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Phone Preferred to Web for Gov't Contact (AP). AP - Americans like to visit government Web sites for research but when it comes to more sensitive and complex interactions — even when they're available online — most prefer to pick up the phone or visit in person, a new study finds. |
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CA Advantage Ingres To Be Released As Open Source |
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Text of President Bush's speech |
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Dance Dance Revolution as teen weightloss aid. This CNN piece follows the tales of formerly supersized boy and girl geeks who shed *lots* of unwanted weight playing the wacky Japanese electronic game "Dance Dance Revolution." In DDR, players stomp around on a grid of brightly lit squares while hyperfast techno music blares at them from a video display unit. There's also a home version, which sells for under US$50.
As she cooled herself in front of a fan at a video arcade, two teenage boys danced on a machine nearby. Their sneakers pounded out a staccato rhythm at a pace so fast that "Lord of the Dance"'s Michael Flatley would be envious.
Not everyone sees dramatic results. Seventeen-year-old Justin Meeks says his body is more toned, but his weight hasn't changed. He's pleased to point out, though, that his dancing skills have helped him get girls. "Two. I'm guilty of that," Justin said with a grin as he watched friends play DDR.
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Jim Woodring handpressed prints.  Art doesn't get any better than this. Look at this gorgeous portfolio of four prints by cartoonist Jim Woodring, using a special embossed printing process. The packaging is a beautiful Woodring-designed wonder, too. $300 and limited to 80 portfolios. According to an email I got from Woodring; they're going fast. Link
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Groklaw's 'Grokline' To Document *nix History |
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Startup ITM aims to help IT manage its own business. A startup founded by former IT executives Monday announced a set of software packages that aim to give CIOs (chief information officers) management tools on a par with those long available for finance and other corporate functions. |
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Software glitch briefly knocks out Akamai. A software glitch slowed Akamai Technologies Inc. servers and made it difficult to reach some of its customers' Web sites Monday, the distributed computing company said. |
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ZBRA 76.95 -3.13 (real-time). ZEBRA TECH
Last Price: 76.95
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Columnists: Weighing Profits against Peril. Denying XP pirates the SP2 upgrade would hurt the Internet to protect Microsoft's bottom line. |
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Sun to share 3-D stash with developers. Looking Glass late for date By Ashlee Vance . |
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Liferay Enterprise Portal Lack of Input Validation Permits Cross-Site Scripting Attacks |
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Junk e-mail: No relief in sight for the spammed |
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Network Associates readies updated security appliances |
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Mollensoft Lightweight FTP Server CWD Buffer Overflow |
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cPanel mod_phpsuexec Vulnerability |
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cPanel Multiple Vulnerabilities Testing Script |
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Pre-Order The Chronicles of Riddick, Get Bonus DVD |
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RIAA sues 493 more music swappers |
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North American Corporate Privacy Comparison |
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U.S., Canadian firms worlds apart on privacy |
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Password Memorability and Securability |
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Snort up For Revamp, says Creator |
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Snort up for revamp, says creator |
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Bugzilla Default HTML Template Multiple XSS |
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Bugzilla .htaccess Backup File Protection Failure |
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BNBT Authorization Header DoS |
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TTT-C Edit Panel Script Webmaster Email Variable XSS |
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TTT-C Edit Panel Script Webmaster ICQ Variable XSS |
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TTT-C Edit Panel Script Site URL Variable XSS |
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TTT-C Edit Panel Script Site Name Variable XSS |
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Liferay Enterprise Portal Multiple Variable XSS |
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TTT-C alert.php Multiple Variable XSS |
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Bugzilla process_bug.cgi who Variable Arbitrary Command Execution |
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Putting Wi-Fi Behind the Corporate Firewall (NewsFactor) |
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Computer Virus Researcher Studies Biology (AP) |
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How weak copyright helps authors. Suw Charman has written a great article on book-authors who release their work on CC, focusing on the amazing story of the collaborative audiobook project for Lessig's Free Culture.
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Most people are very aware of worth these days. eBay gives value to junk that might previously have been given away. Amazon sells second-hand books that might otherwise have been taken to a charity shop. The Antiques Roadshow raises the possibility that the horrendously ugly teapot you inherited from your Aunt Bessie might actually be worth hundreds, if not thousands of pounds.
Worth. Everything has a worth. Things. Words. Music. Everything. And everyone who owns anything worth something is not only entitled to benefit from the full extent of that worth, but should also do their utmost to protect it. Only a fool gives away something for nothing. That's right, isn't it?
Isn't it?
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How *do* you say "mullet" in Portuguese?. Following up on an earlier BoingBoing post about a Brazilian heavy metal band that plays covers of video game theme songs, BoingBoing reader
Carlos says:
Unfortunately, the answer to that question is probably not as fun as it might seem... we still say 'mullet', there's just no translation of that word... but then, fortunately, mullets were not as popular here as they were in the US of A...
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Pescovitz interviews RU Sirius May 25 in San Francisco. Dawn 2004 is an all-night music/performance event tomorrow (Tuesday) night in San Francisco in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Shavuout. It's $15 for the entire night of eclectic programming: Russel Simins from Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Broun Fellinis, Heather Gold, DJ Polywog, and a host of other artists. At 10pm, I'm conducting a live interview with RU Sirius about his forthcoming book, Counterculture Through the Ages. Please stop by if you can!
"RU Sirius (aka Ken Goffman) and David Pescovitz take a mind-expanding trip though history to uncover the common threads of counterculture that link biblical Abraham to the Socratics, the revolutionaries of the Enlightenment, the Yippies of the 1960s, and the hacktivists of today. Sirius will reveal how countercultures-- anti-authoritarian, changeable, antic movements that revolutionize mainstream culture--are a powerful and necessary catalyst for the continued evolution of the human species."
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Ballmer touts new developer tools |
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Rural telecoms denied portability delays |
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Kill Bill (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - How is it that for eight months a team of up to a dozen IBM consultants has been toiling in the data centers and computer rooms of the Munich city government--free of charge? Having goaded Munich into embracing open-source software, IBM is helping it plan a migration of 14,000 computers off Microsoft Windows and onto the operating system known as Linux. Never mind that IBM doesn't sell Linux, which is distributed free. And never mind that Munich officials say they're not committed to buying IBM hardware or consulting services, despite all IBM's free help. |
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Injunction Issued Vs. DVD-Copying Maker (AP). AP - A California company that specializes in encryption technology has obtained the latest court order barring a Missouri company's sale of popular DVD-copying software. |
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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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Monster Worldwide Picks Up Tickle for $90 Mln-Plus (Reuters). Reuters - Monster Worldwide Inc. (MNST.O),
the parent of job-hunting site Monster.com, on Monday said it
bought Tickle Inc., which offers online tests to help people
land their ideal job or mate, in a deal valued at more than $90
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Weblog System Features Compared |
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First-Ever Private Spaceport Nears Final Approval |
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Cape Clear, CA hop on The enterprise BUS. At CA World on Monday, Cape Clear Software announced its intention to integrate its Business Integration Suite with Computer Associates International's Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) in hopes of providing a richer environment for helping create and manage a services-oriented enterprise. |
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Microsoft lawsuit leads to e-mail questions. Microsoft Corp. is digging deeper into its stores of electronic correspondence after a U.S. District Court judge instructed the company to provide more information about a 4-year-old e-mail from a company vice president that told employees to delete e-mail after 30 days. |
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IT can change the world, Ballmer says. SAN DIEGO - There will be more change and innovation in information technology in the next 10 years than in the past decade, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said Monday. |
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Software glitch briefly knocks out Akamai. A software glitch slowed Akamai Technologies Inc. servers and made it difficult to reach some of its customers' Web sites Monday, the distributed computing company said. |
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Identity Theft - The Real Cause |
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Vulns: Qualcomm Eudora To: Field Memory Corruption Vulnerability. Eudora is a graphical e-mail client for Windows and Mac computers offered by Qualcomm.
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Intel's next-gen Xeon chipsets to hit 1066MHz. Exclusive Montvale, Blackford and Greencreek appear By Ashlee Vance . |
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Microsoft.com hacked and defaced. A group calling themselves the "Outlaw Group" has successfully defaced a Microsoft site. The MS Press site for the UK has been pulled for now, but so-called crackers managed to get access to the site and modify text on the page. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Quincy punk-rock clips. Here's a collection of video-clips from the notorious Quincy "punk rock" episode, where Quincy asks the musical question: "Can punk rock kill?" (Personally, I prefer the CHiPS punk episode -- "I diiig paaaaain!")
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Solid gold chewing gum package to be given in contest.  Japanese gum company Lotte is having a contest to give away a life-size replica of its gum package, made of pure gold. The package opens so you can take out the 9 solid gold sticks of gum, each weighing 100 grams. Total intrinsic value: $90,000. Link
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Leaked docs show the CEA standing up (finally) to the RIAA. The RIAA is arm-twisting the FCC over a "broadcast flag" for digital radio, to keep you from recording and saving digital radio broadcasts. They're trying to get the Consumer Electronics people -- who sold us all out in the digital TV Broadcast Flag fight -- to play along, but this time around, the CEA has grown a spine and is pushing back. JD Lasica wrote a piece for Mindjack on this, but more interesting is the leaked correspondance between the RIAA and the CEA, in which the CEA tears the RIAA a new one over the unbelievable, suicidal stupidity of restricting the ability of end-users to record digital radio signals.
You state that you do not wish to limit the ability of consumers to record over-the-air radio broadcasts. Instead, you apparently want to force them to buy what they have received for free since Fleming and Marconi first made it possible for consumers to hear news and music over the public airwaves. As you know, we have long been concerned about content owners seeking to change the 'play' button on our devices to a 'pay' button.
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Picture of a guy duct-taped to the ceiling.  I know as much about this picture as you do. Link
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Akamai glitch slows sites |
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Briefly: Akamai glitch slows sites |
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Computer Associates shows off latest tech |
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Novell Loss Narrows, Revenue Rises (Reuters). Reuters - Novell Inc. (NOVL.O) on Monday posted a
narrower loss in the fiscal second quarter as the business
software maker booked a noncash charge related to International
Business Machines' (IBM.N) $50 million investment. |
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Lindows, Microsoft Case Heads to Trial (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp.'s trademark infringement case against Lindows Inc. is heading to trial possibly later this year after a federal appeals court denied a request to hear Microsoft's appeal on a key matter in the legal battle. |
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Record Industry Sues 493 More U.S. Music Swappers (Reuters). Reuters - A U.S. music industry group said
Monday it had sued 493 more people for copyright infringement
as part of its campaign to stop consumers from copying music
over the Internet. |
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Torvalds Changes How Code Can Be Contributed to Linux (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - In a move against claims and worries that proprietary code might make its way into Linux, Linus Torvalds is changing how programmers can contribute code to the Linux kernel. |
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Best Results From Bartering Computer Services? |
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Trifus launches e-learning integrator. Trifus on Monday unveiled Zelos, software designed to integrate the components typically associated with an LMS (learning management system). |
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News: Computer virus researcher looks to biology for clues. The Associated Press By Michael Hill |
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Intel's next-gen Xeon chipsets to hit 1066MHz. Montvale, Blackford and Greencreek appear By Ashlee Vance . |
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New Patch Management Solution Launched by iAnywhere |
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China Trying to One-Up Technology World |
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Offshoring of jobs reveals new risks to tech industries |
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Omnetica to Resell NetSec Solutions |
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Upgraded Security Products Ship from Sygate |
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Mac OS X Patch Available Now from Apple |
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How to Avoid the "Phish" Hook |
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TECH ICON SHIFTS EFFORTS FROM PIXELS TO COFFEE CANS |
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AIM AddBuddy Link Long ScreenName Parameter DoS |
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Microsoft Readies Newest Windows Update |
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Network Associates Unveils Linux Anti-Virus |
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Secunia: Mac OS X Users Still At Risk |
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Zone Labs Adds Anti-Virus To Firewall |
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Juniper: Integrated Security A Necessity For Networks |
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News: Computer virus researcher looks to biology for clues |
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Prankster puts toy dinosaur in front of volcano-cam.  Scientists have set up a webcam overlooking an active volcano crater in New Zealand. Someone has put a little toy Dino (from the Flintstones) in front of the camera. Click on thumbnail for enlargement. Article Link, Webcam Link. (Thanks, Marc!)
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Cheap missile launcher kills US troops. Kevin sez: "This is a great piece about the 'most valuable weapon, worldwide' the Russian shoulder launched missle, RPG -- the one hurting the US in Iraq."
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This cheap little dealie, nothing but a launcher tube and a few rockets shaped like two ice-cream cones glued together, has kicked our ass (and Russia's too) all over the world since back when the Beatles were still together. In fact, more and more guerrilla armies are making the RPG their basic infantry weapon, with the AK used to protect the RPG gunners, who provide the offensive punch. The Chechens fighting the Russian Army are so high on it that they've switched their three-man combat teams from two riflemen and an RPG gunner to two RPG gunners with a rifleman to protect them.
There's another stat that's even more important right now: the RPG has inflicted more than half--half!--of US casualties in Iraq. This is the weapon that's hurting us. And it's been doing that for one hell of a long time. Link |
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Microsoft creating Windows for supercomputers |
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AOL to launch broadband ad blitz |
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Secunia: Apple Patch 'Inadequate' (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) issued a patch on Friday in response to the discovery of two OS X holes that allow malicious code to travel from Internet sites to users' computers. Apple's announcement of the patch included a statement that the vulnerabilities created by the holes are "theoretical," and that users that regularly download patches to their operating systems receive such fixes routinely. |
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CA Shifts to Enterprise-Management Strategy (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Computer Associates is launching an I.T. management strategy targeting
the enterprise in an effort to retool its business while
deflecting attention from an investigation into questionable
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Plaxo Gets Jump-Start with Yahoo Search (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Software-startup Plaxo has launched the latest version of its contact-management application, which lets users access Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) Search from their Microsoft Outlook programs. |
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Linux Group Tightens Submission Process (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - With the ongoing legal battle between
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SCO, ownership of the Linux operating-system source code seems up for grabs. The philosophy of open-source software also may hang in the balance, as the community of developers who contributed portions of the operating system watch their joint creation systematically become privatized. |
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Putting Wi-Fi Behind the Corporate Firewall (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Many enterprise managers already view
Wi-Fi as an attractive option for telecommuting workers or for members of their traveling sales staff who occasionally visit the home office. Some companies have established pilot projects in support of their specific wireless needs. |
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Phone Preferred to Web for Gov't Contact (AP). AP - Americans like to visit government Web sites for research but when it comes to more sensitive and complex interactions — even when they're available online — most prefer to pick up the phone or visit in person, a new study finds. |
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Google ponders leap to stay competitive (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - So, you use Google to search the Internet. Like millions of other people around the world, you like Google more than alternatives such as Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN. |
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Ruling Clears Way For Lindows Trial |
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Network Associates readies updated security appliances. Network Associates Inc. next week will make available the beta version of its WebShield line of gateway security appliances, adding filtering controls to block inbound or outbound content, and set policy based on usage groups. |
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Vulns: SquirrelMail Folder Name Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. SquirrelMail is a feature rich web mail program implemented in the PHP4 scripting language. It is available for Linux and Unix based operating systems.
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Vulns: CVS Malformed Entry Modified and Unchanged Flag Insertion Heap Overflow Vulnerability. CVS is the concurrent versioning system. CVS is a freely available, open source software development package for the Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Windows platforms.
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Vulns: SquirrelMail Unspecified SQL Injection Vulnerability. SquirrelMail is a feature rich web mail program implemented in the PHP4 scripting language. It is available for Linux and Unix based operating systems.
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Vulns: Metamail Multiple Buffer Overflow/Format String Handling Vulnerabilities. Metamail is a multi-platform utility that was originally developed by Bellcore, but is no longer maintained. Metamail parses and decodes MIME encoded email.
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Lawyer wants guard's confession thrown out |
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Secom Group: Armor CDs |
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Microsoft talks Team Systems at TechEd |
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Apple fig-leaf security patch causes dismay |
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TurboFTP Client Multiple Overflow DoS |
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Opera gets US$12.75 million settlement from Microsoft. Opera disclosed that it had settled with an unnamed company for US$12.75 million prior to filing a lawsuit. Sources report that Microsoft is the the other party. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Camera phones in Iraq; digicams and truth in wartime. SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST
London's "The Business" newspaper (aka the Sunday Business) reported this weekend that US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered a ban on camera phones and other mobile imaging devices in US army installations in Iraq. The story was subsequently cited in numerous online news reports, including UPI and AFP, and blogged abundantly.
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Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US Defence Department believes that some of the damning photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were taken with camera phones. "Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras have been prohibited in military compounds in Iraq," it said, adding that a "total ban throughout the US military" is in the works.
This morning, I asked a Defense Department spokesperson whether or not the reports of a phonecam ban were true. This spokesperson said that these reports were technically inaccurate -- that the Pentagon is not issuing a new ban on camera phones per se, but that a Directive 8100.2 was issued on April 14 establishing new restrictions on wireless telecommunications equipment in general. The text of this directive is available online here in PDF format: Link. The intent of this April 14 directive, and how commanders in the field will be expected to enforce it, are matters I'll be reporting on in more detail for the NPR program "Day to Day," later this week.
Link to cameraphone ban report, Link to full Rumsfeld "running around with digital cameras" quote. See also this Chicago Tribune editorial by Clarence Page, "Weapons of Mass Photography." (thanks also to Joi's blog and Smartmobs) |
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Study: Mobile customers want video streaming |
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Study: Online ad sales set record-breaking pace |
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Mac users still not safe from vulnerability, says Secunia (MacCentral). MacCentral - While praising Apple Computer Inc. for releasing a patch so quickly for an OS X vulnerability discovered last week, security firm Secunia on Monday said Mac users are still not safe. |
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IBM Seeks Slam Dunk in SCO Case (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - IBM (NYSE: IBM) continues to push for the dismissal of a copyright-infringement
lawsuit brought against the company by the SCO Group, requesting a
partial summary judgment in the U.S. district court hearing the case
in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
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Toys R Us Online Unit Sues Amazon.com (Reuters). Reuters - Toys R Us Inc. (TOY.N), the No. 2 toy
seller, said on Monday its online arm, Toysrus.com, filed a
lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O) for violating its
exclusivity rights in the toy and game and baby products
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"Slow" Earthquakes May Help Predict Major Quakes |
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CA Exorcises Linux' Hooking Demons |
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Vulns: RSync Configured Module Path Escaping Vulnerability. The rsync program is used to synchronize files and directory structures across a network. It is commonly used to maintain mirrors of ftp sites, often through anonymous ac... |
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Vulns: F5 BIG-IP Syncookie Denial Of Service Vulnerability. The F5 BIG-IP is a hardware switch that incorporates traffic management. It is designed to add high availability, reliability and scalability to web applications.
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Vulns: e107 Website System Log.PHP HTML Injection Vulnerability. e107 website system is a web based content management system implemented in PHP.
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Comcast looks to stop the spam coming from its network. Infected PCs of Comcast broadband subscribers are one of the largest sources of spam, sending upwards of 800 million e-mails daily. Now Comcast is preparing to fight bac. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Lucent gobbles up VoIP company |
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Sprint hopes Ready Link prices push right button |
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Ruling clears way for Lindows trial |
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IBM's Middleware Challenge (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - IBM lays down the gauntlet to Microsoft with its new middleware offerings. |
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ERP Vendors Battle for Hearts and Minds (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - SAP, PeopleSoft trade jabs as the market for their software grows slowly. |
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Torvalds Changes How Code Can Be Contributed to Linux (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - In a move against claims and worries that proprietary code might make its way into Linux, Linus Torvalds is changing how programmers can contribute code to the Linux kernel. |
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Webmaster Finds Gaps in China's Net (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - GUANGZHOU, China -- When Wu Wei's Web site was shut down for the 23rd time, police in the western Chinese city of Chengdu replaced it with one of their own. For a few days last summer, people trying to reach his Democracy and Freedom discussion forum instead found an odd message in large red characters on their computer screens. |
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Comcast Turns On Microsoft TV (PC World). PC World - Tech giant leaps into TV Land with major rollout of its interactive DVR software. |
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Snort up For Revamp, says Creator |
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Network Associates readies updated security appliances. Network Associates Inc. next week will make available the beta version of its WebShield line of gateway security appliances, adding filtering controls to block inbound or outbound content, and set policy based on usage groups. |
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Vulns: Multiple Local Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities. Multiple local vulnerabilities were reported in the Linux Kernel. These issues were announced in a Conectiva advisory. Due to insufficient details, it has not been esta... |
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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 ... |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel Panic Function Call Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. The panic() function call of the Linux kernel has been reported prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability.
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Vulns: Microsoft IIS 5.0 .printer ISAPI Extension Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) enables remote users to submit various print related jobs over the internet via the HTTP protocol (.printer).
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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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Vulns: Vsftpd Listener Denial of Service Vulnerability. Vsftpd is a popular Unix based Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon (vsftpd).
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Automated penetration testing with CORE IMPACT 4.0 |
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Secure coding attracts interest, investment |
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Snort up for revamp, says creator |
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What's in a name- identity theft |
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The biggest spammer on the Net? Comcast? |
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Cisco schweigt zu Code-Diebstahl |
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Video from site of Iraq attack supports claim of wedding |
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Deadly blast near coalition HQ |
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Starting up network services from xinetd |
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Remote backup using ssh, tar and cron |
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Why Windows is a security nightmare |
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HNS Newsletter issue 214 has been released |
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Security in an ERP world |
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Automated penetration testing with CORE IMPACT 4.0 |
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Secure coding attracts interest, investment |
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Snort up for revamp, says creator |
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What's in a name- identity theft |
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The biggest spammer on the Net? Comcast? |
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Vulnérabilité dans quelques implémentations du langage PERL |
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Is Your Apple Rotten? |
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Rushkoff's new graphic novel. Boing Boing pal Douglas Rushkoff's neuron-annihilating comic Club Zero-G, first serialized in BPM magazine, has finally been compiled and expanded into a full-length graphic novel. Published by the demented souls at Disinformation, the book features art by Canadian cartoonist Steph Dumais.
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"The story follows Zeke, a gangly, unpopular, 19-year-old college student - a townie who also happens to attend the elite college in his community - who has discovered a terrific new club where he is accepted and popular. There's only one catch: everyone at the club is dreaming. It only exists in the shared dream consciousness of its participants. If at all.
For there's the rub: Zeke's friends think he is simply going crazy. His girlfriend in the club won't even acknowledge his existence in real life.
As Zeke descends further into the Club Zero-G reality, he learns that this shared dream space is actually a psychic field created by four mutant children from the future - the last of their kind, conceived by human space travelers in zero gravity and exhibiting strange deformities and abilities. Living in a future where independent thinking is considered a threat to "consensus," they are hunted by the authorities, and seek the help of teens from the 21st century who, they hope, can still alter the course of reality.
But Zeke eventually learns this is all a set-up, and he is being used by the militaries of the present and the future as a portal into the psychic field of the Zero-G kids, so they can be destroyed. Unless, of course, he is just going mad." Link
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Group unveils utility computing spec |
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Briefly: Group unveils utility computing spec |
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Linux contributors face new rules |
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Start-up looks to add pluck to browsers |
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Ericsson and MTN Group sign contracts worth 1.5 billion dollars (AFP). AFP - Swedish telecom equipment giant Ericsson has signed two contracts to sell mobile network equipment and services to South African telecom operator MTN Group worth 1.5 billion dollars, the company said. |
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Innovators vs Copiers: HP vs Dell |
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Fusion Plasma Plant in The Future |
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Downloaders 'unfazed by lawsuits'. Legal threats do not deter European internet users from illegally downloading music and films, research suggests. |
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Microsoft talks Team Systems at TechEd. Microsoft will spotlight Visual Studio Team Systems -- a tools platform designed to help programmers work together more efficiently -- this week at its annual TechEd conference. |
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Apple fig-leaf security patch causes dismay. A critical patch for Mac OS X issued on Friday leaves Mac users as vulnerable to attacks as they were before the fix, according to a security company. |
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BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 508-1] New xpcd packages fix buffer overflow. Sender: Matt Zimmerman [mdz at debian dot org] |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200405-18 ] Buffer Overflow in Firebird. Sender: Thierry Carrez [koon at gentoo dot org] |
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BugTraq: cPanel mod_phpsuexec Vulnerability. Sender: Rob Brown [rob at asquad dot com] |
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BugTraq: Netgear RP114 URL filter fails if URL is too long. Sender: Marc Ruef [marc dot ruef at computec dot ch] |
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Vulns: Qualcomm Eudora Embedded Hyperlink Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Qualcomm Eudora is reported to be prone to a remotely exploitable buffer overrun vulnerability.
The issue is exposed when an excessively long hyperlink to a file resou... |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel 2.4 RTC Handling Routines Memory Disclosure Vulnerability. The Linux kernel 2.4 tree has been reported prone to a memory disclosure vulnerability. The issue is reported to present itself in kernel real time clock interface proced... |
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Vulns: Hummingbird Exceed Xconfig Access Validation Vulnerability. The Exceed X server is an X Windows server for Microsoft Windows systems.
Exceed is prone to a vulnerability that can allow a local attacker to bypass certain access re... |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel R128 Device Driver Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. The Linux Kernel supports numerous driver modules; one such is the R128 ATI Rage 128 bit video card driver module.
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Microsoft loses Lindows appeal. Microsoft's claim to 'windows' questioned By John Oates . |
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Text scammers fined £450,000. 'Justice has been done' says UK e-minister By Tim Richardson . |
| 22. |
Happy Birthday to Cisco. Twenty years young By John Oates . |
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Beware of 'IBM laptop order' email. Spam leads to fake website and waiting Trojan By John Leyden . |
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Public-sector IT closes salary gap. Catching commercial sector By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Security experts: WinXP SP2 ook voor illegale versies |
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24 May Troj/Dloader-IU |
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Is Your Apple Rotten?. The Mac OS X operating system is almost undeniably one of the most stable and secure out there. However, even being one of the most secure doesn't mean that it is invulnerable. A recent flaw is considered to be exceptionally... |
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Ars Technica review: Far Cry. A new first-person shooter from Cry Tek, Far Cry has been regaled for its beautiful graphics and strong AI. Is this one of the best titles to come out in a long time? By Eric Bangeman. |
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Go East, Nokia (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Nokia is dipping its fins into China, hoping to get a firmer grasp on the epicenter of Asia's rapidly growing economy and the world's leading cell phone marketplace. |
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Lucent to Buy Net Telephony Gear Maker (Reuters). Reuters - Lucent Technologies Inc. (LU.N) said
on Monday it would buy closely held Telica, a maker of
telecommunications equipment that transmits telephone calls
over high-speed data lines, for $295 million in stock and
options. |
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How's Your Digital Dinner? Restaurants Go Hi-Tech (Reuters). Reuters - Some of the world's biggest technology
companies are setting their sights on the U.S. restaurant
industry, to help them improve operations ranging from hiring
wait staff to planning menus to buying appliances. |
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Password Memorability and Securability |
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Akamai Having Problems? |
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IBM discusses its Workplace vision. IBM has broadened its Workplace architecture for component-based application delivery and placed it at the center of its managed apps vision. Senior Writer Cathleen Moore recently sat down with Ken Bisconti, vice president of Workplace products in the Lotus Software group, to talk about the recent launch of IBM's Workplace Client Technology rich client platform. |
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Xerox loses single-stroke patent claim against PalmOne. In a patent infringement lawsuit that has survived various rulings and company configurations, a U.S. District Court on Friday ruled that Xerox Corp.'s patent for its Unistrokes single-stroke handwriting recognition software is invalid and as a result dismissed its suit against PalmOne Inc. |
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Apple fig-leaf security patch causes dismay. A critical patch for Mac OS X issued on Friday leaves Mac users as vulnerable to attacks as they were before the fix, according to a security company. |
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Vulns: Symantec Norton AntiVirus ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. Symantec Norton AntiVirus is prone to a remote code execution vulnerability. This issue presents itself in an ActiveX control used by the application. Reportedly, a mal... |
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Vulns: Qualcomm Eudora File Attachment Spoofing Vulnerability. Eudora is a graphical e-mail client for Windows computers offered for free by Qualcomm.
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Vulns: Qualcomm Eudora Attachment LaunchProtect Warning Bypass Weakness. Eudora is the freely available mail user agent (MUA) maintained and distributed by Qualcomm. It is available for the Microsoft Windows platform.
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Final report on Beagle 2. UK space agency and public cash required By Lucy Sherriff . |
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TippingPoint launches European offensive. Intrusion prevention vendor comes to London By John Leyden . |
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Dell's Rollins turns on ink-dealing HP. Evil trade in world's most expensive liquid By John Oates . |
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Munich faces RFID-controlled congestion charge. Green traffic plan By Jan Libbenga . |
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Iomega ships 160GB back-up hard drive. Hot plug'n'play and auto back-up By Tony Smith . |
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BNBT Authorization Header Denial of Service Vulnerability |
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Squirrelmail Unspecified Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities |
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Gentoo update for squirrelmail |
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Gentoo update for firebird |
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Liferay Enterprise Portal Multiple Script Insertion Vulnerabilities |
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e107 Site Statistics Script Insertion Vulnerability |
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Akamai problems. Quiet, well kinda quiet, day on the Internet |
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BNBT Authorization Header Denial of Service Vulnerability |
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Squirrelmail Unspecified Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities |
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Gentoo update for squirrelmail |
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Gentoo update for firebird |
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Liferay Enterprise Portal Multiple Script Insertion Vulnerabilities |
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Silly season googlebombing. Some GOPers are googlebombing John Kerry's site with the word "waffles," and Kerry's supporters are fighting back with a Google AdWord buy for "waffles" that goes to a page on Bush's waffling.
I think that this googlebombing stuff is highly overrated. For starters, who googles the word "waffles?" What should be the canonical link for "waffles?" It's really self-reflexive: the nominal point of a googlebomb is to hijack a common search-term to misdirect searchers (i.e., the neo-Nazis who bombed the string "jew"), but in fact, a single-word query for "jew" is a pretty weird thing to punch into Google: "Hmm, I wonder why my neighbor takes every Friday night off and lights a candle. Wonder if it's cos he's Jewish? I know, I'll type 'jew' into Google and see if there's anything about Friday nights and candles in the top ten results."
In fact, the point of a googlebomb is to acheive the googlebomb and then publicize it: "Look, if you search for 'more evil than satan,' you get the Microsoft home-page, hardy-har-har." But those who argue that they've scored some kind of victory here are nuts: no one searches for "more evil than satan" -- unless someone tells them that there's a funny googlebomb on the other end.
When I was a kid, we had all these "calculator games" -- addition, subtraction and multiplication routines that would yield a string on the LCD, that, when inverted, would spell out a word. I remember one "dirty" one that spelled out "BOOBLESS" (55378008). At the time, it felt like we'd really gotten one in against The Man, by somehow convincing a pocket-calculator to kinda-sorta spit out a word we weren't allowed to say in polite company, but the joke got old fast. For starters, "BOOBLESS" isn't a (very) dirty word, and more importantly, it just didn't make the calculator dirty to get it to spit this out.
By the same token, "WAFFLES" isn't that common a naked query, and convincing Google to spit out John Kerry's homepage (or an AdWord for an anti-Bush page) isn't gonna score you any points with the people looking for info on waffles -- the most it can acheive is the (very) faintly humorous spectacle of the Kerry homepage coming up on this improbable query.
Hardy har har.
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The campaign has purchased Google AdWords, sponsored links that come up beside results when certain words are searched. The short links also refer to Kerry's website, but suggest users "read about President Bush's Waffles."
"When we heard people were linking the word 'waffles' with John Kerry, our thought was, 'This is ridiculous,'" said Morra Aarons, Internet grass-roots coordinator for John Kerry for President. "But our solution was to fight fire with fire."
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How to unlock your phone. On Popular Science, an article on getting your mobile phone unlocked. Here in London, there're shops that advertise phone unlocking on practically every block, but it's almost unheard-of in the USA:
While number portability may have freed your cell digits, your phone is still a ball and chain, locked into one carrier's service. These subsidy locks keep you from walking away before the provider can recover that big discount you got when you bought the phone.
But it doesn't have to be so. If you have a GSM phone, you can unlock it and switch to any GSM network carrier (the big three are AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile). You can also take an unlocked phone overseas (most of the world uses GSM) and use it on a local network to avoid paying for international roaming, or even buy a European phone (they tend to be ahead of us in cell tech) and use it here. Have an old phone lying around? Unlock it and keep it as a spare.
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Sweet-looking Rollerball-chic speakers. 
These new Afterlab speakers look hella cool.
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Ozarks commune turns 30. Tri sez, "I know some of these guys myself. They come into my library regularly and max out the two or three cards that the members share."
They may have been dreamers, but this month, East Wind's 75 members celebrated the 30th anniversary of their enduring -- and thriving -- community. East Wind recently paid off a loan on an additional 883 acres, its business ventures are worth more than $2.5 million, and it is building a new machine shop and bathhouse.
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Chicago replaces cows with celebrity-designed Mickey Mice.
Jim sez, "The new online magazine Chicagoist has an article on 15 giant Mickey Mouse statues that will be on display on State Street in downtown Chicago until the middle of July."
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Start-up Plaxo sketches out business plan |
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BlackBerry Gets Remote Control (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - RIM boosts the manageability of BlackBerry Enterprise Server with remote provisioning and control of application installations. |
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OEMs Build Up Their Blade Servers (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - IBM leads a group of OEMs revving their blade servers—IBM by adding networking modules and management software. |
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WLANs: What Does the Future Hold? (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Four industry execs who come at 802.11-based wireless LANs from different angles weigh in on the technology's direction. |
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Lucent Acquiring Internet Phone Provider (AP). AP - Lucent Technologies has agreed to buy Telica, a privately held Internet phone service provider, for about $295 million in stock and options, the telecommunications giant announced Monday. |
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Injunction Issued Vs. DVD-Copying Maker (AP). AP - A California company that specializes in encryption technology has obtained the latest court order barring a Missouri company's sale of popular DVD-copying software. |
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Project Gutenberg Made Accessible |
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Microsoft talks Team Systems at TechEd. Microsoft will spotlight Visual Studio Team Systems -- a tools platform designed to help programmers work together more efficiently -- this week at its annual TechEd conference. |
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Content control gains breadth. ECM (enterprise content management) continues to expand its role in the enterprise, bringing under its wing once separate functions such as collaboration, BPM (business process management), and records management. Interwoven, Documentum, Vignette, Stellent, and Epitome Systems are leading the way. |
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Snort up for revamp, says creator |
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Athens Olympics braced for wave of cyberattacks |
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Allchin named as proof of MS email destruction policy is sought. In addition to the undeliberate policy... By John Lettice . |
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NetBenefit buys Easily for £2.5m. Easily done By Tim Richardson . |
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Lucent buys VoIP firm. More good news for Internet phones... By John Oates . |
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ICANN grows up at last. New attitude and a budget to match By Kieren McCarthy . |
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Microsoft loses Lindows appeal. Microsoft's claim to "windows" questioned By John Oates . |
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Abu Ghraib: US security fiasco. Opinion Human rights trampled in rush for worthless intelligence By Thomas C Greene . |
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Blunkett appoints development partner for ID card project. PA Consulting gets the gig By John Lettice . |
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ZDNet AU: Australia's IT security failing - AusCERT "according to an annual survey released toda... |
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Linux contributors get new rules |
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Webmaster Finds Gaps in China's Net (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - GUANGZHOU, China -- When Wu Wei's Web site was shut down for the 23rd time, police in the western Chinese city of Chengdu replaced it with one of their own. For a few days last summer, people trying to reach his Democracy and Freedom discussion forum instead found an odd message in large red characters on their computer screens. |
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Boeing's 7E7 to Tout Technology Advances (AP). AP - The first new American commercial jetliner to be built in more than a decade won't be the biggest or fastest passenger plane in the sky. |
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Vorbis And Musepack Win 128kbps Multiformat Test |
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Process Improvements in the Kernel Development |
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Deposed CEO Kumar clarifies his new role. LAS VEGAS -- Since Sanjay Kumar's ouster last month as Computer Associates International Inc.'s (CA) chief executive officer, customers have been left wondering about the role the popular executive will play at the company he no longer leads. |
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Interim CEO reassures customers about CA's stability. LAS VEGAS -- Three weeks into his stint as interim chief executive at Computer Associates International Inc. (CA), Ken Cron used his opening keynote Sunday at CA's annual show to reassure customers that the company is ready to move beyond the turmoil of the past few months. |
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Macrovision bolsters software license management. Macrovision on Monday is introducing FlexNet Manager, a centralized software license management system for enterprises. |
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Secure coding attracts interest, investment. A new product from computer security firm @stake Inc. will help developers search computer code for errors, security holes and other flaws that malicious hackers can use to break applications -- and break into computers. |
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Smile, you're online. It was five years ago today... 24 May 1999 By Team Register . |
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McDonald's wades deeper into DVDs (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Blockbuster has a very big-footed rival about to stomp on its turf: Ronald McDonald. McDonald's (MCD) on Monday will announce plans to begin testing DVD rental kiosks at all 105 Denver stores. |
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Europe's Net File-Swappers Unfazed by Lawsuits (Reuters). Reuters - The threat of lawsuits has failed to
deter Europeans from using the Internet to hoard free music,
movies and video games, a technology firm that measures
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Iomega readies removable storage NAS device. Iomega Corp. on Monday will unveil a new entry-level network attached storage (NAS) device designed to work with both conventional ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) drives and the Rev removable hard drives that Iomega began shipping earlier this year. |
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No killer app, but mobile data will boom. Thus spake IDC By electricnews.net . |
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VoIP to transform telecoms market. $32bn cash cow by 2009 By John Leyden . |
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AMD brings performance ratings to Geode line. Stresses performance and power consumption By Tony Smith . |
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IBM UK in running for £50k innovation purse. MacRoberts Award shortlist down to four By Lucy Sherriff . |
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WTF-2 in London this Saturday. The next WTFCon is in London this Saturday: it's a one-day convention devoted to hackery subjects.
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* An open space gathering and conference of various groups, projects, people, and organisations active and interested in creating a better world.
* Action and not just talk. Too many social forums and gatherings result with little or no outcome. Come and propose and gain support for actions during Soho Summit, ESF, G8, GDR etc.
* An assembly of gifts and needs: tell everyone what your projects are all about, what they have to offer, and what they need. Together we have everything. Let's self-organise and share!
* About working together, many of us have shared principles despite our diverse goals. No more either or!
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Oxfam launches download service. Oxfam is launching a music download service to help raise money to fight poverty around the world. |
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Torvalds proposes tighter tracking for Linux 2.7 kernel. Linux founder Linus Torvalds has proposed changes to the Linux kernel development process designed to make it easier for kernel developers to respond to questions of source code ownership, like those raised by The SCO Group Inc. in its multi-billion dollar lawsuit with IBM Corp. |
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Intel 'acquires' Russian Itanium killer's R&D staff. And its technology, too By Tony Smith . |
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Wireless kit sales on the up-and-up. Competition should keep lid on prices By John Oates . |
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Scrap space robots, government urged. Manned flights the answer, say UK boffins By Lucy Sherriff . |
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PalmOne overturns Xerox Graffiti patent. Unistroke 'not unique' By Tony Smith . |
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Web Helps Out Adoption Process. Adoption is a loosely regulated $2 billion-a-year business and it's growing rapidly. The web has made it easier for people to adopt children and for scam artists to prey on hopeful parents. |
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Scientists Watch for 'Slow Quake'. Canadian and U.S. seismologists are waiting for a 'slow earthquake' that happens 12 to 25 miles beneath the earth's surface to give them clues about when and where the next major quake will strike the Pacific Northwest. |
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Paralysis Study: Walking Improves. Rats with spinal cord injuries regain 70 percent of their normal walking function in a three-part treatment developed by researchers in a Miami project. The technique involves regeneration of nerve cells and brain-body communication. |
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Don't Just Look, Play With It. Ars Electronica compiles an anthology of digital art from the last 25 years -- portraits, word waterfalls and eavesdropping computers -- displaying the surprising staying power of the pieces. Michelle Delio reports from New York City. |
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Shootout at the So-So Corral. Gamers with a hankerin' for a western-themed shooter get their wish in Red Dead Revolver, but everyone else may want to mosey on by. By Lore Sjöberg. |
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Doped Athletes Seek Natural Boost. Foiled by effective tests for performance-enhancing drugs, the miscreants of the sports world turn to substances normally found in the human body. By Randy Dotinga. |
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Kerry Gets Google-Bombed. John Kerry's conservative critics have used the so-called Google-bombing trick to link the top result for the word 'waffles' to Kerry's website. But Kerry's supporters are using the attack as an opportunity to point out President Bush's waffling. By Jacob Ogles. |
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Bullish Hopes for Serial Cloning. A famous bull made history in 2000 when researchers announced they created six clones of him. Now they've done it again by cloning one of those clones -- they call it serial cloning. By Kristen Philipkoski. |
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Nieuwe Zone Alarm waarschuwt voor virussen |
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ActiveX Control lek in Norton AntiVirus |
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Bobax worm wil alleen goede spam zombies |
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Microsoft wil Caller ID met SPF combineren |
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US online sales up 28 percent in first quarter: government (AFP). AFP - US online retail sales for the first quarter of 2004 jumped to 15.5 billion dollars, up 28 percent compared with the same period a year ago, the government reported. |
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Secondary Exam Results In India Mean An SMS Flood |
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E-nose could sniff out infections. An electronic nose device could help sniff out common respiratory infections, say researchers. |
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Apple tackles Mac security flaw. Apple users have been updating their software to close a hole which could expose Macs to attack. |
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Apple patches critical Mac OS X hole. 'Theoretical vulnerability' By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus . |
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PCG slams Abbey's India jobs move. What about unemployed UK contractors? By John Leyden . |
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Computer crime will get worse: AU police |
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Quincy punk-rock clips. Here's a collection of video-clips from the notorious Quiny "punk rock" episode, where Quincy asks the musical question: "Can punk rock kill?" (Personally, I prefer the CHiPS punk episode -- "I diiig paaaaain!")
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(Thanks, roboto!) |
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Future of Palladium. Here are Peter "Palladium Pete" Biddle's slides on the latest plans for Microsoft's "Next-Generation Secure Computing Base," the trusted computing technology that used to be called Palladium.
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(Thanks, Wes!) |
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Design critique of Jakob Nielsen. Jakob Nielsen is a legendary usability crank who writes great little columns called "AlertBoxes" wherein he runs down his best practices for one or another element of usability (I always forget to read these because I can't find any RSS or Atom for Jakob's site and it updates too infrequently to put it in my regular Moz tab-group bookmark; nevertheless, some of Nielsen's pieces, like the Microcontent thing from 1998 have been very influential in my blogging style)
Last week's AlertBox was about link-style, and it's pretty good and sensible. But, like all of the AlertBoxen, it is ugly as hell.
Enter "Design Eye for the Usability Guy." Five designers, who have clearly been scorched by Nielsen's legendary rants about the primacy of usability over design, take on Nielsen's AlertBox house-style in a kind of overblown, gushy tone, and undertake to remodel Jakob's image so that his site is both usable and beautiful. It's funny, subversive and in the words of the Cos, "you may learn seomthing before it's done. Hey! Hey! Hey!"
Last time I checked it wasn't illegal to use illustrations to spice up your web site. Now, before we go wild let us remember that Nielsen's not exactly the nothing-but-prada-shoes type of guy. So, I settled with a clean, icon-like style that will reinforce each guideline visually. The colours used are basic: red for links, blue for hover and shades of gray and black for other text. Again, let's try to stick with a style that somehow matches his current branding.
To translate the general concept of links into something simple I've chosen to use an underlined letter "a," applied to an assortment of situations that exemplify each guideline. The font used is Georgia, which happens to work nicely and is very much ubiquitous.
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(Thanks, Danny!) |
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Dilbert for 24 May 2004.  |
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Web vet turns to world of work. Small firms are being encouraged to join a club of net-connected companies. |
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Books get interactive makeover. Researchers are working on ways to make images in books much more interactive. |
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Rumsfeld bans camera phones in Iraq; digicams and truth in wartime. US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has reportedly ordered a ban on camera phones and other mobile imaging devices in US army installations in Iraq. The story broke in Britain's "The Business" newspaper, and has since been cited in numerous online news reports, including UPI and AFP.
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Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US Defence Department believes that some of the damning photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were taken with camera phones. "Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras have been prohibited in military compounds in Iraq," it said, adding that a "total ban throughout the US military" is in the works.
And while we're at it:
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sounded like he was blaming technology for letting the Abu Ghraib scandal spin out of Pentagon control when he testified recently before the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We are constantly finding that we have procedures and habits that have evolved over the years from the last century that don't really fit the 21st century. They don't fit the Information Age. They don't fit a time when people are running around with digital cameras. "
See also this Chicago Tribune editorial by Clarence Page, "Weapons of Mass Photography."
If I had my way, every enlisted man and woman in the military would be issued a digital camera. As we've seen in the scandal about abused Iraqi prisoners, the little gadgets help boost morale by providing snapshots that can be e-mailed back home. They also can come in handy when you need to gather evidence. I like those little cameras because certain power elites don't.
Link to cameraphone ban report, Link to full Rumsfeld "running around with digital cameras" quote. (thanks also to Joi's blog and Smartmobs) |
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Movielink, Charter Sign Online Film Pact (Reuters). Reuters - Online film download company
Movielink said on Monday it had signed an agreement with No. 4
U.S. cable television provider Charter Communications Inc. to
offer a customized movie service to Charter's high-speed
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Flash Memory Prices Slump as Market Showdown Looms (Reuters). Reuters - Two companies that dominate
the lucrative market for memory chips used in digital cameras
and music players are slashing prices to stoke demand and
undermine emerging rivals, industry officials and analysts
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"A Sound of Thunder" Movie This Summer |
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InfoWorld: Microsoft eyeing merger of two secure e-mail specs |
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Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy |
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Biometric ID Cards Trialled in Glasgow |
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Biometric ID card trial kicks off in Glasgow |
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Protest over ID card pilot scheme |
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CMU's Snooping Robot Headed for Iraq |
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CMU's snooping robot going to Iraq |
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EBay Yanks Auction For Schwarzenegger's DNA |
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Child Porn Probe Uses Live Internet Wiretap |
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Child-porn probe used first live Internet wiretap |
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Microsoft Submits Email Caller ID to the IETF |
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What's Your Terrorism Quotient? |
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Database Measured 'Terrorism Quotient' |
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Does SPAM Unsubscribing Really Work? |
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FBI Plans Spammer Smackdown |
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FBI plans spammer smackdown |
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Can Mozilla-Based Browsers be Hija... |
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Reporting Stolen Credit Card Lists? |
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Accused Spammer to Debate SpamCop Founder |
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Spam Adversaries to Meet, Debate |
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Cell Phone Directory Coming Soon |
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Google's Software Principles |
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71% of Spam Servers are Located in... |
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FTC Porn Spam Regulation Now in Effect |
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FTC Requiring Labels on Explicit Spam |
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FTC Adopts Rule That Requires Notice That Spam Contains Sexually-Explicit Material |
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Feds to Open BlackBoxVoting User Logs? |
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www.bigbrother.gov |
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Utah Sees First Spyware Case |
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Utah sees first spyware case |
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High Integrity Software |
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University Capitulates, Switches Off Spam Filters |
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esting didtheyreadit.com's Mail-Tracking Claims |
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WiFi surveillance cams in London. From the BBC News today, a story about the unwiring of (overabundant) surveillance cams.
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In the UK there is one CCTV camera for every 14 people. If you are in London, you could be caught on camera up to 300 times a day. But the cameras are expensive, and once you have installed one, and laid all the wires back to base, it is fixed and cannot move. This means if a crime hotspot moves round the corner, you cannot see it. Westminster City Council in London have come up with a solution - CCTV cameras without wires, which broadcast their pictures back to base using the council's new wireless network.
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Start-up Plaxo sketches out business plan |
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New Zone Alarm to warn of viruses |
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