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Microsoft Brasil Decries Government Use of Linux (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Brasil's president,
Emilio Umeoka, said that ideology led Brazil's government
astray when it decided to adopt Linux's free software in public
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Sun will Open Java's Source |
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BugTraq: Re: Format String Vulnerability in Tripwire. Sender: Ron Forrester [rjf at tripwire dot com] |
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Sony Challenges Rival in Digital Cinema (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Electronics on Thursday
unveiled a new digital projection system for movie theaters at
a cost and technology upgrade that rivals market leader Texas
Instruments Inc. |
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Spam as Poetry |
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BugTraq: MDKSA-2004:056 - Updated krb5 packages fix buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Sender: Mandrake Linux Security Team [security at linux-mandrake dot com] |
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Web Porn Entices Far More Surfers Than Search-Study (Reuters). Reuters - Online porn sites get about three
times more visits than the top Web search engines, including
market leader Google Inc., a research firm said on Thursday. |
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Flash Memory Boom Heralds New Wave of Gadgets (Reuters). Reuters - From mobile phones to video cameras,
gadget makers are conjuring up new products to take advantage
of cheaper flash microchips with bigger memories. |
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VisiCalc Turns 25, Creators Interviewed |
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IBM, Teamstudio focus Java efforts. IBM and Teamstudio are focusing on Java tools this week, with IBM updating its AspectJ programming language extension and Teamstudio forming a separate division for its tools. |
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Oracle, DOJ gear up for merger trial. SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice are heading to court Monday to do battle over Oracle's hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc., a deal the government says would choke competition in the enterprise applications market and lead to higher prices for customers. |
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Intel sees higher Q2 revenue on flash memory demand. Intel Corp. on Thursday raised its revenue guidance for the second quarter to the high end of its previous range, citing stronger than expected demand for flash memory. |
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IBM invests effort in venture capitalists |
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Oracle, Apple Plug 10g on Mac OS X (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - On an international road show, the companies aim to present the platform as cost-effective, robust and easy to maintain. |
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Is Siebel on the Rocks, or Is Siebel About To Rock? (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - If nothing else, Siebel (Nasdaq: SEBL) is really, really good at keeping secrets. The company's announcement last month that Tom Siebel would be stepping down as CEO, replaced by long-time associate and former IBM (NYSE: IBM) executive Michael Lawrie was nothing short of a bombshell. |
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My Brother, the Bully (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - They say you can't pick your family. A small systems management software company called Altiris has learned that all too well. The Lindon, Utah company was created and financed a couple of years ago by a tech incubator called Canopy Group. Canopy is also behind the better-known--but much-despised (and unprofitable)--SCO Group. That software firm is suing IBM for $50 billion over Linux copyrights, which has angered ardent fans of the free operating system. |
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McCaw Competes for Wireless Broadband (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Another player has emerged in the wireless broadband market -- Clearwire, led by
cellular communications pioneer Craig McCaw -- with hopes of delivering
affordable high-speed Internet access to the unconnected masses. |
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Nokia Launches Skywriting Cell Phone (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has announced the world's first cell phone that lets users write short text messages in mid-air. The messages are written using a row of LEDs fitted on the clip-on cover of Nokia's new 3220 camera phone, due to ship this summer in the European, Asian and American markets for around 250 euros (US$306.50). |
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Microsoft Challenges iTunes with New Media Player (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has released a beta version of its new Windows Media Player 10 to technical enthusiasts. The new software will let users play music from digital music subscription services, such as Napster, using approximately 60 different portable music devices. |
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The Future of RPN Calculators |
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BBN Announces Functional Quantum Encrypted Network |
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Early Alerting - The Key To Proactive Security |
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Vulns: RARLAB UnRAR File Name Format String Vulnerability. RARLAB UnRAR is a RAR archive decompression utility for Unix and Unix variant operating systems.
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Vulns: Qualcomm Eudora Internet Mail Server For Mac OS 7 Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Qualcomm Eudora Internet Mail Server (EIMS) for Mac OS 7 is a free POP3 and SMTP server released and maintained by Qualcomm, it is available for Apple Mac OS 7 platforms.... |
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Slashdot: Linksys WiFi Gateway Remote Attack Risk Discovered |
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Security Focus: Multiple Security Roles With Unix/Linux "There are some areas of security where ... |
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Unix Review: Double Snorting "Out of the box, Snort warns about almost anything remotely suspici... |
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Linux Exposed: Sendmail's Security "One of the biggest security mistakes is to continue to run a... |
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Disney's California Adventure is a ghost town. You've probably heard about the US Department of Energy's efforts to create a landmark to warn people to stay away from nuclear waste dumps in Nevada and New Mexico. The mission is to create some kind of warning system that will last for 10,000 years, and still be effective at delivering a message of danger that people in the distant future can comprehend. It's tough --the DOE has hired artists, architects, anthropologists, etc., but everything those people come up with to scare future generations away ends up looking more like a lure.
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Here's what the DOE should do: hire Michael Eisner to design a theme park over the radioactive dumps. They'll never have to worry about anyone setting foot there again. As Boing Boing readers Vorbis comments on this photoessay of Disney's California Adventure Theme Park: "lookit how deserted this place seems to be not too long after the opening of the major ride."
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Tech giants go for the games |
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Michael Moore clips debut on Web |
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Linux Still Needs Drivers (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - While Linux & Open-Source Center Editor Steven Vaughan-Nichols is glad Intel is moving forward with Linux support for Centrino, he thinks device driver support for Linux has to grow for the platform to really take off on the desktop. |
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DVD's Next Big Leaps (PC World). PC World - DVD is picking up speed and storage capacity--but format wars and high prices may mean a wait for the most advanced new technologies. |
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New virus targeting bank accounts, credit cards on Internet: Germany (AFP). AFP - German authorities alerted computer users to a new Internet virus targeting bank accounts and credit cards and bearing a striking resemblance to the Sasser worm that disabled millions of systems worldwide last month. |
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Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real Dollars |
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FTC to Examine Patent Application Process |
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Microsoft to file EU appeal next week. Microsoft Corp. next week plans to file its official appeal to the European Commission's decision earlier this year that it broke European competition law. |
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Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics produce chip for 3G cell phones. Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) and STMicroelectronics NV are producing samples of chips that will allow manufacturers to build 3G (third generation) cell phones based on CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) technology, the companies announced Wednesday. |
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Action on the embedded processor front. The EET has been chronicling recent movement in the embedded space, with AMD and Intel gearing up to duke it out both with each other and with PowerPC embedded vendors By Hannibal. |
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Hand-knit superhero costumes, beaded porn star trading cards. Sculptor Mark Newport knits life-sized superhero costumes as a form of fabric art. For instance, these Spiderman and Batman pieces, 77 x 27 x 6 inches, $5,500 each. He's got an upcoming show in Seattle, SUPERHERO PANTHEON, from August 5 - 28, 2004. Here's what some fancypants art critic said:
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"Newport works in and around an arena which, no matter how hip, still must be considered under the particular jurisdiction of the adolescent male: comics and the comic-book hero. However, he subverts the obvious appeal of violent conflict between forces for good and evil by accenting the decorative aspect of comic work via embroidery... over select faces and details... and through descriptions of a kinder, gentler alternate hero... The artist's use of needle craft, typically considered well within the realm of "women's work," establishes a challenging relationship between the young man implied by these works, the voice of popular culture/media, and a father's voice."
Scroll down for some less worksafe work from Newport -- hand-beaded trading cards bearing the images of gay porn stars, Playboy tableaus, Jenny McCarthy spread-legged centerfold shots, and Icelandic strippers. Charmingly strange. Link (Thanks, Susannah) |
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Beresford Egan illustrations.  The gorgeous cover of Aleister Crowley's Moonchild accompanying my post yesterday about the rare occult book exhibit was the work of Beresford Egan. A former sports cartoonist, Egan illustrated quite a few books in the decadent 1920s and 1930s, including an edition of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mals (Flowers of Evil) and Pierre Louys's Advantures of King Pausole. I'm now determined to collect all of Egan's work. (Unfortunately, copies of Moonchild with the Egan dustjacket are selling for US$2000!) Link
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Study: CD prices sing the blues |
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U.S. cell phone users pick up on new features |
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New virus targeting bank accounts, credit cards on Internet: Germany (AFP). AFP - German authorities alerted computer users to a new Internet virus targeting bank accounts and credit cards and bearing a striking resemblance to the Sasser worm that disabled millions of systems worldwide last month. |
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Hi-speed USB2 Flash Drive Round-Up |
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What Exactly Is Computer Forensics? |
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BugTraq: Netgear WG602 Accesspoint vulnerability. Sender: Tom Knienieder [knienieder at khamsin dot ch] |
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Vulns: SquirrelMail Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability. SquirrelMail is a feature rich web mail application implemented in using PHP4. It is available for Linux and Unix based operating systems.
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The First IBB Conference on Anti-Censorship Systems |
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Quote of the Day |
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Blogspot Now Blocked From China |
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Iranian Blogger Against Censorship |
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The Coming Space Cold War |
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Peekabooty Site Upgraded |
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Grant Money |
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OSI Funding Rejected |
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The Secret Passage: Securing Remote Network Access. Securing a corporate network to protect it from attacks both external and internal as well as from "curious" or inept users who might be adventurous enough to be dangerous is a full-time job and then some. With barely enough skills... |
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Seonna Hong print from sixspace gallery.  Yesterday I wrote about Tim Biskup's book "100 Paintings." Today, I bought "Indiand Princess," a wonderful lithograph of a painting done by Biskup's wife, Seonna Hong. Seonna shares her husband's admiration of Disney artist Mary Blair (if you've been to Disneyland's "It's a Small World After All" ride then you know here work). Link
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Email boom creates jobs boost. Almost 200 jobs are created at a BT call centre in County Fermanagh. |
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Hyatt brings Wi-Fi to hotel rooms, lobbies |
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Indian software export revenue to grow 30-32 percent (AFP). AFP - Indian software exports jumped 30.5 percent to 12.5 billion dollars in the year ended March 2004 and a similar rise is expected this year, the country's leading industry group said. |
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Friendster Taps Former TV Executive as New CEO (Reuters). Reuters - Former NBC Entertainment
President Scott Sassa will take the reins at the popular social
networking Web site Friendster with a mandate to make the
fast-growing and well-funded start-up profitable, the company
said on Thursday. |
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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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Microsoft Announces Executive Reorganization (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O), aiming to
sell more business software to smaller companies, announced a
reorganization of top executives on Thursday that will have
developers of software for small- and medium-sized businesses
reporting directly to Chief Executive Steve Ballmer. |
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Your Data and Cyber Business After You're Gone |
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Mono Beta 2 Released |
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Sun's EMEA head talks of partners, processors. Analysts have lauded as pragmatic Sun Microsystems Inc.'s announcement this week that it is teaming with Fujitsu Ltd. to jointly develop and distribute its next generation of Sparc-based servers, due out in mid-2006. It will allow the company to pare costs and throw more weight behind its "throughput computing" drive while keeping the Sparc torch aflame, they say. |
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Seagate to cut 2,900 jobs. Hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology LLC will lay off about 7 percent of its global workforce, or about 2,900 employees, under a restructuring plan announced Wednesday. |
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Elsewhere: Software crash grounds UK air traffic. Overnight testing of software management procedures has caused massive disruption to the UK National Air Traffic Control system and led to widespread delays at most of Br... |
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Elsewhere: Tests to uproot Windows passwords begin. Microsoft and RSA Security on Wednesday started beta testing a product designed to phase out the use of traditional passwords and replace them with automatically generate... |
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BugTraq: PHP Include Exploit in Mail Manage EX v3.1.8 and maybe others.. Sender: JvdR [thewarlock at home dot nl] |
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BugTraq: TREND MICRO: The Protector Becomes The Vector [technical exercise: cross-application-scripting]. Sender: http-equiv at excite dot com [1 at malware dot com] |
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Vulns: Microsoft Windows 2000 Domain Expired Account Security Policy Violation Weakness. Windows 2000 domain controllers are reported prone to a weakness that may permit user accounts with expired passwords to logon to the domain. The issue is reported to exi... |
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Sun rolls out network products |
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Toshiba announces 60GB 1.8-inch hard drives, spills the beans on new iPods. Toshiba announces 60GB 1.8" hard drives and confirms Apple is buying them. What does this mean for the future of the iPod, aside from it being bigger? By Eric Bangeman. |
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New wireless broadband service unveiled. Clearwire, Inc. has announced plans for a wireless broadband service based on the IEEE 802.16 spec. Set to launch by the end of 2005, it will be targeted at both rural and urban markets. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Nielsen families' colouring book. 
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Cory giving a talk/reading/signing in Seattle, June 16. I'm doing an internal talk at Microsoft Research in Redmond on June 17, and they've been good enough to set up a public event on June 16 in Seattle. I'm going to talk a little about copyright and read some new fiction -- there'll be books on sale, and I'll be happy to sign your stuff for ya. Here are the details:
When: June 16, 7PM
Where: Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus
More info: Contact Kim Ricketts, 206-523-3458, kimr@kimricketts.com
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For Mac security, communication is key |
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Video Players Go Portable (PC World). PC World - Success of the IPod prompts companies to produce mobile multimedia devices. |
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US Online Job Vacancies Rise in May-Monster Survey (Reuters). Reuters - Online vacancies for jobs in the
United States increased in May for the fifth month running,
according to a survey by Monster Worldwide (MNST.O) released on
Thursday. |
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Symbol Tech Former Execs Face Federal Charges (Reuters). Reuters - Nearly a dozen former executives at
Symbol Technologies Inc., including its chief executive, were
charged with securities fraud, capping a long-running probe of
the company's accounting practices, federal officials said on
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The Mathematics of Futurama |
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News: Security cert body gives lesson in insecurity. Security certification and training body (ISC)2 has apologised for a serious security breach which saw the personal details of thousands of respondents to a survey posted onto an insecure server. |
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News: Mutant son of MyDoom plans three-pronged attack. Virus writers have used code from the infamous Mydoom worm to create a potentially dangerous new Internet worm which uses multiple methods to spread. |
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BugTraq: Mkdir buffer overflow vulnerability in Unix Seventh Edition.. Sender: Tim Newsham [newsham at lava dot net] |
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BugTraq: DoS vuln in various versions of Linksys routers.. Sender: b0f www dot b0f dot net [b0fnet at yahoo dot com] |
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BugTraq: Simple Yahoo! Mail Cross-Site Scripting (GM#006-MC). Sender: GreyMagic Software [security at greymagic dot com] |
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BugTraq: Phishing for Opera (GM#007-OP). Sender: GreyMagic Software [security at greymagic dot com] |
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Vulns: Heimdal Kerberos Cross-Realm Trust Impersonation Vulnerability. Heimdal is a free implementation of the Kerberos 5 network authentication protocol. It is freely available for Unix and Unix variants.
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London council clamps down on Sony and BMG. Flyposting music biz gets file-sharing treatment By John Oates . |
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US groups lobby over VoIP regulation. Please don't get all telephonic on us By Tim Richardson . |
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GPS research money up for grabs. GALILEO project readies readies By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Opera snips phishing lines. Fake address flaw nipped in the bud By John Leyden . |
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Fighting continues near Najaf; cleric accepts new government |
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Baghdad family snapshots.  Photos shot before, during and after the war from a collaborative weblog maintained by members of a family in Baghdad. American tanks roaming the streets, Mom (Faiza) at work behind her computer, old brick buildings, a 'net cafe, spring flowers in the front yard, a stack of sweet watermelons at the market ("it's the best fruit in the hot summer, we call it Raggi.")
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Hand-knit superhero costumes as art. Sculptor Mark Newport knits life-sized superhero costumes as a form of fabric art. For instance, these Spiderman and Batman pieces, 77 x 27 x 6 inches, $5,500 each. He's got an upcoming show in Seattle, SUPERHERO PANTHEON, from August 5 - 28, 2004. Here's what some fancypants art critic said:
"Newport works in and around an arena which, no matter how hip, still must be considered under the particular jurisdiction of the adolescent male: comics and the comic-book hero. However, he subverts the obvious appeal of violent conflict between forces for good and evil by accenting the decorative aspect of comic work via embroidery... over select faces and details... and through descriptions of a kinder, gentler alternate hero... The artist's use of needle craft, typically considered well within the realm of "women's work," establishes a challenging relationship between the young man implied by these works, the voice of popular culture/media, and a father's voice."
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Potter-mania fuels pesky virus. A computer virus is cashing in on the excitement surrounding the latest Harry Potter film. |
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HP adds backup option for desktops |
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Alias releases SketchBook Pro for Mac OS X (MacCentral). MacCentral - Maya maker Alias on Thursday announced that its SketchBook Pro software is now available for Mac OS X. SketchBook Pro is a sketching and annotation software application that works with pen tablets. A trial version is available for download; a license costs US$179. The software is also available on CD-ROM for $199. |
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Ex-Legato executive testifies in fraud trial (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Silicon Valley's dark days of accounting trickery and vanishing wealth were replayed in a fourth-floor federal courtroom Wednesday as a former Legato Systems sales executive told a jury how the software company fraudulently booked revenue and customers in 1999 to make sales look strong. |
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What the World Needs Now: An Intel-Based, Linux-Powered Mac? (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - David Coursey has a fantasy: an Apple-designed Intel box capable of running Mac OS, Windows and Linux. |
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Friendster hires new CEO (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Friendster, the Mountain View online social networking company that shook the dating scene last year by allowing friends to peer into each other's networks for prospective dates, has named a new chief executive officer. |
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Friendster Expands Its Network (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - It pays to have friends online, six degrees of them to be precise. That's the theory propelling the growth in social networking sites. And in a sign that business is booming, Friendster has pegged Scott Sassa, a former NBC executive, as its new chief executive. |
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A Former Microsoftie Forecasts Microsoft Doom |
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Microsoft's Charney Talks Up Security |
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NTL Ireland to splash €100m on network. Broadband upgrade By Tim Richardson . |
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Euro printer sales on the up-and-up. Channel Roundup And Azlan appoints biz development director By John Oates . |
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On Futureproofing Spamhaus |
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Accenture Wins $10 Billion Border Security Deal |
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Borland Interbase / Firebird Database Name Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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Borland Interbase / Firebird Database Name Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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This Project is not Dead |
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ISPs in Zimbabwe Fight Censorship |
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U.S. Election: the 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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New Wireless Systems Push 3G Onto the Defensive (Reuters). Reuters - Third-generation mobile phone
services are finally here after a mammoth effort that cost the
industry at least $123 billion, but new systems that operate
much faster already threaten to consign 3G to history. |
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Linksys WiFi Gateway Remote Attack Risk Discovered |
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Study: India's outsourcing industry continues to boom. BANGALORE, INDIA -- Despite protests in Europe and the U.S. against outsourcing and the moving of jobs to India, the country's software services and business process outsourcing (BPO) services business is booming, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) in Delhi. |
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Security cert body gives lesson in insecurity. (ISC)2 contact database left wide open By John Leyden . |
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Potter-mania fuels pesky virus. A computer virus is trying to cash in on the excitement surrounding the latest Harry Potter film. |
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Oracle's day in court |
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Briefly: Friendster hires new CEO |
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HP stepping up outsourcing in India, sources say. BANGALORE, INDIA -- Having handled a large chunk of its own global accounting functions from a subsidiary in Bangalore for more than three years, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is now offering similar back-office services from India to its customers, sources familiar with the plans said. |
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Via's Chen maps PC industry changes. TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The blurring lines between consumer electronics and computing is changing the way that the PC industry works, according to Wenchi Chen, the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Via Technologies Inc. |
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I Know You Surf for Porn. Cash'n'Carrion Lovely leaving present for disgraced Irish bankers By Cash'n'Carrion . |
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BT launches wholesale sat broadband service. Cheap? Nope By Tim Richardson . |
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NotCon: golden age of the geekesque. Conference examines the prawn sandwich, and much more By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Phishers put surfers on the hook |
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Multiple security roles with Unix/Linux |
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Double Snorting |
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Boing Boing
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Enron traders gloating about screwing California. CBS has got hold of tapes of conversations between Enron employees during the California rolling blackouts. The conversations are amazing, basically a bunch of crooks gloating about the savage rogering they're giving to the people of California and how much money they're making. This has put fresh fire into the bellies of lawmakers who have renewed their vows to decapitate Enron's management and stake their heads on pikes outside of every polling place before election day.
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Employee 1: "All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?
Employee 2: "Yeah, Grandma Millie man.
Employee 1: "Yeah, now she wants her f-----g money back for all the power you've charged right up, jammed right up her a—for f-----g $250 a megawatt hour."
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Boy wizard tops UK games charts. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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Robots to rescue Hubble. Nasa is considering a 2007 robotic mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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Hefty hard drive means more music. Portable music and media players could get a boost from Toshiba's higher capacity hard drive. |
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Practical gadgets win out in poll. The humble smoke alarm tops a UK public survey of the best innovations in the last 20 years. |
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Start marking your Oracle-DOJ score card |
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Takeover attempt takes its toll |
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Attorneys sketch schedule for Oracle trial |
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Apple and OS security--communication is key |
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An open-source call to arms |
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Siemens wins 300-mln-euro UMTS contract from Italian firm Wind (AFP). AFP - German electronics giant Siemens said it has secured a contract worth "more than 300 million euros" (366 million dollars) to supply third-generation mobile phone technology to Italian operator Wind, a unit of Enel. |
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Microsoft Scraps Eagerly Awaited Online Game (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Thursday
it has scrapped plans to roll out an online game that was
supposed to help it revive the fortunes of its Xbox game
console in Japan. |
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McCaw Places New Bet On Faster, Cheaper Access (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Craig O. McCaw yesterday told an audience of wireless experts that after years of investing in cellular, satellite and local phone upstarts, he has come up with a new strategy for delivering high-speed wireless Internet access at a price lower than that charged by cellular companies. |
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Taiwan Parts Makers Eye Growth from Laptop Vogue (Reuters). Reuters - Taiwan companies making glitzy,
lightweight laptop casings, peripherals and parts stand to gain
most as more consumers and businesses swap out old, chunky
desktop computers for stylish portables. |
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NASA Seeks Proposals For Hubble Robotic Servicing |
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Double Snorting |
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UK legal downloads hit half a million. Music biz not dead then By John Oates . |
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SpaceShipOne readied for 21 June launch. X-Prize awaits at 62 miles By Lucy Sherriff . |
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No news is bad news for Nortel. Accounts still in a mess By John Oates . |
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Too much communication is bad for you. It was five years ago today... 3 June 1999 By Team Register . |
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Korgo raises zombie PC army. Russian Hangup Team fingered in release By John Leyden . |
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Gallery 'init.php' Authentication Flaw Grants Administrative Access |
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Bugtraq: Additional information on WRT54G administration page |
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Internet Security Guru: Snort, Apache, SSL, PHP, MySQL and Acid Install on Fedora Core 1 – From ... |
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Processor: Data Security Debacle "There is a saying in IT that the only truly secure computer is... |
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Computer World: The Witty worm -- a new chapter in malware "If press coverage is any guide, then... |
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Multiple Security Roles With Unix/Linux |
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Opera Browser Favicon Displaying Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability |
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Moore's 9/11 trailer goes online. The trailer for Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 makes its debut on the film's official website. |
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Mobile competition lifts Carphone. The mobile phone retailer sees profits jump as new handsets and fierce competition between network operators drive sales. |
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Oracle, DOJ set to battle (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - The Justice Department will begin its case to block the technology company's $7.7 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft. |
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Multiple Security Roles With Unix/Linux |
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Mobile apps will drive Taiwan silicon. Dr Morris Chang speaks By Guy Kewney, Newswireless.net . |
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Carphone Warehouse cashes in on 3G. Profits solid, outlook promising By John Oates . |
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Greek 3G 'ready for Olympics'. Even if the stadium isn't By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Famous American launches 4G - but this time, is anyone listening?. McCaw is back By Andrew Orlowski . |
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OEM software scams on the rise. Piracy market thriving By Jan Libbenga . |
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BT punts another broadband promo. 'Sign of a competitive marketplace' apparently By Tim Richardson . |
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Robots to Hubble's Rescue?. NASA's chief administrator earns wild applause after telling the American Astronomical Society that the space agency is actively seeking a robot able to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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How Tough Are the Crop Cops?. The USDA says it's stepping up efforts to regulate drugs grown in crops, and let the public in on those regulations. But environmental groups are unconvinced. By Kristen Philipkoski. |
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The Ultimate Pitching Machine. Hardware and hard science are turning big-league ballplayers into precision-guided flamethrowers. Batter up! By Tom McNichol from Wired magazine. |
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The Changing Face of E-Mail. Think spam is bad? How about being buried in e-mails you actually want? Software developers and Internet architects meet this week to discuss how to make e-mail friendlier. By Amit Asaravala. |
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Microsoft Edges Into ITunes' Turf. The new Windows Media Player 10 works with a wide range of portable devices and digital music subscription services. But the real power move comes later this year, when Microsoft launches its own online music store. By Katie Dean. |
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You, Too, Can Be a Comics Whiz. Like video games? Can't draw? Want to start a Web comic anyway? Join the throngs creating new comics from classic video-game graphics. Just don't expect the game companies to approve. By Lore Sjöberg. |
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Security escapes from the lab |
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When PGP signatures can be misleading |
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Microsoft not a threat to US national security |
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RFID's secret path to ROI |
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WORM_SPYBOT.AP |
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Slackware update for mod_ssl |
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Slackware update for mod_ssl |
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Slackware PHP Insecure Static Library Linking Security Issue |
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Slackware PHP Insecure Static Library Linking Security Issue |
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Group blog on unlicensed spectrum. Kevin Werbach has launched a group blog on Unlicensed Spectrum advocacy, with Clay Shirky, Andrew Odlyzko, and David Isenberg contributing:
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The site focuses on the benefits of reallocating low-frequency wireless capacity from broadcasting to unlicensed applications, both here and around the world. There is a huge amount of capacity which could be used for two-way applications like broadband to the home, but which is locked up in broadcast allocations based on 1950s technology. Freeing up that capacity could create massive opportunities for innovation, and could dramatically lower the costs of wireless connectivity in developing countries.
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Report: Hyatt, T-Mobile in Wireless Web Access Deal (Reuters). Reuters - Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and T-Mobile
USA Inc., a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE), are
expected to announce a deal Thursday to bring high-speed
wireless Web access to nearly all of Hyatt's hotels, The Wall
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Windows Media Player 10 Beta Released |
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Sun gets liquored up on own code. Sun Network Slosh the squeaky wheel By Ashlee Vance . |
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Self-destructing MP3s don't satisfy Korean RIAA. Court case looms By Andrew Orlowski . |
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Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? |
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One-Time Pads To Protect Electronic Bank Access |
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Simple passwords no longer suffice |
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Ars Technica review: USB 2.0 Hi-speed Flash drives. Ars Technica takes a look at 8 different USB 2.0 Hi-Speed Flash drives. Are they commodity products, or are there enough differences to make shopping around worthwhile? By Matt Woodward. |
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Amazon Says Get Your Plog On. BoingBoing reader Nik says,
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After a visit to Amazon today, I see that they are beta testing plogs (Personalized webLOGS) on their main page. For my plog, it lists my recent orders (along with their scheduled delivery time) and a few items I might be interested. I went to find out more about this new amazing 'we know all your secrets' tool of Amazons', and discovered that on their 'what is a plog' page, they have BoingBoing at the top of the 'best and most popular' blog list.
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Friendster hires new CEO |
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Sony Projector May Speed Launch of Digital Cinemas (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Electronics plans to unveil on
Thursday a new digital projection system for movie theaters,
using a microchip it says will advance the industry and rival
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60GB iPod Coming? |
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Security vendor says offshore development needs checks |
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Gregg Doherty.
Last update:
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This theme is based on the SoundWaves
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I can't read this because it's in Japanese, but it looks like this device scratches a groove into an ordinary CD, allowing you to make a gramophone style record out of it. Is the sound horn a plastic cup? 