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'Einstein Probe' Delayed |
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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ID card technology under scrutiny. The Home Affairs select committee will hear from firms specializing in identification cards, following government approval. |
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Vulns: Suidperl Unspecified Information Disclosure Vulnerability. SuidPerl is the Perl interpreter for setuid Perl scripts. It is included with distributions of the Perl package and is available for Linux and Unix variant operating envi... |
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Vulns: Logcheck Insecure Temporary Directory Vulnerability. Logcheck is a shell script for checking logs. It is available for Unix/Linux variants.
Logcheck performs operations on temporary directories in the /var/tmp directory i... |
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Apple's Play for Enterprise Storage |
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New Phatbot worm may be on the loose |
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Kill Bill, the Czech online game..  Online game apparently created by/for this Czech company to promote Crate and Barrel aficionado Quentin Tarantino's new film Kill Bill in Eastern Europe.
Link (Via Geisha) |
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Will trade passwords for chocolate. According to this Security Pipeline article, nearly three quarters of office workers in an impromptu man-on-the-street survey were willing to give up their passwords when offered the bribe of a chocolate bar. Heh. Heaven only knows what they'd fork over for venti latte with extra foam. Link (Thanks, Mitch!) |
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The District Manager.  |
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New Phatbot worm may be on the loose. A new variant of the Phatbot worm may be attempting to attack SQL Server ports, according to a warning issued by the SANS Institute. |
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Lights, camera, technology. roundup At the National Association of Broadcasters conference, Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina urges Hollywood to embrace technology, and Apple Computer provides new tools to do just that. |
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Recording Industry Drops Amnesty Program (AP). AP - The music industry's trade group has ended a program that offered to prevent people from being sued by recording companies if the downloaders admitted to illegally sharing music online, according to court documents. |
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Many Internet Users Happy With Dial-Up |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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NetBeans 3.6 IDE released. NetBeansIDE 3.6, a major revision to the open source platform, is now available, adding improved windowing and debugging and backing for J2EE 1.4. |
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AOL's ICQ upgrade allows for add-on applications. MIAMI - America Online Inc. has given its ICQ instant messaging service a significant revamping, including the ability for developers to create plug-in applications to extend ICQ's functionality, according to a company official. |
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Microsoft settles Minnesota pricing suit. SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. has reached a preliminary settlement in a class-action lawsuit in Minnesota, which alleged that the company abused its Windows monopoly to overcharge customers in the state for its software. |
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Phorum SQL Injection Vulnerability |
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phpBugTracker Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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FreeBSD en live CD |
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FTC Takes Aim At Spyware |
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Microsoft vous offre 2 CD de sécurité |
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Study: Lots Of Private Data Found On Used Hard Disks |
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Easing Server Sprawl and Storage Traffic Load |
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HP Delivers Opteron-Powered ProLiants |
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EqualLogic Giving Away Replication |
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Next on FTC's Hit List: Spyware |
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Next on FTC's Hit List: Spyware |
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Next on FTC's Hit List: Spyware |
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Nuclear Missiles pose a health hazard. Concerned for the health of people being killed by nuclear bombs, the EPA has ordered new, less-toxic, rockets to be installed on ICBMs.
"In order to comply with EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) regulations, and at a cost of about $5.2 million per ICBM, the rocket motors on 500 Minuteman III missiles will be replaced with new ones. These rockets will emit less toxic chemicals when used."
"EPA regulations do not apply in foreign countries, so no changes are being made to reduce the harmful environmental effects of the nuclear warheads." Link (Thanks, Eli the Bearded!) |
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Fiorina: Bring on broadcast digital revolution. Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina says there is "no question" that digital technology is shaping the capabilities of broadcasting. |
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Checkers jumps back online. After almost a week of server failures, Microsoft restores service for the online versions of a handful of classic games included in recent versions of Windows. |
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Microsoft Settles Minnesota Antitrust Suit |
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Nuclear Missiles pose a health hazard. Concerned for the health of people being killed by nuclear bombs, the EPA has ordered new, less-toxic, rockets to be installed on ICBMs.
"In order to comply with EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) regulations, and at a cost of about $5.2 million per ICBM, the rocket motors on 500 Minuteman III missiles will be replaced with new ones. These rockets will emit less toxic chemicals when used." "EPA regulations do not apply in foreign countries, so no changes are being made to reduce the harmful environmental effects of the nuclear warheads." Link (Thanks, Eli the Bearded!) [Boing Boing]
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Online gallery of extreme-goth Japanese dolls.  Photos of ultra-creepy Japanese dolls. Sort of "Silence of the Lambs" meets "Dream House Barbie."
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"Computer geek" sentenced to 13 years for making ricin. Ken Olson, a former employee of Agilent in Spokane Washington, was sentenced to 13 years for making ricin, a highly toxic chemical derived from castor beans. It's very easy to make ricin and castor beans are legal to possess and are readily available. Prosecutors say Olson was plotting to kill his wife and take up with his mistress. Olson's wife and mistress have teamed up to defend him.
The trouble began Aug. 21, 2001, when a co-worker at Agilent found an 80-page document on how to make a bomb.
The co-worker took the document to supervisors, who traced it to Olsen's computer. Company investigators examined his Internet logs and discovered Olsen had spent more than a year researching explosives and poisons. They found books in his cubicle on how to kill people without leaving a trace and a piece of paper with calculations of dosages for a 150-pound person — the approximate weight of his wife. Link
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Soup imitates art: Warhol-style Campbell's tomato soup on sale.  To commemorate the work of Andy Warhol, Campbell's is selling four packs of tomato soup with Warhol-esque labels. Link (Via WOW)
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HP unveils four-Opteron server. Hewlett-Packard begins selling a four-Opteron server, its second model to use the Advanced Micro Devices processor, and brings the chip into its high-performance technical computing line. |
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Microsoft Settling Minn. Antitrust Case (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has reached a settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by Minnesota customers who claimed the software giant overcharged them in violation of state antitrust laws. |
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RPT-Start-Up Vouches Linux Free of Copyright Abuse (Reuters). Reuters - A new company said on Monday it can
certify that the basic code in the Linux operating software is
free of copyright infringement and it will offer standard
product liability insurance to developers and users. |
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Detroit Gets High-Tech Parking Meters (AP). AP - Credit cards, cell phones and even old-fashioned cash can be used to operate the high-tech parking meters going up around town but some drivers find them a bit intimidating. |
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Is Sun's Niagara Server Viagra? |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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Task force issues more cybersecurity goals. WASHINGTON - IT vendors should improve default security settings in their products, a committee of the National Cyber Security Partnership Task Force (NCSP) said in a set of recommendations it has released on technical standards. |
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BugTraq: Re: Squirrelmail Chpasswod bof. Sender: [rip at overflow dot no] |
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Vulns: Mambo Open Source mod_mainmenu.php Remote File Include Vulnerability. Mambo Open Source is a web based content management system.
A vulnerability has been reported to exist in the software that may allow an attacker to include malicious e... |
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Forget dogging, here comes toothing. Bluetooth-driven liaisons in train toilets By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Nextel debuts wireless broadband in North Carolina. A US first By Wireless Watch . |
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Music biz appeals Canada file sharing-is-legal ruling. Music to lawyers' ears By Faultline . |
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FTC Takes Aim At Spyware |
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Sophos Enters Small Business Security Market |
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Anti-spam Protection Pays Its Way |
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Wireless Security Tops U.S.-China Trade Talks |
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Office Workers Willing To Leak Passwords for Chocolate |
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Gentoo: monit Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Mandrake: utempter Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Openwall: kernel Multiple vulnerabiltiies |
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Debian: kernel 2.4.17 Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Slackware: cvs Arbitrary file creation vulnerabilities |
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Slackware: tcpdump Denial of service vulnerability |
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Debian: logcheck Insecure temporary directory |
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Debian: perl Information leak vulnerabilities |
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Gentoo: cadaver Multiple format string vulnerabilities |
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Gentoo: XChat Stack overflow vulnerability |
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Debian: kernel 2.4.19 Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Debian: zope Arbitrary code execution vulnerability |
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Debian: iproute Denial of service vulnerability |
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Phorum Input Validation Hole in 'phorum_uriauth' Lets Remote Users Execute SQL Commands |
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PostNuke NS-Polls Input Validation Hole in 'pn_uid' Permits SQL Injection |
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KPhone - DOS vulnerability when using STUN |
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Phorum SQL Injection Vulnerability |
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Phorum SQL Injection Vulnerability |
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phpBugTracker Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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phpBugTracker Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Microsoft settles Minnesota antitrust case. update The software maker reaches a preliminary settlement to quell allegations that it overcharged for its software--yet another example of an antitrust or patent lawsuit laid to rest. |
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Gartner: Storage management software rebounding. After a bleak 2002, sales of software to manage data storage rose 8 percent last year to $5 billion, and growth should continue this year, the research company says. |
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Product Review: Dell PowerVault 114T Tape Array (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - The
Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) PowerVault 114T is a compact, rack-optimized enclosure that allows up to two tape drives to be attached externally to one or two of Dell's PowerEdge rack servers or PowerVault NAS (network attached storage servers. |
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Lindows Morphs Into Linspire (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Deciding that it is better to switch than fight, open source software
developer Lindows has changed its name to Linspire and given ground in
the company's ongoing battle with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). |
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OSRM Sells Protection for Linux Users (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Open Source Risk Management (OSRM) has launched its insurance program
for Linux users, offering protection against copyright infringement in light
of claims brought against enterprise Linux customers by the SCO
Group. |
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CIOs Focus on Internet, Web Services (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Implementing Web services and coping with the continuing impact of the Internet are top priorities for I.T. leaders in many organizations. |
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Group Releases Report on Hate Web Sites (AP). AP - Online hate games that attract children to gun down illegal immigrants at the border, hunt Jews and shoot blacks are among the thousands of extremist Web sites described in a report released Monday by an international human rights organization. |
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Sprint, AT&T Wireless Reach Wi-Fi Deal (AP). AP - Sprint Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. have reached a wireless Internet roaming agreement for five U.S. airports. |
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Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism |
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FTC Takes Aim At Spyware |
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Debian: zope Arbitrary code execution vulnerability |
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Debian: iproute Denial of service vulnerability |
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BugTraq: MDKSA-2004:031 - Updated utempter packages fix several vulnerabilities. Sender: Mandrake Linux Security Team [security at linux-mandrake dot com] |
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Vulns: OpenSSL Denial of Service Vulnerabilities. Three security vulnerabilities have been reported to affect OpenSSL. Each of these remotely exploitable issues may result in a denial of service in applications which us... |
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HP goes to Hollywood. Dreamworks gig By John Leyden . |
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Siebel cautious despite profits jump. Twitchy about market conditions By Datamonitor . |
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Microsoft picks up hackers' gauntlet |
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VARs empowered by standard |
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UK firms leave wireless networks unguarded |
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MasterCard reveals plan |
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Microsoft Windows Local Security Authority Service Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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Nuked-Klan Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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X-Micro WLAN 11b Broadband Router Default Username and Password Vulnerability |
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Microsoft Windows Expand-Down Data Segment Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
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ZDNet: Hollywood's new lesson for campus file swappers "technology that could make it easier to ... |
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ZDNet: Company to license device-security tools "With differential power analysis, or DPA, a hac... |
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Boston: Everday hackers "If you think all "hackers" are computer criminals, think again: A new g... |
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Net Security: Sending IPv6 Packets To Check Firewall Rules [pdf] |
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VNU Net: Climbing firewalls |
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Web Braces for Netsky.V's Attack (PC World) |
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VCampus' Security Blanket (The Motley Fool) |
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Ars Technica System Guide: the Ultimate Budget Box. Ars Technica's System Guide returns with a twist: a low-cost, ultimate budget box for the cost-conscious system builder. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Amherst asks: What is this thing?.  Thsi thing is from Amherst's Archives and Special Collections. No one there knows what it's purpose is, and they are asking for readers to help. (I'll bet Boing Boing's readers will come up with the answer today.)
The device is about 12 inches across and is seen here sitting on its flat wooden platform; apparently, it would be removed from the platform for use. The raised lid has a clip that restrains a spring-loaded brass oval, here shown released and resting on top of a ring of brass arms. Each brass arm has at its narrow end a sharp, upward-facing point. Those points form the innermost oval. The arms are connected to padded, movable wooden rods hanging below the device. Link (Thanks, Anne!)
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Thin models boost self-image?. A University of Toronto study posits that most young women who are exposed to media images of thin models are actually inspired in a positive way. "Our findings suggest that these images may actually make young women feel good about themselves because they treat that image as a fantasy goal, thinking, She looks great and I could look like that, too," says psychology professor Peter Herman, co-author of the study. Before you call BS though, know that Herman then adds that "young women who are really super-invested in trying to emulate this image may be the ones who go on to develop a true eating disorder."
"The idea that these thin media ideals are inspiring rather than depressing is almost necessary to account for the fact that young women - and just about everybody else - spend a lot of time voluntarily exposing themselves to these images," he says.
Masochism is very mysterious, Dr. Herman.
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Intel IT manager simulation simulates sexist workplace assumptions, too. Amy sez, "Intel has a game on their website called 'The Intel IT Manager Game - The simulation of an IT department.' It's supposed to simulate the tasks of an IT manager, including hiring new people. But guess what? All of the characters are male! You couldn't even hire a woman if you tried, because there are no female characters!!
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ESC-key chairs. 
This German company is offering $90 stools shaped like giant ESC keys: "the perfect pouf for all victims of the new media collapse!"
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Paint-your-floors HOWTO. 
Great Apartment Therapy blog post on how to paint your floors "without screwing it up" -- the results speak for themselves.
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EFF waging war on bullshit Internet patents. This is so freaking cool: EFF is going to start actively busting bullshit Internet patents, hunting down prior art and getting the USPTO to revoke the patents.
The new EFF initiative seeks to document these threats and fight back against them. EFF has pledged to file "re-examination" requests with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), asking the agency to revoke patents that are having negative effects on Internet innovation and free expression.
"More and more, people are using software and Internet technology to express themselves," said EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer. "Patent owners who threaten this expression are creating a chilling effect on free speech."
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Update on "My Crate and Barrel Moment with Quentin Tarantino". Following up on this earlier BoingBoing post, reader Jason writes:
Christen Nelson's story [about a chance shopping encounter with famed film director Quentin Tarantino] was wicked cool and being that I am a detail-obsessed freak I went over to Crate and Barrel to see the registry. Sure enough, it exists!
And sure enough there were 16 Espresso Peppermills requested. However, none of them have been fulfilled. So that leads a kind of question to Christen's wonderful closer about the 4 mills from Dennis. I hate to peak behind the curtain and go 'Boo!,' but...
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Broadcom to acquire Bluetooth company. Chipmaker Broadcom is scooping up Bluetooth software company Widcomm for $49 million as it looks to find more customers of the short-range wireless networking technology. |
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EarthLink aims to block 'phishing' scams. The ISP is offering a tool to protect customers from scams that con people into parting with personal information by luring them to bogus corporate Web sites. |
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AT&T expands its Net phone service. AT&T's Net phone service is extended to California, which has plenty of the broadband connections required for voice over Internet Protocol services. |
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Briefly: AT&T expands its Net phone service. Plus: AOL gets the WeatherBug...Microsoft's HD video moves forward...Software connects from Remotely Anywhere...Cisco completes Riverhead buy. |
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'Phishing' scams luring more users. Security firm MessageLabs says the number of e-mails that use the deceptive tactic has increased from 279 to 215,643 over the past six months. |
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HP Unveils Opteron-Based Server (PC World). PC World - Four-processor system could expand AMD's appeal to big business. |
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Microsoft Settling Minn. Antitrust Case (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has reached a settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by Minnesota customers who claimed the software giant overcharged them in violation of state antitrust laws. |
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Malware - Fighting Malicious Code |
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Nintendo e-Reader Gets Homebrew Dot-Code Games |
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Computer Associates fires nine amid accounting probe. Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) fired nine employees in its legal and finance departments on Monday in connection with its internal investigation of accounting violations that have already led to criminal charges against several former executives. |
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BugTraq: RE: After Ms patches last Wed .... Sender: Brito, Nelson (ISS Brazil) [NBrito at iss dot net] |
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Les journées Microsoft de la sécurité - Invitation gratuite ! |
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The Cleaner Database v3550 |
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Will Forthcoming Exploits Target New Windows Holes? |
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US shows way for security |
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Data security: expect the unexpected |
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Security flaw affecting Macs renews debate |
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New Phatbot worm may be on the loose. A new variant of the Phatbot worm may be attempting to attack SQL Server ports, according to a warning issued by the SANS Institute. |
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Embattled CA fires nine workers. The software maker dismisses nine employees in its legal and finance departments amid several probes into its accounting practices. |
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Microsoft Eyes Pay-as-You-Go Licensing (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Microsoft mulls changing its enterprise licensing model from long-term contracts to pay as you go. |
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Computer Associates Probe Sparks Firings (AP). AP - Facing the cloud of a long-running accounting investigation, Computer Associates International Inc. fired nine people Monday in the software company's legal and finance departments. |
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Mobile mugging in London park leaves Spacey feeling like a fool (AFP). AFP - Oscar-winning film star Kevin Spacey said he felt like a fool when a youth stole his mobile phone while he was out walking his dog in the early morning hours. |
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Sony develops paper DVD (AFP). AFP - Electronics giant Sony and another Japanese company have developed a "paper disc" that can record more than two hours of high-definition images and be destroyed with scissors for foolproof data security, officials said. |
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Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix |
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2.4, The Kernel and Forking |
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Apple goes after notebook sales. Apple is looking to boost sales of its notebooks with a series of upgrades and price cuts. |
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Elsewhere: Santa Clara ready for wireless. The Bay Area is peppered with Wi-Fi hot spots: SBC Park, Union Square, countless hotels and cafes. Some even cover several blocks.
But now a Mountain View startup plans... |
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Infocus: Solaris 10 Security. This article discusses the many new security features in Sun's Solaris 10 operating system, as well as Sun's holistic approach to security. |
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BugTraq: Re: After Ms patches last Wed .... Sender: [plasmahh at informatik dot uni-bremen dot de] |
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BugTraq: DoS in NETFile FTP/Web Server. Sender: Donato Ferrante [fdonato at autistici dot org] |
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BugTraq: Re: After Ms patches last Wed .... Sender: Jerry Winegarden [jbw at duke dot edu] |
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Vulns: WinSCP Long URI Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability. WinSCP is a freely available secure file transfer client for Microsoft Windows operating systems. WinSCP has the functionality to handle 'sftp:' (SSH File Transfer Proto... |
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Vulns: ADA IMGSVR Remote File Download Vulnerability. ImgSvr is a server that allows remote users to browse and share image files. It is freely available under the GNU Public License for Linux and Microsoft Windows.
A vuln... |
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Vulns: Ethereal Multiple Vulnerabilities. Ethereal 0.10.3 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities. These issues include:
- Thirteen stack-based buffer overruns in various protocol dissectors (NetF... |
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Fingerprints as ID - good, bad, ugly?. Letters Well, there's an effectiveness:usability trade-off, for starters By John Lettice . |
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BT to trial 250K, 2Mb DSL services. Uh huh... By Tim Richardson . |
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Perfect balls and rubber sheets. US Space Agency launch to test Einstein's maths By Lucy Sherriff . |
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How secure is your handheld? |
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Climbing firewalls |
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Everday hackers |
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Creating a password system that works |
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Wireless security tops U.S.-China trade talks |
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19 Apr W32/Sdbot-CP |
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19 Apr W32/Zafi-A |
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Basic Web Session Impersonation |
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How cooperation can beat viruses |
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Researchers develop 3-D search engine |
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Radeon X800PRO will beat NV40 Ultra |
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iDEFENSE Reports Security Flaw in Linux Kernel |
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US shows way for security |
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Data security: expect the unexpected |
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How secure is your handheld? |
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Climbing firewalls |
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Everday hackers |
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Creating a password system that works |
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Wireless security tops U.S.-China trade talks |
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Home broadband adoption up 60% in US. Broadband is growing rapidly in the US. In the past year alone, the number of Americans with broadband at home has increased 60% By Eric Bangeman. |
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Apple gives its laptops a speed bump, introduces new software. Apple today updated their line of portables, bringing the PowerBooks up to 1.5GHz and the 12" iBook to 1GHz. They also introduced new video postproduction software and a storage area network application, Xsan. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Earnings alert: Lexmark profit up 28 percent. Plus: IBM profit meets expectations...Siebel chief says IT recovery is 'fragile'...Sun ousts top server executives. |
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Apple turns on faster portables. The company updates its two notebook lines, the PowerBook and the iBook, with faster PowerPC G4 processors running at 1GHz to 1.5GHz |
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Microsoft settles in Minnesota case. The software maker has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action suit filed against it in Minnesota, according to the court. |
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3Com goes to India. The networking gear company plans to open an engineering design center in Hyderabad later this year. |
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Microsoft Settles Minn. Class-Action Case (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has reached a settlement of a class-action antitrust lawsuit brought by Minnesota customers who claimed the software giant overcharged them. |
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'Toothing' for Hi-Tech Sex with Strangers (Reuters). Reuters - British commuters take note -- the
respectable person sitting next to you on the train fumbling
with their cell phone might be a "toother" looking for sex with
a stranger. |
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DVD War Looms As Advancements Draw Closer (AP). AP - The DVD stands out as one of the most rapidly adopted consumer technologies ever, but in the electronics industry it's akin to an aging king in Shakespearean drama — rivals are lurking, knives drawn. |
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Tech Snags Delaying European Download Services -EU (Reuters). Reuters - Online music and video download services
will be slow to take off in Europe unless problems with
cumbersome technology are resolved, the European Commission
warned in a report on Monday. |
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Brain Chip Approved For Paralysis Research |
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Paper DVDs on the horizon. A paper disc that can hold up to five times more data than current DVDs has been developed in Japan. |
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Elsewhere: Company to license device-security tools. Now that it has received needed patents, Cryptography Research will embark on a more aggressive effort to license technology that can protect devices from differential po... |
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Elsewhere: Climbing firewalls. In the past, if you were looking for a mental image for the ubiquitous firewall you could have pictured it as that old western film stand-by, the circled wagon train.
Bu... |
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News: SurfControl secures MessageSoft. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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BugTraq: [slackware-security] tcpdump denial of service (SSA:2004-108-01). Sender: Slackware Security Team [security at slackware dot com] |
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BugTraq: Re: Squirrelmail Chpasswod bof. Sender: Jonathan Angliss [jon at squirrelmail dot org] |
| 18. |
BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 492-1] New iproute packages fix denial of service. Sender: Matt Zimmerman [mdz at debian dot org] |
| 19. |
Vulns: ADA IMGSVR Directory Traversal Vulnerability. ImgSvr is a server that allows remote users to browse and share image files. It is freely available under the GNU Public License for Linux and Microsoft Windows.
Report... |
| 20. |
Vulns: KPhone Malformed STUN Packet Denial Of Service Vulnerability. KPhone is a voice-over-internet phone implementation for Unix/Linux variants.
A denial of service vulnerability has been reported in KPhone. This issue may be triggered... |
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Apple UK store to open 'Autumn 2004'. Mac maker seeks hopelessly happy retail staff By Tony Smith . |
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phpBB 2.0.8a IP Spoofing Vulnerability |
| 23. |
SquirrelMail Chpasswod Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
| 24. |
GEMITEL v 3.50 Include File Vulnerability |
| 25. |
SCT Javascript Execution Vulnerability |
| 26. |
28 logiciels espions sur les PC des utilisateurs d'un fournisseur d'accès |
| 27. |
Study Points Out Private Data On Used Hard Disks |
| 28. |
Controversy Over Sloppy Data Sharing |
| 29. |
Microsoft Releases Security Updates |
| 30. |
A Network Of Networks |
| 31. |
Data security: expect the unexpected |
| 32. |
US shows way for security |
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Spam slips though the maintenance gap |
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Encryption key to mobile data security |
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| 1. |
Criticism in Japan for "Lost in Translation". Interesting piece in the Christian Science Monitor on reactions in Japan to the film Lost in Translation -- which is evidently not translating so well.
[T]he film is under attack for cultural bias, and for maximizing its humor by depicting Japanese as robotic and cartoon-like. The question is: to what degree is the film insensitive - and to what extent is this the kind of "poking fun" that some ethnic groups now ignore? Until now, none of these voices or questions has come from Japan. Indeed, while "Lost in Translation" opened all over the world last fall, it opened in image-conscious Tokyo only last weekend. Some sources say this is deliberate. Japanese decorum on culturally sensitive matters precludes angry protest or high-volume misgivings about images that might be considered unfair or "unpleasant," to use a local reviewer's term. But it is telling that the Academy-award-winning "valentine" can be seen here only in a small 300-seat theater in Shibuya, and critics warn that the film may hurt the feelings of ordinary Japanese. Link, and Link to background on earlier inter-cultural criticism of the film (via Joi Ito) |
| 2. |
Transgender in Thailand, online.. Following up on last week's post on the subject, BoingBoing reader Rachel writes:
The Thai word translated as "transvestite" or "shemale" is khatoey, also spelled katoey, kathoey and several other ways. The word doesn't really have the negative ring of those two English words. And, trust me, those English words do have a negative ring. Call any TS woman in the US a "shemale" and she'll be deeply insulted 98% of the time. Very few crossdressers in the US like the term "transvestite". If you're looking for an English word to describe these women, "transsexual" is probably closest; "pre-op transsexual" or "non-op transsexual"
is possibly more accurate, though contentious.
Probably the best site around to actually get to know the khatoey is Andrew Matzner's Transgender in Thailand site . I also recommend looking at
my site for a more general view of transgender life in Asia.
You might also read my journal about getting SRS in Thailand.
I think that the site you linked to -- Alcazar's -- is primarily a club in Pattaya. The contest is quite glamorous and highly-esteemed, but that is because Alcazar's itself is the most famous kathoey cabaret in Thailand. I think that the contest is primarily a promotion for the club; it isn't so much about Hollywood dreams as it is about helping secure Alcazar's place in the drag universe. Finally, a plea: I hope that you are interested in the khatoey women as people, not as sex objects; your entry on BoingBoing seems to indicate that you are curious about their roles in society and how society views them, not in prodding them with a virtual stick as so many others have. If you are in fact approaching them with respect, then you have my heartfelt thanks.
Link. Photo: Thai kickboxer-turned-beauty-queen Nong Tum, whose life story is now a movie. Link. |
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AT&T, Sprint pilot airport Wi-Fi venture. The two wireless communications giants announced a deal to offer each other's customers access to both companies' Wi-Fi networks at a handful of U.S. airports. |
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| 4. |
Start-Up Says Linux Copyright Abuse-Free (Reuters). Reuters - A new company said on Monday it can
certify that the basic code in the Linux operating software is
free of copyright infringement and it will offer standard
product liability insurance to developers and users. |
| 5. |
The Mobile Mandate (TechWeb). TechWeb - Today's world of mobile devices is going to seem quaint once nanotechnology takes hold of technological progress. |
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XOrg Foundation Opens Membership and Elections |
| 7. |
Powerbooks & iBooks Get Speed Bumped |
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ITV faces down shareholder anger. Shareholders use the company's first AGM to raise the issue of Michael Green's controversial £15m 'golden farewell'. |
| 9. |
Speed bump for Apple notebooks. Apple is looking to boost sales of its notebooks with a series of upgrades and price cuts. |
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| 10. |
iSCSI takes on Fibre Channel. It is difficult to find a traditional storage vendor to bad-mouth FC (Fibre Channel) despite the increased adoption of iSCSI. |
| 11. |
Symbol launches ruggedized Windows devices. Promising that you can drop its newest model handheld from six feet without damage, use it in the rain, and have it tumble 2,000 times from a height of 1 meter, Symbol Technologies on Monday unveiled two ruggedized Windows-based devices, the MC9000K and MC9000S. |
| 12. |
CA accounting scandal raises questions about CEO's fate. Following a wave of indictments this month that netted guilty pleas to securities fraud and other charges from several former finance executives at Computer Associates International Inc. (CA), speculation is turning to the fate of the company's chief executive officer (CEO). |
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"Subversive Software" - O'Dowd's Linux Security Controversy Continues |
| 14. |
Debian: kernel 2.4.19 Multiple vulnerabilities |
| 15. |
Debian: perl Information leak vulnerabilities |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel XFS File System Information Leakage Vulnerability. An information leakage vulnerability has been reported to exist in the Linux kernel when writing to an XFS file system. This issue is due to a design error that causes s... |
| 17. |
Vulns: Linux Kernel JFS File System Information Leakage Vulnerability. A vulnerability has been reported in the Linux Kernel that is related to how JFS file systems are cleaned up. In particular, a root user may potentially gain to private ... |
| 18. |
Vulns: Squid Proxy NULL URL Character Unauthorized Access Vulnerability. Squid is a freely available, open source web proxy software package. It is designed for use on the Unix and Linux platforms.
A vulnerability has been identified in the a... |
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NTL confirms price hike. More speed, more money By Tim Richardson . |
| 20. |
Nvidia green lights Quadro FX 4000 chip. Whips up Gelato software renderer for movie biz By Tony Smith . |
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Debian update for zope |
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Debian update for iproute |
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Slackware update for cvs |
| 24. |
PostNuke Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| 25. |
Slackware update for tcpdump |
| 26. |
XChat Socks-5 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
| 27. |
KAME Racoon ISAKMP Header Length Field Denial of Service |
| 28. |
Gentoo update for cadaver |
| 29. |
Gentoo update for XChat |
| 30. |
Gentoo update for monit |
| 31. |
Vulnérabilité de l'analyse du flux ICQ sur les produits de ISS |
| 32. |
logcheck Insecure Creation of Temporary Directory |
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logcheck Insecure Creation of Temporary Directory |
| 34. |
Debian update for logcheck |
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Debian update for logcheck |
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Debian update for zope |
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Debian update for zope |
| 38. |
PostNuke Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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PostNuke Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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KAME Racoon ISAKMP Header Length Field Denial of Service |
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KAME Racoon ISAKMP Header Length Field Denial of Service |
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Gentoo update for cadaver |
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Gentoo update for cadaver |
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Gentoo update for XChat |
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Gentoo update for XChat |
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Gentoo update for monit |
| 47. |
Gentoo update for monit |
| 48. |
Microsoft patcht Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC1 |
| 49. |
Hackers defacen verkiezingswebsite |
| 50. |
Hackers gebruiken tactiek uit 1986 voor superhack |
| 51. |
Spyware is de nieuwe online dreiging |
| 52. |
Het groeiende probleem van Instant Messaging |
| 53. |
Bestuur heeft security te lang genegeerd |
| 54. |
Controleer firewall rules met IPv6 packets |
| 55. |
Anti-scam toolbar moet oplichting voorkomen |
| 56. |
Supervirussen in aankomst? |
| 57. |
Afpersers voeren DoS-aanval uit op goksite |
| 58. |
Hardere aanpak filesharing op campusnetwerken |
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| 1. |
Porn Valley's HIV Crisis -- Lara Roxx interview, blog updates. Adult Video News has what appears to be the first extensive interview with Canadian teenager (conflicting reports peg her age at 18, 19, 21, and 22) Lara Roxx, the second of two porn actors to be diagnosed HIV positive last week.
When she arrived in L.A. in mid-March from Montreal, on a ticket paid for with borrowed funds, her short brown hair streaked with pink, all she wanted to do was perform in enough scenes to create a nest-egg that she could take back to Canada and use to go on with her life. Instead, she's now broke, jobless and had been staying with friends, and if the tests come back Saturday evening as she's hoping they won't, HIV-positive.
"My manager [Daniel Perrault] woke me up on that morning that they all found out,"Roxx told AVN.com. "I was very upset on that day; I don't even remember what day it was."It was Tuesday, April 13, the day the news broke that popular performer Darren James had contracted HIV -- the first active performer on the straight side of the industry to do so in nearly five years.
"When I got there, me and Marc had a little conversation, because Thomas Hope told me I was going to do a d.p., and so I get there and Marc Anthony tells me it's a d.a., which stands for double anal, "Roxx recalled. "And I'm like, '‘What? I've never done a double anal.' And he's like, 'Well, that's what we need. It's either that or nothing.' And that's how they do it. But Marc Anthony was playing that, and I think that really sucks, because I'm mad at the friend I thought I had in Marc, because he knew double anal was dangerous. I knew it too, really, probably, but I was just putting it way back in my mind because I was down in California to make the maximum amount of money, to come back home wealthy. I had plans for the money."
LinK to AVN interview. Fleshbot has also been doing a terrific job of pointing to good sources of breaking news on the HIV scare -- the industry's first in five years.
AVN is collecting donations to assist Ms. Roxx, and also posts news that adult film star Jenna Jameson has launched a fundraising campaign to help porn industry workers suffering financial hardships from both the quarantine and the production moratorium. And Carly Milne at Pornblography posts this damning rant from one porn industry worker who says, "I'm about the most gung-ho porno guy you'll ever meet. But I'm pretty sick to my stomach right now hearing about the people who just don't care."
Update: The L.A. Daily News reports that a state-county task force has drafted a plan that would make condom use mandatory in the industry. The plan would require production companies to comply with a CAL-OSHA injury and illness prevention plan, and those who do not comply would face closure. Link |
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Pulp Fiction -- new RSS reader for Mac OSX. Coming to beta for Mac OS X on May 1st: a new RSS reader called "Pulp Fiction."
Link
(thanks, Jean-Luc
) |
| 3. |
My Crate and Barrel Moment with Quentin Tarantino. Well, you could call it that. Christen Nelson's blog entry about her chance encounter with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino at a shopping mall in Los Angeles. Ms. Nelson is an actor and former member of the infamous Groundlings Theatre, and was recently cast for a new Rob Reiner television pilot.
"That's a dynamite purse. Where'd you get it?" As I turned to respond to the question and the little bells in my head went off alerting me to the fact that the voice I heard sounded just like Quentin... oh my God I would recognize that big bell pepper of a head anywhere... Tarantino!
My pink vinyl purse with two black cats joined at the tail often generates conversation, had I known that the man who brought me Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction would engage me in conversation I would have paid 10 times the price. So I said,"ohIgotitinCanadafouryearsagoitssupersturdyanditholdseverythingbecauseit'sjustonebigcompartmentIloveit. I don't mean to be a gay jackass but... you're Quentin Tarantino AND YOU ARE THE BALLS!" Seriously that is what I said.
Link (Thanks, Shane)
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| 4. |
Transgender in Thailand. Following up on last week's post on the subject, BoingBoing reader Rachel writes:
The Thai word translated as "transvestite" or "shemale" is khatoey, also spelled katoey, kathoey and several other ways. The word doesn't really have the negative ring of those two English words. And, trust me, those English words do have a negative ring. Call any TS woman in the US a "shemale" and she'll be deeply insulted 98% of the time. Very few crossdressers in the US like the term "transvestite". If you're looking for an English word to describe these women, "transsexual" is probably closest; "pre-op transsexual" or "non-op transsexual"
is possibly more accurate, though contentious.
Probably the best site around to actually get to know the khatoey is Andrew Matzner's Transgender in Thailand site . I also recommend looking at
my site for a more general view of transgender life in Asia.
You might also read my journal about getting SRS in Thailand.
I think that the site you linked to -- Alcazar's -- is primarily a club in Pattaya. The contest is quite glamorous and highly-esteemed, but that is because Alcazar's itself is the most famous kathoey cabaret in Thailand. I think that the contest is primarily a promotion for the club; it isn't so much about Hollywood dreams as it is about helping secure Alcazar's place in the drag universe. Finally, a plea: I hope that you are interested in the khatoey women as people, not as sex objects; your entry on BoingBoing seems to indicate that you are curious about their roles in society and how society views them, not in prodding them with a virtual stick as so many others have. If you are in fact approaching them with respect, then you have my heartfelt thanks.
Link. Photo: Thai kickboxer-turned-beauty-queen Nong Tum, whose life story is now a movie. Link. |
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Ellison sells $252 million worth of stock (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison sold more than $252 million worth of stock in the Redwood Shores software maker in recent weeks. The moves were part of an automatic-sales plan adopted this year by Silicon Valley's richest executive to sell a portion of his massive holdings in Oracle shares. |
| 6. |
3M Earnings Gain, 2004 Outlook Raised (Reuters). Reuters - 3M Co.'s (MMM.N) first-quarter earnings
rose, helped by the weaker dollar and strong demand for films
that boost the brightness of displays in laptops, cell phones
and flat-panel televisions, the company said on Monday. |
| 7. |
Apple updates PowerBooks and iBooks (MacCentral). MacCentral - Following up on five major product announcements at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas on Sunday, Apple Computer Inc. on Monday announced upgrades to its entire line of portable computing products. Apple's pro PowerBook models have been bumped to a top speed of 1.5GHz, while the consumer iBook now reaches speeds of 1.2GHz. |
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C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure? |
| 9. |
2003 Nebula Awards |
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ITV faces shareholder fury at AGM. Shareholders use the company's first AGM to raise the issue of Michael Green's controversial £15m 'golden farewell'. |
| 11. |
Next-gen paper DVD on the horizon. A paper disc that can hold up to five times more data than current DVDs has been developed in Japan. |
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| 12. |
SAP adds more RFID functions to SCM tools. SAP AG intends to give businesses a real-time view of what's happening to their inventory with an upgrade to its supply chain management (SCM) tools, it announced Monday. |
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| 13. |
Linux Security Week - April 19th 2004 |
| 14. |
How secure is your handheld? |
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| 15. |
eMachines M5116 budget notebook. Review Cheap and cheerful? By Trusted Reviews . |
| 16. |
Sony Ericsson rings in record Q1 shipments. 8.8m handsets By Tony Smith . |
| 17. |
Most firms cannot count cost of IT downtime. Dunno. $1m per hour? By John Leyden . |
| 18. |
Apple to bundle Wi-Fi with all PowerBooks. iBooks updated too By Tony Smith . |
| 19. |
SurfControl secures MessageSoft. $14.7m anti-spam appliance play By John Leyden . |
| 20. |
Forget dogging, here comes toothing. Bluetooth-driven liasons in train toilets By Lucy Sherriff . |
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HNS Newsletter issue 209 has been released |
| 22. |
Sending IPv6 packets to check firewall rules |
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JOKE_BURST.A |
| 24. |
WORM_SDBOT.EA |
| 25. |
Neue Würmer nutzen Lücke im Internet Explorer |
| 26. |
HNS Newsletter issue 209 has been released |
| 27. |
Sending IPv6 packets to check firewall rules |
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| 1. |
Sony Ericsson Posts First-Quarter Profit (AP). AP - Cell phone maker Sony Ericsson posted a first-quarter profit more than double what analysts expected and said strong sales of new camera phones boosted its market share as consumers flocked to its low- and mid-range phones that feature bright colors, clamshell cases and entertainment options. |
| 2. |
Broadcasters Weigh Digital TV, Indecency Crackdown (Reuters). Reuters - Las Vegas is an apt
setting for the annual National Association of Broadcasters
(NAB) convention as the industry wrestles with the policy
equivalent of a tag-team match featuring a pair of 800-pound
gorillas named indecency and digital transition. |
| 3. |
Privacy Group Files Google Gmail Complaints (Reuters). Reuters - Google Inc.'s free e-mail
service Gmail came under fresh fire on Monday when an
international privacy rights group said the soon-to-be-launched
service violated privacy laws across Europe and elsewhere. |
| 4. |
Boxing Simulation Goes the Distance (Reuters). Reuters - Feeling beaten down from
dealing with taxes? Is your mother-in-law staying an extra
week? Did the kids try to give the cat a bath in the toilet --
again? "Fight Night 2004" can help release your pent-up
aggression. |
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| 5. |
600 PowerMacs Make One DVD |
| 6. |
From the Higgs Boson Particle to Leadbelly |
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HP announces four-way Opteron system. Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has become the first major vendor to offer a four-processor server based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD) 64-bit Opteron chip. |
| 8. |
Report: North Korea's Kim to visit China tech park. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il began on Monday a visit to China where he was scheduled to indulge his interest for high technology with a visit to Beijing's Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park, according to news reports. |
| 9. |
Sybase, MySQL, IBM boost data management. Database vendors Sybase, MySQL, and IBM are lacing products with features that improve access to information and offer clustering and fault tolerance. |
| 10. |
AMD's Opteron chip turns 1 year old. Advanced Micro Devices has gone from an afterthought among server customers to the darling of the enterprise world in just a year. |
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iDEFENSE Reports Security Flaw in Linux Kernel |
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Users Criticize Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 |
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Broadband rocks for 68m US Net users. Appetite for connection By Tim Richardson . |
| 14. |
3 debuts Nokia 7600. Videotastic By John Leyden . |
| 15. |
BT to stretch DSL to absolute limit. Milton Keynes targeted By Tim Richardson . |
| 16. |
eMachines M5116 budget notebook. Review Cheap and cheerful? By Trusted Reviews . |
| 17. |
Aussie überluddite safely contained. No Telstra chair for Richard Alston By Lester Haines . |
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Durchschnitts-PC von Spyware verseucht |
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| 1. |
Condensed, snarkified Pericles. Francis sez, " My Shakespeare reading group got around to Pericles on Sunday afternoon, and the plot was so far-fetched, even by Shakespearean standards, that I felt it needed documenting. So I wrote a condensed, snarkified version of the entire play."
HELICANUS: What's the matter, my lord?
PERICLES: Oh...the king of Antioch is sleeping with his daughter and now he wants to kill me because he's afraid I'll tell everyone about it or something. (He leans out the window.) OH, IF ONLY I HAD NEVER LEARNED HE WAS SLEEPING WITH HIS DAUGHTER.
HELICANUS: I can see how that would be a problem. Maybe you should leave town until he cools off, or dies, or whatever, since it's pretty easy to find you here.
PERICLES: Since I'm prince and all.
HELICANUS: Exactly.
Link
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| 2. |
Nano-refrigeration company opens prototype plant. A company that wants to bring refrigeration into the nanotechnology era opens a prototype manufacturing facility, a crucial step in the long road to commercial deployment. |
| 3. |
Hollywood's new lesson for campus file swappers. Entertainment companies are pushing new antipiracy technology that could make it easier to remove suspected pirates from campus networks. |
| 4. |
Quest for 'Utopia' hits a roadblock. Armed with a recent Supreme Court decision, major telecommunications companies are successfully thwarting plans by municipalities to build advanced networks. |
| 5. |
Shhh! The FBI's listening to your keystrokes. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh notes that police have long been able to intercept Internet traffic. So why is the FBI pushing to expand its snooping purview? |
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Techies improve on DVDs (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - People may love their DVDs, but as they buy movies, TV shows and other programs in record numbers, something even better is lurking down the pike. |
| 7. |
Internet surfers dumping dial-up for high speed (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Broadband is fast gaining broad acceptance. More than half the Internet users in the USA have speedy connections somewhere in their lives. So says a survey of 2,200 Americans over 18, released Monday by the non-profit Pew Internet & American Life Project. |
| 8. |
2 in 5 Web Users Have Broadband at Home (AP). AP - Two in five Internet users in the United States now have high-speed access at home as telephone companies slash prices to better compete with cable broadband services, a study says. |
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| 9. |
ITV faces shareholder fury at AGM. Shareholders are expected to use the company's first AGM to raise the issue of Michael Green's controversial £15m 'golden farewell'. |
| 10. |
Denmark tops e-business rankings. An EIU survey of world economies says Denmark is the best place for e-commerce, with the UK in second place and the US in sixth. |
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Apple touts low-cost SAN software. Cheap, interoperable with Linux, Windows etc. By Tony Smith . |
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| 12. |
OpenPKG update for ethereal |
| 13. |
OpenPKG update for ethereal |
| 14. |
OpenPKG update for neon |
| 15. |
OpenPKG update for neon |
| 16. |
Debian update for cvs |
| 17. |
Debian update for cvs |
| 18. |
Debian update for neon |
| 19. |
Debian update for neon |
| 20. |
Debian update for iproute |
| 21. |
Debian update for iproute |
| 22. |
Slackware update for cvs |
| 23. |
Slackware update for cvs |
| 24. |
Slackware update for tcpdump |
| 25. |
Slackware update for tcpdump |
| 26. |
XChat Socks-5 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
| 27. |
XChat Socks-5 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
| 28. |
WORM_AGOBOT.NQ |
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Offshoring Trends Net Biotech Firms |
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ITV faces shareholder fury at AGM. Shareholders may use the company's first AGM to raise the issue of Michael Green's controversial £15m 'golden farewell'. |
| 3. |
'Net ninjas' take on web controls. A small group of 'hacktivists' in Toronto are looking at ways of bypassing government controls on the internet. |
| 4. |
Sony Ericsson returns to profit. Sony Ericsson, the Swedish-Japanese mobile phone maker, is back in black and says it is gaining market share. |
| 5. |
Macs get their voices back. Apple is to include speech technology into new versions of its Mac operating system to help visually impaired users. |
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| 6. |
Apple iTunes Europe debut 'may be delayed'. But will happen this year, says Euro chief By Tony Smith . |
| 7. |
WiMedia directors back MBOA UWB spec. UWB going Intel's way? By Tony Smith . |
| 8. |
Intel Dothan to debut on 10 May. At 2GHz, apparently By Tony Smith . |
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| 9. |
Birders Mourn Web Cam Falcon. A peregrine falcon who nested at a power plant was killed by another falcon in a battle over the nest. The company's webcam on the nest allowed thousands of birders to observe her for years. |
| 10. |
Search and Seizure: Porn Hunter. Servers have been seized from a company with a specialized search tool, and free speech advocates are crying foul. The spider crawled for 'uncensored' movies and photos and surprise, surprise -- turned up a fair amount of child porn. |
| 11. |
Bush: Renew Patriot Act or Else. It's a vital tool in the war on terror, says the Prez. If Congress doesn't renew the Patriot Act's hefty law-enforcement powers, he claims the legislators will put the nation at risk of attack. Republicans as well as Dems disagree. |
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Mr. Clean Available for DVDs. It's a control issue -- tone down the blood or foul language with a new genre of DVD player developed by RCA and ClearPlay. Parents, or those with weak stomachs, may like it, but studios object. |
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Satellite Radio: Hey, Shock Jocks. Federal indecency scrutiny does not apply to satellite radio because, like cable TV, it is only available to paid subscribers. So traditional radio's dust-up around Howard Stern has satellite radio execs salivating. |
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Mac Voyeurs in a Windows World. Microsoft is a hotbed of secret Apple fans. Just ask Lenn Pryor, a Microsoft director who transformed his Sony Vaio into a pseudo-PowerBook. By Leander Kahney. |
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Hewlett Packard Goes Hollywood. Announcing partnerships with Warner Bros. and DreamWorks, HP unveils software to digitize all aspects of filmmaking -- from storyboards to restoration --and offers computer capacity on demand for complex animations. By Michael Stroud. |
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Neutrino Miners Get Down, Dirty. Scientists attempting to unravel the mysteries of our universe must sneak away from seismic interference and cosmic rays that disrupt their delicate measurements. They're seeking a new hide-out, deep below the Earth's surface. By Michelle Delio. |
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Brain Scans Arouse Researchers. MRIs offer glimpses of the mind's role in sexual stimulation, and findings could spell good news for the disabled and libido-challenged. Randy Dotinga reports from San Diego. |
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Science Women Get Cinematic Boost. Hedy Lamarr may light up the big screen once again, this time for her contribution to science. Another film on the co-discoverer of DNA, Rosalind Franklin, is in development. By Kristen Philipkoski. |
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Company to license smart-card security tools |
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EarthLink uncovers rampant spyware and trojans |
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Cyber security could be up to bosses |
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Extortionists attack iBetX.com |
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Netsky.V : un virus se propageant sans pièce jointe |
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Company to license smart-card security tools |
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EarthLink uncovers rampant spyware and trojans |
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Cyber security could be up to bosses |
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Microsofts April-Patches sorgen für Ansturm auf Download-Server |
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Brussels to charge Vodafone and O2 over roaming. Abuse of position claims By John Oates . |
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A Taste of Qt 4 |
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Crypto-Gram April 15th, 2004 |
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Company to license smart-card security tools. Cryptography Research has obtained more than 60 patents for its technology that protects devices from decryption attacks. |
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Microsoft's HD video moves forward. The company says its high-definition Windows Media 9 technology is being used in a variety of new places. |
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AOL gets the WeatherBug. America Online's IM users can download a PC application that offers weather information. |
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HP does lunch with DreamWorks, Warner Bros.. Hewlett-Packard is tightening its partnership with DreamWorks SKG and beginning a new one with Warner Bros. Studios, part of HP's efforts in utility computing and digital entertainment. |
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Start-up launches Linux legal protection. Open Source Risk Management will sell insurance against Linux-related copyright infringement suits starting Monday, though an analyst says the firm probably won't be overrun with clients. |
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AOL to Link WeatherBug to Instant Messaging (Reuters). Reuters - America Online, the world's largest
Internet service provider, on Monday said it plans to offer
up-to-the-minute weather information on its instant messaging
service. |
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FTC, Experts, Advocates to Discuss Internet Spyware (Reuters). Reuters - Internet users have learned to keep
an eye out for viruses, worms and "spam" e-mail. Add another
online hazard to the list: spyware. |
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Groklaw Tries Their Own Linux Usability Study |
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UK spammers set to avoid prosecution until 2005 |
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