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New DARPA Grand Challenge live action website. Just launched: a website promising live virtual coverage of this weekend's Grand Challenge race, in which robotic vehicles will race accross the California desert.
Live Tracking will show relative positions of the Challenge entrants, and requires a 7 MB download each time you use your browser to view the tracking. The Status Board provides a 30 second update of the status of each Challenge team. The Image Gallery will contain the most recent images from the Challenge, updated nightly through March 14.
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4 Big Internet Providers File Suits to Stop Leading Senders of Spam. The suits are among the first to invoke the new federal antispam law, which went into effect on Jan. 1. By Saul Hansell. |
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Hand-Helds That Offer Video to Go. With portable players for digital music becoming a smash hit, video was sure to follow. Two hand-held video players are now on the market. By David Pogue. |
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Intel to Miss China Deadline on Standard for Wireless. Intel's announcement reflects a larger objection on the part of American technology companies regarding China's plan to develop a separate national standard for short-range wireless networks. By Laurie J. Flynn. |
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Digital System Speeds Toronto's Commute, but Oh, Those Billing Surprises. The first highway to use digital cameras and license-plate-reading software rather than toll collectors opened in 1997. It still inspires a mixed reaction. By Ian Austen. |
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We Interrupt This Search to Show a Full-Motion Ad. Encouraged by the initial results, advertisers have begun a new round of full-motion video commercials. By Bob Tedeschi. |
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To Banish Pop-Up Ads, Block Stealthy Software. Q. Ever since my daughter used my computer, a five-inch advertisement has been popping up on my screen up to 20 times a day. Paradoxically, the ad is for pop-up blocking software. Is there any way to get rid of it? Are there any laws to protect people from this sort of thing?. By J.d. Biersdorfer. |
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To Hear Him Talk, Nothing's Like Tape. A Sony stalwart has spent three decades pushing recorders that have nothing to do with music. By Seth Schiesel. |
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Diamonds Find a Friend in the Semiconductor Sector. Not only are diamonds among the most glamorous of gemstones, they can also be used in lasers, light-emitting diodes, integrated circuits. By Anne Eisenberg. |
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An Oops Button, or a Tool for Retrieving That E-Mail Note You Sent. THE speed and efficiency of e-mail can present problems for an impulsive person. A message written in haste can be dispatched instantly on a whim ( By Mark Glassman. |
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Remote Piano Lessons, in Real Time. High-speed internet connections put music teachers within reach of talented faraway students. By Colin Campbell. |
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F.C.C. Commissioner Tells Phone Companies to Settle on Rates. If the companies cannot agree, F.C.C. chairman, Michael K. Powell, said he will propose that the commission adopt interim rules for the use of local networks. By John Schwartz. |
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Signing Petitions and a Lost and Found. Petitions have been an advocacy tool since the time of the Pharaohs. Now, they're digital. Also: an imaginary online girlfriend; eyewitness history. By Pamela Licalzi O'connell. |
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Making a Pitch to a Client on a Digital Whiteboard. It used to be that engaging points, note cards and perhaps a blackboard were enough to make an effective presentation. But that was before presentation software like PowerPoint, running on notebook computers connected to digital projectors and whiteboards, became standard equipment. By Michel Marriott. |
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Empowering the Wi-Fi User to Foil the Snoop. Some simple precautions can help ensure that a Wi-Fi network is secure as well as convenient. By SeÁn Captain. |
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The Nervous Bidder Takes On Carpet Quest II. By way of the Net, an indecisive rug buyer is lured to a new frontier: the auction house. By Michelle Slatalla. |
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Real Sues Baseball Over Windows Media |
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Socket's cute little Cordless Serial Adapter Bluetooth-enables any RS-232 serial device. |
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400GB hard drive makes Hitachi the capacity king. Based on last year's 80GB platters, though. |
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Alerte aux Virus ! |
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Army blows up surplus med-school cadavers. Surplus corpses donated to Tulane Med School were sold to the Army to be blown up in land-mine tests. Guess it's a less ignoble end than being the cadaver at the alumni dinner or the arm left hanging from the toll-booth.
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Mashup up of Flaming Lips, MLK and Public Enemy. This Kleptones (now, that's a band-name) have released a mash-up of the Flaming Lips's "Are You a Hypnotist", Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" and Public Enemy's "By the Time I Get to Arizona" kicks ass.
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Three hilarious remixes of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Yoz Grahame has remixed my novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom with a bunch of really whacky and wildly imaginative perl scripts:
* Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom (CAPIPA Remix) - in which the original has its words reordered alphabetically, using PIPA's new cousin, CAPIPA, which retains capitalisation.
"Beautiful," BEAUTY beauty, became. BECAME because because because because because because -- because because because because because because because because because because because because because because become become become become become become become bed bed bed. bed bed bed bed bed bed bed bed bed bed bed, bed bed bedroom bedroom bedroom-bedroom beds bedside bedside bedside.
* Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom (Sausages & Mash Remix) - in which the original has all words beginning with the letters S and M replaced with "Sausage" and "Mash" respectively, in accordance with the classic children's game.
He chuckled. "No sausage, not mash. I'm into the kind of mash sausage that you only come across on-world."
* Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom (More And Bloodier Wars Remix) - in which the original is run through Babelfish several times, from English to French to German and back to English again.
I never thought that I would live, in order to arise, where the maintenance would decide A-Movin ' Dan at the person in possession of a favour light up to the death of the heat of the universe.
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SCO shares keep on sliding. Cash Register Even with filling for the pie |
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We're just innocent techies, say accused spammers |
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Update: Major ISPs sue hundreds of spammers |
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Microsoft rethinks latest security patch |
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Outlook flaw riskier than thought |
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Security product uses military doctrine to hurt hackers |
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US Army orders Microsoft to stop sending free software |
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Top E-Mail Providers Sue Spammers Under New Law |
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Using the GNU text utilities |
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Microsoft warns of 'critical' flaw |
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Security product to strike back at hackers |
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Googling Up Passwords |
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Identity Breach Risk Accelerates |
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Apple OS X Server is most secure system |
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Israeli youth allegedly hacked into Pennsylvania police system |
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Bypassing China's net firewall |
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Hacking tools tipped to become weapons of the state |
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NetSky author signs off |
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How much do computer viruses cost? |
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Job Security You Can Buy |
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Why Are Virus Attacks Getting Worse? |
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Symbiot launches DDoS counter-strike tool |
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NEW 'OFF THE HOOK' ONLINE |
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wMCam Server Denial of Service Vulnerability |
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We're just innocent techies, say accused spammers |
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Debian: sysstat Insecure temporary file vulnerabilty |
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Warren Ellis's Mek and Reload omnibus edition. 
It's Wednesday, which means the new funnybooks are out. I'm using The Beguiling as my interim comix shop while working on the next novel in Toronto, and tonight, they had a very nice surprise for me: a perfect bound omnibus edition of two of Warren Ellis's short-series stories: Mek and Reload.
Reload's a great action story, a lot of fun, but it's Mek that's the real standout here. Mek is like Asimov's Robots stories told by Hunter S Thompson after overdosing on Ralph Ellison: a caustic and corrosive story about body-modders who get the machinery the fetishize implanted in their flesh, and the discrimination they face as a result. (Also noteworthy: this is, as far as I know, the only comic to mention the EFF in dialogue).
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Linux-based managed access-point from Sputnik. Sputnik has shipped the next generation of its Linux-based, open source managed WiFi AP. At $185, it's the cheapest managed AP on the market, with some of the coolest features (though in most contexts I think I'd just advise shopping for el-cheapo no-name APs for $30 per and connecting them to a $50 a month DSL and making your money back in extra lattes, rather than paying for a managed solution).
The Sputnik AP 160 utilizes a customizeable captive portal that requires end-users to authenticate with their username and password before they can access the wireless network.
Additional wireless and wired devices connected through the AP 160’s built-in four-port router are also authenticated and managed by Sputnik Control Center. Simply plug third-party APs into the back of the Sputnik AP 160; end-users who associate with those APs are authenticated and tracked. The same principle applies to end-users who connect directly to the LAN ports.
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Working drafts of Gillmor's new book online. Dan Gillmor has posted the Preface and Chapter One from Making the News, his forthcoming book about journalism in the Internet age. Gillmor is the best writer and thinker on this subject that I know, and his willingness to open source not just the book, but also his writing of it, is extraordinarily brave and visionary.
If Tom Paine showed the power of personal journalism, so did the muckrakers at the end of the 19th Century. They, more than most newspapers of the era, performed the public service function of journalism: exposing the anticompetitive predations of the robber barons and cruel conditions in workplaces, among a variety of outrages. Lincoln Steffens ("The Shame of the Cities"), Ida Tarbell ("History of the Standard Oil Company"), Jacob Ris ("How the Other Half Lives") and Upton Sinclair ("The Jungle") were among the daring journalists and novelists who shone daylight into some dark corners of society, and set a standard for the investigative journalists of the new century.
Personal journalism didn't die with the muckrakers. Throughout the 20th Century, the world has been blessed with individuals who found ways to work outside the mainstream of the moment. One of my journalistic heroes is I.F. Stone, whose weekly, and later bi-weekly, newsletter was required reading for a generation of Washington insiders.
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Disneyland's hand-drawn type. 
Beautiful gallery of hand-drawn typography at Disneyland.
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Date set for Oracle antitrust suit. The Justice Department's lawsuit to block Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft will head to court in June, a district court judge decides. |
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S&P move suggests telecom turnaround is official. Standard & Poor's upgraded debt ratings of two key makers of telecommunications equipment, highlighting what many equities analysts already knew: The sector is on the slow road to recovery. |
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FCC releases Net phone guidelines. The Federal Communications Commission is seeking public comment on the key question of how to treat Internet phone calls that reach traditional phones. |
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Chinese Standards Don't Work With Intel (AP). AP - Intel Corp. says it's not complying with China's government-imposed wireless security standards, setting the stage for a showdown between the world's most populous nation and U.S.-based technology firms. |
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Internet Providers Team Up in Spam Suits (AP). AP - Setting aside their rivalries to fight unwanted e-mail choking cyberspace, leading Internet companies announced Wednesday they have sued hundreds of people suspected of sending unsolicited junk messages known as spam. |
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Online Porn - The Technology Testbed? |
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Update: Major ISPs sue hundreds of spammers. WASHINGTON - Four major U.S. Internet service providers (ISPs) are suing more than 220 alleged spammers responsible for sending
out hundreds of millions of pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail, the companies announced Wednesday. |
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Microsoft rethinks latest security patch. One day after releasing a trio of security patches, Microsoft is upgrading the seriousness of one of those fixes to "critical." |
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Hacking need not always be a dirty word |
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Customers required to waive right to sue |
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Why are virus attacks getting worse? |
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Qwik-Fix Pro - technical whitepaper |
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Touching SAP data: user access and biometrics |
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EU anti-spam laws are OK |
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We'll kill spam in two years - Gates |
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Chairman Bill's 'magic spam cure' - a revenue opportunity? |
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London Wi-Fi security better (but still not great) |
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DARPA-funded Linux security hub withers |
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eBay hacker pleads guilty |
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EC draws line in spam sand |
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NetScreen takes on the mid-market |
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Unholy trio of RealOne Player holes unearthed |
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Extortionists attack Paddypower.com |
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SSL to be one of 2004’s bright spots |
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Chip and PIN hits 8 million cards |
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A visit from the FBI |
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Cyber alerts are phishing magnet, says Senator |
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MyDoom assault forces SCO off the net |
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US aims to plug global spam holes |
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Victory for commonsense in nuke lab hacking case |
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PayPal virus writing scammer scumbag pleads guilty |
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Clueless office workers help spread computer viruses |
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Powergen sets legal attack dogs on security whistle-blower |
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El Reg's fave security/hacking links |
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Online fraud, ID theft soars |
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Viruses and hackers make Windows more secure - Gates |
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MS drop authentication technique to foil phishing |
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UK teen escapes jail in nuclear lab hack case |
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MS plugs IE phishing bug |
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Good Spam: Bad Spam |
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Cable modem hackers conquer the co-ax |
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Computer Forensics conference line-up finalised |
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Big US ISPs set legal attack dogs on big, bad spammers |
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Faster Than a Speeding VPN--Super Remote Access With Neoteris IVE |
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Reader Review: How I Use Open-Source Tools To Stunt Spam |
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Open-Source Software Accurately Sorts Your Mail |
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WebInspect Detects Site Defects |
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Safe and Sound |
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Always-On WLAN Monitor |
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CoreStreet's Real Time Credentials Validation Authority |
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Eye on the Servers |
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Evaluating RFID (Opinion, Nick Evans) |
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RFID: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly |
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The Privacy Lawyer: Crack The Online Whip |
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Business Technology: It's Time To Take Spam Fight To The Bad Guys |
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Watch Out For Pop-Up Spams Selling Pop-Up Spam Blockers |
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Watch Out For Pop-Up Spams Selling Pop-Up Spam Blockers (Strom) |
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Security Best Practices Should Come Top Down |
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Dealing With MyDoom |
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Tech Guide: Many Strategies Against Spam Can't Stem Frustration |
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Links To Anti-Spam Resources |
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Legal Measures Hard-Pressed To Defeat Spam |
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Anti-Spam Techniques |
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Inside The Network Intrusion-Prevention Hype |
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China's Wi-Fi Security Stance Ruffling Feathers |
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How To Think Like a Hacker |
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Security Threats Won't Let Up |
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Fighting Spam, Fueling Growth |
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TREND MICRO's free online virus scanner |
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10 Mar W32/Netsky-D |
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Top Port: www 80 |
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Infocon: green |
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SurfControl lance Email Filter pour Exchange 2003 |
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Fortinet leve 50 millions de dollars |
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David Kopp, Directeur des TrendLabs pour la region EMEA, commente les activites virales cles observees par les TrendLabs au cours du mois de fevrier 2004 |
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OLFEO annonce la sortie de la nouvelle version de son logiciel de filtrage d’URL. |
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Virus à quoi faut-il s’attendre le 11 mars ? |
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Israeli, 19, hacked into Pennsylvania police system, erased records: police (Canadian Press) |
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Lessig speaks at Wired event in NYC @ 92nd St. Y.  As part of an ongoing series presented by Wired Magazine, Lawrence Lessig will speak at the 92nd street Y in Manhattan on March 23rd. The talk is titled "Free Culture: Creativity and Its Enemies." .
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Outlook flaw riskier than thought. Microsoft has raised the severity rating of an Outlook 2002 security hole to "critical," the highest level, after its initial analysis was challenged. |
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Consumers challenge FCC antipiracy rules. A coalition of groups--including librarian and consumers associations and the Electronic Frontier Foundation--say that regulators overstepped their bounds with new digital broadcast rules. |
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AOL goes wireless in Canada. AOL Canada, formed by America Online and RBC Royal Bank, announces plans to test its Internet service over a new broadband wireless network. The network uses technology that's supposedly more reliable and easy to use than Wi-Fi. |
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Internet Providers Sue Hundreds Over Unsolicited E-Mail. The suits by America Online, Earthlink, Yahoo and Microsoft are among the first to invoke the federal Can-Spam Act. By Saul Hansell. |
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Intel to Stop Selling Wi-Fi Chips in China. The chipmaker says it hasn't found a satisfactory way to incorporate an imposed encryption standard into its Wi-Fi chips, as trade tensions between the United States and China heat up. By Michael Kanellos, Staff Writer, Cnet News.com. |
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TOM Online Shares Seesaw in U.S. Debut (Reuters). Reuters - Shares of TOM Online Inc.
(TOMO.O), a wireless services firm backed by wealthy Hong Kong
businessman Li Ka-shing, debuted on the U.S. stock market on
Wednesday, fluctuating between a rise of more than 10 percent
and a slight drop from the initial price. |
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Comcast leaps to No. 2 US Internet provider amid shift to high-speed (AFP). AFP - Comcast, the US cable television giant, has become the number two US Internet service provider as more customers gravitate toward high-speed connections, a survey showed. |
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New Net Battle Over ".mobile" Looming |
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Industry group seeks mobile top-level domain. Nine mobile vendors form venture aimed at simplifying subscribers' Internet experience |
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IDC: PC shipments slower but still robust to 2005. Market researcher forecasts double-digit growth through 2005 |
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Major ISPs sue hundreds of spammers. Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL band together to slap 220 spammers with lawsuit |
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SGI takes Altix 3000 to 256 processors. Company also working on 512 chip box to be released by year's end |
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Remote access app to debut. Upcoming product helps manage remotely |
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Microsoft delays SQL Server, Visual Studio upgrades. Database, toolbox postponed until 2005 |
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Microsoft rethinks latest security patch. Update is upgraded to "critical" |
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HP introduces new desktop PC ranges, models. HP reorganizes PCs into basic, mainstream, and advanced ranges |
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Competitive carriers question Powell telecom plan. FCC chairman looks for transition away from sharing incumbents' networks |
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Internet Providers Sue Hundreds for Spam |
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Delivering better security, telephony, and privacy |
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Red Hat: Sysstat Insecure temporary file vulnerability |
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Red Hat: kdelibs Path restriction escape vulnerability |
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Elsewhere: ISPs sue over spam e-mails. Some of the nation's largest Internet providers, in an unusual joint effort, said Wednesday they filed six lawsuits against hundreds of people who were accused of sending... |
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BugTraq: Re: HP printers and currency anti-copying measures. Sender: Dan Harkless [bugtraq at harkless dot org] |
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BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 459-1] New kdelibs, kdelibs-crypto packages fix cookie traversal bug. Sender: Matt Zimmerman [mdz at debian dot org] |
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IDC forecasts healthy PC sales. Double digit growth until 2005 |
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Tiscali UK unveils PAYG broadband. By the hour, by Mb - you choose |
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Fujitsu zooms with tubby Xeon blade. Muscle mass |
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Artists vow to sue Apple for dodging French music fees. Pay your dues |
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What's the tech policy agenda for 2004?. For an answer, look to Bruce Mehlman, who directs a little-known advocacy group that's a Who's Who of the most powerful CEOs in the tech industry. |
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Intel to stop selling Wi-Fi chips in China. The chipmaker says it hasn't found a satisfactory way to incorporate an imposed encryption standard into its Wi-Fi chips, as trade tensions between the United States and China heat up. |
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Gartner: Handsets to pull in strong sales. The cell phone sector is poised to do well again this year, following healthy growth in 2003 that was driven by emerging markets such as China and India, the market research firm says. |
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IDC expects increase in 2004's PC shipments. The market researcher nudges up its forecast for computer shipments this year, to 172.1 million, a rise from the number of units that shipped last year. |
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Linux gets Intel help with Centrino. A year after it launched its Centrino chip package for building notebooks with wireless networking abilities, Intel has begun a public project to let Linux take advantage of the hardware. |
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Cisco Boosts Security Portfolio (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) has delivered new threat-defense and security extension
technologies designed to identify and thwart a growing array of attacks
on enterprise networks from worms, viruses and other mal-codes. |
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Worldwide PC shipments seen rising 11 percent in 2004: survey (AFP). AFP - Worldwide personal computer shipments are projected to grow by about 11 percent in 2004 and 2005 following a record year in 2003, a market research group said. |
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Internet Providers Sue Hundreds for Spam (AP). AP - Leading Internet companies, in an unusual joint effort among corporate rivals, announced six lawsuits Wednesday against hundreds of people accused of sending millions of unwanted e-mails in violation of the new federal law against "spam." |
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Pixar Switches to Mac OS X and G5s |
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BBC 'misled with digital adverts'. The BBC is criticised by the advertising watchdog for claiming its digital stations are "new". |
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I'm retiring, says George Michael. Pop star George Michael abandons the music business in order to release his songs online for free instead. |
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Hacker Retaliator strikes back at hackers Returns fire at hackers promises Symbiot |
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News: Israeli youth allegedly hacked into Pennsylvania police system. The Associated Press |
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America's big four ISPs launch legal blitz against spam. Taking out spammers 'one kingpin at a time' |
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WORM_LORAC.B |
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Sourceforge: Prism Stumbler "Prismstumbler is a wireless LAN (WLAN) discovery tool which scans f... |
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Security Focus: IIS 6.0 Security "IIS has been completely redesigned to be secure by default and... |
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Norton AntiVirus 2002 Virus Detection Bypass Issue |
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Apache mod_ssl HTTP Request Denial of Service Vulnerability |
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Harvard comps tuition for low-income students. Harvard is waiving tuition for students from families with less than $40,000 in income.
"Too often, outstanding students from families of modest means do not believe that college is an option for them, much less an Ivy League university," Summers said at the recent meeting of the American Council on Education in Miami, according to a transcript published by Harvard. "Our doors have long been open to talented students regardless of financial need, but many students simply do not know or believe this. We are determined to change both the perception and the reality."
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Suicide attack on Turkish Masonic lodge. The Masons have had a tough couple of days.
The bombers yesterday blew themselves up at the entrance of the lodge after opening fire on some 40 people in the private dining hall. One person was killed and five others were hurt
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Open Text adds IM to content management. The new instant messaging system automatically records and catalogs data and is aimed at industries in which communication is heavily regulated. |
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Broadband overtaking dial-up in major cities. San Diego is in the lead as more and more residents of major U.S. metropolitan areas access the Internet via DSL and high-speed cable modems, a new study shows. |
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Study: Rosy outlook for IT consulting. Nearly half of CIOs that took part in a recent survey expect to increase spending on consulting and systems integration this year, up from 36 percent that increased spending in 2003. |
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Yukon, Whidbey Releases Slip Yet Again (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - The wait for Yukon and Whidbey is going to be longer still: Microsoft expects to ship the next major updates of its SQL Server database¡code-named Yukon—and Visual Studio—code-named Whidbey—in the first half of 2005. |
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Intel: Won't Support China's Wi-Fi Rules (Reuters). Reuters - Intel Corp, the world's largest chip
maker, said on Wednesday it will not develop applications based
on Chinese encryption standards for wireless computing, taking
a hard line in an ongoing dispute between U.S. technology
companies and China. |
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'Alias' TV Spy Recruits for Real-Life CIA in Video (Reuters). Reuters - Jennifer Garner, who plays spy
Sydney Bristow in the television series "Alias," has turned her
talents to recruiting real-life spies to work for the CIA in a
video on the agency's employment Web site. |
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Tech Buyers Replacing PCs, Software Next-Study (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. corporate technology spending is
moving into a new stage of recovery as demand for computers and
network essentials leads to outlays for software and services,
International Data Group said on Wednesday. |
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Wicked Cool Shell Scripts |
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BugTraq: Re: LAN SUITE Web Mail 602Pro Multiple Vulnerabilities. Sender: Brandon Sturgeon [brandon at software602 dot com] |
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BugTraq: With regards to the Adobe Acrobat Reader advisory (#NISR03022004). Sender: NGSSoftware Insight Security Research [nisr at nextgenss dot com] |
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Netsky Hacker Threatens Thursday Attack |
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WORM_NETSKY.L |
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Microsoft to Preview Patch Software at Management Summit |
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Microsoft Releases New Patches; Fixes IE Hole |
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MSN Messenger se fait indiscret |
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Multiple Vendor HTTP User Agent Cookie Path Traversal Issue |
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FreeBSD Memory Buffer Exhaustion DoS |
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Googling Up Passwords |
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Hitachi ready to release 7200rpm drive... oh, and it's 400GB. Hitachi is poised to release a 400GB 7200rpm monster of a hard drive. Just perfect for the new TiVos! By Matt Woodward. |
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Crimefighting Hong Kong robot. BoingBoing reader Roland Piquepaille says:
There is a new cop patrolling the streets of Hong Kong and teaching children how to prevent crime. But it's a robot, named Robotcop III, designed and built in Hong Kong, tells us Channel Newsasia. Robotcop III can walk, dance, move in any direction, display videos and answer questions asked in Cantonese and English. The previous versions of Robotcops, introduced in 1988 and 1995, were imported from the U.S. and taught 800,000 school children how to fight crime. The promoters of Robotcop III hope it will do even better. More details and references are available in this overview including a photo of Robotcop III patrolling on Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) campus.
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Can nanotech keep chipmaking up to speed?. The tiny technology could help companies continue minting generations of speedier, less-costly chips every two years, an industry insider tells a conference crowd. |
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Four Internet giants launch lawsuits to take bite out of spam (AFP). AFP - The four largest US Internet firms jointly announced a series of lawsuits under a new federal anti-spam law seeking to shut down "the biggest," and "baddest" e-mail marketers. |
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IDC: PC Demand to Rise 11 Percent in 2004, 2005 (Reuters). Reuters - Worldwide demand for personal
computers is expected to increase 11.4 percent this year and
another 11.2 percent in 2005 as consumers buy more notebook
computers and businesses spend on technology, market research
group IDC said on Wednesday. |
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Four Big ISPs File Six Anti-Spam Suits |
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Hacker Retaliator strikes back at hackers Returns fire at hackers promises Symbiot Keywords hacking security networking Linux Microsoft broadband DSL Internet virus trojan worm |
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BugTraq: GNU Anubis 3.6.2 remote root exploit. Sender: Claes M Nyberg [md0claes at mdstud dot chalmers dot se] |
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Fujifilm Ships Next-Gen DDS Media |
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Infosecurity Europe 2004 |
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Major ISPs file suit against spammers. Microsotft, AOL, Earthlink, and Yahoo have filed numerous lawsuits against spammers, alleging violations of the 2003 Can-Spam act. Will the suits accomplish anything? By Eric Bangeman. |
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Idiotic revengeware security software to ship. An infosec company is launching an idiotic revenge tool that launches DDoS attacks and blackholes hosts that are believed to be involved in DDoSing their customers, justifying it with a bunch of high-flown hooie about "rules of engagement for information warfare." Nevermind the likelihood that the "attackers" in these situations are almost certainly compromised PCs, hijacked into participating, and the necessity of collateral damage to nearby machines when DDoSing or blacklisting a host.
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Bush flip-flops. The Bush campaign is running ads attacking Kerry for being a flip-flopper. Here's a few Bush flip-flops from dailykos.com.
Bush is against campaign finance reform; then he's for it.
Bush is against a Homeland Security Department; then he's for it.
Bush is against a 9/11 commission; then he's for it.
Bush is against an Iraq WMD investigation; then he's for it.
Bush is against nation building; then he's for it.
Bush is against deficits; then he's for them.
Bush is for free trade; then he's for tariffs on steel; then he's against them again.
Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli Palestinian conflict; then he pushes for a "road map" and a Palestinian State.
Bush is for states right to decide on gay marriage, then he is for changing the constitution.
Bush first says he'll provide money for first responders (fire, police, emergency), then he doesn't.
Bush first says that 'help is on the way' to the military ... then he cuts benefits
Bush-"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. Bush-"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care.
Bush claims to be in favor of the environment and then secretly starts drilling on Padre Island.
Bush talks about helping education and increases mandates while cutting funding.
Bush first says the U.S. won't negotiate with North Korea. Now he will
Bush goes to Bob Jones University. Then say's he shouldn't have.
Bush said he would demand a U.N. Security Council vote on whether to sanction military action against Iraq. Later Bush announced he would not call for a vote
Bush said the "mission accomplished" banner was put up by the sailors. Bush later admits it was his advance team.
Bush was for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who enter the US. Bush after meeting with Pres. Fox, he's against it.
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Napster, IBM aim to save cache. Napster says its new system, based on IBM's blade server architecture, will help bandwidth-hungry organizations, like universities and ISPs, conserve network assets. |
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Microsoft releases Office XP fixes. Microsoft has released new updates and fixes for its Office XP business software bundle. |
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Microsoft, Nokia aim for mobile domain. The two rivals form a venture with a handful of other companies to distribute Web addresses for mobile devices. Does the move signal a detente between the cell phone OS opponents? |
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Internet Providers Sue Hundreds for Unsolicited E-mail. The unusual joint effort accused hundreds of people of sending millions of unwanted e-mails in violation of the new law. By The Associated Press. |
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SGI Scales Its Linux OS to 256 Processors (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Silicon Graphics expects to be able to scale its Advanced Linux Environment to 512 processors by year end. |
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Internet Providers Sue Hundreds for Spam (AP). AP - Leading Internet companies, in an unusual joint effort among corporate rivals, announced six lawsuits Wednesday against hundreds of people accused of sending millions of unwanted e-mails in violation of the new federal law against "spam." |
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Apple Sued in France for iPod Music Royalties |
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IBM pushes new storage management suite. TotalStorage offers storage device discovery, monitoring, and provisioning |
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Hitachi unveils 'über hard drive'. Company announces 400 GB Deskstar |
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Gartner: Mobile phone sales grow by 20 percent. Nokia's sees market share slip slightly, but remains on top |
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Infosecurity Europe 2004 |
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Cisco beefs up IOS security. Minor milepost in self-securing network drive |
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Radio star gazing gets European boost. Plugging the Hubble-James Webb gap |
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Liverpool is 30 minutes from IT wipeout. Addresses disaster non-recovery plan |
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Claire Swire II faces worldwide humiliation. Don't hit the 'reply to all' button - ever |
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Hitachi ships 400GB whopper. DVRs drive capacity demand ever upwards |
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Cisco Expands Integrated Security System Portfolio |
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Internet Providers Sue Hundreds For Spam |
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TROJ_HEMHEM.A |
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Rumors of Third Vulnerability in Linux Kernel Prove Unfounded |
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10 Mar W32/Netsky-L |
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Identity breach risk accelerates |
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Elsewhere: Computer crime: information for consideration |
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Elsewhere: Identity breach risk accelerates |
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News: NetSky author signs off |
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News: MS March patch batch low on peril |
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FCC sued over broadcast flag requirement. The FCC is being sued in an attempt to overturn the new broadcast requirement for digital TV. The broadcast flags would prevent making digital copies of flagged shows. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Masonic Mishap. The New York Times reports that on Monday night, a ritual inside Patchogue, NY's Southside Masonic Lodge No. 493 ended with the accidental killing of a new initiate. Another member shot him in the face. The shooter was carrying two guns, one with blanks and one with live ammo, and grabbed the wrong one during the ritual. Link |
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Fonts used in Disney parks. This is a wonderful list of faces employed in incidental typography in the Disney parks, including links to freeware versions of many of the fonts.
# Albertus - Animal Kingdom (entrance area signage), Norway
# Algerian - MK monorail station, Main Street, Haunted Mansion Fastpass, etc.
# Americana - Main Street, Liberty Square
# Anna - Tomorrowland logo/signage, Studios, etc.
# Antique Olive - Soarin'
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Commentary: Three challenges for RFID. Retailers' mandates for adoption of radio frequency identification technology mean suppliers have their work cut out for them. |
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Security product to strike back at hackers. A Texas company is set to launch a product that can hit back at attackers with its own arsenal of tricks. Security experts, however, say it will only make things worse. |
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Major ISPs unite in spam fight. America Online, Microsoft, EarthLink and Yahoo team up to file the first major industry lawsuits under the new federal anti-spam law. |
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Deutsche Telekom Posts 4Q Loss (AP). AP - Phone giant Deutsche Telekom signaled Wednesday that it is bouncing back from the tech boom's collapse, pruning debts and boosting U.S. wireless earnings despite a fourth-quarter net loss that resulted from its involvement in a troubled German truck toll scheme. |
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TOM Online Shares Seesaw in U.S. Debut (Reuters). Reuters - Shares of TOM Online Inc.
(TOMO.O), a wireless services firm backed by wealthy Hong Kong
businessman Li Ka-shing, debuted on the U.S. stock market on
Wednesday, fluctuating between a rise of more than 10 percent
and a slight drop from the initial price. |
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Internet Calls Without A Computer (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - The convenience of a phone, without Ma Bell |
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Intel Releases Linux Driver For Centrino WLAN |
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US net providers pursue spammers. In the biggest initiative yet to fight spam, Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo and Earthlink launch joint law suits. |
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Rumors of Third Vulnerability in Linux Kernel Prove Unfounded |
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Elsewhere: Computer crime: information for consideration. Computer Crime Research Center published an analytic report on criminal activity in the Internet. Statistics shows increasing number of hack attempts and Internet fraud. ... |
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Elsewhere: Identity breach risk accelerates. Security breaches resulting from identity management flaws are rising and creating huge problems for businesses, research shows.
Identity management breaches affected on... |
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News: NetSky author signs off. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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News: MS March patch batch low on peril. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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BugTraq: MDKSA-2004:020 - Updated gdk-pixbuf packages fix BMP-handling vulnerability. Sender: Mandrake Linux Security Team [security at linux-mandrake dot com] |
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BugTraq: MDKSA-2004:021 - Updated mozilla packages fix multiple vulnerabilities. Sender: Mandrake Linux Security Team [security at linux-mandrake dot com] |
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BugTraq: Format string bug in EpicGames Unreal engine. Sender: Luigi Auriemma [aluigi at altervista dot org] |
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BugTraq: MDKSA-2004:022 - Updated kdelibs packages fix cookie theft vulnerability. Sender: Mandrake Linux Security Team [security at linux-mandrake dot com] |
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BT near to settling London allowance dispute. Friends again |
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Airbag grasses up killer driver. Smart inflatable sings like canary |
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Industry unites for .mob?. Mobiles to get their own TLD |
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Our t-shirt went to America and all we got was this lousy email. NY Times replies to India apparel outrage slur |
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Robot grunts tumble in race for $1m prize. Testing. Testing. |
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TROJ_CIDRA.D |
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Telekom sperrt Dialer-Rufnummern |
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Hacking Elections in California? |
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Vincent Gallo's Ebay Listing. Vincent Gallo is evidently selling the film production package he used to shoot the "outstandingly bad" movie Brown Bunny on eBay. The listing is a characteristically Gallic stream-of-consciousness screed. Current bidding stands at $86,800 for a kit that includes Stanley Kubrick's legendary Barry Lyndon lens. And what Vincent Gallo eBay listing would be complete without gratuitous third-person references to Vincent Gallo, and abundant ad hominem attacks on the likes of filmmakers Spike Jonze, Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson? Ambiguous cinematic sex act not included. Link (update: I'll need to start waking up a hell of a lot earlier to scoop Choire Sicha, who covered this on Gawker last Friday -- that's, like, a whole lifetime in blog-years. I'm losing my edge.) |
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Evoting perils summed up neatly. Dan Gillmor has posted a very good, concise analysis of the perils of electric voting in the wake of an Orange County vote where the loss of thousands of ballots was discounted because the race was won by a wide enough margin that the lost votes don't matter -- even though no one knows how many votes were lost.
Look. I'm a fan of installing modern equipment to make elections better. If the machines work right they'll be better than what we had. But these are computers, and computers are flawed devices. Software behaves in unpredictable ways, and rogue programmers or hackers can create havoc.
Meanwhile, as we've seen, the hardworking poll workers can make mistakes. They're human.
What we need is a backup and verification system that combines the best of computers and people but doesn't absolutely rely on programmers and people to get everything right every time. Such as system exists: It's called paper.
A paper printout could be used to recount in close elections, instead of trusting the "garbage in, garbage out" system that invites us not to trust it. It could be used for random checks, as a precaution.
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Dating site for activists. Actforlove is a dating site for activists, complete with a write-your-Congresscritter tool for sending in letters to support Emergency Contraception. I always suspected that one reason for the popularity of the Dean MeetUps was that they were a way of coming out as a liberal in a political climate where lefty love dare not speak its name: with Actforlove, you can be sure that your date won't have a copy of The Fountainhead sitting on the toilet-tank.
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Web usability design book "Don't Make Me Think". Snipped from the latest edition of Kevin Kelly's newsletter "Cool Tools:"
Here, a cure for badly designed web pages. (This is major news since everything is now on the web.) Follow Krug's key heuristic: "Don't make me think." It works. His manual is a model of what it preaches. It is the best, clearest, succinct hands-on guide for amateurs and pros engaged in making the web a useable public space. You don't need a consultant; you need this book. I pray everyone reads and obey. Excerpts:
* When you're creating a site, your job is to get rid of the question marks.
*We don't read pages. We scan them.
*Create a clear visual hierarchy. One of the best ways to make a page easy to grasp in a hurry is to make sure that the appearance of the things on the page -- all of the visual cues -- clearly and accurately portray the relationships between the things on the page.
*Jakob Nielsen and Tom Landauer have shown that testing five users will tend to uncover 85 percent of a site's usability problems, and that there is a serious case of diminishing returns for additional users.
Link to amazon.com listing for Steve Krug's "Dont Make Me Think" |
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Kenwood's Gernsbacksploitation retro-futuristic ads. 
Kenwood's new retro-future ads (for personal jetpacks, trips to the moon and home robots) are very clever Gernsbacksploitation media, tapping straight into the future-scarcastic receptors in my brain.
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Print houses from CAD drawings using an adobe-extruding robot. A USC roboticist has built a robot for "printing" houses that can extrude cement or adobe and shape it using trowel-manipulators to a CAD-represented spec.
The key to the technology is a computer-guided nozzle that deposits a line of wet concrete, like toothpaste being squeezed onto a table. Two trowels attached to the nozzle then move to shape the deposit. The robot repeats its journey many times to raise the height and builds hollow walls before returning to fill them.
Engineer Behrokh Khoshnevis, at the University of Southern California, has been perfecting his "contour crafter" for more than a year. "The goal is to be able to completely construct a one-story, 2000-square foot home on site, in one day and without using human hands," he says.
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Variety's "Porning Report" blog shuts down. Fleshbot notes that the pr0n-themed weblog penned by AVN's Frank Meyer and launched by Variety is closing down with far less fanfare than surrounded its launch. Link |
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Nexaweb beefs up Web application tools |
| 9. |
Briefly: Nexaweb beefs up Web application tools. The Web application firm upgrades tools for building graphics and data-intensive applications...A judge rules that the RIAA must file separate lawsuits for each "John Doe"...WiMax firm Aperto raises $20 million. |
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A Linux Middleware Provider Takes On IBM, BEA (Investor's Business Daily). Investor's Business Daily - Many software makers have latched onto Linux, hailing its open-source origins as a way to revamp corporate computing. |
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Tech Stocks Mixed in Morning Trading on Bargain-Hunting (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - NEW YORK -- Technology stocks opened mixed Wednesday, as bargain hunting after
recent losses met with weakness in the cellphone sector. |
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French Group Seeks Royalties on IPod (AP). AP - A French association representing recorded music rights holders threatened Wednesday to take Apple Computer Inc. to court in a dispute over lost music royalties. |
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Vodafone, Microsoft, Nokia Link on Mobile Web Names (Reuters). Reuters - Nine top computer, telecoms and handset
companies said on Wednesday they would jointly set up a new
Internet names registry company that will issue domain names
for wireless devices, in an attempt to boost mobile services. |
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Ditch Ma Bell (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - New technology lets you call anywhere in the world for free. Too good to be true? It's not perfect, but your internet connection could save you big bucks on your phone bills! |
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AOL, Earthlink, Microsoft, Yahoo File Anti-Spam Suit (Reuters). Reuters - Four of the country's biggest e-mail
and Internet service providers on Wednesday filed lawsuits
against hundreds of defendants alleging violations of the new
law against mass e-mails known as spam. |
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LGP brings back Loki, Kind Of |
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Turbo Codes Promise Better Wireless Transmission |
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Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system |
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WORM_AGOBOT.RB |
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Multiple Browser Cookie Path Directory Traversal Vulnerability |
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DB2 Remote Command Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
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Apache mod_access Rule Bypass Issue |
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Platform Services Group: Macintosh OS X Security "Out-of-the-box, OS X is reasonably secure. Thi... |
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Gemplus, La poste et SAGEM créent "Infrasec" |
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Comcast coupe les tuyaux des spammeurs |
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3 New Microsoft Updates (MS04-008, MS04-009, MS04-010) |
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Show iPod battery-status as numeric value. Toggle iPod Battery Status is an AppleScript that switches your iPod battery display to a numeric value between zero and 500.
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Once Bankrupt Global Crossing Has $25 Bln (Reuters). Reuters - Global Crossing Ltd. (GLBC.O), a
high-speed communications company that emerged from bankruptcy
in December, on Wednesday reported a huge fourth-quarter profit
because of one-time gains associated with its reorganization
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CMU First To Qualify For DARPA Grand Challenge |
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SSL's Credibility as Phishing Defense Is Tested |
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NetSky author signs off. The Long Goodbye |
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Union opposes BT - HP job swap plan. You have my helpdesk, I'll have yours |
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Thinking Inside the Box |
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Microsoft to announce legal, technical antispam plans |
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Zes routers en software firewalls getest |
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Unlock your Nokia. Good, comprehensive guide to unlocking mobile phones by Schulyer Earle. Anyone know when I can get a phone-unlocker for OS X? Update: You can always use the Web-based unlocker if you don't mind sending a stranger your IMEI.
The locktype, according to unlockme.co.uk, is usually 2, unless you're on a 3650 or 7650, in which case it's 5. The IMEI is the hardware serial number of your phone, which you can read off the inside label underneath the battery, or retrieve from the phone itself by dialing *#06#. Finally, you'll need the provider code, which is a 5-digit number you can pull from this network provider code list. Unlock code calculators give you seven different codes, at least one of which should unlock the phone when entered with the SIM removed, but you only get five tries, before the phone locks you out. So, you really want to double-check your work before entering would-be unlock codes into the phone.
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(Thanks, Schulyer!) |
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ICANN's tongue slithers further up Verisign's foetid backside. The lickspittles of ICANN have granted a Verisign proposal to allow people to place standing orders for domains, in order to snarf them up the minute they expire.
During ICANN's weeklong meetings in Rome last week, the VeriSign-proposed back-ordering service drew criticism during periods of public comment, according to registrars who attended. To Ric Chambers, managing principal of registrar R. Lee Chambers Co. LLC of Ooltewah, Tenn., a plaintiff in the ICANN lawsuit, the board seemed determined to approve the service regardless of the objections raised in Rome.
"It is hard to reconcile the level of disagreement on the WLS and a vote of the board," Chambers said in a statement. "It suggests that there was more going on here this week than was seen and heard in the public meetings."
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EU Says No Formal Charges Yet To Oracle On Peoplesoft Bid (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- The European Union Commission said Wednesday that no
formal charges had yet been filed in its investigation of Oracle Corp. (NasdaqNM:ORCL - News)'s
takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. (NasdaqNM:PSFT - News) . |
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Pay-as-you-go tempts surfers. A service offering low rates for small amounts of broadband is proving popular with consumers. |
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Log your life via your phone. Thanks to Nokia soon your phone could be keeping a record of everything you do. |
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Microsoft to announce legal, technical antispam plans. Microsoft Corp., along with other Internet industry players, is due to announce Wednesday lawsuits against spammers under
the U.S.' so-called Can-Spam Act, and will detail a technical initiative aimed at stopping the onslaught of unsolicited e-mail,
a company representative revealed. |
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Ryanair Telecom delays mobile telco launch. 'Cos fixed line biz too 'fantastic' |
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CeBIT to premiere USB Swiss Army Knife. Something horribly inevitable about this |
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Ebay Fraud Prevention - Good Buy Sellers |
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You Bought It On Ebay - Now You Pay For It |
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Augmentation des ventes de produits coupe-feu et VPN |
| 12. |
L'Europe contre le piratage organisé |
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Office XP s'offre un SP3 |
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Neue Patches für Microsoft-Produkte |
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W97M_TRUGBAR.B |
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WORM_AGOBOT.RM |
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WORM_CONE.C |
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Building a-crawl with furniture. 
My cow-orker Ren shot this amazing photo of a building in San Francisco's SOMA, whose owner has apparently decided that affixing old furniture to its outer walls will make it easier to sell.
804K JPEG Link)
(via Trubble)
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Unlock your Nokia. Good, comprehensive guide to unlocking mobile phones by Schulyer Earle. Anyone know when I can get a phone-unlocker for OS X?
The locktype, according to unlockme.co.uk, is usually 2, unless you're on a 3650 or 7650, in which case it's 5. The IMEI is the hardware serial number of your phone, which you can read off the inside label underneath the battery, or retrieve from the phone itself by dialing *#06#. Finally, you'll need the provider code, which is a 5-digit number you can pull from this network provider code list. Unlock code calculators give you seven different codes, at least one of which should unlock the phone when entered with the SIM removed, but you only get five tries, before the phone locks you out. So, you really want to double-check your work before entering would-be unlock codes into the phone.
Link
(Thanks, Schulyer!) |
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Army to Gates: Halt the free software. The software maker has been mailing free copies of its pricey Office productivity program to government employees, but at least two federal agencies are warning recipients to return the gifts. |
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The rethinking of computer security. Industry watcher Jon Oltsik explains the changes powering the most profound transition in the history of the computer security industry. |
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Survey: Handset Sales Seen at 580 Million Units in 2004 (Reuters). Reuters - Global sales of mobile phones could grow
even faster than forecast in 2004 after a stronger than
expected 2003 when market leader Nokia lost ground for the
first time in many years, a survey found on Wednesday. |
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Tech firms cash in as lawyers plug in (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - More tech companies are creating animation software, wireless Internet access and other technologies for a growing market niche: lawyers. |
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EU Passes Nasty IP Law |
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Hutchison picks up 3 UK's tab. Settles £1.5bn debt |
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David Bedford upstages 118 Runners relaunch. Cunning stunt |
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Computer voting snafus plague California. Come back chad, all is forgiven |
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Googling up passwords |
| 12. |
Microsoft's high-risk security strategy |
| 13. |
A peek at script kiddie culture |
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Net users warned about eBay fraud |
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Bypassing China's net firewall |
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The perils of Googling |
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Chinezen kunnen vrij surfen via Westerse proxies |
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ISP sluit onbewust spammende klanten af |
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Professor: Online bankieren is niet veilig |
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Sun Solaris UUCP Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities |
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Sun Solaris UUCP Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities |
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IBM buys Trigo Technologies (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - The trade sale exit accrues to VC backers Globespan, Bessemer, Mayfield and Pequot. |
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France's Orange to slash stake in debt-ridden Thai mobile venture (AFP). AFP - French mobile phone firm Orange will reduce its stake in its debt-ridden Thai unit to 10 percent from 49 percent, after it failed to make inroads against its competitors. |
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The Register
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'One in six' Silicon Valley tech jobs ripe for offshoring. So get into your flying car - and look for work |
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The perils of Googling. A tool for good and evil |
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No need to panic over IP rights directive. Letter: Crying 'Wolf' damages our intellectual freedom |
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T-Mobile calls the tune in Europe. Pushing back the ringtone envelope |
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Wired News
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Reach Out and Strong-Arm Someone. A virtual iPod for the Pocket PC is undergoing some revisions, thanks to a phone call from an Apple lawyer. By Leander Kahney. |
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Wal-Mart Fiddles With Music. Late last year, Wal-Mart unveiled an online music store that brought its slash-and-burn pricing to the digital world. But does the country's biggest music retailer have a chance against Apple's iTunes? Wired magazine's Lucas Graves investigates. |
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Little Things Could Mean a Lot. The promise of nanotechnology affects the mundane as well as the momentous. Researchers gather to discuss ice cream and more. Mark Baard reports from Boston. |
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With This Rig, I Do Thee Wed. Mike Johnson likes to build custom computer cases, and his longtime girlfriend wanted a ring. So, nerd that he is, he combined the two into the geekiest wedding proposal ever. By Leander Kahney. |
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In-Flight Net Set to Take Off. In April Boeing will offer an in-flight broadband connection for those who simply can't bear to be unplugged. The service, Connexion, sounds great on paper, but it may be slow to take off because of cost and competition. By Amit Asaravala. |
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Hubble Offers Glimpse of Creation. The latest images from the Hubble Space Telescope show galactic activity 300 million years older than seen before. By John Gartner. |
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Cisco doet te weinig aan preventie security dreigingen |
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Schneier: Security bestedingen VS zijn zinloos |
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Negen personal firewalls getest |
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Phishing Scams Incorporate SSL Certificates |
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SSL's Credibility as Phishing Defense Is Tested |
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Orange County: More E-Ballots Cast Than Voters |
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7,000 Orange County Voters Were Given Bad Ballots |
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Protecting Our Parents' PCs? |
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Matrix Expands to Wisconsin |
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MATRIX | Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information EXchange (MATRIX) |
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America's Flimsy Fortress |
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Job Security You Can Buy |
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Report Slams Senate Snoopers |
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Chameleon Card Changes Stripes |
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Does SenseCam Make Any Sense? |
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OpenPKG update for mutt |
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OpenPKG update for mutt |
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Python DNS Response Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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Python DNS Response Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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Mandrake update for python |
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Mandrake update for python |
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Sun Java System (Sun ONE) SSL Vulnerabilities |
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Sun Java System (Sun ONE) SSL Vulnerabilities |
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Debian update for Python |
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Debian update for Python |
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Nader kicks Mastercard's ass in fair-use fight. Ralph "Don't Run" Nader has won a key legal battle against Mastercard. Mastercard sued Nader over a parody of its "priceless" ad campaign that Nader maintained was a fair use -- and today the NY Southern District Court ruled in Nader's favor. My cow-orker Jason Schultz has the scoop.
Back in 2000, Ralph Nader ran a bunch of ads critiquing the corporate interests behind the Bush and Gore campaigns. To make his point, he used the style and some of ideas behind MasterCard's "Priceless" ad campaign -- specifically calling out the dollar amounts that corporate interests paid to candidates to secure their positions on the issues.
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Slashdot
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Phishing Scams Incorporate SSL Certificates |
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Boing Boing Blog
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PhoneCon 1876 program. This notional bumpf for an 1876 PhoneCon, celebrating the marvel of the voice network, is funnier'n hell.
As you know, the emerging power of the Telephone as a tool to shape democracy, our flour and cotton mills, and our understanding of Rhode Islanders, is just beginning to be understood. That's why it's so important for telephoners to get together in person to talk about talking on the phone.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
-Do you have a telephone?
-Do you talk on your phone regularly?
-Do you wonder where the telephone's headed?
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EFF is suing the FCC over the Broadcast Flag!. W00H00! EFF is suing the friggin' FCC for sucking up to the Hollywood studios and enacting the loathesome Broadcast Flag without a shred of evidence that it was necessary and without a shred of evidence that it could stop "piracy" -- unless, by "piracy," you mean "inventing VCR-like technologies without the permission of scaredy-cat studio execs." So we're suing them! I love my job.
"The FCC's digital broadcast television mandate is a step in the wrong direction because it would make digital television cost more and do less, undermining innovation, fair use, and competition," said EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Fred von Lohmann, "The FCC overstepped its bounds, unduly restricting consumers and manufacturers when it issued its broadcast flag ruling..."
The lawsuit, called ALA v. FCC, was filed in the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., and charges that the FCC exceeded its jurisdiction, acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner, and failed to point to substantial evidence in adopting a broadcast flag mandate.
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Pickup Pokemon tourney planned for NYC subway. Priceless Craig's List post from a Pokemon addict looking for co-religionists to do group-gaming on an NYC subway car.
I've been playing Pokémon Sapphire on the N expréss each morning from 59th St. to Union Square. If anyone else is commuting from Sunset Park to Manhattan each morning let's coordinate our schedules so we can battle, make pokéblocks, trade rare pokémon and éxchange ideas for training harder and raising our pokémon to greater heights of pokéness.
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Nader kick's Mastercard's ass in fair-use fight. Ralph "Don't Run" Nader has won a key legal battle against Mastercard. Mastercard sued Nader over a parody of its "priceless" ad campaign that Nader maintained was a fair use -- and today the NY Southern District Court ruled in Nader's favor. My cow-orker Jason Schultz has the scoop.
Back in 2000, Ralph Nader ran a bunch of ads critiquing the corporate interests behind the Bush and Gore campaigns. To make his point, he used the style and some of ideas behind MasterCard's "Priceless" ad campaign -- specifically calling out the dollar amounts that corporate interests paid to candidates to secure their positions on the issues.
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Net phone provider Voiceglo lands $28 million. The Internet phone service provider announces $28 million in funding, more proof of the investment community's continued enthusiasm for so-called voice over Internet Protocol. |
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Plan Could Give Nextel a Wireless Edge (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Nextel Communications Inc. will likely gain control of a valuable, virgin slice of the wireless spectrum as part of a federal plan to clear up interference on police and fire department communications channels. |
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Sony Ericsson Launches New Phones (Reuters). Reuters - Swedish-Japanese mobile phone maker
Sony Ericsson launched five new picture-taking handsets on
Tuesday, saying such phones would help it gain market share
this year amid fast growing demand for mobile imaging. |
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Why Are Virus Attacks Getting Worse? |
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Beating the Bagle, Netsky Plague |
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10 Mar Troj/Cidra-D |
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