Monday, March 08, 2004

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Signing Sunday in Austin at SXSW. A reminder of my upcoming Austin signing, this Sunday: I will be signing copies of Eastern Standard Tribe Austin at the SXSW conference, immediately following the Bloggie Award Ceremony on the trade-floor. March 15, 1:30PM, at the book signing area of the SXSW Interactive Festival Trade Show & Exhibition on the third floor of the Austin Convention Center. If you're not a registered attendee at SXSW, you can get a free trade-floor pass here. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Blade servers fight for edge. IBM talks up its blade servers to the telecommunications industry, while HP slims down its blades to allow more servers in the same amount of space. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  WORM_NETSKY.K 11:23:16 PM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Passion of the iPod. iGod: an iPod ad parody that speaks to the Mel Gibson Vanity Project zeitgeist. Link (Thanks, bturner!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  IBM plans profusion of new blade servers. Big Blue is expected to announce next week that it has adapted its blade server for telecommunications customers, one step in an ambitious program that will carry blades into most of IBM's server line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Judge Delays Enforcement of DVD Ruling (AP). AP - A federal judge in New York who ordered a Missouri company to stop making and selling DVD-copying software over copyright concerns has agreed to delay enforcement of that order, pending a hearing next week. 4.  Ford in Deal to Use Toyota Hybrid System Technology (Reuters). Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp said on Tuesday that it had concluded licensing agreements with Ford Motor Co covering the use of its hybrid system and emissions purification technology. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Is Windows Worth $45? 6.  Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hack the Planet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  EE Times: Codec impasse holds up designs. I wonder if ISO and ITU will ever get the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Users still double clicking email attachments, MSJVM Removal Tool 1.0, Upcoming ISC Webcast 10:22:56 PM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Announcing Ars Technica Polo Shirts!. The Ars Emporium has a hot new item in, the Ars Polo Shirt. Perfect for casual Friday, or any other day you want to grace the room with a svelte black polo, our newest addition comes with an embroidered logo similar to the one we use on articles. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  PayPal Settles NY Probe, But Faces Others ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hack the Planet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  The Register: March is crunch time for 802.20. BTW, I think WiMo is a much cooler name than Mobile-Fi. 4.  Wired News: One File Swapper, One Lawsuit. The passive-aggressive approach to copyright reform: make enforcing copyrights so expensive that it isn't worth it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  ICANN president denies group is a regulator. Agency has narrow role, Twomey says 6.  IBM, Dassault integrate middleware, PLM platforms. Deal intended to boost On Demand environments 7.  Microsoft loosening contracts for PC makers. Non-assert clause on patents to be removed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Net Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  SCO.com emerges from virus battle 9.  Card fraud figures show rise in ID theft 10.  New Sober worm poses as Microsoft patch 11.  Linux kernel vuln reloaded 12.  Review - LANguard Network Security Scanner 3.3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Worm masquerades as Microsoft patch 14.  SCO.com emerges from virus battle 15.  Will PHP 5 Live Up to Its Billing? 16.  Fuji's New 300 GB and 15K RPM Enterprise Drives 17.  W32.Netsky.K@mm 18.  Identity Helps AXA Financial Insure Success 9:22:40 PM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  EchoStar - Viacom spat goes public; deadline looms. EchoStar/Viacom row goes public, both face a midnight deadline to keep satellite TV channels on the air. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com - Front Door ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  SAP to defend Oracle bid in letter. The German software maker has its own interests at stake in the merger battle: The acquisition of PeopleSoft would leave it with one less competitor to worry about. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  TI Revises Outlook to Upper End of Range (Reuters). Reuters - Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN.N), the largest maker of chips for cell phones, on Monday revised first-quarter earnings and revenue targets to the higher end of its estimates, reflecting broad product strength. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  A Motherboard That Doesn't Require An OS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  New version of the Sober worm speaks German. Antivirus software companies warned customers about a new variant of the Sober e-mail worm, which began spreading on the Internet Monday and masquerades as a Microsoft Corp. software update. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  HP nips and tucks low-end servers. Blade play ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  WORM_SPYBOT.DG 8.  Users still double clicking email attachments, MSJVM Removal Tool 1.0 8:22:15 PM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Safe For Work Porn. bb pal Vann Hall points us to this tongue-in-, er, -cheek collection of "Safe For Work Porn" Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Penny Arcade! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  A Brief Index Of Difficulty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com - Front Door ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Hardware hiccup blanks the Journal. A "hardware failure" causes a one-hour publishing outage at The Wall Street Journal Online, during which the site posted a plain-text version of its Afternoon Report. 4.  Wireless powwow takes aim at spectrum. Tech execs tell government officials how to shake up the wireless spectrum so that they have room to innovate amid the Wi-Fi boom. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Minn. Case Alleges Microsoft Overcharges (AP). AP - In what would be the first such case to reach trial, opening statements were scheduled this week in a class action lawsuit that accuses Microsoft Corp. of overcharging Minnesotans for software. 6.  Hotlines: EarthLink Fires Leo Burnett, Seeks New Creative Shop (AdWeek.com). AdWeek.com - CHICAGO Atlanta-based EarthLink has parted with Publicis' Leo Burnett and will seek a new agency to handle its creative chores, sources said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  The Implications Of Software Commodity? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Linux kernel vuln reloaded 9.  Is password-lending a cybercrime? 7:21:55 PM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com - Front Door ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Juniper to invite Cisco to 'Pepsi' challenge. Juniper Networks preps a low-end access router code-named Pepsi to take on Cisco Systems' 2600--a direct-hit strategy reminiscent of the cola wars. 2.  Investment in diminutive nanotech anything but small. The Nano Science and Technology Institute's Nanotech 2004 trade show in Boston reveals that the U.S. government, among others, expects to spend billions on nanotech research in coming years. 3.  PC chip revenue to surge in 2004. Market researcher IDC predicts that if all goes well, revenue in semiconductors for desktops and laptops will hit $53.6 billion this year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Microsoft Menaces Oracle PeopleSoft Bid (Reuters). Reuters - Officials at Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) have given U.S. antitrust authorities a sworn statement that could help the government's effort to block Oracle Corp.'s (ORCL.O) bid to buy PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT.O), attorneys familiar with the case said. 5.  Texas Instruments Outlook at High End (Reuters). Reuters - Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN.N), the largest maker of chips for cell phones, on Monday revised its first-quarter earnings and revenue targets to the higher end of its previous forecast, reflecting broad product strength. 6.  PayPal Settles N.Y. Probe, Faces Others (Reuters). Reuters - Online payment service PayPal has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle charges that it misled customers who expected refunds when purchases went awry, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said on Monday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  How The Web Ruined The Encyclopedia Business ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Dell to support EMC's VMware software. Move helps PC seller compete with HP, IBM 9.  Akonix adds IM integration to gateway product. Company acquires Natural Messaging 10.  IDC: PC chip sales to rise 18 percent in 2004. Revenues to total $53.6 billion 11.  Peoplesoft translates ESA suite for European markets. Dutch, French, German versions readied ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Is password-lending a cybercrime? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Weblogs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  O'Reilly Editors Debate "Havoc Pennington rant at Sun's strange strategy". Mike Loukides disagrees with Havoc Pennington as to whether or not Sun's port of Evolution to Java Swing makes sense. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Vulnerabilities: Norton AntiVirus 2002 ASCII Control Character Denial Of Service Vulnerability. Norton AntiVirus is a desktop antivirus solution that includes incoming email virus scanning. It is available for Microsoft Operating Systems. Norton AntiVirus 2002 has... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  8 Mar W32/Netsky-J 16.  Security Focus: Invision Power Board Error Message Path Disclosure Vulnerability "issue can be e... 17.  Silicon: Microsoft security CDs - useful to more than a third of you "A move to receiving softwa... 18.  eWeek: Worms Are for Suckers "Some administrators are going to the extreme these days of strippi... 19.  Geek: iSEC finds new Linux kernel exploit [ISEC] "iSEC goes so far as to offer demonstration cod... 20.  TROJ_CAPWIN.B 21.  W32.Sober.D@mm 22.  W32.Netsky.J@mm 6:21:35 PM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Identity World ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Identity Helps AXA Financial Insure Success ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Xserve G5 delayed. In a pattern all too familiar to early adopters of Apple products, first shipments of the G5 Xserve have been delayed. Will this also push back the long-awaited revision of the Power Macintosh G5 line? By Eric Bangeman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Ted Williams' son, cryonics believer, dead at 35. Howard Lovy's NanoBot alerts us to the death of John-Henry Williams, son of baseball great Ted Williams who was put in a cryogenic deep freeze in 2002. Apparently, John-Henry and his sister signed a pact with their father declaring their desire to be frozen. No word though on whether John-Henry went through with it. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com - Front Door ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Faster Fujitsu drive plays catch-up. The launch of a 300GB disk drive aimed at the business market lets Fujitsu match the capacity of a drive from rival Hitachi. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  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. 6.  HP To Release Ultra-Thin Blade (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Making a small unit even smaller, Hewlett-Packard will release a dual-processor blade server that is more compact than any such unit now on the market. 7.  SAP Backing Oracle's Market Definition (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - SAP will pen a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice outlining its definition of the software market as more closely aligned with rival Oracle. 8.  Will PHP 5 Live Up to Its Billing? (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - PHP, the open-source scripting language popular in Web applications, is undergoing major renovations. The new version, PHP 5, already has appeared in three public betas and will be in a fourth beta shortly. The development team is aiming for May 2004 availability. 9.  RightNow Gives Locator Real-Time Upgrade (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - One year later -- almost to the day of its initial launch -- Right Now has updated its Locator application, a customer-service module for retailers that want to provide their Web-site visitors with inventory information and maps to their nearest location. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Viacom and DishNetwork Battle On Air Over Contract 11.  RMS & FSF Directors To Meet With FSF Members ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  AirMagnet updates rogue detection software. Offering helps locate and disable illegal WLAN access points 13.  New version of the Sober worm speaks German. Sober.D worm poses as a software patch 14.  US nanotechnology funding called for. More emphasis is needed on engineering and research, Intel exec says ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  Competing technologies could shake up e-mail. Microsoft’s announcement at the RSA Conference last week of a host of initiatives to stop unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam, highlighted some tectonic shifts taking place in the once staid world of Internet messaging. 16.  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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.  Trustix 2.1 Released ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Weblogs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18.  Digital Democracy Teach-In. The Digital Democracy Teach-In is designed to share the best practices of pioneers in online activism, including folks from moveon.org, SICM, and the Dean and Clark campaigns. 19.  Political Patterns on the WWW. Valdis Krebs shows how the books people read reflects clusters of preconception. There's a group of books read by the right, and a group read by the left, with surprisingly little crossover. 20.  An Editorial on Terrorism from Bruce Schnier. Bruce Schnier has written an elegant argument against our country's slide towards a police state. Agree or disagree with his politics, you should read this piece. 21.  An Editorial on Terrorism from Bruce Schneier. Bruce Schneier has written an elegant argument against our country's slide towards a police state. Agree or disagree with his politics, you should read this piece. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 22.  Vulnerabilities: Digital Reality Game Engine Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability. Digital Reality Game engine is used in the game titles Haegemonia and Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps. The game engine includes features that allow users to play the game lo... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 23.  Blunkett appoints police IT supremo. Big challenges ahead 24.  IBM - EDS: merger report dismissed. Too small to be a monopoly 25.  EU funds to fuel Eastern Europe tech boom. Virtuous circle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 26.  8 Mar W32/Netsky-K 27.  Build Your Own VPN Appliance 28.  Security Hole Found in VoIP Provider Web Site 29.  Will WindowsXP SP2 Break My App? 30.  Security Goes Mainstream with New Linux Kernel 31.  Card fraud figures show rise in ID theft 32.  Trustix 2.1 Released 33.  Red Hat Enterprise Server Put to the Test 34.  HP Plugs 'Critical' Tru64 UNIX Flaws 35.  Cigital: Bug Zappers, A Dossier 5:21:16 PM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Tribe.net tribe of the day -- Die, Charles Shaw, Die!. Oh, how I love this. There's an actual tribe on Tribe.net called "Anti-Two-Buck-Chuck," for people who are sick of other people bringing the infamous brand of dollar-ninety-nine wine from Trader Joe's to parties and potlucks and whatnot. For the record, If I invite you to my house for a party, and the invitation says BYOB, which it wouldn't, but I'm just saying, I'd rather that you bring a brown bag of fo'teez than Charles Shaw, plus it would cost less anyway. Link 2.  How news travels through blogs. A reader writes, "Stephen VanDyke analyzes how news travels on the Internet. He uses a nifty graphic that resembles a kabbalah diagram. (In the process of doing this, VanDyke's post becomes a textbook example of how news travels." Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com - Front Door ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Microsoft watches and waits. roundupA worm disguises itself as a patch from the software giant, which is waiting to see which way EU antitrust regulators will jump. 4.  iTunes song swap helper vanishes from Net. The MyTunes software, which turned Apple's jukebox into a way to trade MP3s, goes offline. But this time, it's not the record industry's doing. 5.  Study: Open-source databases going mainstream. Following in the footsteps of the Linux operating system, open-source databases are moving toward mainstream use and threatening proprietary software alternatives, says a new survey. 6.  Motorola phones want their MTV games. The company announces that some of its handsets sold outside the United States, Canada and Japan will come preloaded with MTV's interactive games series. 7.  Last waltz for MyTunes?. roundup The program helped turn Apple's iTunes into a way to trade MP3 files, but a computer crash leaves its developer singing the blues. Also: Virgin Digital sees green in online music. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Microsoft Menaces Oracle PeopleSoft Bid (Reuters). Reuters - Officials at Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) have given U.S. antitrust authorities a sworn statement that could help the government's effort to block Oracle Corp.'s (ORCL.O) bid to buy PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT.O), attorneys familiar with the case said. 9.  SCO: Make-or-Break Moves? (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - After months of ratcheting up threats to sue enterprise Linux users, SCO last week filed a pair of lawsuits that legal experts and members of the open-source community said is a make-or-break turning point for the company. 10.  BellSouth Selling Latin American Business (AP). AP - BellSouth Corp. agreed to sell its stake in 10 Latin American operations to a wireless unit of Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica SA for about $4.2 billion in cash and an additional $1.5 billion in debt. 11.  Thomson signs DVD player licencing deal with China (AFP). AFP - The French consumer electronics group Thomson said that it has signed an accord with the two principal bodies representing Chinese makers of DVD players, defining the conditions under which they can use patents held by Thomson. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  SCO - EV1, Licensees, Groklaw, Armed Guards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Linux kernel vuln reloaded. Escalation of privileges 14.  Dell deepens ties to VMware. EMC in disguise ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  Microsoft Notebook: New player in security market 16.  New Worm Masquerades as Microsoft Update 17.  RSA secures three-tier strategy for its channel 18.  Biometrics 'set for boom' 19.  CIO and CTO roles diverge 20.  Finally a Multi-OS Firewall/VPN software package 21.  Gentoo: kernel 2.4.x Privilege escalation vulnerabilty 22.  Debian: kernel 2.2.19 Privilege escalation vulnerability 23.  Trustix: nfs-utils Denial of service vulnerability 24.  Trustix: libxml2 Buffer overflow vulnerability 25.  Gentoo: libxml2 Buffer overflow vulnerability 26.  WORM_NACHI.F 27.  WORM_NETSKY.J 4:20:56 PM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Is Klingon copyrighted?. Ernie the Attorney Ernest Miller analyses the question, "Can the Klingon language be copyrighted?" However, can you really copyright a language? You can copyright a dictionary, certainly, but can you copyright grammar? I'm not sure you can copyright grammar at all, since it is a set of rules regarding word usage. Grammar is an idea, that can probably only be expressed in a fairly limited number of ways, even if fanciful. Additionally, each Klingon word would seem to be too short to qualify as copyrightable individually. I don't think that a list of words in a dictionary format would be copyrightable under Feist. So, I'm not sure at all how one could copyright a language. The individual descriptions of the words might be copyrightable, but as long as they aren't exact copies, the idea/expression dichotomy should provide only limited copyright protection to Paramount. Link 2.  Chernobyl Poems and photos of Lybov Sirota. Following up on last week's post about a woman's photoblogging-by-motorcycle in the Chernobyl dead zone, this somewhat older collection of poems by a Chernobyl survivor -- and an online collection of images documenting her journey back to the site. Lybov Sirota once worked as director of a writing program for children near the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station. Before April 25th, 1986, she'd never written poetry. That night, she needed a breath of fresh air; she walked out on her balcony in Pripyat and watched Chernobyl's nuclear reactor explode. The radioactivity exposure caused Sirota and her son, Sasha, to become very ill. She began writing poetry about the experience. In 2000, her son persuaded her make a pilgrimage to their their former home; that journey is documented here. Link to poems, Link to photo series. (Thanks, muonzoo.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com - Front Door ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  HP to put blade servers on a diet. Hewlett-Packard announces a new, thinner blade server--a system that will enable customers to stack twice as many of the dual-processor machines into the same space. 4.  Oracle replies to antitrust suit. The software maker counters the Justice Department's arguments as the agency moves to block Oracle's takeover bid for PeopleSoft. 5.  Software targets PDF documents. Corda Technologies releases software for converting HTML Web pages into files that conform to PDF. 6.  Briefly: Software turns HTML into PDF. The Corda Technologies release converts HTML Web pages into PDF files...Oracle hits back in antitrust case...Standard & Poore's lowers Sun's credit rating. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  PayPal Settles Probe, Others Underway (Reuters). Reuters - Online payment service PayPal has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle charges that it misled customers who expected refunds when purchases went awry, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Monday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  'Brain Pacemakers' Being Tested ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Trustix: libxml2 Buffer overflow vulnerability ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Weblogs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Digital Democracy Teach-In. The Digital Democracy Teach-In is designed to share the best practices of pioneers in online activism, including folks from moveon.org, SICM, and the Dean and Clark campaigns. 11.  Political Patterns on the WWW. Valdis Krebs shows how the books people read reflects clusters of preconception. There's a group of books read by the right, and a group read by the left, with surprisingly little crossover. 12.  An Editorial on Terrorism from Bruce Schnier. Bruce Schnier has written an elegant argument against our country's slide towards a police state. Agree or disagree with his politics, you should read this piece. 13.  An Editorial on Terrorism from Bruce Schneier. Bruce Schneier has written an elegant argument against our country's slide towards a police state. Agree or disagree with his politics, you should read this piece. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Vulnerabilities: Linux Kernel NCPFS ncp_lookup() Unspecified Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. NCPFS is a suite of programs that allow users to access a Novell server. NetWare servers can be mounted under Linux by NCPFS and functionality to print with NetWare prin... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  Des virus protégés par mot de passe échappent aux antivirus 3:20:35 PM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Cool comic about birds and death and stuff.. Susannah spotted this lovely comic art piece by this guy in this discussion forum on this site. Link 2.  So, you wanna be a pyro?. BoingBoing buddy Hutch (pyrotechnics guru who works on the Burning of the Man, as well as Hollywood stuff) points us to a series of workshops in Southern California where you can learn to operate fireworks and do pyro stage effects. The seminars cost only $15 each to attend (what is that in Starbusian currency, like, four venti cappucinos?), and they're offered by a group called Fireworks America. This year, they'll be held in three locations: March 13 - Los Angeles area, March 20 - San Diego area, March 27 - Stockton area. Hutch says, "This is a great opportunity to learn more about fireworks and stage effects. Courses are available for every level of experience. There will be special 'get your license' training for those that want it (please note: this is for Public Display and Theatrical licenses, it does not include Special Effects licensing information). These seminars are always informative and a lot of fun! I learn new stuff every time I attend. If you're interested in doing more shows, this is the place to meet other operators and get on their crews." Attendees must be 18 years or older. And if you're coming with no prior experience or pyro scene connections, don't expect to walk away with an invitation to join someone's crew. For good reasons, that tends to take time, say folks in the biz. To RSVP for one of the seminars, call Ashley or Dianna for more info at 800-464-7976, and for more info visit this link. 3.  New Korean Robot Wants to Guard Your Home. BoingBoing pal du Paris Roland Piquepaille says: There's a new robot in town who wants to guard your home. This new security robot, which currently has no name, is designed by the Korean company Mostitech and will be distributed starting in June by Korea's top mobile carrier, SK Telecom. With its price tag of only $850, it will be a serious competitor for Banryu, which costs $18,000. The unnamed robot is 50 centimeters tall and weighs only 12 kilograms. In case of emergency, such as a fire, its cameras can take snapshots and send them to the owner's cell phone. Likewise, if an unexpected visitor is entering your home, you'll receive his picture on your phone. It also can entertain your kids by reading them a book. The Korea Times tells us the story while this overview provides some pictures of the cute unnamed robot. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com - Front Door ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Apple misses ship date for Xserve G5. The company originally said it would start shipping the rack-mounted server in February, but now hopes to get it out this month. 5.  Kodak buys into digital printing. With a pair of acquisitions, the photography icon hopes to cash in on growth in commercial printing. But per-share payback won't come soon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Internet Regulator OKs Wait-Listing Service (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The Internet's main oversight body on Saturday approved the creation of a controversial service to let people bid on domain names that are about to expire. 7.  Intel Opens Research Center in Korea (Reuters). Reuters - Intel Corp. (INTC.O), the world's largest computer chip maker, said on Monday it has opened a research and development center in Korea focused on wireless communications and multimedia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Navy Unveils Polyglot Chat For Iraq ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Gentoo: libxml2 Buffer overflow vulnerability 10.  Gentoo: kernel 2.4.x Privilege escalation vulnerabilty ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  BugTraq: RE: VirtuaNews Admin Panel 1.0.3 Pro Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabillity. Sender: Ravish [ravish at linuxadvisory dot com] 12.  Vulnerabilities: GNU Mailman Admin Page Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities. Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities were reported to exist in the administrative pages for GNU Mailman. The source of these vulnerabilities is insufficient s... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Teros enters XML security space 14.  Application firewalls add Web services - Infoworld Staff 15.  Safari JavaScript Array Creation Denial of Service 16.  8 Mar W32/Randex-AA 2:20:15 PM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Mini fuel cells get 50% boost; may soon outperform batteries. Stanford engineers create a breakthrough in hydrogen fuel cell technology that may boost performance by up to 50% By Matt Woodward. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Is Klingon copyrighted?. Ernie the Attorney analyses the question, "Can the Klingon language be copyrighted?" However, can you really copyright a language? You can copyright a dictionary, certainly, but can you copyright grammar? I'm not sure you can copyright grammar at all, since it is a set of rules regarding word usage. Grammar is an idea, that can probably only be expressed in a fairly limited number of ways, even if fanciful. Additionally, each Klingon word would seem to be too short to qualify as copyrightable individually. I don't think that a list of words in a dictionary format would be copyrightable under Feist. So, I'm not sure at all how one could copyright a language. The individual descriptions of the words might be copyrightable, but as long as they aren't exact copies, the idea/expression dichotomy should provide only limited copyright protection to Paramount. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com - Front Door ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Adobe adds bar codes to PDF forms. Adobe Systems expands on its efforts to promote PDF as a format for electronic forms with new technology for adding bar codes. Early adopters include the IRS. 4.  EU chips in for nanotech project. The European Commission plans to help launch a research project aimed at studying chip manufacturing processes related to nanotechnology. 5.  Start-up ups ante on Wi-Fi security. AirMagnet is one of the first Wi-Fi intrusion detection companies to offer the ability to block and disable rogue users. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Windows Could Lose Media Player in Europe? 7.  Five Free Calculus Textbooks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Fujitsu announces new enterprise hard drives. Hot on the heels of Hitachi, Fujitsu introduces its own 300GB drive that uses four disk platters 9.  Teros enters XML security space. Firewall maker adds security features for Web services to its application gateway platform 10.  Application firewalls add Web services. Teros and NetContinuum are among vendors adding XML support 11.  FileMaker boosts workgroup database. Capacity, relational capabilities, security to be enhanced 12.  AIIM highlights content control. FileNet, Documentum unveil offerings 13.  Weighing the benefits of outsourcing. Rushing into offshore relationships often leads to costly mistakes ADVERTISEMENT: Need a MS Exchange Spam Filter? - Spam Sucks! Your life shouldn't. iHateSpam for Exchange was built to the exact specs Exchange Admins asked for. It's now the Best-Selling, Award Winning anti-spam solution for Exchange 5.5, 2000 and 2... 14.  EU launches CMOS research project. Project aims to push the limits of semiconductor performance and density 15.  Indian outsourcers tackle high-end IT. Outsourcing move into IT consulting, systems integration, product development 16.  Apple confirms Xserve G5 delay. New server was originally due to ship last month 17.  GMS releases credit-card size board. System board allows PC-like performance to be placed into embedded devices ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18.  Teros enters XML security space. Application firewall maker Teros Inc. said Monday that it is adding features to protect Web services to its Secure Application Gateway product line. 19.  Application firewalls add Web services - Infoworld Staff. Web application firewalls are evolving to support XML- and Web services-based applications, and vendors Teros and NetContinuum are both driving upcoming product releases in that direction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20.  News: Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system. Hacked newscast warns viewers: "All your base are belong to us." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 21.  BugTraq: directory traversal in PWebServer 0.3.3. Sender: Donato Ferrante [fdonato at autistici dot org] 22.  Vulnerabilities: Seattle Lab Software SLMail Pro Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. SLMail Pro is an email server with support for virus protection and spam email monitoring. It is commercially available for the Microsoft Windows platform. A vulnerabil... 23.  Vulnerabilities: Seattle Lab Software SLWebMail Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities. Seattle Lab Software SLWebMail is a web based e-mail server that runs on Microsoft Internet Information Server. SLWebMail is installed with SLMail Pro. Multiple buffer ... 24.  Vulnerabilities: Invision Power Board Error Message Path Disclosure Vulnerability. Invision Board is web forum software. It is implemented in PHP and is available for Unix and Linux variants and Microsoft Windows operating systems. A vulnerability has... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 25.  S&P drops Sun to junk status. Tough road ahead ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 26.  Sober.D in Deutschland auf dem Vormarsch 27.  Elsewhere: RSA secures three-tier strategy for its channel 28.  Elsewhere: Sober.D Worm Spreads to North America 29.  News: Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system 1:19:55 PM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Science Sunday. This week in Science Sunday: Bush administration science review, bubble fusion, Spirit on Mars, and a virus that may interfere with HIV. By Eric Bangeman. 2.  Psst... wanna see Google's new look?. Google has a new look, but it takes a neat little hack to see it. By Matt Woodward. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Klingon is copyrighted. The Klingon language is apparently copyrighted by Paramount Studios. The nonprofit Klingon Language Institute does not distribute any kind of canonical Klingon-English dictionary, because it fears litigation from Star Trek's parent company. But the problem is, the Klingon language belongs to Paramount; it's copyrighted. If someone started distributing lists of Klingon words (or descriptions of grammar, etc.), then Paramount might view this as competition for the legitimate sale of their own products, which would be A Bad Thing. Besides, the very act of compiling your own list, even if it's just from TKD , can be extremely educational Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com - Front Door ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Rights groups target antipiracy directive. As an intellectual property rights directive heads into the European Parliament, citizens groups are calling for amendments to limit its scope. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Xserve G5 delayed (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. confirmed for MacCentral on Monday that the recently announced Xserve G5 has been delayed and will not ship until sometime this month. Announced at Macworld Conference & Expo in January, the Xserve G5 was originally scheduled to ship in February. 6.  PayPal Probed for Anti-Fraud Efforts (Reuters). Reuters - Federal and state investigators are examining whether online payment service PayPal violated consumer-protection laws in its fight against online fraud, parent company eBay Inc. (EBAY.O) said on Monday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  A History of Video Game Controversy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  UK viewers are 'biggest DVD fans'. Consumers in the UK spend more on DVDs than any other country in western Europe, industry research suggests. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Defending Against Worm Wave Is A Tough Task 10.  UK credit card fraud down 8% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Elsewhere: RSA secures three-tier strategy for its channel. Software vendor RSA Security has unveiled a channel strategy to help partners increase turnover, profitability and market share. Under the strategy, partners will be grou... 12.  Elsewhere: Sober.D Worm Spreads to North America. A new worm purporting to contain a patch to defend against MyDoom is attacking Windows machines throughout Europe and parts of North America. Sober.D appeared Sunday an... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  BugTraq: [OpenPKG-SA-2004.004] OpenPKG Security Advisory (libtool). Sender: OpenPKG [openpkg at openpkg dot org] 14.  BugTraq: Symlink Vulnerability in GNU automake <1.8.3. Sender: Stefan Nordhausen [deletethis dot nordhaus at informatik dot hu-berlin dot de] 15.  Vulnerabilities: Util-Linux Login Program Information Leakage Vulnerability. Login is a component of the util-linux package. It is available for the Linux platform. A problem has been identified in the handling of information by the login compon... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  Tesco offers online DVD rentals. Classics by post at a price tba 17.  Blunkett appoints new police IT supremo. Big challenges ahead 18.  McData and Brocade puff patent peace pipe. Lawsuit? What lawsuit? 19.  S& P drops Sun to junk status. Tough road ahead ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Net Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20.  Camera phones could threaten company security 21.  Networking improvements in the 2.6 kernel 22.  U.S. urged to take lead in issuing biometric passports 23.  States join spyware battle 24.  Californian ISP sues Bob Vila site for spam 12:19:35 PM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Susannah Breslin art-comic "My, My American Bukkake Too". "You're a Bad Man, Aren't You?" author Susannah Breslin has a new graphic work up on Artbomb. It's all about her experiences witnessing bukkake video shoots in Porn Valley. Brilliant. It's art, not porn, but deals with explicit subject matter so may or may not be worksafe. To quote Warren, go and have a look. Link 2.  Web Zen: Television Zen. (1) test cards (2) logo animations (3) vintage kids shows (4) rainbow (5) tv weebl (6) law & order: plot generator (7) commercial break (8) law & order: artistic intent (9) television heaven (10) zap-o-matik web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com - Front Door ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  China leads in worldwide DSL market. The country edges out all others in high-speed Internet connections via digital subscriber line technology. Japan follows in second place, and the United States is third. 4.  Worm disguises self as Microsoft patch. The latest variant of the mass-mailing Sober worm masquerades as an official Microsoft patch for the MyDoom worm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Pondering Digital Music's Future (PC World). PC World - Chiefs talk formats, paid services, and p-to-p at industry forum. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Coffee is a "Health Drink" 7.  The Psychology Behind Headphones ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  EC rejects MS claims over OEM T&Cs. Muster buster 9.  Mother seeks ban on violent Net porn. Daughter fell victim to Web-addicted murderer 10.  UK drivers flout mobile ban. Ten per cent still on the blower 11.  UK credit card fraud down 8%. But cardholder-not-present theft on the up 12.  No Xbox 2 revelations at GDC. Final hardware specs still undecided 13.  Teens get classes in Tolkien's Elvish. Ed'i'ear ar' elenea! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Security Showdown: Linux Vs. Windows 11:19:15 AM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Daily Show on Haiti. Lisa Rein has posted a fine Daily Show take on the ongoing conflict in Haiti and the US goverment's spin thereupon. 9.3MB MOV Link 2.  Seed catalog covers from 1884 - present. The Burpee Seed Company has put an archive of its seed-catalog covers, stretching back to 1884, online. They are remarkable. Ethan, who suggested the link, notes that the 1945 wartime catalog features a subtle V-for-Victory rhubarb (chard?) and bomb-shaped carrots. Link (Thanks, Ethan! 3.  Sexy martian game-controller. The Nostromo is a new programmable game-controller from Belkin, with over 100 configurable key-combos and a sweet configurator. The rad, (right-handed-only) alien appearance is allegedly ergonomically optmized for twitch-gaming and the Tom's Hardware reviewer says that it's also a pretty good paintmonkey's Photoshop-controller. Man, this thing is teh s3xy. Link (via Wonderland) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Return of the King Coming Sooner to DVD 5.  The Future of Ghibli US Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [O.S.S.R] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  script kiddie culture ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Beware sober worm bearing gifts. Fake MyDoom security fix on the loose 8.  EC rejects MS claims over OEM Ts&Cs. Muster buster 9.  Kazaa fails to overturn music biz data seizure orders. Info acquired during raids can be used in court ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Fedora update for mailman 11.  OpenPKG update for libxml2 12.  Gentoo update for libxml2 13.  Gentoo update for kernel 14.  Invision Power Board Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities 15.  VirtuaNews Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities 16.  PWebServer Directory Traversal Vulnerability 17.  Microsofts Gratis-Sicherheits-CD mit interessanten Bonus-Programmen 18.  HP verhelpt zeer kritiek lek in Tru64 Unix ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About Internet/Network Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.  Security Showdown: Linux Vs. Windows. Its an age old debate with adamant and vehement supporters on both sides of fence- is Linux more secure than Windows? Is Windows more secure than Linux? I don't think you will find too many people to argue that Windows... 10:18:56 AM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Identity World ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - January 22, 2004 Issue 2.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - January 29, 2004 Issue 3.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - February 5, 2004 Issue 4.  Identinet - A Runaway Cluetrain 5.  XDI: Weaving the "Dataweb" 6.  The Great Enabler 7.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - February 12, 2004 Issue 8.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - February 19, 2004 Issue 9.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - February 26, 2004 Issue 10.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - March 4, 2004 Issue ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  A Look at the Upcoming GNOME 2.6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Microsoft settles most of patent lawsuit with AT&T. Microsoft to pay an undisclosed sum 13.  Microsoft heads to trial in Minnesota pricing suit. Suit alleges Microsoft overcharged customers in the state for its software 14.  SMIC: U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over TSMC claims. SMIC plans to ask the judgeto dismiss allegations of trade-secret misappropriation 15.  HP to ship new blade, SMB servers. New blade server is slimmest yet in the BL line ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  Microsoft v. Minnesota. Another day, another court case 17.  EC to fund Euro 45nm process with €24m grant. Building 'Euro CMOS backbone' 18.  Toxic PCs destroy life as we know it. We love landfills ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.  New worm masquerades as Microsoft update 20.  Linux meets enterprise server challenge 21.  Security forensics 22.  Feds: e-mail subpoena ruling hurts law enforcement 23.  A crash course in security incident reporting 24.  SoberD@MM from spoofed Microsoft email addresses, new version of Netsky 25.  Un nouveau virus se fait passer pour Microsoft 26.  Spyware Kazaa zorgt voor login problemen studenten 9:18:35 AM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Telefonica, BellSouth in $5.85 Bln Deal (Reuters). Reuters - Spain's top carrier Telefonica on Monday secured a $5.85 billion cash and debt deal to buy the Latin American assets of U.S. carrier BellSouth to become the leading mobile phone operator in the booming region. 2.  Virgin Launching Music Jukebox, Online Music Store (Reuters). Reuters - British billionaire Richard Branson's latest company, Virgin Digital, is developing its own digital jukebox and online music store with music delivery company MusicNet that will be available by the end of August, the companies said on Sunday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Seattle Times Reviews Desktop Linux Distros ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Telefonica bets on Latin America. The Spanish telecommunications company agrees to buy the Latin American assets of US firm BellSouth for $5.85bn. 5.  Computers 'must be greener'. PC production needs to use less energy and fewer chemical inputs, a report from the UN University says. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Linux Security Week - March 8th 2004 7.  Linux meets enterprise server challenge ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Carphone Warehouse buys Spanish telco. Euro expansion 9.  March is crunch time for Mobile-Fi. IEEE meeting critical for 802.20 standard 10.  Virgin to open music download service. MusicNet bags second big-name customer 11.  Wireless industry intellectually challenged. Analysis IP issues overshadow technology debates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Net Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Security forensics 13.  Feds: e-mail subpoena ruling hurts law enforcement 14.  A crash course in security incident reporting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  Vérifier la validité de ses 12000 signets ? Chez moi ça dure 2 secondes 16.  New version of Netsky 17.  libssh-0.1.tgz 18.  Online Curateleregister via rechtspraak.nl te bekijken 19.  Sober.D krijgt medium risico upgrade 20.  WORM_SOBER.D 8:18:15 AM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com - Front Door ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Is EU looking at yesterday's Microsoft?. As the European Union considers restrictions aimed at preventing Microsoft from unfairly using its dominance in PC OSes to gain control of the market for multimedia software, some say the war has already moved on. 2.  Ashcroft's new Internet antiporn gambit. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains why the U.S. attorney general's office is about to step up its prosecution of anyone violating federal Internet obscenity statutes. 3.  Oracle will not get its way. Antitrust chief Hewitt Pate explains why the Department of Justice is crossing swords with Larry Ellison over PeopleSoft. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  BellSouth Selling Latin American Business (AP). AP - BellSouth Corp. agreed to sell its stake in 10 Latin American operations to a wireless unit of Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica SA for about $4.2 billion in cash and an additional $1.5 billion in debt. 5.  Squeezing a Lot Into a Little, Lightweight Package (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Finding a laptop that weighs less than three pounds has never been particularly hard -- just remove enough parts from the thing. The usual remedy is to take the CD-ROM drive out, making it an ejectable module, an "expansion slice" that latches onto the bottom of the laptop or an external drive that plugs into an expansion port. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Digital maps help track criminals. Crime mapping technology is helping police forces in England stay one step ahead of offenders. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Inside the mind of the gay sheep. Boffins seek reason for ovine homosexuality 8.  Opportunity knocked by Martian rock. NASA investigates probe drilling failure 9.  Acer Aspire 1705SCi. Review Too big to be a laptop? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Battening Cargo Against Terrorism 11.  Eye on biometrics 12.  A recipe for locking down systems 13.  Feds aim to make biometrics useful 14.  AppRadar detects database intruders 15.  A crash course in security incident reporting 16.  Keeping secrets secret 17.  Social engineering is brandstof voor virusoorlog 18.  Microsoft: Overheid moet gebruikers anti-virus les geven 19.  Makkelijk Windows updaten met AutoPatcher 4.5 7:17:55 AM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Daily Show on Haiti. Lisa Rein has posted a fine Daily Show take on the ongoign conflict in Haiti and the US goverment's spin thereupon. 9.3MB MOV Link 2.  Spam haiku. Russell Buckley is creating found haiku out of spam subject-lines. Re: Terry Tate is back gallop easel fanny coop Good Sense Automation Link (Thanks, Russell!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Oracle hits back at DOJ (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - The company says the challenge of the deal is based on a faulty understanding of the enterprise software business. 4.  BellSouth: Latin deal win-win (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - The telecom will escape politically troubled Venezuela while funding half its share of AT&T Wireless. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Corpse pics earns cop the sack. 'Crass stupidity' 6.  Psion shareholders are revolting. Symbian stake is family silver 7.  FTC appeals against Rambus ruling. Wants commissioners to chuck out appeal verdict 8.  Russian arctic boffins safe and sound. Successful helicopter airlift from remains of base 9.  ATI to boost chip supply by month's end. Chairman pledges ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Which Wheat Will Win?. Japan's refusal to import wheat from a country that has GMO varieties may determine U.S. wheat growers' direction in biotech wheat development. Producers also want to sell to China, which wants the modified grain. 11.  Mars Critics Say, Look to Earth. Prominent scientists outside NASA are beginning to ask whether Mars represents what is out of whack in American science and exploration. They suggest we focus on pressing scientific issues that would improve life on Earth. 12.  The Power of Artificial Muscles. For years, researchers have been tinkering with electroactive polymers, a type of artificial muscle. But the work finally appears to be paying off with some useful products. By Steve Nadis from Wired magazine. 13.  Short-Lived PCs Have Hidden Costs. A new report details the environmental impact of the personal computer: It takes more power and material to make them than anybody realized, and that means far more damage than we knew. By Stephen Leahy. 14.  Nielsen Recognizes New Ad Reality. Next year, Neilsen will begin tracking the viewing habits of TV watchers who record their programs on TiVo-like devices for later viewing. It's another sign the old television-viewing model is disappearing. By Katie Dean. 15.  Pitfall Swings and Misses. Activision's latest episode in the venerable line of Pitfall games builds on the exploration games of the past, but fails to improve on them. A review by Lore Sjöberg. 16.  Jobs Data No Boon for Tech. A government report tallies little job growth in the technology and Internet fields, but tech job postings on some popular online employment sites convey a more upbeat picture. By Joanna Glasner. 17.  Battening Cargo Against Terrorism. A Washington state port will begin testing an anti-terrorism system next week, hoping it will prevent terrorists from planting nasty surprises inside cargo containers. By Daniel Terdiman. 18.  Pocket PCs Masquerade as IPods. The pPod mimics the iPod on a Pocket PC. Although its makers see it as a homage to great design, it may not be around for long. By Leander Kahney. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.  'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' 20.  In Texas, Hire a Lawyer, Forget About a Doctor? 21.  Background-Check Software Goes Retail 22.  Background-check kit hits retail shelves 23.  First CAN-SPAM Lawsuit Filed in California 24.  ISP Files First Can-Spam Lawsuit 25.  Australia-U.S. Trade Agreement Contains DMCA-like Provisions 26.  This Is Your Life 27.  Experts Question Microsoft's Caller ID Plans 28.  Losing Control of Your TV 29.  Microsoft wants to know who your friends are 30.  Justices Hear Arguments on Internet Pornography Law 31.  Sober.D: Wurm tarnt sich mal wieder als Windows-Update 6:17:36 AM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing Blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Spring-loaded wooden kinetic sculptures. David C. Roy builds beautiful, spring-driven wooden kinetic sculptures. Pricey but hypnotic -- check out the animations. Link (Thanks, Keith!) 2.  Apple trackpads can sense in three axes. A blog from the Queens University Human Media Lab reports that the PowerBook/iBook trackpad can sense not only x and y data, but z-axis as well, being sensitive to pressure gradients. Nice potential for human interface work. Link (Thanks, Connor!) 3.  Notes from a non-evil record label. John Buckman, the founder of the Creative Commons-licensed music-label Magnatune, has a very good blog where he talks about the trials and tribulations of running a record label that is non-evil. I received two great African music CDs recently. These are musicians from Africa, recording in London. However, I can't accept that CD for Magnatune, because the recording is totally owned by a producer in London, who would then receive all the sales royalties, and none would go to the actual performers. This situation, where the recording company or producer owns all the rights to an album, is the norm in world music... Basically, I'm not willing to have Magnatune prop up the "world musician gives up all his rights to his recordings" system which mostly exists today, and that philosophy limits what I can sign (and also what gets submitted). But, like "free trade coffee" I think people expect Magnatune to do this "fairness audit" on their behalf, and trust that half the money from their purchasers really does go to the musician. Link (Thanks, Christopher!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Telefonica Agrees $5.8 Bln BellSouth Deal (Reuters). Reuters - Spain's Telefonica (TEF.MC) said on Monday it would buy the Latin American assets of U.S. carrier BellSouth (BLS.N) in a deal valued at $5.85 billion, becoming the leading mobile operator in the fast-growing region. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Manufacturing 1 PC Takes 1.8 Tons Of Raw Material ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  UN study: Think upgrade before buying a new PC. New report finds 1.8 tons of material are used to manufacture desktop PC and monitor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  EDS to sue NHS over nixed email deal. Campaign for hearts and minds takes bizarre twist ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Spam is jarig, al 10 jaar lang ongewenste e-mail 9.  Cyberterrorisme: Mythe of werkelijkheid? 10.  Bedrijven moeten geen consumenten Wi-Fi gebruiken 11.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - February 12, 2004 Issue 12.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - February 19, 2004 Issue 13.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - February 26, 2004 Issue 14.  The Digital ID World Newsletter - March 4, 2004 Issue 15.  Blackhat: Blackhat 2004 Call for Papers "Papers and requests to speak will be received and revie... 5:17:15 AM    comment []

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dilbert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Dilbert for 08 Mar 2004. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  US seizes pirated Passion DVDs. Copies of The Passion of the Christ are among illegal DVDs recovered by police in Philadelphia. 3.  Carphone in Spanish deal. UK mobile phones retailer Carphone Warehouse targets Spain's fixed-line market after acquiring operator Xtra Telecom. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Linux Security Week - March 8th 2004 4:16:54 AM    comment []

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---------------------------------------------------------------------- New York Times: Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  No Riders: Desert Crossing Is for the Robots Only. A motley band of computer scientists, artificial intelligence experts and robot lovers is taking on the challenge of building a robot that can compete in a race without a driver. By John Markoff. 2.  Getting to Know Me, Getting to Know All About Me: Web Personality Tests. Tickle.com, a site built around tests that purport to say what breed of dog you are or what the theme song of your life should be, is growing and profitable. By Saul Hansell. 3.  A Software Aimed at Taming File-Sharing. A company named Audible Magic says its software can spot copyrighted materials while they are being passed from computer to computer and block the transfer. By John Schwartz. 4.  When Necessity Meets Ingenuity: Art of Restoring What's Missing. A new exhibit reminds us that not all prosthetics advancements are driven by war. By Teresa Riordan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Fido Launches New Broadband Wireless Access ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Computers 'must become greener'. PC production needs to use less energy and fewer chemical inputs, a report from the UN University says. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  8 Mar W32/Roca-A 2:16:15 AM    comment []

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---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com - Front Door ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Adobe adds bar codes to PDF forms. Adobe Systems expands on its efforts to promote PDF as a format for electronic forms with new technology for adding bar codes. Early adopters include the IRS. 2.  HP to put blade servers on a diet. Hewlett-Packard will announce a new, thinner blade server Monday, a system that will enable customers to stack twice as many of the dual-processor machines into the same space. 3.  Teros enters Web services market. The Web applications security device maker is expected to announce Monday it has expanded into the Web services market, in an effort to ride the wave of two popular trends. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Real's Reality ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Linux mremap vulnerabilty; New version of Netsky 12:15:34 AM    comment []

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