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Condoleezza Rice Pudding with Berries of Mass Destruction. From Amateur Gourmet -- the guy who brought you "Janet Jackson breast cupcakes" oh so many memes ago -- comes a recipe inspired by the U.S. National Security Advisor: Condoleezza Rice Pudding with Berries of Mass Destruction. Snipped from the comment boards: "I'm thinking this needs to be accompanied by a high-fiber dish to be known as Colon Pow!" Link |
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Cool ringtones, at what cost?. Today I thought about the fact that I can legally download the latest hit song for less than US$1 but a sample of the same tune used as a ringtone costs twice as much or more. Who's to blame? The record industry, of course.
According to this Reuters article, mono and poly ringtones bring the original artists and music publishers a 10 percent royalty while the record labels don't get squat. But "sample" ringtones are clipped from studio recordings, requiring a license from the record label. And they're happy to sell those rights to the tune of 25 to 55 percent of the total retail price of each ringtone. As a result, the resellers are jacking up their prices.
I think this will only drive more people to make their own "sample" ringtones and trade them. As a matter of fact, record labels themselves stand to benefit from giving away "sample" ringtones. Talk about infectious grooves! Link
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Lawmaker tones down anti-Gmail bill |
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Web to Be Major Player at Olympic Games and Euro 2004 (Reuters). Reuters - Internet and mobile phones will debut
as a major part of this year's two big sporting events: the
Olympic Games in Athens and the European soccer championship in
Portugal. |
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Van Could Take Photographs While Driving (AP). AP - An odd-looking van sprouts 13 digital cameras that its builder wants to use to photograph 50 million buildings in the country while driving, taking pictures every 15 feet. |
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Fully Arabized Internet Has Some Way to Go (Reuters). Reuters - Khaled Fattal, a Syrian-born businessman
with U.S. citizenship, residence in Britain and an office in
Singapore, could qualify as a citizen of the world. |
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MS Rails On Open Source, Appeals To Gov't Greed |
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NEW 'OFF THE WALL' ONLINE |
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Regarding the Torture of Others. If you haven't already: read Susan Sontag's piece on the images from Abu Ghraib, published in this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine.
There is more and more recording of what people do, by themselves. At least or especially in America, Andy Warhol's ideal of filming real events in real time -- life isn't edited, why should its record be edited? -- has become a norm for countless Webcasts, in which people record their day, each in his or her own reality show. Here I am -- waking and yawning and stretching, brushing my teeth, making breakfast, getting the kids off to school. People record all aspects of their lives, store them in computer files and send the files around. Family life goes with the recording of family life -- even when, or especially when, the family is in the throes of crisis and disgrace. Surely the dedicated, incessant home-videoing of one another, in conversation and monologue, over many years was the most astonishing material in ''Capturing the Friedmans,'' the recent documentary by Andrew Jarecki about a Long Island family embroiled in pedophilia charges.
An erotic life is, for more and more people, that which can be captured in digital photographs and on video. And perhaps the torture is more attractive, as something to record, when it has a sexual component. It is surely revealing, as more Abu Ghraib photographs enter public view, that torture photographs are interleaved with pornographic images of American soldiers having sex with one another. In fact, most of the torture photographs have a sexual theme, as in those showing the coercing of prisoners to perform, or simulate, sexual acts among themselves. One exception, already canonical, is the photograph of the man made to stand on a box, hooded and sprouting wires, reportedly told he would be electrocuted if he fell off. Yet pictures of prisoners bound in painful positions, or made to stand with outstretched arms, are infrequent. That they count as torture cannot be doubted. You have only to look at the terror on the victim's face, although such ''stress'' fell within the Pentagon's limits of the acceptable. But most of the pictures seem part of a larger confluence of torture and pornography: a young woman leading a naked man around on a leash is classic dominatrix imagery. And you wonder how much of the sexual tortures inflicted on the inmates of Abu Ghraib was inspired by the vast repertory of pornographic imagery available on the Internet -- and which ordinary people, by sending out Webcasts of themselves, try to emulate.
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Dell nears Sun in IBM-led server race |
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Cisco's $500 million router |
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Briefly: Microsoft, Mythic settle name dispute |
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Microsoft, Mythic settle name dispute |
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PluggedIn: Seeking the Best Battery for Digital Music Players (Reuters). Reuters - Digital music players have quickly
become the latest must-have gadget, although their batteries
may wear out long before their popularity. |
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HP and Microsoft put Exchange on your NAS. Hardware halving By Ashlee Vance . |
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e107 user.php Multiple Variable XSS |
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F-Secure Anti-Virus PKZip Virus Detection Bypass |
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Clear Channel scoops up live CD patent. In our latest episode of Patents Gone Wild, we report on Clear Channel's purchase of a patent and its implications for the post-concert sales of live recordings. By Eric Bangeman. |
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History of cartoon rabbit meat spokesman.  Gary sez:
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 2.43494E-296; #1: 1
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Thought you'd appreciate this: a Lileks-esque saga about Petey, Gerald McBoingboing-esque spokeskid for Pel-Freez Rabbit Meat. Truly. The saga goes on and on. Fans start drawing Petey, hare-larity ensues. Link
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Arsonist Pin-up poster art.  New York artist Richie Fahey creates hand-colored black-and-white photographs inspired by pulp paperback covers from the 1930s-1960s. Right now on eBay, there are Giclee limited edition Fahey prints of a girl gone to town to burn it down. Link to Fahey's site. Link to eBay item. (Thanks, Michael-Anne!)
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NanoKabbalah. Howard Lovy's NanoBot blog brings us some particularly surreal text by Rabbi Yehuda Berg (er, Madonna's rabbi):
"...... The genius of nanotechnology is the reduction of space. Smaller is infinitely more powerful...It seems that scientists on the cutting edge of nanotechnology are reaching the same conclusions about space as did the kabbalists thousands of years ago." Link |
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Fox News -- I just SMSed to say ILU.. I was interviewed for this Fox News story about text-messaging and romance. Bottom line in my book of digital dating manners for well-bred nerds: hot-n-heavy haiku, fone-flirting, and pickup lines by text are all hot. Breaking up by SMS is not -- but it's also not entirely uncommon, particularly among late teens and twentysomethings. Link to "Language of Love for the High-Tech Set." |
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Briefly: Subscriber growth but wider loss for TiVo |
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Cut in stock benefits disappoints Microsoft staff |
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Study questions Google's long-term dominance |
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Antispam framework scores Microsoft endorsement |
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CA posts profit, offers government $10 million |
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HP, Microsoft Partner on Security (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is enlisting hardware vendors to push its Internet Security
and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 software, and Hewlett-Packard says it will integrate the technology in its machines. |
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CA Offers $10 Mln to Settle Probe (Reuters). Reuters - Computer Associates International
Inc. (CA.N) offered to pay $10 million to settle a federal
accounting probe that has plagued the company and caused four
former executives to plead guilty to criminal charges, it said
on Tuesday. |
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SanDisk Combines Storage, Wi-Fi (PC World). PC World - New flash memory card offers 256MB of storage and an 802.11b wireless connection. |
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Van Could Take Photographs While Driving (AP). AP - An odd-looking van sprouts 13 digital cameras that its builder wants to use to photograph 50 million buildings in the country while driving, taking pictures every 15 feet. |
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RIAA Lawsuit Binge Continues (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Another fiscal quarter, another 500 online music consumers sued. The Recording Industry Association of America announced it has sued 493 people for infringing copyrights when they illegally downloaded songs from the Internet. |
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Intel Plans Unprecedented Push for New Chip Set (Reuters). Reuters - Intel Corp. plans to focus
unprecedented attention on one of the more obscure components
of personal computers when it launches its newest chip set next
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Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear |
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Hardcore Java |
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Blimps... In... Space... |
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Japanese Digital TV Viewers Complain About DRM Restrictions |
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Renewable Energy From Algae? |
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4km WiFi Range w/ $5 DIY Antenna |
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Mandrakelinux 10 Now Available To All |
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Microsoft agrees to merge antispam plan. Microsoft Corp. agreed to merge its recently announced Caller ID antispam proposal with another, called Sender Policy Framework, or SPF. |
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BEA details Liquid Computing plan. SAN FRANCISCO -- Declaring an end to the era of integration as it has been known, BEA Chairman, CEO, and Founder Alfred Chuang at the BEA eWorld 2004 conference here on Tuesday rolled out the company’s “Liquid Computing” vision for building SOAs (service-oriented architectures) that are responsive to rapid changes in IT needs. |
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MasterCard launches spend analysis tool. Hoping to capitalize on the sorry state of the enterprise to view it own spend data, MasterCard Advisors the professional services division of MasterCard International, will launch this week Purchase Logic, an enterprise spending analysis tool. |
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TechEd: Microsoft touts common engineering plan. SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft on Tuesday announced the Windows Server System Common Engineering Roadmap, a long term plan for simplifying IT complexity by building common services across Windows Server System products. The first delivery in that plan, the Common Engineering Criteria for 2005, was unveiled here at the company's annual TechEd conference. |
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ArcSight injects data mining into security. ArcSight this week detailed a new software product, TruThreat Discovery, that combines data mining technology with security to more effectively evaluate security threats. |
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Siebel banks on hosted, vertical apps. NEW YORK - Under fire from large competitors, Siebel Systems Inc. is looking to offer increasingly robust hosted CRM (customer relationship management) applications as well as hybrid implementations of on-premise and on-demand software to win market share in the business applications market, according to David Schmaier, the company's executive vice president. ADVERTISEMENT  mySAP Customer Relationship Management
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TechEd: MS exec talks about Exchange plans. SAN DIEGO - Microsoft Corp. will dump the "Kodiak" code-name that had been tagged to the next release of Exchange Server e-mail and calendaring product and will deliver functionality that was planned for the release in pieces, the company said at its Tech Ed conference in San Diego. |
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CA reports Q4, makes settlement offer to gov't. LAS VEGAS - Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) released its delayed fourth-quarter financial report Tuesday, meeting the earnings and revenue forecasts it provided earlier this month. |
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BEA's Quicksilver expected in 2005. SAN FRANCISCO - BEA Systems Inc. will distribute an early test version of Quicksilver, a messaging product designed to help customers deploy a services oriented architecture (SOA), with the next major release of its WebLogic server software, company officials said Tuesday. |
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Update - TechEd: Microsoft extends product support to 10 years. SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. next month will institute a new product lifecycle policy that extends support for Microsoft products to a minimum of 10 years from the current seven years, the vendor said Tuesday. |
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ArcSight injects data mining into security. ArcSight this week detailed a new software product, TruThreat Discovery, that combines data mining technology with security to more effectively evaluate security threats. |
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Linux switch is becoming easier option |
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Hackers getting harder to keep out: survey |
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OpenBSD: cvs Heap overflow vulnerability |
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News: Area 51 hackers dig up trouble. Tourists beware. Poking around the desert outside the most famously secret patch of real estate in the world could earn you a visit from the FBI. |
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BugTraq: ERRATA: [ GLSA 200405-16 ] Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail. Sender: Kurt Lieber [klieber at gentoo dot org] |
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BugTraq: [CLA-2004:841] Conectiva Security Announcement - libneon. Sender: Conectiva Updates [secure at conectiva dot com dot br] |
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BugTraq: [CLA-2004:842] Conectiva Security Announcement - mailman. Sender: Conectiva Updates [secure at conectiva dot com dot br] |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200405-20 ] Insecure Temporary File Creation In MySQL. Sender: Thierry Carrez [koon at gentoo dot org] |
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Vulns: BNBT BitTorrent Tracker Denial of Service Vulnerability. BNBT BitTorrent Tracker is a C++ implementation of the BitTorrent tracker, a server for managing P2P BitTorrent connections.
BNBT BitTorrent Tracker versions Beta 7.5 re... |
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Vulns: Apple OS X Unspecified Terminal URL Handling Vulnerability. Apple has made OS X fixes available for an unspecified vulnerability in terminal URL processing. Details on the nature of this vulnerability are not known at this time. ... |
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Vulns: Apple MacOS X URI Handler Remote Code Execution Variant Vulnerabilities. It has been reported that there are variants of the issue described as BID 10356 that remain unfixed, allowing remote code execution on vulnerable OS X systems. Accordin... |
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Vulns: Liferay Enterprise Portal Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities. Liferay Enterprise Portal is a portal with e-mail, document management, message board and other functionality.
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MS UK 0wn3d by hackers. Again. Embarrassing defacements 'R Us By John Leyden . |
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US military depleted by online outings. Gay packet pointing By Ashlee Vance . |
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Area 51 hackers dig up trouble. Twilight Zone alarm By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus . |
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IT Vibe: Microsoft admit they were hacked "Microsoft admitted that a portion of their UK website... |
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BIOS Magazine: Secure your password solution "Organisations are discovering an easy way to reduc... |
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News: Area 51 hackers dig up trouble |
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GAO Warns Of Risks In Foreign-Developed Software |
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More Scams from the uKay eBay |
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[ GLSA 200405-19 ] Opera telnet URI handler file creation/truncation vulnerability |
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SSH URI handler remote arbitrary code execution |
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[CLA-2004:841] Conectiva Security Announcement - libneon |
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ERRATA: [ GLSA 200405-16 ] Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail |
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[CLA-2004:842] Conectiva Security Announcement - mailman |
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[ GLSA 200405-20 ] Insecure Temporary File Creation In MySQL |
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Cisco to launch new flagship into rising waters |
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HP, others to sell Microsoft firewall appliances |
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Viruses nip Russia after the Cold War |
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Hackers getting harder to keep out: survey |
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Xeni on NPR -- digicams and Iraq. Today on the National Public Radio program "Day to Day," I talk with host Alex Chadwick about discredited news reports that US Defense Secretary Rumsfeld issued an edict banning phonecams in Iraq -- as well as the confirmed release of a new Pentagon directive (PDF) outlining new restrictions on consumer wireless tech at DoD installations worldwide. While there may not be a Pentagon-issued ban on phonecams or connected digital cameras per se, there do appear to be new efforts under way to address the proliferation of those technologies in the military theater and throughout the DoD's "information grid." Alex says,
The images of abuse at Abu Ghraib, the photos of returning soldiers' coffins -- we see them because of this technology. And it's caught defense officials off-guard.
Link to Day to Day "Xeni Tech: Phonecams and the Front Lines" (online audio available after 12PM PT, station search here) |
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History of cartoon rabbit meat spokesman.  Gary sez:
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Thought you'd appreciate this: a Lileks-esque saga about Petey, Gerald McBoingboing-esque spokeskid for Pel-Freez Rabbit Meat. Truly. The saga goes on and on. Fans start drawing Petey, hare-larity ensues. Link
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Nokia forms bond with GlooLabs |
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Malaysia cracks down on software piracy amid fear of WTO blacklist (AFP). AFP - Malaysia launched a nationwide crackdown on companies using illegal or unlicensed software amid fears growing piracy could lead the country to be blacklisted by the World Trade Organization. |
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British inventor Dyson unveils his latest appliance of science in Japan (AFP). AFP - British inventor James Dyson unveiled his latest hi-tech gadget, the world's smallest, most powerful -- and possibly most expensive -- vacuum cleaner, in a bid to clean up the Japanese market. |
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Online advertising tops record in first quarter (AFP). AFP - Online advertising revenues surged to a new record of 2.3 billion dollars in the first quarter of 2004, according to a survey. |
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TechEd: Microsoft to kill 'Kodiak' code name. SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft will dump its "Kodiak" code-name that had been tagged to the next generation release of Exchange Server, instead shifting strategy to release individual improvements as they are ready, according to company executives here at TechEd 2004. |
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Elsewhere: Practice safe resets: secure your password solution. Organisations are discovering an easy way to reduce the workload of IT and help desk administrators - password self-service. According to Gartner, password reset and user... |
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Elsewhere: Security vendors ruining sysadmins' lives. Competing computer security vendors racing against each other to find and publish new software vulnerabilities are pushing sysadmins to the brink. They need to grow up an... |
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News: Two thirds of emails now spam: official. Spam hotspots are emerging as the global levels of junk mail worldwide continue to increase. More than two thirds (67.6 per cent) of the 840m emails scanned by filtering firm MessageLabs last month was identified as spam. MessageLabs figures also indicate significant regional variations and spam "hot spots", despite attempts to deter spammers through legislation. |
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Security in an ERP World |
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DoS dans Internet Explorer par l'appel au tag 'http-equiv' |
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Will the market delay adoption of DDR2 systems?. Intel plans to aggressively market DDR2 technology with upcoming chipsets. Will higher cost and OEM reluctance to eat the costs conspire against them to delay adoption of DDR2? By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. |
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Robot Origami.  New Scientist reports on the graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University we've linked to previously who built a robot that can make simple origami constructions. The work is aimed at developing robotic systems that can manipulate various materials encountered in daily life. From researcher Devin Balkcom's site:
"Why origami? Origami is a fresh challenge for the field of robotic manipulation. Paper is flexible; robots are best at manipulating rigid things. Even if we model origami as an articulated rigid body (by building our origami out of really stiff cardboard with hinges along creases), it still has a complicated mechanical structure." Link
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Mobile phones get voice-over-Internet capability. I wrote a piece for TheFeature.com about i2 Internet's new device , the InternetTalker MG-3, which allows mobile phones to make VoIP calls.
Here’s how the MG-3 works: first, you have to sign up for VoIP service with a company that resells i2 Telecom’s hardware and network access. You’ll get the MG-3, a little plastic box stuffed with microchips, which you plug into your broadband connection and existing phone line. Then, when you want to make a long distance call with your mobile, you just call your home number. The MG-3 will recognize the mobile’s number using Caller ID, and connect you to i2 Telecom’s VoIP network. You get a second dial tone, and you can make your overseas call. Want to talk to somebody in China? You’ll get charged 5 cents a minute. Cingular has been having a great time charging you $3.49 a minute for making the same call.
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Slideshow of prefabricated houses.  Time magazine has a short slideshow of kit-built and pre-fab houses. (Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion house shown here.) Link
(When I was in New Zealand, I looked at a great prefab house on Waiheke Island.)
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Xeni on NPR -- digicams and Iraq. Today on the National Public Radio program "Day to Day," we talk about discredited news reports that US Defense Secretary Rumsfeld issued an edict banning phonecams in Iraq -- as well as the confirmed release of a new Pentagon directive (PDF) outlining new restrictions on consumer wireless tech at DoD installations worldwide. While there may not be a Pentagon-issued ban on phonecams or connected digital cameras per se, there do appear to be new efforts under way to address the proliferation of those technologies in the military theater and throughout the DoD's "information grid." Host Alex Chadwick says,
The images of prisoner torture at Abu Ghraib, the illicitly released photos of US soldiers returning home in flag-draped coffins -- we see them because of this technology. And it's caught defense officials off-guard.
Link to Day to Day "Xeni Tech: Phonecams and the Front Lines" |
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Microsoft UK Web site defaced |
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Briefly: Microsoft UK Web site defaced |
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Toying With Amazon's Profits (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - A new survey shows that the online retailing sector made its first profit last year, fulfilling a key vision of the 1990s Internet boom -- that lots and lots of computer users would actually go online to buy stuff. |
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Seeking the Best Battery for Digital Music Players (Reuters). Reuters - Digital music players have quickly
become the latest must-have gadget, although their batteries
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DVD Player Displays 2D Movies in 3D |
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Shrek 2 How-To |
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Online government gets new chief. The UK managing director of Accenture, Ian Watmore, is appointed as new head of e-government. |
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News: Beware of 'IBM laptop order' email. Hackers tried to trick users into visiting a maliciously-constructed website using a blizzard of spam emails last week. The assault attempted to exploit a previously unknown vulnerability with Internet Explorer to seize control of the maximum number of Windows PCs. |
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Deutsche Telekom acquires US mobile networks. $2.5bn to former partner Cingular By Tim Richardson . |
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Comcast hands MS five million viewers. TV Foundation launches set-top assault By Faultline . |
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Drive makers ready 5x DVD-RAM burners. We're the fastest format, claims trade body By Tony Smith . |
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Eurofighter at risk of 'catastrophic failure'. Leaked MOD report cites computer 'corruption' By Lucy Sherriff . |
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US plans $10bn computer dragnet. Foreigners to be monitored by IT leviathan By John Leyden . |
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Sun sends European server team packing. Volume layoffs in UK and Ireland By Ashlee Vance . |
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U.S. commander in Iraq to be replaced |
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U.S. battles cleric’s supporters in Najaf; shrine damaged |
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Ft. Carson troops questioned in Iraq abuse probe |
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Computer Virus Researcher Studies Biology |
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New Security Solutions Available Now from Zone Labs |
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New Ssl Vpn Product Ships from F5 |
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Appeal denial could limit Microsoft's ability to defend the Windows trademark. Microsoft appeal of the Lindows trademark dispute was turned down. This could ultimately lead to the invalidation of the Windows trademark By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. |
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IBM sets up RFID center in Japan |
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Bush steps up online campaign efforts |
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Cisco delivers high-end telecom router |
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Briefly: Bush steps up online campaign efforts |
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Microsoft tightens database security |
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Cheap-Tech Guru (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - Fail to heed the cheap revolution and it will kill you. Try selling a server for $30,000 at a time when Dell sells a pair for $5,000 and you're toast. Ask Sun Microsystems about it. Sun has suffered declining revenue for 12 consecutive quarters. |
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Ringtones Left Out of Digital Music Price Wars (Reuters). Reuters - A recent price war has made Internet
song downloads cheaper while the price tag on a mobile phone
ringtone has barely budged, and in some cases, is creeping up,
a new report on Tuesday said. |
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GPS vs. Galileo; Where Are They Headed? |
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Kill Bill, IBM vs Microsoft |
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Cisco to launch new flagship into rising waters. Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday is set to unveil a massive carrier core routing system as growing demands for bandwidth and new services such as VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) loom over service providers. |
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HP, others to sell Microsoft firewall appliances. SAN DIEGO -- Taking aim at security appliance vendors, Microsoft Corp. on Monday said that hardware makers will sell its forthcoming Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 software preinstalled on hardware appliances. |
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Viruses nip Russia after the Cold War. For all its disadvantages, the former Soviet Union had one hugely overlooked advantage: it kept hackers, crackers and virus writers confined inside the country by restricting their access to the Internet. |
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Infocus: Protecting Road Warriors: Managing Security for Mobile Users (Part Two). This is the second of a two-part series that focuses on the centralized management of security for mobile users. Part two completes the discussion by presenting additional layers of defence to help protect valuable, mobile data. |
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RIAA targets 493 more unnamed file-sharers. And 24 named alleged copyright infringers By Tony Smith . |
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IBM gives SAN File System a second try. Getting there... slowly By Ashlee Vance . |
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Hitachi production ramp-up = cheaper storage. More drive for less By Faultline . |
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SPF Group, Microsoft Work to Converge Anti-Spam Efforts |
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Why Was Intel a No-Show on No Execute? |
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F-Secure Anti-Virus Archived Virus Detection Bypass Vulnerability |
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Trojan Sending Spam Mail |
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F-Secure Anti-Virus Archived Virus Detection Bypass Vulnerability |
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Spyware auf jedem dritten Firmenrechner |
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Attention au mail 'IBM laptop order' |
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Scorching critique of some arguments for copyright. Mark Lemley, a UC Berkeley law prof, has just published a paper on copyright called "Ex Ante Versus Ex Post Justifications for Intellectual Property," that's a good, fast read. Lemley says that in copyright's early days, the justificaiton for the auhtor's monopoly was to give authors the incentive to crete new works, but that today, we have the "ex ante" arguments that copyright also gives authors the incentive to exploit their creations -- to make more of them once they are created -- and to "steward" them by ensuring that only good, quality derivative works enter the market.
Without saying much about the idea that copyright can be a good incentive to create, Lemley tears these other arguments for copyright to shreds, in a highly entertaining fashion:
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The argument that a single company is better positioned than the market to make efficient use of an idea should strike us as jarringly counterintuitive in a market economy. Our normal supposition is that the invisible hand of the market will work by permitting different companies to compete with each other. It is competition, not the skill or incentives of any given firm, that drives the market to efficiency. Nothing about the fact that a work was once subject to copyright or patent protection should change our intuition here. It is hard to imagine Senators, lobbyists, and scholars arguing with a straight face that the government should grant one company the perpetual right to control the sale of all paper clips in the country, on the theory that otherwise no one will have an incentive to make and distribute paper clips.24 We know from long experience that companies will make and distribute paper clips if they can sell them for more than it costs to supply them. The market for paper clips functions just fine without this type of government intervention. We can also predict with some confidence that if we did grant one company the exclusive right to make paper clips, the likely result would be an increase in the price and a decrease in the supply of paper clips. Yet supporters of the CTEA confidently predict exactly the opposite in the case of copyrighted works from the 1920s.
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Relief fund for burned-out blogger. Joey DeVilla has a blog entry on a Boston blogger whose house burned down this weekend: there's a PayPal donation box to help the poor guy out.
About 5 or 10 minutes later I started smelling smoke and heard my dad looking in the attic outside my room. It was now he started screaming, "The house is REALLY on fire. Get anything you can and get out!" He said this as he walked down the stairs and when he came back in after putting something outside.
I was a bit panicked and shaken but I grabbed my backpack and threw my computers in it and put on some pants. I should have probably put on the pants with my wallet in them, but for some reason I didn't. And I should have probably got a jacket as well seeing as it is so cold now.
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Earnings alert: Novell's loss narrows |
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Cingular, T-Mobile sever joint venture |
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Dell releases multifunction printers |
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RIAA Sues Nearly 500 New Swappers |
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China Developing own Standards |
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Viruses nip Russia after the Cold War. For all its disadvantages, the former Soviet Union had one hugely overlooked advantage: it kept hackers, crackers and virus writers confined inside the country by restricting their access to the Internet. |
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Free software guru speaks on patents. End of world is nigh, warns Richard Stallman By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Public sector urged to think Microsoft. Online marketplace counters open source threat By electricnews.net . |
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Should XP pirates get SP2?. MS weighs perils against profits By Mark Rasch, SecurityFocus . |
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Did Rumsfeld ban Iraq camera phones?. And is it even possible? By Guy Kewney, Newswireless.net . |
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Wi-Fi yak farmers liberated by Net. High-altitude Nepalese get webbed up By John Oates . |
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Code Theft Remains A Mystery (TechWeb) |
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Israel Spy Agency Recruits Staff on Web (AP) |
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Should Kerry draft Nader?. John Gilmore sez, "If Kerry had the sense to pick Nader as his VP, they'd unify the
anti-Bush ranks and eliminate the chance of a significant protest vote.
Nader polls at 4%, which would put Kerry over the top. Independent voters have noticed the remarkably similar platforms of
Bush and Kerry re the Iraq war (they're for it), Guantanamo (they're
for indefinite imprisonment without judicial review), the Patriot Act
(they're for it), and many other issues like the drug war (they're for
it). If independents could vote at least one honest person into one
party's administration, known for blowing the whistle when needed,
they would be a lot more inclined to do so."
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The Washington Post did a poll and said ...
It found Bush in a dead heat with Democratic candidate Massachusetts
Senator John Kerry in the presidential race.
Forty-six percent of registered voters said they would vote for Bush
if the election were held today; 46 percent said they would support
Kerry and 4 percent said they would back independent Ralph Nader, the
poll said.
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Dope enters an MMO. The game Achnea has introduced a virtual narcotic called gleam:
Achaea characters who take gleam get hooked quickly -- suffering typical addiction symptoms: violent vomiting, shivering, irrational sobbing, begging for the drug and even overdoses resulting in death. Some of the game's players are angry about gleam's introduction into their world.
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Briefly: RealNetworks affirms second-quarter loss |
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D.Telekom Buys U.S. Mobile Networks (Reuters). Reuters - Europe's top phone carrier Deutsche
Telekom AG is buying networks from U.S. rival Cingular Wireless
for $2.5 billion to underpin growth at its booming T-Mobile USA
unit, it said on Tuesday. |
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Israel Spy Agency Recruits Staff on Web (AP). AP - Israel's normally secretive Mossad spy agency came in from the cold this week, launching a Web site aimed at recruiting staff ranging from computer security specialists to English-speaking waiters and agents for "special tasks." |
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Vodafone Launches 3G in Spain, Italy (Reuters). Reuters - British-based mobile phone giant
Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L) said on Tuesday it had started
selling third-generation (3G) videophones in the key European
mobile phone markets Spain and Italy. |
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What Would You Do With a 92 TBps Router? |
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Monster PC upgrade will change face of industry. Obsolete operating systems are pushing the PC industry into its biggest upgrade cycle since the Millennium Bug bonanza, but in the longer term the industry's model for continued growth is itself just about obsolete, according to analysts. |
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SQL Server getting security boosts. Microsoft at its Tech Ed conference in San Diego on Tuesday will tout plans to add data encryption to its SQL Server database and seek federal government security certification for the platform as well. |
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Security in an ERP World |
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PIII is a Ferrari, says Intel. It was five years ago today... 25 May 1999 By Team Register . |
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Two thirds of emails now spam: official. Just in case you hadn't noticed By John Leyden . |
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UK Sage house sold. CIBER buys Ascent Technology By John Oates . |
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Practice safe resets: secure your password solution |
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HP to sell Microsoft firewall apps |
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Key considerations for outsourcing security |
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Zone Labs Adds Antivirus Service |
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Network Associates Unveils Linux Antivirus |
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Auditors Say Homeland Security Needs IT Strategic Plan |
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e107 "user.php" Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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Netgear RP114 URL Filtering Bypass Vulnerability |
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e107 "user.php" Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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Netgear RP114 URL Filtering Bypass Vulnerability |
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Trend Micro Pattern File 895 |
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Norton Virus Definitions May 24, 2004 |
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DDR is not eeeevil! Game enthusiasts respond. A member of the Kansas City Dance Dance Revolution club -- which was profiled in this rather dark tale of a guy who steals to support his DDR habit -- responds:
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I am the site admin of DDRKC.com. The author of this article approached us a few months ago claiming to want to write a positive publicity piece about the Kansas City local area Dance Dance Revolution scene. They interviewed a number of us, who all spoke about the comraderie and positive aspects of having a virtual community based around DDR. If you read the article, you will note that NONE of this information was used. Instead, they decided to focus on the personal exploits of a single person who was doing stupid and illegal activities. What that has to do with DDR, I have no idea. It's like creating an expose on how bloggers are evil and engaged in illegal activities just because one of them decided to go shoplift something. It completely misrepresents for only DDR as a whole, but DDRKC and the local players as well. Here is a link to the community reaction to the article.
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VIPs and VPNs, and schwagging the dog and pony |
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Deutsche Telekom Ends Cingular Venture (AP). AP - Deutsche Telekom is paying $2.3 billion to end a joint venture with the U.S. wireless concern Cingular Wireless and purchase Cingular's mobile phone network in California and Nevada. |
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NCsoft Shows Best, Worst in Online Games (AP). AP - "City of Heroes" and "Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle" have so little in common, it's hard to believe both new video games are published by the same company, South Korean-based NCsoft. |
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Singapore Vows to Fight E-Mail Spam (AP). AP - Tightly-controlled Singapore on Tuesday vowed to fight e-mail spam, threatening to fine rogue Internet marketers millions of dollars. |
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Microsoft Behind $12M Opera Settlement |
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Linus Adopts Enhanced Tracking Process |
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VeriSign acquires wireless services provider Jamba. VeriSign Inc. has agreed to acquire Jamba AG, a Berlin-based wireless content and services provider, for $273 million in cash and stock, VeriSign said Monday. |
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Sandisk launches combo Wi-Fi, memory SD card. SanDisk Corp. will begin shipping by the end of June a SD (Secure Digital) card that combines 256MB of memory and a wireless LAN adapter, the company said Monday. ADVERTISEMENT mySAP Customer Relationship Management
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Microsoft builds Office, Web services bridge. SAN DIEGO -- Expanding on its vision of Office as a front end to business applications, Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the trial release of a software bundle that allows developers to link business systems to Office applications using Web services. |
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IBM updates SAN File System software. IBM Corp. next month will release a new version of its TotalStorage SAN (storage area network) File System Software designed to work with a wider variety of new server and storage environments. |
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Cisco to launch new flagship into rising waters. Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday is set to unveil a massive carrier core routing system as growing demands for bandwidth and new services such as VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) loom over service providers. |
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HP, others to sell Microsoft firewall appliances. SAN DIEGO -- Taking aim at security appliance vendors, Microsoft Corp. on Monday said that hardware makers will sell its forthcoming Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 software preinstalled on hardware appliances. |
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Introducing the flamethrowing Swiss Army knife. Cash'n'Carrion Exciting new range of must-have kit By Cash'n'Carrion . |
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P2P : artistes et public dénoncent la campagne du SNEP |
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Onderzoek: Sasser worm had nauwelijks effect |
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Cyberterroristen zijn bedreiging voor kritieke infrastructuur |
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Oplichtende spammers krijgen boete van 687.000 |
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mIRC DCC Server Protocol Nickname Disclosure |
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[MAJ] Faille dans la gestion des MAP graphiques dans Internet Explorer |
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Computer Virus Researcher Studies Biology (AP). AP - A man sneezes. Flu viruses are released. People close by catch it. They go to work, go shopping. More people are infected. Then more and — Whoosh! — it's an epidemic. Computer viruses can spread like that, too. |
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In The Works: Windows For Supercomputers |
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Game gadgets set for big growth. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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Web veteran turns to world of work. Small firms are being encouraged to join a club of net-connected companies. |
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Spam messages on the increase. Junk e-mails now account for nearly 70% of all messages, say experts, despite efforts to reduce spam. |
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Cisco unveils monster router. Carrier grade plus By John Leyden . |
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Vodafone penetrates Italian 3G market. Competition for Hutch By John Oates . |
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NTL bundles new ADSL products. Brace of broadband and phone package deals By Tim Richardson . |
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WORM_YESENIA.A |
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Microsoft haalt fel uit naar open source |
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India's Technopolis Bangalore Weathers Political Storm (Reuters). Reuters - As rural India cheered the Congress
party's national election win, companies in this high-tech city
braced for a backlash against a region seen as long pampered by
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Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released |
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Games gadgets set for big growth. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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Linux Security Week - May 24th 2004 |
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ZBRA 80.85 +0.77 (20 min. delayed). ZEBRA TECH
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More UK train firms commit to on-board Wi-Fi. WISP signs three more partners By Tony Smith . |
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UMC ramps 90nm process to volume output. Faster than its rivals, foundry claims By Tony Smith . |
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Sony, Nintendo pick March '05 for Euro console launch. Same time, same place, apparently By Tony Smith . |
| 9. |
Calling all Java Developers. Site Offer 30% off J2EE and other titles By Team Register . |
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RIAA Bags 493 More Swappers. The Recording Industry Association of America sues more people for copyright infringement. The music group has now ensnared nearly 3,000 individuals in its net since last September in its attempt to fight peer-to-peer file trading. |
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Linux: Whose Kernel Is It?. Responding to a legal challenge over the origin of some of the Linux programming code, Linus Torvalds, the operating system's creator, proposes changes to the kernel-development process that he thinks will squelch any future legal problems. By Michelle Delio. |
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Electric Shocks to Fight the Flab. Forget the Jane Fonda workout tape. Soon, excess pounds will be shed using a stomach pacemaker. The device sends out electrical pulses geared to shock the user into feeling full. By Louise Knapp. |
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Army Reboots GIs' Tired Fatigues. Soldiers often go into battle wearing about 100 pounds of bulky, clumsy gear, making the point of all their high-tech gadgetry moot. So the Army is spending $250 million to start from scratch, building a future uniform from the skin out. By Noah Shachtman. |
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A Break From Annoying Ads?. A high demand for online advertising space coupled with low supply is giving Web publishers the upper hand. It could mean a break from outlandish ads that block the article you're trying to read. By Amit Asaravala. |
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Virtual Dopers Crave High Scores. Although most would agree that massively multiplayer games are already addictive, developers are making it more so by introducing habit-forming drugs into their online worlds. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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Microsoft to show off ID federation |
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CA preps wireless site management software |
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Microsoft to show off ID federation |
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CA preps wireless site management software |
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Enterprise IT Toolkit for the Week of 5/20/04 |
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Hardware Today — IBM Server Snapshot |
| 22. |
AntiOnline Spotlight: Our Intern Is a Hacker! |
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Integrated Disk-based Backup at JetBlue |
| 24. |
Symantec Eyes Enterprise with Brightmail Buy |
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New Bobax Variants Exploiting LSASS Vulnerability to Spread |
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Security to Dominate at Microsoft's TechEd |
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PolyServe Does Windows (Clustering) |
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HP Brings NAS to Microsoft Exchange |
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Network Associates komt met Linux Anti-Virus |
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Microsoft biedt makkelijke netwerk security |
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ERP security draait niet alleen om bits en bytes |
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Christian P2P: is it a sin?. Fascinating Salon piece about the moral debate among Christian teens over whether P2P file-sharing for gospel music is a sin.
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"Being faithful to your friends, giving them something for free, is more important than any kind of moral allegiance to a record company. Whether a teenager is a committed Christian, of a different faith or just has no religious affiliation, some of the patterns of how they make decisions transcend religious input," Kinnaman says. He believes that to change those kids' attitudes, you'd have to somehow influence those networks of friends, not just tell the kids that what they're doing is wrong.
Another complication: For some Christian kids Barna studied, sharing the religious hits that express their faith is their way of spreading the word. "They wanted it to be part of their ministry. They wanted to share some of the positive messages from their music with non-believers. It's an evangelistic impulse." He compared it to the old saw about the stolen Bible: "If someone came and stole my Bible, I'd be happy that they stole it, because they needed it."
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HalfLife casemod.
This HalfLife-inspired casemod is jaw-droppingly cool.
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Vodafone rings up bumper headline profits (AFP). AFP - British mobile telephone giant Vodafone reported a 19-percent increase in headline pre-tax profits to 10.0 billion pounds (14.9 billion euros, 18.0 billion dollars) for the year to March. |
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Vodafone cuts bottom-line losses. The UK mobile giant sees its bottom line losses reduced to £5bn as it boosts its customer numbers and announces a major share buyback. |
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Nintendo 'fears for games industry'. The president of games giant Nintendo says the industry must innovate or die. |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel CPUFreq Proc Handler Integer Handling Vulnerability. A local integer handling vulnerability has been announced in the Linux kernel. It is reported that this vulnerability may be exploited by an unprivileged local user to ob... |
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Vulns: Linux kernel do_fork() Memory Leakage Vulnerability. The Linux kernel has been reported prone to an unspecified memory leakage vulnerability that may allow an attacker to disclose sensitive kernel memory.
It has been repor... |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel Setsockopt MCAST_MSFILTER Integer Overflow Vulnerability. An integer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the setsockopt() system call. This issue is related to the code for handling the MCAST_MSFILTER socket option, whi... |
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Vulns: Linux kernel Framebuffer Code Unspecified Vulnerability. An unspecified vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel. This vulnerability was reported in a security advisory (FEDORA-2004-111) issued by RedHat for the F... |
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Vulns: SuSE Linux Kernel HbaApiNode Improper File Permissions Denial of Service Vulnerability. A vulnerability has been identified in the SuSE Linux kernel that may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service condition on a vulnerable system. The issue is ... |
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Iomega dresses up NAS device. I'm too sexy for your rack By Ashlee Vance . |
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Iomega Debuts NAS Cube |
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Comcast Thinks About Stopping Zombies |
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Attack of Comcast's Internet zombies |
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Fake-magazine cover photoshopping contest. 
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There are some great entries in this Something Awful fake-mag-cover photoshopping contest, but Internet Tough Guy is hands-down the funniest.
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Iliad as IMs. Microsoft has commissioned an IM-speak translation of The Iliad to promote its new IM client; book two is compressed to a mere 24 "words":
Agamemnon hd a dream: Troy not defended. Ordered attack! But Trojans knew they were coming n were prepared. Achilles sat sulking in his tent.
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AT&T: the hollow phone company. Kevin Werbach has a cool perspective on the fact that AT&T has divested itself of its physical and cellular networks: it has become a "virtual" phone company. (Remember the spectrum docket where AT&T was all about the open spectrum? Maybe this virtual telco thing makes phone companies less evil?)
AT&T is hollowing itself out -- and that's a good thing. Under Dave Dorman, AT&T has invested heavily in building a true all-IP backbone and deploying VOIP offerings. Following the sale of AT&T Wireless to Cingular and AT&T's subsequent deal with Sprint PCS, AT&T is poised to offer a full suite of wireless offerings without the cost of owning a cellular network. And it is still the biggest player in the lucrative business services market, with a national brand second to none.
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Doctors' neckties harbour disease. Doctors who wear neckties may look more competent and reassuring, but their cravattes are actually disease-harbouring pest-farms of neck-grease, sweat, and plague germs.
Researchers found that nearly half of the ties worn by medical workers harboured bacteria which could cause disease.
Clinicians were eight times more likely to wear a tie carrying bacteria than by hospital security staff.
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NES wristband. 
Piers sez, "A couple of Christmases ago, my friend Harry made me this wristband out of an orignal NES controller. He stripped the PCB, wiring and buttons out of it, and baked it in the oven over half a tin can, bent to form-fit his wrist. It melted over the can, then he took it out, put the buttons back in, glued it and sealed it with silicone or something. He even shortened the cord and had it coming out the end so the plug could join on to a loop of elastic to hold it on."
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Hack your own ringtones. This week on Engadget's HOWTO section: how to hack your own ringtones for the P900:
I bought a CD and use it in my alarm clock (a lot of alarm clocks have that as a feature)- Should I pay $3 for that? Perhaps, seems weird to me. Sometimes when the phone rings I whistle a popular tune from a CD I bought, do I need to pay for that? America is a great place, we have fair use- it’s why we’re great innovators and heck- making stuff for our phones for our own personal use goes beyond fair use. In this week’s how to we show you how to make your own ring tones, for just your phone, for just personal use, from the CD you just bought.
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A darker tale of DDR -- theft, hot chicks, destruction. Dance Dance Revolution, the legendary electronic game cited in a CNN piece today, is apparently capable of inspiring both good and eeeeevil. Here's the sordid tale of a midwestern fanatic who became a thief to support his DDR habit.
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Giles thought of himself as old school; he'd learned to play on early versions of DDR with dimly lit arrows, poor graphics and no speed modifiers, circa 2001. He called new players who sucked "nubs." He was certain he had groupies. "In every arcade, we have what's called a fan club," he says. "A group of girls, normally underage, that are just desperately, madly obsessed with us."
Before things turned bad, Giles would dance against anyone willing to do battle: the stud-wearing punk, the overweight high school kid, the middle-aged Sprint worker, the preteen with the overprotective mother. "It's not just some little stompy-stompy crap," he says. "It can go crazy on you."
When he danced, he moved so fast his sneakers began to blur. Sweat beaded and fell from his brow like raindrops. Following the arrows, his feet accelerated in time, playing the commands like a musical score.
Link (Thanks, Joel Johnson!) |
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300 images from 1800 sites. This lovely little website is the result of a sort of online pixel scavenger hunt:
I started gathering little, iconesque web images for myself so that I could compare, contrast, and study the techniques used by other graphic artists on the web. My initial pool of images looked so interesting that I decided to continue methodically hunting and capturing the icons for a public display piece. The purpose of this document is not to copy the intellectual property of others, but rather as a jumping-off point for your own unique web graphic projects. It's for Brainstorming, if you will.
I roughly estimate that for every six web sites I scoured, I was able to acquire one graphic image. I visited only Fortune 1000 company sites, major online retailers, well known blogs, top advertising, publishing, and design agencies, technology and software industry leaders, and the very largest online news publishers. Approximately 1800 web sites later, I have this collection of 300 of the most interesting, unique, and beautiful formations of pixels to display.
Link (Thanks, Sean!) |
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Software maker unites Windows, Unix |
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Google IPO Could Boost Brokers (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Google Inc.'s upcoming public offering of stock could produce a windfall of more than just fees for Wall Street. It could also bring the investment houses tens of thousands of new brokerage accounts as enthusiastic users of the search engine rush to get a piece of the action. |
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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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Cisco Unveils Big, Fast Router (Reuters). Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc.
(CSCO.O) on Tuesday introduced its next-generation router, a
machine it is counting on to stop its slide in the highly
profitable market for gear that directs the heaviest loads of
Internet traffic. |
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Sony's 'Cell'-based TV Ready By 2006 |
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Computer Virus Researcher Studies Biology (AP) |
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Practical Domain Name System Security: A Survey of Common Hazards and Preventative Measures |
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Zope Local Role Computation Error Privilege Escalation |
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Symantec Norton AntiVirus Double Filename MIME Header Email Scan Bypass |
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Linux slocate Contains an Integer Overflow in parse_decode_path() |
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Citrix MetaFrame ICA Authentication Encryption Weakness |
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atStake et l'analyse de la sécurité des codes C, C++ et Java |
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Openwebmail Advisory +gwee |
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A closer look at Intel's processor numbers and 2004 road map. Wondering about Intel's new CPU naming scheme? We've got the lowdown on it, plus a look at Intel's CPU road map. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Wayport, McDonald's cook up hot-spot deal |
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Microsoft to show off ID federation |
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Softbank Mulling Buyout of Japan Telecom (AP). AP - Japanese broadband service provider Softbank Corp. is mulling a buyout of Japan Telecom Co., Japan's third-largest fixed-line carrier, a move that could strengthen Softbank's effort to dominate the Japanese broadband market. |
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Google Lifts Secrecy on $2.7 Billion IPO (AP). AP - Google Inc., whose very name is a metaphor for easy access to information, has lifted a shroud of secrecy on its estimated $2.7 billion initial public offering with an amended filing that said 31 Wall Street firms will help sell the deal. |
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Chip Plant Utilization Rate Hits 3-Year High (Reuters). Reuters - The utilization rate of the world's chip
factories hit a three-year high in the first quarter due to
robust demand for digital electronics and personal computers, a
global semiconductor industry association said on Tuesday. |
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Akamai Problems, New Angle(r) On An Old Phish |
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Reader Review: How I Use Open-Source Tools To Stunt Spam |
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Open-Source Software Accurately Sorts Your Mail |
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WebInspect Detects Site Defects |
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Safe and Sound |
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Always-On WLAN Monitor |
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CoreStreet's Real Time Credentials Validation Authority |
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Eye on the Servers |
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Security Appliances: Little Boxes, Big Bite |
| 16. |
Dealing With MyDoom |
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Metrics for CSOs, by CSOs |
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All The Rage: Look Who's Lobbying |
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Fundamentals: Wanted: Integrated Security |
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All The Rage: Linux: The Hacker's New Target |
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All The Rage: Don't Count On Microsoft |
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Anti-Spam Techniques |
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Inside The Network Intrusion-Prevention Hype |
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China's Wi-Fi Security Stance Ruffling Feathers |
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How To Think Like a Hacker |
| 26. |
Security Threats Won't Let Up |
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Fighting Spam, Fueling Growth |
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Protected From Prying Eyes |
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Identity Management Takes Hold |
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Patriot Act Compliance Isn't Easy |
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The Need For Identity Management |
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