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Intel, Alcatel team up for WiMax gear. Intel and network gear maker Alcatel have announced an alliance to deliver the wireless broadband equipment by the second half of 2005. |
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Attempt to extradite online 'pirate' blocked. An Australian court rejects prosecutors' effort to bring the alleged ringleader of the DrinkorDie group to United States for trial. |
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BuyMusic to join Buy.com. Online song store BuyMusic.com will be folded "within several days" into the larger Buy.com e-commerce site, according to an e-mail sent to customers. |
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Sony Sees 10-Year Life for PlayStation 2 Console (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Corp. believes that its
market-leading PlayStation 2 video game console can continue to
sell until 2010, twice as long as most in the industry had
assumed was possible, an executive of Sony's U.S. video game
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Chainsaw-wielding Robotic Submarine |
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Multi-player games, P2P, Remailers: These could legitmately benefit from TC, but I don't find them compelling enough to offset my dislike of TC.
I still don't agree with those who claim that trusted computing is voluntary. Economies of scale have turned the computer industry into a winner-take-all market; if the winner includes trusted computing you're SOL. |
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Online Shopping Privacy: While this is workable in theory, most ecommerce sites are custom code, which would cost a fortune to audit and re-audit. |
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Mobile Agents: Similar to Selling CPU Cycles, it's not clear if they're good for anything. |
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Selling CPU Cycles: I am extremely skeptical that this is economically viable, even if it could be made 100% secure. |
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VPNs, Corporate DRM: If the BigCos want to keep their employees on short leashes, fine. Corporate DRM without government override is dangerous, though. |
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Online Gambling, Distributed Computing: I suspect these can be solved with the latest zero-knowledge protocols (like the "mental card games" I blogged previously). |
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Financial Transactions: Similar to voting; I don't want my "digital wallet" to be cracked, so just give me a way of proving to myself that it's secure. |
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Unlimited Freedom: Interesting Uses of Trusted Computing. This is a good enough article that I'll respond to it point-by-point.
Online Elections: I think it's in a voter's self-interest that their vote is not modified, so it should be possible to implement online voting with only local attestation. |
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Intel, Alcatel team up on WiMax. Intel Corp. and French telecommunications equipment manufacturer Alcatel SA are working together on the emerging WiMax wireless technology in an effort to deliver products using WiMax by the second half of 2005, the companies said Thursday. |
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IT business processes evolving like cities, Microsoft exec says. SAN FRANCISCO -- Comparing the evolution of IT business processes to the evolution of cites, a Microsoft official at the VSLive conference on Thursday stressed the need for standards to boost electronic business. |
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SCO Linux licensee has second thoughts on deal. Less than one month after becoming the first publicly announced purchaser of The SCO Group Inc.'s controversial intellectual property license for Linux, Houston-based Internet service provider Everyones Internet Ltd. is reconsidering the benefits of doing business with the Linux community's enemy number one. |
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Nigerian Scam Letter Curse - Solution Better than Law Enforcement |
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News Forge: Port scanning and Nmap 3.5 "Nmap 3.5 provides more than a dozen methods to scan a ta... |
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The Register: Interview with the keystroke caperist [ZDNet] "Larry Ropp, 46, was indicted Tuesda... |
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Groklaw: Fyodor Terminates SCO's Right to Distribute Nmap (February, 2004) "Plenty of questions ... |
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F-Secure gives Linux an antivirus injection |
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BKDR_SNOWDOOR.D |
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Britain still playing broadband catch-up |
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Is hacking ethical? |
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Code audit reveals several flaws in Ethereal |
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Lotus Founder: Open Source is Route Worth Taking |
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Comcast to acquire TechTV |
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Grid watch: Open standards architecture at the GGF |
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VeriSign takes token stance |
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E-crime costs UK business billions |
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Don't think about pink elephants. According to a new Harvard University psychological study, the thoughts we push out of our brains during the day seep into our dreams at night. The reason may be because the prefontal cortex--the part of the brain we use to plan and organize complex cognitive processes--doesn't work as hard when we're asleep.
"Maybe this is why students dream of sleeping through an important exam, why actors dream of going blank on stage, and why truckers dream of driving off the road," one of the researchers told Scientific American. "Dreams are where our thoughts go when we try to put the thoughts out of mind." Link
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Boeing Unveils Pricing for In-Flight Web Access (Reuters). Reuters - Boeing Co. on Thursday announced
pricing for its Connexion high-speed Internet service that will
soon enable travelers to surf the Web or send messages to
friends or co-workers while cruising at 30,000 feet. |
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Apple Delays IPod Mini Global Launch to July (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. will delay global
sales of its new iPod mini digital music player until July due
to stronger-than-expected U.S. demand, Apple said on Thursday. |
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Slashback: Flashmob, Currency, Verification |
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US lawmakers question EU Microsoft decision. WASHINGTON - Ten members of the U.S. House International Relations Committee are questioning the European Commission's decision Wednesday to fine Microsoft Corp. €497.2 million (US$605 million, as of Thursday) for anticompetitive practices, saying the U.S. has sufficiently addressed Microsoft antitrust issues. |
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Phishing for Identity Information |
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WORM_SDBOT.AB |
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Âçëîìàí ñåðâåð ïðîåêòà GNOME |
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No second thoughts on Linux use |
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Would-be whistleblower indicted for keyboard tap |
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F-Secure Readies Security Software For Linux |
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Color TV hits 50th anniversary |
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Most Developers Use RFID For Security Applications, Not Inventory |
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Industry balks at wiretap plan |
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Life on Mars - but 'we sent it' |
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eSignal Buffer Overflow Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code |
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MySQL 'mysqlbug' Temporary File Flaw Lets Local Users Overwrite Files |
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Device puts both hands on the PC wheel. A spin-off of mouse-maker Logitech specializes in input devices that use the other hand, betting that professionals will pick up on two-fisted computing. |
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Small Small Business (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - Poverty, political repression, war, racial and religious hatred--none of these can prevent enterprise from taking root in the most parched soil in every corner and crevice on earth. On these pages are a handful of the millions of men and women who have overcome severe adversity by starting tiny businesses. They often began with microloans and grants of as little as $50 from nonprofit groups like the Trickle Up Program (New York City), the Foundation for International Community Assistance (Washington, D.C.), Accion International (Boston), Mercy Corps (Portland, Ore. ... |
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Unplanned Absolescence (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - With cell phone usage cutting pay phone revenues 50% over the past five years to $2.5 million, New York City pay phone provider TCC Teleplex is morphing into a different business: outdoor Internet-access pay phones with screens and keyboards. |
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SpamHaus Behind .mail Top-Level Domain |
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No second thoughts on Linux use |
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Vulns: ReGet Software ReGet Directory Traversal Vulnerability. ReGet is a HTTP/FTP download manager for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
A vulnerability has been identified in the application that may allow remote attackers to u... |
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Calling for Backup |
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Five Ways to Fight ID Theft |
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Selling Without Selling Out |
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Forensic Analysis of a Live Linux System, Part One |
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picophone163.txt |
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picobof.zip |
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hpjadmadv.txt |
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Disney Ink Shop.  Disney has launched a custom T-shirt shop with a seemingly infinite number of images to choose from. some of the art is awesome, owing to the fact that it was drawn by the good old Disney studio cartoonists. I've found several ukulele related images already. Link
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AT&T shops for new partners. The pending merger of Cingular and AT&T Wireless is prompting the company to "explore all options." |
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HP files patent suit against Gateway. Hewlett-Packard alleges its rival infringed on certain patents and refused to properly compensate HP for their use. |
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Siebel Debuts Government Verticals (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - CRM software maker Siebel (Nasdaq: SEBL) has increased its arsenal of vertical applications by six; the set of public-sector offerings handle a range of government interactions with citizens, employees and each other. |
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PeopleSoft Group Seek to Expense Options (AP). AP - PeopleSoft Inc.'s shareholders joined the crusade to expense stock options Thursday, approving a recommendation urging the business software maker to acknowledge the true costs of the popular employee incentives. |
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Novell Kicks Around Embedded-Linux Plans (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) is continuing to strengthen its commitment to open-source initiatives
with a growing string of announcements at its annual BrainShare conference. |
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Microsoft Launches Speech Server, Mobile Software Upgrade (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has introduced speech-recognition software that targets a
new area of enterprise applications with a component of the company's
Visual Studio .NET platform. At the same time, Microsoft unveiled
a new version of its Windows Mobile software, with an eye on grabbing
a larger share of the mobile-phone and smartphone market. |
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Bros. to Launch Stand-Up Comedy Channel (AP). AP - Two brothers who hit it big with an online brokerage firm during the dot-com boom are trying a new venture: a stand-up comedy channel. |
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Ballmer On Microsoft's Search Goofs |
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Visual Studio 2005 to feature mobile devices focus. SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft with Visual Studio 2005 is pledging to provide mobile application developers with facilities equal to what desktop developers have had, said company officials at the VSLive conference here on Thursday. |
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New Microsoft program: 'You patch, we pay'. Microsoft Patch Assurance Security Service offers free security audits |
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Forensic Analysis of a Live Linux System, Part One |
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Vulns: Pine Message/External-Body Type Attribute Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Pine is a freely available, open source Mail User Agent. It is distributed by the University of Washington, and available for the Unix, Linux, and Microsoft platforms.
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Vulns: Pine rfc2231_get_param() Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability. Pine is an e-mail client program used with Linux and Unix distributions.
It has been reported that Pine is prone to an integer overflow condition resulting in possible m... |
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Vulns: Qualcomm Eudora Spoofed Attachment Line Denial Of Service Vulnerability. Eudora is an e-mail client for Microsoft Windows and other operating systems. It is maintained and distributed by Qualcomm.
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Interesting Uses for Trusted Computing |
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Interesting Uses of Trusted Computing |
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Abortion records dispute focuses on privacy |
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Utah court won't dump JetBlue privacy lawsuit |
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Justices consider trash privacy |
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Is it ever OK to invade your child's privacy? |
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SMTP+SPF: SPF Publisher Wizard |
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Copy protection plan squeezes home users |
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Individual rights reliant on protection of privacy |
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Employee privacy rights on trial in Prince Edward Island |
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STATEHOUSE bill targets privacy in court records/3-25 |
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dameware4100.txt |
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dtlogin.sxw.pdf |
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samhain-1.8.4.tar.gz |
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beltane-1.0.5.tar.gz |
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terminator3.txt |
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t3cbof.zip |
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solaris_kernel_vfs.s..> |
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R7-0018.isakmpd.txt |
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trendmicro.txt |
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GCN: Motives, methods of hackers are changing "The trend now is to take advantage of other hacke... |
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InfoSec Magazine: Overview of SSH "SSH is a powerful security protocol, but it can prove dangero... |
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CAIDA: Traffic Analysis Teaching CD |
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SMH: Code audit reveals several flaws in Ethereal [Ethereal] "stack overflows which can be remot... |
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MD5CRK: Distributed MD5 cracking "MD5 is not secure for many applications" |
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New Microsoft program: 'You patch, we pay' |
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Ask Ars: routinely dropping WiFi connectivity. A reader wrote in with a question the answer to which I, too, sought the anwer. The question concerns 802.11 wireless connectivity, and persistent connection drops. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Convergys to buy learning services company. The company signs an agreement to acquire DigitalThink for about $120 million. |
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For sales, gaming health, firms engage in play therapy. Nokia hopes new games will pump up player sales; Microsoft announces new game-development tools; Sun seeks to let game publishers use a single server to run online games for PCs, consoles. |
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Dell resumes shipments of Inspiron 9100, XPS. The delay in production, which affected only the two notebook models, creates some backlog. |
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Intel, Alcatel Start Broadband Wireless Alliance (Reuters). Reuters - Intel Corp. (INTC.O), the world's
largest chip maker, and French telecommunications equipment
maker Alcatel (CGEP.PA) will team up to deliver products for an
emerging wireless communications technology called WiMAX, the
companies said on Thursday. |
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iPod Mini Worldwide Rollout Delayed |
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Lindows.com asks judge to reign in Microsoft abroad. Lindows.com on Wednesday asked a federal judge in Seattle to stop Microsoft from pursuing trademark infringement lawsuits against the company in international courts. |
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New Microsoft program: 'You patch, we pay'. Under a new program, Microsoft is paying for security assessments of its customers' networks to help improve policies in areas such as software patch management and assuage fears about the security risks posed by Microsoft products. |
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BugTraq: UPDATED: MS Word - password protection vulnerabilty. Sender: Andrew Barkley [abarkle3 at csc dot com] |
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BugTraq: Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 468-1] New emil packages fix multiple vulnerabilities. Sender: Ulf Härnhammar [Ulf dot Harnhammar dot 9485 at student dot uu dot se] |
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Vulns: PHP-Nuke MS-Analysis Module Multiple Remote Path Disclosure Vulnerabilities. MS-Analysis is a freely available module built for PHP-Nuke designed to analyze incoming site traffic and store related data. PHP-Nuke is a popular open source web based... |
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Vulns: PHP-Nuke MS-Analysis Module Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities. MS-Analysis is a freely available module built for PHP-Nuke designed to analyze incoming site traffic and store related data. PHP-Nuke is a popular open source web based... |
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Vulns: PHP-Nuke MS-Analysis Module HTTP Referrer Field SQL Injection Vulnerability. MS-Analysis is a freely available module built for PHP-Nuke designed to analyze incoming site traffic and store related data. PHP-Nuke is a popular open source web based... |
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Deux vulnérabilités dans la protection des documents word |
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Genetic Research Center Taps IBM for Supercomputer |
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Et Cetera: burstin' at the seems edition. Yet another Et Cetera served up, with TechTV, electronics on planes, iPod mini delays, and other mysteria. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Removable Media For Our Minds. In my latest article for TheFeature.com, I report on the first baby steps toward "memory prosthetics," systems that could someday enable us to google our entire lives.
"Too often, our memories don't serve us well. We lose our keys. We forget names. As we age, the home movies that play in our heads begin to look like fifth generation VHS copies. But what if we could rewind to yesterday? Indeed, what if we could watch our entire lives flash before our eyes with the click of button? The possibility is not as far fetched as one might think."
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WTF: a UK conference on "emerging memes". Tav sez, "The very first WTF, an open space gathering/conference of various grassroots projects, people, and organisations, will be happening from 11am onwards this Saturday, 27th of March @ the 491 Gallery, 491 Grove Green Road, London E11, UK. It's a UK based conference of emerging memes (foafy-crypto-socio-semantic-typographic-activist-style) empowered with technology (wi-fi, wikis, audio feeds, irc, etc.)"
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Infineon CEO steps down unexpectedly. The departure of Ulrich Schumacher comes as the German chipmaker faces U.S. and EU investigations into price-fixing and handles an ongoing legal battle with Rambus. |
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Lucent wins $75 million Iraq contract. The Department of Defense taps the company to build or modernize phone networks used by Iraqi private businesses and the nation's interim government agencies. |
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Koogle faces critics over Plaxo. If the reaction at PC Forum is any indication, there's a new whipping boy in the tech industry, and it's called Plaxo. |
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PeopleSoft shareholders support CEO. Investors stand firmly behind the software company's board of directors, despite its resistance to a hostile takeover bid by rival Oracle. |
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LCD TVs keep flying off shelves. Worldwide shipments of LCD televisions surged to 1.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2003. |
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PeopleSoft holders back directors, options expensing. PeopleSoft Inc. held a quiet shareholders' meeting Thursday, at which the company's shareholders reelected the company's incumbent directors and passed a resolution urging PeopleSoft to expense the cost of stock option grants. |
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BugTraq: UPDATED: MS Word - password protection vulnerabilty. Sender: Andrew W Barkley [abarkle3 at csc dot com] |
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BugTraq: Remote crash in Etherlords I 1.07 and II 1.03. Sender: Luigi Auriemma [aluigi at altervista dot org] |
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Tired of Silly Putty? Try Magnetoids.  I like to play with a hunk of Silly Putty while I procrastinate in front of the computer. But these Magnetoids look (and sound) really neat. Link (Thanks, Kent W!)
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STRANGEco reports on the New York Toy Fair 2004.  Our favorite toy company STRANGEco reports on the NY Toy Fair, and has tons of pictures.
STRANGEco featured a combination of originally branded toys and specially distributed products. In addition to the previously announced Dorbel, MARS-1 and Tiger Baby vinyls, STRANGEco previewed The Neo Kaiju Project-- featuring reinterpretations of Japanese monsters by Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Seonna Hong, Kathy Schorr and Todd Schorr. The booth also showcased Scarygirl by Nathan Jurevicius (including the upcoming Mini Scarygirl series), Sony Japan’s Vanimal Zoo and Art Capsule mini figures, Presspop Gallery’s high-end vinyl figures and the new Punk Is Not Dead series by James Jarvis and AMOS Novelties.
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Nokia eyes N-Gage turnaround. The cell phone giant expects upcoming games to bolster lackluster sales for its portable game player. |
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Gartner forecasts scanty software spending. Corporations are feeling cautious in their tech spending, said the market research firm, which also reported that its numbers for last year were overly rosy due to a weak dollar. |
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U.S. Lindows Judge Proposes Compromise (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - In the battle between Microsoft and Lindows.com over the Lindows trademark, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour proposed a deal to stop Microsoft from suing Lindows in foreign courts until the U.S. case is decided. |
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U.S. Interior Dept. Back Online After Court Order (Reuters). Reuters - The U.S. Interior Department was
back online on Thursday after an appeals court said it could
connect to the Internet while the court considers whether
payments owed to American Indians are vulnerable to hackers. |
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Online sales up 70% at Ebookers. The internet-based holiday company says it has overcome the effects of the Iraq war and Sars, with online bookings on the increase. |
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Police cars keep an eye on crime. Police in the UK are interested in using digital CCTV cameras in squad cars. |
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Antigua beats US on net gaming. The twin-island state of Antigua and Barbuda wins a WTO ruling permitting it to sell online gambling to US citizens. |
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Nokia to launch another 40 products in 2004. Nokia Corp. launched a record 40 products last year and intends to keep up that level of releases in 2004 as the market recovers, it said Thursday. |
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BugTraq: Re: Immunity Advisory: Solaris local kernel root. Sender: Casper Dik [casper at holland dot sun dot com] |
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Vulns: JelSoft VBulletin Private.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. VBulletin is a commercially available web based bulletin board application. It is implemented in PHP and may be run on Unix and Unix like operating systems as well as Win... |
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Vulns: JelSoft VBulletin Multiple Module Index.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities. VBulletin is a commercially available web based bulletin board application. It is implemented in PHP and may be run on Unix and Unix like operating systems as well as Win... |
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Vulns: Invision Gallery Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities. Invision Gallery is a gallery system that can be used as a plugin for Invision Power Board. Invision Power Board is web forum software. It is implemented in PHP and is a... |
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Vulns: Joel Palmius Mod_Survey Survey Input Field HTML Injection Vulnerability. Mod_Survey is a mod_perl module for Apache which allows web users to create online questionaires. It is maintained by Joel Palmius and will run on Linux and Unix variants... |
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Secretary sacked for cyberlounge abuse. Claims Web stalker responsible for offensive postings |
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If consumers want to copy games, let them. DRM provider claims to have answer to 'honest' copiers |
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IP telephony and Wi-Fi must tie the knot. Converged communication strategies the secret of wedded bliss |
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Europe wanted to rule over future Windows tech, says MS. A single rule to cover a pattern of conduct? |
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Lindows plans US gov backed global assault on Windows trademark. Using Commerce Dept programme covering English generics |
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BPI threatens uploaders with big stick. Gonna get phonographic on your filesharing a** |
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Code audit reveals several flaws in Ethereal |
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Sun’s McNealy: Java won’t be open source |
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Is hacking ethical? |
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25 Mar W32/Lovgate-X |
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Court Ruling Puts Department Of Interior Back Online |
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EXCLUSIVE: GMAC Customer Data Put At Risk By Laptop Theft |
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Interview with the keystroke caperist |
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SpamHaus lobbies for .mail TLD |
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Ruling Puts Interior Dept. Back Online (AP) |
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Bush thinks looking for weapons of mass destruction is a hoot. Bush had a good laugh at the expense of the planet last night at a media dinner:
Bush put on a slide show, calling it the "White House Election-Year Album" at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association 60th annual dinner, showing himself and his staff in some decidedly unflattering poses.
There was Bush looking under furniture in a fruitless, frustrating search. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere," he said.
As Reason's Hit and Run commented, "leading your country to war under false pretenses is hiiiiii-larious." Link |
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Cool new French group blog on cyberculture. Spanish blogger Jose Luis of ecuaderno.com sends word of a new French collaborative weblog AEIOU -- described as having been "inspired by Metafilter."
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Kuro5hin's new membership system. Rusty, the guy who runs Kuro5hin, has gotten fed up with abusive posters. He's going to implement a new system for new members.
The idea is this: someone creates a new account. They go through the normal email confirmation. At this point they cannot do anything. Before you have the privileges of a user, you must get an existing user to sponsor you. That just means that some user with the ability to sponsor others goes to a page and enters the new user's nickname. These two are now associated, and if a user gets kicked off the site, their sponsor does too.
This sounds like a good idea. People are already complaining on kuro5hin about the idea, but really, why should it be easy to gain membership into a club? It reminds me of the way private societies like the Masons work. New candidates can apply for membership, but need a couple of sponsors to be accepted into the club. Sponsors have to know the new member pretty well before sponsoring him, because they don't want their reps to be besmirched. And any latent jerk-tendencies in the new guy will be stifled, because he knows his sponsor will take the heat for whatever he does. Maybe Boing Boing should implement a similar system if we decide to allow comments again. Link |
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Comcast buys TechTV, will merge it with gaming channel G4. Comcast announced today that it will purchase TechTV, the network created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Programming Inc. When the deal closes, Comcast will merge TechTV with gamer lifestyle network G4.
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FBI translator says she was bribed not to spill beans on 9-11 cover-up. During the 9-11 Hearing, the spotlight was on Richard Clarke's testimony, because they've been so devastating to the Bush administration. But there's hardly any media mention of Sibel Edmonds' tesimony. She's a Farsi and Turkish translator who worked for the FBI from Sept. 20, 2001 to March 2002. Here's what Govenment Executive magazine had to say about her testimony.
Edmonds said she was hired to retranslate material that was collected prior to Sept. 11 to determine if anything was missed in the translations that related to the plot. In her review, Edmonds said the documents clearly showed that the Sept. 11 hijackers were in the country and plotting to use airplanes as missiles. The documents also included information relating to their financial activities. Edmonds said she could not comment in detail because she has been under a Justice Department gag order since October 2002.
And here's what tomflocco.com reported:
FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds, was offered a substantial raise and a full time job in order to not go public that she had been asked by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to retranslate and adjust the translations of [terrorist] subject intercepts that had been received before September 11, 2001 by the FBI and CIA.
Edmonds, a ten year U.S. citizen who has passed a polygraph examination, speaks fluent Farsi and Turkish and had been working part time with the FBI for six months-- commencing in December, 2001.
In a 50 reporter frenzy in front of some 12 news cameras, Edmonds said "Attorney General John Ashcroft told me 'he was invoking State Secret Privilege and National Security' when I told the FBI I wanted to go public with what I had translated from the pre 9-11 intercepts."
"I appeared>The Memory Hole. |
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Dell sees green in EPA computer, recycling pact. The company said it will supply the Environmental Protection Agency with computers and help recycle the regulatory organization's hardware over the next three years. |
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Apple delays worldwide launch of iPod mini (AFP). AFP - Apple Computer said it would delay the worldwide launch of its iPod mini portable music player until July due to stronger-than-expected demand in the US market. |
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EU ready to defend landmark anti-trust ruling against Microsoft in court (AFP). AFP - The European Commission is prepared to defend its decision to slap a record fine of half a billion euros on US software giant Microsoft in a landmark anti-trust ruling, an EU official said. |
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Nokia plans to launch 40 mobile phones in 2004 (AFP). AFP - Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, will introduce about 40 new handsets in 2004, roughly the same number as last year, chief executive Jorma Ollila announced. |
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Indian computer sales surge in third quarter (AFP). AFP - Sales of personal computers in India jumped 87 percent in the third quarter of the fiscal year ending in March, putting the industry on track to achieve the year's target of three million computers sold. |
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Ruling Puts Interior Dept. Back Online (AP). AP - The Interior Department will go back online after an appeals court Wednesday blocked a judge's ruling that ordered most of the department's computers disconnected from the Internet. |
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The Microsoft Divide (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The record-setting antitrust fine imposed by the European Union on Microsoft Corp. could do far more than make a small dent in Bill Gates & Co's mammoth bank account. The ruling, a much more hard-line approach than was taken by the U.S. Justice Department, could send mixed signals for other technology companies with a global reach, not to mention threaten U.S.-European trade relations. |
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DOJ Calls EU Microsoft Decision "Unfortunate" |
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Fifty Years of Color Television |
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Is hacking ethical? |
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Elsewhere: Industry balks at wiretap plan. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Before 8x8 Inc. launched an Internet phone service in late 2002, it drafted a business plan, set up its equipment, posted a Web site and began taking o... |
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Elsewhere: Gnome hacking delays launch. THE LAUNCH OF the latest version of Gnome has been delayed while PC Plod investigates the hacking of the Project's server.
The Gnome Project was set to release Gnome 2.6 ... |
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News: Trust me I'm clean, claims virus. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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BugTraq: Re: TrendMicro (not Macro) Interscan Viruswall Directory Traversal. Sender: Tri Huynh [trihuynh at zeeup dot com] |
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BugTraq: Re: Immunity Advisory: Solaris local kernel root. Sender: Dave Aitel [dave at immunitysec dot com] |
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BugTraq: New Adventures In Phishing. Sender: Jim Halfpenny [jim at openanswers dot co dot uk] |
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BugTraq: Re: Phpbb 2.0.7a And Earlier Secuity Issues. Sender: JeiAr [security at gulftech dot org] |
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Vulns: XWeb Directory Traversal Vulnerability. XWeb is web server software for Linux operating systems.
XWeb is reportedly prone to directory traversal attacks. This is due to a problem in how the server handles dir... |
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Vulns: Ericsson HM220dp DSL Modem World Accessible Web Administration Interface Vulnerability. The Ericsson HM220dp DSL Modem is a broadband modem used in homes and small office environments.
The modem uses a web interface to allow remote administration and config... |
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Vulns: phpBB profile.php avatarselect Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. phpBB is an open-source web forum application that is written in PHP and supported by a number of database products. It will run on most Unix and Linux variants, as well ... |
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Vulns: Xine Bug Reporting Script Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability. xine is a multimedia player for Unix/Linux variants.
The xine bug reporting scripts (xine-bugreport and xine-check) create temporary files in an insecure manner.
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SA telco says VoIP is illegal. Oh no it ain't, counters Skype |
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Paedo-stalking ChatNannies - fact or fiction?. Readers sceptical, but creator sure of plaudits |
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Ukrainian nukes go AWOL. 'Strange things happen,' says defence minister |
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BT fires 'gimmick' salvo at Carphone Warehouse. Strong words deployed as battle lines drawn |
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SpamHaus lobbies for .mail TLD. But will .gov pull the .plug on the .plan? |
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Wal-Mart waltzes into music download market. Some neat footwork by the retail giant |
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Product Goes After Phishing Scams |
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HP Web JetAdmin Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Passion of the Robo Christ -- NOT. One of the humans behind Robots.net reports of our metallic overlords:
The Online
Sun and Ananova
report that Mel Gibson used a robot Christ in his recent movie, Passion of the Christ.
The £220,000 robot was used during the crucifixion
scenes because the weather was too cold for actor Jim Caviezel.
According to another
site, the animatronic Christ was operated by Mel Gibson himself.
The robot was created by Keith
Vanderlaan's Captive Audience Productions. In addition to realistic head
movements, the robot also bleeds and appears to breathe. This could give
a whole new meaning to the phrase, "I'll be back".
Link, (thanks noah!)
UPDATE: False! Boingboing reader Nelson says,
"As much as I wish it was true, IMDB debunks the robo-christ rumor here."
The figure of Christ during the crucifixion is actually James Caviezel, despite popular rumors - no animatronics were used. However, according to the movie's official website, the movie's make-up effects creator/producer Keith VanderLaan forged an articulated, rubber stand-in for Caviezel who could be suspended on the cross for certain wide shots to allow the actor some physical relief.
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Soaring Costs Forcing Chipmakers To Team Up (Investor's Business Daily). Investor's Business Daily - Four of the world's largest chip companies, led by IBM Corp., (NYSE:IBM - News) are banding together to drive chip process costs down. The plan is to share the high costs of designing new chips. |
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British Music Industry Takes Aim at Net Song Swappers (Reuters). Reuters - The British music industry announced on
Thursday it will begin issuing legal warnings to the nation's
most prolific online song-swappers, its strongest declaration
yet that lawsuits are on the way. |
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PC of the Future (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Will tomorrow's PC be unrecognizable, or will it look mostly like today's unit? Top experts from Ziff-Davis Media look into the crystal ball for answers. |
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Howard Rheingold on Using the Internet in Politics |
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Antigua beats US on online gaming. The twin-island state of Antigua and Barbuda wins a WTO ruling permitting it to sell online gambling to US citizens. |
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Global iPod mini launch delayed. Apple delays the global launch of its popular iPod mini by three months due to US demand. |
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European group researches polymer RFID chips. Several electronics manufacturers and research institutes in Europe have joined forces in a European Union-funded project aimed at developing low-cost, polymer-based electronic circuits. |
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Sun’s McNealy: Java won’t be open source |
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W/32/Netsky.P-mm |
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Debian update for Emil |
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Nexgen FTP Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability |
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Survey uncovers false sense of data security |
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Standard Chartered shores up defences |
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Microsoft has `patch' for latest hack flaw |
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Proliferation of viruses prompting shift of blame to Net ignorance |
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E-security Firm Backs Novell's Play |
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Court Ruling Puts Interior Back Online |
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GNOME 2.6: Verzögerung nach Server-Attacke |
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Vulnérabilités Hotmail et Yahoo |
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Passion of the Robo Christ. One of the humans behind Robots.net reports of our metallic overlords:
The Online
Sun and Ananova
report that Mel Gibson used a robot Christ in his recent movie, Passion of the Christ.
The £220,000 robot was used during the crucifixion
scenes because the weather was too cold for actor Jim Caviezel.
According to another
site, the animatronic Christ was operated by Mel Gibson himself.
The robot was created by Keith
Vanderlaan's Captive Audience Productions. In addition to realistic head
movements, the robot also bleeds and appears to breathe. This could give
a whole new meaning to the phrase, "I'll be back".
Link, (thanks noah!) |
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Taxiing the Net for take-off. Scott Carson, president of Connexion by Boeing, wants to bring broadband access and other services to airline passengers. But first he must convince the big carriers to go along. |
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Heeding the blast of Schumpeter's trumpet. Policy analyst Randolph J. May says VoIP's accelerating proliferation is pushing existing regulatory paradigms to the breaking point. |
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Apple delays global launch of iPod mini. The company pushes off plans for expanding sales of its new portable music player, citing higher than expected demand and a shortage of hard drives. |
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U.N. to delve more into Net governance. The future of ICANN is on the line as the United Nations becomes more interested in taking over some of the organization's functions. |
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iPod mini won't be available worldwide until July (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple announced Thursday that its iPod mini won't be available worldwide until July, about three months later than it had originally anticipated. Apple said that stronger than expected demand in the U.S. has constrained supplies through the end of June. Apple now anticipates that its production will be ramped up to meet worldwide demand in the July quarter. |
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Disclosure may spur server competition (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - The Santa Clara company's long campaign against Microsoft has paid off in an antitrust decision that could spur more competition in the computer server market. |
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Augustin's 8 Simple Rules for Open-Source Business Strategy (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Dr. Larry Augustin, founder of VA Research and VA Linux Systems, outlines at the Open Source Business Conference the new rules for IT vendors and consumers. |
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Ruling clouds plans for search functions (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - The European Commission's decision to force Microsoft to "unbundle" its media player from Windows raises questions about the software maker's plans to integrate search technology into its next operating system. |
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The Wrong Stuff |
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life |
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Chip cooling technology struck by lightning. Goodbye to the fan-cooled PC? |
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Apple delays world iPod Mini launch. Can only make enough to satisfy US buyers |
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Software industry opts for subscription fees. Fees ability |
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Common Desktop Environment dtlogin XDMCP Parsing Vulnerability |
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Trendmicro Interscan VirusWall Directory Traversal Vulnerability |
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25 Mar W32/Agobot-EX |
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Une faille dans Blackice amène à la destruction de milliers d'ordinateurs |
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Nouveau système de forums sur Ixus |
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Emil Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Sun Solaris CDE dtlogin XDMCP Parsing Vulnerability |
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wsftp402eval.txt |
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xp_ws_ftp_server.zip |
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wsftp402eval2.txt |
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wsftp402eval3.txt |
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xp_ws_ftp_server2.zi..> |
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wsftp402eval4.txt |
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gm005-mc.txt |
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therage101.txt |
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ragefreeze.zip |
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032004.txt |
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Transmeta, NEC Team on Low-Power Chips (PC World). PC World - LongRun2 power management software will be used in NEC's products. |
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British Campaign to Target Music Piracy (AP). AP - More than 7 million people in Britain now download music from illegal Web sites, causing a drop in music sales in stores, leaders of Britain's record industry said Thursday as they launched a campaign to curb music piracy. |
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Nokia Plans 40 New Devices in 2004 (Reuters). Reuters - Top mobile phone maker Nokia
(NOK1V.HE) expects to launch some 40 new mobile devices during
2004, around the same number as last year, Chief Executive
Jorma Ollila told the company's annual general meeting on
Thursday. |
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Apple Delays iPod Mini Global Launch (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O) will
delay global sales of its iPod mini digital music player due to
stronger-than-expected demand in the United States, where it
began shipping in February, the computer maker said on
Thursday. |
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IBM Invests $50M in Novell, May Ship SUSE Linux |
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Xbox and PC to share gaming tools. Microsoft is releasing tools to make it easier to create titles that run on the PC and Xbox with minimal changes. |
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Transmeta, NEC partner on low-power chips. NEC Electronics Corp. has licensed Transmeta Corp.'s LongRun2 power management software for use in the Japanese company's upcoming semiconductor products. The two companies will announce the agreement on Thursday during a press event in Tokyo. |
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China cracks down on cybercafes - again. Concerns over mental health of teenagers this time |
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UK business wirelessly floundering. No strategy, total anarchy, security meltdown. According to O2, that is |
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Corporate websites are 'financial black holes'. Little more than cash-eating billboards |
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Lessig's Free Culture, free online, under a Creative Commons license. Larry Lessig's new book "Free Culture" -- which is about the value of freedom to cultural production -- is out in stores today, and, unlike his previous two books, Larry has foudn the leverage to convince his publisher to let him release the full text of the new book online under a Creative Commons license. He credits me with providing the ammunition he needed to convince Penguin to allow him to do this -- which is extraordinarily flattering -- but however he got there, I'm glad he did.
A landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind.
Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation.
All creative works-books, movies, records, software, and so on-are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible-technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we've forgotten?
Link
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Permira closes in on Debitel (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - Swisscom expects to take a huge loss in the $912 million sale of its German mobile-telephone service provider. |
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US DoJ condemns MS ruling. Mario Monti joins Axis of Evil... |
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Interview with the keystroke caperist. Bugged bosses' PC to 'expose improper practices' |
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US online gambling ban could be illegal. WTO doesn't like it... |
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Carphone Warehouse declares war on BT. Publishes free call plans |
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German police blitz music-swap neo-Nazis. Computers and CDs seized |
| 8. |
SCC wins CSC £500m desktop contract. Channel round-up Lockie to head Tech Data UK |
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EU Lowers Boom on Microsoft. The world's largest software company is hit with a $613 million fine by the European Union for its monopolistic business practices on the Continent. |
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Your Privacy vs. Their Profit. Members of a Senate subcommittee can't define what spyware is, exactly, but they know they don't like it and want to ban it. Marketing types fear any draconian legislation as an assault on the edifice of capitalism. |
| 11. |
Testing the Waters: Fish or Foul?. Researchers faced with determining the safety of drinking water have a new approach: If you want to know the quality of the water, ask those who live there -- fish. By Louise Knapp. |
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Bots Open Door to Gaming History. A tinkerer devises a way for players to enjoy Infocom's classic text-only games using AOL Instant Messenger. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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Welcome to the Swingers Club. Game companies simulate golf so well, accurately mapping real courses to within an inch, that golfers can improve their real-life skills by playing the digital version. But it takes real balls to take virtual golf to the next level. By Steven Johnson from Wired magazine. |
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Baseball Joins Media Slugfest. Major League Baseball inks pacts with Microsoft and AOL to carry live audio and video, plus various highlights packages. The deals leave Real out in the cold. By John Gartner. |
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Is hacking ethical? |
| 16. |
Yahoo, Hotmail vulnerable to security flaw |
| 17. |
The sophisticated adversary |
| 18. |
Une faille dans Blackice amène à la destruction de milliers d'ordinateurs |
| 19. |
Nouveau système de forums sur Ixus |
| 20. |
Kerio MailServer SPAM Filter Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
| 21. |
Kerio MailServer SPAM Filter Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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PicoPhone Logging Functionality Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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PicoPhone Logging Functionality Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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Paring Away at Microsoft. The European Commission's ruling against Microsoft is intended to force the company to change its fundamental business strategy. By Steve Lohr. |
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Big Changes Are Planned in Game-Software Strategy. Microsoft announced a new software development strategy Wednesday that aims to blur the distinction between its PC game and Xbox video game console businesses. By John Markoff. |
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Chip Makers Exchange Barbs in Corporate Espionage Suit. A Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer this week accused China's largest maker of custom chips of corporate espionage. By Laurie J. Flynn. |
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HP Move Could Change Microsoft Strategy (AP). AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. says it is yielding to large clients' demands and expanding Linux distribution — a decision that could force Microsoft to reconsider some of its corporate pricing for Windows. |
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Activision Game Lineup Spurs Optimism (AP). AP - Video-game maker Activision Inc.'s lineup of releases has increased optimism on Wall Street over the company's prospects. |
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Tivo Plans Commercials On Demand |
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News: Would-be whistleblower indicted for keyboard tap |
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EU Slaps Record Fine on Microsoft (Reuters). Reuters - European regulators on
Wednesday fined Microsoft Corp. a record 497 million euros
($606 million) for breaking antitrust law and ordered it to
strip media software from its operating system. |
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Europeans Come Down Hard on Microsoft (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - BERLIN, March 24 -- Microsoft Corp. is abusing a "near monopoly" in crucial computer software to squeeze out competitors, the European Union ruled Wednesday after a contentious five-year investigation. It ordered the company to pay a fine of more than $600 million, and to offer two versions of its Windows operating system in Europe, one without software for playing digital music and videos. |
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Robots Move in Sync as Japan Firms Look to Cash In (Reuters). Reuters - Four robots, one brain. |
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Dealing with False AOL Spam Reports? |
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News: Would-be whistleblower indicted for keyboard tap. The first U.S. prosecution for illegal use of a hardware key logger is against an insurance company insider who claims he was gathering evidence for state investigators. Did he go too far? |
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