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Tales of a Tron Tailor. 
Earlier this month, Cory blogged one man's amazingly detailed reproduction of a Tron costume. Now, our pal Gabe ups the ante with a pointer to Jay Maynard's masterwork. Link
Update: Jay Maynard "on being an Internet phenomenon." Link (Thanks, George!)
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What's on John Lennon's iPod?. Boing Boing guestbar alum Todd Lappin sez: "Sort of. This is an interesting tale of what might've been."
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A long lost jukebox owned by John Lennon has revealed that, when it
came to musical inspiration, even the Beatles got by with a little
help from their friends.
The 15 kg [Swiss-made KB Discomatic] portable jukebox, owned by
Lennon around 40 years ago, was bought by the late Bristol music
promoter John Midwinter for just £2,500 at a Christie's sale of
Beatles memorabilia in 1989. He then spent years restoring it to
working order and researching its 41 discs. Listed in Lennon's
handwriting, they are effectively the Desert Island Discs which
helped shape his musical genius.
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Artists featured on the jukebox include the Animals, Chuck Berry, Bob
Dylan, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Smokey Robinson and Gene Vincent.
There are no Beatles records and only one sung by a woman, Fontella
Bass's 'Rescue Me'. In Lennon's rough and ready scrawl, with gaps and
crossings out, The Lovin' Spoonful become 'The Lovin's Spoonfuls' and
Otis Redding is 'Ottis Redding'. Link
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IBM, Stanford Craft Next-Generation Chips (PC World). PC World - New research group uses science of spintronics to create high-powered CPUs. |
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Senate Mulls Permanent Internet Tax Ban (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The Senate yesterday took up a proposal to permanently ban the taxation of Internet access, a move that supporters say would encourage the deployment of high-speed Internet service but opponents argue could result in billions of dollars in lost revenue for state and local governments. |
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Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark |
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La Chine renonce à bâtir un mur autour de Wi-Fi |
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Coder serves up poetry with newest Bagle |
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Backdoor.Sdbot.Y |
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Senate debates Net access tax. A final vote later this week will determine how high taxes will be on Americans' Internet connections. Opponents say additional taxes could cripple the Net. |
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Boeing adds Korean Air to flight plans. Korean Air plans to offer in-flight high-speed Internet access through Connexion by Boeing. |
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Commentary: Clearing the way for HIPAA. Direct connections between health care payers and providers promise to cut transaction costs and open up better, real-time communications. |
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Stanford, IBM Team To Explore Spintronics |
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Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect |
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J2EE 1.5 previewed. SAN FRANCISCO -- Ease of development will be a core focus of J2EE 1.5, the follow-up to the much-heralded J2EE 1.4, a Sun Microsystems official said on Monday. |
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BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 495-1] New Linux 2.4.16 packages fix local root exploit (arm). Sender: [joey at infodrom dot org (Martin Schulze)] |
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Vulns: Network Query Tool Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. Network Query Tool is a PHP tool allowing the user to collect a variety of information about a given domain or IP address, such as DNS lookup, traceroute and whois output... |
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Vulns: Multiple Protector System Input Validation Vulnerabilities. Protector System is a third-party security module for PHP-Nuke.
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Exploit found for Net flaw, but risks remote |
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Ad-aware referencefile 01R299 22.04.2004 |
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Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions April 23, 2004 |
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus Update April 23, 2004 |
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Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions April 24, 2004 |
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Kaspersky Anti-Hacker 1.5 |
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The Cleaner Database v3557 |
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LSASS exploit, SSL PCT exploits, port 559 (tcp) proxy hunter, Bagle.Z |
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Windows Lsasrv.dll RPC buffer overflow Remote Exploit (MS04-011) |
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Microsoft Explorer and Internet Explorer Long Share Name Buffer Overflow |
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SSH Private Keys Cracker |
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Apache Memory Corruption in Various Architectures |
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Second in Series of White Papers on Linux Security Issues |
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Penny Arcade!
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Ender's Game(s).  |
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High Employee Turnover.  |
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Stop Pretending You're A Real Company.  |
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If You Siege One Dungeon This Summer.  |
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Ubercon Sketchbook: Inadvisable Cuisine.  |
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Ubercon Sketchbook: Epilogue.  |
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The Precise Location Of Villainy.  |
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If It Ain't Broke.  |
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A Brief Index Of Difficulty.  |
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A Common Ailment.  |
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The Hipness Threshold.  |
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Torun Jax, Blind Jedi.  |
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Vietnam Is Actually Kind Of Complex.  |
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Green Blackboards (And Other Anomalies).  |
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Herbs And Spices.  |
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The Adventures Of Twisp And Catsby.  |
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The Proximity Of Devils And Details.  |
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WoW Log, Supplemental.  |
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WoW Log, Continued.  |
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No Produce Is Safe.  |
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Compatibility.  |
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Twisp & Catsby in: The Crocotillian.  |
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Djinn And Juice.  |
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A Crown Of Thorns.  |
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Gabriel's Primary Concern.  |
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And Lo.  |
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The District Manager.  |
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He Could Have Been Nicer To Those Babies.  |
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A Matter Of Life And Death.  |
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Here He Goes Again On His Own.  |
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Product Review: IBM Thinkpad R51 (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Available at a price of US$1,129, the economy version of
IBM's (NYSE: IBM) ThinkPad R51 notebook offers what represents standard laptop fare these days: a 2.0 GHz
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Celeron processor with 400 MHz front-side bus, a 30 GB hard drive, 128 MB of DDR SDRAM, a CD-ROM drive, and a 16MB
ATI (Nasdaq: ATYT) Mobility Radeon
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U.S. Senate Takes Up Internet-Access Tax Bill (Reuters). Reuters - The U.S. Senate on Monday voted to
begin discussion on a bill that would prevent states from
taxing Internet access, but opponents said they would try to
scale it back dramatically before it becomes law. |
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Make Room for Wireless Broadband (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Spectrum changes that would make fast, cheap wireless broadband Internet service a reality can't come fast enough. |
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Senate Debates Ban on Web Connection Tax (AP). AP - After months of unproductive negotiations, senators resumed battle Monday over a bill banning taxes on Internet service providers. |
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Changes in Store As Google's IPO Nears (AP). AP - Google Inc.'s looming initial public stock offering is stirring tremendous excitement, but it shouldn't be surprising if its biggest beneficiaries have some reservations. Some sobering changes are in store at the company, whose breathtaking rise has had a distinctly funhouse flavor. |
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Companies Launch War Over Web Messaging (AP). AP - Instant-messaging software has evolved into the latest weapon in a fierce battle among major Internet companies to reap revenues off whatever you do, wherever you go online. |
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Legoland Introduces Wi-Fi Tracking for Kids |
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EDS narrows loss in Q1. Electronic Data Systems (EDS) posted a significantly smaller net loss in the first quarter, ended March 31, compared with last year's first quarter, and exceeded Wall Street's revenue expectation, a performance that pleased company executives, EDS said on Monday. |
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BugTraq: RE: New Paper - SQL Injection Signatures Evasion. Sender: Imperva Application Defense Center [adc at imperva dot com] |
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BugTraq: Spammers can hide behind 'Email a friend/article' scripts.. Sender: [cyber_flash at hotmail dot com] |
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Local Area Security: Prelude IDS Framework - "Open Source Security's Best Kept Secret" "open sou... |
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Microsoft: Microsoft Security Bulletins (RSS feed) |
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Net Security: Sending IPv6 Packets To Check Firewall Rules [pdf] "article describes netwox toolb... |
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CNet: Expert - Gaps still pain Bluetooth security "The latest specification of Bluetooth, a popu... |
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Informatics Online: 'Burnt out' IT staff losing virus battle "Failure to centralise antivirus so... |
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ZDNet UK: MPs ponder whether 'benign' hacking should be legal "With Britain's Computer Misuse Ac... |
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Would you like a cherry Bagle with your zombie PC? |
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Airport security failures justify CAPPS-II snoop system |
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W32.Beagle.W@mm |
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More attack code surfaces for recent MS security holes |
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Earlier this month, Cory.
Earlier this month, Cory blogged one man's amazingly detailed reproduction of a Tron costume. Now, our pal Gabe ups the ante with a pointer to Jay Maynard's masterwork. Link
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Navini to sell Net2Phone's VoIP service. A week after launching into the Wi-Fi market, Net2Phone signs a deal to bring Internet phone calls to wireless-broadband customers. |
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Google's French woes--another trademark suit. AXA files a lawsuit in Europe over alleged trademark infringement related to ads sold by the popular search engine. |
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Bush: Broadband for the people by 2007. In a rare foray into tech issues, President Bush pushes a broad set of proposals that include wiring "every corner" of America and the computerization of health care records. |
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Dothan Goes Wireless - VeriQik Makes Commitment to Put New Wireless Technology to Work in Dothan, Alabama (featureXpress). featureXpress - VeriQik and Tri-State Broadband build Dothan's first wireless Internet network. Dothan Civic Center one of first to benefit from new services. |
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OpenOffice.org, MS Office 2003 Compared, Evaluated |
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MySQL and Perl for the Web |
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JBoss ponders open source ESB. SAN FRANCISCO – JBoss may offer an ESB under an open source format, with third-party software vendors able to offer ancillary products to boost the functionality of the ESB, JBoss CEO and Founder Mark Fleury said on Monday. |
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Vulns: FusionPHP Fusion News Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. FusionPHP Fusion News is a multi-user news management system implemented in PHP.
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Reportedly Fusion News is prone to a remote cross-site scripting vulnerability. This is... |
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Airport security failures justify CAPPS-II snoop system. Welcome to database Hell By Thomas C Greene . |
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RE: US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA04-111A -- Vulnerabilities in TCP |
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Microsoft's Explorer and Internet Explorer long share name buffer overflow. |
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Re: Apache - all versions vulnerability in OLD procesors. |
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Re: Apache - all versions vulnerability in OLD procesors. |
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[HOTFIX] setsockopt kernel vulnerability |
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Re: Apache - all versions vulnerability in OLD procesors. |
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Samsung SmartEther SS6215S Switch |
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House Panel to Probe Spyware |
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How Long Is Too Long to Develop a Patch? |
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WORM_BAGLE.X |
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YELLOW ALERT: WORM_BAGLE.X |
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Signal integrity proving a tough nut to crack at 90nm. One unexpected problem with the transition to 90nm CPU fab has been signal integrity. IBM and Intel have had to deal with it; will the problem rear its ugly head for AMD as they transition to 90nm on the Athlon 64? By Eric Bangeman. |
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Coder serves up poetry with newest Bagle. The latest variant of the Bagle worm sends out a four-line poem about understanding "the wild life," but antivirus specialists say that not many people have seen these stanzas. |
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Atheros ships single chip 802.11g part. Gear maker D-Link will be the among the first to design products using the component. |
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Workshare updates document-tracking software. The new version of the company's main server product has added security tools, including the ability to strip sensitive metadata from documents. |
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Chipmakers take new steps. There's no sitting tight in the world of semiconductor design. IBM and Stanford University, for instance, are digging deeper into the esoteric field of spintronics, while a start-up says its processor can learn as it goes. |
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Spintronics Revolution Is On (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Stanford University are putting their heads together on a new microelectronics technology dubbed "spintronics" that promises breakthroughs in computer processors and other electronics components while extending Moore's Law for chip design. |
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SCO and BayStar: Irreconcilable Differences? (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - BayStar Capital, the investment firm that demanded the return of its
US$20 million investment in the SCO Group, now says it is willing to seek
an alternate resolution to its doubts about the company. Chiefly,
BayStar expects major changes in SCO's senior management and wants the
Utah-based company to focus more effectively on its Linux-related legal
battles. |
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Dothan Goes Wireless - VeriQik Makes Commitment to Put New Wireless Technology to Work in Dothan, Alabama (featureXpress). featureXpress - VeriQik and Tri-State Broadband build Dothan's first wireless Internet network. Dothan Civic Center one of first to benefit from new services. |
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Stretch Announces Chip That Rewires Itself On The Fly |
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CA names interim CEO, adds COO, restates earnings. Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) appointed board member Kenneth Cron its interim chief executive officer (CEO) on Monday, and promoted recent hire Jeff Clarke to chief operating officer (COO). |
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More attack code surfaces for recent MS security holes. Just days after Microsoft Corp. warned its customers about the release of code that can exploit a hole in its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) library, new code that claims to exploit another recently disclosed hole surfaced on a French language Web site. |
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Would you like a cherry Bagle with your zombie PC?. More viral shenanigans By John Leyden . |
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Tech sleuth tracked down Net flaw just for the `thrill' |
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To Foil Intruders, Install a Counterspy |
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Feds want to eavesdrop on Internet phone calls |
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Advascan Warns of Risks of Using Antispam Products |
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Microsoft warns of SSL attacks |
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Ivory towers take up arms against hacks |
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Ask the experts to ensure ID card success |
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Justice Dept. Identifies Internet Pirates |
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Mobile risks highlighted |
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F-Secure performs single-tier u-turn |
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Call That A Lie Detector? Now This is a Lie Detector |
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What is gpgdir? |
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The Ramones documentary you may never get to see. The Ramones documentary, End of the Century, has won critical acclaim at every festival and screening it played at. But the two nearly bankrupt filmmakers who made it are having a hard time getting sign off from the surviving Ramones.
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Even when the movie was shown at Slamdance, the filmmakers had not obtained permission to use archival concert footage and music from the Ramones and other bands. They had also never gotten the Ramones to sign releases for their interviews, which took more than three years to conduct. ... The film's release has been further complicated by the filmmakers' financial situation. By the time the film was presented at Slamdance, Mr. Gramaglia and his brother, John, a producer, had amassed a debt of about $65,000 in production expenses. They owed Chinagraph, an editing house, another $150,000 and they estimated they would have to spend several hundred thousand dollars more to secure the rights to music and concert footage. Link (Thanks, Scott!) |
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John Shirley comments on Scientific American article about "Tyranny of Choice". Writer John Shirley has some interesting things to say about a new Scientific American article called "Tyranny of Choice" (paid subscription required to read article, you can read more about the article on Alternet.)
They suggest there are two basic types of choosers, Maximizers and Satisficers. The former aim to make the best possible choice in a near obsessive way, the latter tend to settle for 'good enough'. Maximizers spend a long time shopping, can't make up their minds what to buy for a gift, channel surf like a cokehead searching through the rug for fallen powder...
Maximizers in particular are prone to unhappiness in our society--there are too many choices, just too damn much input in general, and they can't deal with it. Satisficers are having a hard time too; they tend to go to lower stress options--and those are harder to find. But they're less likely to be depressed and suicidal. Link |
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Downloads rise as file traders seek new venues. While the number of people downloading music has increased, they're turning to alternatives to avoid the wrath of the record industry, a study shows. |
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Chip rewires itself on the fly. A new design from start-up Stretch is the first processor that can add new instructions while operating. |
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Dothan Goes Wireless - VeriQik Makes Commitment to Put New Wireless Technology to Work in Dothan, Alabama (featureXpress). featureXpress - VeriQik and Tri-State Broadband build Dothan's first wireless Internet network. Dothan Civic Center one of first to benefit from new services. |
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D&D Is 30 |
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BugTraq: Re: Apache - all versions vulnerability in OLD procesors.. Sender: Chris Adams [cmadams at hiwaay dot net] |
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BugTraq: Microsoft's Explorer and Internet Explorer long share name buffer overflow.. Sender: Rodrigo Gutierrez [rodrigo at intellicomp dot cl] |
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BugTraq: Re: Apache - all versions vulnerability in OLD procesors.. Sender: Peter J dot Holzer [hjp at wsr dot ac dot at] |
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BugTraq: [HOTFIX] setsockopt kernel vulnerability. Sender: nolife [nolife at sigsegv dot cc] |
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Vulns: XChat SOCKS 5 Remote Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. A remotely exploitable buffer overrun was reported in XChat. This issue exists in the SOCKS 5 proxy code.
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60 face axe at Dixons call centre. 'Minor restructure of operations' By Tim Richardson . |
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CA puts 35-day month and $2.2bn in revenue behind it. Taps interim CEO By Ashlee Vance . |
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U.S. defends cybercrime treaty |
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Secrets of the music biz. After an employee of Virgin's "indy" label V2 quit last week, he sent a great poison pen open letter to a bunch of music industry types:
"So, before i got let go, we had our weekly marketing meeting yesterday. They brought in a psychic person and everyone joined hands and did a seance... I'm not kidding, even if I wasn't fired I wanted to quit on the spot."
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Many Worlds theory invalidated. Kathryn Cramer breaks the story on a to-be-presented Harvard talk on an experiment that appears to invalidate both the "Many Worlds" and "Copenhagen" theories of quantum mechanics. Kathryn is the daughter of John Cramer, a physicist whose "Transactional Interpretetation" hypothesis is the only one left intact by the experiment's findings.
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It has been widely accepted that the rival interpretations of quantum mechanics, e.g., the Copenhagen Interpretation, the Many-Worlds Interpretation, and my father John Cramer's Transactional Interpretation, cannot be distinguished or falsified by experiment, because the experimental predictions come from the formalism that all such interpretations describe. However, the Afshar Experiment demonstrates in an interaction-free way that there is a loophole in this logic: if the interpretation is inconsistent with the formalism, then it can be falsified. In particular, the Afshar Experiment falsifies the Copenhagen Interpretation, which requires the absence of interference in a particle-type measurement. It also falsifies the Many-Worlds Interpretation which tells us to expect no interference between "worlds" that are physically distinguishable, e.g., that correspond to the photon's passage through one pinhole or the other.
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Webby Award nominees. The nominees for the 2004 Webby Awards have been announced. I'm the "chair" of the Weird category and Mark and former guestblogger Karen Marcelo are two of the judges. Quite a few of the sites will be familiar to regular Boing Boing readers. Link |
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HP unsheathes its blade PC. The computer giant says that its blade PC, a computer designed to help a company centralize its desktop computers and cut costs, is now shipping. |
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Sony beams in blue laser discs. The company introduces optical storage discs that use blue laser technology to hold more data and that offer improved durability. |
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Past success gives Apple roadmap to WWDC 2004 (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple is making preparations to host the biggest gathering of Macintosh developers all year with its Worldwide Developers Conference, coming in June. Apple's Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations said the company learned a lot from developer feedback from past shows and the interest generated from announcements at last year's event. |
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Dothan Goes Wireless - VeriQik Makes Commitment to Put New Wireless Technology to Work in Dothan, Alabama (featureXpress). featureXpress - VeriQik and Tri-State Broadband build Dothan's first wireless Internet network. Dothan Civic Center one of first to benefit from new services. |
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Control Lightshow Over Dublin Sky From A Webpage |
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OpenIPO and Lindows |
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Elsewhere: 'Burnt out' IT staff losing virus battle. Companies that have yet to centralise the management of their antivirus software are exhausting their IT staff.
While the majority of firms have taken users out of the lo... |
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Elsewhere: Computers' weakest link: Careless password sharers. See more of the world that matters - click here for home delivery of the International Herald Tribune.
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Shell's IT department off to India. Exclusive Offshore dole exploration By John Oates . |
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ID cards to use 'key database' of personal info. Blunkett blanket trawl By John Lettice . |
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Phishing scams cost UK banks £1m+. Brute force and ignorance By John Leyden . |
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Sun makes servers Windows-ready. Seriously. It's true. By Ashlee Vance . |
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IT vendors seek the quiet life. Predictable recurring revenue streams. Lovely By Datamonitor . |
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Gold and laser key to 3D circuits. Auric Goldfinger would be delighted By Lucy Sherriff . |
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gaobots use unpatched machines |
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Osama Bin Laden is still free - virusmail |
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Netsky.Z arrived in Belgium |
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Angriff droht: Sicherheits-Patch MS4-011 sollte installiert werden |
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Patch wirkungslos: Heikle Sicherheitslücke im Explorer und IE |
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Book Review: Exploiting Software |
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Product Review: Backup For Workgroups v2.0 |
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RIAA's noise-spoofs turned into noise-rock. Claire Chanel, the person behind the Jay-Z Construction Set, has decided to net.judo-ify the RIAA's spoof tracks, random noise disguised as top-40 singles which it promulgates on the P2P netowrks.
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As a follow-up to our last project, the Jay-Z Construction Set, Scary Sherman and I decided to take a fair & balanced route by highlighting one of the positive moves made recently by music industry leaders.
The RIAA-Mix Vol.1 is a compilation of the hottest underground remixes of top40 hit tracks produced by the upcoming talent at Overpeer. These homages to 20th century noise artists and avant composers pull a frightening bait and switch on listeners veering wildly from recognizable pop hooks to jarring digital distortion.
Available at riaamix.com as downloadable mp3s, streaming flash audio, or on a compact disc, we're hoping our compilation can help support the arrival of challenging new music to mainstream exposure.
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Game Boy Advance overclockers.
These guys are overclocking the GameBoy Advance so that it can run fast enough to act as a SuperNES emulator:
When I saw loopy had released a SNES emulator I thought it was great! There were some limitations because of GBA processing speed, so we came up with a design to successfully overclock the GBA that is compatible with flash carts (so far - read on). We've already sent a prototype of our design for loopy to test with and he has had success with his Flash Advance Turbo 128, and we have successfully tested on our Flash2Advance 256. Unfortunately, though, it looks like different brands of Flash carts are reacting slightly differently to the Acceleration, so this is where we want to ask the community for their help. We want to test with all flash cart brands out there so we can finalize our design to be compatible with as many carts as possible.
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M7, N8, Snapbridge Release Development Tools (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Three vendors announced new open-standard and open-source tools for building Java-based Web applications, model-based applications and XML applications. |
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Croatia to take offers for third mobile phone operator (AFP). AFP - Croatia is set to get a third mobile telecommunications operator for which the country will publish an international tender in the coming weeks. |
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CNET Launches Free Music Download Service (Reuters). Reuters - Online technology company CNET
Networks Inc. (CNET.O) on Monday launched a free digital music
service, allowing users to search and download what it said
were thousands of songs contributed by independent and unsigned
artists. |
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14 percent of US Internet users stop music swapping: survey (AFP). AFP - Millions of US Internet users have stopped using illicit music-swapping following an industry crackdown on the practice, according to a new survey. |
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Factory Flaws Yield Headaches for Chip Makers (Reuters). Reuters - For chip makers, problems on the
factory floor are increasingly turning into big headaches in
the executive suite. |
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LED Creator Given Inventors' Prize (AP). AP - When Nick Holonyak Jr. set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor alloys, his colleagues thought he was "nuttier than hell." |
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TI-84 Plus Released |
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Overclocking your Gameboy Advance |
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U.S. defends cybercrime treaty |
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Vulns: Xine And Xine-Lib Multiple Remote File Overwrite Vulnerabilities. xine is a freely available multimedia player designed for Unix/Linux variants. There is also a xine-lib, which is a C library that may be used to develop third party mult... |
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Vulns: NewsTraXor Remote Database Disclosure Vulnerability. NewsTraXor is a website management script implemented in ASP. It is freely available for Microsoft Windows.
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US man on Net stalking rap. Harassed ex, now faces jail By John Leyden . |
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Ofcom plays down BT split rumour. 'Hypothetical and discursive' mootings By Tim Richardson . |
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Telefónica fights 419 lottery tsunami. Won a Spanish sweepstake lately? By Jan Libbenga . |
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Microsoft warnt vor Exploit |
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Bin Laden ist ein Virus |
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title="A few books/things from Amazon.com that I'd love to have to help me run this site">Privacy Digest Wish List |
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Privacy Digest: Notebook fund |
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U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime Treaty |
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U.S. defends cybercrime treaty |
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IntY cans anti-spam claims from rivals |
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Vendors feel security heat |
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Microsoft warns of SSL attacks |
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'Burnt out' IT staff losing virus battle |
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MSMS Core Exposure of System Information |
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Protector System Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Network Query Tool Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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phpwsBB Reveals Non-Anonymous Labels |
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OpenBB Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Windows Explorer / Internet Exporer Long Share Name Buffer Overflow |
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Sun Solaris TCP/IP Networking Stack Denial of Service Vulnerability |
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China Delays Proprietary Wireless Encryption Protocol |
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Routers Open to Attack |
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SCS 2.0 Beefs Up Desktop Defense |
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Trend Micro Appliance Blocks Viruses |
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Security Compliance Is Good Business |
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Execs Must Back Security Compliance |
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Crackers Redux: New Attacks Ape Hannover Hackers' Tactics |
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Product Review: Backup For Workgroups v2.0. Late last year I reviewed a product from Lockstep Systems- Backup For One. It was an excellent product that I found to be simple to configure and which performed automated scheduled backups quickly and reliably. The one problem with it... |
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Retro-repro kitchen appliances. 
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Elmira Stove Works makes and sells repro stoves and fridges styled to look like 1850s and 1950s kitchen appliances.
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Play iTunes tracks without restrictions under Windows. Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen has released a new anti-DRM tool called DeDRMs, which enables unrestricted playback of iTunes Music Store tracks under Windows. Andrew is hosting a compiled binary and the source on the San Francisco State University server.
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Random comics. 
Earlier this month, we posted Monochrom's call-for-submissions for jpegs of random punchline-text from comic strips. Now, Monochrom brings us the outcome: a web page werein a single-frame comic and a punchine are combined at random. The results are funny-esque and very weird. Reload often.
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Canadian Greens building election platform via open wiki. Forget Presidential blogs. The Green Party of Canada is thinking way outside the blog: it's assembling its party platform for the next fedeal election via a public wiki.
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10 years jail for false ID - Blunkett PR deploys rattle of shackles. Stiff penalties for fraudulent use of sentencing policy instead? By John Lettice . |
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Baltimore complains to FSA about stalking shareholder. Biter bit By John Oates . |
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Wanadoo UK to unveil broadband for £17.99. Deal marks Freeserve's Wanadoo rebrand By Tim Richardson . |
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FTC outlines appeal against Rambus ruling. Sticking to its guns By Tony Smith . |
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TiVo Faces Off With Clones. The pioneer that helped popularize digital video recorders, allowing consumers to pause live TV and do instant replays, may become marginalized by other DVRs on the market. |
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Missile Defense: Ready, Set, Go?. A new General Accounting Office report says U.S. missile defense systems are being deployed before they're fully tested. The military says it's meeting an administration timeline, even though the tech is still being developed. |
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IPod Devotees Accessorize. A thriving aftermarket lets iPod owners buy all sorts of accoutrements. From boom-box purses to snowboarder jackets with sleeve controls, iPodders are customizing and costumizing. |
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Nuke Mosquito, End Malaria?. An experiment by the United Nations uses nuclear technology to attempt to eradicate the malaria mosquitoes that transmit the disease. The effort is aimed at helping Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Shoot-Out at the West Nile Corral. For two-thirds of the country, the threat of West Nile virus has passed. But in the West, from Colorado to the California coast, health officials prepare to battle the mosquitoes that carry the disease. |
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Supercomputers Speed Car Design. Automakers are souping up their design and testing processes by building supercomputers. GM's newest project will eventually make it to 9 teraflops. By John Gartner. |
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How It Sounds Is All in Your Head. Choosing a favorite pair of in-ear canal phones for my yuppy iPod mini is no easy task. A head-to-head headphone review by Leander Kahney. |
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Low-Watt Radio Wields Its Power. Four years ago the FCC made honest people out of a few pirates. Community broadcasters are moving ahead, but getting a license doesn't automatically mean success. Jason Silverman reports from Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
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Warning: May Contain Explosives. Shippers are turning to Bluetooth, satellites and sensors to make sure that the thousands of containers entering U.S. ports harbor only cargo. By Mark Baard. |
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Madrasas Slowly Warm to Computers. Religious schools called madrasas have a reputation as incubators of Muslim militants. Fighting that image, many Pakistani madrasas have installed PCs, but most refuse to teach science or math. Manu Joseph reports from Lahore, Pakistan. |
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OpenBB member.php UID Variable SQL Injection |
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OpenBB moderator.php Unauthorized Administrator Access |
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OpenBB [IMG] Tag Arbitrary BB Command Execution |
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NcFTP Client Username/Password Disclosure |
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Heimdal Kerberos kadmind Forwarding Daemon Overflow |
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PHP mail() command Arbitrary Remote File Access |
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Panda Antivirus Platinum Malformed Executable DoS |
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Mutt IMAP Handling Remote Format String |
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phProfession upload.php Path Disclosure |
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Mandrake rpmdrake Insecure Temporary File Handling |
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OpenSSH X Forwarding Arbitrary File Delete |
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Bush Calls for Ban on Broadband Taxes (AP). AP - Tying high-tech innovation to prosperity, President Bush is using a speech in a swing state to address an election-year vulnerability: a sluggish job market that hasn't rebounded with the national economy. |
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Myratech goes titsup. Brummie reseller hits the ropes... By John Oates . |
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Telewest boosts broadband speeds. More zoom for same dosh By Tim Richardson . |
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Intel accuser alleges 150 others violate chip patent. Patriot spreads its net By Tony Smith . |
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Corn syrup: the sticky kiiller. Atkinsians know that the devil has a name and that it is High Fructose Coorn Syrup, Elevator of Insulin and Most High Gycemic. It's validating, therefore, to see some sciency-type news about how bad corn syrup is for us, how it's creating a nation of diabetics, and how it accounts for 10 percent of the average American's daily calorie intake. Yow.
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"This shows the increase in the past 20 years is almost exclusively carbohydrates and certainly corn syrup consumption has increased dramatically."
Gross said he was not "picking on the corn syrup industry," but added, "It is hard to ignore the fact that 20 percent of our carbohydrates are coming from corn syrup -- 10 percent of our total calories."
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Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked |
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Global piracy purge nets 200 PCs |
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IBM teams with Stanford University on spintronics. IBM and Stanford University on Monday will announce a joint effort to conduct further research into spintronics, a technology that one day could lead to computers that could start working as soon as the power comes on or rapid fire digital cameras. |
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Expanding Reach of Patent Prizes. The Lemelson Foundation, which endows sizable invention prizes, is poised to take a new direction with its philanthropy. By Teresa Riordan. |
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The Latest High-Tech Legal Issue: Rooting Out the Spy in Your Computer. At a conference last week, participants discussed the controversial issue of spyware. Some critics said it should be outlawed. By John Schwartz and Saul Hansell. |
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Some Online Companies Enjoy Staying Private. As Google considers going public, some of its online colleagues say they are happy to remain privately held. By Bob Tedeschi. |
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To Silicon Valley, a Sign of Things Improving. In Silicon Valley, there are strong, though sharply mixed reactions to the idea of Google going public. By Laurie J. Flynn and Matt Richtel. |
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A Digital Video Recorder Leader Lags. TiVo, the company that popularized DVR's, isn't taking part in their new popularity. Also: the most popular movies, TV shows, books and software. |
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Google co-founder promises Safari compatibility with GMail (MacCentral). MacCentral - When Internet search engine giant Google launched its free 1GB email service, Gmail on April 1, 2004, they did so without support for Apple Computer Inc.'s Safari Web browser. The browser requirement page on the company's Web site lists several compatible browsers for the beta of Gmail, but Safari is still not among them. All of that will change before Gmail is available to the public, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. |
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Lawsuit Threat Cuts Music Downloads (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - NEW YORK, April 25 -- Driven largely by fears of copyright lawsuits, more than 17 million Americans, or 14 percent of adult Internet users, have stopped downloading music over the Internet, according to a survey released Sunday. |
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Vulns: Multiple Vendor TCP Sequence Number Approximation Vulnerability. TCP provides stateful communications between hosts across a network. TCP sessions are established by a three-way handshake and use random 32-bit sequence and acknowledg... |
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SCO investor demands changes or money back |
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U.S. defends cybercrime treaty |
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Nerve.com just published a new gallery of work by Brooklyn-based erotic photographer Siege. I wrote the intro. Fleshbot says the images "combine filters and projections to stunning effect," and offers a 