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Sunday, May 23, 2004
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Ars Technica
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Would you like your e-mail habits exposed to correspondents?. An upstart named DidTheyReadIt.com claims to offer you the ability to track messages that you send to others. As the name implies, the service promises to let you know when someone has read an e-mail that you have sent, but that's not all. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Boing Boing
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Brazilian heavy metal video game theme cover band. What's that you say? You came to BoingBoing to find a link to a Brazilian heavy metal band that performs covers of videogame music? Well, that is good. Because "nino" from the Brazilian band MegaDriver says
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"We have released two albums. "Metal Beast: Rise From Your Grave!" A tribute to the game Altered Beast, launched by Sega in 1988. The album contains the complete soundtrack from the game recreated in Heavy-Metal style. And "Metal Axe," A tribute to the game Golden Axe, launched by Sega in 1989. The band have also released an emulator project called "Metal Mame", based on the most popular Arcade emulator, MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator). With "Metal Mame" the fans now can play the original Arcade game with their entire soundtrack remixed by the MegaDriver band. At the band's website there is also available their first "Demo CD", "PUSH START BUTTON", with classic songs from "Castlevania", "Streets Of Rage", "Top Gear", "Street Fighter", etc.
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NewsIsFree: Security
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Zope Local ZClass Modification DoS |
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Zope Class Return Value Modification |
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Oracle TZ_OFFSET Function Remote Overflow |
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Oracle TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ Function Remote Overflow |
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Elm save_embedded_address() Remote Overflow |
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Technote print.cgi Arbitrary File Access |
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Ikonboard register.cgi SEND_MAIL Variable Arbitrary Command Execution |
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vsftpd Connection Handling DoS |
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Linux Kernel e1000 Network Driver Kernel Memory Disclosure |
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McAfee Remote Desktop Remote DoS |
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McAfee VirusScan Unauthorized User Alert File Modification |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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Apple Patches Security Hole in Mac OS X (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - The company has released an update to Mac OS X patching a security hole that potentially allowed malicious code to be run via a Web page. |
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Seiko Epson develops world's first 40-inch organic EL display (AFP). AFP - Seiko Epson, a leading inkjet printer maker, said it has developed the world's largest organic electro-luminescence display, which produces clear images while requiring little power. |
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Oxfam Launches Music Download Service |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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Apple patches vulnerability in Safari (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. issued an update on Friday to fix a reported security hole in its Safari Web Browser. The venerability, which was classified as "Extremely Critical" by security firm Secunia, allowed the execution of malicious code on the users computer. |
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Testing didtheyreadit.com's Mail-Tracking Claims |
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Hack the Planet
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Yay, Microsoft is telling hardware vendors that cheap NAT boxes need to support 6to4. |
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Peter Biddle's NGSCB/Palladium Update from WinHEC (PowerPoint) shows how Microsoft's thinking on trusted computing has evolved in the last year. |
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Boing Boing
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Blog-checking a congresscritter. My pal Pat Berry has decided to keep a close watch on Wally Herger, the rep from California's Second Congressional District, who is Pat's congresscritter. So Pat's sending him letters, asking him to answer for the government's mess in Iraq -- and other messes -- and blogging the congresscritter's form responses, with detailed, hyperlinked critiques. Pat doesn't expect Herge to stop talking bullshit as a result of being fact-checked, but he has high hopes for being a prominent search-engine result for the query "Wally Herger".
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While there are no obvious points of contention here, it is meant to misdirect us from the fact that prisoner torture is wrong by pointing out that people want to hurt us. There will never be a time in history when somebody, somewhere will not want to hurt the United States or see us fail. In no way does this condone the torture of prisoners. It never has and it never will. Trying to associate the investigation with American weakness is a dirty trick. Compassion and a show of humanity is not weakness, nor is showing concern for a group of people other than ourselves. Also we must not let the fact that good things happen shield us from the horrors that happen in Iraq, they must be dealt with. For those honestly curious about the progress being made in Iraq, USAID has a site with extensive records and archives.
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Age Discrimination, Indian-Style |
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Hardening an httpd for the rapture. RaptureReady is a site devoted to getting ready for the end-times: this is from the FAQ:
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How do you plan to maintain this site after the rapture?
I have no master plan for maintaining Rapture Ready all the way through the seven-year tribulation. After the big event takes place, I expect RR to last several months. After all, the internet was designed to survive a nuclear war. It should be able to survive the great catching up of all believers.
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Blog-checking a congresscritter. My pal Pat Berry has decided to keep a close watch on Wally Herge, the rep from California's Second Congressional District, who is Pat's congresscritter. So Pat's sending him letters, asking him to answer for the government's mess in Iraq -- and other messes -- and blogging the congresscritter's form responses, with detailed, hyperlinked critiques. Pat doesn't expect Herge to stop talking bullshit as a result of being fact-checked, but he has high hopes for being a prominent search-engine result for the query "Wally Herge".
While there are no obvious points of contention here, it is meant to misdirect us from the fact that prisoner torture is wrong by pointing out that people want to hurt us. There will never be a time in history when somebody, somewhere will not want to hurt the United States or see us fail. In no way does this condone the torture of prisoners. It never has and it never will. Trying to associate the investigation with American weakness is a dirty trick. Compassion and a show of humanity is not weakness, nor is showing concern for a group of people other than ourselves. Also we must not let the fact that good things happen shield us from the horrors that happen in Iraq, they must be dealt with. For those honestly curious about the progress being made in Iraq, USAID has a site with extensive records and archives.
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More Insight On Longhorn's Avalon And Aero Design |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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China Trying to One-Up Technology World (AP). AP - DVD? China's trying to do it one better — with a technology called EVD. |
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Canadian Computer Company Sues Intel (AP). AP - A small Canadian computer company has filed a patent infringement lawsuit seeking $500 million from computer-chip giant Intel Corp. |
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Video Game Business Grows Wary of Hollywood (Reuters). Reuters - Is the honeymoon over for Hollywood
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Large-Scale Paper-To-Digital Conversion? |
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Hack the Planet
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The suddenly-popular WordPress 1.2 server-based blogging tool came out yesterday. |
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CTM Development released their PowerMail 5 IMAP client for OS X. |
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SecurityFocus Vulns
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Vulns: Subversion Date Parsing Function Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Subversion is a freely available, open source software version control system for the Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Windows platforms.
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Subversion is prone to a buffer over... |
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Ars Technica
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Et Cetera: Sunday sampling. Sugar and spice and everything nice. Plus some other stuff, too. Just look inside already. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Apple Patches Security Hole in Mac OS X (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - The company has released an update to Mac OS X patching a security hole that potentially allowed malicious code to be run via a Web page. |
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Art of EBay Selling -- Clear, Precise, Entertaining (Reuters). Reuters - Selling on eBay (EBAY.O)
(http://www.ebay.com) may be as basic as taking out a
classified ad, but a little creativity can go a long way. |
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Fedora Core Doesn't Like to Dual Boot? |
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Iraq prisoner-abuse extras |
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About Internet/Network Security
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Preview of Windows XP Service Pack 2. Microsoft is almost ready to release the Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) for public use. They may call this an update, but it includes so many new and improved features and functionality that it is realistically a whole new... |
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CNET News.com
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Week ahead: CeBit lite takes to NY |
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Inside the Homebrew Atari 2600 Scene |
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Boing Boing
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Recursive documentary. "The Making Of: The Documentary With This Tagline" is a recursive documentary -- a documentary about the making of itself. The trailer is a scream.
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MP3-ringtone converter. There's a new app that will convert your MP3 to ringtones and the music industry is freaking out (despite the fact that phones like the P800, which can play an MP3 without any conversion as a ringtone, have been around for at least a year)
``It's problematic, because it has the potential to eviscerate the business model early in its development,'' said Ted Cohen, EMI Music's senior vice president of digital development and distribution.
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Rumsfeld bans camera phones in Iraq: report (AFP). AFP - Cellphones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army installations in Iraq on orders from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a business newspaper reported. |
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Boing Boing
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Info-page on arrested Japanese P2P developer. Here's a page with public information and a fundraising appeal to help Isamu Kaneko, the developer of the Japanese anonymizing P2P app Winny -- who was arrested for what amounts to "abetting infringement."
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Isamu Kaneko, a very well-known software engineer and a research associate of Tokyo university, was arrested for creating a P2P software called 'Winny' which supports anonymous bulletin board and file-sharing.
Creating file-sharing software is completely legal in Japan. Therefore, police is justifying his arrest as for 'assisted two persons who illegally uploaded copyrighted materials using Winny'. This kind of stretch of the rules is a very serious threat to our freedom and rights.
Isamu was arrested May 10, 2004 in Tokyo, by Kyoto prefectural police. And still under detention without accusation.
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Nude coaster record.
A group in Surrey have set the world's record for largest group of naked people on a rollercoaster. Hope they sterilized the seats afterwards!
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Le code source de Cisco circule de plus en plus sur l'Internet |
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Microchips to Save Peru's Alpacas |
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EU 'confident' of star power site. Europe's research boss says the EU is still confident that France will host the largest fusion reactor in the world. |
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Fastest Rising: |
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EST at Infinity Plus. The wonderful online sf mag Infinity Plus has just published an excerpt from my novel Eastern Standard Tribe.
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Dilbert for 23 May 2004. |
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CCTV goes wi-fi to fight crime. Wireless CCTV cameras are being tested in London to see if the technology can help fight crime. |
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It's Iraq, stupid, that's hurting Bush |
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Al-Sadr's fighters fade in Karbala |
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Shatner May Return to Star Trek (Briefly?) |
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HTML_STARTPAGE.C |
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Some Badly Designed Features Put Opera 7.5 Out of Tune (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The continued survival of the Opera Web browser is a bit of a mystery. Not only does it compete with a program, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, that is both pre-installed on most computers and free to download otherwise, this program also requires that you either pay up (a $39 registration fee) or put up with ads embedded in its interface. |
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