of choice: noise. |
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SCO Launches Dual Legal Attacks. The software company sues AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler, claiming the companies have violated copyrights and agreements related to Linux and Unix. |
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Snafus Aplenty in E-Voting. Frozen touch-screen monitors and malfunctioning computers caused problems at a number of polling places Tuesday, but election officials say the glitches are all part of the teething process. Others fear the worst, come November. |
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Need Stem Cells? We Got 'Em. Shucking the bonds of federal money, Harvard researchers are using private funds to develop new batches of embryonic stem cells. And they're giving them away. By Kristen Philipkoski. |
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Some Like It Hot. OK, P2P is 'piracy.' But Hollywood, radio, cable TV and, yes, even the music industry all sprang from different forms of thievery. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine. |
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Shocking Way to Transform Waste. Penn State researchers say they've made a fuel cell that eats waste to produce electricity, potentially making water treatment a self-sustaining technology. By David Snow. |
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I'm Sorry, Dave, You're Speeding. Toyota shows a concept car that taps into drivers' records to adjust its performance -- less power for newbies or repeat speeders, for example. Toyota says it's just a showcase. Civil libertarians say it's creepy. Patrick Gray reports from Melbourne, Australia. |
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Cannibals Descend on MP3 Players. Digital photographers hungry for cheaper storage grab microdrives out of the MuVo2 and get a discount to boot. By Leander Kahney. |
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DNA Report Revives Czar Mystery. Whose bodies were discovered in Siberia? Critics charge that scientists flubbed their tests confirming the identities of Czar Nicholas II and his slain family. The accused researchers cry foul. By Randy Dotinga. |
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Senators: Hands Off Kids' Data. Congress considers a bill that would make it illegal for marketers to trade information about anyone under 16. Companies would not be able to buy and sell data about children without their parents' consent. By Kim Zetter. |
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PKI vendors wanted |
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HP, Philips advance on digital-rights front |
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New bill aims to shine light on spyware |
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CIA invests in start-ups. The payoff? Technology |
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'War driver' finds easy pickings |
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Worm Writers Continue Verbal Warfare |
| 137. |
Tech Jobs: Data Storage |
| 138. |
Worm Writers Continue Verbal Warfare |
| 139. |
Court Rules Raids on Sharman's Australian Offices ''okay'' |
| 140. |
Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community vient de sortir ! |
| 141. |
Shut window on viruses |
| 142. |
Updated: fwall 1.4.6_rc4 |
| 143. |
Elsewhere: E-mail users caught in virus feud |
| 144. |
Elsewhere: Bugwatch: The wrong type of virus |
| 145. |
News: Dueling Viruses Are Latest Computer Pest |
| 146. |
News: New Services Are Minding Your Business |
| 147. |
Target to Drop ''Smart'' Visa Card |
| 148. |
Super dur d'installer un firewall sous Linux ? |
| 149. |
Is Linux Kernel 2.6 Primed for the Enterprise? |
| 150. |
El Reg badly misguided on cyber-terror threat |
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About Internet/Network Security
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Introduction to Vulnerability Scanning. Vulnerability scanning can be a key part of ensuring the continued security of your network. This is a brief article introducing the concepts of vulnerability scanning- how it works, what sorts of things it checks for, what the results mean... |
