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Real-world fuel mileage lags behind the EPA numbers. Questions about EPA fuel economy ratings may lead the EPA to modify how they vehicle fuel mileages values. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. |
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Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? |
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Security vendor says offshore development needs checks. An executive from Citadel Security Software Inc. pointed to offshore software development as one reason for security vulnerabilities in a hearing before a U.S. House Subcommittee Wednesday. |
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Wireless broadband system looks toward WiMax. Although standardized products that are expected to drive down the price of WiMax wireless broadband gear may be as much as a year away, Alvarion Inc. on Wednesday used the Wireless Communications Association (WCA) conference in Washington, D.C., to roll out equipment that it said can be easily upgraded to support the emerging standard. |
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BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 499-2] New rsync packages fix directory traversal bug. Sender: Matt Zimmerman [mdz at debian dot org] |
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InBox Keynote: Spam Can Be Defeated |
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Pentax goes all-digital? UPDATED -- Pentax denies.. Darren from Digital Photography Blog says,
A report out of Russia claims that Pentax are announcing a complete withdrawal of manufacturing of compact and SLR film cameras by the end of the year. It could be just a localised thing but some are suggesting it just the first of the "big five" camera manufacturers who will all make moves in the coming years to go digital (to different extents).
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UPDATE: Pentax says it isn't so. Unless their Russian distributor knows something we don't, this would appear to be an unsubstantiated report. A spokesperson for Pentax USA (a privately-held subsidiary of the Japan-based parent corporation) told me today that the contents of this "leaked notice" are not accurate. This spokesperson said that Pentax has no immediate plans to cease distribution of film-based imaging products, that the company continues to produce and support film-based products, and said also that if Pentax Corporation were to make such a decision, the announcement would come direcly from Pentax Corporation of Japan rather than the Russian source cited in this forwarded online report. |
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Museum of old-school computers in Germany. BoingBoing reader Brian says,
Xeni's mention of brick cell phones reminded me of this interesting museum in Paderborn Germany, called the Heinz Nixdorf Museum. The museum is based on the history of computing; and contains all sorts of wonderful classic machines, crank/gear operated calculation engines, typewriters and early keyboards, data processing "stations", minicomputers, mobile phones, personal computers (incl an Apple LISA, remember that!?), etc etc! It's a fascinating visit in person, and the museum website has some glimpses of the exhibits as well as some interesting text on the history of technology and computing.
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Tim Biskup's "100 Paintings" -- my favorite book of the year.  Tim Biskup works as a background animation artist. He's also a prolific painter, and this itty-bitty book (measuring a little more than five inches on a side) has reproductions of 100 full sized paintings that he whipped out in a matter of months. Biskup's style is inspired by the work of the eminent LP album cover artist Jim Flora (who died in 1998), but he's got a delightfully eclectic assortment of other influences, such as Japanese pop and early Disney layout artists, blended in. This little hardcover book is a steal at $10.47. Link
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Red Hat Using Microsoftlike Tactics, Say Linux Vendor's Critics (Investor's Business Daily). Investor's Business Daily - For many, Linux's appeal boils down to one thing: It isn't Microsoft Windows. |
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Short Text Messages In Mid-Air |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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Vendors tout WiMax potential. Wireless broadband, including the yet-to-be-deployed WiMax, has tremendous growth potential, but is still years from rollout, according to wireless broadband equipment vendors speaking at a conference Wednesday. |
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e107 content.php content Variable SQL Injection |
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e107 secure_img_render.php Arbitrary Command Execution |
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e107 usersettings.php avmsg Variable XSS |
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Mac OS X Disk URI Handler Arbitrary File Creation |
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Digital Identity World
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - May 20, 2004 Issue |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - May 27, 2004 Issue |
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Porn-themed group art site. 
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 5.31865E-266; #1: 1
X-NAS-Classification: 0
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X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67}
"We Are Porn," an online collection of porn-themed art from artists in Germany.
Link (Thanks, Jean-Luc, also spotted on Fleshbot)
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More on blocked sites for .mil websurfers. Following up on this BoingBoing post about rumors that access to TheMemoryHole is being blocked on military computers in Iraq, BoingBoing reader John -- who has a sister in the Army -- says,
It gets better. Awhile back I sent my sister a link to the story about the man who could make art in cappuccino. She tried to access the story from the military hospital where she works. Here's what she sent back:
"for whatever reason, i can't open that from work. they blocked it and the screen pops up saying
Problem Report. Request Cannot be processed.Problem Cause -- A communication error occurred: "Operation timed out." Note: If the request was denied due to the Content Filterconfiguration. The content category reported is Gen. News. Possible Solution If you feel this site was blocked in error, please contact the HelpDesk at DSN 371-2098 or send an email to. IMD Help Desk.
WARNING! All web activity is logged and monitored by IMD. Unauthorized use of government information systems may lead to disciplinary action or prosecution.
so, i will have to check that out later."
[John continues:]If the request was denied due to the Content Filter configuration is a sentence fragment, but with The content category reported is Gen.
News. and If you feel this site was blocked in error, please contact the Help Desk the meaning is clear enough. For whatever reason, "General News" is not fit for our troops. I've been meaning to send her a list of links and ask her if she'd be willing to try to access them (Newsweek? New York Times? Common Dreams? Freerepublic.com [a conservative site]? townhall.com [another conservative site]?) I'm also curious what other kinds of sites she can't visit (geek news? music news? yahoo? wikipedia?) and whether she's prohibited from visiting these sites at work because she's /at work/, or if she's encouraged not to pursue the news in general.
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New Yorker on Dorkbot. Dorkbot, a group of "people doing strange things with electricity" that meets in various cities worldwide, was profiled in this recent New Yorker story:
Dorkbot was founded by a young man named Douglas Repetto, who teaches computer music at Columbia. "The idea of dorkbot was to reach people who had nowhere to talk about these projects," Repetto says. "Some might appear in a gallery, perhaps, but many are too odd, or they're unfinished, or it's not even clear what they are." Dorkbot presentations typically feature novel ways of using electrical devices, especially uses that don't require much money. "Dorkbot is about what you can do on the cheap in a back room somewhere," he says. The name encourages humility.
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Museum of old-school computers in Germany. BoingBoing reader Brian says,
Xeni's mention of brick cell phones reminded me of this interesting museum in Paderborn Germany, called the Heinz Nixdorf Museum. The museum is based on the history of computing; and contains all sorts of wonderful classic machines, crank/gear operated calculation engines, typewriters and early keyboards, data processing "stations", minicomputers, mobile phones, personal computers (incl an Apple LISA, remember that!?), etc etc! It's a fascinating visit in person, and the museum website has some glimpses of the exhibits as well as some interesting text on the history of technology and computing.
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Ill Communication.  |
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Seagate to cut costs, work force |
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Vonage slashes price of Net telephony kit |
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McCaw to Launch Wireless Broadband Service (AP). AP - Craig McCaw, a wireless entrepreneur with a mixed record of spectacular successes and humbling failures, is launching a wireless broadband service. |
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Ubisoft to Publish U.S. Election Video Game (Reuters). Reuters - The typical video game calls for
shooting aliens, racing cars and beating enemies into
submission, but publisher Ubi Soft Entertainment has decided
gamers may also enjoy stumping for votes at a nursing home
somewhere in Ohio. |
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First Science From A Virtual Observatory |
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LinuxSecurity.com
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From exposition to exploit: One security book's story |
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Columnists: Catching a Virus Writer. With the consumer WiFi explosion, launching a virus into the wild has never been easier and more anonymous than it is today. |
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Columnists: Multiple Security Roles With Unix/Linux. There are some areas of security where Linux and Unix have some strong wins, and simply fit in better than anything else. |
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[SECURITY] [DSA 512-1] New gallery packages fix unauthenticated access |
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Additional information on WRT54G administration page |
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Re: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN |
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MS KB article suggests turning off encrypted passwords for Mac clients |
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ERRATA: [ GLSA 200405-25 ] tla: Multiple vulnerabilities in included libneon |
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RE: Additional information on WRT54G administration page |
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Remote SMTP authentication audit tool? |
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RE: LinkSys WRT54G administration page availble to WAN |
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Mac OS X cd9660.util Buffer Overflow |
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e107 Multiple Menu Path Disclosure |
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e107 clock_menu.php LAN_407 Variable XSS |
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Mac OS X IPSec Port Rule Policy Bypass |
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Mac OS X CoreFoundation Environment Variable Non-descript |
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FreeBSD ppp Local Privilege Escalation |
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e107 content.php content_id Variable SQL Injection |
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Element InstantShop add_2_basket.asp Price Modification |
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Finishing off the Sun news. We've been covering Sun's recent spate of product announcements coming out of the other day's press event, so here are the two latest big ones that we haven't covered so far. By Hannibal. |
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Judge rules to move Google, Digital Envoy case |
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Briefly: Judge moves Google, Digital Envoy case |
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HP Promotes Color Printers, Cameras (PC World). PC World - Budget color laser printer, high-end inkjets, and multifunction devices lead announcements. |
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Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real Dollars (Reuters). Reuters - Rising interest rates have yet to cool
white-hot real estate prices. Perhaps that's why the concept of
virtual home ownership has captured the imagination of a
growing number of online gamers, who are plunking down real
cash for their own slice of the digital frontier. |
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Microsoft Offers Test Version of New Media Player (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) released on
Wednesday a preliminary version of its newest software package
for playing video and audio on personal computers that will
also allow online music stores to sell songs over the Web. |
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Solid-State Mini-ITX Linux Recording Studio HOWTO |
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Microsoft wades in BI waters. Microsoft inched closer to the BI applications space on Wednesday with the release of two BI accelerators for SQL Server 2000 and SharePoint Portal Server. |
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LinuxSecurity.com
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Book Review: Computer Security for the Home and Small Office |
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BugTraq: Additional information on WRT54G administration page. Sender: Alan W dot Rateliff, II [alan2 at rateliff dot net] |
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BugTraq: ERRATA: [ GLSA 200405-25 ] tla: Multiple vulnerabilities in included libneon. Sender: Thierry Carrez [koon at gentoo dot org] |
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Vulns: Ethereal Multiple Vulnerabilities. Ethereal 0.10.3 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities. These issues include:
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 2.98833E-099; #1: 1
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- Thirteen stack-based buffer overruns in various protocol dissectors (NetF... |
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Joi Ito profile. Boing Boing pal and superblogger Joi Ito was profiled today by the Associated Press.
"Joi is an incredibly dynamic person," said Justin Hall, an American writer on technology culture and a friend of Ito's for several years. "He's got a fantastic curiosity. His metabolism or something -- he's wired a little different." Link |
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Removable-storage revenue doubles |
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Regulators tackle wireless broadband issues |
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Microsoft Rolls Out Feature Pack for CRM 1.2 (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has rolled out a feature pack to enhance its CRM application, version 1.2. |
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Survey: Execs Change Sarbox Plans (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has prompted many enterprise executives to re-examine their business processes and reporting procedures. But until lately, few indicated that they were going to spend money on enterprise software to deal with the issues. |
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Intel To Release Open-Source Code for BIOS (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) and firmware developer CollabNet are working together to release open-source code designed to make the BIOS PC and server boot-up process faster and more predictable. |
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Interpol calls for cyber-tracking of stolen Iraqi antiquities (AFP). AFP - A senior Interpol official urged members countries to monitor the Internet for sales of stolen Iraqi antiquities, saying cyber trafficking in illicit objects is on the rise. |
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U.S. Says Price Pressure Key to Oracle Takeover Bid (Reuters). Reuters - Oracle Corp.'s $7.7-billion
takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. is motivated by the
cut-throat price competition between the two companies, the
U.S. Department of Justice said in court documents filed late
on Tuesday. |
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McCaw to Unveil Wireless Broadband Service (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. mobile phone industry pioneer
Craig McCaw said Wednesday he was poised to launch a wireless
broadband Internet service in the United States and several
other countries. |
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Shareaza 2.0 Released Under GPL |
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Introduction to Inkscape and its Future |
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ZBRA 79.81 -0.54 (20 min. delayed). ZEBRA TECH
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Elsewhere: Ingram Micro Discloses Hacker Attack. Hacker attacks on businesses are on the rise, and these days generally are launched by more sophisticated and motivated perpetrators. The sophistication is making it more... |
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Security escapes from the lab |
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RIAA wants to limit your ability to manipulate music you legally own. Most audio CDs are not protected by encryption, which means that those who legally buy such CDs in the US have far-reaching rights as defined by Fair Use. You can backup your CDs, of course, but you can also do much more, and that upsets the RIAA. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Comcast to offer gaming on demand. Comcast announced a new subscription-based gaming service. For an additional US$14.95 per month, their cable Internet customers will be able to download and play a number of PC games. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Occult book exhibit.  Here's a stunning collection of rare occult books from the Monash University Library in Australia. From the 1998 exhibition catalog:
"So great is the variety of 'occultisms,' that it is often difficult to find any connecting link between these traditions. The word is derived from the Latin, occullere, to cover over, to hide, or conceal, and all occult belief systems lay claim to some esoteric or hidden knowledge, but so too do many religions and mystical and philosophical systems, which are not defined as 'occult'. It is also clear - at least as far as those 'occult systems' with their own complex cosmologies are concerned - that what might be perceived by an outsider as "occultism", is to the practitioner quite possibly religion. This difference of perception serves to underline the only definite link that can clearly be demonstrated between these disparate 'occultisms': all were (or are) belief systems which existed (or exist) either on the margins of, or altogether outside, the mainstream religious or philosophical orthodoxies of the cultures in which they evolved." Link
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Wireless pioneer keeps Clearwire in the shadows |
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McCaw to Offer Wireless Broadband Service (AP). AP - Wireless entrepreneur Craig McCaw, who has a mixed track record of spectacular successes and humbling failures, is launching a wireless broadband service. |
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Windows Media Player Revamped (PC World). PC World - Microsoft refines copyright-protection scheme to better support portable devices. |
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Engineering An End to Aging |
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Microsoft plans for expansion in India. BANGALORE, INDIA -- Microsoft Corp. is planning a number of moves that will increase and potentially consolidate its development activities in India, according to company officials and sources. |
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ZBRA 79.55 -0.80 (real-time). ZEBRA TECH
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Elsewhere: Hackers crash Canadian Conservative Website. OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Conservative Party called in the Mounties on Tuesday to find out who crashed the party's Web site in the middle of the federal election campai... |
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Elsewhere: Security contractors urged to take out personal indemnity insurance. As the epidemic of virus and spam continues, security professionals may need legal protection from losses caused by security breaches, according to legal experts
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News: Attack of the bandwidth-hogging hackers. Swiss security researchers have unearthed a flaw in wireless LAN systems that might be used by hackers to drastically increase their share of the available bandwidth at the expense of the other users. The issue should be of particular concern to hotspot operators, according to a team from the computer labs at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lussanne (EPFL). |
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BugTraq: TSLSA-2004-0032 - kerberos. Sender: Trustix Security Advisor [tsl at trustix dot org] |
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NASA seeks Hubble robot rescue input. Suggestions on a postcard by 16 July By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Sambar Server Administrative Area Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities |
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Trustix update for apache |
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2 Jun W32/Rbot-X |
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2 Jun W32/Agobot-SG |
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Elsewhere: Hackers crash Canadian Conservative Website |
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Sun confirms decision to open source Solaris. Sun Microsystems today announced that it will open source its Solaris operating system. Terms of the licensing have not been revealed at this time, although it is expected to be along the lines of BSD or MPL By Eric Bangeman. |
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Guestblogger Russ Kick's MemoryHole -- banned in Iraq?. Posted by a member of Declan McCullagh's politech mailing list:
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 0; #1: 1
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I've received email from a person with an [army.mil] address. This person is stationed in Iraq, and he/she tells me that The Memory Hole is blocked on military computers. Trying to get to the site results in the following
message:
Access Denied (content_filter_denied)
Your request was denied because of its content categorization:
"Extreme;Politics/Religion". For assistance, contact your network support team.
How interesting. I post raw documents created by the government, military, and corporations. These days, that apparently amounts to "political extremism." Naturally, I've filed a FOIA request about this blocking.
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Join Friends of the Creative Archive and help the Beeb put EVERYTHING online. The BBC's Creative Archive is well underway now and a group of UK-based copyright activists and concerned license-payers have gotten together to lend their support to the project. The Archive is a project to put the BBC's enormous archive on the net for free viewing and remixing by the license-paying public. If the Beeb pulls this off, it will be the largest and most ambitious open-content project in the history of the world; a shining proof of the idea that the sky doesn't fall when you relax your copyright a little. I mean, we're talking the future of public service broadcasting here.
So the Friends of the Creative Archive are a bunch of concerned people who want to keep this on track. It's certain that there's going to be a lot of opposition to this -- from rights-holders, commercial broadcasters, even parts of the Beeb. But at the end of the day, the license-payers bought that programming, and it's not doing us any good sitting on the BBC's shelves.
You can help: if you're a license payer, you can join the Friends, and there will be lots of opportunities in the near future to petition the Beeb, the Governors, the DCMS and Parliament for this -- there's an open letter now that you can sign onto.
Here are some of the elements critical to the creation of a real, useful, relevant Creative Archive:
* It must be broad: drawing from all areas of the BBC's broadcasting from factual to light entertainment, from drama to sport, and everything in between.
* It must be accessible: files must be made available in open, standards-defined formats without "digital rights management" or other technology locks that will keep Britons from creatively re-using the BBC's offerings.
* It must be free: Material should be licensed under conditions that do not restrict any licence payer from accessing, storing, modifying or sharing archive material for non-commercial use.
* It must be whole: Material should be provided in its entirety for non-commercial use, not only in excerpted form.
* It must be soon: the BBC's own internally produced material should be released into the Archive as soon as possible, to prove to the world that the sky won't fall if you relax your copyright stance.
* It must be complete: the BBC should take steps to clear the rights to the independently produced material in its archive.
* It must be sustainable: the BBC's new licensing agreements with independents should all include the right for the BBC to make the works available in the Creative Archive for full non-commercial use.
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Face transplant. Researchers at the University of Louisville are seeking permission from a bioethics panel to perform the first-ever face transplant. According to a CNN article, "the operation could offer new hope for those who suffer severe burns, cancer or gunshot wounds. The surgery will attach facial tissue and blood vessels from a cadaver to a new patient." New Scientist broke the news last week, reporting that "the team has been using the faces of bodies donated for medical research to practise the groundbreaking operation and the results suggest that a transplanted face will not be recognisable as either the donor or the recipient - in effect creating a third face." As a result, the University of Louisville was swamped with inquiries, resulting in the release of an FAQ on the status of the face transplant program. Apparently, they're not seeking volunteers quite yet. Link
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Occult book exhibit. Here's a stunning collection of rare occult books from the Monash University Library in Australia. From the 1998 exhibition catalog:
"So great is the variety of 'occultisms,' that it is often difficult to find any connecting link between these traditions. The word is derived from the Latin, occullere, to cover over, to hide, or conceal, and all occult belief systems lay claim to some esoteric or hidden knowledge, but so too do many religions and mystical and philosophical systems, which are not defined as 'occult'. It is also clear - at least as far as those 'occult systems' with their own complex cosmologies are concerned - that what might be perceived by an outsider as "occultism", is to the practitioner quite possibly religion. This difference of perception serves to underline the only definite link that can clearly be demonstrated between these disparate 'occultisms': all were (or are) belief systems which existed (or exist) either on the margins of, or altogether outside, the mainstream religious or philosophical orthodoxies of the cultures in which they evolved." Link
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UK downloads hit 500,000 mark. More than 500,000 songs have been sold online so far this year. |
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Business gains as net changes. The net's core technology is behind big changes in the business world. |
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Sony pulls out of PDA marketplace. The electronics giant announces it is to stop selling personal digital assistants outside of Japan. |
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Sun warms to open source for Solaris |
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Sun broadens its horizons |
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Sears goes to Computer Sciences for IT support |
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Nortel delays reporting financials |
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Lindows Wins a Round in Court (PC World). PC World - OS will be back on store shelves in Europe; Microsoft must pay legal fees. |
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Sony Hands PDA Market a Defeat (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - This is not the hit that the PDA market was looking for. |
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An Analysis Of Email Disclaimers |
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Nortel accounts review won't end this quarter. Nortel Networks Corp. officials have no idea how long it will take to restate the company's accounts for 2003 and for the first quarter of 2004, they said Wednesday, as they outlined their short-term priorities to restore confidence in the company. |
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Nortel accounts review won't end this quarter. Nortel Networks Corp. officials have no idea how long it will take to restate the company's accounts for 2003 and for the first quarter of 2004, they said Wednesday, as they outlined their short-term priorities to restore confidence in the company. |
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ZBRA 79.48 -0.87 (real-time). ZEBRA TECH
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BugTraq: TSSA-2004-008 - apache. Sender: tinysofa Security Team [security at tinysofa dot org] |
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BugTraq: TSSA-2004-009 - kerberos5. Sender: tinysofa Security Team [security at tinysofa dot org] |
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BugTraq: TSLSA-2004-0031 - apache. Sender: Trustix Security Advisor [tsl at trustix dot org] |
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AOL UK ticked off for 'exaggerated' ad claim. Cheetahs By Tim Richardson . |
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Attack of the bandwidth-hogging hackers. Wi-Fi hotspot peril By John Leyden . |
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Iraq ambush kills former Denver cop |
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Aladdin Systems Debuts Internet Cleanup 2.0 |
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Weblogsinc launches "Autoblog". A car-themed blog is the latest from Jason Calacanis' online micropublishing company Weblogsinc. Link |
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ExExEx Church. Fleshbot points us to a parody of "Christian porn site" XXXChurch:
Despite whatever certain Christian anti-porn propaganda sites would have you believe, there's ample evidence that porn, masturbation, and parody are part of the divine universal plan. Guru Karen, Bob the Sexually Suggestive Wooden Massage Implement, and the rest of the gang at ExExEx Church have made it their mission to set the record straight: "I believe that if God hated masturbation he would have made our arms short, like a Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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Pentax goes all-digital?. Darren from Digital Photography Blog says,
A report out of Russia claims that Pentax are announcing a complete withdrawal of manufacturing of compact and SLR film cameras by the end of the year. It could be just a localised thing but some are suggesting it just the first of the "big five" camera manufacturers who will all make moves in the coming years to go digital (to different extents).
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US Army wants "wise" G.I.s. Spotted on Noah Schachtman's DefenseTech blog today:
Soldiers of today need to new "skill sets. to function effectively under high-stress and other emotionally-laden circumstances," the Army says.
"These conditions are sometimes associated with interpersonal transactions but may also emerge as reactions to fast-paced, high-demand events and situations." The best way to determine whether a grunt has these skill sets or not: gauge his "emotional intelligence," or EI. It's made up of four abilities, according to the Army: "the perception, management, expression, and utilization of emotion."
The military is asking companies for ideas on how to put together a new, "comprehensive personnel management and training system" that would assess and build "an individual's ability to recognize, express, react and manage emotions associated with these interpersonal events and emotionally-laden circumstances."
Similarly, the Army would like to find leaders "who possess the wisdom to extend their expertise and values beyond service interests." But right now, it doesn't have an efficient way to find out who's wise and who's not.
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Sex Tourist Pianist Jailed (Reuters). Reuters - A concert pianist who tried to lure Sri
Lankan boys over the Internet during a tour of Asia was jailed
for two years on Wednesday under British sex tourism laws. |
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Sun COO Schwartz Promises Open Source Solaris |
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Recording Industry Hopes To Hinder CD Burning |
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Grantsdale, Alderwood headed for June 21 launch. TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Intel Corp. plans to launch its Grantsdale and Alderwood chip sets for Pentium 4 processors on June 21, according to several motherboard makers at the Computex 2004 exhibition in Taipei. But while the chip sets will soon be available to users, they may not become widely adopted by users until early next year. |
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Transmeta shows 1.6GHz Efficeon processor. TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Transmeta Corp. is showing working samples of the latest version of its Efficeon processor at the Computex trade show in Taipei this week. |
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Data Security Debacle |
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Nokia deploys 'wave messaging' mobile. LEDs project SMS to astounded onlookers By John Oates . |
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Secure information sharing and the data residency dilemma |
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Simple passwords no longer suffice |
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How much should you invest in IT security? |
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From exposition to exploit: One security book's story |
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H.323 mediated Voice over IP: vulnerabilities and more |
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Briefly: IBM lands business services deals |
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IBM lands business services deals |
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Computex: Apple lines up for Toshiba's new 60GB drive (MacCentral). MacCentral - Toshiba Corp. is planning to launch a 60GB version of its 1.8-inch hard disk drive in the coming months and has already found a customer in Apple Computer, the company said Wednesday at the Computex 2004 exhibition in Taipei. |
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McAfee Granted Far-Reaching Spam-Control Patent |
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Stock deal expands SCO's freedom. BayStar Capital LP and The SCO Group Inc. have agreed to a deal under which BayStar recoups some of its investment in SCO and the Unix company gets more freedom in running its business. |
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AMD, Broadcom team on server chip sets. TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Broadcom Corp.'s ServerWorks subsidiary plans to offer server chip sets for the 64-bit Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), the companies announced Wednesday at the Computex 2004 exhibition here in Taipei. |
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Dutch court denies injunction, fines MS in Lindows case. Lindows Inc. claimed a victory in its latest trademark tussle with Microsoft Corp. this week after a Dutch court denied a request by Microsoft that the Linux-based software vendor be barred from using the Lindows name in connection with sales of its products in the Benelux countries: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. |
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Google bolsters search appliance. Google on Wednesday will release an updated version of its Google Search Appliance featuring expanded capacity and improved security. |
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TI demos split-chassis PC design. TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has a solution to the problem of hot and noisy computers: split them into two parts and move the hottest and loudest components off the desktop and away from the user. |
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Sears awards $1.6B outsourcing deal to CSC. Hoping to free its IT department for more strategic tasks, Sears, Roebuck and Co. has decided to outsource its IT infrastructure support services to Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC). |
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Apple lines up for Toshiba's new 60GB drive. TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Toshiba Corp. is planning to launch a 60GB version of its 1.8-inch hard disk drive in the coming months and has already found a customer in Apple Computer Corp., the company said Wednesday here at the Computex 2004 exhibition in Taipei. |
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NI outfit promos 2GB email service. Tolkien site rings up email service too By Tim Richardson . |
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Germans claim first programmable computer. Z3 goes head-to-head with Colossus By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Converged networks find increasing favour. Separate voice and data so last century By John Leyden . |
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Nokia unveils mid-air messaging. Now your text messages can be seen by everyone. |
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Google Soups Up Its Search Toolbox (AP). AP - Google Inc. is sharpening the search tools that it sells to companies, schools and government agencies, hoping to mine new revenue sources as it strives to become less dependent on online advertising. |
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Global Crossing gets $100m boost. Big loan, strings attached By John Oates . |
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EU moves towards spectrum trading. The radio waves, not the Sinclair By John Oates . |
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Cable and Wireless cuts pretax loss, reinstates dividend (AFP). AFP - Telecommunications group Cable and Wireless said it had reduced its pre-tax loss in the year ending March 31, helped by a stronger performance at its British businesses, and reinstated a dividend. |
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China cracking down as criminals use cellphones, Internet (AFP). AFP - New technologies like cellphones and the Internet have meant a boom in crime in China, and the authorities are now taking steps to curb high-tech vice, state media said. |
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Cable & Wireless is not 'down and out'. Back to paying a divi and everything... By John Oates . |
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Intel 'Nocona' details emerge on mobo display. Computex Asus spills the beans By Tony Smith . |
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Intel slices up to 34% off server chip prices. Computex Xeon DP pruning ahead of Nocona launch By Tony Smith . |
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Dialogue demos 'total wireless' sub-notebook. Computex Flybook even works as a tablet By Tony Smith . |
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Eircom profits up but turnover down. Better margins By John Oates . |
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3G roll-out to boost semiconductor market. Spending will continue to rise By Lucy Sherriff . |
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DB2 'Stinger' to pack powerful punch. Float like a butterfly... By IT-Analysis . |
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NEC goes all out for China 3G market. 270m potential subscribers By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Tele2 slips 3G into Sweden. Offers free stuff to tempt punters By Tim Richardson . |
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Big Bucks for Biometric Screening. The Department of Homeland Security awards a $10 billion contract to a group of companies, led by Accenture, to build a system to screen and track foreign visitors to the United States. |
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Putting Dollar Signs on Solutions. Bjørn Lomborg has a brain trust and a blueprint to solve the world's problems. He also has (heresy!) a bottom line. By Spencer Reiss from Wired magazine. |
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Phishers Put Surfers on the Hook. Trolling for credit card numbers with phony websites and e-mails is becoming more and more popular, but enforcement is still playing catch-up. By John Brandon. |
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Scientists Try to Trump Politics. The top stem-cell and cloning scientists around the globe will treat the United Nations to its very own scientific conference on Wednesday, hoping to prevent a U.N. cloning ban. By Kristen Philipkoski. |
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Wi-Fi TV Not Ready for Prime Time. Sharp's Aquos Wi-Fi TV is a neat gadget for television fanatics who just can't bear to miss one second of their favorite programs. But its cost and glitches offset the cool factor. A review by Elisa Batista. |
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Taking Stock of a Dot-Com Freebie. Travelzoo, the discount travel website, engineered its 15 minutes of fame back in 1998 by giving away free stock to all who visited. Today -- with shares trading above $20 -- only a small fraction have succeeded in claiming their loot. By Joanna Glasner. |
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Wanted: Drugs to Fight Bioterror. Armed with $5.6 billion, the U.S. government wants to woo pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs and vaccines to combat bioterrorism. But the money may be just a drop in the bucket. By Randy Dotinga. |
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A '411' directory Protecting wireless consumer privacy |
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U.S. critic to take Iraq reins |
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Many-worlds dating: Quantum lovegety. Futurismic, the excellent sf-writers'-group-blog, has just published its second piece of short fiction, "Shibuya no Love" by Hannu Rajaniemi, a Finn living in Edinburgh. The story deals with "Quantum Lovegety" technology, and is jam-packed with eyeball kicks and gracenotes.
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 1.40733E-105; #1: 1
X-NAS-Classification: 0
X-NAS-MessageID: 1314
X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67}
The boy looked like a painted little satyr: silver lips and eyelids, orange ash-streaked hair and a heavy gold chain around his neck. He couldn’t have been older than twelve, but then in Shibuya a fifteen-year-old was ancient and venerable. The drone of the bass beat that seemed to permeate everything in 109 obscured the rapid-fire exchange between Norie and the boy, but it wasn’t long before he smiled hungrily and held his palm out towards Riina, the little pink thing bright against his dark skin like a tiny flower. She took it, and it was still warm from the boy’s hand, a living thing almost. Her MasterCard thumbnail sang an inaudible song to the boy’s account, and suddenly she was the proud owner of a quantum lovegety.
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Quaker football cheer. This short-short story about a Quaker football game has the second-greatest religious football cheer in literature (the best is Philip Roth's "Ikey Mikey Shem and Ham, We're the boys who eat no ham, Go Yid!"):
Fight, fight, inner light, Kill, quakers, kill!
Knock 'em down, beat 'em senseless,
Do it till we reach consensus!
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Sun heats up expansions |
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Report: McCaw to Unveil Wireless Broadband Service (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. mobile phone industry pioneer
Craig McCaw is expected to announce on Wednesday the launch of
a national wireless broadband service that would compete
against other high-speed Internet access services, The Wall
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LA to Oregon at Mach 9 |
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PostNuke modules.php NS-Polls Module Path Disclosure |
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BSD Global global.cgi Command Execution |
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PostNuke modules.php NS-Polls Module SQL Injection |
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PostNuke modules.php NS-Polls Module order Variable XSS |
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csMailto.cgi Information Disclosure |
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ntop -w Arbitrary File Access |
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csMailto.cgi Arbitrary Mail Relay |
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csMailto.cgi Arbitrary File Access |
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The Spinning Cube of Potential Doom |
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Software helps rights groups protect data |
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E-PRIVACY bill would blow cover of bosses who spy |
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Privacy Is Your Business |
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A '411' directory Protecting wireless consumer privacy |
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Citizens' privacy bill proposed by ministry |
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US privacy advocates debate RFID |
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Privacy under siege |
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Will Half-Life 2 really be that good?. Game.Ars looks back at E3 and wonders if Valve's track record inspires confidence over Half Life 2. In addition, there's commentary on inattentive parenting, what's next for id, and much more. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Microsoft offers peek at new Media Player |
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Google updates enterprise search appliance |
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HP Said to Support Two Open-Source Software Vendors (Reuters). Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ.N) will
support open-source software companies JBoss and MySQL on its
servers as it seeks to compete with International Business
Machines Corp. (IBM.N) in offering Linux-compatible services, a
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SCO makes peace with BayStar. Investor backs off backing off By Andrew Orlowski . |
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RIM makes mobile gains while Palm, Sony and Dell falter. Think global, warns analyst By Andrew Orlowski . |
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Accenture lands Homeland Security deal |
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Big Bucks for Biometric Screening |
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